Hi.

Hi everyone. It's been a while. Sorry for the long break. Sorry half the video's don't work anymore.

Sorry 2013 is almost over. Sorry we've gotten older. Sorry I haven't read a book since the summer.

Sorry I'm being such a bummer. It's good to see you again.

 

(Exploding Dog)

The Grand Budapest Hotel by Wes Anderson

 

Ralph Fiennes and Wes Anderson. Looking forward to this one.

Piers Morgan Interviews "Deport Piers Morgan" Guy

This happened...

Happy New Year

 

Hey ya'll.

This is Rdio's Best of 2012 playlist. I don't know a lot of

the songs, but thought they sounded pretty good after first listen.

Thought I'd throw em up here since it's been so long.

I hope everyone has a great 2013 / post-apocalyse.

People Simply Empty Out

lettersofnote:

 

In 1969, publisher John Martin offered to pay Charles Bukowski $100 each and every month for the rest of his life, on one condition: that he quit his job at the post office and become a writer. 49-year-old Bukowski did just that, and in 1971 his first novel, Post Office, was published by Martin’s Black Sparrow Press.

15 years later, Bukowski wrote the following letter to Martin and spoke of his joy at having escaped full time employment.

(Source: Reach for the Sun Vol. 3; Image: Charles Bukowski, via.)

8-12-86

Hello John:

Thanks for the good letter. I don’t think it hurts, sometimes, to remember where you came from. You know the places where I came from. Even the people who try to write about that or make films about it, they don’t get it right. They call it “9 to 5.” It’s never 9 to 5, there’s no free lunch break at those places, in fact, at many of them in order to keep your job you don’t take lunch. Then there’s OVERTIME and the books never seem to get the overtime right and if you complain about that, there’s another sucker to take your place.

You know my old saying, “Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.”

And what hurts is the steadily diminishing humanity of those fighting to hold jobs they don’t want but fear the alternative worse. People simply empty out. They are bodies with fearful and obedient minds. The color leaves the eye. The voice becomes ugly. And the body. The hair. The fingernails. The shoes. Everything does.

As a young man I could not believe that people could give their lives over to those conditions. As an old man, I still can’t believe it. What do they do it for? Sex? TV? An automobile on monthly payments? Or children? Children who are just going to do the same things that they did?

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: “Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?”

They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

Now in industry, there are vast layoffs (steel mills dead, technical changes in other factors of the work place). They are layed off by the hundreds of thousands and their faces are stunned:

“I put in 35 years…”

“It ain’t right…”

“I don’t know what to do…”

They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work. I could see all this. Why couldn’t they? I figured the park bench was just as good or being a barfly was just as good. Why not get there first before they put me there? Why wait?

I just wrote in disgust against it all, it was a relief to get the shit out of my system. And now that I’m here, a so-called professional writer, after giving the first 50 years away, I’ve found out that there are other disgusts beyond the system.

I remember once, working as a packer in this lighting fixture company, one of the packers suddenly said: “I’ll never be free!”

One of the bosses was walking by (his name was Morrie) and he let out this delicious cackle of a laugh, enjoying the fact that this fellow was trapped for life.

So, the luck I finally had in getting out of those places, no matter how long it took, has given me a kind of joy, the jolly joy of the miracle. I now write from an old mind and an old body, long beyond the time when most men would ever think of continuing such a thing, but since I started so late I owe it to myself to continue, and when the words begin to falter and I must be helped up stairways and I can no longer tell a bluebird from a paperclip, I still feel that something in me is going to remember (no matter how far I’m gone) how I’ve come through the murder and the mess and the moil, to at least a generous way to die.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

yr boy,

Hank

 

(YMFY)

Presidential Debate - Bad Lip Reading

(Huffington Post)

Killing Yourself To Live - Chuck Klosterman

 

I want to read this book.

 

"We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime. It’s easy. The first girl I

ever loved was someone I knew in sixth grade. Her name was Missy; we talked about horses. The last

girl I love will be someone I haven’t even met yet, probably. They all count. But there are certain

 people you love who do something else; they define how you classify what love is supposed to feel

 like. These are the most important people in your life, and you’ll meet maybe four or five of these

 people over the span of 80 years. But there’s still one more tier to all this; there is always one person

 you love who becomes that definition. It usually happens retrospectively, but it happens eventually.

 This is the person who unknowingly sets the template for what you will always love about other

people, even if some of these loveable qualities are self-destructive and unreasonable. The person

who defines your understanding of love is not inherently different than anyone else, and they’re often

 just the person you happen to meet the first time you really, really, want to love someone. But that

 person still wins. They win, and you lose. Because for the rest of your life, they will control how you

 feel about everyone else."

-Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story by Chuck Klosterman

(YMFY)(YMFY)

Nerd Alert

 

I want this. Bobine - an  iPhone cable that also acts as a flexible tripod. Incredible.

Now we just need one compatible with the iPhone 5...

(YMFY)

Cleveland '95 (a.k.a. F%$# Cleveland Night!)

I haven't had a chance to catch the new NFL Films piece Cleveland '95,

but what went through my head when I heard about it
is described pretty accurately by this Mike Polk video.

Dudewater

 

If you haven't checked them out, the writing over at Dudewater is getting pretty damn good...