Son, people will always try and fuck you. Don’t waste your life planning for a fucking, just be alert when your pants are down.
– Justin (shitmydadsays) on TwitterLADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PARIS RECORDS by Ethan Persoff
He grins, “So then, Hal signs on and it was back to basics. Just like with Ginsberg, with Terry, with everyone. I set out to read everything Hunter had ever published.” Previously this process led to a mixtape selection, of sorts, of work spread out across the author’s career (an example with Ginsberg, seventeen pieces). But instead, with Hunter, Michael’s focus sharpens. “It hits me. The piece to do is The Kentucky Derby - And that’s it. As one complete piece. That’s the album.”
From a creative development angle this single-piece concept is exciting. Artistically speaking, this justifies the album as being necessary, in so much as it completes the aesthetic form of the series. A long form piece is a jump in size and shape, a larger piece of canvas and a proper final act. And the possibility of SOUNDS in the thing, a drunken binge at a Kentucky horse race, is endless. It is also much better, more menacing and visceral, as a piece of sound than as a piece of film. I ask where they are in production:
“We just recorded the text with Tim Robbins, Ralph Steadman, Dr. John and Annie Ross. It went very well. Steadman and Mac (Mac Rebennack, Dr. John) are great spoken word performers.”
Ralph Steadman playing himself is inspired. But so is this new take on Hunter. Tim Robbins! Michael asserts Tim Robbins’ take on Hunter is the best he’s heard.
I was completely unaware this was happening, but that’s awesome.
Christopher Kimball, founder and editor or Cooks Illustrated, defends his dismissal of recipes and cooking advice found on the Internet:
In terms of recipes, no, I do not believe in a Wiki website, with a community opining on recipes as a means of creating a valuable database. Making a recipe 75 times in a test kitchen under controlled circumstances (yes, this is deeply self-serving) is vastly better than the voices of millions under less the ideal circumstances, with kitchens with a host of different problems/equipment/etc.Cooks Illustrated is the finest magazine I know. It’s ad-free, well written, useful, and beautifully designed. Put it next to your typical cooking or lifestyle magazine and they seem like they’re from different worlds.
It’s easy to dismiss Kimball back, painting him as a technophobic curmudgeon. But keep in mind, Cooks has an excellent website as well, and Mr. Kimball’s Twitter feed paints him as a funny, warm, and knowledgeable dude.
We need trusted editors, and we need people with strong opinions. For me, what stands out about Cooks is that they’re committed to challenging their own subjective tastes. Their authority derives from repeat performance and comparative taste tests. Their recipes are not lists of instructions; they’re stories that tell the whole process, from the idea to the finished dish.
Last March, Sally Harpold, an Indiana grandmother of triplets, bought two boxes of cold medication in less than a week. Together, the two boxes contained 3.6 grams of pseudoephedrine, putting her in violation of the state’s methamphetamine-fighting law, which forbids the purchase of more than three grams by one person in a seven-day period. Police came to Harpold’s home, arrested and handcuffed her, and booked her in a Vermillion County jail. No one believes Harpold was making meth or aiding anyone who was. But local authorities aren’t apologizing for her arrest.
–The Agitator » Blog Archive » Hoosier Grandmother Arrested for Purchasing Cold Medication
Your Indiana justice system in action… Sheesh.
HST to Jann Wenner after Jann refused to pay for Hunter’s Cadillac rental car for a Rolling Stone piece: “I can’t cover the Goddamn ‘American Dream’ in a Volkswagen. What the fuck is wrong with you?” Jann, “Well, of course that’s quite true.”
Isolated vocal track from “Ace Of Spades”. Lemmy, man.
I have thought about exactly this way too often in my life.
(via someone, I think charmingortedious, but I pulled the original to my computer and forgot about it, don’t hate me, I hope we can still be fairly anonymous internet friends)
pissed off as hell obama needs to be inpeached
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The need for speed...
I just deleted a handful of Firefox extensions I don’t really use, and I don’t know which one(s) were causing it to slow to a crawl every time I launched it, but it’s kinda fast now.
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Get me on the lake and I’m trouble, last weekend fished around and caught a triple double
I didn’t even have to use my expensive bait, I gotta say it was a good day
