crude rhythms for bears

innumerable pains and sorrows

2009-11-28T19:40:00.002-06:00

"man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief, and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another." /joseph addison

man man - poor jackie

too finely woven

2009-11-27T21:25:00.002-06:00

"of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too concave, and cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life? of what use, if the brain is too cold or too hot, and the man does not care enough for results, to stimulate him to experiment, and hold him up in it? or if the web is too finely woven, too irritable by pleasure and pain, so that life stagnates from too much reception, without due outlet?" /r.w. emerson

queens of the stone age - sky is fallin'

so much food

2009-11-26T18:04:00.002-06:00

kid congo & the pink monkey birds - pumpkin pie

"q: why does nobody get laid on thanksgiving?
a: all the coats are on the bed."

/george carlin

find the way

2009-11-25T20:22:00.003-06:00

"each man had only one genuine vocation — to find the way to himself." /hermann hesse

them crooked vultures - warsaw or the first breath you take after you give up

solitary men

2009-11-24T19:48:00.002-06:00

"only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything." /willa cather

spacemen 3 - big city (everybody i know can be found here)

let every eye negotiate

2009-11-23T10:42:00.004-06:00

"friendship is constant in all other things,
save in the office and affairs of love:
therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
let every eye negotiate for itself,
and trust no agent."

/bill shakespeare

ariel pink's haunted graffiti - can't hear my eyes

clay in my ten fingers

2009-11-22T10:34:00.004-06:00

"but we, o blockhead, with dogged spite and armored love
shall force those deaf dark powers to grow ears and hear us!
i know that god is earless, eyeless, and heartless too,
a brainless dragon worm that crawls on earth and hopes
in anguish and then in secret that we'll give him soul,
for then he, too, may sprout ears, eyes, to match his growth,
but god is clay in my ten fingers, and I mould him!"

/nikos kazantzakis

city center - this is how we see in the dark (first version)

look out

2009-11-21T10:22:00.001-06:00

"two men look out through the same bars:
one sees the mud, and one the stars."

/frederick langbridge

animal collective - i think i can

feel the music

2009-11-20T10:13:00.001-06:00

"we feel the music and love the music and give the music." /christian lorenz

yeah yeah yeahs - heads will roll (willy joy sex dream club)

you can do everything

2009-11-19T10:04:00.001-06:00

"i don't want to be called 'the greatest' or 'one of the greatest.' let other guys claim to be the best. i just want to be known as a clown because to me, that's the height of my profession. it means you can do everything — sing, dance and, above all, make people laugh." /red skelton

j dilla - circus (cover by brabe)

just last thursday

2009-11-18T09:52:00.001-06:00

"dayvan cowboy: an individual who boldly parachutes from the stratosphere down onto a surfboard in the ocean.

ex. bobby became a dayvan cowboy just last thursday.

/urban dictionary

boards of canada - dayvan cowboy

the value of skill

2009-11-17T09:42:00.001-06:00

"what is chiefly needed is skill rather than machinery. the flight of the buzzard and similar sailors is a convincing demonstration of the value of skill and the partial needlessness of motors. it is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. this i conceive to be fortunate, for man, by reason of his greater intellect, can more reasonably hope to equal birds in knowledge than to equal nature in the perfection of her machinery." /wilbur wright

flaming lips - the sparrow looks up at the machine

mistakes

2009-11-16T09:36:00.001-06:00

"experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." /oscar wilde

johnny cash - i heard the lonesome whistle blow (apparat remix)

sweetness and light

2009-11-15T09:30:00.001-06:00

"the pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. he who works for sweetness and light, works to make reason and the will of god prevail. he who works for machinery, he who works for hatred, works only for confusion. culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light." /matthew arnold

kurt vile - blackberry song

morning bliss

2009-11-14T09:16:00.001-06:00

"morning bliss has gold in its mouth." /norwegian proverb

beach house - norway

nature never

2009-11-13T23:38:00.004-06:00

"nature never deceives us, it is always we who deceive ourselves." /jean-jacques rousseau

le loup - canto i

the first death

2009-11-12T00:58:00.006-06:00

"after the first death, there is no other." /dylan thomas

antony hegarty & the roma sinfonietta orchestra - nessun dorma

my method

2009-11-11T22:41:00.001-06:00

"my method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."

anouar brahem - for no apparent reason

love speaks

2009-11-10T13:41:00.003-06:00

"as sweet and musical
as bright apollo's lute, strung with his hair;
and when love speaks, the voice of all the gods
makes heaven drowsy with the harmony."

bonnie "prince" billy - strange form of life

a kiss

2009-11-09T13:25:00.001-06:00

"what is a kiss? why this, as some approve:
the sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love."

