52Books: Archive

March 2009

23 posts

Things I have learned in 2009:

If you attempt to de-wrinkle your clothes while wearing them, you will likely end up with a hilarious belly scar.
New York City distance can be measured in music. For example: My office to Union Square = 1 Always be my Baby + .5 Suspicious Minds
There is only one real cure for the flu.
Books and Burritos would be the name of the my ideal lifestyle/restaurant.

Spoon - The Book I Write

If it weren’t snowing on the first day of Spring, a walking tour of NYC independent bookstores would be quite a fun adventure.

“At home, I mainly used to read. I wished to stifle with external sensations all that was ceaselessly boiling up inside me. And among external sensations the only one possible for me was reading. Reading was, of course, a great help. It stirred, delighted, and tormented me.” —Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Does this make sense?

Sometimes I don’t want to read a true story, just fiction that is exactly like my everyday life.

Mar 12, 200927 notes

Listen

Bishop Allen - The Ancient Commonsense of Things