favorite palindromes of the day
1. was it eliot’s toilet i saw?
2. some men interpret nine memos.
3. do geese see god?
palindromes are good fun
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Tom Waits: Way Down In The HoleDamn. The Wire was the first thing that came to mind.
Also: Can every day be Tom Waits day?
“ Because of Facebook and Twitter and all this crap, people don’t have time to be alone and confront themselves and who they really are. It’s the thing that really worries me the most about the modern world. People just seem to be extensions of a social order now. We have a house in Italy with no telephone or television. My son would be there, and he was used to playing his video games and blah, blah, blah, and he’d go there and get bored. My wife would say, “Well, we have to do something to keep him entertained,” and I’d say, “No, let him get bored and you’ll see what happens.” After about two days of boredom and saying “There’s fuck all to do here,” he started inventing things. He was creating a really interesting world, because he was involved in creating it. He wasn’t just having it created for him. I think so much of what we do is now done for us. It’s digested, it’s handed to you. I like video games but I also think they’re dangerous because of how much time and energy they consume. It’s not the same as reading a book. ”
Moved into The Fontenoy
Bob Dylan - You Belong To Me. (via jocksteeluk)
“ As far as writing advise, just put down anything you think is funny. Don’t think about what purpose the writing has to serve — just put the words down. Write anything that you think is funny for any reason. ”
Dick Cavett (via lindsaykatai)
snuh:
BILL HICKS’S PRINCIPLES OF COMEDY
1. If you can be yourself on stage nobody else can be you and you have the law of supply and demand covered.
2. The act is something you fall back on if you can’t think of anything else to say.
3. Only do what you think is funny, never just what you think they will like, even though it’s not that funny to you.
4. Never ask them is this funny – you tell them this is funny.
5. You are not married to any of this shit – if something happens, taking you off on a tangent, NEVER go back and finish a bit, just move on.
6. NEVER ask the audience “How You Doing?” People who do that can’t think of an opening line. They came to see you to tell them how they’re doing, asking that stupid question up front just digs a whole. This is The Most Common Mistake made by performers. I want to leave as soon as they say that.
7. Write what entertains you. If you can’t be funny be interesting. You haven’t lost the crowd. Have something to say and then do it in a funny way.
8. I close my eyes and walk out there and that’s where I start, Honest.
9. Listen to what you are saying, ask yourself, “Why am I saying it and is it Necessary?” (This will filter all your material and cut the unnecessary words, economy of words)
10. Play to the top of the intelligence of the room. There aren’t any bad crowds, just wrong choices.
11. Remember this is the hardest thing there is to do. If you can do this you can do anything.
12. I love my cracker roots. Get to know your family, be friends with them.
Groucho is a star
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Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should’ve Come Over (Live, WXRK)
“it’s not too late”
Fleetwood Mac-Big Love (Live on Letterman 1997)
Lindsey Buckingham and his mutant right hand. Plus Stevie Nicks, um, spinning.
“ I think everyone in the future is going to be allowed to be obscure for 15 minutes. You’ll have 15 minutes where no one is watching you, and then you’ll be shoved back onto your reality show. I think Andy Warhol got it wrong. ”
Patton Oswalt | Film | A.V. Club
I don’t think I’ve ever pulled two separate quotes from the same interview, but this is really great stuff. He also talks a lot about how innovative television is today. Plus internet commenters, Taxi Driver, Dollhouse, Bob Dylan, Myspace, and Ireland.
“ Because at the end of my life, I’ll go, “Oh, I enjoyed all those ice-cream sandwiches when I wasn’t arguing with anyone.” I’ll just quietly do what the fuck I want to do. ”
Patton Oswalt | Film | A.V. Club
Patton really is the closest thing we have to a 21st century zen master. Great interview.
Not-So-Fun Fact: I was 1 out of 6 students who performed as Albert in my sixth grade production of Bye Bye Birdie. I was the only one who neither sang nor got close to any of the female leads.
Sad Fact: I really wanted to be Conrad Birdie.
Sadder Fact: For some shady reason I missed my “audition” for the play, and can half remember lying about my whereabouts and then crying to the teacher so she would allow for a make-up audition. I was distraught after first being rebuffed by the teacher, as I had told my family that I would be in the play and if I didn’t get to be in the play, (everybody who auditioned got a part), if I didn’t get to be in the play not only would I have had to explain my audition absence, but exactly what I was going to be doing after-school, now that I had missed out on the school play option we all had agreed upon, would be in question, and most likely, completely out of my control. At age eleven I had neither the answers, nor the wherewithal to construct a semi-coherent alternative, to either of these perfectly reasonable queries. So, I bawled, got the audition, and was given one-sixth of Albert’s lines.
This may or may not be totally accurate but, just know, it was bad.
Also know that the reason I missed the audition was probably not shady at all. More likely I was playing soccer or handball or something and didn’t want to call attention to myself by leaving half way through the game. And while I don’t remember this particular incident, which all in all consisted of telling myself that I didn’t care as I was missing the audition, going home that night saying I actually did audition and that it went fine, and then going in to school the next day on my hands and knees ready to supplicate, I remember so so many similar incidents. Some which hurt nobody at all, and some which hurt everybody involved. Make no mistake, I was a young sniveling coward of a kid.
Gilbert “Dice” Gottfried (The Howard Stern Show, WWOR Channel 9, Episode 7, 1990)
The Howard Stern Show (WWOR - Channel 9, 1990, Episode 6)
(L-R) Howard Stern, Eliot Gould, Lisa Sliwa
Eliot says about a dozen words the whole time. “I don’t think we’re hitting it off.” Robin says during the next segment. He is a sport however and sticks around for the whole show, even dealing with a Barbra Streisand impersonator, and plugging Nutrasystem.
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