February 2012
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“… the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our...”
– Umberto Eco (via nevver)
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Terry Gilliam School of Film: 10 Lessons for...
nevver:
Growing up is for losers.
Film school is for fools.
Auteurism is out. Fil-teurism is in.
Put your ideas in a drawer. Take them out as needed.
All you’ve really got in life is story.
Command the audience with your lens.
Nothing can defeat a director who is one with his actors.
Surround yourself with improvisers.
Directing is not for the faint-of-heart. Or the sane.
Be an...
“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner...”
– Marcus Aurelius (via devilduck)
My Sunday:
Wake up; drink coffee; change into running clothes; run 4 miles; take off running clothes/shower; put on pajamas; knit swatches for class this week; put on coat/go to liquor store in pajamas for Guinness.
(Yes - I own pajamas. They cost $5 at Target.)
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No Motiv - Space Age Love Song
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Cheap Trick - If You Want My Love
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Watchtwentyfourbit:
Ryan Adams - “Round and Round” (Ratt Cover)
At this point, an official album of ’80s metal songs interpreted as heartfelt acoustic cuts by Ryan Adams doesn’t seem too far-fetched. Following up last year’s Iron Maiden cover — not to mention versions of a few alt-rock favorites from the era by Bob Mould and Galaxie 500 — Adams capped off his big 2011 return with an equally...
Reality Demands (1&2) (excerpt)
Where Hiroshima had been Hiroshima is again, producing many products for everyday use. This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile. The grass is green on Maciejowice’s fields, and it is studded with dew, as is normal with grass. Perhaps all fields are battlefields, those we remember and those that are forgotten: the birch forests...
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Who’s got two thumbs and is running in this year’s Chicago Marathon? This Guy!
“We can pick our teachers and we can pick our friends and we can pick the books...”
– Austin Kleon
January 2012
