10 sentences I wish I had written…
January 20, 2008
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off — then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
Cansei De Ser Sexy “Music is My Hot Hot Sex”
My music is where I’d like you to touch.
Iron and Wine & Calexico “16, maybe less”
I met my wife at a party when I drank too much.
Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar
Mirage-gray at the bottom of their granite canyons, the hot streets wavered in the sun, the car tops sizzled and glittered, and the dry, cindery dust blew into my eyes and down my throat.
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself.
Elliot Smith “Say Yes”
I’m in love with the world through the eyes of a girl.
Unknown
I like making bad decisions with you.
Catherine Feeny “Mr. Blue”
That’s the way it goes some days
A fever comes at you without a warning
And I can see it in your face
You’ve been waiting to break since you woke up this morning
Nicole Krauss. The History of Love. There is a disagreement among the angels as to whether this is a result of something vestigial, or whether it is the result of the empathy they feel for the Living, so powerful it sometimes makes them weep.
Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude. When the acrobat gypsies returned, with their vagabond carnival transformed now into a gigantic organization of games of luck and changes, they were received with great joy, for it was thought that José Arcadio would be coming back with them.
You’re really exploring what happens when image and text bump up into one another–take these lessons into your multimedia piece, Jen. Do your images work as hard there? (I’m referring to your initial draft that you showed me yesterday.)