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It’s Caturday!
[machoturbo / epic.]
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“It is not often someone comes along that’s a true friend and good writer. Charlotte was both.”— Narrator, Charlotte’s Web
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T-Rex Trying To Put On A Cardigan
#TRexTrying
Quoth the sunbaby, “Hee hee ha ha hee!”
(via thegirlshateher)
I don’t do air quotes very often, but sometimes I feel like I have real quotes on either side of my head. Today, for instance.
I literally did a double take when we got back to the car last night and saw this on the other side of the cart corral.
Diana medaled in her age group in both the race last night and the one this morning. Awesome!
Imagine: “Party Rock Anthem” as played by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.
Nice follow-up quote from Erroll Garner a few chapters after the Miles Davis quote I posted earlier:
“I always play for my audience … The day you say you don’t need your public, you should give up your instrument and quit, I don’t care who you are.”
I’m really living this book. I wish I could shake Art Taylor’s hand for doing these interviews with so many giants.
Who chi who chi coo
Art Taylor:: What does 'who chi coo' mean, and how do you spell it?
Erroll Garner:: Just the way it sounds. 'Who chi coo' is an expression that Sarah Vaughan and I used all the time years ago, because we were very good friends ... It means "magnificent obsession." If I dig what you do, when we're playing, you're a magnificent obsession; if I don't, I say nothing. So when I say "Who chi who chi coo," that means you really are a magnificent obsession.
“Art Tatum really turned me on … One day he said, ‘Don, don’t ever worry about what you’re going to play or where the ideas are going to come from. Just remember there is no such thing as a wrong note.’ He said, ‘What makes a note wrong is when you don’t know where to go after that one’ … You hit one. If that’s not right, you hit another. If that’s not right you hit another one, so you just keep hitting … As long as you keep going you’re all right, but don’t stop, because if you stop you’re in trouble. Don’t ever stop unless you’re at a station.”
Don Byas, interviewed by Art Taylor in Paris, November 11, 1969 (from Taylor’s book Notes and Tones: Musician-to-Musician Interviews)
“The thing is, I never think about an audience. I just think about the band. And if the band is all right, I know the audience is pleased. I don’t have to hold the audience’s hand. I think audiences are hipper than musicians think they are. They wouldn’t be there if they didn’t want to hear some music, so you don’t have to con them into believing that this music is great. I figure they can judge for themselves, and those who don’t like it don’t have to like it, and those who do like it will have a nice time listening. If I go to a concert, I take it like that.”
Miles Davis, interviewed by Art Taylor in New York City, January 22, 1968 (from Taylor’s book Notes and Tones: Musician-to-Musician Interviews)
“From the dawn of time we came, moving silently through the centuries. Living many secret lives, struggling to reach the time of the gathering, when the few who remain will battle to the last. No one has ever known we were among you … . . until now.”
The first title card of Highlander, including its five-dotted ellipsis. It is narrated by Sean Connery in his thickest Scottish accent, though he plays a Spaniard named Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramírez in the film.
Then, Freddie Mercury (and a universe of layered harmonies) sings, “Heeeeeeere we are! Born to be kings! We’re the princes of the universe!” with assistance provided by Brian May’s giant guitar chord.
And then there’s this incredible tracking shot all the way around an arena until we find Russell Nash (aka “Connor MacLeod). In the arena is a professional wrestling match. In the parking garage outside are immortals clashing in a sword fight to the death. It’s so ridiculous and wonderful.
And that’s before the Kurgan even shows up.
If you ever want me to stick around for a while, put on Highlander.
George Harrison
One of the things I love about George Harrison is Friar Park, with its sprawling landscape and its bizarre, enormous manor house. He installed a recording studio there. Shakespear’s Sister recorded Hormonally Yours in it.
He locked it up tightly after John Lennon was murdered, and his fears were justified two decades later when a man broke in and attacked George and Olivia.
But, even before Lennon’s death and the locked gates, Friars Park may have isolated George in other ways. Michael Palin (of Monty Python) writes in Diaries 1969-1979:
It has none of the feel of a big draughty Victorian house, but one can’t escape the feeling of George somehow cut off from everyday life by the wealth that’s come his way.
Still, looking at that photo, you have to imagine it was like living in his own tiny kingdom with all the toys money can buy. There are worse places to be isolated.
![thedailywhat:
Choose Your Own Adventure of the Day: The Netherlands’ national air carrier, KLM, is set to launch a Facebook app that will allow passengers to pick their seatmates based on similarities in their online profiles.
After purchasing a ticket, patrons will be invited to link their Facebook profiles to their check-in information using a web tool called “Meet & Seat.”
They will then be presented with a list of other passengers with similar interests, hobbies, and/or vocations who have done the same, and will be able to select the person they feel most comfortable sharing the flight with.
The app is still being developed, and the official launch isn’t expected until next year, but other airlines are already looking into building similar “social seating tools.”
[ibtimes.]
I really like my alone time on flights—especially when I’m flying to or from a work conference, where I spend most of the week interacting with people. However, I had a really nice two-hour chat with a stranger on my most recent flight, so I can see the value in this.
Fun or creepy? What do you think?](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwda8bAqRQ1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
Choose Your Own Adventure of the Day: The Netherlands’ national air carrier, KLM, is set to launch a Facebook app that will allow passengers to pick their seatmates based on similarities in their online profiles.
After purchasing a ticket, patrons will be invited to link their Facebook profiles to their check-in information using a web tool called “Meet & Seat.”
They will then be presented with a list of other passengers with similar interests, hobbies, and/or vocations who have done the same, and will be able to select the person they feel most comfortable sharing the flight with.
The app is still being developed, and the official launch isn’t expected until next year, but other airlines are already looking into building similar “social seating tools.”
[ibtimes.]
I really like my alone time on flights—especially when I’m flying to or from a work conference, where I spend most of the week interacting with people. However, I had a really nice two-hour chat with a stranger on my most recent flight, so I can see the value in this.
Fun or creepy? What do you think?
