Sunday, November 13, 2011

Flirted with you all my life.



On December 25, 2009, Vic Chesnutt died from an overdose of muscle relaxants that had left him in a coma in an Athens hospital. In the 2009 interview with Terry Gross, while discussing the song "Flirted with You All My Life", he said, "You know, I've attempted suicide three or four times. It didn't take."

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Notable immortal species include the Turritopsis nutricula, a jellyfish which after becoming a sexually mature adult, can transform itself back into a polyp using the cell conversion process of transdifferentiation.

Turritopsis nutricula repeats this cycle, meaning that it may have an indefinite lifespan.

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Saturday, September 03, 2011

William Klein

"A picture is taken at 125th of a second. [...] The life of a photographer, even of a great photographer as they say: 2 seconds"





Thursday, September 01, 2011

Martin Parr - The Magic Moment

"I believe it is the increasing wealth of the western world, which is fundamentally my main subject, is in the end the thing which will do as all in. I ‘m no exception; i live in a beautiful house, I have lots of things, I buy everything I want, I’m a big hypocrite. I’m not going to sacrifice my wealth for the sake of the planet as indeed anyone wealthy is not prepared to do. [...] The greed of you, me and the viewers of this program."

(The Magic Moment/2003, by Hank Onrust for VPRO, Netherlands)







Monday, August 15, 2011

Saturday, August 06, 2011

Dead Man

- "Wanted: William Blake."
- Huh?
"In the amount of $ . "
Shit.
Hell, ain't we about more fucked than a whore at closin' time, huh?


transcript here.

Monday, August 01, 2011

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every involuntary repulsion that arises in your mind, give heed unto. It is the surface of a central truth."