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1. Fiona Apple, Left Alone 2. Miranda July, It Chooses You 3. Jean Rhys, Good Morning Midnight 4. Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women 5. Cat Power, No Sense 6. Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name 7. Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea 8. Julia Holter, Have You In My Wilderness 9. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse 10. Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women

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omfg lol i got hacked... that’s so funny

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Fiona at the annual Feast of Saint Cecilia via Fiona Apple Brazil FB [x]

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“The thing that I was experiencing and dwelling on the entire time is that there are so many things that are not OK and that will never be OK again, but there’s also so many things that are OK and good that sometimes it makes you crumple over with being alive. We are allowed such an insane depth of beauty and enjoyment in this lifetime. It’s what my dad talks about sometimes. He says the only way that he knows there’s a God is that there’s so much gratuitous joy in this life. And that’s his only proof. There’s so many joys that do not assist in the propagation of the race or self-preservation. There’s no point whatsoever. They are so excessively, mind-bogglingly joy-producing that they distract from the very functions that are supposed to promote human life. They can leave you stupefied, monastic, not productive in any way, shape or form. And those joys are there and they are unflagging and they are ever-growing. And still there are these things that you will never be able to feel OK about–unbearably awful, sad, ugly, unfair things.”

Joanna Newsom, on “Cosmia” (via eeceeohh)

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Beautiful old quote by Joanna Newsom on being childlike

“I’ve recoiled from associations with childhood that a lot of reviewers have made and interviewers have made, but one reason is that they tend towards this version of childhood that is innocent and naîve. I do feel a connection with the part, with childhood, in kind of a kind of deeper sense. And I feel a deep connection with that way of thinking, and also the capacity to look things straight on without any taboo, or without any fear. The capacity to look at death like that. And I would even take it further to say that I feel a connection to the part of childhood that makes us morbidly curious— you know, the way children wanna see, you know, dead things. They wanna see like, the roadkill, the animals that get hit by a car. You know, drive by it and they crane their necks to look.

And the way that, you know, children sometimes sit up in the middle of the night and allow themselves to think about frightening things, even if they know it will frighten them. It is this boundless receptiveness to every aspect of the world. The ability to feel sadness without being blunted, the ability to feel sadness about all the terrible things without having accumulated a thick skin and a callousedness that makes us not be able to feel the full weight of sadness anymore. I feel a connection to those things.

And I do feel a connection to the way of, sort of, free associating, as well. I think that’s all true. I think it starts when we’re born. I think that the world is not conducive to that way of thinking, and I do think probably doing, not just creative writing, but also just playing and writing music for years is almost like, not to be gross, but it’s almost like keeping a wound open. Like, pulling the scab off over and over again. If it’s an open place, if it’s a fissure between like, the world and me, it’s almost like doing these types of work all my life, I feel like it’s keeping that place open.”

- Joanna Newsom, VROP Radio, 2/3/05.

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ONKUL オンクル vol.8

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Joanna Newsom photographed by Annabel Mehran for FOAM Magazine

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ALIA SHAWKAT photographed by Sharif Hamza for Interview Magazine (2017)

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Faye Wong, 1994

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Fiona Apple lyrics on art by Selma Alaçam

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god you know what i realized this weekend is if you’re an unbeautiful woman or have easy access to ugliness it’s actually wonderful it makes me feel invisible and safe in public 

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from Asterios Polyp, by David Mazzucchelli.

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yes god

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Jenny Slate and Rosario Dawson, photographed by Elaine Constantine for The New York Times, Dec 2014.

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fiona apple >> anything we want

my cheeks were reflecting the longest wavelength my fan was folded up and grazing my forehead and i kept touching my neck to guide your eye to where i wanted you to kiss me when we find some time alone