#the National

[frankensteinmutual]

Signalis (2022) [H.P. Lovecraft, The Festival] /Sagittarius A* / Kathy Acker, Pussy, King of the Pirates / Outer Wilds (2020) / Is There a God-Shaped Hole at the Heart of Mathematics? / Drain for overflowing water at Sambuco Dam, Lavizzara Valley / ? / Thomasin Frances, Hole Theory (15/10/2022) / Bryan’s Ground, a public garden in Herefordshire on the Welsh border. / odd, weird, strange and unusual / Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves / Evil (2019-2014) / Judas H., Overflowing With Empty / Illustration of the Annular Eclipse of 1836 from “A fourteen weeks course in descriptive astronomy”, Joel Dorman Steele (1836-1886) / @imdad_barbhuyan on Instagram / The moon’s Copernicus crater. Through magic glasses. 1890. / Kaveh Akbar / Dune (2021) / x / Dmitry Kochanovich, Epiphany (Russian,b. 1972) / The Silt Verses, Chapter 41: But As My Last Breath Splits My Throat / Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, The Camp is a Bait for Time / Darina Muravjeva, Hole / Hilde Heynen in Heterotopia and the City / x / Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers / x /  Louise Glück, from Descending Figure / Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay. / Caitlyn Siehl, What We Buried; from “A Letter To Love” / Lara de Moor, Orb (2014) / Sam Sax, Pig / The National - Wake Up Your Saints / Aleksander Rostov / Sanna Wani, from “Princess Mononoke (1997)”, My Grief, the Sun / Gregory Orr, [i want to go back] / Thomas Ott / ? / Judas H., Overflowing With Empty / James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room / Massive sinkhole swallows house in Florida / Edna St Vincent Millay, in Letters (1952) /Silent Hill 4 (2004) / @/vren-diagram / Anne Boyer, What Resembles the Grave But Isn’t / Law of Holes / Scarlet Hollow (2021) / China Miéville, from Railsea

(part one)

[garbagequeer]

hilarious man (The National Play “Sorrow” for Six Hours at MoMA PS1)

[orangelemonart]

Lay down in the doorway in front of me, and make yourself impossible for me to leave

[asoftepiloguemylove]

BUT WHO COULD LOVE ME? I AM OUT OF MY MIND // IVAN & TILL

pinterest // VIVINOS Alien Stage, "ROUND 6" (via youtube) // Anne Sexton Complete Poems of Anne Sexton, "The Papa and Mama Dance" // Fall Out Boy Hum Hallelujah // VIVINOS Alien Stage, "ROUND 6" (via youtube) // Ernest Hemingway The Garden of Eden // Florence + the Machine Grace // Elliot Wake Black Iris // The National Daughters of the Soho Riots // VIVINOS Alien Stage, "ROUND 6" (via youtube) // Mitski I Guess // Adam Silvera They Both Die at the End // Lorde Writer in the Dark // VIVINOS Alien Stage, "ROUND 6" (via youtube) // Margaret Atwood Cat's Eye // Chris Abani Dog Woman // VIVINOS Alien Stage, "ROUND 6" (via youtube) // Warsan Shire Souvenir, "Our Men Do Not Belong to Us" // VIVINOS Alien Stage, "ROUND 6" (via youtube) // Louise Glück Faithful and Virtuous Night

[marysong-mp3]

i know we all go feral over coney island but GENUINELY. some lightening bolt of creativity shot down from the skies and joined these powerhouse artists together so that they could craft a perfect melody and prose that makes my bones ache and my heart break and my eyes well up and my soul leave my body. i think about the second verse at least once a day. it is a revelation every single time that i listen to them harmonise "a universe away". i understand something deep within myself in the closing chorus when i hear them sing "the sight that flashed before me was your face/when the sun goes down". they truly captured something poignant and fundamental and human and every single piece of praise that people give it is more than well deserved

[goldthorn-archive]

Demons by The National / gif 1 by @appletvdaily / gifs 2-4 by @basilone

[oozins]

the national / wilco

[oldshowbiz]

Canadian Politics in the 1980s

[everythingatrophies]

1 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘍𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘦 Franz Kafka // 2 The Bear // 3 𝘛𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 The National // 4 𝘌𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳'𝘴 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦 Orson Scott Card // 5 House MD // 6 𝘊𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘩 Richard Siken // 7 Fleabag

[taylornation]

Taylor + The National = 🥺💔😦😭🫨

The Alcott, out tonight at midnight.

