dfw on the postmodern
"…the last few years of the postmodern era have seemed a bit like the way you feel when you’re in high school and your parents go on a trip, and you throw a party…. For a while it’s great, free and freeing, parental authority gone and overthrown…. but the sense I get of my generation of writers and intellectuals or whatever is that it’s 3:00 a.m. and the couch has several burn-holes and somebody’s thrown up in the umbrella stand and we’re wishing the revel would end. The postmodern founders’ patricidal work was great, but patricide produces orphans, and no amount of revelry can make up for the fact that writers my age have been literary orphans throughout our formative years. We’re kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we’re uneasy about the fact that we wish they’d come back…. Is there something about authorities and limits we actually need? And then the uneasiest feeling of all, as we start gradually realizing that parents in fact aren’t ever coming back — which means we’re going to have to be the parents."
--David Foster Wallace
the incal
From the Jodorowsky comic The Incal. Possibly the trippiest comic book besides The Invisibles
cat drawing
via Jessee Rose
two old photos
Some cool old photos from who knows where
dig the hiss
Some art from Philip at Manic Static. He's also in Glow in the Dark Flowers
parker palmer
This quaker old guy is cool! Watch him talk.
He said "we are often whiplashed by an arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves."
case closed
This is the greatest book in the history of the universe. CASE CLOSED.
this is a photograph of a city
More trendy photography from Lara Gasparotto. I like it
a child about to smash a piano
from a book about violence
spaceman on a shark
(click for a giant version)
cabin interior
via cabin porn
masculin féminin is good
I saw this movie the other day, Masculin Féminin. I know I'm a little late finding this out, but it's good!
Here is a clip from it.