Portishead’s “Only You.” Video directed by Chris Cunningham.
30 Rock, S6:E1: “Dance Like Nobody’s Watching .”
A Hard Day’s Night — The ‘Real’ First Chord
One of the most famous opening chords is also one of the most elusive.
(via yuka)
Nice description of “The 12 Stages of The Hero’s Journey,” especially as it applies to story structure.
Early in the morning, on November 21, 2006, John M. Higgins departed this mortal coil. On the 5th anniversary of his passing, here’s a song.
This is a remix by Statik Selektah of Heavy D’s “Nuttin’ But Love,” which mixes in Pete Rock and CL Smooth’s “They Reminisce Over You.”
Heavy D died this month at the age of 44. John Higgins was 45 when he died.
An attempt to struggle with what defines the difference between literature and genre works. Stephen Graham Jones knocks down a lot of the false distinctions and seems to offer a few possible signposts:
This part really resonated with me:
“There’s this horrible thing that happens with fancy educations, that some incurious people will go to Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Stanford and come out and think they know everything. It’s a huge advantage to him [Billy Beane] that he has some slight anxiety left that he didn’t go to Stanford.”
“I would agree,” adds Beane quietly.
Lewis says, “It keeps him agitated about new things.”
Hang on: Lewis had a fancy education at Princeton and is still “agitated” about new things.
“Yes, but I was a bad student,” replies Lewis. “That curiosity, he’ll lose it eventually because he’s going to get old, and the older you get the harder it is to take an interest in new things.
Or “The Problems with Hands and Pictures Under Glass.”
De La new work, snippet…enjoy! “Mr.Big.Mouth”
New track from De La Soul. Sounds great!
It’s useful to remember that the reason you hate a certain TV character is probably because the part is badly written or poorly acted.
