July 2009
12 posts
You Didn't Know They Died
We’re just past the half-way point of 2009 and it has already been known as The Year Celebrity Deaths. So far there have been a bunch of notables:
Ricardo Montalbon, Paul Harvey, Ron Silver, Natasha Richardson, Bea Arthur, Dom Deluise, David Carradine, Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Billy Mays, Karl Malden, Walter Cronkite, among others.
But here are some notable people that died...
Know Yourself
“I get home from the airport, stuff some food in my mouth, and take a nap before jiu jitsu class. There’s something extra special about doing a jiu jitsu class when you’re tired and jetlagged. It forces you to control your breathing and teaches you to relax and conserve your energy.
“I’ve gone to class sometimes after a brutal kettle bell work out, and it’s a moral victory just to...
15 Books Meme
“Not the best 15 books you’ve ever read, or even the ones you’d recommend to others. Just 15 books that have made their mark on you and will always be with you, for whatever reason. Supposed to be done in 15 minutes.”
Here’s mine (off the top of my head):
Memories, Dreams Reflections by Carl Jung
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum
...
“When the last living thing
Has died on account of us,
How poetical it would be...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
Tumblarity has given me a new appreciation for the...
(via trapezemusic)
Mowing the same acre of grass since I was a teenager gives me an old (and very real) appreciation of Sisyphus.
Pot and Kettle
Watch how I do this:
The United States army has carried out forced disappearances, acts of torture and illegal raids in pursuit of insurgents, according to documents and interviews with victims, their families, political leaders and human rights monitors.
All I did was substitute “United States” for “Mexican” and “insurgents” for “drug traffickers.”
Here is the original from the Washington...
trapezemusic:
A tiny little bitch: I dislike my naivety. I was dull enough to believe only Tumblr had a problem with people refusing to attribute the images they find to their points of origin. But searching through money art today, I discovered the problem is pervasive across the Web. I’m finding sites that are nothing more than endlessly scrolling albums of pictures. No commentary of any sort....
June 2009
26 posts
ten quick questions
inthefade:
Todd and I once ran this really awesome group blog called Faster Than the World. Of the many things we did there, my favorite was ten quick questions, whose life was cut unfairly short because we closed FTTW. We had some awesome people answer these same ten questions for us, including Eddie Spaghetti of the Supersuckers and Evan Dorkin of the previously tumbled Milk and Cheese.
So I...
Cold
trapezemusic:
her smile is 30 degrees the guarantee of snow to these poor horse
latitude doldrums o my heart is a coal bin full of snowmen’s eyes
ready to lend sight to the siberian grace of her winter smile
[God! Youth is full of romantic aspirations. But I did love words then.]
HORSE LATITUDES
When the still sea conspires an armor And her sullen and aborted Currents breed tiny...
Girls, Girls, Girls
Men are idiots. I’m telling you that as an inside man. We’re idiots.
Sometimes I wonder how you ladies allowed us to be in charge of so much stuff. And then I read this little ditty about the 88-year-old guy who shot up the holocaust museum yesterday:
When his ex-wife met him in the mid-1960s, he was a wine swiller consumed by hatred.
“[It] ate him alive like a cancer,”...
Reblog notification in dashboard?
frageelaytwit:
Has anyone else noticed that the dashboard doesn’t always show when someone reblogs your posts any more?
I don’t know. I don’t think I’ve ever been reblogged.
Oh well.
“Whether it’s a Board, Committee, Team or any other name given to a group...”
– Von Glitschka, Design Batting Average
trapezemusic:
In response to jimformation lite,...
The 1960s (Without Beatles and Stones)
trapezemusic:
My father has a theory about rock music: “If you’re 40 and it doesn’t make you crazy, it isn’t rock ‘n’ roll.”
For the most part, I agree with him, and it troubles me that someone isn’t making music that pisses me off, something that pushes the envelope of my generation. Maybe it’s an indication that we’ve gone so far that nothing surprises us any more.
These artists always...
WatchWhen asked about writing songs about dying, Dave Matthews says,
“I do write about death a lot. I don’t like to overuse that Seize the Day thing, but the fact we’re going to die is a pretty good reason to stop complaining.”
Seize the day
Why I Am
Dave Matthews explains the song, “Why I Am” (a current fave of mine, I talk about it on my website):
“This song is definitely about death. The whole thing of “When my ghost takes me from you, you will remember the fool that I am, so don’t cry, baby don’t cry.” The urgency of living, I think, is very present in this song.
“We played it once in [the initial group improv...
“Whatever you do or say does not terch my inner circle.”
– Charles Manson (parole hearing, 1986)
Walk Forever By My Side
21-years-ago it was raining. I stepped out of a church, a newly married man, and the sun peeked through the clouds.
A couple hours later a piano player introduced the new misses and me to a crowd of friends and family. He sang a song as we danced. The lyrics to the song may as well have been my wedding vows.
These are the lyrics:
Walk forever by my side Never lose sight of the day When we...
Sex In Every Story
Freshman english.
We were given assignments to read and we would discuss them in the next class. The professor drove us to critically examine and interpret the work.
After the discussion, he would give his interpretation. Everything he spun in some sexual way. Everything. He saw penises and vaginas and breasts and sex and lust in everything we read.
It was the same thing week after week.
We...
Whip
“I’m 54 years old,” he said, “and I can still whip any man in the county.” (From Trapeze Music.)
I will be 45-years-old in a couple of weeks. After a near two decade lay-off, I’ve been studying Brazilian Jiu-jitsu again.
Without getting into it too deeply, Brazilian Jiu-jitsu is a martial art that focuses much of its techniques on close in-fighting (including judo-type throws) and...
“When my story ends
It’s gonna end with him;
Heaven or hell
I’m...”
– Dave Matthews, Why I Am
Growing up at 54
trapezemusic:
My father is 75.
A couple of days ago as we were having lunch together, he sat opposite me in our favorite Chinese restaurant, blinking back and forth between eyes like someone trying to see the subtle differences in either side of stereoscopic vision. I wondered what he was doing when he said, “You know, I can’t wait to have my other eye done. You wouldn’t believe how much better...
“I wish I was the full moon shining off a Camaro’s hood
…
I wish...”
– Pearl Jam, Wishlist
May 2009
20 posts
Scientific Theory
trapezemusic:
As a child sitting on the concrete front porch in a green- and white-webbed aluminum lawn chair rocker next to my mother’s father during a summer shower, I pointed at a raindrop dangling from the leaf of a hanging plant and said, “Look, grandpa! The world is upside down! Why does it do that?”
My grandfather stared at the leaf a moment, then adjusted his face into a wry grin, eyes...
I get to see my Twitter crush naked every day: @sandrakay65.
Two Quick Brazilian Jiu-jitsu Tips
Breathe;
Believe in the technique.
