HEART SKIPPED A BEAT

Seeing The xx blew my simple mind to pieces last night. I left the show to news of a Duke victory and biked home after a brief and violent spring thunderstorm left everything smelling clean and delicious. And waiting for me on the kitchen table--a gift from a faraway friend.

Everything is so good.

WANT WANT WANT PT. I

Available here.

ALMOST FOUR YEARS AGO

She had been in Iceland for several days, so the English language was hitting her at odd angles, but she finally found the word she was looking for.

"He's a bit of a submarine," she said, and grinned.

--Randy Kennedy, The Bjork-Barney Enigma Machine

FAVE

I thought she was her and she is but sometimes she forgets and I wonder and wander.

--Saul Williams




(After almost a decade, still the most beautiful line I have ever ever heard.)

[via Garance]

Things that seem yellow: maiden aunts, gumdrops, diffidence, the letter H, all women's poems (except Emily Dickenson's), lewd suggestions, debt, the seventies, Nat "King" Cole's song "China Gate," sadness, the Yale English department faculty, the name as well as the country of Brazil, August, the House of Congress, the word "hills," lampshades, physicians, insurance agents, the thin squealing noises of children in playgrounds, political compromise, the state of Nebraska, illness in general, old wagon wheels, whispering, and the vapid name Catherine.

--Alexander Theroux


The vapidity of the name Catherine is a result of spelling it with a C, which we all learned from Anne of Avonlea.

For someone so averse to the idea of marriage, I am way too into weddings. But really, guys. Look at this. More importantly, look at this. The last picture is just magical.

On a somewhat related note, I would love love love to be a florist. Or a collector of stories for a show similar to This American Life or Radiolab. Or the owner of a cafe/bookstore. The thing is, I also want to make the world a less crappy place, and none of these are exactly Superman or Obama-caliber activities.

WITH LOVE

In April 2009, we sent a personal, handwritten letter to each of the 467 households in the small Irish village of Cushendall. We hoped these unsolicited letters would prompt neighbourly discussion, spreading across the town, promoting community curiosity.

--Lenka Clayton and Michael Crowe, Mysterious Letters [via Design*Sponge]

Alternately.

Come back, Ireland doesn't need you as much as I do.

TAKEN BY YOUR PAPA A LONG TIME AGO

My parents come home today!

EARTH ANGEL

Givenchy FW09 [via Jak&Jill]

It's possible that I'll tire of Veckatimest at some point. But not probable.

The six tracks on Jasper TX & Anduin's album "The Bending of Light" take their names from Carl Sagan's description of the formation of a black hole:

1. A Beam of Light Bends Back Upon Itself
2. ...Producing Great Jets of Radiation
3. Everything Disappears in a Tunnel of Light
4. ...Where a Star Once Was
5. Like the Footprints of an Invisible Man
6. ...Walking in Snow

[via Bolacha Gratis]

YES