February 2011
78 posts
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible...”
– Albert Camus
January 2011
174 posts
I’m in the sunroom of my apartment in Ekaterinburg, lying naked on the floor, hallucinating because of the heat.
I’m melting on a rock next to a lake in Siberia, listening to Roman’s stories about medieval Ukrainian Queens.
I’m in a theatre in Berlin, rubbing my neck with ice cubes, watching Jared Leto die in a Belgian science fiction film.
I’m passed out on a...
“I am a doormat in a world of boots”
– Jean Rhys
Just had James Blunt’s “You’re Beautiful” dedicated to me at Second Cup by a complete stranger. My sixteen year old self would have thought that was totally awesome (because, like, James Blunt is so romantic). My twenty one year old self thought, “I have so much reading to do, leave me alone.” It was a very sweet gesture, but so uncomfortable.
“Only other people lived and died, had their lives and deaths. She being inside...”
– Paul Bowles, The Delicate Prey
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“Lenin’s tomb was designed by AV Shchusev, an architect involved in the...”
Mista Putin is down in the dumps! #Putin Путин
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via fotopolitika.ru
mista sulky
“If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
You leave the same impression
Of...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“Nous nous sommes plus vos macaques! (we are no longer your monkeys)”
– Patrice Lumumba
One of my professors has started an African Studies film series, which is great because African films don’t get promoted well enough and a lot of people assume that an African movie will be more or less The Gods Must be Crazy (which is fantastic and should be watched by everyone).
Anyways, yesterday we watched Gillo Pontecorvo’s masterpiece, The Battle of Algiers (I thought it was...
