this is a thread to list or talk things you find excruciatingly perfect

1. judy garland's performance in "the wizard of oz"
2. marquee moon
3. discovery
4. http://www.chicagomag.com/images/2007/February%202007/marquee_joanofarc.jpg
5. pale fire
6. "the brute choir"
7. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/paintingflowers/images/paintings/456/annunciation_rossetti_456.jpg

i have said the words 'excruciatingly beautiful' w/r/t #4

nothin but pain

http://www.james-joyce-music.com/images/cover_finnegans_wake.jpg

http://thecia.com.au/reviews/h/images/holy-mountain-la-montana-sagrada-poster-0.jpg

http://www.last.fm/music/Otis+Redding/_/I've+got+Dreams+to+Remember

11. http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/images/bowles/sky-jacket.jpg
12.http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BRW4gNHvrkk/Rww_WlCp6yI/AAAAAAAADGk/Cx4w_BJxgXY/s400/PICTURE+Diary+of+a+Country+Priest+8.jpg

http://www.blue-eyes.com/magento/media/catalog/product/cache/2/image/5e06319eda06f020e43594a9c230972d/o/n/only_the_lonely.jpg

http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/jesusson2.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Whitman,_Walt_(1819-1892)_-_1855_-_Da_front._di_Foglie_d%27Erba.gif

How Much Happens in a Day

In the course of a day we shall meet one another.

But, in one day, things spring to life -
they sell grapes in the street,
tomatoes change their skin,
the young girl you wanted
never came back to the office.

They changed the postman suddenly.
The letters now are not the same.
A few golden leaves and it's different;
this tree is now well off.

Who would have said that the earth
with its ancient skin would change so much?
It has more volcanoes than yesterday,
the sky has brand-new clouds,
the rivers are flowing differently.
Besides, so much has come into being!
I have inaugurated hundreds
of highways and buildings,
delicate, clean bridges
like ships or violins.

And so, when I greet you
and kiss your flowering mouth,
our kisses are other kisses,
our mouths are other mouths.

Joy, my love, joy in all things,
in what falls and what flourishes.

Joy in today and yesterday,
the day before and tomorrow.

Joy in bread and stone,
joy in fire and rain.

In what changes, is born, grows,
consumes itself, and becomes a kiss again.

Joy in the air we have,
and in what we have of earth.

When our life dries up,
only the roots remain to us,
and the wind is cold like hate.

Then let us change our skin,
our nails, our blood, our gazing;
and you kiss me and I go out
to sell light on the roads.

Joy in the night and the day,
and the four stations of the soul.
- Pablo Neruda

hoos otm w/jesus' son

http://www.faber.co.uk/site-media/onix-images/thumbs/4963_jpg_280x450_q85.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRqI5R6L7ow

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/america.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftiIPJky_Vs

I enjoy Hoos' literary taste and Roxy OTM in regard to Pale Fire.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n54/n273658.jpg

http://abrooklynlife.com/photos/uncategorized/difara1.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mxXvPY0szE

http://www.bossa.net/image/N/Nara_Leao/Dez_Anos_Depois-thumb.jpg

http://www.sfmoma.org/images/artwork/medium/2007.5_01_ie01.jpg

haha in ten posts we turn to pizza, i love 1p3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-bSGuz1IJA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igWvNUl4S6M
(music not the video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYLatxs1RP8

The whole thing really but esp the ending and I.B. and ok yeah, just all of it really.

^^^^yes

http://www.nndb.com/people/665/000058491/kathleen-hanna.jpg

ya casablanca is such a pop culture cliche that i'm always blown away at how fuckin' awesome it is every time i see it. it's really got like EVERYTHING you could want in a movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKzO3DJk6gQ

me and enbb love the hell out of this iirc it kills me

the picture or the human? xxpost

x-post - Slocki - yes, exactly.

Well, it's a great pic but I meant Kathleen Hanna.

http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2009/01/06/ShoreSbillboard.jpg

http://www.chocablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/reesescups2.jpg

not joking

oh god what is it? what is it? what is it!

XPOST

when i get home i will post a pic from facebook when i got a shot of the sunrise out in west texas

roxy - it's a reese's peanut butter cup

LOL

http://engrishfunny.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/engrish-tortoises.jpg

i seriously find this amazing - like the greatest surrealist poem ever

Hmmmm interesting - I kept thinking that the thread was things that are excrutiatingly "beautiful" but now that I realize it's "perfect" I wonder if that would change any of my answers.

x-post - I can't actually even figure out what the 2nd half of the sentence that starts "The Museum" could possibly be meant to be.

i know, i love how it starts so sober and takes this abrupt left turn into complete dream logic

baby's hands, and 'stardust' sung by nat king cole.

and the last short sentence is the kicker, like how could you NOT pay attention to that xp

uncomfortable and tortoises

also, this:

You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front
door.

There is a mailbox here.

i'm such a negative nancy i can't think of a single thing that isn't a pizza

Pizza is pretty excrutiatingly perfect.

