April 2012
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tomorrow night yayyyy!!
The most important thing a creative person can learn professionally is where to...
– Wisdom from Hugh McLeod and other great thinkers on how to find your purpose and do what you love.
popculturebrain:
TV Tripping Super Cut. Party on.
huffposttv:
Roger Sterling’s “Mad Men” LSD adventure inspired our mashup of TV characters tripping. Enjoy!
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…check this out, all right, I’m the President of the United States—[I] only...
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If this isn’t evidence for the brokenness of the education system, coming straight from Barack Obama, don’t know what is. Obama spoke in North Carolina on why Congress needs to act to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling. (via explore-blog)
off-topic but something very near and...
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we should all turn off our televisions and close our laptops and go outside and...
– dave holmes (via his tumblr)
In “The Geographic Flow of Music,” a paper submitted to the online scientific...
– Network Science Reveals the Cities Leading Music Listening Habits (via annielin)
entertainmentweekly:
Just when you thought you couldn’t love him more, Parks and Rec star Nick Offerman read tweets from the likes of Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus while wielding power tools.
Less than nine hours until his show returns!
guessing this is the most important video you’ll see today.
1. Develop your sensitivity to music. Try to respond esthetically to all sounds,...
– How to Listen to Music – a vintage guide to the 7 skills essential to perceptive listening.
This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind...
– John Cleese shares 5 factors to make your life more creative in this classic 1991 talk.
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popculturebrain:
First Listen: Jason Mraz’s New Album ‘Love Is A Four Letter Word’ in Full | VH1
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what i'm listening to this morning...
some new stuff, and some “new to me” stuff… figured i’d share!
m. ward’s new album a wasteland companion (a few songs in…i guess it’s all right)
tony lucca (NOT because he’s on the voice. good stuff.)
dan andriano’s takes for ryan russell’s nervous energies sessions
the artists on adrian grenier’s new project, wreckroom.
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Just saw this amazing little indie movie. It's...
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– Theraflu does not appreciate Kanye West’s “Theraflu”.
Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy — they’re given after...
– Amazon founder Jeff Bezos at Princeton, 1986, in one of 5 timeless graduation addresses to live by.
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Ira Glass, Owen Wilson, Rob Thomas team for 'This... →
THIS SOUNDS AMAZING. (not the matchbox rob thomas, the veronica mars rob thomas. still. amazing.)
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If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has...
– John Steinbeck’s caveat to advice on writing. (via explore-blog)
explore-blog:
Set Me Free – so much pop culture history and gender studies in this Mad Men remix.
(Thanks, Kirby)
I’m influenced by the records that influenced [my peers]. I know that if it were...
– M. Ward (via)