Reblogged for Emily, should you not already have seen all of these.

Highly unlikely.

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This will never be seen again.

This is a hugely depressing day for hip-hop/music in general.  The death of Adam “MCA” Yauch will likely impact all of us without our even knowing it; such an integral member of such an inspirational group.

Just unreal.

I have not been this affected by the death of a musician, I don’t think, in my life.

Me and my band, The Files & Fires, in the frame.

Obviously the intended species for space travel/overall galactic dominance.

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This is among the saddest things I have seen in a while.

COOLER THAN THIS IS AS FOLLOWS:

I have been working at the Buffalo News.  In a display case they keep the paper “On this day, 100 years ago”.  They turn the page every day to remain current with what day it really is (‘cept, of course, 100 years ago).  Since I got the job there, I have been yearning to see the cover when news struck about the Titanic sinking.  I have already seen an image of it, but ohman I will get to see the real thing soon!

In other 100 year old news:  Today, 100 years ago, it was reported that some lady came home to a burglar in her house.  She cleverly proceeds to grab a toy pistol, and sneaking up on the thief, forces him down to the cellar where she held the fake gun to his head and got the police to come.  The man, after finding out the pistol was fake, actually requested that they “just lock him up”. 

I thought that story was hilarious.  Today it’s not unlikely that the robber would feel just in filing legal action against the old lady for some reason or another.

!!!!!!!!!!

For tomorrow afternoon I need to have written a fifteen minute presentation paper based on an analysis incorporating post-tonal diatonic set-theory, Neo-Riemannian transformations, and whatever else I feel is relevant…

I should mention that I have only just begun looking at the piece.

…. 

Graduate school blues.

Matching Nerf guns for Valentine’s day…

Great ideas.  I have them.

How fun, how fun!

Everything is just a little bit off…

Single from the forthcoming Andrew Bird record; out 6 March 2012.

Shit tits, I could not be more stoked about this.

So, I have, for the last 4 hours or so, been sitting at this coffee shop…

For almost that entire time there has been a man who, having rather irresponsibly imbibed, has been walking in and out to ramble periodically about the outcome of the football games that are on today; dude loves Tom Brady….  “Ever here of this guy, this guy that was Tom Brady’s idol growing up… Joe Montana?!  Yeah…  Well, Joe Montana was no Tom Brady…”

How fun.

“You don’t know anything about sports.  You only know about school…  I never went to college; wasn’t smart enough.  I’m smart enough now though…

…I’ll be an astronomer.  I know all about the stars…  And the planets!  My mind’s made up.  I’m gonna’ go to Buff’ State…  Gonna’ be an astronomer.  I know more about the planets and the stars than anybody.  Pluto ain’t a planet no more!”

… you go, guy.  Reach for the stars.

This movie.  Love me some this movie.

Wishing you were someone else.  Some place far away.

Shit tits, this.

I can not wait to get back to my lady and go see this movie.  If, for nothing else, for Jonsi’s soundtrack to it.

Also… Does no one else find it questionable that the film is advertised as having been directed by the same man who directed “Jerry Maguire”, and not, say, “Almost Famous”, or “Vanilla Sky”, or something else (anything else?)?  It has, I suppose, to do with the film’s target audience.  This may be the case.

Either way.  A powerful excitement has fallen upon me.