I n t e r s t e l l a r Playlists, Quotes 140 minutes of ambient electronica and downtempo tracks for your interstellar journeys. ∞ Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against...
Descendant Quotes I've been thinking about the war a lot recently, and I think I've decided it's wrong. We are defeating ourselves in waging it, will destroy ourselves by winning it. All our statistics and assumptions mean...
Brave New World Quotes, Writing ʌ Culture Excerpt from the Foreward of Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley - (1966) The people who govern the Brave New World may not be sane (in what may be called the absolute sense of the word); but they are not...
The Fairy Reel Quotes, Writing ʌ Culture The Fairy Reel - Neil Gaiman ---- If I were young as once I was, and dreams and death more distant then, I wouldn't split my soul in two, and keep half in the world of men, So half of me...
American Gods Quotes, Writing ʌ Culture 1 Comment Excerpts from American Gods, by Neil Gaiman ----- "Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the...
House of Leaves | The Child Quotes, Writing ʌ Culture 1 Comment Excerpt from House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski) P. 518-520: -- It begins with the birth of a baby, though not a healthy baby. Born with holes in its brain and “showing an absence of grey/white...
Music & Architecture Architecture, Quotes Both music and architecture make a surrounding, and also they make an ambiance; both music and architecture allow you to do something else - something else while listening to music, something else while in...
Words and Music | Paul Morley Quotes I can hear the music develop in my mind as I think about it, I can feel its weight, and understand its magic. It has a magic that is to do with time, and how you find time, and how time finds you, and...
Irony Quotes, Writing ʌ Culture Irony is unsettling: it is a self-conscious mode that senses the failure of all sophisticated conceptualizations; stylistically, it employs rhetorical devices that signal real or feigned disbelief on...
Bela Bartok – Ethnomusicology Ethnomusicology, Quotes, Writing ʌ Culture An excerpt taken from my Ethnomusicology class - written in 1929 by Bela Bartok (famous composer…I loved playing his Six Romanian Folk Dances for the violin in college) ---------- Talking about...