June 2011
Could Shakespeare's Bones Tell Us if He Smoked... →
Getting Over Ourselves by Polly Carl - HowlRound →
“Straight up, I think music is sacred. I think music is a form of communication...”
– Ian MacKaye in Tablet Magazine. Well worth a full read.
Five Things I Learned From Sebastian Nübling →
whatdaveisreading:
By Simon Stephens:
1) Theatre is a physical medium 2) Theatre is multi-authored. 3) Theatre is art. 4) Language is noise. 5) The English are polite and arrogant.
“The table is finished, carpenter.
Allow us to take it away.
Stop planing it...”
–
Bertolt Brecht, Fatzer-Fragment, quoted in Walter Benjamin’s “From the Brecht Commentary” in Understanding Brecht. (via touslesdeux)
So I would be a lot happier if I could apply this to just about everything.
(via birdonwing)
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the...”
– Franz Kafka (via enchants)
The 100 greatest non-fiction books | Books |... →
I’m sad I’ve read fewer than 10 of these in their entirety (though only about 10 more in fragments). It’s a fantastic list though and many are books I’ve wanted to read for a while. I guess it’s good to have goals.
"Sixties London was a good place to have an... →
whatdaveisreading:
Pinter’s ex-lover provides a clinic for Anthony Weiner.
interesting article especially since I’ve spent the past few weeks having an affair with Pinter’s Old Times.
