December 2011
I love the part of Bowie’s “Young Americans” that is almost a precise lift from John Lennon’s “A Day in the Life”; it reaches toward an intertextuality that is more common and exploited better in great poetry. It’s like two geniuses having an elegant conversation through pop music.
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My restaurant is in the newspaper again. →
Just when I was complaining about how hard it is to keep the music scene going.
“Let me tell you something you already know. The world isn’t all sunshine and...”
– - Rocky Balboa (via mybeauty-inprocess)
“Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm — which...”
– Wendell Berry, farmer and author (b. 1934)
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Today I have to go to the country where there is no such thing as iPhone reception and watch people eat meat without wine. I don’t have a cigar, which was what saved me last year because I could spend an hour outside, listening to the snow by myself, because nobody loves you when you’re smoking a cigar. That’s the best thing about smoking cigars; it buys you alone time.
I would...
I like to pride myself on the fact that I love parts of all musical genres, but I will say this: no music moves me the way jazz does. It’s been this way as long as I can remember.
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IBM is predicting things again. →
Every year they make predictions. I like them even if they are often wrong. It’s fun to look into the future of technology.
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iBartend: The Chicago Honey Chai'tini →
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One of my newest recipes that I have put together contains an American based Bourbon called Slate. This blended bourbon, which is distilled in Chicago, is now a very rare bottle of spirit, as it no longer is distributed in South Africa. I managed to saver this bottle for the past 3 years and…
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Just saying: I know a lot of people hate their fathers because they drank too much, but I really wish my father had drunk a lot more when he was raising me. Would have been a whole lot easier really. Movies get this wrong all the time; there needs to be way more films about jerk teetotaler fathers.
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“For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.”
– Jello Biafra, musician (b. 1958)
