April 2009
23 posts
Modest Mouse - Float On
“I’m so tired of days that feel like the night.”
– “Me and the Moon” by Something Corporate
Raindrop Melody Maker →
capucha:
Ian sent me this for Capucine. But it’s not for kids only ! Check it out, it’s really beautiful. Thank you, Ian !
Perfect procrastination for a rainy day.
Franz Schubert - Erlkönig
Ich liebe dich, mich...
charientism
wordjournal:
noun • /KAR-ee-un-tiz-um/ • a gracefully veiled insult.
Fun word, will use. I should work on this.
“It’s too late now! You decided to be dead in heaven!”
– Capucine - Adorable little French girl tells a story
What’s your favorite German word?
86400:
doublejack:
86400:
Schadenfreude. Followed closely by zeitgeist.
More answers as I get questions.
There are other German words?
Gestalt. Danke Schoen. Where would we be without Danke Schoen? That was totally the best part of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Well, maybe not.
Messerstecherei. Means “knifing” or “stabbing.”
horrorwine:
Dragonwolf—“Shoot a Bitch”
Oh Gombas,...
“If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t.”
– Chuck Palahniuk
The Decemberists - On the Bus Mall
In bathrooms...
hobbledehoy
wordjournal:
noun • /ˈhɒb.əl.di.hɔɪ/ • an awkard or clumsy youth.
Yep, that’s me.
termagant
wordjournal:
noun • /ˈtərməgənt/
a harsh-tempered or overbearing woman.
(with capital T) a deity erroneously ascribed to Islam by medieval European Christians and represented in early English drama as a violent character.
[Termagant] was borrowed by Shakespeare and put into the mouth of that early theatre critic, Hamlet: “I could have such a Fellow whipt for o’erdoing Termagant: it...
