Aug 8, 2011
As lovely an exercise in hushed, sparse production and small-detail storytelling as you’ll find these days.
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As lovely an exercise in hushed, sparse production and small-detail storytelling as you’ll find these days.
“It’s a cliché, I know, but he personifies it.”
Not sure how I'd feel if somebody said that about me. From my profile of retired Air Force Major-General and OU adjunct professor Jerry Holmes. Boring art, but whatevs.
I don't want to condescend to my former self and to my material-- that's irresponsible. You have to take account for everything you write and stand by it. But I agree with you. The older songs don't sit well with this stuff, and it feels like there's something very naïve about them. I still think it's important that they have a life beyond me and my own ability to embody them. The songs are not my own. I'm a populist in that sense, where I don't want to be too protective of it. I don't want to take away a person's experience at a show. They own that experience, and that's theirs to have.
Sufjan Stevens, in interview with Pitchfork. Saw him in Kansas City a few months back, with some good friends. Even wrote about it on this very blog.
'Love' is a junk drawer word. It means that you really like something right now.
- paraphrasing from one of Matt Chandler's recent podcasts. He's the pastor of The Village Church in Dallas, TX.
“I realized in a way, it’s how I’m holding on to my mom and dad,” the architecture professor said in his office, eyes flushing and puffy. “By cutting my hair, I have to let go — in a way, it’ll be like a final goodbye."
from my story about an OU professor who donated 15 inches of hair to Locks of Love earlier this week. Read the rest of it here.
"My recent allowance is 40¢. This I used for aeroplanes and other playthings of childhood but now I am a scout and I put away my childish things. ... When I am a scout I have to buy canteens, haversacks, blankets, searchlights poncho things that will last for years and I can always use it while I can't use a chocolate marshmallow sunday with vanilla ice cream and so I put in a plea for a raise of thirty cents for me to buy scout things and pay my own way more around."
- from the freshly-digitized trove of JFK history unveiled upon the 50th anniversary of his inauguration. Was young Johnny incredibly precocious or did all the children write that way in the early 20th century?