📸: Octavio Jones/Getty Images

[anervousmirrorball]

the alcott - the national (feat. taylor swift)

gift for @bergamotperfume 🖤 [for swiftiegiftexchange2024]

[garbagequeer]

many people wonder what i do for work and i will explain. sorrow found me when i was young sorrow waited sorrow won sorrow they put me on the pill it's in my honey it's in my milk dont leave my hyper heart alone on the water cover me in rag and bone sympathy cause i dont wanna get over you i dont wanna get over you sorrow's my body on the waves sorrow's a girl inside my cake i live in a city sorrow built it's in my honey it's in my milk dont leave my hyper heart alone on the water cover me in rag and bone sympathy cause i dont wanna get over you i dont wanna get over you dont leave my hyper heart alone on the water cover me in rag and bone sympathy cause i dont wanna get over you i dont wanna get over you. sorrow found me when i was young sorrow waited sorrow won sorrow they put me on the pill it's in my honey it's in my milk dont leave my hyper heart alone on the water cover me in rag and bone sympathy cause i dont wanna get over you i dont wanna get over you sorrow's my body on the waves sorrow's a girl inside my cake i live in a city sorrow built it's in my honey it's in my milk dont leave my hyper heart alone on the water cover me in rag and bone sympathy cause i dont wanna get over you i dont wanna get over you dont leave my hyper heart alone on the water cover me in rag and bone sympathy cause i dont wanna get over you i dont wanna get over you. sorrow found me when i was young sorrow waited sorrow won sorrow they put me on the pill it's in my honey it's in my milk dont leave my hyper heart alone on the water cover me in rag and bone sympathy cause i dont wanna get over you i dont wanna get over you sorrow's my body on the waves sorrow's a girl inside my cake i live in a city sorrow built it's in my honey it's in my milk dont leave my hyper heart alone on the water cover me in rag and bone sympathy cause i dont wanna get over you i dont wanna get over you dont leave my hyper heart alone on the water cover me in rag and bone sympathy cause i dont wanna get over you i dont wanna get over you. DEEP BREATH. sorrow found me when i was young sorrow waited sorrow won sorrow they put me on the pill it's in my honey it's in my milk dont leave my hyper heart alone on the water cover me in rag and bone sympathy cause i dont w-

[juliens-bakery]

hey (with the intention of hurrying home to you, putting on a slow dumb show for you, and cracking you up)

[asoftepiloguemylove]

i wanna make you fall in love as hard as my poor parents teenage daughter / she'll be the best you ever had if you let her

Sylvia Plath from a letter to Ann Davdiow-Goodman written 1951; Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume I: 1940-1956 / Jeanette Winterson excerpt from Lighthousekeeping / Rosamund Hodge excerpt from Cruel Beauty / unknown / image: Angelica Alzona Intimacy (2012) words: The National Daughter of the Soho Riots (2005) / Tathève Simonyan A Prayer / @/FAUNTHEKiD (pinterest) / Victoria Chang Foghorn; Six poems / image: unknown words: Richard Siken excerpt from Crush / Hala Alyan I'm Not Speaking First

i. Sylvia Plath, letter to Ann Davdiow-Goodman

[ "I know I'll always think of you with something like hurt and nostalgia - and a great deal of love." ]

ii. Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping

[ "This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in." ]

iii. Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

[ "You fought and fought to keep all the cruelty locked up in your head, and for what? None of them ever loved you, because none of them ever knew you." ]

iv. unknown

[ "and you've cried once more because recognition feels like forgiveness, which is a burning furnace that can't stand on its own. love is a feast but you've learned to abstain. there is a sickness that follows the shame of giving with love only to be met with slaughter." ]

v. Angelica Alzona, Intimacy / The National, Daughter of the Soho Riots

[ Surrealist painting of a man and a woman kissing as their faces blend together. Red outlines of hands reach up around them. "BREAK MY ARMS / AROUND THE ONE I LOVE" ]

vi. Tatheve Simonyan, A Prayer

[ "Rage, that is love - rotten! / Rage, that is desire - rotten! / Rage! - like a prayer, unanswered, ricocheting from your ceiling and landing right onto your eyes, never quite reaching where it was meant to." ]

vii. FAUNTHEKiD

[ "being in close proximity to you / is being led to the slaughter / if that the lamb is aware is alive is accepting / if that the slaughter is love love love" ]

viii. Victoria Chang, Foghorn

[ "The great mystery / is whether I love you or / I just love mourning. / The absence of a laugh just / gone, and the air that fills it." ]

ix. unknown/Richard Siken, Crush

[ Silhouette of a boy looking downwards. Red streaks from the background spread outwards from the middle. "I'll be your / slaughterhouse, / your killing floor, / your morgue / and final resting" ]

x. Hala Alyan, I'm Not Speaking First

[ "Nothing's Freudian anymore. A cigar's a cigar. I want to love something / I want to love something without having to apologize for it. Please don't tell." ]

[thenationalsideblog]

TROUBLE WILL FIND ME (2013): penguin classics covers

[goldthorn-archive]

I Should Live In Salt by The National / gifs by @rcbertleckie