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"Yeah, it was pretty sweet - and I love the smell of books.. and beer."

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:39:43 -0400

“Yeah, it was pretty sweet - and I love the smell of books.. and beer.”

- Joshua Nguyen on Friday night’s event (via housingworksbookstore)

thebloomsburygroup: Virginia Woolf’s Italian manuscript...

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:19:11 -0400

thebloomsburygroup:

Virginia Woolf’s Italian manuscript notebook, June 7, 1916. (Smith College.)

Photo

Sat, 26 Mar 2011 19:37:00 -0400

"I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls"

Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:06:18 -0400

“I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls”

- Flaubert (via upperwestsidestyleblog)

new york stories #4

Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:01:00 -0400

my man (stage name) dimi dos noise once wrote a note to me “Strange life, strange world, strange big city, me and you and friends.” it was on a white board by our door. it was when we first moved to the south bronx, gritty and “uncivilized,” the poorest neighborhood in america, everyone a junky crackhead alcoholic welfare mom who give their babies soda in their bottles, living together for the first time, and we could already tell that nothing was going right there (didn’t think it would end in a massive fire, but still, wasn’t going right)… he just made it into a song, and i think it’s the best song he’s written: “strange world strange city me and you and friends strange world strange city me and you and friends strange world strange city me and you and friends ah ah ahhhh ahhhhh” sometimes i feel really bad for the weird/shitty/drunk things i used to do and im actually very sorry to a lot of people for them just felt like saying it somewhere

"Sometimes I think we live through things only to be able to say that it happened. That it wasn’t to..."

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:41:00 -0400

“Sometimes I think we live through things only to be able to say that it happened. That it wasn’t to someone else, it was to me. Sometimes we live to beat the odds.
The important thing in life is to believe that while you’re alive, it’s never too late. I promise you…no matter how bad things look, they look better awake than they do asleep. When you die, there’s only one thing you want to happen. You wanna come back.”

- The Jacket (via becdee)

most of the things i do are to beat the odds. you say i can’t/won’t/will fail? fuck you. no i won’t.

please let this weekend be

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:35:25 -0400

-productive

-awesome

-good temperature

-happy

-proactive too

-pro everything

-full of good words

-full of essay writing and revising

-and PLEASE let nothing get in the way accomplishing what i need to accomplish

thats my little prayer for this weekend

"Manuscripts don’t burn."

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:54:00 -0400

“Manuscripts don’t burn.”

- even in the bronx

today in the City

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:00:00 -0400

sun is out after snow there are files everywhere in my home in my bag at my work

new york stories #3

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:43:32 -0400

it’s me i have my perfect new room my little writing oasis and i am so so happy tonight

"I have a woman’s body and a child’s emotions."

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:42:54 -0400

“I have a woman’s body and a child’s emotions.”

- Elizabeth Taylor (via ohitsdana)

PROACTIVE

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:51:41 -0400

"So many times I’ve gotten used to this. This old idea of being all alone. Tell me how..."

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:49:00 -0400

“So many times I’ve gotten used to this. This old idea of being all alone. Tell me how I’m supposed to get through with this. I wish this house felt like a home.”

- Jack White.

Listening to the The White Stripes. Nostalgia for what’s no longer. Jack always expresses the saddest things in the simplest, most elegant way.

housingworksbookstore: Let me see your bookshelf! (Here’s...

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:32:24 -0400

housingworksbookstore:

Let me see your bookshelf! (Here’s mine)

A Reddit thread of bookshelf porn. (Not mine mine. Longtime readers will know I don’t do color sorting.)

me and d. two people in a yellow room in black and white in the...

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:40:00 -0400

me and d. two people in a yellow room in black and white in the early years of a relationship. they are holy

operation of public assembly

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:46:27 -0400

there are so many people in this city and when i get over hating them i can’t breathe because...

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:10:35 -0400

there are so many people in this city and when i get over hating them i can’t breathe because they are all so beautiful just like the pigeon that comes to visit me outside my office window every day

52books: Sunday at The Strand. (Taken with Instagram at Strand...

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:04:36 -0400

52books:

Sunday at The Strand. (Taken with Instagram at Strand Book Store)

"I’d get up in the morning, do the dishes, do a little housework, and fold my clothes. This may sound..."

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:30:10 -0400

“I’d get up in the morning, do the dishes, do a little housework, and fold my clothes. This may sound dumb, but if you learn to fold your clothes, then you can organise your thoughts.”

- Iggy Pop (via catmessiah)

happy

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:09:31 -0400

a thermos makes me happier than just about anything plus the idea of going back to school to a good school in new york city and my job makes me happy and writing on my typewriter and this blog and pretty apartment houses in nyc and other things too…..