/robert herrick

devendra banhart - woman

the season of hope

2009-11-08T11:13:00.001-06:00

"if youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us." /george eliot

the zombies - time of the season (my morning jacket cover, september 2003)

your changing face

2009-11-07T00:44:00.001-06:00

"how many loved your moments of glad grace,
and loved your beauty with love false or true,
but one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
and loved the sorrows of your changing face."

/w.b. yeats

the association - never my love

the moon and i

2009-11-06T15:06:00.006-06:00

"ah, pray make no mistake,
we are not shy;
we're very wide awake,
the moon and i!"

/sir w.s. gilbert

panda bear - mich mit einer mond

faintly sweet

2009-11-05T14:55:00.001-06:00

"but fair the exil'd palm-tree grew
midst foliage of no kindred hue;
through the laburnum’s dropping gold
rose the light shaft of orient mould,
and europe’s violets, faintly sweet,
purpled the mossbeds at its feet."

/felicia hemans

mort garson - ode to an african violet

the only place i can meet you

2009-11-04T14:42:00.003-06:00

"in the heart,
in the heart,
where the truth shows
where the mind knows
where the love grows
that is where,
that is where,
i complete you
it's the only place
i can meet you"

/michael andrews

kurt vile - space forklift

pleasure in the pathless woods

2009-11-03T14:27:00.003-06:00

"there is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
there is a rapture on the lonely shore,
there is society, where none intrudes,
by the deep sea, and music in its roar:
i love not man the less, but nature more."

/lord byron

swervedriver - never lose that feeling (jatun remix)

kiss the sky

2009-11-02T14:20:00.001-06:00

"'scuse me while i kiss the sky." /jimi hendrix

black chow - purple smoke

lift and drop

2009-11-01T14:05:00.004-06:00

"there will be time, there will be time
to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
there will be time to murder and create,
and time for all the works and days of hands,
that lift and drop a question on your plate;
time for you and time for me,
and time yet for a hundred indecisions,
and for a hundred visions and revisions,
before the taking of a toast and tea."

/t.s. eliot

burial - in mcdonalds

looking glass

2009-10-31T13:31:00.003-05:00

"it is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry." /nikolai vasilievich gogol

kraftwerk - hall of mirrors

what a drag

2009-10-30T13:09:00.003-05:00

"i wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. you'd know what a drag it is to see you." /bob dylan

the horrors - i only think of you

nothing but obscurity

2009-10-29T12:53:00.004-05:00

"this is what i see, and what troubles me. i look on all sides, and everywhere i see nothing but obscurity. nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet." /blaise pascal

sorcerer - algorhythm

top three

2009-10-28T12:38:00.003-05:00

"if you were to secretly ask the most praised hip-hop producers, if given a top three, who they fear the most, dilla’s name would chart on everyone’s list, hands down." /?uestlove

j dilla - mash

innovation always builds

2009-10-27T12:24:00.001-05:00

"creativity and innovation always builds on the past.
the past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it.
free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past.
ours is less and less a free society."

/larry lessig

the gaslamp killer - part 3

eating the air

2009-10-26T12:09:00.001-05:00

"who lin'd himself with hope,
eating the air on promise of supply."

