this has been floating around the net a lot, but I would be remiss if I didn’t clue you in to this elequent essay by the one and only Carl Sagan about the positive effects that smoking pot has had on his life…
sample:
“There is a myth about such highs: the user has an illusion of great insight, but it does not survive scrutiny in the morning. I am convinced that this is an error, and that the devastating insights achieved when high are real insights; the main problem is putting these insights in a form acceptable to the quite different self that we are when we’re down the next day”
There’s a bunch of brooha over this director ripping off ffffound images for his latest video (which frankly isn’t that great), but this video, which he made earlier, is solid. Good concept, gets better as it goes along. The song is ok I guess…I loved that Lenny Kravitz album when it came out…I was in college and Jeff C and I went to see Lenny in concert at GW in DC…he did "Let Love Rule" as the encore and when the song finished, the crowd just kept singing "let…love…rule…" over and over and Lenny walked out into the crowd…I touched his dreads at one point, it was weird…
still, strange move from Justice to remix it, right? Also major points off for disabling embedding in youtube. Losers. Forcing me to go over to his website, dl the QT, convert it to flash, etc. Why? Let people embed it for crying out loud…
Just wow. Sometimes a song put with found footage can work together to be kind of subime. Put another way, you know I love stuff that makes me feel like I’m on psychedelics when I’m stone cold sober a 10am in the morning. I feel like I’ve seen this footage before, or atleast some clips of this show…I’m pretty sure it’s Japanese, and as kooky-weird as Teletubbies or HR Puffnstuff…
Stick with it, both the video and song get better and more affecting as they go along…
I’m trying to think of other things that go in there…like finishing a project that has dominated your world for a time…watching a marathon of a guilty pleasure…
I love that story about Brian Wilson driving somewhere when he was young and hearing "Be My Baby" come over the radio and being so blown away by it that he had to pull over and stop the car. They say that inspired him to make Pet Sounds and that inspired the Beatles to make Sgt. Pepper’s. These days I’m a little burned out on Sgt. Pepper’s; also it took me a long time to be into the Beach Boys, and now I’m pretty sick of Pet Sounds. But I can always listen to "Be My Baby", that song doesn’t get old!
I subscribed to this podcast called Coverville that’s all covers and the first one I listened to had this amazing cover of "Be My Baby"…I’ve been meaning to post it for ages…really good on headphones…
It’s by DM Stith, who’s on Sufjan Steven’s label, and I guess was discovered by Sufjan? Heard that somewhere…anyway, the track is great, I should check out the album…
Hey, it’s TV season in the Grump household…so let’s take a quick survey of what we’re watching:
– Bored To Death – getting better and better…Ted Danson is amazing, Zack Galifanikis hasn’t worn out his welcome yet (surprising!), the writing is crisp and funny, and it’s a hoot seeing a show determined to show you what Brooklyn is like…
– Mad Men – not a bad season, the one with the mower was stunning…I did recall the other day though, that season 1 had a mind-blower at the end of EVERY EPISODE, and it’s tough to hold up to that kind of standard…still, as someone said the other day, "I like the slow burn"
– 30 Rock – still funny, but the episodes seem to be getting less and less memorable…everyone still seems to be on top form (Baldwin, Tracey Morgan, Tina Fey), maybe they’re burning out a little? still funny though…
– Grey’s Anatomy – hot diggity this show is kicking out the jams…MT and I theorize that since they’ve been able to get rid of Blonde Heigel everyone’s been rejuvenized…apart from 2 weeks ago’s narrative excercise with the Rashomon-like shifting perspectives (blah) this show has been well solid…also probably helped by the fact that they’ve minimized the Ellen Pompeo since she’s pregnant…
– Friday Night Lights – I remember Luke telling me to watch this show years ago, then KG made a case for it so we gave it a shot and have been hooked hooked hooked…so solid, even with multiple misfired over the past seasons (Landry/Tyra murder thing, Tim/Lyla on again off again)…just finished watching the second episode of this season and it was really really good…they’ve done a really stellar job of tearing Coach Taylor down and having him start again…plus in the middle of the show they had this great scene…out of nowhere::
