The Curious Addenda

"We hurt one another. We go through life dressing up in new clothes and covering up our true motives...."

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:25:06 -0400

“We hurt one another. We go through life dressing up in new clothes and covering up our true motives. We meet up lightly, we drink rosé wine, and then we give each other pain. We don’t want to! What we want to do, what one really wants to do is put out one’s hands—like some dancer, in a trance, just put out one’s hands—and touch all the people and tell them: I’m sorry. I love you. Thank you for your e-mail. Thank you for coming to see me. Thank you. But we can’t. We can’t. On the little life raft of Mark only one other person could fit. Just one! And so, thwarted, we inflict pain. That’s what we do. We do not keep each other company. We do not send each other cute text messages. Or, rather, when we do these things, we do them merely to postpone the moment when we’ll push these people off, and beat forward, beat forward on our little raft, alone.”

- Keith Gessen, All The Sad Young Literary Men

"Paul Auster wrote: “Surely it is an odd way to spend your life—sitting alone in a room with a pen in..."

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:55:06 -0400

“Paul Auster wrote: “Surely it is an odd way to spend your life—sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist, except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice.””

- Q&A: HarperStudio Editor Julia Cheiffetz (via alejandraramos)

I could not agree more.

Thank you, Alejandra.

malackey: I know, it’s shocking, to think that people should be...

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:36:12 -0400

malackey:

I know, it’s shocking, to think that people should be ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE THINGS THEY ARE SAYING.

melissa: (“produced” by strutting)

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:37:59 -0400

melissa:

(“produced” by strutting)

From The Ritz-Carlton Suite, Battery Park, on Tuesday.

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:35:20 -0400

From The Ritz-Carlton Suite, Battery Park, on Tuesday.

Brokeback Mountain

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:15:58 -0400

Ennis Del Mar: I'm gonna tell you this one time, Jack fuckin' Twist, an' I ain't foolin'. What I don't know - all them things that I don't know - could get you killed if I come to know them. I ain't jokin'.
Jack Twist: Yeah well try this one, and I'll say it just once!
Ennis Del Mar: Go ahead!
Jack Twist: Tell you what, we coulda had a good life together! Fuckin' real good life! Had us a place of our own. But you didn't want it, Ennis! So what we got now is Brokeback Mountain! Everything's built on that! That's all we got, boy, fuckin' all. So I hope you know that, even if you don't never know the rest! You count the damn few times we have been together in nearly twenty years and you measure the short fucking leash you keep me on - and then you ask me about Mexico and tell me you'll kill me for needing somethin' I don't hardly never get. You have no idea how bad it gets! I'm not you... I can't make it on a coupla high-altitude fucks once or twice a year! You are too much for me Ennis, you son-of-a-whore-son bitch! I wish I knew how to quit you.
Ennis Del Mar: [crying] Well, why don't you? Why don't you just let me be? It's because of you Jack, that I'm like this! I'm nothin'... I'm nowhere... Get the fuck off me! I can't stand being like this no more, Jack.

"If you want to party like a rock star, be prepared to be reported on like one."

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:18:54 -0400

“If you want to party like a rock star, be prepared to be reported on like one.”

- Bill Jensen, director of new nedia at Village Voice Media (via narratrix)

melissa: Outtake (from, god, about an hour ago, in Times Square...

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:03:25 -0400

melissa:

Outtake (from, god, about an hour ago, in Times Square with Trixie Bedlam)

I really only have the most gorgeous and fabulous friends. Just saying. <3

I shall be here this weekend. And you shall be jealous. [Image...

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:02:48 -0400

I shall be here this weekend.

And you shall be jealous.

[Image Courtesy Of Slack12’s Flickr]

“I do believe Marsellus Wallace, my husband, your boss,...

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:18:58 -0400

“I do believe Marsellus Wallace, my husband, your boss, told you to take me out and do whatever I wanted. Now I wanna dance, and I wanna win. I want that trophy. So dance good.”

- Mia Wallace, 1994 (!!!)

(via tuer)

nevver: Anthony Perkins on the set of “Psycho” <3

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:52:23 -0400

nevver:

Anthony Perkins on the set of “Psycho”

“Une nouvelle vidéo sur le titre Canvas, extrait du...

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:16:59 -0400

“Une nouvelle vidéo sur le titre Canvas, extrait du prochain album d’Imogen Heap : Ellipse. Un clip sombre entièrement en noir et blanc, à découvrir dans la suite. Album prévu pour le 24 août.”

- via Fubiz

"Unlike the scoop reporters, the feature writers did not openly acknowledge the existence of their..."

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:12:23 -0400

“Unlike the scoop reporters, the feature writers did not openly acknowledge the existence of their competition, not even to one another. Nor was there any sort of a scorecard. And yet everyone in the game knew precisely what was going on and went through the most mortifying sieges of envy, even resentment, or else surges of euphoria, depending on how the game was going. No one would ever admit to such a thing, and yet they felt it, almost daily. The feature writers’ arena differed from the old school reporters’ in another way. Your competition was not necessarily working for another publication. You were just as likely to be competing with people on your own paper, which meant you were even less likely to talk about it.”

- Tom Wolfe (via narratrix)