mr eliot's sunday morning service

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Sun, 19 May 2013 14:46:41 +1000

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Sun, 19 May 2013 14:38:46 +1000

"You burn me."

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:36:02 +1000

“You burn
me.”

- Sappho, from Fragments of Sappho: If Not Winter (translated by Anne Carson)

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Thu, 16 May 2013 09:35:56 +1000

Wastes (studies) #87 & #63 by Christian Capurro

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:46:12 +1000

Wastes (studies) #87 & #63 by Christian Capurro

"… Tolkien’s own misadventures with his first automobile, purchased in 1932, were the source of some..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:51:23 +1000

“… Tolkien’s own misadventures with his first automobile, purchased in 1932, were the source of some of Mr. Bliss’s escapades. Tolkien was known to accelerate across busy intersections crying out ‘Charge ‘em and they scatter!’ and once knocked down a stone wall during a family vacation.”

- Beyond The Hobbit, Janet Brennan Croft

(via undercovermartin)

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Tue, 14 May 2013 13:01:52 +1000

"I tell my piano the things I used to tell you."

Tue, 14 May 2013 11:03:35 +1000

“I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.”

- Frédéric Chopin (via hisimages)

fer1972: Edgar Allan Poe Tales Illustrations by Pavel Ripley...

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:59:29 +1000

fer1972:

Edgar Allan Poe Tales Illustrations by Pavel Ripley (Artist on Tumblr)

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Mon, 13 May 2013 15:08:28 +1000

Julia Caffarena - Paris

Mon, 13 May 2013 13:09:54 +1000

Julia Caffarena - Paris

"What is actually unsophisticated in the approach of the perpetually distanced viewer is precisely..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:46:37 +1000

“What is actually unsophisticated in the approach of the perpetually distanced viewer is precisely the effort to be theoretically sophisticated: to appreciate only what is serious and important and canonical, to favor anything dark over anything light because that’s what makes you smart. These are often the mental workings of people who mistake reflexive skepticism for discernment, which it isn’t — it is definitionally no more discerning than reflexive boosterism…Disdain is easier than enthusiasm because you can do it with a hand wave, and quite unfairly, it has a better intellectual reputation…That’s the mindset I actually fear more than ironic distancing: the refusal to react at all until you know how your reaction will be received. That goes hand in hand with the insidious practice of using what you like and dislike to define not just your taste but your place. It’s a quieter, less conspicuous, but just as destructive failure to engage. It’s how people learn to substitute what they should think for what they actually think, to the point where they don’t trust their own reactions…What has to be preserved is the ability to show a kind of open-minded assertiveness, where what you learn and what you hear informs your reaction but doesn’t define it…No one owes it to anyone else, or to the abstract art of film, to like The Master or Citizen Kane just because of the lists they appear on or the awards they win. But we do perhaps owe it to a film to, as Seitz says, try to “connect emotionally and imaginatively.”…The challenge is to rigorously interrogate your own responses again and again, whether you’re reacting to James Bond or Terrence Malick, and live comfortably in whatever critical space that leaves for you.”

- NPR’s Linda Holmes, The Sophistication Problem: James Bond, Gene Kelly, And The Limbs We Live On (via meiringens)

The many faces of Paul Thomas Anderson inside Port...

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:37:27 +1000

The many faces of Paul Thomas Anderson inside Port Magazine’s Film Issue.

P. G. Wodehouse, “Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest”

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:43:19 +1000

P. G. Wodehouse, “Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest”

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Sun, 12 May 2013 12:36:11 +1000

"There are days that walk through me and I cannot hold them."

Sat, 11 May 2013 18:11:16 +1000

“There are days that walk through me
and I cannot hold them.”

- Katherine Larson, “The Gardens in Tunisia” (via colinfirth)

Clémence Poésy by Stefania Paparelli for Crash #40 Fall 2006

Sat, 11 May 2013 17:13:38 +1000

Clémence Poésy by Stefania Paparelli for Crash #40 Fall 2006

"We all create stories to protect ourselves."

Sat, 11 May 2013 12:24:47 +1000

“We all create stories to protect ourselves.”

- Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (via shylocks)

Something doesn’t feel right.

Sat, 11 May 2013 12:09:12 +1000

Something doesn’t feel right.

"She was extending a hand I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence."

Fri, 10 May 2013 13:32:09 +1000

“She was extending a hand I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.”

- Jonathan Safran Foer (via colinfirth)