January 2012
19 posts
Kanye West's New Design Company: DONDA
Kanye West has announced the launch of his new design company, DONDA, set to create “products and experiences” for people. The company will encompass 22 different divisions, including architects, graphic designers, directors, producers, social media experts, publishers, lawyers, nutritionists, scientists, doctors, teachers, A&R’s, etc. Through numerous tweets, Yeezy revealed that he...
The Boy With The Arab Strap
My 15 year old cousin’s online away message says, “Color my life with the chaos of trouble.” I immediately recognized that line because it’s from my favorite Belle & Sebastian song, The Boy With The Arab Strap. This is amusing to me because when I was his age, this was considered new indie music. Now, this is part of an older generation of music. I guess this what...
Age of Anxiety
” Anxiety begins with a single worry, and the more you concentrate on that worry, the more powerful it gets, and the more you worry. One of the best things you can do is learn to let go: to disempower the worry altogether. If you start to believe that anxiety is a foregone conclusion — if you start to believe the hype about the times we live in — then you risk surrendering the battle...
Come As He Was
“I don’t turn on the radio because I know it won’t be that song, for that would be too perfect, and part of our living agreement on earth is the suspicion of wonderful things happening to us. Still though, I hear the opening riff. Maybe love is simply a lesser form of it, slowly augmented into its original hope over time, when its proponents are finally ready.”
(via Thought...
December 2011
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October 2011
14 posts
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart; it is not...
– Thomas Carlyle (via yophlly)
Love In Between Flannel Sheets
“Naturally, we turn toward durability this time of year. We hang up our summer’s best, delete the numbers of our summer’s worst, and think of couplings as we do our scarves and mittens: requirements for the cold months ahead. Maybe it’s not the most romantic idea to think our human wiring commands us to reach like robots towards another warm mass of hardware. But bodies can stick to...