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Andrew Bird covers Its Not Easy Being Green.
“The house was quiet and the world was calm.
The reader became the book; and...”
– Wallace Stevens, The House Was Quiet And The World Was Calm
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“It was half-past-one in the morning and I was sitting up with Dan Raspler, who...”
– Grant Morrison, in conversation with Neil Gaiman.
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“You wouldn’t think to look at Dave [McKean]’s imagery. He was going to the San...”
– Neil Gaiman, in conversation with Grant Morrison.
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“GM: I was really shy around new people, but I was in a band at the time. And...”
– Grant Morrison in conversation with Neil Gaiman
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“The big break for me was I got tired of looking at stuff like The Dark Knight...”
– Grant Morrison, in conversation with Neil Gaiman.
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“This, by the way, is considered the ultimate sign of quality CCM, even amongst...”
– Megan O’Gieblyn, on growing up on Christian Contemporary.
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I'm Collecting House of the Rising Sun Covers
If you’ve got one, and you want to contribute to my collection, shoot me a message.
Is It Just Me, Or Does Speaker Boehner Sound Like...
Couplets are how you tell fairy tales, just like the one he’s telling right now.
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“Is there anything I can do, as a cartoonist? I wish there was a drawing that...”
– Norwegian cartoonist Jason, reacting to last week’s terrorist attacks in Norway
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“A healthy portion of iTunes sales come from Glee, a television show that tries...”
– Jay Caspian Kang, remembering Amy Winehouse.
“The phonograph killed the player piano; radio, newspapers, and TV happily...”
– Paul Ford, declaring that we are not living in the media end-time.
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“Την μια μονότονην ημέραν άλλη
μονότονη, απαράλλακτη ακολουθεί. Θα γίνουν
τα...”
– C.P. Cavafy - ”Monotony,” translated by Daniel Mendelsohn
Cavafy influenced Seferis— you remember Seferis, “Wherever I travel Greece wounds me” — and although I thought about picking up a book in Greece, I never got around to it. Seeing the O’Reilly show...
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Another Friday Night Turntable Party? I Think Yes. →
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“Above the fresh ruffles of the surf
Bright striped urchins flay each other with...”
– from “Voyages” by Hart Crane
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“History without myth is surely a wasteland; but myths are compelling only when...”
– Greil Marcus, Mystery Train
“I’ve seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (via scribnerbooks)
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Improbable Senior Project Idea #2
Secretly remoderate into studio art. Pretend to work furiously on a senior project for the whole of senior year, taking vast amounts of sympathy and time from everyone I know. Present artifacts of these encounters and a bound 100 sheet book made up entirely of blank pages as finished product.
Improbable Senior Project Idea #1
A history of rock n’ roll through short biographies of the artists who recorded covers of “House of the Rising Sun.”
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