February 2009
13 posts
We are slacking
In 1968 G. Rattray Taylor published an essay titled The Future- If Any. The essay contains hints of apocalypse and includes the following list predicting the technical achievements of our current time.
BY THE YEAR 2000:
-Hibernation and prolonged coma
-Extensive personality reconstruction
-Memory-editing
-Perfected artificial placenta and true baby-factory
-Prolongation of youthful vigor
-Man-animal chimeras
listening to "Soft Rock Star - Metric" →
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“Who were you after you were mine?”
listening to "Crush - Dave Matthews Band" →
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Time for Ultimate Comfort Song of All Time. For Forever. And Ever.
listening to "I Want You Back - The Jackson 5" →
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Won’t. You. Please. Let. Me. BackToYourHeart.
listening to "A Sorta Fairytale - Tori Amos" →
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This L Word OST addiction looks like a keeper.
“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can never compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.”
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (pg.8) (via somethingmeaningful)
“For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.”
— Zooey Deschanel (via zooeydeschanel)
“Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasury house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things that may not be taken from you.”
— Oscar Wilde
