Thursday, May 31, 2012

Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn’t something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn’t get in, and walk through it, step by step. There’s no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That’s the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.

An you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You’ll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.

And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

Haruki Murakami - “Kafka on the Shore”
Monday, May 28, 2012 Sunday, May 27, 2012
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thevintagesk3l3t0n:

in love with this remix. the beat is so awesome.

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Ninotchka

I just treated myself to watching “Ninotchka” at the cinema. Thanks to Deutsches Filmmuseum, I finally saw Greta Garbo on the big screen. What can I say? It is a heartwarming experience to be able to watch a fantastic classic movie like this surrounded by other cinephiles. Usually, if anybody happens to watch classic movies with me, it seems to be a strain to them just to stare at a screen showing black and white pictures.
Also, over and over again, I love this movie for its humour and the character of Ninotchka is one I connect to deeply.

Sunday, January 8, 2012
Voilà, il faut distinguer deux peines mon petit Oscar. La souffrance physique et la souffrance morale. La souffrance physique, on l’a subit. La souffrance morale, on l’a choisit. Oscar et la Dame Rose - Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Sunday, December 25, 2011
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oldhollywood:

Marlene Dietrich - Der Trommelmann (The Little Drummer Boy)

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

the unreachable Helen Sjöholm… this song… trembling.

Monday, November 21, 2011 Saturday, November 12, 2011
In thousands of agonies—I exist. I’m tormented on the rack—but I exist! Though I sit alone in a pillar—I exist! I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 1880, trans. Constance Garnett (via proustitute)
Friday, September 23, 2011
Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn. Sylvia Plath (via these-bones)

(Source: ambiguity-of)