December 2011
238 posts
“It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
The Angels' Share
By the 18th century, aging spirits in barrels for a few years had become standard practice. Exposure to oak improved the final product—coopers use heat to make casks, breaking down structural lignin, cellulose, and hemicellulose into weird, interesting sugars that dissolve into the spirit. Depending on humidity and temperature (and on whether the wood is American or European oak), tannins, sweet...
“Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us.”
– Pablo Neruda
“So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look,...”
– E. Gilbert
And now for the moment you've all been waiting for
My seventh annual year-end-mixtape (CDVR’11) is finally done, and I’m uploading it as we speak. But unlike past years, there’s a catch.
As some of you know, I only make twenty copies of each mixtape before permanently deleting it off my computer. (This practice started on accident when iTunes deleted my first mixtape right after I finished making the copies; and I thought it...
“There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“What do I want? Nonchalance, with a touch of “I don’t give a fuck” … and a...”
– Snejana Onopka
“Every person I interact with is part of the person I am becoming”
– Patricia Moreno
“Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without...”
– Christian Dior
“I will remember your small room
the feel of you
the light in the window
your...”
– Charles Bukowski
