Fascination Street

"Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix."

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:30:00 +0100

“Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.”

- Christina Baldwin

Photo

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:30:00 +0100

30 Day Song Challenge 23

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:30:00 +0100

Day 23 – A song that you want to play at your wedding
Been there, done that! Wild Ones by Suede was our first dance.

Thomas Lavelle for Mirrin Magazine, Autumn 2009.

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:30:00 +0100

Thomas Lavelle for Mirrin Magazine, Autumn 2009.

30 Day Song Challenge 22 Day 22 – A song that you listen to when...

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 23:30:00 +0100

30 Day Song Challenge 22

Day 22 – A song that you listen to when you’re sad
Famous Last Words by My Chemical Romance. Video required for this one.

Done With

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 22:30:00 +0100

My house is torn down -
Plaster sifting, the pillars broken,
Beams jagged, the wall crushed by the bulldozer.
The whole roof has fallen
On the hall and the kitchen
The bedrooms, the parlor.

They are trampling the garden -
My mother’s lilac, my father’s grapevine,
The freesias, the jonquils, the grasses.
Hot asphalt goes down
Over the torn stems, and hardens.

What will they do in springtime
Those bulbs and stems groping upward
That drown in earth under the paving,
Thick with sap, pale in the dark
As they try the unrolling of green.

May they double themselves
Pushing together up to the sunlight,
May they break through the seal stretched above them
Open and flower and cry we are living.

—Ann Stanford

Photo

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 19:54:00 +0100

30 Day Song Challenge 21

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:18:00 +0100

30 Day Song Challenge 21:

Day 21 – A song that you listen to when you’re happy
My Body’s a Zombie for You by Dead Man’s Bones. I can’t describe just how much I love this song. Absolute genius.

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the..."

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 20:54:00 +0100

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

- Oscar Wilde

Zipporah at the Inn

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 19:54:00 +0100

God apparently tries, and fails, to kill Moses.

Zipporah at the Inn is the name given to an episode alluded to in three verses of Exodus. It is one of the more unusual, curious, and much debated, passages of the Pentateuch. The verses in question are Exodus 4:24–26, the context is Moses and his wife Zipporah reaching an inn on their way from Midian to Egypt to announce the plagues to the Pharaoh.

On the way, at a place where they spent the night, the Lord met him and tried to kill him. But Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin, and touched his feet with it, and said, “Truly you are a bridegroom of blood to me!” So he let him alone. It was then she said, “A bridegroom of blood by circumcision.”

The standard interpretation of the passage is that Yahweh wants to kill Moses for neglecting the rite of circumcision of his son. Zipporah averts disaster by reacting quickly and hastily performing the rite, thus saving her husband from Yahweh’s anger.

Teatro by Steven Meisel. Vogue Italia, September 2001

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 17:54:00 +0100

Teatro by Steven Meisel. Vogue Italia, September 2001

30 Day Song Challenge 20

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:59:00 +0100

30 Day Song Challenge 20:

Day 20 – A song that you listen to when you’re angry
Force Quit (lickthevelvetpouch remix by Ipecac Loop) by Chemlab. Jared Louche’s voice is so calming. Sadly I can’t find the remix anywhere online, but here’s a link to the original. Still good.

Tomorrow Tomorrow we arebones and ash, the roots of weedspoking throughour skulls....

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:54:00 +0100

Tomorrow

Tomorrow
we are
bones and ash,
the roots of weeds
poking through
our skulls.

Today,
simple clothes,
empty mind,
full stomach,
alive, aware,
right here,
right now.

Drunk on music,
who needs wine?

Come on,
Sweetheart,
let’s go dancing
while we still
have feet.

—David Budbill

lucyphermann: Hitchcock - photo by Peter...

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:54:00 +0100

lucyphermann:

Hitchcock - photo by Peter Stackpole

mudwerks:Golden Age Comic Book Stories

Carl Linnaeus, father of taxonomy, divided the flowering plants into three groups: the meteorici,...

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:54:00 +0100

Carl Linnaeus, father of taxonomy, divided the flowering plants into three groups: the meteorici, which change their opening and closing times according to the weather conditions; the tropici, which change their opening and closing times according to the length of the day; and the aequinoctales, which have fixed opening and closing times, regardless of weather or season.

Linnaeus noted in his Philosophia Botanica that if one possessed a sufficiently large variety of aequinoctal species, it would be possible to tell time simply by observing the daily opening and closing of flowers. Though Linneaus seems never actually to have planted an horologium florae, or flower clock, his plan was taken up with great passion by many 19th-century gardeners, who often arranged a dozen or more species in the manner of a circular clock face.

30 Day Song Challenge 19

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:54:00 +0100

30 Day Song Challenge 19:

Day 19 – A song from your favorite album
Plainsong from Disintegration by The Cure. Amazing. Turn your speakers up.

Dark Angel by Tom Munro. Numero, January 2009.

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:44:00 +0100

Dark Angel by Tom Munro. Numero, January 2009.

From the New York Times, July 27th 1975. I find the strange story of the Marcus twins’ life...

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:54:00 +0100

From the New York Times, July 27th 1975.

I find the strange story of the Marcus twins’ life and death utterly fascinating.

readmorewikipedia: While drilling in 1971 geologists...

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:17:00 +0100

readmorewikipedia:

While drilling in 1971 geologists accidentally found an underground cavern filled with natural gas. The ground beneath the drilling rig collapsed, leaving a large hole with a diameter of about 50-100 meters.

To avoid poisonous gas discharge, it was decided to burn the gas. Geologists had hoped the fire would go out in a few days but it has been burning ever since. Locals have named the cavern The Door to Hell.

30 Day Song Challenge 17/18

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:54:00 +0100

30 Day Song Challenge 17/18:

Day 17 – A song that you hear often on the radio
Day 18 – A song that you wish you heard on the radio
Combining these two as I never, ever listen to the radio by choice. Having said that, I used to have to listen to it in work and Heartbeat by Scouting for Girls was on constantly.