Thingas that have brightened my day...

1) Harry Potter Trailer (Fucking SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)


2)Rainn Wilson said to Fresh Air's Terry Gross, "That's what she said." (In reference to Bassoon reed sucking)

If this is aging gracefully...

I would rather just drink.

Durty South the New Hipster Me Has Arrived!

"Being from the Mississippi Delta is sooo ironic. It's the new Bushwick (as Williamsburg is now no longer cool)."
Thanks to a steady diet of collard greens, Miller High-Life, BBQ, coke, bible reading, and American Apparel shopping I now look like this kids!

My hometown has its own "hipsters" though this is not an entirely genuine statement. Most of what you could call "hipsters" in my town suffer from none of the ironic pretensions of their east-cost(i.e. Parsons School of Design/L-Train Commuting/LES chilling) brethren do. In this town I am considered a hipster. I like PBR and have been known to listen to certain bands that are associated with being a "hipster." I am listening to TVOTR as I write this. I think I need to think about all of this. Not so much what it says about me but about regional cultural incongruence. Who knows, maybe I will invest in skinny jeans or a keffiyah. Nah, I will stick with my cowboy boots and un-ironic Enya listening for the moment.

Things I Think About...

Consider an idea: a unicorn, justice, the notion of an idea itself, pi, centaurs, "substance," etc, etc, etc... Ideas, as such, dictate a lot of our thinking and even more importantly or dreams and aspirations. There has been much written about "ideas." Locke put a lot of time into them. Simple ideas.
What do we do with ideas? What do we call them? Notions, concepts, dreams? These are things (in perhaps the loosest since of the term) that play a huge role in all things. But WHAT is there ontological status? This is a stupid question. If there is an answer it will never be one that is discovered or agreed upon. So what can we do with ideas? And this is exactly my point, we DO things with ideas. Whether or not we can decide WHAT they are we do not stop that from doing things, important things with them. This is an important point I believe. We do the same thing with a lots of things: language is an important one. What is language and where does it derive its meanings? To some extent who cares? We do not stop using it because we haven't quite pinned down its definition. Its functionality was never in dispute.
Oh well, just one of those things I think about....

ps-Something else I also think about: Why are ideas symbolized by light bulbs?

But! Where was I going?

Somethings and Some People....

...I miss. Photo shamelessly thieved from D. Poetry (with respect of course).

My New Favourites...

The Watson Twins (not the Thompson Twins obviously.
ps-Yes, that is a Cure song.
pps-Thanks for the tip A. I owe ya' one.