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Beyond the table, there is an altar, with candles lit for Billie Holiday and Willa Cather and Hypatia and Patsy Cline. Next to it, an old podium that once held a Bible, on which we have repurposed an old chemistry handbook as the Book of Lilith. In its pages is our own liturgical calendar: Saint Clementine and All Wayfarers; Saints Lorena Hickok and Eleanor Roosevelt, observed in the summer with blueberries to symbolize the sapphire ring; the Vigil of Saint Juliette, complete with mints and dark chocolate; Feast of the Poets, during which Mary Oliver is recited over beds of lettuce, Kay Ryan over a dish of vinegar and oil, Audre Lorde over cucumbers, Elizabeth Bishop over some carrots; the Exaltation of Patricia Highsmith, celebrated with escargots boiling in butter and garlic and cliffhangers recited by an autumn fire; the Ascension of Frida Kahlo with self-portraits and costumes; the Presentation of Shirley Jackson, a winter holiday started at dawn and ended at dusk with a gambling game played with lost milk teeth and stones. Some of them with their own books; the major and minor arcana of our little religion.

Carmen Maria Machado, from “Mothers” (as appears in Her Body and Other Parties)

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Mark Rothko, Views of the Rothko Chapel, Houston, TX, which opened in 1971 after Rothko’s suicide in 1970 ( Part II)

The Chapel’s original architect was the great Philip Johnson, however art collectors Dominique and John de Menils  involved Rothko more intimately in the design. Rothko wasn’t  fully satisfied with any of the ideas Johnson came up with and Johnson left the project officially (though returned as a consultant) and and  work fell to to Howard Barnstone and Eugene Aubry. Howard and Aubry worked closely with Rothko to fulfill Rothko’s vision.

Johnson’s original Plan (left top) and Aubry amended design (right top)

Exterior shots include the sculpture  Broken Obelisk, also known as Black Needle, by Barnett Newman

(Some interior images © Adelaide de Menil Carpenter)

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The Index-Journal, Greenwood, South Carolina, August 6, 1952

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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

dir. Stanley Kubric (x)

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this is the purest video I’ve ever laid my sinning eyes on

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This is just to say

I have eaten the shoes that were in the closet

and which you were probably meaning to sell

Forgive me they were delicious so small and unworn

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Did you steal anything from set? I’ve never stolen anything from set… actually I did, but it was kind of given to me.

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////rené M A G R I T T E 

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https://www.facebook.com/itsmarkhamill/

Mark Hamill behind the scenes of The Empire Strikes Back. He wore this shirt under his outfit during the Besin Duel. Therefore it had been cut out at the parts where he would get wounded during the fight. When we met Mark at SW Celebration 2016, he told us that a fashion photographer had visited the set and had taken the photos. But George Lucas hated them and did not want these pictures to be published. But fortunately once they were out he could not prevent them any more from being published and preserved for posterity. ;)

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Oolong Crème Brûlée

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Me: but back on subject, who do you want The Mountain Goats to team up with, Hozier or Florence and the Machine

Amelia: Pitbull

Me: [RACUOUS FIVE MINUTES WITCH CACKLE LAUGHTER]

Amelia: anyway what were your options again, you said the first part and I immediately stopped listening because I was waiting for my turn to speak

Me: doesn’t even fucking matter

Me: pitbull ft the mountain goats is the only fucking thing that can heal our nation

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“Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.”

– C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces (via lachantefleurie)

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The Betrayal of Christ by Judas - Caravaggio // Mr Brightside, The Killers

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carrie & lowell cover art except it says “SUFJAN STEVENS” “BOTTOM TEXT”

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Gods always behave like the people who created them.

Zora Neale Hurston (via iwriteaboutfeminism)