February 2012
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Because it's broken
A few quotes from an excellent book review of the buddhist on emilybooks:
…trying to force the clarity of distance onto a person caught in this dynamic is like yelling at your broken leg to just go ahead and heal already. It wants to heal; it’s trying to heal; sooner or later, it’s even going to heal. But yelling at the broken leg is not going to get the injured person any closer to...
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“There are incredible people
whom we meet at the wrong moment.
And there are...”
– From Delicacy by David Foenkinos, which uses little Nick Hornby-esque interjections between chapters. It is sort of attributed to an unnamed Polish philosopher, but I think it’s made up. In any case, this bittersweet quote won’t leave me alone.
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Meat and Blood and Bullhead
Forget Brad Pitt’s baseball drama or dapper Frenchman Jean Dujardin; Bullhead is the Oscar nominee you should be obsessing over. This Belgian dark horse with bite is tucked away in the Best Foreign Film category, but it might be one of the best films of the year.
So what is it? Bullhead is a tightly wound tale of the bovine hormone mafia—yes, the bovine hormone mafia—centered around Jacky...
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“CALM IS MORE CONDUCIVE TO CREATIVITY THAN IS ANXIETY. I MUST BE INCREDIBLY...”
– JENNY HOLZER CAT
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WatchOne of the best docs of the year. The Interrupters. See it.
