February 2012
249 posts
“I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting...”
– Patti Smith, Just Kids (via best-ghost)
“When I was a little kid, I always knew that I had some special kind of thing...”
– (via ferociafatale)
“Mama filled me with fantasy… My bears danced at midnight, even my toybox had a...”
– Patti Smith (via piecesofreiss)
“from a chaos
raging sweet
from the deep
and dismal street
toward another...”
– Patti Smith (excerpt from About A Boy, written for Kurt Cobain) (via auntiewarhol)
Voted most likely to start a riot.: r.e. the... →
awakenedfromthedreamoflife:
(as i understand, it is rather possible i’m wrong) the term hard-femme was coined by queer girls who were tired of the hard/femme split. as a queer girl, you were considered the hard/boyish one, or the soft/femme/girly one. and just like the virgin/whore split, everyone got sick of it.
so…
“I got my tray and slipped my coins but the window wouldn’t open. I tried again...”
– Patti Smith · Just Kids (2010) — #731 (via somethingggreat)
little red lighter: Thurston Moore interviews... →
swayaustin:
grabbing ankles
[from “Patti Smith,” by Thurston Moore, Bomb, Winter 1996]
Patti Smith was, and is, pure experience… Her reign in the ’70s as a street-hot rock & roll messiah seemed to exist from a void. No past, no future — “the future is here,” she’d sing. I’d hear tales of romance, the girl…
“You’re a classy intelect, but you are ghetto.”
– Patti Smith (via famousquotez)
“We looked at books on Dada and Surrealism and ended the night immersed in the...”
– from Just Kids by Patti Smith (via runningoverthemoon)
Watchstevensebring:
Milk Gallery looks back at “Illumination: Who Are Poets”
“I craved honesty, yet found dishonesty in myself. Why commit to art? For...”
– Patti Smith Just Kids (via hopeless-cynic)
