Paul Banks Tumbles

"Oh Sankofa high in the heavens you soar My soul is soon to follow you back to yesterday’s..."

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 05:30:26 -0400

“

Oh Sankofa high in the heavens you soar

My soul is soon to follow you back to yesterday’s moon

Will it remember me back to yesterday’s sun?

It will rekindle me

Rekindle the spirit into tomorrow and high on the wind

Sankofa flies again and again

”

horsesnbayonets: Valid arguments from the third debate

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:50:09 -0400

horsesnbayonets:

Valid arguments from the third debate

For Seriously Creative Adults

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 03:51:13 -0400

As much as I despise the self-help-writing trend, I must relay that this is excellent and valuable: http://t.co/NoSEEOn5

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living,..."

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 02:22:02 -0400

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.”

- Dr. Suess

"and there’s a loyalty that’s deeper than mere sentiment, and a music higher than the..."

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 04:19:55 -0400

“and there’s a loyalty that’s deeper than mere sentiment, and a music higher than the songs that I can sing””

- rich mullins R.I.P.

"LOVE OR LEAVE IT, NOW YOU KNOW / IT ISN’T FOR A LAUGH, IT ISN’T FOR A SHOW / HALLELUJAH,..."

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 03:50:00 -0400

““LOVE OR LEAVE IT, NOW YOU KNOW / IT ISN’T FOR A LAUGH, IT ISN’T FOR A SHOW / HALLELUJAH, GOODNIGHT!””

- RICHARD SWIFT

My favorite song.

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 04:05:23 -0400

My favorite song.

Mike Birbiglia’s new short film from This American Life...

Thu, 31 May 2012 02:48:42 -0400

Mike Birbiglia’s new short film from This American Life LIVE is flippin’ awesome. Starring Terry Gross.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9U0FZlX2EM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Wed, 30 May 2012 04:21:39 -0400

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9U0FZlX2EM&feature=youtube_gdata_player:

“…but I do believe in love.”

Live To Share

Fri, 25 May 2012 04:33:25 -0400

You can seek, but you won’t find it, my love
That is, if you’re seekin’ it all on your own
‘Cause we were meant to share it
Yeah, we were made to share
When your’e alone, you’re wrong, my love
My love

The very worst moments can’t be shared, love
And that’s the very worst, ‘cause I live to share
Yeah, we live to share
And I know if I’d suck in my pride I’d find ya standin’ there
My love

And you know that we can dance if you want to
I won’t push you away
We can carry all the baggage
To the edge of the sea
‘Cause when God made the oceans
He knew all about you and me
And we can share in that, share, so easily
My love

Still, I’m afraid to talk to you, my love
Still, I’m afraid to talk to you, my love

//// still the most precise pop song I’ve ever written. wrote it 7 years ago. Audio streams here: http://paulbanks.bandcamp.com/track/live-to-share \\

"At Live Aid, held at Wembley on 13 July 1985, in front of the biggest-ever TV audience of 1.9..."

Mon, 21 May 2012 06:07:12 -0400

“

At Live Aid, held at Wembley on 13 July 1985, in front of the biggest-ever TV audience of 1.9 billion, Queen performed some of their greatest hits, during which the sold-out stadium audience of 72,000 people clapped, sang, and swayed in unison. The show’s organiser, Bob Geldof, other musicians such as Elton John and Dave Grohl, and various music journalists commented that Queen stole the show.

An industry poll in 2005 named it the greatest rock performance of all time.

”

arumrae: courtesy of jjjjound.com

Thu, 17 May 2012 23:08:08 -0400

arumrae:

courtesy of jjjjound.com

"Well I know you don’t need the confusion And I know you just ain’t the type To get..."

Sat, 12 May 2012 19:45:44 -0400

“

Well I know you don’t need the confusion
And I know you just ain’t the type
To get wrapped up in the illusion
Of doin’ something that you know ain’t right right right
Right right
Right right
Right right right

You’ve got to want to re-arrange
And keep it off the record, off the record
You’ve got to know that we will change
And keep it off the record, off the record
Come on!

