tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70035041834851361922023-11-15T10:33:34.971-05:00This CommonplaceA commonplace book of quotes & notesTracihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15219465588076324607noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003504183485136192.post-32530506561974315432009-05-18T11:31:00.003-04:002009-05-19T22:19:45.182-04:00"The American biologist Roger Payne has calculated the there is a deep sound channel in the ocean… through which two whales could communicate with each other essentially anywhere in the world... through most of their history the whales seem to have established a global communication network. What two whales might have to say to each other separated by 15,000 kilometers I haven't the foggiest idea but maybe it's a lovesong cast into the vastness of the deep"<br /><br />Carl Sagan - The Cosmos, The Persistence of Memory, 1980the_daily_routinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01329052339084842714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003504183485136192.post-68493518361393108942009-05-14T21:22:00.000-04:002009-05-14T21:23:05.251-04:00An eccentric genius should, on his dying day, arrange for the theft of several very important (and durable) cultural icons, these to be placed atop a large booster rocket and sent to Mars.<p> Want them back, Earth? Go get them.</p><p> (From the idea that, when faced with a tall fence in one's way, one should toss one's hat over as added incentive or excuse for climbing the fence.)</p><p>http://www.halfbakery.com/user/centauri</p><p><br /></p>the_daily_routinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01329052339084842714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003504183485136192.post-37984193108051441442009-04-22T14:12:00.001-04:002009-04-22T14:15:05.224-04:00<span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="speakerline"><span class="speakerlabel">Professor</span>: I'm of the personal opinion that anything counts for art. Take, for example, Nelly's "Hot in Here." We have an admonition of certain weather conditions and an entreaty for certain members of a demographic to react within a certain way, and a compliant voice replies, "I am getting so hot, I'm gonna take my clothes off." This piece of art demonstrates how much easier life would be if getting a woman naked was that easy. And also, it makes me dance, and as we know, hips don't lie.</span><br /><br /><span class="location">--NYU Bobst Library<br /><a href="http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/">Overheard in New York</a><br /></span></span>the_daily_routinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01329052339084842714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003504183485136192.post-65732679332204491012009-04-22T12:31:00.003-04:002009-04-22T12:35:09.675-04:00"Maria Callas once said, 'When you perform, half of the brain has to be in complete control and the other half of the brain has to be at a complete loss.'"<br />- From an <a href="http://www.bombsite.com/issues/84/articles/2561">interview</a> with Marina Abramovic, performance artistTracihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15219465588076324607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003504183485136192.post-75840078019952257002009-04-16T14:03:00.005-04:002009-04-16T14:07:53.760-04:00"When you go below ground in New York City, are you going underground or are you going deeper inside a building?"<br />- Geoff Manaugh of <a href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/">BLDGBLOG</a>Tracihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15219465588076324607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003504183485136192.post-84728146985702324312009-04-13T14:49:00.000-04:002009-04-13T14:50:25.186-04:00<span style="font-size:100%;">"He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of."<br />Mae West via <a href="http://www.antilabelblog.com/?p=288#more-288">Tom Waits True Confessions</a><br /><br /></span>the_daily_routinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01329052339084842714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003504183485136192.post-50804563909182648642009-04-04T15:13:00.004-04:002009-04-04T15:19:33.348-04:00"You came to me this morning<br />and you handled me like meat.<br />You'd have to live alone to know<br />how good that feels, how sweet.<br />My mirror twin, my next of kin,<br />I'd know you in my sleep.<br />And who but you would take me in<br />A thousand kisses deep?"<br />- Leonard Cohen, a <a href="http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/kisses.html">draft of the song/poem</a> "A Thousand Kisses Deep"Tracihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15219465588076324607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003504183485136192.post-7940125990028328762009-04-03T13:34:00.005-04:002009-04-03T13:36:43.520-04:00"In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report on my daily activities, and to provide photographic evidence of my existence."<br />- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Calle">Sophie Calle</a>, from her photographic series <a href="http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/the-shadow/">The Shadow</a>Tracihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15219465588076324607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003504183485136192.post-80468328022091445552009-04-02T13:42:00.004-04:002009-04-02T14:07:26.063-04:00"During the night, the mist on the window had turned to ice. I see that it was still night, six-thirty, seven o’clock; wintertime then, and dark outside; no details, only darkness; the windowpane covered with the patterns of the frozen mist; on the lowest pane, on the left-hand side of the window, at eye level, in the light; this light from an electric bulb, yellow against the intense darkness outside, opaque and wintry, clouded by the mist; not a uniform mist, as when it rains, but an almost transparent frost, forming patterns; a web of translucent patterns, with a certain thickness, the slight thickness of frost, but with variations in this thickness, and, because of these miniscule variations, forming patterns on the glass, like a vegetal network, an entire system of veins, a surface vegetation, a cluster of flat ferns; or a flower."<br />- from Jacques Roubaud's novel <span style="font-style: italic;">The Loop</span>, found on <a href="http://this-space.blogspot.com/2009/03/jacques-roubaud-from-loop.html">This Space</a>Tracihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15219465588076324607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003504183485136192.post-26095409247147505482009-03-30T21:09:00.002-04:002009-04-02T13:44:21.017-04:00"Remember your humanity, and forget the rest." bertrand Russell<br />- Russell-Einstein Manifesto (on nuclear disarmament), 1955the_daily_routinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01329052339084842714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003504183485136192.post-54077097542828247562009-03-27T10:39:00.003-04:002009-03-27T10:44:47.024-04:00"In Casablanca, the director put Ingrid Bergman on the right side of the screen whenever possible, since Westerners usually start looking on the left and rest on the right (and she's a lot better looking than Humphrey Bogart)."