October 2010
9 posts
“It’s pretty hard to teach a kid who has been raised by the television, when he...”
– Robert Freeman (via AZspot), addressing the biggest problem our modern educational system faces: not bad teachers or bad schools, but the downward spiral of poverty and the decimation of the middle class. (via marco)
he was on to something
The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What’s that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you’re too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty...
“Pontius Pilates can be practiced with nothing more than a board, a nail, and a...”
– The Pontius Pilates method (via zoya)
Amen
To me, it was more about the intent rather than the sound, because I think a lot of Magnetic Fields or Neutral Milk Hotel or even some Superchunk songs would sound great sung by Taylor Swift with slick Nashville production. A song’s a song.
Win Butler
Watchgoing to see frightened rabbit next week.
