Mammalian Days

digital ephemera, inspiration, and whatnots

“So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.”

—   Clarice Lispector (The Hour of the Star)

It’s a Big Star kind of day…

House of Wolves - Jealous 

Molly Drake (Nick Drake’s Mom) - Cuckoo Time 

Josh T. Pearson - Thou Art Loose 

kenyatta:

Chalk Mark (hopscotch) by Brad Downey
via rebel:art

Rethinking the mundane.

kenyatta:

Chalk Mark (hopscotch) by Brad Downey

via rebel:art

Rethinking the mundane.

(via manbartlett)

“There are two kinds of writing. The kind that you write and the kind that writes you. The one that writes you is dangerous. You go where you don’t want to go. You look where you don’t want to look.”

—   Jeanette Winterson - from Why be Happy When You Could be Normal 
L∆V∆ - I Know You Are

easy listening dreamy new wave 80’s pop synth band from Portland, OR

I don’t want to be a designer, a marketer, an illustrator, a brander, a social media consultant, a multi-platform guru, an interface wizard, a writer of copy, a technological assistant, an applicator, an aesthetic king, a notable user, a profit-maximizer, a bottom-line analyzer, a meme generator, a hit tracker, a re-poster, a sponsored blogger, a starred commentator, an online retailer, a viral relayer, a handle, a font or a page. I don’t want to be linked in, tuned in, ‘liked’, incorporated, listed or programmed. I don’t want to be a brand, a representative, an ambassador, a bestseller or a chart-topper. I don’t want to be a human resource or part of your human capital.

I don’t want to be an entrepreneur of myself.

Don’t listen to the founders, the employers, the newspapers, the pundits, the editors, the forecasters, the researchers, the branders, the career counselors, the prime minister, the job market, Michel Foucault or your haughty brother in finance – there’s something else!

I want to be a lover, a teacher, a wanderer, an assembler of words, a sculptor of immaterial, a maker of instruments, a Socratic philosopherπ and an erratic muse. I want to be a community center, a piece of art, a wonky cursive script and an old-growth tree! I want to be a disruptor, a creator, an apocalyptic visionary, a master of reconfiguration, a hypocritical parent, an illegal download and a choose-your-own-adventure! I want to be a renegade agitator! A licker of ice cream! An organizer of mischief! A released charge! A double jump on the trampoline! A wayward youth! A volunteer! A partner.

I want to be a curator of myself, an anti-preneur, a person.

Unlimited availabilities. No followers required. Only friends.

—   ~ Danielle Leduc, Adbusters

“I confuse them, words and tears, my words are my tears, my eyes my mouth. And I should hear, at every little pause, if it’s the silence I say when I say that only the words break it. But nothing of the kind, that’s not how it is, it’s for ever the same murmur, flowing unbroken, like a single endless word and therefore meaningless, for it’s the end gives the meaning to words.”

—   Samuel Beckett - Texts for Nothing

“‎”It’s not the shit you play, it’s the shit you don’t play that makes it funky”

—    Miles Davis

Nina Nastasia - a love song 

Carter Tanton - Murderous Joy 

The Method Actors - Big Red Brain

“I mean I can’t be the saint people dream of now. People want a street angel. They want a saint but with a cowboy mouth. Somebody to get off on when they can’t get off on themselves. I think that’s what Mick Jagger is trying to do…what Bob Dylan seemed to be for a while. A sort of God in our image…ya know? Mick Jagger came close but he got too conscious. For a while he gave me hope… I want it to be perfect, ‘cause it’s the only religion I got…in the old days people had a Jesus and those people to embrace… They created a god with all their belief energies… and when they didn’t dig But it’s too hard now. We’re earthy people and the old saints just don’t make it, and the old God is just too far away. He don’t represent our pain no more. His words don’t shake through us no more. Any great motherfucker rock’n’roll song can raise me higher than all of Revelations. We created rock’n’roll from our own image, it’s our child…”

—   From Cowboy Mouth - by Sam Shepard and Patti Smith