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The Best Opening Tracks Ever? : NPR
The Journeymen – Stackolee. Great song, I love their version.
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I actually dance pretty awkwardly so I would love to be in a sexy dance band that made other people dance in sexy ways – that would be awesome.
Familiar music is a convenient crutch, but, in the end, it covers emotions in a plastic sheen. Unfamiliar music gives the sense that something new is happening before our eyes and ears.
Law school was a word I kept lodged at the back of my mouth, like a cyanide tablet, just in case.
Jonathan Rosen, Eve’s Apple. (via Fresher Hells)
The Bechdel Test » Sociological Images. The criteria:
1. It has to have at least two women in it
2. Who talk to each other
3. About something besides a man
See also the Bechdel Test Movie List and the origin of the rule.
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The better the singer’s voice the harder it is to believe what they are singing.
David Byrne (via ). I heartily disagree, although it is good food for thought and I don’t necessarily think the opposite is more accurate. What’s more interesting is how/why these kinds of aesthetic details become/remain valuable to us.
corolla talk: Bill Hicks’ Principles of Comedy
1. If you can be yourself on stage nobody else can be you and you have the law of supply and demand covered.
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Larry Bird: Greatest Passer of All Time. And part two. (via) A lot of these passes don’t seem strictly necessary to me, but 1) I’m not Larry Bird and 2) if you can, why not?
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Own goal: How homeless soccer explains the world – By Wells Tower (Harper’s Magazine)
I’m a typical American. Half of me is dying to give myself away, and the other half is continually rebelling.
David Foster Wallace in the 1996 profile in Details magazine.
For Movie Watching, Pairing a DVD and a Drink Takes Care – NYTimes.com
I’ve been matching my drinks to my movies for at least 15 years. I’ve done it with my wife, in groups, or (and I’m not ashamed to say this) alone. It adds a new dimension — Alc-O-Vision? — to the plot, the photography and, especially, the sense of immersion if the film takes place in the same country from which the drink in my hand originated.
Yes and yes. The article also includes a shout-out to Out of the Past, which I rewatched the other night, and which might be my favorite movie of all time. OF ALL TIME!
For Movie Watching, Pairing a DVD and a Drink Takes Care – NYTimes.com
Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing.
Alex Webb, people playing volleyball using the border fence between Arizona and Mexico as the net, 1979
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How do you talk yourself into something? | Psychology Today
It seems that when we talk to ourselves or others forcefully about the future, we create an expectation that we now feel that we have to live up to. If we fail to live up to our expectations, then we will feel guilty. So, the forceful “I will” statement motivates use out of guilt. When we ask ourselves a question about the future, “Will I,” then the activity itself becomes the focus. As we commit to this future activity, it becomes intrinsically interesting, and so we are more likely to want to do it.
Mark Larson 