Saturday December 24, 2011

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Drake — Over My Dead Body (Kingston Hume Edit)

Saturday December 24, 2011

theories-of: Nan Goldin-Amanda on my Fortuny, Berlin

theories-ofNan Goldin-Amanda on my Fortuny, Berlin

This post was reblogged from Theories of The Deep Understanding of Things.

Saturday December 24, 2011

Strength and Appetite

Lessing noted what she called “a basic female ruthlessness” in herself, and went on to disdain the notion that gender is, in its essence, “socially constructed.” How, she asked, did she acquire her husband? She stole him from another woman. And how did she feel about that? She felt, she said, that it was “my right”: “When I’ve seen this creature emerge in myself, or in other women, I have felt awe.” No need to pursue the question of what was, or was not, a “basic female ruthlessness” in Lessing. No need, in fact, to ask whether anything in Lessing’s description has more to do with women than with men. Critical, however, to consider that the awe Lessing cites—a quality others might describe as pride, pride in being what one is—may well have much to do with the experience of oneself as a being sufficient, whole, indisputable, and yes, beautiful in one’s felt disdain for standards not of one’s own choosing, as for example moral standards that have something to say about a woman’s setting out to steal another woman’s husband. […]

Lessing—so we may say—felt rapture at the absence of impediments associated with anxiety or reluctance. She seemed beautiful to herself precisely in her healthy, uncomplicated understanding of strength and appetite.

—Robert Boyers, “A Beauty

Saturday December 24, 2011


Photo of Spanish bullfighter Christina Sánchez in Spain by Diego Goldberg, 1992; via Who’s Who.

Photo of Spanish bullfighter Christina Sánchez in Spain by Diego Goldberg, 1992; via Who’s Who.

(Source: oversets)

This post was reblogged from Oversets.

Friday December 16, 2011

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Alex Winston — Everlasting Light (Black Keys cover)

Friday December 16, 2011

This post was reblogged from Nettie Harris.

Sunday December 11, 2011

“There are numerous ways in which God can make us lonely and lead us back to ourselves.”

— Herman Hesse, Demian

Friday December 09, 2011

This post was reblogged from i wanna be your whore.

Wednesday December 07, 2011

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Wild Beasts — Albatross

Wednesday December 07, 2011

This post was reblogged from In Rooms.

Page 4 of 8