18. “you don’t know what you think you know”

From New York magazine's obituary of David Lynch: "At times it seemed as if Lynch was trying to do with cinema what he would recommend that aspiring artists do ...: realize that you don’t know what you think you know, and that the guiding principles and systematized rules that were reinforced throughout your existence, in life itself as well as art, are meaningless lies. Something greater and more powerful can be accessed by abandoning or…

17. “some other commitment, something very pure and more personal”

"It was as beautiful a thing as you could witness. He wasn’t enmeshed in the show business of it. . . . There seemed to be some other commitment, something very pure and more personal.” - Lorne Michaels on Andy Kaufman Disclaimer: I'm not a mega fan of either Lorne Michaels or Andy Kaufman. As far as SNL, it's absolutely formative, but I think the fact that it's become this cultural monolith has greatly overshadowed the thing that…

16. “your curtains were flying, though you were not at home…”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Bjs0_jFxUk "And I would like to cry in the carThe blue violet hills and the voice of Neil YoungI left the flowers outside your doorYour curtains were flying though you were not at home And I can only say that I have hoped for youSafety from fears and darknessAre you feeling better than before? There's a hidden life for everyoneSorrow remains and you can't tell no-oneThe host on your tongue is a perfect moonIt does…

15. the starting point of creation

"In his book about Francis Bacon, the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze writes about 'the painting before painting.' There is no such thing as an empty canvas, something is always already there—historical ways of painting, contemporary ways of painting, your own way of painting, clichés, the culture’s entire repertoire of motifs and methods. If you are going to paint a man or a chair in front of you, you have to force your way through the…

14. the sound of Earth’s magnetic field flipping

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tc7XI0iUYU&t=50s "Tens of thousands of years ago, the Earth's magnetic field flipped — and now, scientists have recreated the haunting sound it made during that cataclysmic event. Using data from the European Space Agency's three-satellite Swarm mission delving deep into our planet's magnetic field, Danish and German researchers have managed to map and recreate the sounds of what is known as the Laschamp event, which resulted in Earth's magnetic field briefly flipping 41,000 years ago." and then: "Back in…

13. sound and vision.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtVDGv0Rvzs Demonbox - Extract Sounds from the Electrical Environment I want one of these SO BAD. Along with a Theremin (the Theremini has been on my wishlist since the day it came out.) Ugh. If you have disposable income or have the means to purchase one of these and it's something that would make you get goosebumps, like it does for me just watching the video (I love stuff like this!) it's on Kickstarter. I…

10. grief days

Today is a heavy grief day. I'm not sure, exactly, what set it off, if anything. I'm just moving through it. One thing about grief as compared to other heavier emotional states (such as anxiety, depression, etc.) is that any point in a normal day, the most mundane and illogical thing can just set the grief off, out of nowhere. You'll just be going about your day, and BOOM- it sneaks up behind you and…

09. missing George Michael

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXqX_8gViBs George Michael at the Olympics Closing Ceremony 2012 singing "Freedom" This popped up in my YouTube feed this morning and it actually made me cry a little bit- what a great, great loss losing George Michael was. His album "Listen Without Predjudice" is easily one of my absolute essential of all time. When I was a teenager, I was firmly rooted in my world of Depeche Mode/The Cure/The Smiths, New Order, but George Michael…