This was perhaps the first Beatles song about drugs. The Beatles were using amphetamines in order to survive their hectic schedule. Amphetamines act as dopamine transporter substrates to competitively inhibit dopamine uptake and increase dopamine efflux via a dopamine transporter. At the time, dopamine was considered the ‘reward chemical’ of the brain. Thus, the ‘do’ in Love Me Do, actually refers to dopamine, as in “Lads, I really love me dopamine. Cheers.
The overall effect recalled the Beach Boys or B-52’s — not quite as tuneful, but also not nostalgic the way tuneful indie-pop can be. Celebratory, absolutely. But of what privilege? Budget Rent a Car? Hammonasset State Park? Maybe just not working on a sunny day. Or maybe the privilege, and thrill, of holding apparent incommensurabilities in your mind-body continuum. When education does everything it oughta, it’s good for that stuff.
How ‘bout throwing me those matches?” he said. Ginnie handed him a box of matches from the table beside her. He lit his cigarette without straightening out its curvature, then replaced the used match in the box. Tilting his head back, he slowly released an enormous quantity of smoke from his mouth and drew it up through his nostrils. He continued to smoke in this “French-inhale” style. Very probably, it was not part of the sofa vaudeville of a showoff but, rather, the private, exposed achievement of a young man who, at one time or another, might have tried shaving himself left-handed.
— One of my favorite Salinger passages. From “Just Before the War With the Eskimos” in Nine Stories.
I would like to see a world where the government’s pedestrian and unromantic vision of a nation of “hard-working families” is replaced by a country filled with “good living families”, families whose members are enjoying themselves rather than over-working and over-spending as they chase the ever-elusive satisfaction promised by the commercial world.
The nerdiest sweater vest in the world
In August 1937, he placed third in a clam-eating tournament on Block Island by eating 84 cherrystone clams.
Researchers and algorithm workers at Netflix have found that they are unable to predict whether or not a particular viewer will like Napoleon Dynamite based on their ratings of previously viewed films. This makes it one of only a select few movies that, along with Lost in Translation and I Heart Huckabees, pose this problem dubbed “The Napoleon Dynamite Problem”.
Metabolist works often look like self-indulgent fantasies, using engineering for its own sake. Consequently, many of them could not be built.
Maybe you’ve already had breakfast and she’s slipped her sweater on to cook a nice bare-assed breakfast for you, padding in sweet flesh around the kitchen, and you both discussed in length the poetry of Rilke which she knew a great deal about, surprising you.
— Extract from Richard Brautigan’s ‘When Women..’ « Pirates and Fireflies
