Adrian’s Microblog

by yours truly

But this bombardment you’re talking about, that’s a choice you make. If you’re interested by a piece of music, you can miss the next twenty new pieces of music that’re fishing for your attention and just focus on that one. It’s really all right. You can just ignore all the big-ticket releases and focus on Jandek’s 9-disc solo piano set for half a year and that’s a totally valid decision. You can take a year to just listen to opera: that was me most of last year, opera and old Silkworm albums. Did I miss something? Maybe; who cares? What I had was not just fine but completely amazing, and I can catch up with anything I missed later, if I want to, and if I don’t, that’s cool too. Being on top of stuff, having an opinion about something when it’s new, this is just not a priority for me at all. Music is eternal, I don’t need to experience it as part of a news cycle. —

John Darnielle (via ayjay)

That last sentence.

When we are our own end, we are unfulfilled. Only when we are pointed to something bigger, do we feel our own worth. — thought that occurred to me

The Truth About Men, Women, Love, and Porn (In 2 minutes and 37 seconds)

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                                           Audrey Assad has a great talent.

Featured here, “Good to Me”, available as a single on iTunes.

Hope you enjoy, and thanks again sds for the share. :)

sds:

This.

Yeah, you know those montage scenes in the movies where the character undergoes a transformation?…yeah, there’s no nice soundtrack, it’s not smooth, and if it weren’t time-compressed on screen, it’d take a whole lot longer than the movie. — thought that occurred to me

There is a thread which runs through the world…

from the faintest flap of the moth, to the thunderous clap of the waterfall from the brightest ray of the sunshine, to the darkest shimmering of the night ocean in the painter’s brush, and the cellist’s bow in the quiet repose, in the aching soul

And I will praise Him still, creator of all wonder And I will praise Him still, in the midst of all its calamity

Though I be vexed by imperfection, to Him I owe my affection He still delights in what faint offering we have to give

And I will praise Him still

davemorin:

Tile - The World’s Largest Lost and Found

Okay, new things are possible that weren’t before…with each new discovery, the horizon widens.And on a more practical note, I could really use this. ;)

Lytro

The patrimony of four symbolic cities of western civilization—Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, and London—culminated in a fifth iconographic city, Philadelphia in 1776 and 1787. — Russell Kirk, as alluded to in an interview about American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll

davemorin:

Adrift (by Simon Christen)

fuck-yeahcamping:

The Kammok Glider is the first ever consumer camping shelter to include built-in rain retention technology. An adjustable suspension allows for natural rain gutters; water is channeled along the tent’s curves to the four feet of the canopy. Flexible water bottles at the base of the feet collect the rainwater for immediate drinking or storage.

“And I saw the river over which every soul must pass to reach the kingdom of Heaven. And the name of that river was suffering. And I saw the boat which carries souls across the river. And the name of that boat was Love.” St. John of the Cross

(via Eric)

Transformers 4 to Prime - Interview with Optimus Prime voice Peter Cullen : Beyond The Trailer (by BeyondTheTrailer)

Helen Alvare on Windsor

Australian photographer Mark Tipple has taken some great shots as part of “The Underwater Project”.

Get me to the water! :)

Los Angeles Review of Books - MOOCs And The Future Of The Humanities: A Roundtable (Part 1)

Kickstarter

UP: Designed for Everyday Life (by jawbone)

A Bit Of Fry And Laurie - Critics - YouTube