I'm not there

December 2, 2007

I should start out by saying that I hate bio pics.  I'm not known to be much of a Dylan fan either. So there's no way I'm watching I'm not there. But I have to say that the soundtrack is just incredible. A lot of my favorite artists (Sufjan Stevens, Calexico, Mason Jennings) are on this album doing really great Dylan covers. First song I downloaded was Mason's version of The Times They Are a-Changin'. As I repeatedly listened to the song in my cold office over the weeeknd, I couldn't help but think how the lyrics, originally mean't to echo the political sentiments in the 60s, could be an appropriate warning for global warming/sea level rise.

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'

Or, I just have a really twisted interpretation of what songs mean. PS: It was weird that the next song on my "shuffle" was Mason's Be here now

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    April 22, 2008

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  • Why airline mergers is not a long-term solution
    April 21, 2008


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  • Noah's Ark is here
    February 29, 2008


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    January 28, 2008


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  • Planet earth clip show - Silly but amusing nonetheless.
    January 27, 2008


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  • 360 degree motion video of NYC (I think). Very cool.


    December 4, 2007

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  • How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook
    For every long-lost chum who reaches out to me on Facebook, there's a guy who beat me up on a weekly basis through the whole seventh grade but now wants to be my buddy; or the crazy person who was fun in college but is now kind of sad; or the creepy ex-co-worker who I'd cross the street to avoid but who now wants to know, "Am I your friend?" yes or no, this instant, please.


    November 27, 2007

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  • 12 to 18 year old single malt Scotch helps me [deal with the anxiety around the economic and global clusterfuck]

    I don't mean this flippantly. Every bottle of good Scotch is an optimistic vote for the future of mankind, and a testament to the wisdom of the people that made it, and kept it for us, against the day our cold bones and weakened hearts would most need it.

    Nobody lays down good whisky for the future, unless they believe in tomorrow, and in those of us who'll need it, when it's golden ripe and ready. Those what make it often don't get to enjoy it, but probably enjoyed some layed down for them, when they didn't know enough to lay any down, themselves.

    So, it comes round, and it goes round, and warms our hearts and loosens our tongues when most we need it. Courage in a bottle, and hope of better days, from those who've gone before.

    - A heartwarming comment by paulsc over at Askme


    November 27, 2007

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  • Matt Stuart is a photographer who takes unusual and amusing pictures of people doing everyday stuff.
    November 23, 2007


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  • The zagat history of my last relationship
    November 21, 2007


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