As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.
— Steve Maraboli (via thatkindofwoman)
The way you slam your
body into mine reminds
me I’m alive, but monsters
are always hungry,
darling, and they’re only
a few steps behind you.
Whatever pain achieves, it achieves in part through its unsharability, and it ensures this unsharability through its resistance to language… physical pain does not simply resist language but actively destroys it, bringing about an immediate reversion to a state anterior to language, to the sounds and cries a human being makes before language is learned.
— Elaine Scarry from her book The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (via patrickjoust)
Good cover songs are about necessity — something about the source material that needed to be revisited, revised, redone or otherwise rescued from the original production. You don’t have to improve on it, exactly, but if the original is perfect the way it is, then there’s not a whole lot of sense in either reinventing it or re-creating it note for note.
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NPR’s Stephen Thompson on how to build the perfect cover song and why he desperately wants The New Pornographers to cover Enrique Iglesias’ “Escape” (via nprmusic)
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Expanding to theatre, it’s a “why this play, why now, why here” for revivals. If you just go through the motions of mounting the play, it’ll be a boring production. “Three dimensional literary criticism” as Simon Russell Beale has been quoted as saying.
If you are a white woman and you want to call yourself a feminist, you must acknowledge that your whiteness affords you a privilege that shields you from a lot. You must also acknowledge that you are afforded privileges that some men in this country do not have. Racism and sexism are tightly intertwined. You cannot fight one while ignoring the other.
— ladyatheist (via ellesugars)
Unexpected intrusions of beauty. That is what life is.
— Herzog, Saul Bellow (via farewell-kingdom)
Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.
— Dream Hampton (via thatkindofwoman)
