Monday moodboard

   

“Some writing doesn’t brush up against sentimentality as often as other writing. But whatever ‘bad’ edge your writing brushes up against, I think it’s important to touch it. You can always pull back from it, but at least you know where it is. It’s like when I was a dancer, we were always encouraged to fall in rehearsal, so that you could know what the tipping point of any given movement was. That way, when you did it on the stage, you could be sure you were taking it to the edge without falling on your face. It sounds like a cliché, but really it’s just physics—if you don’t touch the fulcrum, you’ll never gain a felt sense of it, and your movement will be impoverished for it.” 
– Maggie Nelson, in response to ‘Is it important to risk sentimentality?’ in an interview with Genevieve Hudson

“The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.”
 – Tobias Wolff, from “Class Picture,” The New Yorker (6 January 2003)

“I guess my strongest recurring theme is honouring love even when it’s lost, and... staying hopeful and soft even when things get really difficult and hard.”
– Lana Del Rey, in response to ‘What are your recurring obsessions as a songwriter?’

interpol – tidal wave
lana del rey – video games (live at glastonbury)
lana del rey – yayo (rainy mood)
the xx – sunset
the 1975 – robbers (acoustic)
arctic monkeys – love is a laserquest
dawn richard – dark horse (katy perry cover)
lana del rey/jessica lange – gods and monsters (mashup)
the echo friendly – same mistakes
bleachers – i wanna get better
lorde – yellow flicker beat
lana del rey – ultraviolence (live)