May 2012
11 posts
“You get work however you get work, but people keep working because they are easy...”
– Neil Gaiman (via austinkleon)
“When people realize they’re being listened to, they tell you things.”
– Richard Ford, whose dyslexia forces him to listen more closely when people are talking (via austinkleon)
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Floating Melodies
Little snippet of the day.
...
April 2012
6 posts
“Just keep playing, no matter how weird it gets.”
– Bob Dylan to Levon Helm and The Band before their first concert together (via austinkleon)
“So it seems time to pronounce a rule about American popular culture: the Golden...”
– What “Mad Men” Shows About American Pop Culture | The New Yorker (via kateoplis)
March 2012
19 posts
Passed my barista test this morning.
Apparently I’m the fastest person ever to go through the espresso training process at Joe.
I work here, at the Upper West location.
Happy and grateful for new skills to develop.
Here’s a little sound bit I made a few weeks...
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WatchMy Brightest Diamond - I have never loved someone
Beautiful lullaby
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WatchThe Walkmen - On the Water
from La Blogotheque
I appreciate the positive response from my...
It’s been a little over a year since...
Musician's logic
Just as people don’t like those who talk too much, they don’t like those who play too much.
“You turn off your inner critic. You do not listen to your inner police force....”
– Neil Gaiman on how to get past writer’s block. (via yearoftheedit)
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Here’s a little sneak peek of a project I’ve been...
Yelping With Cormac McCarthy: Chipotle Mexican...
yelpingwithcormac:
SOMA - San Francisco, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Three stars.
See that false burrito. See it swaddled in tinfoil on the desk in the bowels of that great tower, a bundle of meat and sauce in a place long ago ceded to silicone and copper. The stooped man eating that peasant food as if in consuming it he can escape to a farmfield in a verdant valley and...
February 2012
18 posts
“Your ears will always lead you right, but you must know why.”
–
Anton Webern
(via leadingtone)
The Inner Ring
themadeshop:
hitrecordjoe:
A commencement speech given by C. S. Lewis edited by hitRECordJoe original version here
The Inner Ring By C. S. Lewis
When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude, however unlikely the conclusion seems, that you have a taste for middle-aged moralising. I shall do my best to gratify it. And of course everyone knows what a...
“The heart of a melody can never be put down on paper.”
–
Pablo Casals
(via leadingtone)
“For me it is here that music lives: music that is free, anonymous, improvised...”
–
Olivier Messiaen (via leadingtone)
“Limitations are really good for you. They are a stimulant. If you were told to...”
– David Hockney, A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney (via)
“If that condition of mind and soul which we call inspiration lasted long without...”
–
Tchaikovsky (via leadingtone)