BTW - I thought this was things that were "excrutiatingly beautiful". I wonder how my answers would/will change now that I've reread the title.

great hair

wkiw

the billboard picture is Stephen Shore's US 97, South of Klamath Falls, Oregon July 21, 1973

this thread is less perfect and more let's advertise our often-middlebrow hipness all over again. perfection overrated anyway.

i love that billboard very much

that is certainly not thread's intention, but thank u for u opinion anyway gabbs

much appreciated, u insufferable prick

hey no one's perfect

it is a good thing that some things are

gabb just get it over with and post a picture of some capris

01 http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_i4SCkqE_8BU/SPIux4wcyyI/AAAAAAAAGF4/nc2FENJ5sqA/s200/kerrydegman+1.jpg
02 every vector space has a basis
03 the third man
04 "anorak christmas"

this thread is less perfect and more let's advertise our often-middlebrow hipness all over again. perfection overrated anyway.

― Endless Bourgie (gabbneb), Sunday, June 14, 2009 6:06 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol i was waiting for someone to break out the word middlebrow

lamp he is pretty beautiful

Cat on a keyboard in space is amazing as is James the gorilla and his Phil Spectorish hairdo.

everything is disappointing and shitty if yr used to highbrow isn't it

it's so sad

gabbneb is pretty perfect imo

baby goats
http://www.yopress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/goat.jpg

everything is disappointing and shitty if yr used to highbrow isn't it

― harbl, Sunday, 14 June 2009 13:13 (1 hour ago)

assuming arguendo your frame of reference, yes, if by 'everything' you mean 'middlebrow shit'

I also concur that astro synth cat is excruciatingly perfect. Love that little guy.

http://fixitordeal.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/pillars20of20creation.jpg

gabbneb is pretty perfect imo

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Sunday, June 14, 2009 3:18 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i agree... he's a perfect DICKHEAD.

i am trying to maintain a perfect record on this thread but i'm going to have to try harder than you

http://www.seriouseats.com/eating_out/images/200805001-rapanui-completoinnards.jpg

http://www.popular-nostalgia.com/wp-content/uploads/1025/tunnocks-tea-cakes.jpg

cant believe no ones said "well he certainly is excruciating" yet

can we just concentrate on perfect awesome & cool stuff and not ruin this thread by arguing with gabbneb

ok so pancakes

gabbneb is pretty perfect imo

true but thats why he cant post on this thread doesnt understand the sense of identification and distance, desire and loss brought on when non-gabbnebs confront something excruciatingly perfect & hes just like w/e

street hassle (song not lp)

this thread has forced me to consider what things i think are perfect that are not middlebrow

o whatever middlebrow is not a real thing.

this is a great thread + i was having a hard time thinking of anything, but the mention of casablanca made me think, "ingrid bergman's face was perfect" and then i felt like a creep.

xp yeah i know lol

i can't think of anything either

this sounds stupid but i think my favorite books/songs/aesthetic experiences are sort of messy and maybe i'm just interpreting the title too literally? pancakes otm, anyway.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3628/3289226149_9b6dee0114.jpg?v=0

http://i41.tinypic.com/23ljipy.jpg

http://www.paganmountaineering.com/photos/images/John%20Incredible%20hand%20crack_resize.jpg

flawless

http://www.phoenixboatworks.com/boats/boat_05/photos/fullsize_jpg/photo_01.jpg

not a great photo but john alden cutter

this sounds stupid but i think my favorite books/songs/aesthetic experiences are sort of messy and maybe i'm just interpreting the title too literally?

this is me too that's why all i have to say is pizza atm but i am enjoying everyone elses pictures :))))))))))))

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3043/2849004273_d437389480_o.png
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2420/2182323862_dff16f3336_o.png

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1109/889587310_a45c6890b5_o.png

this sounds stupid but i think my favorite books/songs/aesthetic experiences are sort of messy and maybe i'm just interpreting the title too literally?

most of mine are, too!

i've named only the things that give me pain in my stomach/heart over how perfect they seem to me

like apparently how yall feel about goats and hot dogs ﴾͡๏̯͡๏﴿

i feel that way about james the baby gorilla and splitter hand cracks

i used to have a goat, my ex boyfriend shot it in the head

his name was chaunty

now im depressed

this is a great thread + i was having a hard time thinking of anything, but the mention of casablanca made me think, "ingrid bergman's face was perfect" and then i felt like a creep.

― horseshoe, Sunday, June 14, 2009 2:44 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

It was pretty perfect tho tbh.

I also understand what you mean in re to the messy stuff but I don't think that means they can't still be excrutiatingly perfect.

I keep thinking of emotions and experiences now which don't really have nice little jpgs to go with them.

i bought 3 tomatoes this morning and i already ate 2 bc it hurt my <3 how perfect they were

I found the platonic ideal of a golden raisin in my trailmix yesterday, but I tossed it in my mouth with a handful of almonds & chocolate chunks because I knew no one would believe me anyways. digested by now, I'm sure.

http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/25680000/25686485.JPG

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/your-shot/wallpaper/2008/img/0808wallpaperys-3_1280.jpg