/will shakespeare

bullion - long promised

strongest suit

2009-10-25T15:00:00.001-05:00

"i have had a 'call' to literature, of a low order--i.e. humorous. it is nothing to be proud of, but it is my strongest suit...seriously scribbling to excite the laughter of god's creatures." /mark twain

lyrics born - callin' out

learn to ride

2009-10-24T14:18:00.004-05:00

"i began to feel that myself plus the bicycle equaled myself plus the world, upon whose spinning wheel we must all learn to ride, or fall into the sluiceways of oblivion and despair. that which made me succeed with the bicycle was precisely what had gained me a measure of success in life -- it was the hardihood of spirit that led me to begin, the persistence of will that held me to my task, and the patience that was willing to begin again when the last stroke had failed. and so i found high moral uses in the bicycle and can commend it as a teacher without pulpit or creed. she who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life." /frances e. willard

cool kids - black mags

beyond happiness

2009-10-23T13:57:00.003-05:00

"it's good to be just plain happy; it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how...and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss." /henry miller

madvillain - great day

footfalls echo

2009-10-22T14:21:00.004-05:00

"footfalls echo in the memory
down the passage we did not take
towards the door we never opened
into the rose garden."

/t.s. eliot

fool's gold - surprise hotel (phaseone remix)

stimulant and sedative

2009-10-21T11:32:00.003-05:00

"stimulant and sedative, original, repetitive, violently competitive--a school unaccredited." /mos def

raekwon ft. ghostface killah + method man - wu ooh

weapons of reason

2009-10-20T11:33:00.002-05:00

"never let the future disturb you. you will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present." /marcus aurelius antoninus

beck - dark star (dave sitek remix)

whose world

2009-10-19T12:02:00.003-05:00

"what thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross.
what thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee
what thou lov'st well is thy true heritage
whose world, or mine or theirs or is it of none?
first came the seen, then thus the palpable
elysium, though it were in the halls of hell.
what thou lovest well is thy true heritage."

/ezra pound

david grubbs - the world brushed aside

maturity

2009-10-18T20:37:00.004-05:00

"i live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity." /albert einstein

peter sarstedt - where do you go to (my lovely)

my passion

2009-10-17T14:37:00.003-05:00

"i figured out that my passion is not really for music. my passion is actually for people. so the exploration into different musics of different times has to do with trying to figure out who these people are, what this music represents and what context do we want to give it, and 'what does it mean to us right now?'" /yo-yo ma

the books ft. jose gonzalez - cello song

city to the stars

2009-10-16T16:45:00.003-05:00

"in rome you long for the country; in the country--oh inconstant!--you praise the distant city to the stars." /horace

chad vangaalen - city of electric light

three sides

2009-10-15T22:20:00.002-05:00

"if triangles had a god, it would have three sides." /baron de montesquieu

leo kottke - three/quarter north

when i am filled with music

2009-10-14T11:49:00.003-05:00

"i think i should have no other mortal wants, if i could always have plenty of music. it seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. life seems to go on without effort, when i am filled with music." /george eliot

michael manring - the fire sermon

glorious starry firmament

2009-10-13T15:32:00.004-05:00

"how hard to realize that every camp of men or beasts has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! in such places standing alone on the mountaintop it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make--leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone--we all dwell in a house of one room--the world with the firmament for its roof--and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track." /john muir

dinosaur jr. - the backyard

linked sweetness

2009-10-12T15:19:00.004-05:00

"and pomp, and feast, and revelry,
with mask, and antique pageantry,
such sights as youthful poets dream
on summer eves by haunted stream.
then to the well-trod stage anon,
if jonson's learned sock be on,
or sweetest shakespeare, fancy's child,
warble his native wood-notes wild,
and ever, against eating cares,
lap me in soft lydian airs,
married to immortal verse
such as the meeting soul may pierce,
in notes with many a winding bout
of linked sweetness long drawn out."

/john milton

r.e.m. - sweetness follows

in retrospect

2009-10-11T21:44:00.004-05:00

"the less one makes declarative statements, the less apt one is to look foolish in retrospect." /quentin tarantino

panda bear - i'm not

my track

2009-10-10T23:27:00.001-05:00

"i do not see why i should e'er turn back,
or those should not set forth upon my track
to overtake me, who should miss me here
and long to know if still i held them dear.
they would not find me changed from him they knew--
only more sure of all i thought was true."

