July 15, 2009
video ass-kickery, ed norton, film, madness, NYC 2 Comments
I recently moved to a new neighborhood, and when I did my coworker showed me this video clip from the 25th Hour. I think this is one of the best monologues I’ve ever heard. Ed Norton is fantastic. He calls out almost every community in New York City and, well, takes a shit on it. Powerful stuff. You have to see this.
If you miss something or want to go back, the full text of the monologue is after the jump. More
July 15, 2009
quote of the day madness, russell baker, summer Leave a comment
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
–RUSSELL BAKER
July 14, 2009
quote of the day blaise cendrars, madness, poetry, writing Leave a comment
Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes.
–BLAISE CENDRARS
How lucky I am to have stumbled across this quote. More
