Mild und Leise

i’m done with interlochen, i’m eighteen, and i’m stuck in chicago for a week, but hey, i got my first ever hand-sunburn.
also, today i went to a flea market in st. charles with my brothers, and i found these amazing woodblock prints from the 40-50s of the odyssey and the divine comedy, but i didn’t have money, so i’m buying them tomorrow. they will be mine.

adessive:

via Museum of Photographic Arts

The fire-colored dragonflies in the early autumn air, the bent backs in bright reds and yellows, the gleam on the black cattle and wheat stubble, the fresh green of the paddies and the sparkling river - over everything lies an immortal light, like transparent silver. — Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard

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mpdrolet:

Morning walk, King City, Ontario
Mark Peter Drolet

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Billy Ekstine singing In The Still Of The Night

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Ivo Pogorelich playing Scarlatti - Harpsichord Sonata In E Minor, K 98

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The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
A Song of Fire and Ice by GRR Martin
The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross
The Tree Where Man Was Born by Peter Matthiessen
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Salome by Oscar Wilde
American Psycho by Easton Ellis
Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Flatland by Edwin Abbott
The Tale of the Unknown Island by Jose Saramago
Seeing by Jose Saramago
The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason

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so painfully, hopelessly awkward

I finished Blindness last night, the only book that’s ever made me cry　

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Wilhelm Kempff playing Bach - Es ist gewisslich an der Zeit, BWV 307/Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g’mein, BWV 734

I’ve never wanted to play anything by Bach so badly

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