Emily M. Danforth's Blog, page 54
April 5, 2013
exhibition-ism:
“Don’t play with your food!”.. Or do, just as...
“Don’t play with your food!”.. Or do, just as Hong Yi is doing ever so artfully for her month long series ‘31 Days of Creativity with Food’
"Many films diminish us. They cheapen us, masturbate our senses, hammer us with shabby thrills,..."
“Many films diminish us. They cheapen us, masturbate our senses, hammer us with shabby thrills, diminish the value of life. Some few films evoke the wonderment of life’s experience, and those I consider a form of prayer. Not prayer “to” anyone or anything, but prayer “about” everyone and everything. I believe prayer that makes requests is pointless. What will be, will be. But I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a flower, or love someone, or do a good thing. Those prayers validate existence and snatch it away from meaningless routine.”
- Roger Ebert (via parabola-magazine)
- Roger Ebert (via parabola-magazine)
April 4, 2013
"But literature, at its best, doesn’t live in this world of agendas and witch hunts, as tools for any..."
“But literature, at its best, doesn’t live in this world of agendas and witch hunts, as tools for any side’s political purpose. Literature and its readers are in an alternate realm, and they’ll continue to meet in this quieter place.”
- Cris Beam, “My transgender novel is too personal to be propaganda” (via schoollibraryjournal)
- Cris Beam, “My transgender novel is too personal to be propaganda” (via schoollibraryjournal)
April 2, 2013
"IT GENERALLY TAKES awhile to write a novel. Although there are authors who can write a quality book..."
“IT GENERALLY TAKES awhile to write a novel. Although there are authors who can write a quality book every year, they’re the exceptions; it’s more typical to spend three, five, or even seven years to complete a draft. If you’ve never attempted to write anything of a novel’s length, imagine having a friend or relative visit you for roughly that length of time, for three or five or seven years. Imagine a person, a person with whom you are not enjoying anything like traditional sexual congress, leaving their little hairs and toenail clippings in your sink, sprinkling their droplets of pee on your toilet seat, cluttering your surfaces with their weird pocket stuff, sticking things in the wrong cabinets, being underfoot and distracting you constantly for three or five or seven years. Let’s be honest: even if it was your favorite cousin, and even though you sort of invited him, after a year or so, you would owe it to yourself to give, at minimum, tacit consideration to murdering this person. This is the unique affliction of writing books: the endeavor is such that you can never entirely stop thinking about it. Picture the houseguest that is your novel, day after day, chewing cereal with his mouth open, his butt cratering the seat of your favorite armchair, and you will begin to understand.”
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Yeah, what he said.
(via robinwasserman)
April 1, 2013
"Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of..."
“Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our own poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.”
- Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde (via thechocolatebrigade)
- Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde (via thechocolatebrigade)
lovelyarc:
Every April, we, at Octopus Books, accept...
Every April, we, at Octopus Books, accept full-length poetry manuscripts for consideration for publication. Today is the first day of April. If you have a poetry manuscript you’d like us to consider, ten dollars in your bank account, and a hankering that we may dig your poems, maybe you’d want to send it to us. Read our submissions guidelines, and we’ll read your book.
March 31, 2013
nationalfilmsociety:
blau-rosa:
Alternate Opening Sequence...
Alternate Opening Sequence Credit.
Pam Grier dancing to the popular surf song “Misirlou”.
Jackie Brown.
andimjulie:
Happy Easter. Or non-Easter or whatever. I just...
Happy Easter. Or non-Easter or whatever. I just wanted to post this picture from Steal Magnolias. Drink your juice, Shelby.
