Another Jigger Of Rye

Brian Phelan, writer. Welcome to my world of procrastination. For all things literary I'll be here having a jigger of rye with Don Birnam. For non-verbal kicks there's The Thrill Of It All, for music Unseen Power of the Picket Fence. my own photos can be found lurking on Eyes Wide Shut. while musings on film reside at The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of.

[nobrashfestivity]

Kawanabe Kyōsai (河鍋 暁斎,  Eagle Attacking a Mountain Lion 1885

[worldssmallesttrampoline]

Duane Michals

The Once and Always now, 1998

Gelatin silver prints with hand applied text , 12.7 x 17.78 cm each

[invisiblestories]

Sight says too many things at one time.

Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (via invisiblestories)

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[invisiblestories]

Quentin Massys, The Moneylender and His Wife (detail), c. 1514 (composition-improvisation (via composition-improvisation)

[farewell-kingdom]

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

Orson Welles (via farewell-kingdom)

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[cigarettesmoking-deactivated202]

Leonard Cohen

[logwire]

the prisoner

[explore-blog]

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can’t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don’t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Charles Bukowski on the meaning of life (via explore-blog)

[theancientworld]

Cornice Block with Relief Showing the Baptism of Pharaoh A.D. 41–68

Egypt, Roman Period

This block originally formed part of a screen wall that connected the four front columns and the sidewalls of the temple of Harendotes ("Horus the Avenger") on the island of Philae. The relief represents the "Baptism of Pharaoh," a purification ritual that was part of Egyptian coronation ceremonies. The gods Horus (not preserved) and the ibis-headed Thoth poured water-here represented by streams of ankh (life) and was (dominion) hieroglyphs-over the head of the king. The pharaoh whose head is partially preserved is a Claudian emperor, most probably either Claudius or Nero.

The Met Museum

[yuujies]

[cyborges]

“I have reached the point where I am no longer in touch with life … I have only only one occupation left: to remake myself.”

— Antonin Artaud, The Nerve Meter (via fables-of-the-reconstruction)

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Glass-plate negative showing an experiment in hypnosis, 19th c.

[theartofmoviestills]

Rififi | Jules Dassin | 1955

[greatestlittlegiant]

always thinking of that “i couldn’t stop wasting time” quote

[greatestlittlegiant]

song of the summer!!

[de-salva]

Self portrait (1952)

© Toni Schneiders

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I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actually know less than the average schoolboy, and that what I do know is superficial, and that every second question is beyond me. I am incapable of thinking deliberately; my thoughts run into a wall. I can grasp the essence of things in isolation, but I am quite incapable of coherent, unbroken thinking. I can’t even tell a story properly; in fact, I can scarcely talk…

Franz Kafka (via poeticsofdeath)