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Some of you might be familiar with a certain video that has been floating around the internet with a waif, young woman in her lingerie practicing near her lover who is asleep in bed. It is important to break down this video in terms of context. One way to view this video is as a piece of art. The…
At the Beacon Theater on Friday the Cure played its first three albums in their entirety, back to back.
this is the song that made me think i was going to make a cd for my good friend on her cross-country trek and suddenly it was july 1 and i realized just how quickly time flies and i had never made the cd in time. so to you my good friend; listen closely at 1:40 and especially at 1:45. no matter where you go, what you do, you can never forget your home.
last week i canceled cable. finally. i never watched the cable channels. just the networks. what did i lose? well, alex trebek doesn’t look as dapper as alex trebek HD but i have managed.
and it appears that the cable canceling was timely. front page of sundays new york times reported that high-def cable boxes are energy suckers: read on about your cable box vs. your refrigerator.
for my good friend, amanda rae.
Not Your Year; the Weepies.
For quite some time [nearly two years] this space has simply become a place for me to send phone pics. sad, i have often thought. i was once pretty enthusiastic about sharing my thoughts here.
Recently I considered creating a new blog. Resourceful as I try to be, I didn’t like the idea of deleting or neglecting this tumblr. For some reason, it holds meaning for me still.
I am currently reading American Veda by Philip Goldberg. The story of the Vedas, Eastern wisdom, moving to the Western culture. Ralph Waldo Emerson met Henry David Thoreau, his student at Harvard, and they shared a fondness for the literature coming from India. Emerson gave advice to Thoreau that he considered invaluable: Keep a journal.
Hence, my tumblr continues as my digital journal.
