June 2013
34 posts
Jesse Thorn interviewed on on Recommended If You Like →
boingboing.net
To hear Jesse tell it, it was the simple fact of not having a choice at all that made that choice so simple. When no one wants you for anything else, what’s the harm in continuing to do what you want to do?
Had the pleasure of engineering this recording. Listen to this if you’re interested in the realities of trying to make money off your dream. If Make Your Thing was about talking the talk, then this interview is about walking the walk.
“Improvisers are guys who didn’t get enough sex earlier in life. So when they’re on Ecstasy, they become very sexual — a gross pile of flannel and cargo shorts.”
—Curtis Gwinn, producer for The Walking Dead, in a piece about the early days of the UCB Theater.
This Is Just To Say
I have peeked at
the phone records
that were on
your server in Utah
and which
you were probably
denying
the existence of
Forgive me
they were so salacious
so secret
and so bold
“…just about anyone lucky enough ever to have studied higher math understands what a pity it is that most students never pursue the subject past its introductory levels and therefore know only the dry and brutal problem-solving of Calc I or Intro Stats (which is roughly analogous to halting one’s study of poetry at the level of grammar and syntax).”
—David Foster Wallace in the essay “Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama”
“My process is thinking…thinking…and thinking. If you have a better way, please let me know.”
—Hayao Miyazaki (via merlin)
May 2013
82 posts
“I was in a beautiful airport…early one Sunday morning. The light was beautiful – everything was beautiful, except they were playing awful music. And I thought, “There’s something completely wrong that people don’t think about the music that goes into situations like this.” You know, they spend hundreds of millions of pounds on the architecture, on everything except the music!”
—Brian Eno on the events that led to him recording his first true ambient album, Ambient 1: Music for Airports.
The whole three-minute video that this comes from is great – especially the part where he talks about how airports (understandably) don’t like to talk about the whole you-might-die-while-using-our-service thing.
The whole three-minute video that this comes from is great – especially the part where he talks about how airports (understandably) don’t like to talk about the whole you-might-die-while-using-our-service thing.
Imagine it. You’re getting ready to go to sleep after a long day. You close your eyes, but in the corner, in a tiny white font
You cannot rest when enemies are nearby
Last Nite [Minor Key Version]
The Strokes
Last Nite by The Strokes. Major to minor. Love the guitar solo in this version.
Thrift Shop ft. DoodleBob
Macklemore X DoodleBob
Someone please take this further.
