A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
Samuel Goldwyn (1956)
Author: mitchell
Reading MMXX
Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.
E. M. Forster (1985)
Music 2020
All this machinery
Making modern music
Can still be openhearted.
(Neil Peart)
What we’re listening to in MMXX.
2019 year-end lists
The best, worst, ugliest, and most encouraging of 2019.
It’s a beautiful day; let’s play two
“You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of a man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.”
Roger Kahn
Music 2019
“We learned more from a three-minute record, baby, than we ever learned in school.”
Bruce Springsteen
2018 Year-End Lists
“I love lists. Always have. when I was 14, I wrote down every dirty word I knew on file cards and placed them in alphabetical order. I have a thing about about collections, and a list is a collection with purchase.”
Adam Savage
Wired Magazine
“Step One: Make a List”
October 2012
Notes on Stephen King’s On Writing
Apologies. I know Reid brought this up before but until I get the old content back online, I have to create this from scratch. Feel free to repeat anything that comes to mind.
As I wrote on IG, I generally stay away from books about writing because I don’t want to be one of those people who reads about writing and talks about writing more than he actually writes. But I need a bit of inspiration, and I’ve owned this copy for four years, so I’m going through it during Camp NaNoWriMo. “We are writers, and we never ask one another where we get our ideas; we know we don’t know.”
Peanuts and Cracker Jack: MLB 2018
Baseball is more than a game. It’s like life played out on a field.
Juliana Hatfield
Performers and Portrayers: Live Stuff
All the world’s indeed a stage
And we are merely players
Performers and portrayers
Each another’s audience
Outside the guided cage.