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david whyte — the house of belonging
You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up on all other worlds except the one to which you belong. Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to...
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david foster wallace on interiority
We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills the ice-cube tray, who unloads the clean dishwasher, who...
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i’ve got that tune
Music: Chinese Man – “I’ve Got That Tune” from The Groove Sessions Vol.1 (2007) Director: Fred&Annabelle – Ben Le Coq Label: Chinese Man RecordsFiled under: music, remix Tagged: aloneness, animation
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bending albert’s law
“I made a mess to make it feel like home…” From Karin Parks’ album Highwire Poetry (2012)Filed under: music Tagged: absence, aloneness, einstein
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david whyte – the house of belonging
I awoke this morning in the gold light turning this way and that thinking for a moment it was one day like any other. But the veil had gone from my darkened heart and I thought it must have been the...
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mudhoney – touch me i’m sick (1988)
“Touch Me I’m Sick” from the album March to Fuzz. I won’t live long, and I’m full of rot Gonna give you, girl, everything I got Touch me, I’m sick, yeah Touch me, I’m sick Come on baby, now come with...
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anaïs nin on unbearable lightness
“I am the most tired woman in the world. I am tired when I get up. Life requires an effort I cannot make. Please give me that heavy book. I need to put something heavy like that on top of my head. I...
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joy division – isolation
“Mother I’ve tried, please believe me; I’m doing the best that I can.”Filed under: music Tagged: aloneness
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connee boswell – hummin’ to myself (1932)
Words & Music by Herbert Magidson, Monte Siegal & Sammy Fain Recorded by Connie Boswell, 1932, Brunswick Records. Filed under: music Tagged: aloneness, betty boop soundtracks, boswell sisters,...
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a dream about an imaginary new year’s day
It’s New Year’s Day, away for the weekend with a smallish group of friends… people on different continents, in one place in my mind. We leftovers – avatars of Stella, Michelle, Marco and me, I think...
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daniel johnston – life in vain
Filed under: music Tagged: aloneness, depression, loneliness, mental illness, persistence, the saddest songs on earth
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anne carson – the glass essay
An incredible poem… Thank you to Kate Highman for turning me on to Anne Carson. I I can hear little clicks inside my dream. Night drips its silver tap down the back. At 4 A.M. I wake. Thinking of the...
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t.s. eliot – the cocktail party
It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are. You will find that you survive humiliation And that’s an experience of incalculable value. That is the worst...
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björk – prayer of the heart
John Tavener composed this specifically for Björk. She chants a prayer from the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition, “Prayer of The Heart”, accompanied by the Brodsky Quartet. “Prayer of The Heart”...
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comprehensively incomprehensible
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me. – Johann Gottlieb FichteFiled under: philosophy Tagged: aloneness, connection, paradox, understanding
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blind willie johnson – dark was the night, cold was the ground
“Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground” is a gospel-blues song written and performed by Blind Willie Johnson, probably recorded in 1927. The song is primarily an instrumental, featuring Johnson’s...
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jorge luis borges – the moon
There is such solitude in that gold. The moon of these nights is not the moon The first Adam saw. Long centuries Of human vigil have filled her with An old lament. See. She is your mirror. Translation...
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dixie kwankwa – when you walk alone (c 1959)
This song gives me utter goosebumps. Courtesy of the most incredible African music blog in existence, Electric Jive: ‘This is the first LP in South Africa on the Troubadour label and is presented as...
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when are you going to settle down?
‘Female Freedom Has an Expiration Date’ – Being 35 and Single An Argentine woman, documenting her relationships, begins an intimate investigation searching for love and answers: must she settle down or...
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poor wayfaring stranger
A recording of lined-out singing by the Indian Bottom Association Of The Old Regular Baptist Church in Appalachia. “Lining out”, also called “hymn lining” or “line singing”, is a haunting form of a...
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mississippi john hurt – lonesome valley
This is a 1965 recording of “Mississippi” John Hurt performing “Lonesome Valley” on the Pete Seeger-hosted TV programme featuring folk music, Rainbow Quest.Filed under: music, philosophy, spirit...
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spiritualized – shine a light
From Lazer Guided Melodies (1992).Filed under: love, music, spirit Tagged: aloneness, light, spiritualized
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head in the clouds
Alicia Savage – Head in the Clouds. “Destinations is an ongoing series of self-portraits inspired by the decision to explore on one’s own. Over the past few years I have often felt compelled to travel...
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son lux – easy (2013)
Filed under: art, embodiment, freedom, love Tagged: aloneness, kinbaku, son lux
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mica levi – love (2014)
This video from Mica Levi (of Micachu and the Shapes) is my favourite discovery this week. Breathe a balloon full of kisses Let it go where it will And it will Filed under: film, love, music Tagged:...
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moment of tangency: a glimpse of what might have been (2017/1913)
The 18 January 2017 word from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. This resonated for me with a sentiment Rainer Maria Rilke captured in a poem more than a century earlier, in 1913: You who never...
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fiona apple – river stay away from my door (2009)
Live at Club Largo with Jon Brion.Filed under: music Tagged: aloneness, fiona apple, Jon Brion, storm
View Articleconnie converse – talkin’ like you (c. 1950s)
During the 1950s, Converse worked for the Academy Photo Offset printing house in New York’s Flatiron District. She initially lived in Greenwich Village, but would later take up residency in the Hell’s...
View Articlejudy garland – by myself (1964)
Judy Garland’s variety show on CBS in 1964 was cancelled after just one season. Here is her performance from the final episode, that producers cut because they judged it to be too dark.
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