Annabelle, Believe!

02/09/2010

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“ win one for
have one on
win one for
have one on
win one for
have one on
me „

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Moonrise over Afghanistan

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holographicuniverse:

swhy

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(via slaughterhouse5)

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MY TATTOO IDEAS

The gramophone plane from the Neutral Milk Hotel artwork
An hourglass turned on its side so it resembles an infinity sign
A design seamlessly woven out of particle tracks after a collision in a particle collider, perhaps with the phrase from Animal Collective’s Fireworks: “they make me feel that I’m only all I see sometimes”
A melting Salvador Dali clock that somehow displays the time as 11:11
A depiction of Icarus upside down with his wings folded like a Hawk or a Falcon, like he is diving, but contorted and manipulated in such an interesting manner so that they resemble a heart. Surrounding it, Sunset Rubdown lyrics: “until the Icarus in your blood drowns”

Final one: a depiction of a Phoenix reentering the earth’s atmosphere. That’s the favorite vision I’ve ever had; it came to me in a dream: a Phoenix diving to earth and burning up and becoming almost endlessly reborn until finally making planetfall. Generations of dying and being born until they get home. It had an M.C Escher feel to it.

That last one will be insanely complicated…

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buddhabrot:

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02/08/2010

$Me /\ I always identified with Calvin as a child (I suppose you could say I still do), and this strip pretty much sums up what being a kid like Calvin is like. Constantly feeling out of sync with the rest of the world, and thus retreating to the world you create for yourself in your mind. If you think about it, Calvin was really quite an anomaly in popular entertainment — not just in comics, but in anything, be it movies, TV, etc. He has no friends, and no extracurricular activities; the only people he ever sees are his parents, who he has a strained relationship with, and Moe, Susie, Rosalyn, and Miss Wormwood, all of whom he detests and all of whom detest him. The only person he ever has any real interaction with exists only in his head. He is, for all intents and purposes, completely alone. And he’s fine with that. The kind of kid most people would entirely ignore all through school is not generally the kind you make the star of your show, and yet the strip became hugely successful. I know that people of all ages enjoyed Calvin and Hobbes, but I have to think that it meant even more to those of us who grew up with him. Going to school every day and seeing all the ways we didn’t fit in, it was nice to see someone like us, who was intelligent and independent, and didn’t need to be a smile-plastered Mouseketeer to enjoy life. Though numerous motivational posters and guidance councelors and after-school specials had said it again and again, it was Calvin who managed to truly express the idea—without being preachy, without being sappy, perhaps even without trying—that it was okay to be different. —Bill$

Me /\

I always identified with Calvin as a child (I suppose you could say I still do), and this strip pretty much sums up what being a kid like Calvin is like. Constantly feeling out of sync with the rest of the world, and thus retreating to the world you create for yourself in your mind. If you think about it, Calvin was really quite an anomaly in popular entertainment — not just in comics, but in anything, be it movies, TV, etc. He has no friends, and no extracurricular activities; the only people he ever sees are his parents, who he has a strained relationship with, and Moe, Susie, Rosalyn, and Miss Wormwood, all of whom he detests and all of whom detest him. The only person he ever has any real interaction with exists only in his head. He is, for all intents and purposes, completely alone. And he’s fine with that. The kind of kid most people would entirely ignore all through school is not generally the kind you make the star of your show, and yet the strip became hugely successful.

I know that people of all ages enjoyed Calvin and Hobbes, but I have to think that it meant even more to those of us who grew up with him. Going to school every day and seeing all the ways we didn’t fit in, it was nice to see someone like us, who was intelligent and independent, and didn’t need to be a smile-plastered Mouseketeer to enjoy life. Though numerous motivational posters and guidance councelors and after-school specials had said it again and again, it was Calvin who managed to truly express the idea—without being preachy, without being sappy, perhaps even without trying—that it was okay to be different.

—Bill

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“ We replace the unknown with the known through the substitution of words and by the time a child is two or three they have completely created a cultural mosaic of words that is interposed between them and reality. Reality from that point on is only an unconfirmed rumor brought through the medium of language and every culture accentuates different parts of reality so that in a sense every culture is a different reality. Language is the stuff of the world, not quarks or wave-packets or neutrinos, but language. Everything is made of language. All the constructs of science are actually interlocking constructs of syntax. So that’s ordinary language which seems to define reality through a kind of process of lying about it. For instance by creating subject-object distinctions which are, in fact, not true to the matter, but somehow operationally necessary for us to navigate in the kind of lower dimensional space that we inhabit. „

Terrence McKenna (via quantumpossibility)

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“ My eyes feel good, like I will see everything before I have to. I see colors like you
hear jet planes. „

After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned

Dave Eggers [.pdf]

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THE ONLY SOUNDS THAT I CAN MAKE COME OUT OF MY TAKAMINE GUITAR

are Street Spirit by Radiohead.

I can’t make any other sounds come out of it.

It’s an awful, broken device, and it hasn’t worked correctly in about 18 months.

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thedarkspark:

Slow Show - The National

I made a mistake in my life today
everything I love gets lost in drawers
I want to start over, I want to be winning
way out of sync from the beginning

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quantumpossibility:

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oceanofmind:

wheresjezebel:fuckyeahsubtitles:(via anneyhall:bloodisthenewblackk:centiweeed)

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proofmathisbeautiful:

macmankev:

invaderxan:

Bussard Ramjet.

Accelerating at 1 g a Bussard ramjet could reach the center of the galaxy in a mere twenty years of proper time, and could theoretically circumnavigate the entire visible universe in less than a hundred years.

“Proper time,” however, refers to the time experienced by the crew. On such a journey, what the crew experiences as 20 years would appear to be 25000 years to us back on Earth.

Freaking hydrogen Ramjets and Time Dilation.

This is what I think about day and night.

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