March 2012
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samuelhansen:
Jesse Thorn Explains How to Make Your Thing
Jesse Thorn is a hero of mine. I have been listening to his MaximumFun podcasts for years and they have had a rather profound impact on my life. I remember when I got to grad school to study mathematics and quickly realized that it was not what I had always dreamed that it would be. I remember trying to figure out what I should do, do I...
February 2012
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"make your thing"
weslarsen:
Jesse Thorn recently wrote an article on Transom.org
“I’ve been giving an occasional lecture called Make Your Thing for the past couple years. It focuses on twelve independent creators who I really admire, and how they turned what they love into brilliant careers. Among the folks I talk about are Killer Mike, Kate Beaton and Jonathan Coulton - it’s a diverse group.” -Jesse Thorn
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“I looked at myself in the rearview mirror and thought, ‘If I don’t...”
– David Wain on Bullseye
“I just like creating stuff and trying to make good work, whatever it is. I don’t...”
– Andre 3000 (via jessethorn) I have intensely mixed feelings about this quote. It’s a nice sentiment in theory but the actual output of its source isn’t working in its favor. Because uh… nobody wants a damn Andre 3000 toothbrush! And I sincerely doubt that Andre 3000 possesses the skills necessary to...
Radio Superproducer Roman Mars: What Podcasts Do... →
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“I just like creating stuff and trying to make good work, whatever it is. I...”
– Andre 3000
“Until reading this thread, I sincerely did not know that there were people who...”
– Anil Dash weighs in on the Metafilter thread regarding Make Your Thing
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“I don’t like anything about Drake. I don’t like his fucking voice. I don’t like...”
– DMX on Drake
I really like talking-about-Drake DMX. Much more than rapping DMX.
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Just had a great interview with Lateef the...
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“I liked it…But the music made me feel like I was at some gays-only opium...”
– Jordan Morris’ review of Drive, on Jordan Jesse Go
If a squirrel
yourmonkeycalled:
started chasing me, I wouldn’t climb a tree because have you seen squirrels climb trees? They’re amazing at it. Instead, I would probably run onto a yacht. I’ve never seen a squirrel on a yacht.
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WatchI grew up with Peter Frauenfelder, the lead singer of the band Slow Motion Cowboys. He’s basically my brother. The band’s great, and they’ve set a modest goal on Kickstarter to press their new album. You’ve got a few days to help them raise the few hundred bucks they need to make their goal, and you can get a copy of the album, as well. Support them!
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WatchCenac!
Wyatt taking PETA to task for comparing performing whales to slavery is truly amazing. He just destroys it.
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“[Basketball] appeals to the Hebrew with his Oriental background [because] the...”
– New York Daily News sports editor Paul Gallico, circa mid-1930s, displaying some powerful evidence of bigotry’s ability to amuse and horrify simultaneously. I’m trying to decide whether “general smartalecness” or “flashy trickiness” is my favorite quality inherent...
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Killer Mike f. TI and Bun B, produced by El-P?... →
“We the readers of the books and the leaders of the crooks!”
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“Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“I was reading an interview with somebody, somewhere, and they were saying that...”
– On the Media producer PJ Vogt.
Here’s the version of You Send Me in question.
