Until I have this again.Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Credit to Jeremy and Phoebe Zimmer
"The irony of commitment is that it's deeply liberating - in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life."
- Anne Morris, Starbucks customer
- Anne Morris, Starbucks customer
Shall I
Tell you something wonderfully moving? In adults, there is an ability to turn the brain up, to pay full attention, as we call it, so as to absorb information with more efficiency. In little kids, the brain is at this state of alertness all the time. Even when a kid is distracted, the are intensely distracted.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
You're My Best Friend Forever; This One I Saved
Danny--1. let's not give in to stupid structured "last" shit. i just remembered that a 4 nights ago ***** was all "this could be the last time we have granola in the dining hall" and i vommed all over myself 
At Last
"And if death should smell my breathing
As it pass beneath my window
Let it lead me trembling, trembling
I own every bell that tolls me"
As it pass beneath my window
Let it lead me trembling, trembling
I own every bell that tolls me"
Saturday, August 22, 2009
The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test
"In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a highly competitive world. Man has become so rational, so utilitarian, that the trickle becomes most pale and thin. It is efficient, for mere survival, but it screens out the most wondrous part of man's potential experience without his even knowing it. We're shut off from our own world."
My Favorite Song Today:
I had the pleasure of serving these guys coffee once in the office:
Jim James+Conor Oberst+M. Ward+Mike Mogis=Monsters of Folk.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
nicholas,
"your birthday comes to tell me this—each luckiest of lucky days
i’ve loved,shall love,do love you,was
and will be and my birthday is"
Monday, August 17, 2009
Talking and Drinking
"It’s a strange phenomenon, talking and drinking. You talk and talk and talk, and drink and drink and drink, and it all vanishes into air, into hot air, and memory retains only a flavor of the undercurrent that usually runs unnoticed beneath all social commerce, and is most present during these often confessional, feverish, impassioned, heartfelt, rambling, almost unconscious conversations."
Dedicated to Alex
Linnea Strid has an incredible ability to paint splashes and pools of water with extraordinary realism and believability.
Did You Know:
1. When we fall in love, the brain releases a chemical called phenylethylamine (PEA) which causes our palms to sweat, our hearts to race, and "butterflies" in our stomachs. It's possible to trigger someone else's brain to release PEA by looking at them a lot during a conversation, which in turn makes that person more likely to fall in love with you.
2. We only dream of what we know. Our dreams are frequently full of strangers who play out certain parts – did you know that your mind is not inventing those faces – they are real faces of real people that you have seen during your life but may not know or remember? We have all seen hundreds of thousands of faces through our lives, so we have an endless supply of characters for our brain to utilize during our dreams.
2. We only dream of what we know. Our dreams are frequently full of strangers who play out certain parts – did you know that your mind is not inventing those faces – they are real faces of real people that you have seen during your life but may not know or remember? We have all seen hundreds of thousands of faces through our lives, so we have an endless supply of characters for our brain to utilize during our dreams.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Best Albums of 2009 Thus Far
- Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective
- Dark Was The Night by Various Artists
- The Hazards of Love by The Decemberists
- Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear
- Wilco (The Album) by Wilco
- Catacombs by Cass McCombs
- Bitte Orca by Dirty Projectors
- Ambivalence Avenue by Bibio
- Manners by Passion Pit
- Reservoir by Fanfarlo
- Dark Night of the Soul by Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse
- The Crying Light by Antony & The Johnsons
- March of the Zapotec by Beirut
- Blood Bank EP by Bon Iver
Happy Belated Birthday Isabel!
Tied together with rope and twine Stuck together with paste and glue
Two old planks of knotty pine
A couple of nails that poke right through.
Two old planks of knotty pine
A couple of nails that poke right through.
Bukowski Beat
"there is always that space there
just before they get to us
that space
that fine relaxer
the breather
while say
flopping on a bed
thinking of nothing
or say
pouring a glass of water from the
spigot
while entranced by
nothing
that
gentle pure
space
it’s worth
centuries of
existence
say
just to scratch your neck
while looking out the window at
a bare branch
that space
there
before they get to us
ensures
that
when they do
they won’t
get it all
ever."
just before they get to us
that space
that fine relaxer
the breather
while say
flopping on a bed
thinking of nothing
or say
pouring a glass of water from the
spigot
while entranced by
nothing
that
gentle pure
space
it’s worth
centuries of
existence
say
just to scratch your neck
while looking out the window at
a bare branch
that space
there
before they get to us
ensures
that
when they do
they won’t
get it all
ever."
Monday, August 3, 2009
Friday, July 31, 2009
Picture of Success
"Most successful people begin with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so."
-David Brooks in an op-ed piece riffing against the premise of Outliers and talking about why control of attention is the ultimate individual power.
-David Brooks in an op-ed piece riffing against the premise of Outliers and talking about why control of attention is the ultimate individual power.
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