January 2010
54 posts
“You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition. You do not need...”
– Abigail Adams in John Adams
“That’s pretty goddamn glib for a guy wearing a Tommy Bahama shirt.”
– Comment on this lovely Deadspin article, Oh, Go Fuck Yourself, Curt Schilling.
I HAD TO GOOGLE YOU.
(via lizistwentythree)
that’s okay, i had to google Reggie Jackson
allthelatestmoves:
Chicago - “If You Leave Me...
aggressive mediocrity
Want to go to Mexico. Tired of wearing slankets and carpenter boots around the house.
“Like its native jalapeno peppers and agave tequila, Mexico embodies a spicy, fiery passion for la vida. This same spirit overflows from the country’s vibrantly colourful art and music, and its complex culture, history and geography. Mexico’s charm is its mix of modern and traditional, the...
britticisms:
“Yellow Wings” by Keepaway
This...
forwhenifeellikesharing:
Marina & the...
You can’t make any money selling content.
How can you make a living selling content, meaning?
NBC doesn’t make money selling 30 Rock; it makes money from viewers of 30 rock tuning in, ratings going up and their ad space becoming more desirable.
Where has content gone in music? We can buy our favorites before we have time to develop our tastes.
when you have nothing, you have everything to give.
creating sans protection plans
An interviewer asked movie director, Hayao Miyazaki, “Is it true that your films are all made without a script?”
His answer:
That’s true. I don’t have the story finished and ready when we start work on a film. I usually don’t have the time. So the story develops when I start drawing storyboards. The production starts very soon thereafter, while the storyboards are...
moviescore:
librarysciences:
Henry Mancini -...
you see, everyone in my office is at the beach. Yep, it’s just little ole me and an IT guy in the office today. until 5! Will I be bored? people keep asking. so weird. who gets bored?! especially when you have the internet with you. how can you be bored with the whole damn world at your fingertips?! god i need coffee, coffee i didn’t have the chance to get this morning because the...
“Au fond de toute beauté git quelque chose d’inhumain. (Behind every beautiful...”
– Albert Camus (via birdsandashes)
be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid
When Saying Too Little Is Enough
locomotivehootenanny:
There is something to admire in people who don’t feel immediately compelled to explain their convictions and choices. Now, here is where I pause to say that I hesitate to go on, because in doing so, I’ll run counter to the statement I just made. But, everyone enjoys a little irony, and I’m hardly a person who represents the mentioned quality, anyway.
See, the thing is, I...
“There are those who maintain that you can’t demand anything of the reader. They...”
– Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners. Catholic Novelists and Their Readers, quoted by Ms. Odradek. As is often the case, O’Connor settles this discussion for me. (via mills)
“sharing the history of the character with the audience can be seen as spoonfeeding. sharing the emotion with the audience brings the history out” -my roommate’s second city almanac of improvisation
“think of improvisation as worshipful play. in scenes, try to think profoundly and it will come off as pretentious. profoundness will come out of natural exploration of...
First day of improv! semi-successful.
still wrecked with the nervies though.
who can measure the heat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled inside a woman’s body?
-V.Woolf
“What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via) (via raisedonsandwiches)
sha sha sha
tangled up in hair
the thing about long hair is your drains are always getting clogged. you’re always having to run down to walgreens to pick up some drain o or something. you’ll be scrutinizing yourself in the mirror one morning and realize there’s a blanket of toothpaste scum in your washbowl because the water never has a chance to be clean on account of all the hair tangled up in the drain.
...
Remember Harry Nilsson
My apologies to anyone who reads my page. I think it’s become a place of reminders.
Snowplay: Thomas Newman and London Symphony Orchestra
from Little Women
and Orchard House(main title)
stop this madness!
still wake up to the warmth of morning light
“I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If i’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where i’m going, i’m liable to say i’m going to the opera. It’s terrible. So when i told old Spencer I had to go to the gym to get my equipment and stuff, that was a sheer lie. i don’t even keep my...
I want you to know i'm on my knees in repentence,...
I’d like to understand your reasons for such unease It’s cold up here and my lungs are about to freeze. Yes my dear, I’m boring you with the weather again. It’s just this constant, nagging reminder of my chagrin. y’know, Heartache is just disappointment couched in romance. Disappointment, would you be so kind as to give me one last chance.
Biography of F. Scott Fitzergerald
“His [her] nature was divided. Partly he was an enthusiastic, romantic young man. Partly he was what he called himself “a spoiled priest”. This division shows itself in nearly every aspect of his life. The romantic young man was full of confidence about his own ability and the world’s friendliness; the spoiled priest distrusted both himself and the world. The romantic...
