soundbyte

Posted 8:39 PM
"Stare. It is the way to educate your eye. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something."
(Walker Evans)

Posted 2:37 PM
"how are the papal imprints? sacrilicious?"
(sven)

Posted 2:24 PM
"you're funny when i miss you."
(gl.)

"i laughed the saliva right out of my mouth."
(sven)

Posted 11:57 PM
"why am i the only one who thinks i'm funny?"
(gl.)

"see? don't go dissing the big font."
(sven)

"she says 'eep'."
(leopoldo: yes, he said that a while ago, but it's been used so often now in other contexts that it deserves mention here.)

Posted 1:50 PM
"This is a course that both excites and horrifies students."
(fin 561 syllabus)

Posted 12:47 AM
about garlic fries: "yes, but if i eat one more, i'll see through time!"
(sven)

Posted 11:57 AM
"Proust himself was always generous, or kind, before all else. But his native generosity became the acid of social criticism when his unflinching, unapologetic regard fell upon the cruelty of self-interest. He considered cruelty more than anything else just maddeningly, puzzlingly, infinitely stupid. The stupidity of class arrogance. The stupidity of anti-Semitism. The stupidity of homophobia. Time and again, he discovered the self-interested desire to be an aristocrat, to have wealth, or simply to get laid at the root of the most unspeakable cruelty... deliberate unkindness, especially when motivated by self-interest, hurt him and angered him more than anything else he could name. "
(curtis white, concerning sotoligarchy)

Posted 5:38 PM
"Photocopy shops should not be privately owned; they should be state-run and publicly subsidized. A tax-paying citizen should be able to collate and laminate anything they want, for free. And if you don't vote, you should not be allowed access to America's photocopiers."
(david rees, powell's interview)

Posted 12:01 PM
"sorry, scissors are a conductor. the rock is what the eel was hiding under. and you think that flimsy piece of paper will protect you from the electric eel? the electric eel -always- wins!"
(gl. & sven)

Posted 11:42 PM
"i'm plenty excited! i've never been so excited about a food product!"
(carl)

Posted 7:50 PM
"tape. frickin' bird."
(sven's filming notes)

Posted 6:04 PM
"are you going all beta on me? because we don't have time for beta!"
(gl.)

Posted 10:21 PM
"can do the cran-dew!"
(michaelmas)

Posted 11:02 AM
"the cup of endless torment is filled with mountain dew."
(spike)

Posted 12:50 AM
"it makes me want to cry pudding."
(meadling)

Posted 8:17 PM
"A note to new subscribers: At this point in the newsletter, it's common to tip the font. Our concessionaires recommend plush toys for lower case letters. Or perhaps a member of our fine punctuation crew has caught your fancy; why not show your appreciation with a handmade throw pillow? Thrill a capital letter with a spot of organic loose-leaf tea. But don't stop there. Include a gift note with your gratuity and our couriers will rush it to the appropriate sentence immediately!"
(powell's newsletter)

Posted 8:16 PM
"heaven is snow and meteors."
(michaelmas)

Posted 6:15 PM
"fuckin' endorphins!"
(gl.)

Posted 10:34 AM
"finishing a piece i like is like running too fast downhill."
(amy honeyman, process)

Posted 9:26 PM
"i would stop reading now."
(michaelmas)

Posted 8:50 PM
"don't tell people about your supposed seizures & then dance."
(gl.)

Posted 7:41 PM
"you're a scary chestnut."
(gl.)

Posted 10:52 AM
"you know what they say: when life gives you clemency, make clemonade."
(sven)

Posted 5:37 AM
"i'm living in a pet peeve."
(gl.)

Posted 4:55 PM
"when a thief kisses you, count your teeth."
(yiddish proverb)

Posted 6:38 PM
"i didn't have a romatic relationship with a 12 year old. well, i suppose i did. but i thought she was 13."
(michaelmas)

Posted 6:37 PM
"why do you like fire? you're ruining my movie!"
(stephen spielberg)

Posted 9:11 AM
"it's sort of like poetry: it doesn't go anywhere."
(sven)

Posted 7:38 PM
"your eyes are like dead dandelions."
(gl.)

Posted 10:23 PM
"you should know better than to challenge me on these things. i have an answer for everything."
(michaelmas)

Posted 12:56 AM
"ghouls lope. tasty dreamers walk."
(the dreamquest of unknown kadath)

Posted 6:23 PM
"when i make my own gang, it will be called the Graceless Ninjas."
(gl.)

Posted 2:32 PM
new russian words (or old ones i forgot but wanted to remember again):
Good morning! Dobroye utro!

Good day!: Dobry den!

Good evening!: Dobry vecher!

Good night!: Spokoynoy nochi!

Why?: Pochemu?

When?: Kagdah'?

how much/many: Skol'ka

I am ill.: Ya bolen / bolna.

I want: Ya hochu

I am sorry!: Izvini! / Izvinite! (formal)

So long!: Poka!

beautiful:krasivy / krasivaya

aga: uh huh.

Hello: Zdrahst'voitye

Good night: Spakoi'ne no'chee

Excuse me: Eezveenee'tye

Of course: Kahnyesh'na

With pleasure: Soodavolst'veeyem

Congratulations: Pazdrahvlah'yoo vahs

Delicious: Fkoos'no

I kiss you Tseluyu.

http://www.nypl.org/branch/central_units/d/f/language/russian.htm
more: http://www.sandia.gov/ASCI/russia/vocabulary.html
http://www.notam02.no/~hcholm/altlang/ht/Russian.html
http://www.womenrussia.com/phrases.htm

Posted 1:40 PM
"absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big."
(umberto eco)

Posted 2:15 PM
"you said something funny, but i forget what it was."
(sven)

Posted 11:50 AM
"it's like a lobster reincarnated into a plant."
(sven)

Posted 1:37 PM
"you can't easily apply physics to human psychology and relationships."
(michaelmas)

Posted 2:31 PM
"amelia's a drooly cat! amelia's a drooly cat!"
(gl.)

