“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
— Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Scott Troyan
Barking in the street to tell what I have hidden there
“Mofo” - U2 (2008)
Mother, you left and made me someone.
Now I’m still a child, but no one tells me no.
“Why hide behind irony? Why not just put yourself out there?”
The Believer interviews Tim and Eric.
Love is the end of happiness!
The end. Because one day all a guy’s got to do to be happy is to watch the Mets. The next day you gotta have Zena in the room watching the Mets with you. You don’t know why. They’re the same Mets, it’s the same room…but you gotta have Zena there.
Louie De Palma
(via Ken Levine)
“Oh and that smile on her lips
Because she knows that it kills me”
It is particularly shocking that people do what is called “stress tests” by taking the worst possible past deviation as an anchor event to project the worst possible future deviation, not thinking that they would have failed to account for such deviation had they used the same method on the day before that past anchor event.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
(via Paul Kedrosky)
Sit perfectly still. Only I may dance.
Still from the video for “Singing In My Sleep” by Semisonic.
“Heart of Glass” - Blondie
“Can’t Help Falling in Love” - Elvis Presley
“Star Me Kitten” - R.E.M.
“High and Dry” - Radiohead
“Reception” - Trip Shakespeare
The first two references are blatant; the others slightly more oblique and/or subtle.
“Murder In The City” - The Avett Brothers (2008)
I’d never seen the video for this song before. Just gorgeous.
(via kung fu grippe)
“She’s A Beauty” – The Tubes (1983)
