I did have one time when I got a song going through my head. And it was a band called Boney M. And I don’t really like Boney M.’s music. - Guy with a broken leg who has survived a great fall and four days of climbing and peeing himself in “Touching the Void”
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“Island, IS” - Volcano Choir

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. - Beckett
Custom silhouette of a poodle. -Regretsy

Custom silhouette of a poodle. -Regretsy

Tube Bar prank calls names

From the list of the 50 most interesting Wikipedia pages that’s going around comes this one on the Tube Bar prank calls. Included is a fantastic list of the names that are used in the prank calls, whose highlights include:

-Al Depanzyu (I’ll de-pants you)

-Holden McGroin (“Holding my Groin”)

-Oliver Closeoff (All of her clothes off)

-Phil Miaz (Fill my ass)

-Mike Rotch (My crotch)

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“The Hollywood Sign” by Halloween, Alaska

“Rime of the Ancient Mariner” - Words by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Read by Orson Welles. From engravings by Gustave Dore. Weird, amateurish and somehow incredibly awesome experimental film by Larry Jordan.

I confess I do not believe in time. - Nabokov
“Burning Man Obama” by Liu Bolin [Y!]

“Burning Man Obama” by Liu Bolin [Y!]

If you think you’re going to write something like “The Brothers Karamazov” or “Moby-Dick,” go ahead. Nobody will read it. I don’t care how good it is, or how smart the readers are. Their intentions, their brains are different. - Cormac McCarthy on writing long, Wall Street Journal
Discovered inside a recent Craigslist purchase. My favorite part is the part about detaching the Crotch piece. [sic]

Discovered inside a recent Craigslist purchase. My favorite part is the part about detaching the Crotch piece. [sic]

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Low - “I Remember.” Slower. Slower!

lowindustrial:

Empty L.A. A book of depopulated photography by Matt Logue.

This reminds me of Bootyclipse. And the absence of everything. Which is to say, I like it.

lowindustrial:

Empty L.A. A book of depopulated photography by Matt Logue.

This reminds me of Bootyclipse. And the absence of everything. Which is to say, I like it.

from lowindustrial
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Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) - The Whippgrass (Self-recorded)

Ken Nordine reads Poe’s “The Conqueror Worm”