/robert frost

karen o and the kids - capsize

sad songs

2009-10-09T11:09:00.001-05:00

"when i am dead, my dearest,
sing no sad songs for me;
plant thou no roses at my head,
nor shady cypress tree.
be the green grass above me
with showers and dewdrops wet;
and if thou wilt, remember
and if thou wilt, forget."

/christina georgina rossetti

lcd soundsystem - someone great

dreamers of dreams

2009-10-08T07:22:00.001-05:00

"we are the music-makers,
and we are the dreamers of dreams,
wandering by lone sea breakers,
and sitting by desolate streams;
world-losers and world-forsakers,
on whom the pale moon gleams:
yet we are the movers and shakers
of the world forever, it seems."

memory tapes - treeship

books

2009-10-07T17:08:00.003-05:00

"the true university of these days is a collection of books." /thomas carlyle

animal collective - college

beauty in the abstract

2009-10-06T17:02:00.001-05:00

"i begin to get a little acquainted with my own strength and weakness. --praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works." /john keats

bonnie "prince" billy - easy does it

patiently through time

2009-10-05T14:30:00.002-05:00

"africa has always walked in my mind proudly upright, an african giant among the other continents, toes well dug into the final ocean of one hemisphere, rising to its full height in the graying skies of the other; head and shoulders broad, square and enduring, making light of the bagful of blue mediterranean slung over its back as it marches patiently through time." /laurens van der post

charles spearin - mr. gowrie

man in the wilderness

2009-10-04T14:54:00.003-05:00

"the man in the wilderness asked of me
how many strawberries grew in the sea.
i answered him as i thought good,
'as many as red herrings grow in the wood.'"

/anonymous nursery rhyme

the beatles - strawberry fields forever

something we can trust

2009-10-03T14:45:00.002-05:00

"the key to the mystery of a great artist: that for reasons unknown to him or to anyone else, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another inevitably...the composer, by doing this, leaves us at the finish with the feeling that something is right in the world, that something checks throughout, something that follows its own laws consistently, something we can trust, that will never let us down." /leonard bernstein

led zeppelin - white summer (paris, october 1969)

be quite still

2009-10-02T14:12:00.003-05:00

"you do not need to leave your room. remain sitting at your table and listen. do not even listen, simply wait. do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. the world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet." /franz kafka

kaki king - close your eyes and you'll burst into flames

friends we love

2009-10-01T11:39:00.003-05:00

"we're tenting tonight on the old campground,
give us a song to cheer
our weary hearts, a song of home
and friends we love so dear."

/walter kittredge

phoenix - love like a sunset (animal collective jam)

the most fun

2009-09-30T11:45:00.002-05:00

"the most fun i've ever had without laughing." /woody allen

lindstrøm - there's a drink in my bedroom and i need a hot lady

smoke

2009-09-29T11:59:00.002-05:00

"and a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke." /rudyard kipling

african brothers dance band - mmobrowa

absolve you to yourself

2009-09-28T17:00:00.001-05:00

"in the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow." /friedrich nietzsche

animals - it's my life

leave a trail

2009-09-27T22:50:00.004-05:00

"do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." /r.w. emerson

relatively clean rivers - easy ride

accept the inevitable consciously

2009-09-26T17:28:00.003-05:00

"when i take a long look at my life, as though from outside, it does not appear particularly happy. yet i am even less justified in calling it unhappy, despite all its mistakes. after all, it is foolish to keep probing for happiness or unhappiness, for it seems to me it would be hard to exchange the unhappiest days of my life for all the happy ones. if what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless. even if, as it is decreed by the gods, fate has inexorably trod over my external existence as it does with everyone, my inner life has been of my own making. i deserve its sweetness and bitterness and accept full responsibility for it." /hermann hesse

the ozark mountain daredevils - mr. powell

you hear what i'm saying

2009-09-25T21:38:00.002-05:00

"unless i get something real good for [senate candidate 1], shit, i'll just send myself, you know what i'm saying? i'm going to keep this senate option for me a real possibility, you know, and therefore i can drive a hard bargain. you hear what i'm saying? and if i don't get what i want and i'm not satisfied with it, then i'll just take the senate seat myself. [the senate seat] is a fucking valuable thing, you just don't give it away for nothing." /rod blagojevich

michael andrews - fuck

julia

2009-09-24T21:27:00.000-05:00

"half of what i say is meaningless
but i say it just to reach you, julia."