”

- My Morning Jacket

"But however the campaign ends, the GOP fury will likely slip into acrid disaffection. Time will..."

Fri, 04 May 2012 14:06:17 -0400

“But however the campaign ends, the GOP fury will likely slip into acrid disaffection. Time will water down the campaign-peaked antagonism, but the revulsion toward President Obama, toward liberalism, toward the government will remain. This is the outcome of the Republicans’ branding: a confused odium that prevents half the country from seeing D.C. as a place of potential good. There’s a story in the recent Tom Friedman book relayed by GOP strategist Mike Murphy who describes a campaign veteran’s advice to him. While negative ads do work, Murphy recalls being told, there’s a reason McDonalds never runs negative ads against Burger King, saying their burgers are riddled with maggots. “It might have worked for a year or two,” Murphy says, “but then no one would have eaten another hamburger.” Murphy, who’s worked for Romney and John McCain, says the old hand concluded with a piece of advice: “Never destroy the category.” Friedman notes that “just at a time when we need politics in America to be at its most credible and constructive in order to define and pursue the national interest, ‘we’ve destroyed the category.’” By focusing on short-term political assaults, this campaign season could very well tarnish the brand of politics itself, leaving us instead with a useless expression of a long and bitter campaign’s emotional state.”

- http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/jamais-vu#

"I’m part of the scene I’m part of the scene Suit jacket and jeans I got the right..."

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:39:44 -0400

“

I’m part of the scene
I’m part of the scene
Suit jacket and jeans

I got the right LPs
I got the right LPs
I got the Lou Reed
And all the Blondie you’ll ever need

Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
You’re gonna drown, drown, drown

I’m part of the scene
I’m part of the scene
I got the drum machine
(A-boom tap boom tap, a-boom tap boom tap)

I got the right routine
I got the right routine
‘Cause the end justifies the means

Yes, lately I know
That it’s so hard to see where to go
And it’s so hard just to keep this to myself
When I live for no one else

Atlantic ocean
Atlantic ocean
You’re gonna drown, drown, drown

”

WHEN YOUR FRIEND ORDERS QUESO BEFORE YOU EVEN HAVE A CHANCE

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:40:31 -0400

wheninatx:

"Dear Austin, I saw you shyly eying me way back when and I ignored it, instead choosing to linger on..."

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 06:37:50 -0400

“

Dear Austin,

I saw you shyly eying me way back when and I ignored it, instead choosing to linger on the Riverwalk and take another tour of the Alamo. But San Antonio spit me out without even really meaning to, and I decided to return your gaze, and I guess it was love. We picked the bugs from each others hair and patted each other on the back, even when we’d done something terrible.

After awhile, you got over me and started slapping me with your velvet gloves, but I am a masochist and kept coming back for more. It actually didn’t hurt at all. That’s the funny thing about velvet gloves; no matter how hard you get hit, no matter how many times, you can still mistake it for something pleasant, for a benevolent impulse on the part of the slapper.

I only recently realized these slaps were meant to wake me up. And so I journeyed outside Austin and got slapped around by other cities. Boston’s rubber dishwashing gloves could never be mistaken for anything pleasant. And New York’s gloves were constructed from bits of a metal drainpipe and felt none too pleasant on the skin, although they were a marvel to behold from afar.

And so I returned to you with a renewed appreciation for your velvet slap. And you found something in me too. Now when I see you around, your gloves reach not to sting my cheeks, but wave a friendly hello.

Yrs,
Bill Baird
________

”

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Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:57:00 -0500

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What I’m doing this week for an after-school program with...

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:51:13 -0500

What I’m doing this week for an after-school program with 4th graders. Yep, real programmable robots made out of Legos.

metaficionado: bigboxcar: Can’t. Stop. Laughing. Best fan sign...

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:38:57 -0500

metaficionado:

bigboxcar:

Can’t. Stop. Laughing. Best fan sign ever?

cajunboy:

Make this Alabama basketball fan a meme, internet.

Bwah!