The Dykings

"Love, she believed, must come suddenly, with great thunderclaps and bolts of lightning, — a..."

Sun, 12 May 2013 02:06:57 -0400

“Love, she believed, must come suddenly, with great thunderclaps and bolts of lightning, — a hurricane from heaven that drops down on your life, overturns it, tears away your will like a leaf, and carries your whole heart off with it into the abyss. She did not know that the rain forms lakes on the terraces of houses when the drainpipes are blocked, and thus she would have lived on feeling quite safe, had she not suddenly discovered the crack in the wall.”

- Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, p. 87 (Lydia Davis translation)

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Sat, 20 Apr 2013 13:18:07 -0400

every story in the history of the universe is better with: a female protagonist lesbians even...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:24:31 -0400

every story in the history of the universe is better with:

a female protagonist

lesbians

even better with a female protagonist who is a lesbian

lookuplookup: unbornwhiskey: Creamed chicken specials, plates of fried vegetables, cheese...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:17:45 -0400

lookuplookup:

unbornwhiskey:

Creamed chicken specials, plates of fried vegetables, cheese sandwiches with soup. It was hard to think of all the ways you’d never come through for people, closed them out, never loved them, and still order lunch.

Lorrie Moore, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital is one of the few truly perfect novels I’ve read. Go read it now.

"Gentrified happiness is often available to us in return for collusion with injustice. We go along..."

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:36:40 -0400

“Gentrified happiness is often available to us in return for collusion with injustice. We go along with it, usually, because of the privilege of dominance, which is the privilege not to notice how our way of living affects less powerful people. Sometimes we do know that certain happiness exists at the expense of other human beings, but because we’re not as smart as we think we are, we decide that this is the only way we can survive.”

- Schulman, Sarah (2012-01-07). The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination (Kindle Locations 2266-2269). University of California Press. Kindle Edition.

"Gentrified thinking is like the bourgeois version of Christian fundamentalism, a huge, unconscious..."

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 01:32:38 -0400

“Gentrified thinking is like the bourgeois version of Christian fundamentalism, a huge, unconscious conspiracy of homogenous patterns with no awareness about its own freakishness.”

- Schulman, Sarah (2012-01-07). The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination (Kindle Locations 721-722). University of California Press. Kindle Edition.

THIS BOOK, guys. THIS BOOK.

"In other words, some ideas have to be formally replicated, instead of being described. They have to..."

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:46:00 -0400

“In other words, some ideas have to be formally replicated, instead of being described. They have to be evoked. This is especially true when talking about urban experience. What music best evokes life in cities? Improvisational jazz, real rock and roll, and rap/hip-hop/sampling. It’s the clash of systems that produces the authentic representation of the complex whole.”

- Schulman, Sarah (2012-01-07). The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination (Kindle Locations 287-289). University of California Press. Kindle Edition.

othermike: communalperversion: Sarah Schulman, NYC, 1988,...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 18:49:37 -0400

othermike:

communalperversion:

Sarah Schulman, NYC, 1988, photographed by Robert Giard for the “Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers” series (via emilygould)

i am actually crying over these serious & gorgeous portraits of queer writers in the 1980s, many of whom have been super fucking inspiring to me!! stay tuned, more queued and coming soon

<3 <3 <3

othermike: this weird day is all about staying in bed and...

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:16:06 -0400

othermike:

this weird day is all about staying in bed and thinking about what a good drummer Janet Weiss is

"These are the days that must happen to you."

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:29:23 -0400

“These are the days that must happen to you.”

- Song of the Open Road, Walt Whitman. (via janale)

"There is a reason why people pick up an instrument and put it between themselves and the rest of the..."

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:32:36 -0400

“There is a reason why people pick up an instrument and put it between themselves and the rest of the world. Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you’ve picked up an instrument, it’s because you don’t feel you are communicating sufficiently.”

- Stephen Stills, interviewed by Jessica Hopper for Rolling Stone

Thinking about this a lot today.

All up on Your Thighs: I bought Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:43:16 -0400

All up on Your Thighs: I bought Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and...:

bananapeppers:

I bought Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men from the Barnes & Noble on my way home Sunday. I finished it sometime yesterday, having only put it down to spend time with my girlfriend and to clean (we finally finished season eight of The X-Files).

this book was…

I want to echo how important this book was for me in order to really process my former abusive relationship. I also want to make it clear that this book is helpful even if you are not straight. It is definitely triggering, but I found it helped me to move through painful memories in a productive way.

