yes, i’m addicted to tweetdeck… but i can stop anytime… if i have too… starting next week…

explodingdog:

oh hell. I just zeroed my inbox.

somethingchanged:
Authors of a new brain study find that “just as thinking burns energy, stopping a thought burns energy – like stopping a truck on a downhill slope.” 

Why thinking of nothing can be so tiring: Brain wolfs energy to stop thinking

Missio Dei Music – Alas and did My Savior Bleed

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thomasfitzpatrick:

This is my band at church doing the old hymn “Alas and did my Savior Bleed” by Isaac Watts that was adapted by Sojourn Community

it’s just a rough recording, but i like that you can hear feedback in parts.

and sour notes.

but especially the baby in the beginning.

simply recorded by Jason.

When the shadow of Piney Mountain slowly gives way to sunrise, the verdant Gatsby evening gown slips off the golden shoulder of Beaucather Mountains.

Missio Dei Music – Oh my Soul 11

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thomasfitzpatrick:

This is my band at church doing a song from The Northern Conspiracy (from Mars Hill Church) “What Have We Done”.

it’s a rough recording, but I like Josh on the Cello.

simply recorded by Jason.

meganmcisaac:

if you want to buy a print, just email me with the photo(s) and size(s) that you’d like and i will happily respond as soon as i am able.

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Two questions on a Monday afternoon

 

Historic Battery Park Apartments, Asheville, North Carolina
Battery Park Apartments

 

  1. How many of you have seen Asheville from the Garden Roof of the historic Battery Park Apartments?
  2. How many of you would like to see Asheville from the Garden Roof of the historic Battery Park Apartments?

i’m sorting through last years sales numbers. for a small press, i projected to sell 1500 books. looks like 1600 sold. 

The tape is more an art object that also plays music (similar to vinyl) where the CDR is more a vessel for a piece of music.

Matthew Sage of Patient Sounds, a tape-focused label based out of Fort Collins, Colorado. (via npr)

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours — all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

William Faulkner via This Recording (via somethingchanged)

Ein Haus ohne Bücher ist arm, auch wenn schöne Teppiche seinen Boden und kostbare Tapeten und Bilder die Wände bedecken. (A house without books is poor, even if beautiful carpets cover its floor and expensive wallpapers cover the walls.)

Hermann Hesse (via germanheit)

brocatus:

via art-history: Type design by Albrecht Dürer (link)

At the heart of an effective creative philosophy is the belief that nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature, what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his actions, even though his language so often camouflages what really motivates him. For if you know these things about a man you can touch him at the core of his being

Bill Bernbach

See more great quotes about advertising and planning/strategy here plannersphere / useful quotes

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Confessions : 09

00. It has been many moons since my last confession.

01. I awoke at 5 a.m.

02. A few years ago Janely (janely.blogspot.com) inspired me to write confession posts.

03. My blogging has been on autopilot (thanks to scheduling features on WordPress and Tumblr) during the last couple months…

04. due to a change in policy at the office that restricts access to social media sites (like Twitter) and webstreaming sites (like Youtube).

05. The transition from audio production to graphic design and back is more challenging than I anticipated.

06. I have yet to turn on the home’s heating system despite the fact that outside nightly temperatures have dipped into the low 40s.

07. I finished designing a poetry anthology book…

08. and sent it to the printing press yesterday.

09. I’m listening to the The Wall Street Journal This Morning podcast.

10. I’m currently reading The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter as well as a dozen other book titles.

Previous confessions: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

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ireadintothings: (via call-it-kizmet) story of my life? (by softerworldA Softer World: 591

brocatus:

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amen

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Poetry at the Pulp presents feature poet Landon Godfrey

About a month ago I visited the Orange Peel’s private club PULP for an open mic event. The event featured Keith Flynn and the Holy Men followed by an open mic. This weekend I read on the Asheville Poetry Review Facebook page:

POETRY AT THE PULP open mic night on Wednesday, October 6 at 7pm. Sponsored by Wordfest and The Asheville Poetry Review. Feature poet: Landon Godfrey, whose book of poems, “Second-Skin Rhinestone-Spangled Nude Soufflé Chiffon Gown,” selected by David St. John for the Cider Press book award, will be published February 2011. Come join us and share your work with one of the best crowds in Asheville. The Pulp is located underneath The Orange Peel on Biltmore Avenue. See you there!

If you are unfamiliar with Landon’s work, I recorded on of her readings at the Flood Reading Series, Sunday March 29, 2009. Should be another fine evening at PULP tomorrow night. I look forward to seeing you there.

with the clutter of today’s music, i find it refreshing to listen & sonically soak in the sounds of gregorian chants like Kyrie & Gloria…

Can an autumn morning really evoke a song?

The chilly 39°F weather reminds of the first time I heard ‘Today’ by Smashing Pumpkins. I don’t know. Maybe it’s the innocent sounding tune married to the dark, ironic lyrics. Maybe the song reflects the weather–beautiful, but with a chilly bite. Maybe it’s the fact that the song first hit the mainstream radio like a throat punch about this time of year almost two decades ago. Maybe I just need another cup of coffee.

npr:

An itemized list of where a typical earner’s taxes go would include $625.51 for Medicare, $229.17 for combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, and $28.09 for NASA. See a receipt of other things that made the list.