“We Are Not Youth Any Longer. We Don’t Want To Take The World By Storm. We Are Fleeing. We Fly From

Josef Koudelka, France, 1970s

Devin Leonardi (American, 1981-2014) - Manassas Junction, 2009

vintage dollhouse miniature furniture in box

Lamar Valley, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Taken August 2021

i don't pay attention to the world ending. it has ended for me many times and began again in the morning.

― Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

“In the war film, a soldier can hold his buddy—as long as his buddy is dying on the battlefield. In the western, Butch Cassidy can wash the Sundance Kid’s naked flesh—as long as it is wounded. In the boxing film, a trainer can rub the well-developed torso and sinewy back of his protege—as long as it is bruised. In the crime film, a mob lieutenant can embrace his boss like a lover—as long as he is riddled with bullets. 

Violence makes the homo-eroticism of many “male” genres invisible; it is a structural mechanism of plausible deniability.”

–Tarantino’s Incarnational Theology: Reservoir Dogs, Crucifixions, and Spectacular Violence. Kent L. Brintnall.

Paul Atreides: The Sun Eating fire is your ambition: to swallow the flame down take it into your mouth and shoot it forth, a shout or an incandescent tongue, a word exploding from you in gold, crimson, unrolling in a brilliant scroll. To be lit up from within vein by vein. To be the sun. ― Margaret Atwood, Selected Poems 1: 1965-1975

@jitterati | world war I memorial in church of ss peter & paul, gilbert bayes 1919 | total solar eclipse, maria mitchell 1869 | dune: part one, dir. denis villenueve | dune: part one, dir. denis villenueve | november 9, colleen hoover | dune: part one - the photography, chiabella james | bust of antinous, palazzo altemps museum | poem, lucie thésée, tr. by richard archambeau 1941 | dune: part two, dir. denis villenueve | holy things in this world, emery allen | dune: part two, dir. denis villenueve | untitled, lauren treece 2012 + ruin and rising, leigh bardugo 2014 | @toneelspeelster | @gallixie | dune: part two, dir. denis villenueve | the other tiger - selected poems, jorge luis borges, tr. by tony barnstone 1999 | dune: part one, dir. denis villenueve | @jitterati

Lingering on It

Every time I do something dramatic or extravagant I think to myself “this is for Lord Byron” or “Oscar Wilde would’ve loved this”. And I think it’s incredible sexy of me to do so. Conversely every time I get tipsy I think “it’s what Dorian Gray would’ve wanted”. Which is less sexy and more a moralistic problem but it’s whatever.

Dune: Part Two, dir. by Denis Villeneuve // A Panathenaic amphora (Greece (Attica), ca. 365BC - 360BC) (x)