November 2010
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Patti Smith's "Redondo Beach" Is The Only Reggae...
J: Please don’t skank.
Me: WHAT did you call me?
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“Roger Powell recalls one long weekend “cranking out” Disco Jets as a...”
– from A Wizard, A True Star: Todd Rundgren in the Studio by Paul Myers
The first time I put on Disco Jets, J was asleep in the other room and I had to put a pillow over my mouth so I wouldn’t wake him with my pterodactyl laughter while I was listening to it. A healthy 50% of my appreciation...
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“The book you ordered, Wizard A True Story, has arrived.”
– My local bookstore, in an email notifying me that my copy of (what I hope is actually) A Wizard, A True Star: Todd Rundgren in the Studio has arrived. Either that or I am about to read the most awesome piece of non-fiction EVER. (Or a behind-the-scenes account of the 1989 Fred Savage/Jenny Lewis...
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“If Keith weren’t such a brilliant character, the reader might weary of his...”
– Liz Phair, reviewing Life by Keith Richards
Okay. Liz Phair is cool. I like Liz Phair. I like that she wrote a book review for the New York Times. But that rattling sound you heard on the A train this morning? That was my eyebrows hitting the roof at the thought of Liz Phair writing...
WatchApollo Run - Stars - OFFICIAL VIDEO (by Alex Fischer)
What amazing and beautiful things come out of my brother and his friends. (Scavenger hunt: be on the lookout for my rooftop and my Scrabble board.)
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AGAINST!
Me_on_IM: have you been keeping up with the student protests in london btw? J_on_IM: Yeah ~ they got on the Tory HQ roof ealier today Me_on_IM: never underestimate the willingness of students to skip school to protest something J_on_IM: Aye - more power to ‘em Me_on_IM: they’re the ones with time to protest, and so they should Me_on_IM: i wish they’d protest for the rest of us...
“From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular...”
– Carl Sagan (via Northcoast Zeitgeist)
This is also a good time to revisit the beautiful short film my friend Penny made for her husband for their wedding day.
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Record Haul No. 6
Vanguard Stereolab Demonstration Disc - Dvorak’s New World Symphony Todd Rundgren (*cough*) - Nearly Human Todd Rundgren (*shuffle*) - A Cappella Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
“How much for this one?”
“Call it ten even.”
“Is it a good copy?”
“It has the lyric sheet.”
“Why not.”
“You know what’s...
“When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she...”
– Generation Why? by Zadie Smith | The New York Review of Books
The ever-eloquent and insightful Zadie Smith continues to push all of my jealousy buttons at once with a great essay on Facebook/online personas.
In response to the above, however, I would contend that those who view a person solely...
“I always hate that moment in documentaries about social movements where somebody...”
– Part 1: 1990: “Once upon a time, I could love you” | Music | Whatever Happened To Alternative Nation? | The A.V. Club
I like this point. When we were growing up, the sixties were always portrayed by the Boomer-controlled media with an overwhelming taint of nostalgia. It reeked of “it was...
“Along similar lines, both Zen Buddhists and Stoics think it important for us to...”
– William B. Irvine, from Twenty-First Century Stoic — From Zen to Zeno: How I Became a Stoic - Boing Boing
“I love the world
the summer afternoon,
the sidewalk after the rain
I love the...”
– Jonathan Richman
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