Dinosaur plaque?

"Reflecting The Beatles’ taste for experimentation and the avant garde at this point in their..."

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:19:13 -0500

“Reflecting The Beatles’ taste for experimentation and the avant garde at this point in their careers, the orchestra players were asked to wear or were given a costume piece on top of their formal dress. This resulted in different players wearing anything from red noses to fake stick-on nipples. Martin recalled that the lead violinist performed wearing a gorilla paw, while a bassoon player placed a balloon on the end of his instrument.”

- A Day in the Life - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"He showed me about all the wives. He had eight wives at that time. At that same time, I was..."

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:12:44 -0500

“He showed me about all the wives. He had eight wives at that time. At that same time, I was believing I should have more than one wife. At the time I was getting divorced, I was between marriages. I thought the best thing for me to do was have a couple of wives. But after I stayed with Fela for that time, I saw that one was better!”

- LESTER BOWIE on Fela Kuti (1999) - ARTHUR MAGAZINE – WE FOUND THE OTHERS

"It would be great to go through the streets with a green knife letting out yells until I died of the..."

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:21:01 -0400

“It would be great
to go through the streets with a green knife
letting out yells until I died of the cold.”

- http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/130456-Pablo-Neruda-Walking-Around—Original-Spanish-

"Reportedly, during the recording sessions the band would occasionally stop playing, claiming one of..."

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:54:36 -0400

“Reportedly, during the recording sessions the band would occasionally stop playing, claiming one of them had made a mistake and that they needed to start over, leaving the sound engineers to wonder how the girls could tell when a mistake had been made.”

- The Shaggs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"See, Roker’s first name is Granville. What does that sound like? Maxwell Roach. Wynton Kelly. ..."

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:09:25 -0400

“

See, Roker’s first name is Granville. What does that sound like? Maxwell Roach. Wynton Kelly. Theodore Rollins. Those are English names, from the Caribbean element. They have an island heritage, American too of course, but those British names are from the islands, from the Caribbean. For me, as a drummer, I feel that they are closer to the source rhythmically. What always happens is these cats bring back some sort of rhythmic truth just when it is getting too harmonic. That’s why New Orleans is important, because it is the closest port to the islands—that is where Jelly Roll Morton got the rhythms. When you think about Rollins, he’s from there, and he plays these rhythms. Coltrane doesn’t play those rhythms, but Theodore does. [Sings some of “St. Thomas.”] Rollins imposed so much of that in post-bop that it has become a part of the tradition. Next time you listen to Sonny again, notice how much of those island rhythms he plays.

Also, Thelonious is an island name. I mean, it’s not Greek, is it? [Laughter.] Bemesha Swing. It’s rhythm.

”

- Drummer Billy Hart

It’s that time when the night and the day are equal in length. Take this as a model of equilibrium....

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:21:56 -0400

It’s that time when the night and the day are equal in length. Take this as a model of equilibrium. Balance on the flagpole.

It occurs at 17:18 EDT, 21:18 UTC.

Some gleanings from Wikipedia:

The traditional harvest festival in the United Kingdom was celebrated on the Sunday of the full moon closest to the September equinox.

The September equinox marks the first day of Mehr or Libra in the Persian calendar. It is one of the Iranian festivals called Jashne Mihragan, or the festival of sharing or love in Zoroastrianism.

The September equinox was “New Year’s Day” in the French Republican Calendar, which was in use from 1793 to 1805. The French First Republic was proclaimed and the French monarchy was abolished on September 21, 1792, making the following day (the equinox day that year) the first day of the “Republican Era” in France. The start of every year was to be determined by astronomical calculation, (that is: following the real Sun and not the mean Sun as all other calendars).

You may see some objects hover slightly off the ground every so often today. Don’t be alarmed, this is normal. Just leave them alone and let them do their thing.

Flagpole sitter pic courtesy of Duke Yearlook.

"I used to lay on my bedroom floor in high school coming down from acid with my fingers stuck in a..."

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:45:00 -0400

“I used to lay on my bedroom floor in high school coming down from acid with my fingers stuck in a Dairy Queen ice cream cake with Life cereal poured into it like a real bowl of cereal and just cry my eyes out while listening to “Tin Man” or “Lonely People.” There was a phase in my life where I was exploring the more psychedelic side of life, and man, the nighttime would be filled with wild whipping metal music and pure-grain fruit punch and chaos and metal jaw-biting, spine-tingling mental confusion, and I remember so very clearly one morning laying in some shitty hotel room bed covered in applesauce, and the sun was starting to come up and I felt like I had just killed a baby seal…and I had lobsters crawling all over me and laying their eggs in my intestines…and somebody put on a mixtape that had “Tin Man” and “All the Lonely People” and then went into “Harvest” by Neil Young and I remember all the lobsters stopped laying their eggs and they sat up and looked at me and I looked at them and we all went “ahhhhhhh” and breathed a big sigh of relief…and crawled off the bed to lay on the floor next to the stereo to hear that pure, pure sound even purer in our ear holes…and that’s when I knew I dug the folk rock.”

- Catching Up With… My Morning Jacket’s Jim James :: Features Music :: Articles :: Paste via my ninja, Mark

"First of all, if you come to my show knowing I’ve got a song called “Boob Scotch”..."

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:19:39 -0400

“First of all, if you come to my show knowing I’ve got a song called “Boob Scotch” and you get offended, I’m sorry but I’ve got to say just get out.”

- Bob Log III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Since money, as the existing and active concept of value, confounds and exchanges everything, it is..."

