“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.” -Bukowski
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
I have nothing now but praise for my life. I’m not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can’t stop them. They leave me and I love them more. … What I dread is the isolation. … There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I’m ready, I’m ready, I’m ready.
Maurice Sendak on Fresh Air in 2011. [all interviews with Sendak here] (via nprfreshair)
Rare White Buffalo killed and skinned by poachers
What the fuck is wrong with people?
Donate your functioning but unused iPod or other MP3 player to a great cause:
Hopefully, by now you’ve seen the video clip of “Alive Inside,” the documentary capturing the wondrous results of elderly nursing home patients being re-introduced to the music of their youth. … Daniel Cohen, the man who initiated bringing mp3 players into nursing homes and thus sparked filmmaker Michael Rossato-Bennet into making the documentary, is in need of more music players.
“There’s a huge need for iPod donations at many public and private nursing homes, where the interest from patients who miss their favorite music is far greater than the arrival of donated iPods to our collection centers,” writes Music & Memory, Cohen’s organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for the elderly through music.
If you have an old iPod that’s gathering dust, consider donating it to Music & Memory. The organization checks out—Cohen is the actual guy the documentary crew followed around for a year—so you can be sure your old iPod will go to good use. “We’ll accept old, new, used, and even broken or damaged iPod players that our volunteer team can check and repair if possible for use in one of our centers,” says Music & Memory. “Our residents don’t mind a few case scratches or decals.”
Click here for info on how to donate.
(via Help Out Music & Memory, Org from “Alive Inside” Doc, With Your Old iPod - Core77)
Without music we aren’t human.
The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a tellar but for want of an understanding ear.
Stephen King, Different Seasons
(Source: ditchtherest)
-Bill Hicks
(Source: prematurefuneral)
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words “make” and “stay” become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.
Tom Robins, A Still Life with Woodpecker (via griffinward)
31 Republican men voted against the Violence Against Women Act in the Senate today. All 5 Republican women voted for it.
Surprise.
Check out this review of the album Rumors of A City http://littlequeenmusic.com/2012/04/24/review-til-willis-rumors-of-a-city/
![thedailywhat:
RIP: Dick Clark, at 82: Dick Clark, the longtime New Year’s Eve fixture, music industry maverick, TV host, and producer of American Bandstand, died today of a heart attack at 82. Clark suffered a major stroke in 2004 but returned to the airwaves to host seven more New Year’s Rockin’ Eves.
According to the Museum of Broadcast Communications, Dick Clark Productionshas turned out more than 7,500 hours of television programming, including more than 30 series and 250 specials, as well as more than 20 movies for theatre and TV. His success landed him Emmys, Grammys, induction in the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Clark had long been known for his departing catchphrase, “For now, Dick Clark… so long,” delivered with a military salute, and for his youthful appearance that earned him the moniker “America’s Oldest Teenager.”“If you want to stay young looking,” he once said, “pick your parents very carefully.”
Clark is survived by his third wife, Keri Wigton, and three children.
[abc]
I spent many a new years with this man. It won’t be the same without him.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2oydfatXK1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
RIP: Dick Clark, at 82: Dick Clark, the longtime New Year’s Eve fixture, music industry maverick, TV host, and producer of American Bandstand, died today of a heart attack at 82. Clark suffered a major stroke in 2004 but returned to the airwaves to host seven more New Year’s Rockin’ Eves.
According to the Museum of Broadcast Communications, Dick Clark Productionshas turned out more than 7,500 hours of television programming, including more than 30 series and 250 specials, as well as more than 20 movies for theatre and TV. His success landed him Emmys, Grammys, induction in the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Clark had long been known for his departing catchphrase, “For now, Dick Clark… so long,” delivered with a military salute, and for his youthful appearance that earned him the moniker “America’s Oldest Teenager.”
“If you want to stay young looking,” he once said, “pick your parents very carefully.”Clark is survived by his third wife, Keri Wigton, and three children.
[abc]
I spent many a new years with this man. It won’t be the same without him.
Turd Nugent
Can he be anymore of a douche?