<br />- <a href="http://www.caterina.net/archive/001168.html">Caterina</a>, Flickr founder, describing why interesting stuff should be on the right side of a web pageTracihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15219465588076324607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003504183485136192.post-74418957177811270722009-03-25T22:08:00.005-04:002009-04-02T14:07:46.564-04:00<span style="font-size:100%;">"...and she slapped me so hard the piano quit playing."<br />anomymous<br /></span>the_daily_routinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01329052339084842714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003504183485136192.post-8979249059165998772009-03-24T17:58:00.004-04:002009-04-02T14:07:01.612-04:00"An ocean of any kind presents itself a mystery - even an ocean of data."<br />- Kevin Kelly, on self-tracking from <a href="http://www.kk.org/quantifiedself/2009/02/self-tracker.php">The Quantified Self</a>Tracihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15219465588076324607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003504183485136192.post-37873657508871645942009-03-16T11:58:00.005-04:002009-04-02T14:08:07.390-04:00<span style="font-size:100%;">"What are you rebelling against?" "What have you got?"<br />- Johnny Strabler, The Wild One (1953)<br /><br /></span>the_daily_routinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01329052339084842714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003504183485136192.post-89894375253905633972009-03-13T15:25:00.005-04:002009-04-02T14:08:27.452-04:00"She said: What is history?<br />And he said: History is an angel being blown backwards into the future<br />He said: History is a pile of debris<br />And the angel wants to go back and fix things<br />To repair the things that have been broken<br />But there is a storm blowing from Paradise<br />And the storm keeps blowing the angel backwards into the future<br />And this storm, this storm is called Progress"<br />- <a href="http://www.laurieanderson.com/">Laurie Anderson</a>, The Dream Before (for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Benjamin">Walter Benjamin</a>)Tracihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15219465588076324607noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003504183485136192.post-53056734710211380112009-03-10T14:59:00.002-04:002009-03-27T11:33:30.098-04:00<span style="font-size:100%;">"A homeless lady told me that I played her favorite song - ‘Over the Rainbow’. She said that when she was young she used to write the lyrics of this song on paper. She stays in the terminal on the Staten Island side. She has a boyfriend for 4 months now. She has family in Israel but she doesn’t know where and she is afraid of flying. Yesterday somebody offered her a bed but she refused it because she didn’t want to leave her boyfriend behind in the terminal. He gets bad dreams and she has to calm him down."<br />From <a href="http://sawlady.com/blog/">Saw Lady's Blog</a><br /></span>the_daily_routinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01329052339084842714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003504183485136192.post-72593761998186618372009-03-09T17:33:00.002-04:002009-04-02T14:09:18.093-04:00"Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end."<br />-Anonymous, by way of <a href="http://ffffound.com/image/eb1c779b8ee42df8394f66803436d3a7d7b6e089">Ffffound</a>Tracihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15219465588076324607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003504183485136192.post-52250796245631801502009-03-06T17:26:00.001-05:002009-03-06T17:28:24.175-05:00"A recent long-term study conducted in Scandinavia sought to discover which activities related to a healthy and happy later life. Three stood out: camping, dancing and singing."<br />- Brian Eno, by way of <a href="http://www.caterina.net/archive/001162.html">Caterina</a>Tracihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15219465588076324607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003504183485136192.post-38648770308163401692009-03-05T17:49:00.003-05:002009-04-02T14:21:15.533-04:00"A 27-year-old man had the delusion that the voice he heard throughout the day was that of an invisible girlfriend. His girlfriend gave him advice and told him to do things. At night she would come to him, although still invisible, and they would make love."<br />- 1993 paper from the American Journal of Psychiatry, found on <a href="http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/03/uncannily_beautiful.html">Mindhacks</a>.Tracihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15219465588076324607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003504183485136192.post-33254624292392109182009-03-04T16:00:00.000-05:002009-03-04T16:01:42.864-05:00<p> “When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.” -Mark Twain </p>the_daily_routinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01329052339084842714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003504183485136192.post-13824124244911626032009-03-04T15:18:00.002-05:002009-03-04T15:21:56.184-05:00"Who wouldn't want to be in the roller derby? But you need insurance. Too bad."<br />- Overhead at <a href="http://www.bowerypoetry.com">Bowery Poetry Club</a>Tracihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15219465588076324607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003504183485136192.post-91021402323572296072009-03-02T16:11:00.003-05:002009-03-04T15:22:55.738-05:00"The next time you say "forever" I will punch you in your face."<br />- <a href="http://www.nekocase.com/">Neko Case</a>the_daily_routinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01329052339084842714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003504183485136192.post-5209913200414145872009-03-02T16:02:00.000-05:002009-03-02T16:03:31.667-05:00"Social media is like teen sex. Everyone wants to do it. No one actually knows how. When finally done, there is surprise it's not better."<br />Unknownthe_daily_routinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01329052339084842714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003504183485136192.post-23211051399346862872009-02-19T18:58:00.001-05:002009-02-19T18:59:18.131-05:00"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons."<br />-Ralph Waldo Emersonthe_daily_routinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01329052339084842714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003504183485136192.post-6722193335591529652009-02-19T18:33:00.001-05:002009-02-19T18:39:33.673-05:00"Nobody with a good car needs to be justified."<br />-Flannery O'Connor, quote found on <a href="http://www.facebook.com">Facebook</a>.Tracihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15219465588076324607noreply@blogger.com0