I’m Alice. at the moment, I like: British hymns, Gustav Mahler, uvular rhotics, JMW Turner, the International Phonetic Alphabet, coffee, the fourth movement of Brahms’s 2nd Symphony, Mark Doty, raw honey, found photographs, Charles Trenet, marabou storks, Frank O’Hara, Gilbert & Sullivan, genderfuck Cherubino, eating cereal, and Leonard Bernstein. last.fm || twitter || facebook || email || twitpic Tumblr (3.0; @parachuteshark)http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/279174143/tumblr_kui2nvIVhn1qzsw7v&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p><b>Mumford & Sons - “The Cave”</b></p>http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/279174143http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/279174143Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:14:19 -0500Laura: why do people like emily dickinson so much<br /> Laura: i mean yeah she wrote a lot of poems<br /> Laura: and was depressed and lived in a house<br /> Laura: alone<br /> Laura: forever<br /> Alice: doesn't that describe like every female writer ever<br /> Alice: Depressed and Living in a House<br /> Alice: The Emily Dickinson/Virginia Woolf/Sylvia Plath Story<br /> Laura: NO some of them must have lived in an apartmenthttp://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/279174163http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/279174163Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:14:00 -0500<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/arts/music/13baldwin.html?_r=1&src=twt&twt=nytimes">Serious Music? He Love It. No, Seriously.</a>: <p><a href="http://symphonyno2ineminor.tumblr.com/post/279066261/serious-music-he-love-it-no-seriously" target="_blank">symphonyno2ineminor</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Hey, speaking of Hector…</p> <p>Also, doesn’t he get sick of ppl being so <i>shocked</i> that he’s into “classical” music as much as he is all the time?</p> <p>*********************</p> <p><i>Mr. Baldwin, a Mahler devotee, explained that he had negotiated a guarantee in his contract that he could leave in time for a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 by the Staatskapelle Berlin, conducted by <a title="More articles about Daniel Barenboim." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/daniel_barenboim/index.html?inline=nyt-per" target="_blank">Daniel Barenboim</a>, at Carnegie Hall last May.</i></p> <p>That’s pretty hot.</p> </blockquote>http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/279100632http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/279100632Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:49:04 -0500loooove<img src="http://13.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuhuj5IozX1qzpm8lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://ataxiwardance.tumblr.com/post/279072509/via-melodia-praha-krasna-ted-krasna-vzdycky" target="_blank">ataxiwardance</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>(via <a href="http://melodia.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">melodia</a>)</p> <p>Praha. krásná teď. krásná vždycky.</p> </blockquote>http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/279099649http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/279099649Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:47:56 -0500<img src="http://20.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuh9lcqQ0a1qzsw4qo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://tweexcore.tumblr.com/post/278688631/nathaniel-hawthorne-1841" target="_blank">tweexcore</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1841</p> </blockquote> <p><big><big>LAURA GET OFF TUMBLR AND WRITE YOUR PAPER</big></big></p> <p>(okay actually sleeping now gn)</p>http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/278690595http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/278690595Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:48:00 -0500<img src="http://11.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuh3stdkCU1qzcigmo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://symphonyno2ineminor.tumblr.com/post/278570296/madame-gautreau-unfinished-1884-john-singer" target="_blank">symphonyno2ineminor</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><b>Madame Gautreau (unfinished), 1884</b></p> <p>John Singer Sargent</p> </blockquote>http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/278572272http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/278572272Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:43:20 -0500insta-reblogJSS 4evaunf unf unf<img src="http://2.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kug56cGwqW1qzp1zzo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://topherchris.com/post/278003079/willzone-good-god" target="_blank">topherchris</a>:<a href="http://willzone.tumblr.com/post/277978209/good-god" target="_blank">willzone</a>:</p> <blockquote> <blockquote> <p>good god!</p> </blockquote> </blockquote>http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/278487089http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/278487089Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:30:26 -0500“Everyone has a great, horrible opera inside him.”<br/><br/> - <em>Sarah Ruhl</em>http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/278125608http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/278125608Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:59:51 -0500<img src="http://16.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuglhqIJez1qzsw7vo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(via <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/browncardigan" target="_blank">browncardigan</a>)</p> <p>I want this. The light, the color, the bodies, the emptiness, the floor. I want this.</p>http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/278060957http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/278060957Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:05:50 -0500<img src="http://18.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kugl47Z12F1qzsw7vo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/278051520http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/278051520Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:57:43 -0500http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/278049787http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/278049787Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:56:22 -0500<img src="http://14.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kugk9pnQy01qzsw7vo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Coney Island, 1903.</p>http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/278031411http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/278031411Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:39:24 -0500infant incubators!with real living infants!<img src="http://13.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kugk89EgWO1qzsw7vo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>James Peters, Quebec 1885</p>http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/278030372http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/278030372Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:38:31 -05001885?really?<img src="http://3.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kugc1wTy5l1qz6f9yo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/277846255/agenda-2010" target="_blank">nevver</a>: <a href="http://www.joliat.net/agenda2010_noel.html" target="_blank">Agenda 2010</a></p>http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/277847749http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/277847749Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:43:39 -0500<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/277618614/tumblr_kug08vLTk41qzsw7v&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p><b>Aaron Copland: </b><i><b>Rodeo - </b></i><b>“Corral Nocturne” </b></p> <p>Aaron Copland, London Symphony Orchestra</p> <p>For a cold morning.</p>http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/277618614http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/277618614Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:26:00 -0500this was partially written by lenny you guys<p>Unless I have someone sleeping beside me or I am listening to Chopin, I am inconsolably afraid of the dark.</p>http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/277276449http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/277276449Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:37:00 -0500this has been true since I was maybe five years oldhttp://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/277184973http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/277184973Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:55:11 -0500<img src="http://17.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuf8rh2cYv1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/277161501/i-just-called-to-say" target="_blank">nevver</a>: <a href="http://lu-yi.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-day-so-far-in-no-particular-order.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SomeRequired+%28some+required%29&utm_content=Google+Reader" target="_blank">I just called to say</a></p> <p>mmf.</p>http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/277163522http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/277163522Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:35:11 -0500<img src="http://20.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuf8nsU0X51qzcigmo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://symphonyno2ineminor.tumblr.com/post/277158913/i-have-spent-the-last-half-hour-rewinding-the-last" target="_blank">symphonyno2ineminor</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>i have spent the last half hour rewinding the last movement of Brahms 2 just so I can listen to measures 109-114 over and over and over again.</p> </blockquote> <p>God. Yes.</p>http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/277160020http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/277160020Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:32:00 -0500so glad I could perform thiswant again again again<p>(via <a href="http://symphonyno2ineminor.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">symphonyno2ineminor</a>)</p>http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/277077793http://parachuteshark.tumblr.com/post/277077793Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:24:26 -0500hee hee hee