May 2011
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thedailywhat:
Animated Short of the Day: In his 4th year film, Dinosaur Battle Town, Sheridan animation student Eddie West finally asks the question that’s been on everyone’s mind since time immemorial: What if dinosaurs had survived long enough to form the foundation of roaming medieval battle towns?
[mefi.]
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cracked after hours - why everyone wants to have sex with vampires
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This is just to say
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and...
– william carlos williams - This is just to say
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Odi et amo. Quare id faciam fortasse requiris.
Nescio, sed fieri sentio,...
– catullus - poem 85
“I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask me why?
I don’t know, but I feel it now and I am tortured.”
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a poem made from quoted sentence fragments
“With its iterated jingle of sugar-bated words…”
-christina rossetti
“they became the lords of Sounds and lesser things.”
-zora hurston
“From the Myriad thence-aroused words,”
-walt whitman
“from a sea oblivious to time,”
-fred d’Aguiar
“dream makes a giddy sound not strong
like rent, feeding a wife,...
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Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage...
– emily dickinson - poem 712
same meter as hymns so it can be sung to the battle hymn of the republic(guitar cover here), amazing grace (jeff beck cover here), yellow rose of texas (karaoke version here), gilligan’s island(ukulele cover here) and stairway to heaven(here)
actual analysis of the...
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SOME say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted...
– fire and ice by robert frost
(from harper’s magazine, december 1920.)
more analysis here
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top shelf jazz - gentlemen In squalor
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