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“Hi %NAME%…” — I am not just an object, ESPN!

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:22:20 -0700

“Hi %NAME%…” — I am not just an object, ESPN!

"The world is like a ride at an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think that..."

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:57:53 -0800

“The world is like a ride at an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think that it’s real because that’s how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills, and it’s very brightly coloured, and it’s very loud and it’s fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question - is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us. They say ‘Hey! Don’t worry, don’t be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride.’ And we…kill those people. Ha ha ha. ‘Shut him up! We have a lot invested in this ride. SHUT HIM UP! Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and family. This just has to be real.’ It’s just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn’t matter because: it’s just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings, and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourselves off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here’s what you can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defence each year, and instead spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, for ever, in peace.”

- Bill Hicks (I just finished American: The Bill Hicks Story and I love this man)

"I was going to Catholic school and questioning God, but I believed in Led Zeppelin. I wasn’t..."

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:03:06 -0800

“I was going to Catholic school and questioning God, but I believed in Led Zeppelin. I wasn’t really buying into this Christianity thing, but I had faith in Led Zeppelin as a spiritual entity. They showed me that human beings could channel this music somehow and that it was coming from somewhere. It wasn’t coming from a songbook. It wasn’t coming from a producer. It wasn’t coming from an instructor. It was coming from four musicians taking music to places it hadn’t been before — it’s like it was coming from somewhere else.”

- Dave Grohl on Led Zeppelin

Finished reading Y: The Last Man this past weekend. I read a lot...

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:45:04 -0800

Finished reading Y: The Last Man this past weekend. I read a lot of debate over the ending, but I really liked it. It kind of reminded me of the Battlestar Galactica finale, which I also liked. Anyway, highly recommended (and you can usually find the books at Half Priced Books for like $4 each).

Rage. This is not a laughing matter.

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:29:39 -0800

Rage. This is not a laughing matter.

"Some time later, Kurt reached out to me. I missed the call, but my wife took the message:..."

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:00:05 -0700

“Some time later, Kurt reached out to me. I missed the call, but my wife took the message: “Kurt Cobain wants to go into the studio with you.” See, I’m 113 years old now; I was about 72 in the Nineties, so I was going to bed at, like, 10 p.m., and he was just getting going around 11. I did call him back a couple of times. The number was from the Four Seasons in L.A., and I would get these responses like, “Mr. Cobain has not left the room for three days” or “Mr. Cobain is under the bed.””

- Iggy Pop on Kurt Cobain

The Carnivale pitch document. This has a bunch of backstory to...

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:53:13 -0700

The Carnivale pitch document. This has a bunch of backstory to the show. Still in my opinion one of the best shows HBO has ever put out.

The Milky Way as seen from The Himalaya. Stunning. I must go to...

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:54:00 -0700

The Milky Way as seen from The Himalaya. Stunning. I must go to Nepal soon!

"Hydrogen is an odorless colorless gas which, given enough time, turns into people."

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:43:00 -0700

“Hydrogen is an odorless colorless gas which, given enough time, turns into people.”

- Edward R. Harrison, Cosmology: The Science of the Universe

"Little Wing” is painfully short and painfully beautiful. It’s like your grandfather..."

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:37:00 -0700

““Little Wing” is painfully short and painfully beautiful. It’s like your grandfather coming back from the dead and hanging out with you for a couple of minutes and then going away. It’s perfect, then it’s gone.”

- John Mayer on Jimi Hendrix

David Simon describes The Wire as a show about “the death...

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:35:49 -0700

David Simon describes The Wire as a show about “the death of the American empire.” When you realize that the show is about the way that the American Dream has ceased (or perhaps evolved), and the way that the country is unable to solve even simple social problems, it’s difficult to argue with him.

Pretty much the best inspiration for hat colorways ever.

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:30:40 -0700

Pretty much the best inspiration for hat colorways ever.

This is one of the all-time best SNL skits ever. God, this was a...

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:34:07 -0700

This is one of the all-time best SNL skits ever. God, this was a great era for that show.

Preview for the currently-airing NFL Films series A Football...

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:00:05 -0700

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Preview for the currently-airing NFL Films series A Football Life, about Bill Belichick. Looks pretty fantastic, and after reading this article, I really want to see it.

First ski descent down Denali’s south face. Awesome.

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:32:46 -0700

First ski descent down Denali’s south face. Awesome.

"I want to cure my aging, my friends’ and family’s aging, my investors’ aging, and..."

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 23:16:44 -0700

“I want to cure my aging, my friends’ and family’s aging, my investors’ aging, and I want to make a ton of money.”

- Bill Andrews

"I understand that some believe that we should return to the surface of the moon but I have to say..."

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:22:00 -0700

“I understand that some believe that we should return to the surface of the moon but I have to say this bluntly, we have been there before.”

- President Barack Obama, April 15th 2010

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Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:43:24 -0700

"I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit..."

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:03:38 -0700

“I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.”

- Warren Buffet

Summer Live Albums

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:14:03 -0700

While sitting on the porch drinking a beer in the sun is pretty damn fantastic all on its own, I like to throw on some live music (or concert videos) inside, and let it waft out. At the moment, I’ve been probably overplaying the hell out of these five.

My Morning Jacket’s Okonokos
The Allman Brothers’ Fillmore Concerts
Phish’s 12/30/10 MSG Show
Band of Gypsys
Wilco’s Ashes of American Flags

The Wilco album/DVD is honestly one of the best live music recordings ever. I can listen to it on repeat all day. It’s really tough to say any one of these is better than another, it’s just such an amazing set of artists.