130Nina Nastasia - This is what it is (The Blackened Air) (by jovi1715)
last night, on the drive back from l’île aux coudres i discovered this album. my love and karina sleeping in the backseat, sarah at the wheel of saltine, and me in the passenger seat. a big big bright full moon, the most beautiful i’ve seen in months. this album in the tape deck, head full of thoughts of songs i need to write, stories i want to tell.
i had a hard time not staring at her, her face silhouetted in the moonlight, her head surely as full with as many thoughts as mine.
over the course of one day, we saw a dead moose, dead raccoon, dead deer. and we accidentally met the people who will kill a lamb for simon in three weeks.
yesterday was perfect, heartbreaking, amazing.
We now understand Duras’ books should not be put into the hands of oversensitive readers. Let them go see the films and the plays; they will encounter the same malady of distress but subdued, wrapped in a dreamy charm that softens it and also makes it more feigned and made up - a convention. Her books, on the contrary, bring us to the verge of madness. they do not point to it from afar, they neither observe it nor analyze it for the sake of experiencing it at a distance in the hope of a solution, like it or not, some day or other… to the contrary, the texts domesticate the malady of death, they fuse with it, are on the same level with it, without either distance or perspective. There is no purification in store for us at the conclusion of those novels written on the brink of illness, no improvement, no promise of a beyond, not even the enchanting beauty of style or irony that might provide a bonus of pleasure in addition to the revealed evil.
Julia Kristeva, Black Sun. (via batarde)
(Source: simonetjulia)
Great corporate design for Bold Bald by designer Steph Davlantes.
Designed for the early senior citizen market, this head shine product label and campaign assures men that they can be badass and balding at the same time. The logomark references the idea that two balding heads are better than one haired head.
i’m in love with a bald man. i need to get him this for his birthday.
non merci
A quick and frivolous return to French letters…
Marguerite Duras
“I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we’ve ever met.” — Marguerite Duras