/john lennon

the very best - julia (javelin re-do)

delicious bed

2009-09-23T19:50:00.002-05:00

"o bed! o bed! delicious bed!
that heaven upon earth to the weary head."

/thomas hood

atlas sound - my bed

patience

2009-09-22T21:20:00.003-05:00

"the strongest of all warriors are these two--time and patience." /leo tolstoy

betty harris - break in the road

every sound is sweet

2009-09-21T16:23:00.002-05:00

"sweet is every sound,
sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet;
myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawn,
the moan of doves in immemorial elms,
and murmuring of innumerable bees."

/alf tennyson

animal collective - bees

real dark

2009-09-20T16:11:00.001-05:00

"in the real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning." /f.s. fitzgerald

danger mouse + sparklehourse + david lynch - dark night of the soul

summertime

2009-09-19T15:50:00.001-05:00

"summertime
and the livin' is easy."

/ira gershwin

girls - summertime

he's a peninsula

2009-09-18T13:54:00.001-05:00

"no man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, apart of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, beause i am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." /john donne

jefferson airplane - a small package of value will come to you, shortly

performing backwards

2009-09-17T12:00:00.004-05:00

"guitar is rarely considered a solo instrument; you have classical and flamenco guitar, alongside finer picking and folk. but its a style that [kaki king] became comfortable pursuing upon meeting [preston] reed at the 1998 swannanoa gathering in asheville, north carolina. and so began a style that king has used to transform herself into a prodigy by performing 'backwards' from the stuffy techniques found in your common 'how to' book or instructor's lesson plan. similar to playing the piano, kaki places her left hand over the neck, so her middle three fingers can top out lines on the strings, freeing her right hand to continuously finger pick or move onto the neck and tap out its own lines." /glide magazine

kaki king - magazine

masters of repetition

2009-09-16T11:36:00.002-05:00

"there are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition. every piece of classical music has its repeat marks or variations on a theme, and our greatest composers are masters of repetition; nursery rhymes and the little chants and songs we use to teach young children have choruses and refrains. we are attracted to repetition, even as adults; we want the stimulus and the reward again and again, and in music we get it." /oliver sacks

panda bear - chores (all tomorrow's parties, 9/11/09)

patience

2009-09-15T19:45:00.003-05:00

"how can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?" /paul sweeney

beach boys - mama says

a very everlasting album

2009-09-14T22:58:00.006-05:00

"it was very competitive in the '60s. and everybody caught the bug, y'know? it was like a “competitive bug.” and, as far as i could see, everybody was turning everybody on. ... the beatles were a part of that whole “competition” thing. rubber soul blew my mind. it really made me wanna record; it made me wanna cut. it sounds like a collection of songs that belong together, and it was an uplifting feeling. so i thought i'd make a collection of songs — called pet sounds — together. that's how i got that idea...i'm proud of it. i think it's a very everlasting album. i'm very proud of the love that went into it. a lot of love went into that album. and people pick up on that too, and they really like it 'cause they feel the love." /brian wilson

bullion - god only knows

living dead men

2009-09-13T22:38:00.002-05:00

"round about california in that day were scattered a host of these living dead men--pride-smitten poor fellows, grizzled and old at forty, whose secret thoughts were made all of regrets and longings--regrets for their wasted lives, and longings to be out of the struggle and done with it all." /mark twain

johnny greenwood - prospector arrives

little deaths

2009-09-12T17:08:00.003-05:00

“whether they’re your friends or your old lovers...they’re little photographs and little deaths. like 'losing you,' that song, i’m sure when I’m 72 I’ll still relate to it. whenever you’re with somebody and you fall in love with them, you think they’re the one. that’s why you do it. that’s why you go head first.” /amy millan

jason collett - we all lose one another

feels just fine

2009-09-11T10:13:00.004-05:00

"to keep rollin',
to be wise,
to be yours,
feels just fine."

