August 2008
26 posts
The comeback kid
Missed this guy.
Small Potatoes Challenge
I’ve been listening to that A Weather CD and that song small potatoes. Now I’ve looked the lyrics up online and I must say that I do not agree with them. Aside from a few missed words here and there my biggest problem is with the second verse. Now online it’s listed as “And if we shake as much /as California does/we’d be still less walking open”. Now first of all I don’t think that makes any sense (we’d be still less walking open?) and I also don’t think thats what it sounds like. I listened to it and I got “And if we shake as much/ as California dirt does/ would we be still ……..”
So let me know what you think. Let’s blog about this till we make some progress.
Odd, that you would bring this song up so early in your blogging life; apparently it is a song made for blogging (see my post August 18). I remember looking at that lyric for awhile when I was copying it over…and then just saying “fuck it” and keeping it as is. I really have no idea if that is what is said, but if it is, that is some good tumble-bumble imagery.
“When would he be like the fellows in poetry and rhetoric? They had big voices and big boots and they studied trigonometry. That was very far away.”
—Joyce
Drew Westen: What Obama Needs to Do in Denver →
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The audacity of Westen! The most insightful and lucid look back at the democratic party and hope for its future I have read all summer. Clarity the Obama camp would do well to aspire to.
"Garden of the Forking Paths" -Borges →
benprice.wordpress.com
Love this story! Thanks to my buddy Ben Price (whose uberliterary blog this is) for pulling up the text.
Dictionary.com
pros·pect
1.a.an apparent probability of advancement, success, profit, etc.
1.b.the outlook for the future: good business prospects.
2.anticipation; expectation; a looking forward.
7.outlook or view over a region or in a particular direction.
8.a mental view or survey, as of a subject or situation.
It’s amazing how quickly one’s prospects can become so empty.
Listen
A Weather- Small Potatoes
“Kittens become cats
if you’re not careful
you have to keep your eye on them
There was a time
when I
didn’t know you
and there’ll be a time like that again
And if we run as fast
as the earth moves
we’d be standing in one place
And if we shake as much
as California does
we’d be still less walking open
I can’t believe you said
I couldn’t love you anymore
Did you mean to no greater extent?
Or it’s over now for sure
That’s small potatoes
and I’m just
splitting hairs
If I can’t have this forever
I don’t want it at all
It’s hard to watch all your friends dying
and say something to make them laugh
I’m sick of all my careful planning
breaking like a wine glass
It’s hard to know which time’s the time right one
when to set your clocks back
I can’t believe you said
There’s nothing moving in this room
If your skin is this warm
then your heart’s pumping blood
That’s small potatoes
and I’m just
splitting hairs
If I can’t have this forever
I don’t want it at all
That’s small potatoes
and I’m just
splitting hairs
That’s small potatoes”
“Now I’m tryin’ to be assertive.
I’m making plans.
Wanna rise to the occasion, yeah
meet all of their demands.” —
I’m making plans.
Wanna rise to the occasion, yeah
meet all of their demands.” —
“It seems to me quite obvious that our country and the entire Western World is up against an existential foe…For some reason, nobody seems to be talking about who we’re up against, and the sixth century barbarism that they actually represent. These people saw people’s heads off. They enslave women, they genitally mutilate their daughters, they do not behave by any cultural norms that are sensible to us. I’m speaking into a microphone that never could have been a product of their culture, and I’m living in a city where three thousand of my neighbors were killed by thieves of airplanes they never could have built.”
—Frank Miller on Frank Miller being a huge racist
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The Media's "False Balance" Driving Its Electoral Projection →
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Ever wonder why the average media outlet gives Obama a 29 electoral vote lead, when Karl Rove has Obama up 77, and pollsters have Obama up 127? What we’re seeing is the manifestation of the cancer of…
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“It’s just sad for me, because I know I worked so hard, and I just feel like in some way I kind of blew it. It’s just hard to get away from what I see as the stain of these bad movies…and [at the time] I thought, ‘Yeah! I got these three movies!’ And then I saw them all.”
—James Franco on making bad movies (Flyboys, Tristan & Isolde, and Annapolis)
“Dear Jason,
From my understanding from information provided by my bar manager is that you were paid $200 in cash on August 5th.” —
From my understanding from information provided by my bar manager is that you were paid $200 in cash on August 5th.” —
-Woo Taing
A LYING MOTHER FUCKER
Listen
Aphex Twin- Flim
Should be listened to daily.
…cause I’m just that NPR
Lucas Conley blog » Apple’s “I am rich” program →
blog.lucasconley.com
Seriously…wasn’t having an iphone enough? Maybe this:
Look ma
I’m blogging
