The thing I’m working on is set in the desert, and it’s weird - time disappears, people disappear, snow starts falling out of the sky in the middle of summer.
So what I listen to now is distorted, ethereal electronic music. This, the Grimes record from last year. Neon Indian. Dwntn. Falsetto vocals. Smeary, runny mascara tracks of songs.
Things that appeal to that reptilian part of your brain that accepts glittery mirages of music.
— Kevin Ashton, Creative People Say No
New project.
A google image search for “Wizard of Oz blotter paper” didn’t bring up nearly as many relevant images as I thought it would.
Get Lucky (Live Daft Punk Cover) - Daughter
Caddisfly larvae build protective cases using materials found in their environment. Artist Hubert Duprat supplied them with gold leaf and precious stones. This is what they created.
http://www.utaot.com/ Mysteries, science, art and spirit.
“I wasn’t born with it. It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you’re new at this — and by “new at it,” I mean 15 years in, or even 20 — you’re just starting to get traction. Young musicians believe they should be able to throw a band together and be famous, and anything that’s in their way is unfair and evil. What are you, in your 20s, you picked up a guitar? Give it a minute.”
While I wrote the first draft in the fall, I had a symbolism dictionary from the library that I renewed over and over, until the system told me I had to return it. Which I did, then came back a few days later when it had been reshelved, and checked it back out.
When the draft got the OK from my agent and officially became the next book project, I figured I should probably pony up for a copy of my own. Which I did, getting a used-as-new copy from the Amazon marketplace for 80 cents.
There’s apparently not much demand for an out of print symbolism dictionary, though, because 80 cents was not the cheapest option (I could have saved upwards of 67 cents), but it was the option from a bookstore in Washington state, where the book is set.
So that’s the one I chose, because it’s a symbolism dictionary, and the book is about someone looking for these kinds of connections and sometimes you write the book and sometimes the book writes you.
Which is why there’s this tiny, natural ruby that hasn’t left my neck in a while, because I was thumbing through the dictionary and read its entry (love, vitality, courage; fortune and happiness) and then I was thumbing through the internet and found this necklace. And then I named a character Ruby.
I’m still collecting reference images over here.
“I used to feel that the novel output of Fitzgerald was like the literary version of the Myers Briggs test: whichever one a person favored was some fundamental indicator of his or her personality. Roughly it followed that ordinary and banal people liked The Great Gatsby, snotty, effete types liked This Side of Paradise, and The Beautiful and Damned was for the discerning and unconventional (I’ll let you guess in which camp I numbered myself). Tender is the Night was sort of an unknown quantity, preferred by dramatic people, maybe, or people who take pills.”
Modern Library Revue: #28 Tender is the Night by Lydia Kiesling
Jesus Perea | on Tumblr - Eating triangles. Art print
I generally try to avoid this question because it’s almost impossible to answer without sounding preachy, but you asked via the Sacred Tumblr Ask...
Almost didn’t notice someone walking a pig just now so I guess I’ve been living in Brooklyn too long.
“After sex, you curl up like a shrimp, something deep inside you ruined, slammed in a place that sickens at slamming, and slowly you fill up with an...
Mommy and Daddy love San Francisco and each other.