/avey tare

quiet village - keep on rolling

willow sky

2009-09-10T10:06:00.004-05:00

"listening for the secret, searching for the sound
but i could only hear the preacher and the baying of his hounds.
willow sky, whoa, i walk and wonder why,
they say love your brother, but you will catch it when you try."

/grateful dead

mixed by dutch baklavah - willow sky

the shores of the cosmic ocean

2009-09-09T11:16:00.001-05:00

"we embarked on our cosmic voyage with a question first framed in the childhood of our species and in each generation asked anew with undiminished wonder: what are the stars? exploration is in our nature. we began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. we have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. we are ready at last to set sail for the stars." /carl sagan

pantha du prince - behind the stars

venus

2009-09-08T12:26:00.006-05:00

"venus has an extremely dense atmosphere, which consists mainly of carbon dioxide and a small amount of nitrogen. the atmospheric mass is 93 times that of earth's atmosphere while the pressure at the planet's surface is about 92 times that at earth's surface—a pressure equivalent to that at a depth of nearly 1 kilometer under earth's oceans. the density at the surface is 65 kg/m³ (6.5% that of water). the co2-rich atmosphere, along with thick clouds of sulfur dioxide, generates the strongest greenhouse effect in the solar system, creating surface temperatures of over 460 °c (860 °f). this makes venus's surface hotter than mercury's which has a minimum surface temperature of -220 °c and maximum surface temperature of 420 °c, even though venus is nearly twice mercury's distance from the sun and thus receives only 25% of mercury's solar irradiance.

studies have suggested that several billion years ago venus's atmosphere was much more like earth's than it is now, and that there were probably substantial quantities of liquid water on the surface, but a runaway greenhouse effect was caused by the evaporation of that original water, which generated a critical level of greenhouse gases in its atmosphere.

thermal inertia and the transfer of heat by winds in the lower atmosphere mean that the temperature of venus's surface does not vary significantly between the night and day sides, despite the planet's extremely slow rotation. winds at the surface are slow, moving at a few kilometers per hour, but because of the high density of the atmosphere at venus's surface, they exert a significant amount of force against obstructions, and transport dust and small stones across the surface. this alone would make it difficult for a human to walk through, even if the heat were not a problem.

above the dense co2 layer are thick clouds consisting mainly of sulfur dioxide and sulfuric acid droplets. these clouds reflect about 60% of the sunlight that falls on them back into space, and prevent the direct observation of venus's surface in visible light. the permanent cloud cover means that although venus is closer than earth to the sun, the venusian surface is not as well lit. in the absence of the greenhouse effect caused by the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the temperature at the surface of venus would be quite similar to that on earth. strong 300 km/h winds at the cloud tops circle the planet about every four to five earth days." /wikipedia

air - venus

the more we love

2009-09-07T23:15:00.002-05:00

"the more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself." /molière

spoon - the way we get by

work

2009-09-05T20:00:00.007-05:00

"i don't like work--no man does--but i like what is in work--the chance to find yourself. your own reality--for yourself, not for others--what no other man can ever know." /joseph conrad

animal collective - chores

control over ourselves

2009-09-04T22:25:00.002-05:00

"everything that emancipates the spirit without giving us control over ourselves is harmful; none is more hopelessly enslaved than he who falsely believes he is free." /johann wolfgang von goethe

glasser - glad (delorean remix)

modern music

2009-09-03T18:59:00.004-05:00

"modern music is as dangerous as narcotics." /pietro mascagni

memory tapes - bycicle (horror's cosmic dub)

to love again

2009-09-02T17:53:00.000-05:00

"happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. to love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life." /j.e. buckrose

grouper - heavy water/i'd rather be sleeping (phaseone edit)

these things just fall away

2009-09-01T12:22:00.002-05:00

"remembering that i'll be dead soon is the most important tool i've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. remembering that you are going to die is the best way i know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. you are already naked. there is no reason not to follow your heart." /steve jobs