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:48:30 -0400

“Since money, as the existing and active concept of value, confounds and exchanges everything, it is the universal confusion and transposition of all things, the inverted world, the confusion and transposition of all natural and human qualities.”

- Karl Marx, via Integrity is being obsoleted, examples 467 and 468 | ARTHUR MAGAZINE - WE FOUND THE OTHERS

"In past times, people used to walk from eastern Tibet all the way to Lhasa, in central Tibet. Some..."

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:41:30 -0400

“In past times, people used to walk from eastern Tibet all the way to Lhasa, in central Tibet. Some types wanted to get there really fast, so they’d walk as quickly as they could. They’d tire, or get sick, give up and have to return. But other people, they would just walk at an easy pace, and they’d sit down, take breaks, pitch camp for the night, have a good time. And then, the next day, continue. And in that way they would actually reach Lhasa quite quickly. Thus the Tibetan proverb, “If you walk with haste, you do not reach Lhasa. If you walk at a gentle pace, you will make it there.””

- The Easy Middle | Tricycle Magazine

dream 7.21

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:36:52 -0400

I dreamed that I was hanging out at someone’s apartment, and I was drinking whiskey on the rocks from a tall glass. The conversation turned to movies. Johnny Depp, who was present at this gathering, said, “I want to see Dead Man.” “Dude, you were in Dead Man,” I replied. Incensed, Mr. Depp yelled, “I HAVEN’T SEEN IT YET!!!”

"Muscles used to wrap around my leg in a record session and crawl across the console. I was never..."

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:56:01 -0400

“Muscles used to wrap around my leg in a record session and crawl across the console. I was never comfortable with that. It was a choice between that and Bubbles—you know, the chimp.”

- WISEGUY Q&A: QUINCY JONES’ FONDEST AND WEIRDEST RECOLLECTIONS OF MICHAEL JACKSON: DETAILS Article on men.style.com

"I think the Great Hanshin Earthquake in January 1995 and the Aum sarin gas attack on the Tokyo..."

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:43:28 -0400

“I think the Great Hanshin Earthquake in January 1995 and the Aum sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in March that year made many Japanese experience a sense of dissociation from reality before people of other countries.”

- Haruki Murakami: In pursuit of new realism

"God picks up the reed-flute world and blows. Each note is a need coming through one of us, a..."

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:27:38 -0400

“God picks up the reed-flute world and blows.
Each note is a need coming through one of us,
a passion, a longing-pain.
Remember the lips
where the wind-breath originated,
and let your note be clear.
Don’t try to end it.
Be your note.
I’ll show you how it’s enough.”

- Each Note | Rumi

"He also said that it was really about his friend Edward Thomas, who when they walked together always..."

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:16:38 -0400

“He also said that it was really about his friend Edward Thomas, who when they walked together always castigated himself for not having taken another path than the one they took. When Frost sent “The Road Not Taken” to Thomas he was disappointed that Thomas failed to understand it as a poem about himself, but Thomas in return insisted to Frost that “I doubt if you can get anybody to see the fun of the thing without showing them and advising them which kind of laugh they are to turn on.” And though this sort of advice went exactly contrary to Frost’s notion of how poetry should work, he did on occasion warn his audiences and other readers that it was a tricky poem. Yet it became a popular poem for very different reasons than what Thomas referred to as “the fun of the thing.” It was taken to be an inspiring poem rather, a courageous credo stated by the farmer-poet of New Hampshire. In fact, it is an especially notable instance in Frost’s work of a poem which sounds noble and is really mischievous.”

- On “The Road Not Taken” (the famous Robert Frost poem, which is misunderstood almost all the time)

"The models that don’t change are religious models because they’re defined so that they..."

Wed, 20 May 2009 01:23:04 -0400

“The models that don’t change are religious models because they’re defined so that they can’t be tested. Some people find great comfort in this, but I don’t find any comfort at all in a model that cannot be tested.”

- Robert Anton Wilson Interview

I discovered that my cassette deck in my Toyota is playing both sides of cassettes simultaneously...

Mon, 18 May 2009 20:58:00 -0400

I discovered that my cassette deck in my Toyota is playing both sides of cassettes simultaneously — one backward, one forward. In some cases it creates rather psychedelic effects, but I can’t take it for very long.

"Consider the whole of your life, what you already do, all your doings. Now please exclude everything..."

Sat, 16 May 2009 01:07:39 -0400

“Consider the whole of your life, what you already do, all your doings. Now please exclude everything which is naturally physiologically necessary (or harmful) such as breathing and sleeping (or breaking an arm). From what remains exclude everything which is for the satisfaction of a social demand, a very large area which includes foremost your job, but also care of children, being polite, voting, your haircut, and much else. From what remains exclude everything which is an agency, a “means,” another very large area which overlaps with others to be excluded. From what remains, exclude everything which involves competition. In what remains concentrate on everything done entirely because you just like it as you do it.”

- Henry Flynt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Flynt

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Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:43:37 -0400

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"Umm, that came about just ‘cuz I’d read a review of a record which said, “and this..."

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:40:44 -0400

“Umm, that came about just ‘cuz I’d read a review of a record which said, “and this group really got us wild, there’s echo on everything, they’re screaming their heads off.” And I just remember thinking, “Oh, it’d be great to do one. Pity they’ve done it. Must be great — really screaming record.” And then I heard their record and it was quite straight, and it was very sort of sophisticated. It wasn’t rough and screaming and tape echo at all. So I thought, “Oh well, we’ll do one like that, then.” And I had this song called “Helter Skelter,” which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, ‘cuz I like noise.”

- Helter Skelter (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia