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“Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend.”Stephen King (via lukehiatus, cigarettesandgreentea) (via ericmortensen) (via vubui) (via spytap, cigarettesandgreentea) (via evangotlib) (via mikehudack)
SUCKER!
Ira Glass on Being Wrong
One of the reasons I was interested in doing this interview is because I feel like being wrong is really important to doing decent work. To do any kind of creative work well, you have to run at stuff knowing that it’s usually going to fail. You have to take that into account and you have to make peace with it. We spend a lot of money and time on stuff that goes nowhere. It’s not unusual for us to go through 25 or 30 ideas and then go into production on eight or 10 and then kill everything but three or four. In my experience, most stuff that you start is mediocre for a really long time before it actually gets good. And you can’t tell if it’s going to be good until you’re really late in the process. So the only thing you can do is have faith that if you do enough stuff, something will turn out great and really surprise you.
Good Looking People of Refined Taste:
I have held the final copy in my hands. It is glossy, heavy, and smart. It’s also cheap.
These are the most admirable traits one could wish for.
these landed in the office last week. while technically it’s coming from collins design now, it still feels like a harperstudio title…
there it is, all bound up, a book.
and oh, it’s a good one.
Sharks have a week dedicated to him.
Watching America: The History of Us episode about the 1920s and they pull up this map highlighting the major organized crime bosses bootlegging around the country during prohibition besides Al Capone. The names are priceless and worthy of a Scorcese film:
Lucky Luciano - New York
The Licavoli Family - Detroit
Frank “Chee Chee” DeMayo - Kansas City
Joseph “Iron Man” Ardizzone - Los Angeles
Harry Rosen - Philadelphia
Charles “King” Soloman - Boston
Dunder Mifflin floorplan
serendipity
““ Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward. Maybe they have to be crazy. How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels? While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
This totally happened to me saturday night…I walked in the door and as usual there was a song in my head, only this time…it wasn’t a song I knew…I was hearing music that was completely beyond new, existing only in the confines of my brain and however far out your imagination’s arms reach…I immediately knew this was the moment…when something out of the ordinary is happening and you’re not sleeping…pay attention! you scream silently…I even went for the notebook and pen that are strategically placed around the house for just this situation…but I realized I can’t write music…and I sat on the steps in silence while it played…it even had a chorus and verses…I think I wrote a couple words down…but I lost it…maybe it will come back…
