Father Rollins preaching the truth
The news, as I read it anyway, is not good, and while I cannot alter the facts, I can control my listening and reading environment.
(Via Readability)
As long as Obama remains silent — and implicitly complacent — about the police brutality we keep seeing against peaceful, non-violent Americans who are expressing their constitutionally-protected rights to protest, I think we’re going to see this quote with a lot of pretty horrifying images.
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Good question.
(via @CandiceHull on Twitter.)
Warren Ellis on The Near Future Of Pop
Not that my sixteen year old daughter knows anything about that. The thing about an early-stage networked culture where everything is available on demand means that you have to know about it to demand it. It’s why companies like last.fm, and most social networks, have always put “music discovery” towards the top of their priorities. They know that common culture has been fractured by the internet and the remains bought and paid for by scum. But my daughter has a t-shirt that reads OF COURSE I’M NOT ON FUCKING FACEBOOK. She uses YouTube playlists, and her friends’ tastes, and even music magazines, and plots her own course through pop.
And she doesn’t know, or care to be told, what her favourite pop bands owe to the Pixies or Bowie or Velvet Underground. Atemporality means nothing to her. This is hers, and that’s how it should be. And pop, in relation to the wreckage of mainstream media, has gone underground, and perhaps that’s how it should be too. Underground and everywhere, at the speed of light.
This entire talk is interesting, but I especially liked this part. This is how it should be and I wish it could be for me. Knowing so much about music also makes it less enjoyable - because it’s more important to know who I’m listening to or what I’m listening to instead of just listening.
Maybe it’s time to work on that.
(Via Readability)
(Source: blkcowrie)
SJ
I have no interest in reading the authorized Steve Jobs biography at this moment.
I know a lot of geeks and personalities in the Apple world will be tweeting/blogging/talking about it, but I’m going to wait awhile longer for the perfect, idealized image of Steve to live in my head before I humanize him through the words of Mr. Isaacson.
I Was No Longer Afraid to Die. I Was Now Afraid Not to Die.
I Was No Longer Afraid to Die. I Was Now Afraid Not to Die.:
“When you have a partner, someone you love, who’s your age, with the same terms of reference, and you are together for decades, you really do understand each other,” he says. “Your child is never going to be understood in that way.”
That forced unfairness scares the hell out of me
(Via Readability)
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(Reblogged from wilwheaton)
Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that - but you are the only you.
Tarantino - you can criticize everything that Quentin does - but nobody writes Tarantino stuff like Tarantino. He is the best Tarantino writer there is, and that was actually the thing that people responded to - they’re going ‘this is an individual writing with his own point of view’.
There are better writers than me out there, there are smarter writers, there are people who can plot better - there are all those kinds of things, but there’s nobody who can write a Neil Gaiman story like I can.
- A bit of writing advice from Neil Gaiman. (via faramirs)
I said it on the Nerdist Podcast, and I believe it. It’s as true for any area of the arts, not just writing. Perhaps it’s true for life.
(via neil-gaiman)
I really needed to hear something like this.
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(Reblogged from wilwheaton)
The fact is when the United States spends $2 billion a week in Afghanistan and thinks nothing of lobbing hundreds of cruise missiles at $1.41 million a pop to kill people, cutting a few billion dollars a year from the budget for caring for the sick, starving and dispossessed is more than just cruel. It’s plain stupid.
