Also, the bus that took me to work today smelled overwhelmingly, immersingly, of human piss ( Read more... )

Everybody:

Please.

Stop using the following words in your conversation and your correspondence:

"Kind of."

"Somewhat."

"Sort of."

Here is the example that set me off, from an otherwise fascinating article in Wired"We're still in the infancy of the internet," Fallows said. "People are still kind of so pleased that they can go there, ask for ( Read more... )

Since I've gotten a couple of questions ( Read more... )

So the gun I thought was pressed firmly against my temple turned out to be a starter's pistol.

I received a quite last-minute invitation to join an Artist's Way group yesterday; which group is lead by none other than my friend gl. So you KNOW I had to do it. First meeting last night. This was just what I needed. Thanks, Great Creator ( Read more... )

Greil Marcus, in an interview on Powells.com"I watch movies, I listen to political speeches, I read the newspaper, I listen to records, I go to shows, I read books, and I'm always hoping that something will trouble me - it might be in a way that's truly pleasurable, it might be in a way that's scary, but it will move me an inch or a mile away from ( Read more... )

I did some serious trading at Everyday Music today, having brought in a pile of CDs that I'd been keeping around for the one or two songs that now reside in the belly of my iPod (to be burned onto aluminum anew in case of emergency: isn't this century beautiful?) and took away a much smaller, albeit long-desired, chunk 'o' tunage ( Read more... )

This morning on the iPod shuffle: the Beastie Boys, Bill Evans Trio, Deerhoof, Esther Phillips, DJ Q-Bert, Dolly Parton, Cybotron, Death from Above 1979, Willie Nelson, Thelonious Monk, Isaac Hayes, Juana Molina, the Smiths, Sonic Youth, and the Skatalites ( Read more... )

"To have your own radio show and play just what you like! To communicate with the audience just as if you were talking to a friend. What a simple idea! How obvious! So how come no one else is doing it?"
--Jarvis Cocker, on the late John Peel

"When in doubt, give"
--Bjork, "The Pleasure is All Mine"

I remember fondly the days when Saturday Night Live was literate enough that, in 1984, they aired sketches that you wouldn't have gotten unless you had actually READ Orwell's novel ( Read more... )

Were I a more emotionally literate and/or conceptually creative person I might come up with an alternate system of iPod music categorization that more fully reflected the uses to which I put it (the music, that is ( Read more... )