February 2009
13 posts
Belated Thoughts
I think Obama’s speech to Congress/America might have been better if instead of all the “America is great and we will restore its greatness by 2020,” he just said, “alright people, let’s get to work.”
I picked up the mug and the guy at the register told me it was only 6 bucks. Then he saw that I already had a mug and looked at me like I was an idiot for thinking about buying another one for no reason. He was right, but I wanted that mug. I thought about it for a second. No, he was right. I put it back. ”If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. I’m just saying, unless...
It's Too Late To Apologize
I was raised on Bollywood movies. I could watch a gazillion boring artsy movies and listen to “literate” music all day, but in the end it’s cheezy Bollywood music, 80s pop, Motown, and Usher that makes me glad to be alive.
The Art of Making an Effective Acceptive Speech →
The article talks about how bad Oscar speeches have ruined careers. One more reason why it’s probably not a good career move to be pathetic. The audience should like you, but can’t feel like they know you. Here’s what you want to avoid. You have one good role and you start to feel like people like you, so you open up to them and be yourself, expecting them to validate your...
A Nice Little Reminder
Aap Jaise Koi - Penn Masala
Songs can be a good reminder of what it feels like to be in love
xoxo
Swagger Like Me
I was expecting a unifying theory of swaggerdom when I first heard about this remix, but instead I got four people rapping like they’re all on different songs.
Here, listen to this
Happy Belated Valentine's Day
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet, which fails so regularly, as love.
- Eric Fromm, The Art of Loving
Kids These Days...
With the sense of community vanished, and with it the authority for conferring honor or opprobrium for meeting or failing to meet one’s duties and responsibilities, everyone was thrown back on themselves, and fulfillment was desperately searched for in new forms of experience-sex, drugs, psychoanalysis, revolutionary politics, wherever it seemed likely to be available. People who once might...
In class the professor asked for a random state. Someone raised their hand and said, “Oklahoma.” Everyone laughed.
Producer’s Track Record as a Label Executive Is... →
The article is talking about Rick Rubin as CEO of Columbia. His appointment was the board of directors’ idea of thinking outside the box. It’s kind of goofy. Seems like another example of irrationally trying to maintain the status quo and consolidate power at the expense of progress, even when it’s glaringly obvious that maintaining the status quo is just going to leave...
smalter:
When I was in college, I remember a specific meeting I had with my computer science advisor who was at that time Prof. Greg Morrisett, who now has a chaired professorship at Harvard. The guy is generally a badass and he looks like Ewan McGregor. He knew a little bit about my background, especially all the math I had done in high school. We talked a little bit about how I didn’t know what...
