December 2011
99 posts
“Preciso de ti. Sem ti, como acreditar que sem ti poderia começar uma vida nova? Acreditar que sem ti poderia renascer, que só tu impedes que eu possa renascer é muito importante para mim…, és o meu fascismo!”
- Augusto Abelaira, “Bolor”
"City Employment", Lydia Davis
“All over the city there are old black women who have been employed to call up people at seven in the morning and ask in a muffled voice to speak to Lisa. This provides work for them that they can do at home. These women are part of a larger corps of city employees engaged to call wrong numbers. The highest earner of all is an Indian from India who is able to insist that he does not have the...
We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don’t...
– W.H. Auden (via honkshu)
why, if it isn’t…
TheCounterpunchingRadio’s Amazingly Well-Crafted Christmas Mixtape!
1. Child’s Christmas In Wales - John Cale
2. Silent Night - Low
3. Christmas - Beat Happening
4. Frosty, The Snowman - The Spotnicks
5. ‘Zat You, Santa Claus? - Louis Armstrong
6. The Little Drummer Boy - The Temptations
7. My Favourite Things - Herb Albert & The...