May. 7, 2012 at 12:39pm View comments
Père LachaiseParisHeddy Honigmann
While in Paris, I finally got to visit Père Lachaise Cemetery, the largest burial ground in the city and a place I’ve been wanting to visit ever since 2007 when I saw Heddy Honigmann’s documentary Forever, a masterpiece that changed my life. This is a photo I took while there.

While in Paris, I finally got to visit Père Lachaise Cemetery, the largest burial ground in the city and a place I’ve been wanting to visit ever since 2007 when I saw Heddy Honigmann’s documentary Forever, a masterpiece that changed my life. This is a photo I took while there.

May. 5, 2012 at 10:10am with 20 notes View comments
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Carl SaganBooksCosmos
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What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
— Carl Sagan, Cosmos (via wilfordlauren)
May. 3, 2012 at 3:23pm with 1 note View comments
words
The best sentence I’ve read all week … and it’s not even the whole thing!

The best sentence I’ve read all week … and it’s not even the whole thing!

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foodscones
justapinchofsouth: Scones is just biscuits with a fancy accent.

justapinchofsouth:

Scones is just biscuits with a fancy accent.

(Source: dailydoseofstuf)

May. 2, 2012 at 6:02pm with 28 notes View comments
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DardenneJean-Pierre DardenneLuc DardennefilmCriterionThe Criterion Collection

This is wonderful news and hopefully a prelude to a Criterion run of the Dardenne canon.

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THE DARDENNE BROS. ARE COMING TO THE CRITERION COLLECTION!

been waiting way too long for this one. 

the top image is a tease that Criterion posted on their Facebook page this afternoon. the bottom image is a full frame from the Dardenne brothers’ breakthrough film, ROSETTA (1999). Criterion will release it on DVD and Blu-ray this August.

while it may not have been the Dardenne film that i would have chosen (THE SON, duh), it’s still a remarkable bit of storytelling that was deserving of its Palme D’Or, and it allows one of the most accomplished filmmaking duos in the cinema’s history to take their rightful place alongside the other legendary auteurs whose work has been released under the Criterion banner. expect an official announcement on May 15.

Apr. 27, 2012 at 8:00pm with 2 notes View comments
robert alter
This translation is marvelous. I have a feeling that I’ve discovered a whole new world with Alter.

This translation is marvelous. I have a feeling that I’ve discovered a whole new world with Alter.

Apr. 26, 2012 at 5:25pm with 1 note View comments
Wendell BerryaffectionNational Endowment for the Humanities
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[T]ruth, nature, imagination, affection, love, hope, beauty, joy. Those words are hard to keep still within definitions; they make the dictionary hum like a beehive. But in such words, in their resonance within their histories and in their associations with one another, we find our indispensable humanity, without which we are lost and in danger.
— Wendell Berry, “It All Turns on Affection” (2012 NEH Jefferson Lecture)
Apr. 25, 2012 at 11:34am View comments
Wendell BerryMark BittmanNational Endowment for the Humanities
Wendell Berry, American Hero

Were I not in New England this week, I would have been at The Kennedy Center last night seeing Wendell Berry receive this award. In addition to this affectionate Opinionator piece by Mark Bittman, the presentation and Wendell Berry’s lecture - “It All Turns on Affection - can be found at the National Endowment for the Humanities website.

Apr. 23, 2012 at 8:34pm View comments
filmDarling Companion

The most miserable, hilarious movie trailer I’ve seen in recent memory.

Apr. 16, 2012 at 12:31pm with 1 note View comments
Marilynne RobinsonChristian nationWhen I was a child i read bookschristianity
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[The United States of America] in its early period was largely populated by religious people escaping religious oppression at the hands of state churches, whether French Huguenots, Scots Presbyterians, English Congregationalists, or English Catholics. Freedom of [religion] was freedom from [religion]—the coercions that did and do arise when there is no wall of separation between church and state. Historically, the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly were deeply implicated in religious freedom, all of them being violently curtailed on religious grounds through most of Western history. Since my own religious heroes tended to die gruesomely under these regimes, I have no nostalgia for the world before secularism, nor would many of these ‘Christian nation’ exponents, if they looked a little way into the history of their own traditions.
— Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books (p. 135 – “Wondrous Love”)