February 2012
6 posts
Canons from my Cab Driver
The most exhilarating night of my life resulted in the following edicts imparted on me by my cab driver, John, a few weeks ago. After a 15 minute long conversation where I felt like this man was just looking right through me, he started into this: “DJ, you need to focus on three things to obtain balance and happiness. You ready?” Yes, Ready.
#1: There is no room for growth within...
Sharon Van Etten - "Tramp" →
I’m not leaving my office right now because I’m alone and can finally blast the new album on good speakers without worrying how loud it is. She was amazing live last week and I’m reliving it.
If you do nothing but one thing tonight, please listen to this.
January 2012
24 posts
Three Generations →
This is a recording of my dad singing and playing guitar over 30 years ago, set to photos taken by my sister of my other sister’s kids. Aren’t they all just the best/cutest/talentedest?!
The Reset Button
I wrote an essay today because I wanted to, and I don’t love the whole thing by any means, but I really like this paragraph that came out of it:
I think it was one of those things where after he missed the first few because of work, or for whatever reason, coming to any of the others would draw attention to missteps from before. That’s not how kids think, but it might be how guilty adults...
“1. Stop pursuing an emotionally unavailable person. Do you know how much energy...”
– The Hairpin - Mix and Match New Year’s Resolutions (via 12minds
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“Carrie [Brownstein] and I are more romantic than any relationship I’ve...”
– Fred Armisen on his platonic relationship with Portlandia co-star and dear friend, Carrie Brownstein
December 2011
25 posts
What Happened to My Nuclear Family? →
“You realize you didn’t ever want or need half of the things you were envious of anyways. You realize that without everything that life so violently threw at you along the way, you wouldn’t be where you are or who you are today. Your morals, your attitude, your direction, are all a result of the variables and numbers in the equation of your unbalanced childhood. You come to find you will...
“The only way to learn is by encounter”
– Martin Gerber (?) via TEDTalk
“Why do I keep hitting myself in the head with a hammer? Because it feels so good...”
Does this mean I'm jaded?
You know why girls in NYC always think a guy who is nice to them is just trying to sleep with them? Because, generally speaking, whenever a guy is nice to a girl in NYC, he is trying to sleep with her. Or get her to give him a job.
“If you aren’t living life in hyperbole, then you aren’t living.”
– I just quoted myself
Tool vs. Insight →
How is your vocabulary? It’s a vital tool, certainly. Do you know these words?
a, after, and, as, die, eternal, first, gets, gun, have, in, is, job, life, me, mouth, my, pushing, saying, step, that, the, to, Tyler, waiter, you.
How about these?
a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may,...