Mr. President

"Everything that you remember, you remember because it something that broke the pattern of your usual..."

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:11:23 -0400

“Everything that you remember, you remember because it something that broke the pattern of your usual life. You don’t tell about some boring day where everything went exactly as expected. So already, any story you would choose to tell is necessarily fueled and probably has a game involved, because your telling it cause’ it’s funny.”

- Ian Roberts on Monologists from ASSSSCAT Commentary

"I don’t know why, but I love the feeling of a baguette in my hands."

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:32:34 -0400

“I don’t know why, but I love the feeling of a baguette in my hands.”

- Girl at ‘Bread Alone’ in Union Square New York

No Regrets (MP3 link) by Billie Holiday on ARC-VO3276...

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:36:00 -0400

No Regrets (MP3 link) by Billie Holiday on ARC-VO3276 (1936)

This is one of those recordings that once it starts in, you know it’s going to be one of your favorites. Billie Holiday’s exasperated “No Regrets…” with accompanying clarinet is a lovely upbeat start to jaunty little tune that until the other day I had never heard before.

Scandal Time: Spitzer Linked to Prostitution Ring (NY Times)

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:00:00 -0400

Scandal Time: Spitzer Linked to Prostitution Ring (NY Times):

In what may be considered the biggest scandal to hit New York politics, Govenor Eliot Spitzer has “informed his most senior administration officials that he had been involved in a prostitution ring…”

This from the first-term Democrat who promised ethics reform. Some ethics.

Ld Graf

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:23:20 -0400

Ld Graf

"Fall, then figure out what to do on the way down."

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:00:53 -0400

“Fall, then figure out what to do on the way down.”

- Del Close

“I had friends on that deathstar.” (via danhacker)

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:58:00 -0400

“I had friends on that deathstar.” (via danhacker)

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artists once we grow up."

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:49:00 -0400

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artists once we grow up.”

- Pablo Picasso

Another LD Show Down

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:41:00 -0400

Last night my improv group, LD & The Scientist, had another show after a 2 month hiatus of not performing. As always, these hiatus’ fill me with uncertainty of how we will perform, especially as we’ve had trouble scheduling practice recently. And let’s face it, an improv group that doesn’t practice is going to have issues down the road.

Luckily for us, last night was not the night for problems. We had a really solid show. Our suggestion was “potent” and we attacked the suggestion with ferocious attention to grounding scenes. Our scenes contained a couple who romanced through spicy chili, A researcher and intern handling dangerous material with spatulas, inducing pregnancy through pheromones, and a scene about the illicit chemical warfare of spanish fly in high-school.

Unfortunately, because of an electrical glitch a huge purple light came on 8 minutes into our show. Being caught in the moment, enjoying ourselves way too much, and not knowing how long we had been on stage, we assumed this was out wrap it up light. We wrapped it up in just over 9 minutes.

Later, after the show, we realized that in mistakenly thinking faulty wiring was a message from above end our show, we had inadvertently made it “potent.”

Damn we’re good.

Fujiya & Miyagi - Ankle Injuries (via tuneage)I heard these...

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:46:45 -0500

Fujiya & Miyagi - Ankle Injuries (via tuneage)

I heard these guys a long time ago when I saw their incredible video. I like the music more with the incredible video.

Should be having drinks with friends am instead playing with Tumblr. Why did I have to find it...

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:22:19 -0500

Should be having drinks with friends am instead playing with Tumblr. Why did I have to find it today?

Uggg Tumblr… Why You Hurt Me So?

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:14:08 -0500

Well it’s now 8:12 and I was supposed to meet friends for drinks, but I kept on noodling and it kept getting later. Now it’s 8:13 and I haven’t had any drinks and I’m tired and cranky.

What was I thinking?

In other news, I pimped out my theme that I will shortly discard.

Wonderful — Well done indeed.

"And, sorry, all those romantic notions you have of absinthe spoons, manic episodes and Kerouac-like..."

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:17:18 -0500

“And, sorry, all those romantic notions you have of absinthe spoons, manic episodes and Kerouac-like rambling on a long roll of butcher paper really aren’t operative. Creative work is mostly showing up every day and enduring a million tiny failures as you feel your way to something a bit new.”

- Chuck Close (via insuchaworld)

"Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?"

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:14:25 -0500

“Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?”

- MC Escher

"Bombing for Peace is Like Fucking for Virginity."

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:09:00 -0500

“Bombing for Peace is Like Fucking for Virginity.”

- Vietnam War Protest Slogan

"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture"

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:32:49 -0500

“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture”

- Frank Zappa

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:53:59 -0500

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”

- Japanese proverb (via butterflyeffect)

Hot Lips by Django Reinhardt Et Le Quintette Du Hot Club De...

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:52:52 -0500

Hot Lips by Django Reinhardt Et Le Quintette Du Hot Club De France

This original recording from 1937 (OSW-357-1 SWING-166) is gorgeous. Classic Django and classically out of copyright.

Stumbld on this while wasting time. I really like...

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:40:43 -0500

Stumbld on this while wasting time. I really like it.

butterflyeffect:

Gotye - Heart’s A Mess

Pronounced like the fashion designer Gaultier, without the ‘L’.

I’ve been listening to this song more than any other this week. I find this guy quite intriguing. He’s an Australian one-man outfit and I don’t own his album, but from what I have heard, he crosses a few genres. No two tracks I’ve heard sound remotely the same.

I’ve no idea why he calls himself Gotye. Probably because his real name is Wally.

This one has a Portishead-ish sound…

Colbert Report Pre-Show Q&A

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:21:00 -0500

Woman: So… are you fucking Matt Damon too?
Colbert: No… why? Does his dick taste like me?