Posted 1:04 PM
"I agree that people use the word friend too casually, but the counterpoint to that is people use the term family too strictly."
(Brian D. Buck)

Posted 10:19 PM
"it's like watching both sides of rear view window."
(john)

Posted 8:50 PM
"art is like love."
(sven)

Posted 6:58 PM
"it's evil sven & graceless gretchin!"
(sven)

Posted 11:20 AM
"Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies: As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."
(mike godwin)

Posted 3:37 PM
"wolves are god's dogs, half mad with hunger and the memory of his hands upon her head."
(gene wolfe)

Posted 10:58 AM
"i don't think hitler would have been comfortable at burning man."
(rachel)

Posted 8:30 AM
"Congratulations to the word "Multnomah," winner of the silver medal at this year's American
Phonetics Championship (held annually in Davenport, Iowa). Immodestly impressed judges cited Multnomah's rich, full-bodied, early syllables and the subtlety with which its final, floral "ah" lingers in the palette."
(powell's newsletter)

Posted 5:35 PM
"that's not social darwinism. oh, wait, yes it is."
(michaelmas)

"could we please not talk about crap at the dinner table?"
(gl.)

Posted 4:02 PM
"it's laundry fairy and turtle girl!"
(gl.)

Posted 9:23 PM
"that feels sort of like trying."
(michaelmas)

Posted 2:48 PM
"love is kind of a nuisance to anyone not directly involved."
(leeannh)

Posted 11:05 AM
"she's a computer geek, a theater geek, and a startling poet."
(peregrine)

Posted 8:40 PM
"you're equating nutella and vegemite?"
(gl.)

Posted 9:22 AM
"a happy chicken makes a happy cat."
michaelmas

Posted 11:00 AM
"doing windows code for apple is like coming to heaven every day to clean the toilets."
(leeannh)

Posted 5:10 PM
"nobody's got a monopoly on sainthood."
(briant)

Posted 7:40 PM
"listening is participation, too."
(davalos, 2001)

Posted 8:26 PM
"spike's big and fluffy."
(michaelmas)

Posted 12:29 PM
"or would you rather be bound and tossed into the trunk of a car and whisked across the border as the prelude to a 72-hour drug-addled nightmare odyssey? this is guaranteed dolphin-safe, and I am in serious negotiation for the film rights with johnny depp's agent. jennifer lopez in very interested in playing you."
(chuck)

Posted 10:54 AM
"i make most of my version of the world up."
(garrett)

Posted 8:36 PM
"If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know. Is there any other way?"
(emily dickinson)

Posted 8:32 PM
"may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone"
(e.e. cummings)

Posted 10:55 AM
"come to csusm, where the stone is cold and the grass is wet!"
(garrett)

Posted 4:40 PM
"but someone who's an english student isn't the physics department's puppy."
(michaelmas)

Posted 3:47 PM
"did i say laughter? i meant penecillin."
(harlequin)

Posted 12:56 PM
"As happens annually at this time, students in Mrs. Hassett's fifth grade class are grumbling about the teacher's famous exclamation tax: pupils are levied a fine of one nickel for each unwarranted exclamation point employed in the year's homework assignments and book reports. Collections support "more appropriate forms of exuberant expression" (Mrs. Hassett's words); most years, that means colored chalk."
(powell's newsletter)

Posted 6:04 PM
"I took the notes for today's entry on a twenty-dollar bill. I think I will use it to buy a juice smoothie after work. If you run across a bill that says Notes On Money, Physical vs. Intellectual, Minutiae, Quantity vs. Quality, Modest Mouse, About Being a Secretary, and Haircut written on the back side, you've just had a brush with the real me."
(bunnie)

Posted 12:55 PM
"i invented a voicemail system where "7" means "delete"!"
lyle from achewood

Posted 11:28 AM
"he's not the brightest cookie in the lamp."
"not the sharpest knife in the deck."
(dnrc newsletter)

Posted 1:12 PM
"because you and jeff could be the same person."
(jenger)

Posted 11:08 AM
"i laugh, but from love."
(chuck)

Posted 11:08 AM
"happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it."
(anonymous via jenger via candie)

Posted 5:33 PM
sung to devo's "whip it": "when your job is goin' wrong, you must ship it."
(jeff)

Posted 5:32 PM
"it's amazing how easy it is to succumb to our own fantasies."
(gl.)

Posted 5:09 PM
" i can't believe i was ever attracted to that man."
(jenger)

Posted 7:13 PM
"magnets and chaos. <bliss>"
(briant)

Posted 7:28 PM
"it's a metaphor, dear."
(gl.)

Posted 1:56 PM
"jeff is so unhip he's got dysplasia."
(jenger)

Posted 6:07 PM
"I wonder if God is also a member of the "penis enlargement in 7 days" mailing
list."
(leeann h.)

Posted 4:42 PM
"nobody can defeat the "LASER"."
(jeff h.)

Posted 3:51 PM
"i'd appreciate it if you could keep your plague to yourself."
(gl.)

Posted 4:06 PM
"expecting progress to come in neatly-wrapped boxes with thank-you notes attached seems like a lot too much to ask - and counter-productive, to boot."
simon st. laurent