If it’s a good idea and it gets you excited, try it, and if it bursts into flames, that’s going to be exciting too. People always ask, “What is your greatest failure?” I always have the same answer – We’re working on it right now, it’s gonna be awesome!
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Thom and Jonny and I’m guessing Colin in the background. Looks like they’re on a spaceship.
Pachelbel Rant, about being bored out of your mind on cello + the chord progression showing up everywhere.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Radiohead: Harry Patch (In memory of)
When I first read this, I thought they meant Harry Partch, which would have been cool, too. Nice tune.
Can a coffee really have as many calories as a Big Mac?
The answer is “yes”, if you make it no longer “coffee” but rather some strange liquid dessert/hot smoothie beverage.
A graph showing various vacation allotments and an interesting discussion of which vacation model is best.
Out of the Past
“I don’t want to die.”
“Neither do I, baby, but if I have to, I’m gonna die last.”
Out of the Past is a wonderful, wonderful movie. Great shots, some really snappy dialogue, a perfect villain, a dame that can’t do right, a guy who tries to convince himself he can. The best I’ve seen in a while. Roger Ebert’s review
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It seems like the big distinction between good art and so-so art lies somewhere in the art’s heart’s purpose, the agenda of the consciousness behind the text. It’s got something to do with love. With having the discipline to talk out of the part of yourself that can love instead of the part that just wants to be loved.
David Foster Wallace, quoted in Greg Carlisle’s Liverpool Keynote Address on David Foster Wallace – Consider David Foster Wallace Conference, University of Liverpool, July 29-30, 2009
Fifty Books for Our Times | Newsweek.com
I like the eclecticism here. Nice to see quite a few I hadn’t heard of, and interesting justification for some old-school books. (via my old library colleague and cool guy @cswarren)
Vanity Fair Sheer Gown. Gelatin silver print by Mark Shaw in the Monroe Gallery.
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William Shatner reads Palin’s speech as poetry (via @davehyndman):
And getting up here I say it is the best road trip in America soaring through nature’s finest show. Denali, the great one, soaring under the midnight sun. And then the extremes. In the winter time it’s the frozen road that is competing with the view of ice fogged frigid beauty, the cold though, doesn’t it split the Cheechakos from the Sourdoughs?
And then in the summertime such extreme summertime about a hundred and fifty degrees hotter than just some months ago, than just some months from now, with fireweed blooming along the frost heaves and merciless rivers that are rushing and carving and reminding us that here, Mother Nature wins. It is as throughout all Alaska that big wild good life teeming along the road that is north to the future.
See also the poetry of Donald Rumsfeld and the Clinton/Lewinsky Poetry Under Oath.
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
All these different kinds of fantastic music you hear today – course it’s all guitars now – used to hear that way back in the old sanctified churches where the sisters used to shout till their petticoats fell down. There ain’t nothing new. Old soup used over.
The primary source is the book Louis Armstrong: A Self Portrait, but I first read it yesterday in the excellent-so-far How the Beatles Destroyed Rock n Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music.
Talking Head: Monday Night Brewery | Omnivore Atlanta
My enterprising friends at Monday Night Brewery (@mondaynight) got featured on Creative Loafing’s foodie blog. Good people and good brews deserve the attention. Can’t wait for the official launch.
Lunch Doodles: How To Draw Faces. The Kleon Media Empire expands! Blogs, books, videos, webinars. Waiting for the action figure.
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Please don’t repeat that tired old meme about how I shouldn’t believe everything I read on Wikipedia. It knows a damned sight more than I do.
Jay-Z vs the Game: Lessons for the American Primacy Debate
Foreign Policy magazine discusses hip-hop and realpolitik. (via noah brier)
I Wake Up Screaming
With a title like I Wake Up Screaming, it should have been so much better. I’ve noticed that a lot of these old soundtracks tend to loop and repeat and reprise the same melody over and over. In this case it’s “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”. But there were some nice shots:
I also have a new crush on Carole Landis.
David Foster Wallace, on success
Bookselling This Week: What has been the most satisfying part about all your success?
David Foster Wallace: What do you mean by success?
BTW: Being accepted by a major publisher, all the acclaim.
DFW: Well there’s no better feeling than working hard at something and having it come out good, even before you put the stamp on it. But with all the public stuff… it’s sort of how you like people to be nice to your child. There’s so much bullshit to trying to get accepted – reading a mean letter from someone you don’t even know, getting rejected. I think you need to invest way more into how it feels when you are in a room writing by yourself.
Mark Larson 