A song and a video packed with loads of samples and references, which you undoubtedly can analyse until it actually drives you crazy. The alternative I suggest: click the play-button below, just sit back and enjoy this Frontier Psychiatrist, released by the Australian band The Avalanches in 2000.
“The weird becomes the normal with remarkable speed these days.”
Andrew McAfee
(on how technological novelties get mainstream with ever increasing speed)
One of the podcasts* I regularly listen to is HBR Ideacast and a while ago I heard an episode featuring Ron Friedman on how to structure your day to get the most done. One of the claims he makes is that you should not check your email at the beginning of your working day. I completely disagree. Continue reading
“To a canary, a cat is a monster.”
Dr. Henry Wu (Jurassic World)
The sixties should primarily be referred to as the decade that brought us The Beatles, of course. But there was more, in some cases from completely different segments of the the musical spectrum. Take this amazing Andy Williams song from 1967 (accompanied by some amazing contemporary footage of the topic at hand).
But beware: you will be whistling the tune for the rest of the day.
One of the big frustrations for people in search of a job is not getting any feedback on your job applications. You spend quite an amount of time and go to a lot of trouble to come up with a decent letter and then you hear… nothing at all. It’s not really hard to understand the resulting frustration, right?
On the other hand, it’s also understandible Continue reading
“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
Frank Zappa
The songs I select here are primarily chosen for their merit as a song, not for the video accompanying the music- as you might already have deducted from the fact that for some of them the video shown is not actually a video clip, but rather a few minutes of footage of a picture (I’ve tried to use SoundCloud as an alternative to YouTube, but some of the music clips there tends to disappear after a while and that is not the case with YouTube, at least not that I’ve noticed – but YouTube does bring other difficulties, as I have mentioned before).
For some songs, however, the video is definitely very much worth watching, as with this Unfinished Sympathy by Massive Attack. At first sight it might not look special or spectacular, until you realize that the entire 5 minute clip is just one single shot. Both smooth and compelling.
“A man may be a fool and not know it — but not if he is married.”
H. L. Mencken
Please note: this post will unfortunately not be of much value to buddhists (due to their belief in reincarnation) or cats (commonly known to possess 9 lives)
YOLO at age 10: dig up all the money you can possibly collect from any source conceivable, just go to the shop and buy that game – no matter what your parents say (you’ll find out soon enough that it was not worth the money after all and in a couple of years you will even be ready to admit it). Continue reading
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