the byrds - change is now

totally solid

2009-08-31T21:06:00.003-05:00

grateful dead - unbroken chain

"when sartre and i met not only did our backgrounds fuse, but also our solidity, our individual conviction that we were what we were made to be. in that framework we could not become rivals. then, as the relationship between sartre and me grew, i became convinced that i was irreplaceable in his life, and he in mine. in other words, we were totally secure in the knowledge that our relationship was also totally solid, again preordained, though, of course, we would have laughed at that word then." /simone de beauvoir

it brings us closer

2009-08-30T09:29:00.001-05:00

"music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. it brings us closer to the infinite." /thomas carlyle

claudio monteverdi - pur ti miro

identity

2009-08-29T14:55:00.003-05:00

"there is, in sanest hours, a consciousness, a thought that rises, independent, lifted out from all else, calm, like the stars, shining eternal. this is the thought of identity--yours for you, whoever you are, as mine for me. miracle of miracles, beyond statement, most spiritual and vaguest of earth's dreams, yet hardest basic fact, and only entrance to all facts. in such devout hours, in the midst of the significant wonders of heaven and earth, (significant only because of the me in the centre), creeds, conventions, fall away and become of no account before this simple idea. under the luminousness of real vision, it alone takes possession, takes value. like the shadowy dwarf in the fable, once liberated and look'd upon, it expands over the whole earth, and spreads to the roof of heaven." /walt whitman

gnonnas pedro & his dadjes band - la musica en vérité

you were good

2009-08-28T19:45:00.003-05:00

"i was at the airport a while back and some guy said, 'hey man, i saw you on tv last night.' but he did not say whether or not he thought i was good; he was just confirming that he saw me on television. so i turned my head away for about a minute, and looked back at him and said, 'dude! i saw you at the airport...about a minute ago. and you were good.'" /mitch hedberg

no age - aim at the airport

whole-grain goodness

2009-08-27T19:25:00.003-05:00

"of course it’s also a lot easier to slap a health claim on a box of sugary cereal than on a potato or carrot, with the perverse result that the most healthful foods in the supermarket sit there quietly in the produce section, silent as stroke victims, while a few aisles over, the cocoa puffs and lucky charms are screaming about their newfound whole-grain goodness." /michael pollan

ghostface killah - nutmeg

some imperishable bliss

2009-08-26T14:56:00.003-05:00

"she says, 'but in contentment i still feel
the need of some imperishable bliss.'
death is the mother of beauty; hence from her,
alone, shall come fulfilment to our dreams
and our desires. although she strews the leaves
of sure obliteration on our paths,
the path sick sorrow took, the many paths
where triumph rang its brassy phrase, or love
whispered a little out of tenderness,
she makes the willow shiver in the sun
for maidens who were wont to sit and gaze
upon the grass, relinquished to their feet.
she causes boys to pile new plums and pears
on disregarded plate. the maidens taste
and stray impassioned in the littering leaves."

/wallace stevens

st. vincent - human racing

what history gave modern men

2009-08-25T18:57:00.004-05:00

erykah badu - telephone

"i hope i don't sound too ungrateful for what history gave modern men: a telephone, to talk to strangers; a machine gun; and a camera lens." /conor oberst

nothing to do today

2009-08-24T09:38:00.004-05:00

"hey, i've got nothing to do today but smile." /paul simon

shadows of knight - oh yeah

sort out the habits of your mind

2009-08-23T15:33:00.006-05:00

sparklehorse feat. nina persson - daddy's gone

"you've got his way, what he said, to help you shape the way you play. you've got to get rid of that mourning; sort out the habits of your mind." /noah lennox

about yesterday

2009-08-22T20:17:00.002-05:00

"i don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. i think of it only inasmuch as it gave me pleasure or helped me grow psychologically. that is the only thing that interests me about yesterday. i don't believe in yesterday, by the way. you know i don't believe in yesterday. i am only interested in what i am doing now." /john lennon

fleet foxes - drops in the river

vibrates in the memory

2009-08-21T11:48:00.004-05:00

"music, when soft voices die,
vibrates in the memory;
odors, when sweet violets sicken,
live within the sense they quicken."

/percy shelley

taken by trees - watch the waves

something you should know

2009-08-20T22:36:00.001-05:00

"people come and people go, which is something you should know." /anonymous

michael jackson - human nature