Category: how to win the lottery

we’re going to the movies. and also not.

“a policeman was a policeman. it was always best to ignore them unless they bothered you.”

“all knowledge that’s worth anything is maybe paid for by blood. maybe that’s the only way you can tell that a certain piece of knowledge is worth anything – it has cost some blood.”

“the fact is i am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. other people, so i have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met a lonely girl in central park and achieved with her a sweet and natural relationship, as they say in books. i too once met a girl in central park, but it is not much to remember. what i remember is the time john wayne killed three men with a carbine as he was falling to the dusty street in stagecoach, and the time the kitten found orson welles in the doorway in the third man.”

suck shit, sufjan stevens. (#1)

“but the problem was not attention span or gluttony; the problem was that i didn’t actually believe the knowledge i acquired online was useless. i sought it out purposefully, defensively, as if it would one day become vitally important, provide the clue to some threatening mystery of my social or professional life.”