February 2012
11 posts
“He squoze it in there,” said Manningham, using imperfect grammar to...”
– Unreal.
“Before he got far, though, Raekwon of the Wu-Tang Clan — possibly intoxicated,...”
– Jon Caramanica (via maxxaxe)
January 2012
18 posts
“I would like to thank NME for bestowing upon me such a great accolade. I have...”
– Noel Gallagher (via goldenfiddle)
NOEL
1 tag
“I thought becoming rich and famous would make me happy. Boy was I right.”
– Mitt Romney, page 200 (via think-progress)
“LOL”
Crazy Blues →
Early Urban and Rural Blues
“The Artist is easily one of the slightest, least substantial and least...”
– Wells! (via seanfennessey)
I rarely get worked up about anything, perhaps least of all opinions on film, a medium I feel distinctly undereducated about, but considering that Wells, in the same piece, praises Midnight in Paris’ “great script,” I really wanna shove a tube sock in...
The Documentarian →
AGGREGATING THE BEST DOCUMENTARY FILMS AND FREE VIDEO CONTENT
“This basic extension of empathy is one of the great barriers in understanding...”
– A Muscular Empathy - Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic
Perhaps misleading/strange out of context, but I couldn’t help it. Worth reading the whole bit.
December 2011
28 posts
“Discretion also governs another feature of the typically Wodehousean syntax –...”
– PG Wodehouse: a life in letters | Books | The Guardian
Who, but PG, would abbreviate “fiend in human shape”? Delightful.
“Clyde, discussing available free agents, with the line of the night:...”
– Preseason: Knicks 92, Nets 83 - Posting and Toasting
guessimdumb:
Glen Campbell - Guess I’m Dumb
I...
“When I’m stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort:...”
– David Bowie Interview - Chameleon of Rock - Esquire
“Everyone wants an answer. I think it was Gertrude Stein who wrote, “There...”
– New Quotations From Harry Dean Stanton - Esquire
Some kinda mantra.
On John McPhee, Perfectionism and Fear
John McPhee, in an interview with The Paris Review:
I can’t stand a sentence until it sounds right, and I’ll go over it again and again. Once the sentence rolls along in a certain way, that’s sentence A. Sentence B may work out well, but then its effect on sentence A may spoil the rhythm of the two together. One of the long-term things about knitting a piece of writing together is making all...