June 2010
131 posts
The Living End - All Torn Down (The Living End,...
“At their edges rose the virgin forests, dark and cool even in the hottest noons,...”
– Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
Opeth - Harvest (Blackwater Park, 2001)
“Things weren’t going well. Nothing made sense. I was having the best time of my...”
– Stephen Elliott, My Stripper Year (via nightmarebrunette)
“No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would...”
– L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“And then, the unspeakable purity - and freshness of the air! There was just...”
– Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey
“It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman’s...”
– Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
Goatsnake - Burial At Sea (Trampled Under Hoof,...
“They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
“It’s just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants...”
– Northern Exposure, 1990-1995
“I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
“As he gazed around him the youth felt a flash of astonishment at the blue, pure...”
– Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Goldfrapp - Clowns (Seventh Tree, 2008)
“He looked like an Italian, was dressed like an Englishman, and had the...”
– Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“I’ve gotten used to ignoring them and I think, as a result, they’ve...”
– A Beautiful Mind, 2001
Place of Skulls - Darkest Hour (The Black Is Never...
“Leonard looked at her wondering, and had the sense of great things sweeping out...”
– E. M. Forster, Howards End
Wintersleep - Faithful Guide (Untitled, 2005)
“Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.”
– Edna Ferber, Roast Beef, Medium
“If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.”
– Alice Roosevelt Longworth
“After living in the dark for so long a glimpse of light can make you giddy....”
– The Good Girl, 2002
The Twilight Sad - Cold Days From The Birdhouse...
“I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything.....”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with...”
– Tom Waits
“In every ancient culture there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of...”
– Marina Abramovic (via nightmarebrunette)
“Wherever you feel death, feel it. Don’t escape. Death is beautiful; death is the...”
– Osho, Sex Matters: From Sex to Superconsciousness (via sex-death-rebirth)
“There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching...”
– Queen Elizabeth I to the French Ambassador after he had praised her linguistic skills (via rarelyinhistory)