Robert Glasper Experiment “Black Radio” feat. Yasiin Bey
(Source: youtube.com)
“Yes,” said she.
They are so convinced of the overwhelming importance of what they have to say, that their language is intended to produce a magical effect without necessarily carrying a concrete meaning: it is an embodiment of the ecstasy of persuasion by magic, the momentum of the desire for understanding
Here’s a really cool portrait of Alan Turing by Frank Quitely. At first, I honestly didn’t get why it looked like it was half done in photoshop and he put up a wip shot but then I googled him and it made a ton of sense. Frank Quitely is a clever man.
t doesn’t always happen, but sexual arousal itself is a kind of drug. It has also turned out to be one of the few plots I can actually handle. If I imagine a man and a woman talking, and I know that later on they’re going to be taking some of their clothes off, that pulls me merrily along. So it’s both arousing and it entices me to write the next paragraph.
Elvis Costello, irritated by biographical interpretations of his songs, once said in frustration to an interviewer something like “if Bob Dylan or I meant for you to take us literally, we’d have included a verse that said: So-and-so, my ex-wife, is a real bitch, this is where she lives, go burn down her house.
Thor? Thor who?
