April 2009
In My Life - Nina Simone
(Beatles cover)
Angeles - Elliott Smith (live at KCRW)
i could...
The David Foster Wallace Audio Project →
gregbrown:
zucherman:
themadeshop:
Holy. Shit. (for Zachary, Nathan, Kelly, Ronen, and maybe Jared [if he can get past that McCain piece I’m not positive he actually read])
Holy. Shit. Indeed. My morning’s productivity has been shot, and happiness is a warm gun.
This will keep me busy for quite some time.
Wow! Jackpot.
“Am I here, or am I there? Or is the true self neither this nor that but...”
– Virginia Woolf (via psychotherapy)
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
I think I’m going to start up a website called “I Love Obama, but…”
Seriously, someone should do that - how many times do you hear that in political talk on the Left these days; it’s like a required disclaimer to any attack or disagreement on his performance or policies. Can’t we just take for granted that you’re happy to have Obama in the White House -...
“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Wise Up - Aimee Mann
In Which Nothing Says Goodbye Like A Bullet →
magicmolly:
It’s Altman week on This Recording! Get pumped. Here is my short piece on The Long Goodbye. Someone left an insightful comment.
A great essay on one of my favorite movies in the world. In fact, this whole Altman week at TR is just a wonderful thing!
elvira:
boggle:
themadeshop:
Bookworm...
“I didn’t ask for a shrink - that must’ve been somebody else. Also, that pudding...”
– Punch-Drunk Love (via saramcpherson)
“Kind Of A Girl” - Tinted Windows
...
“It’s interesting, if you really think about it, how clumsy and laborious...”
– David Foster Wallace, “Good Old Neon”
I feel like this, often.
“My whole life I’ve been a fraud. I’m not exaggerating. Pretty much all I’ve ever done all the time is try to create a certain impression of me in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired…. But then, once I got the best grade or made All City or got Angela Mead to let me put my hand on her breast, I wouldn’t feel much of anything except maybe fear that I...
“Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one...”
– Salman Rushdie
Radiolab: DIY Universe →
Can you make your own universe? We usually think of the universe as “everything that exists,” so how could you make another one? Well, physicists have been speculating about the existence of multiple universes for some time now. And for Robert, the obvious next question was: “Can we make one?” So he invited physicist Brian Greene to his kitchen to speculate about just that. And it turns out, it’s...
“Skull” - Sebadoh
thoughts on blog-loss (or: how to deal with a...
It was so, so silly to erase my entire music blog and then announce that I was shutting the whole thing down. What was I thinking? I should be required to think for at least 24 hours before making a decision like that. All that I can do the past few days is think of new posts to write, or new ways to start it up again, or some way to resurrect the current version of it without looking like an...
marginalgloss:
The Zombies — Care of Cell 44
I...
Little Person - Jon Brion (lyrics by Charlie...
“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being...”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via thescrapbook)
