Mogwai (travel is dangerous)

On some positions a coward has asked the question is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
– Martin Luther King Jr., November 1967. (via dkos)

Photo: Carlos Avalos

Peter, Bjorn and John - Paris 2004

“Goethe’s final words: ‘More light’. Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that’s been our unifying cry: ‘More light’. Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon. Incandescent. Lights that banish the darkness from our caves, to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier’s field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we’re supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and candles. Light is metaphor.” Chris Stevens, Northern Exposure (1990)

image: ArtWerk

Stop Peter Bjorn and John

zoot woman - living in a magazine

bitcrush - in distance

To see a world in a grain of sand

And a heaven in a wild flower

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand

And eternity in an hour.

~ William Blake / Auguries of Innocence ~

photo: Helen Levitt

bitcrush: Mike Cadoo

Mr. 1986 - Miller

Lowly Lily of the Vale, To me you tell a useful tale:

You say,

"Be pretty as you will, Yet modesty is lovelier still."
- A Little Girl to Her Flowers in Verse (Gutenberg project)

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Godspeed You! Black Emperor

image: yseult30

He lifts up a banner for the distant nations, he whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Here they come, swiftly and speedily! Isaiah 5:25-27

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For the film, see God Speed You! Black Emperor

one day in my garden - amon tobin

On the edge of fragile memory lies nostalgia, the most elusive of memory’s protean forms and one beginning to receive critical attention. An admixture of sweetness and sorrow, it expresses a longing for a vanishing past often more imaginary than real in its idealized remembrance. Nostalgia exercised a powerful appeal in the Romantic sentiments of the nineteenth century, tied as it was to regret over the passing of ways of life eroded by economic and social change, a generalized popular enthusiasm for innovation, and rising expectations about what the future might hold. Nostalgia was the shadow side of progress. Memory - The Fragility Of Memory In A Postmodern Age

photo: Georg Parthen

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