Fashion by Issey Miyake, 1977.
books on the radio and people talking about doing things with books
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G R I M E S: I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living
i dont want my words to be taken out of context
i dont want to be infantilized because i refuse to be sexualized
i dont want to be molested at shows or on the street by people who perceive me as an object that exists for their personal satisfaction
i dont want to live in a world where…
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The APRIL Blog: The Trees The Trees: a visual tribute
The April Festival in Seattle is happening now. Too bad we’re leaving this afternoon. Going back home to Vancouver. Maybe next year!
aprilfestseattle:
Today at 7! A special edition of Vignettes featuring visual art inspired by the poetry of Heather Christle. Christle will read at 8, we encourage everyone to come either before 8 or after 8:30 so not to disrupt the reading with buzzing the door.
About Christle’s poetry:
Heather …
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“… the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth.”
Dolores “Lolita” Hayes/ Mrs. Richard F. Schiller, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Pale-gray vacant eyes…asymmetrical freckles on her bobbed nose…Only in the tritest of terms (diary resumed) can I describe Lo’s features: I might say her hair is auburn, and her lips as red as licked red candy, the lower one prettily plump, bobbed nose…Lolita of the strident voice and rich brown hair—of the bangs and the swirls and the sides and the curls at the back upturned russet face.
Couple of inches taller. Pink-rimmed glasses. New, heaped-up hairdo. She was frankly and hugely pregnant. Her head looked smaller and her pale-freckled cheeks were hollowed…with round pommettes…And softly, confidentially, arching her thin eyebrows…This Lolita, pale and polluted, and big with another’s child, but still gray-eyed, still sooty-lashed, still auburn and almond.
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Perhaps the matter of genre doesn’t really matter.
Some years ago I attended a reading in Washington, D.C., by the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. She introduced the story she read by saying that it was not autobiographical. Then she read her story about a woman who weighed somewhere in the vicinity of 300 pounds. When she was done, and the Q&A started, the first question was: ‘Miss Atwood, how did you lose all that weight?’
Perhaps the matter of genre doesn’t really matter.
Which is kind of my position. I mean, honored as I am to be at this table with such amazing writers, whose work I adore, I also have to confess I don’t have much of a dog in the fight. I believe writers should feel free to write whatever they want to and label it whatever they want to. In a perfect world, that one sentence would comprise my entire presentation.
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To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
an endless list of perfect books
↳To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
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100 Cassette Tapes.
100 Cassette Tapes.
Prints available (also full tape listing) on Society6
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´Love conquers all´-Virgil
The classical latin poem, the Aeneid, was transcribed by vikings into old norse and rediscovered by archeologists in modern Norway. It proves vikings were not all thugs and pirates. I love poetry and i´m secretly a viking so it´s the perfect tatt for me. Viking4life
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