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Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:12:06 -0400

I have three poems up on Two Serious Ladies.

I’m playing musical improv at Lindsey Kugler’s book release party this Saturday at the IPRC in Portland.

I feel like the universe is putting me through a course called: You have a body, by the way. I got in a bike accident and broke my hand and screwed up my shoulder and such. It was a very humbling experience. I will never forget the night I made chili and had to figure out how to use a can opener with one hand, and when I was finally done cooking I was so exhausted I didn’t have the energy to eat. Then a couple months ago I started having problems with acid reflux, which has required a complete change of my lifestyle. I’m grateful for the opportunity to make better habits, I just wish that I didn’t have to wait for the river to be on fire to figure out not to dump garbage in it all the time.

The other big thing that happened was that my grandfather died. He chose to go off dialysis, so it gave us all time to prepare. I was there for the last few days of his life. It made me very aware of the limits of language. I couldn’t say anything to him without it sounding completely inadequate. Then, he couldn’t really communicate at all. I began playing guitar for him and it seemed to soothe him. I sang Roger Miller’s “King of the Road,” and he smiled, almost. On the night of his death I took requests from my uncles and we all sang together. It made me think about what music is for, and why I’m doing what I’m doing in the first place.

poetsandwriters: From Inferno: A Poet’s Novel by Eileen Myles.

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:12:19 -0400

poetsandwriters:

From Inferno: A Poet’s Novel by Eileen Myles.

Should I get into an argument about income inequality on facebook?

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:43:25 -0500

Should I get into an argument about income inequality on facebook?

"As a society, we encourage girls and women to be emotionally accessible, and in touch with their..."

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:00:03 -0500

“As a society, we encourage girls and women to be emotionally accessible, and in touch with their feelings; we say that it’s an innately feminine trait. We say it, that is, until they have feelings that make us uncomfortable, at which point we recast them as melodramatic harpies, shrieking banshees, and basket cases”

- Tori Amos (via eaaao)

This is actually a quote from a Sady Doyle piece about Tori Amos! Not a quote from Tori. Source

raraspeaks: sun ra business card

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 11:59:15 -0500

raraspeaks:

sun ra business card

theriotmag: softjunebreeze: Musical director and guitar player...

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:28:42 -0500

theriotmag:

softjunebreeze:

Musical director and guitar player BiBi McGill plays guitar next to Beyonce Knowles during the Pepsi Super Bowl XLVII Halftime Show on February 3, 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

But What About Beyoncé’s Band?

Whether you’re a fan or not you have to admit Beyonce’s Knowles performance at the Super Bowl was full of explosive energy. Her 13-minute performance included a 120 dancers, a 10-piece all female band and several back up singers.

Then there’s the Super Dome staff, stage, lighting and costume designers, the choreographer, the hair and make up folks, the list goes on.

It’s no surprise Beyoncé is getting all the attention but since no one else is talking about the musicians that made that performance happen it’s a great opportunity to highlight the band.

Beyoncé says she started the 10-piece all female band called “The Sugar Mamas” so young girls could have more role models.

“When I was younger I wish I had more females who played instruments to look up to. I played piano for like a second but then I stopped,” Beyoncé said in a statement. “I just wanted to do something which would inspire other young females to get involved in music so I put together an all-woman band.”

Meet some of the band members that make up Beyonce’s band “The Sugars Mamas.”

Whether you like or hate a lot of what Beyonce says or does, you’ve gotta admit that this is awesome, along with her all-woman show at the Super Bowl.

poetryandimages: Rumi (Photo by Cass Haze)

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:14:22 -0500

poetryandimages:

Rumi

(Photo by Cass Haze)

yoursecretary: bluebeadsandbones: austinkleon: Join...

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:15:56 -0500

yoursecretary:

bluebeadsandbones:

austinkleon:

Join Cartoonist Lynda Barry for a University-Level Course on Doodling and Neuroscience

Can I just stop you for a minute and note how fucking amazing it is that one of our greatest living cartoonists is not only teaching this class, but she’s letting us all follow along? Incredible.

LYNDA BARRY, DO I EVER ADORE YOU

what bluebeadsandbones said

I’ve been following this and it’s incredible.