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Quote of the Day: from Still Life With Woodpecker November 30, 2007

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Who knows how to make love stay?

1. Tell love you are going to Junior’s Deli
on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a
cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half.
It will stay.

2. Tell love you want a
memento of it and obtain
a lock of its hair.
Burn the hair in a dime-store
incense burner with yin/yang
symbols on three sides.
Face southwest. Talk fast
over the burning hair in a
convincingly exotic language.
Remove the ashes of the
burnt hair and use them to
paint a mustache on your face.
Find love.
Tell it you are someone new.
It will stay.

3. Wake love up in the middle of the night.
Tell it the world is on fire.
Dash to the bedroom window and pee out of it.
Casually return to bed and assure love that
everything is going to be all right.
Fall asleep.
Love will be there in the morning.

~ from Still Life With Woodpecker

a novel by Tom Robbins

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Song of the Day: Ben Harper - Please Me Like You Want To November 29, 2007

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And now it’s plain for me to see…

‘Cause believe me,
there is a difference:

When you mean it;
and when you pretend.

Ben Harper - Please Me Like You Want To (4.5MB mp3)

from the album Fight For Your Mind

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Flickr photo from placeinsun

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Dear Rockers: Paying Back Musicians November 28, 2007

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Show some love to your favorite musician.

Many of us own music that we didn’t pay for.
We don’t feel guilty about shafting the
record company, but what about
the musicians themselves?

Here’s how it works:

1. Pick a musician
2. Write them a letter
3. Scan or photograph the letter and send it to us
4. Mail off the letter along with $5
5. Enjoy your new, guilt-free life

Dear Rockers: paying back musicians, five bucks at a time

click on any photo to see, read, and hear more @ dearrockers.org

Flickr photos from michele cat, So Misguided, and DBarefoot

YouTube Video of the Day: The Streets - Blinded By The Lights November 22, 2007

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Lights are blinding my eyes…

People pushing by,

then walking off into the night…

***

video directed by Adam Smith

from the album a grand don’t come for free

A Grand Don’t Come
for Free is a concept
album. In the story,
the protagonist loses
£1000. In the first
track on the album,
“It Was Supposed to
Be So Easy”, he
realises he has lost
the money after
coming back from
returning a rented DVD and attempting to withdraw money from a cash machine. In the process of trying to recover the money, he…

~ via Wikipedia

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How To: Survive When the Going Gets Tough… November 21, 2007

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don’t just stand there…
DO something:

. how to start a fire with sticks

. how to escape from a bear

. how to win a street fight

how to get out of a car that’s
hanging over a cliff

how to stay warm at home
without a heater

how to dumpster dive

∞ ∞ ∞

how-to tips via: wikihow.com

Flickr photos from tearapen and amateur2007

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Song of the Day: Jane’s Addiction - Ocean Size November 20, 2007

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Wish i was ocean size.
They cannot move you, man —
no one tries.

i wanna be more like the ocean:
No talkin’, man —
all action.

Jane’s Addiction - Ocean Size (4MB mp3)

from the album Nothing’s Shocking

Flickr photos from Eggz and richbrenner

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YouTube Video of the Day: Little Nemo by Winsor McCay November 14, 2007

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early test animation from 1910

Although a comic strip, Little Nemo was far from a simple children’s fantasy; it was often dark, surreal, threatening, and even violent. The strip related the dreams of a little boy: Nemo (meaning “nobody” in Latin), the hero. The last panel in each strip was always one of Nemo waking up, usually in or near his bed, and often being scolded (or comforted) by one of the grownups of the household after crying out in his sleep and waking them…

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Song of the Day: A Perfect Circle - Sleeping Beauty November 13, 2007

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You’re far beyond a visible sign of your awakening.

Such a fool to think that i could
wake you from your slumber —
that i could actually heal you.

A Perfect Circle - Sleeping Beauty (3.9MB mp3)

from the album Mer de Noms

Wikipedia: A Perfect Circle | Sleeping Beauty

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YouTube Video of the Day: The White Stripes - The Hardest Button To Button November 7, 2007

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We don’t know you,
and we don’t owe you.

But if you see us around,
i got something else to show you…

∞ ∞ ∞

video directed by Michel Gondry

Wikipedia: The White Stripes | ‘The Hardest Button To Button’

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Picture(s) of the Day: from Audrey Kawasaki November 6, 2007

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because an image speaks volumes in an instant.

‘Nest Hair’ by Audrey Kawasaki | 23″ x 18″ | Oil on wood

I’m focused on what I can do
with the figure and expression,
with the lines and color.

I enjoy the organic grains
and patterns on wood panel.
It’s very inviting to me.
It works as a good base and
background, and I use really
thin washes of oil, so the
grains show though.
I like to work and play
around with that.

Although there is a story
behind my current girls,
it’s still very vague and up
in the air. I wish to develop
more lucid, detailed ideas
and plots and settings.

~ Audrey Kawasaki