"I fear that in this world one is reduced to being either hammer or anvil; lucky the man who escapes these alternatives!" - Voltaire
A short documentary about Kate Bush
Oh, you know, just makin some sounds
HEAR YE, HEAR YE! TONY WILSON, FOUNDER OF FACTORY RECORDS, FOUNDER OF THE HAÇIENDA, LINKED IN POPULAR MEMORY TO JOY DIVISION, NEW ORDER, THE HAPPY MONDAYS, AND THE SCENE KNOWN AS MADCHESTER, HAS DIED. HEAR YE, HEAR YE!
He had been battling kidney cancer for some time, but according to the Manchester Evening News he died after an unrelated heart attack. Because he had a better head for art than money his finances were not in good shape, but his friends (including the Mondays) rallied round to pay for his treatment. (via ilx)
Sorry I can't make this prettier, Tony, I know you'd want all your obituaries to be art.
Ned Raggett: "...had he not helped bring together a variety of kindred souls in various fields, not all musical, then the world would look different, sound different, simply BE different."
Metafilter: "I'm a minor player in my own life story."
"We drain dry the old pleasures and then never think new ones are going to happen again. Rationally, we know that wonderful things are around the corner, and yet we don't believe it."
His coffin had a FAC number
Sorry I can't make this prettier, Tony, I know you'd want all your obituaries to be art.
Ned Raggett: "...had he not helped bring together a variety of kindred souls in various fields, not all musical, then the world would look different, sound different, simply BE different."
Metafilter: "I'm a minor player in my own life story."
"We drain dry the old pleasures and then never think new ones are going to happen again. Rationally, we know that wonderful things are around the corner, and yet we don't believe it."
His coffin had a FAC number
Serpico has a blog! The cop who blew the whistle on NYPD corruption in the 70s, got shot, moved the Switzerland, had a movie made about him with Al Pacino ... crazy.
American cyclist Floyd Landis is now a legend
Metafilter covers the stage win. The NYTimes Magazine covers his busted hip.
Oh, and the Times daily coverage sucks.
- "But today I thought, 'I could at least show them that I could keep fighting'."
- "It was like an old-time attack. Like Merckx."
- "I came here to win the Tour and that's what I still want to do, and I'm not done fighting yet."
Oh, and the Times daily coverage sucks.
a brief correspondence between Mahatma Ghandi and Count Leo Tolstoy on non-violence
Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age
Depressing!
"At age 32:
Penniless and unemployed, Buckminster Fuller decided against suicide, resolving instead to live out the rest of his life as an experiment to see what one person could do to help humanity."
Depressing!
"At age 32:
Penniless and unemployed, Buckminster Fuller decided against suicide, resolving instead to live out the rest of his life as an experiment to see what one person could do to help humanity."
Why Vaclav Havel is our era's George Orwell
"... at that moment, I was overwhelmed by an intense feeling that this dear man belonged to a world that I no longer wish to have anything to do with ... the world of cunning shits."
"... at that moment, I was overwhelmed by an intense feeling that this dear man belonged to a world that I no longer wish to have anything to do with ... the world of cunning shits."
Albert Camus' speech of thanks at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1957
"Nobody, I think, can ask them to be optimists."
"Nobody, I think, can ask them to be optimists."
God bless Shannon Shalako.
(I'm talking specifically about Mixmaster Morris coming to the Phoenix Landing next Wednesday. But it's a general benediction, as well.)
(I'm talking specifically about Mixmaster Morris coming to the Phoenix Landing next Wednesday. But it's a general benediction, as well.)
Neat post to a Joyce list I'm on, from Ed Germain.
About 1983, I asked Marie Jolas about James Joyce's relationship to women. As well as I can recall verbatim, this is what she said:
"He was always polite to women, always. He was always a gentleman, always courteous, gracious to women... And he would ask questions of women that no one else would, no other man would."
What kind of questions, I asked her.
"What is it like to give birth? What is it like to menstruate? Many questions like that."
And women answered? I asked.
"Yes. We all told him. He was so interested and courteous. He listened."
Marie Jolas and her husband Eugene knew Joyce quite well. Eugene published "Work in Progress" in his magazine, transition.
