Gosford Parkour

22/06/2008

» pdflibrary

(da qui a leggerli, quei pdf, ce ne passa)

Link posted at 14:26

“ I go through 10 drafts to send a SMS to her, then add in typos to make it seem off-the-cuff „

confessionizer, qui

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“ One of the real structural understandings of great literature, from Greek tragedy to Beckett and Faulkner, is that it’s an event. It’s not something that you can contain and narrate, but it’s like this seismic set of ripples that goes on through time, backward and forward. Contemporary novelists don’t really understand that, but contemporary artists do „

Tom McCarthy interview, Believer, June 2008 (via SurplusMatter, qui)

Quote posted at 13:08

“ Su internet tutto si trova, ma non tutto si cerca. Si trova quel che si cerca, e la qualità di quel che si trova dipende dalla qualità della ricerca „

Gaspar Torriero, qui.

Quote posted at 10:09

» How Darwin won the evolution race

Link posted at 04:32

21/06/2008

Gradius, a shoot’em up, recreated as an old style text adventure. Now, this is a nerdish thing.

Video posted at 16:52

“ If this movie is the culmination of Herzog’s recent documentary work, and one of the films he’ll be remembered for, its apotheosis comes in a long, long shot of that lone, lost penguin wandering off into the Antarctic interior, which at first is ridiculous and then tragic and then noble and then all those things at once. Don’t ask who that little guy waddling off toward his lonely destiny is; you already know „

Maddin and Herzog: Brothers of the Ice. Salon, qui.

Quote posted at 04:33

20/06/2008

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Questa candidatura seducente dovrebbe essere letta in termini di Bellezza Nera, poiché per molti versi il fascino di Obama deriva dalla sua estetica.

È un danzatore, i cui movimenti riflettono l’attitudine culturale delle comunità nere urbane a mantenere sempre la calma e il sangue freddo anche in situazioni di stress, muovendosi con grazia e trasformando le arene sconosciute in un palcoscenico su cui danzare. Si sono aperti dibattiti per stabilire se Obama sia “troppo nero” o “non abbastanza nero”, categorie risalenti agli anni ‘60 e ormai superate, mentre gli osservatori non sono riusciti a vedere quanto la sua campagna assomigli a una coreografia nera.

„

Obama, la bellezza, la danza. dis.amb.ig.uando, qui

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“ You have a girlfriend named Alma, who has a long tender horse neck and a big Dominican ass that seems to exist in a fourth dimension beyond jeans. An ass that could drag the moon out of orbit. An ass she never liked until she met you. „

Alma, a oh-so-short story by Junot Dìaz

Quote posted at 05:09

19/06/2008

Now, *that’s* raising expectations.

Video posted at 14:16