November 2010
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Airport Sanity
Maintain airport sanity album playlist:
Girl Talk - All Day
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Sleigh Bells - Treats
Kanye - Twisted Fantasy
Donny Hathaway - Live
Brad Paisley - American Saturday Night
Ne-Yo - Libra Scale
Blackroc - Blackroc
Vince Gill - These Days compilation
Crash and the Boys - Live at The Rockit
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Creation, Curation and the Critic
I can’t tell if existential angst gets better or worse with age, but I bet it stops being cool pretty soon. I’ve always assumed this blog was a form of creative self-expression, but it’s morphed into a curated collection of amusements and interests more than any form of creation. Why? Because creating something worthwhile is fcking difficult and putting myself out there only adds...
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Everything
it’s not that I don’t want; its just that I don’t care.
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Charles Saatchi on Everything →
Q: Do you believe in the 10 commandments?
Saatchi: An overrated lifestyle guide, unsustainable and largely ineffective, only succeeding in making people confused and guilty. For example: You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his house, nor his servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.
This was always obviously a no-hoper of a Commandment....
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Bill Nye on The Best Idea We've Had So Far →
Absolute must-read for anyone with a brain.
The big unsatisfying thing for me is when you have a bumper sticker that says, “God said it, I believe it, and that settles it.” It doesn’t settle it for me. I was giving a talk in Texas a couple of years ago—this still circulates on the web—at McLennan University, which is a very interesting college near Waco and Crawford. I’d pointed out that it...
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major crush on Anna Kendrick. James Murphy too.
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Versatility is a curse
it hinders the singular pursuit.
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Getting old is pretty goddamn scary →
The most terrifying thing I have ever read. The idle tragedy of aging alone and impoverished:
I am an old man in his sixtieth year. I have entered that decade of life which destroys the last illusion and beyond which lies death, swift or lingering, actuarial or real. I am also poor, incontrovertibly, humiliatingly poor, for the first time in my life… I am divorced and living alone in an...
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