God forbid we should wake up one day and know exactly what we’re doing.
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The Kids Are All Right
The Kids Are All Right. It’s… alright. Not particularly funny nor dramatic. Breezy and halting in turns. Mostly a little awkward.
The better part of my work on media is actually somewhat like a safe-cracker’s. I don’t know what’s inside; maybe it’s nothing. I just sit down and start to work. I grope, I listen, I test, I accept and discard; I try out different sequences — until the tumblers fall and the doors spring open.
The concert hall is one of the few places where we become unreachable, where we can switch off our lifelines and surrender to a form that will not let us go for an hour or more.
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Chris Rock: Job vs. Career. (via)
“Damn, I gotta come in early tomorrow and work on my project!” There ain’t enough time when you got a career. When you got a job, there’s too much time. You’re looking at your watch, like “Ah, shit. It’s 9:08.”
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
It’s hard to beat the entertainment value of people who deliberately misunderstand the world, people dying to be insulted, running around looking for a bullet to get in front of.
George Saunders: “Home” – The New Yorker
Find some way to bring me back.
There and Back Again: The Soul of the Commuter – The New Yorker
Last year, Midas, the muffler company, in honor of its fiftieth anniversary, gave an award for America’s longest commute to an engineer at Cisco Systems, in California, who travels three hundred and seventy-two miles—seven hours—a day, from the Sierra foothills to San Jose and back. “It’s actually exhilarating,” the man said of his morning drive.
There and Back Again: The Soul of the Commuter – The New Yorker
Most things are hideous at birth.
@nikastates. I don’t personally know the person that said this, but it got the @millsbaker/Mills retweet endorsement and it strikes me as very wise.
Most things are hideous at birth.
@nikastates. I don’t know who this is, but it got the @millsbaker/Mills retweet endorsement and it strikes me as very wise.
Most things are hideous at birth.
@nikastates. I don’t know who this is, but it got the @millsbaker/Mills retweet endorsement and it strikes me as very wise.
Art elevates and refines and transforms experience. And sometimes it just fucks with you for the fun of it.
Fish-eye Picasso, 1963 by David Douglas Duncan. One of many of his awesome photos of Picasso in his collection at the Ransom Center. I learned about his work when I was looking at art in Tokyo a couple weeks ago.
You can tell if it’s your own plan by how lost you feel. People who do their own plans feel lost most of the time. People who do other peoples’ plans feel on track most of the time.
Picasso’s Upholstery. Design by Picasso, embroidered by Alice Toklas. (via via)
I was on the streets for more than half of my life from the time I was thirteen years old. People sometimes say that now I’m so far away from that life–now that I’ve got businesses and Grammys and magazine covers–that I have no right to rap about it. But how distant is the story of your own life ever going to be?
Last Minutes with ODEN. Y’know, just in case you need your heart broken this morning. A longtime friend sent me this during the workday Friday and I ended up a bit of a mess at my desk.
(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
We erected one of the great cultural constructions of our times, the weekend, to make fun more culturally and institutionally available.
Pitchfork: Columns: Why We Fight #15
Making pop music– more than almost any other art– sits right at the intersection between being yourself and finding something better than yourself to be. This, in the end, is what we’re looking for: Someone who can devise some fantastically compelling version of herself to act out, while still seeming as if she’s… being herself. Musicians are expected to write a great part and convincingly act the role at the same time. And even after that, we’re not really judging them on how compelling the identity they’re offering us is– we judge them based on which types of identities we personally need or aspire to at the moment. There is no identity politics quite as nuanced or complicated as people arguing about music.
Nitsuh Abebe kills it every time.
Mark Larson 