that svelte, leafy substance | swallowed by the sun

wittgenstein

the sense of the world must be outside of the world.
                                          -ludwig wittgenstein

an excerpt taken from the world is made of stories by david r. loy.

chocolatish orange juice mixtape (belated)

jensen sportag - everything good
new look - everything
blood orange - dinner
solange - stillness is the move
joywave - winnepeg
earrings - worlds end
sampha - subconscious
muhsinah - are in be
jessie ware/sampha - valentine
cocorosie - by your side
quadron - buster keaton
inc. - millionares
active child (f/ how to dress well) - playing house
kotchy - getaway
exile - stay here
toro y moi - saturday love
sokar and martin - what i know
how to dress well - ready for the world
the weeknd - what you need (jacques greene remix)
below rimar - higher ground
submotion orchestra - all yours

lambrousco bubblegum mixtape (belated)

pariah - detroit falls
the xx - islands (nosaj thing remix)
holy other - touch
james blake - to care (like you)
ifan dafydd - no good
boom clap bachelors - løb stop stå
blood orange - sutphin boulevard
glasser and jamie xx - tremel 
how to dress well - decisions
CREEP - you (f/ nina sky)
the goat - what a life (balam acab remix)
the xx - basic space (pariah remix)
araab MUZIK - streets tonight
SBTRKT - wildfire
jamie xx -far nearer
toro y moi - blessa
disclosure - carnival
nguzunguza - times up (kingdom remix)
sibian and faun - i'm sorry
ifan dafydd - miranda
h-town - they like it slow
first rate people - girl's night
alauna george - we are chosen
blaman - getting me down

KGAN Local News on the Ernie and Bert Gay Marriage Proposal

KGAN CBS 2--
Are Bert and Ernie gay? One gay rights activist wants the couple to get married, but Sesame Street says the two are just friends. What do you think?

If there is an issue that needs addressed on Sesame Street it is Oscars homelessness and possible mental illness/drug addiction. He obviously has problems if he is living in a garbage can. I would like to see him move into a shelter where he will realize he has just been being mean to everyone because he hates himself. Then once he cleans up his act he should get a job. Jobs are a part of life kids need to know about. You can't just live in a garbage can and yell at people without going to jail.

-Rev. Jayce Baskerville

cultural colors

The Himba people of Namibia see colors much differently than we do. I found this rather interesting considering the considerable difference in how they classify things linguistically relative to Western cultures. Enjoy!

Robinson Jeffers (excerpted from The Great Explosion, and The Beginning and the End)

the whole universe expands and contracts, beats like a great heart ...

diastole and systole

peace in our time was never one of God's promises; but back and forth, die

and live, burn and be damned,

the great heart beating, pumping into our arteries His

terrible life.

 He is beautiful beyond belief.

and we, God's apes--or tragic children--share in the

 beauty. we see it above our torment, that's what life's for.

He is no God of love, no justice of a little city like

 Dante's Florence, no anthropoid God

making commandments: this the God who does not

 care and will never cease. look at the seas there

flasing against this rock in the darkness--look at the

 tide-stream stars--and the fall of nations--and

 dawn

but why would life maintain itself,

being nothing but a dirty scum on the sea

dropped from foul air? could it perhaps perceive

glories to come? could it foresee that cellular life

would make the mountain forest and the eagle dawning,

monstrously beautiful, wings, eyes and claws, dawning

over the rock ridge? and the passionate human intelligence

straining its limits, striving to understand itself and the

unvierse to the last galaxy--

having made of many

one cell

they invented chlorophyll and ate sunlight, cradled in peace

on the warm waves; but certain assassins among them

discovered that it was easier to eat flesh

than feed on lean air and sunlight; thence the animals

greedy mouthes and guts, life robbing life,

grew from the plants; and as the ocean ebbed and

flowed many plants and animals

were stranded in the treat marshes along the shore,

where many died and some lived

from these grew all land-life

plants, beasts and men; the mountain forest and the mind of Aeschylus

and the mouse in the wall

what is this thing called life? ---but i believe

that the earth and stars too, and the whole glittering

universe, and rocks on the mountain have life,

only we do not call it so--i speak of the life

that oxidizes fats and proteins and carbo

hydrates to live, and from that chemical energy

makes pleasure and pain, wonder, love, adoration, hatred

and terror: how do these things grow

from a chemical reaction?

i think they were here al-

ready. i think the rocks

and the earth and the other planets, stars and

galaxies have their various consciousness, all things are conscious;

but the nerves of an animal, the nerves and brain

bring it to focus; the nerves and brain are like a burning-

glass

to concentrate the heat and make it catch fire:

it seems to us martyrs hotter than the blazing hearth

from which it came. so we scream and laugh, clamorous

animals

born howling to die groaning: the old stones in the door-

yard

prefer silence: but those and all things have their own

awareness,

as the cells of a man have; they feel and feed and in-

fluence each other, each unto all,

like the cells of a man's body making one being,

they make one being, one consciousness, one life, one

God