June 2012
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May 2012
6 posts
April 2012
5 posts
Rob Delaney: I love Levon Helm and America →
brilliant …
robdelaney:
Levon Helm, drummer and singer of The Band, passed away from throat cancer last week. The outpouring of love directed his way over the last week, from every corner of the world, was remarkable. His family did an interesting thing too; they told the world before he died that he was in his final…
GONE / NOT GONE: Levon Helm In Motion via Joe...
As I sit writing this, on the late evening of April 17, Levon Helm is not yet gone, but neither is he fully here among the living. As we understand from his family, he is hovering now at the doorway between this world and the next…taking the air of mortals in shallow and halting breaths, but with his eyes rolled back against the drawn curtain of his times. Already, for many of us sadly absorbing...
“Comparison is the thief of joy”
– Teddy Roosevelt (via @overtherhine)
March 2012
3 posts
February 2012
5 posts
Strangers Almanac
I was listening to a couple friends talking about records the other night before a show… early work vs. later work. what is good? what is bad? the following essay is a thought or two about an artist who’s name seems to come up a lot in these kind of conversations.
Strangers Almanac
In the fall of 2000 i was working at a small record store in salt lake city. I had taken the job at a...
“Go at it boldly, and you’ll find unexpected forces closing round you and...”
– Basil King
January 2012
1 post
“IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it...”
– RUDYARD KIPLING // IF
December 2011
3 posts
“It isn’t easy but it’s essential. It’s not easy because there’s a lot in the...”
– Charlie Kaufman on Screenwriting. (via bravo13)
November 2011
5 posts
October 2011
7 posts
“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
– Tom Waits
“Book store owners and record store owners used to be oracles, in that way; you’d...”
– Tom Waits: ‘I look like hell but I’m going to see where it gets me’ (via wendypeppercorn)
tipping one for @slowtrain today. love those guys. happy for their new sea.
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September 2011
11 posts
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Watchi love this
ghostisborn:
stweedy:
Sammy just couldn’t contain himself and jumped on stage at Central Park last night to give the crowd a little taste of his masterful interpretive dance moves.
This is so hilariously wonderful I can’t contain my joy!!!
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i can't feel my broken heart →
@kittythefool cover. recorded 2009. i love this song.
“I prefer disorientation when it comes to music. I live to be deceived, and would...”
– Joe Henry (forward to the excellent album Prologue by the Milk Carton Kids
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“There exists in most men a poet who died young, whom the man survived”
– Saint-Bueve (via Brenda Ueland, via Mary Gauthier)
August 2011
1 post
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“I like people who glue macaroni on to a piece of cardboard and paint it gold....”
– Tom Waits (via minusmanhattan)
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
3 posts
