[michaelcaines]

I was not crying for what he had done to me, but for what I had done to myself, my essence. The tears were not for the betrayal of a lover, but for the more low-down betrayal of the self. The little one who had hoped for peace, as I do now, and was forced to endure chaos.

[gacougnol]

AmirReza Rahimi

Waiting

compressed charcoal, a blending stump, pencil, and a kneaded eraser.

[yama-bato]

Harold Altman

[sacredwhores]

Natalia Motuzko - The Voice of Grass (1992)

[michaelcaines]

Down the street the dogs are barkin'

And the day is a-gettin' dark

As the night comes in a-fallin'

The dogs 'll lose their bark

And the silent night will shatter

From the sounds inside my mind

As I'm one too many mornings

And a thousand miles behind

From the crossroads of my doorstep

My eyes start to fade

And I turn my head back to the room

Where my love and I have laid

And I gaze back to the street

The sidewalk and the sign

And I'm one too many mornings

And a thousand miles behind…

[michaelcaines]

Likely, I will forget... Time will once again fulfill its ancient, thankless duty of cooling the hot iron ball of grief that fills my empty stomach. Time will return my organs back to me, I know. But... for now... the mind rebels with shocking images, the eyes mist constantly, and every line, just yea high, leads faithfully to my own personal pile of shattered dream and jagged half memories... atop which sits my weary, wide eyed heart.

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[newyorkthegoldenage]

Luna Park lit up at night, Coney Island, ca. 1920.

Photo: FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images

[davidhudson]

Vincent Price, May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993.

1989 photo by Herb Ritts.

[michaelcaines]

in a rotten mood all day…. and to top it all off, the moon began waning tonight as it faithfully repeats its phases, yet again………… what an idiot.

[worldscoolest]

[yama-bato]

Sydney Lee – Gothic Arches, Rievaulx (mezzotint, c.1926)

Sydney Lee

A LONG-SERVING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, Sydney Lee RA RE RWS SWE (1866-1949) was regarded as a ‘pioneer’ printmaker ‘foremost’ a

Sydney Lee

Sydney Lee

[funeral]

In today's state of hyperactivity, where boredom is not allowed to emerge, we never reach the state of deep mental relaxation. The information society is an age of heightened mental tension, because the essence of information is surprise and the stimulus it provides. The tsunami of information means that our perceptual apparatus is permanently stimulated. It can no longer enter into contemplation. The tsunami of information fragments our attention. It prevents the contemplative lingering that is essential to narrating and careful listening . . . In the process of digitalization, . . . information acquires an altogether different status. Reality itself takes on the form of information and data. For the most part, we perceive reality in terms of information or through the lens of information. Information is an idea—that is, a re-representation. When reality takes the form of information, the immediate experience of presence withers. When digitalization gives everything the form of information, reality is flattened.

Byung-Chul Han, The Crisis of Narration

[worldscoolest]

Christiane F. (1981)

[limeshade]

Joan Crawford as Joan “Montana” Prescott

MONTANA MOON (1930) Directed by Malcolm St. Clair Costume design by Adrian

[michaelcaines]

People make decisions everyday…

[michaelcaines]

Did you know, if you sing in a small cafe in Nowhere, Maine, and you move someone to think of a lost love, reflect…that is as important as selling out the Ritz.

[angelicdewdrop]

[edwordsmyth]

Anaïs Nin's library.