a visual collective outlet of inspiration
for our dear cale. by dd
cello audio suite pre-amplifier
instead of being founded by an electrical wizard like most brands, cello was founded by a musician. the audio suite preamp above was always my favorite of the line, from the time i saw it decades ago when i could not afford one to now that i can afford one but it has become obsolete. even so, i still love to have one just to touch the volume controls. cello was a respected company; however, their preference and advocacy for equalizers was always against the purist notion of audio and that alone made them seem in “our” eyes less rigorous and purist as the rest. nonetheless, it’s still a beautiful piece of equipment inside and out. not an easy one to find but i found one here and here for 16K (the latter includes the amps). by dd
memorabilia – double fantasy
might be the ultimate john lennon memorabilia… the disc is the one his murderer had lennon sign a few hours before he took action. sad. by pp.
“it doesn’t surprise me to be shot at”
german director werner herzog gets shot by a sniper during an interview for BBC but he just keeps on going because its no big deal. by ars
quote of the day
“the God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation?
dd, maybe good old stanley can help you out here? by sv
who’s the wild animal?
one-and-a-half ton african rhino poached for his 5.5 kilogram horn. sick. by dd
ephebe tedium
we’re not sure if this is referring to the tediousness and inherent boredom of adolescence or not, but here at the ts headquarters we can’t stop listening to cockroach. by sv + jr
the dream of chuang tzu
‘chuang tzu dreamt he was a butterfly and, when he awoke, did not know if he was a man who had dreamt he was a butterfly or a butterfly who was dreaming he was a man.’
an excerpt from jorge luis borges’ extraordinary tales, a favorite train read of mine. from chuang tzu (1889) by herbert allen giles by sv
PATTI SMITH – JUST KIDS
i guess everything has been discussed about this book already but it’s such a beautiful portrait of a city, an era, two people… it’s just great. by pp.
upper crust
hmmmm… i never thought i’d appreciate large boobs until this morning. by xy
Eloise and Abelard
this is a story of a monk and a nun whose love letters became world famous. around 1100, peter abelard went to paris to study at the school of notre dame. he gained a reputation as an outstanding philosopher. fulbert, the canon of notre dame, hired abelard to tutor his niece, heloise. abelard and the scholarly heloise fell deeply in love, conceived a child, and were secretly married. but fulbert was furious, so abelard sent heloise to safety in a convent. thinking that he intended to abandon heloise, fulbert had his servants castrate abelard while he slept. abelard became a monk and devoted his life to learning. the heartbroken heloise became a nun. despite their separations and tribulations, abelard and heloise remained in love. their poignant love letters were later published. by cm
