A Fierce And Unrelenting Joy

from The MET

Beautiful, sobbing, high-geared fucking and then to lie silently like deer tracks in freshly fallen snow beside the one you love. That’s all.

All of this combines to make it much more fun and entertaining and much less "I gotta get out of here before Mr. Dark drags me off to the soul-sucking carousel".

And this they apparently put on a bus? With a switch so you can get water and blood out of the same shower head? I need to know which member of the entourage has a plumbing certificate, because they should be working on that job full time.

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 03.05 | "New York"

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 03.05 | "New York"

She, she, she, it is she… It is often she. And in the old songs and in the long nights, she holds him in the softness of her arms, in her arms that are open, in her arms that are wide, that are open, that are always, that must always be open. And in the old ways and in the old laws, this was arranged. All this was arranged. And who arranged it? Did Amel? And that is what it means to be loved. It is Amel. It is always Amel. It is often she… Into the land where the dead are kept, where the dead are worshipped. And why the days without number? And what am I for? What is this for? And what should Amel do with it if not to answer? And why are they throwing stones? And why is she curled on the ground? And why is it wound… And in my eyes is desire, and why is it desire? And why does he tell her what God has said? And why Amel in their mouths? And why must my voice be smooth? And why must I sing so low? And why is she kept? Why must she be kept? And why in this place must she be kept? And what does it mean if you are not asked? And what does it mean if you are not answered? And what is it to see and to know, but to be told… You have not seen. You have not known. And why is her tongue cut out? And why is her death prolonged? And when will it stop? And who will stop it? And why must they, must we, must I, must he, must they, as the millennia, unfold? Why the girl curled? Why her eyes lowered? Why on the side of the road? Why limp in the straw? I am the girl! I am the god! I am the voice! I am the song! I am the night! And I can answer! I can arrange it! I can say rise, and I can say speak! And I am her! And I am she! And I, I, I, I am the answer!

and like, reduce some decisions

Surely one of the most spectacular hot air balloons ever launched, this remarkable rendering of St. Gallen (one of Switzerland’s most impressive baroque cathedrals) was built to mark the building’s two-hundredth anniversary. It was conceived by the artists Jan Kaeser and Martin Zimmermann and built by Kubicek Balloons, who described it as the most complicated design they’d ever undertaken. The flying cathedral is 31 metres high and 26 metres long, and was flown throughout Switzerland in 2002 as part of the anniversary celebrations—what a sight that must have been!