February 2011
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January 2011
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When You Meet Bob Dylan You'd Better Have A Plan →
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“And we will be ready, at the end of every day will be ready, will not say no to...”
– Dave Eggers from A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, which I finished for the second time last night. My first read was more about the genius part– his writerly ambition, his tangents, his explosive creativity. And my second read was more about the heartbreak– the cancer, the disappointment,...
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Our Psychic Living Room (or, why it's important to... →
sometimesagreatnotion:
With Wallace, what you see is what you get. His sentences may be stem-winding, but they’re earnest. In fact, most of Wallace’s fiction is so un-ironic and nonhipster that critics have actually accused it of risking sentimentality.
What Wallace is often trying to say in his fiction and essays—the message, as it were, at the heart of so much outpouring of feeling—is...
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sarahjurado: undone resolutions →
A great take on making art independent of trends, not worrying about hip, keeping your sanity both as an artist and as a listener (via the very talented sarahjurado:)
Approximately 2 hours ago I was considering a revised resolution to avoid all internet blog comments for the duration of 2011, in the interest of retaining any sort of serenity. Then this gem from Robin Pecknold, with excellent...
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“Every work of art is one half of a secret handshake, a challenge that seeks the...”
– Michael Chabon in Manhood For Amateurs
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“Let’s break it down in math terms. In the past 40 years, Tyler has logged...”
– Rob Sheffield (via Rolling Stone) on Steven Tyler and his inability to shut up and how that might go over on American Idol.
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“I was running the folk archive there when the archive was shut down by a rabid...”
– Folklorist Alan Lomax, on the Library of Congress folk archive being censored for recording Woody Guthrie, in an interview that originally aired on Fresh Air in 1990. (via nprfreshair)
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They put us on Pandora! →
Or if you want to listen to my personal PJMA station, http://bit.ly/fTbsz8.
But you can create your own Paul Jacobsen & The Madison Arm station too.