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benjaminandhisblog:

Son House - Grinnin’ In Your Face

“Don’t you mind people grinning in your face.There’s one thing to bear in mind
A true friend is hard to find. Don’t you mind people grinning in your face.”


Lately, I’ve really been getting into the blues. On recommendation of Jack White (The White Stripes), who said this was his favorite song I sought and downloaded ‘Grinning in your Face’. It’s absolutely stunning. One man against the world, anti the establishment, loneliness, purity…

— 2 weeks ago with 8 notes and 70 plays

drinkyourjuice:

Great South African rap video, or greatest South African rap video?

Start at :36 for just the music.

— 4 weeks ago with 686 notes
"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way."
Ernest Hemingway (via coolisacolor)
— 1 month ago
The Creative Process

seekingsatori:

+ The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness, of fear and pleasure; it’s a little like making love, the physical act of love.

+Francis Bacon

— 1 month ago with 2 notes
sealmaiden:

Raphael (1483-1520)- Studies for the Transfiguration, undated

sealmaiden:

Raphael (1483-1520)- Studies for the Transfiguration, undated

— 2 months ago with 19 notes
"He lives the poetry he cannot write. The others write the poetry they dare not realise.”
- Oscar Wilde."
(via 3names)
— 2 months ago with 4 notes
slaughterhouse90210:

“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”  — George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

slaughterhouse90210:

“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
— George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

— 2 months ago with 111 notes
"I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult”
~ E. B. White"
— 3 months ago with 1 note
"If you drink much from a bottle marked ‘poison’ it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later."
Alice
— 3 months ago