- Maxim: How often do you get called the Dude in your day to day life?
- Jeff Bridges: Often. It's a favorite of my movies. I just love it. I couldn't understand why it wasn't a bigger hit when it first came out. It kind of went under the radar. It happened over in Europe and then it splashed back over here and got a cult following going.
- M: Right. Lebowski Fest. We heard you went to one.
- JB: I had my Beatles moment there. I got a little band together and played some music to a sea of Dudes.
- M: Were they all wearing robes and drinking White Russians?
- JB: Sure. There were all different sorts: some Little Lebowski Urban Achievers and a few Jesus there.
- M: You never get tired of it?
- JB: I rarely watch my movies on the tube, but Lebowski is kind of like The Godfather for me. I get hooked. I think, I'll watch this until he licks the ball... Well, now I'm going to wait for the next scene, then that one.
3 hours ago | Tags: jeff bridges big lebowski maxim interview
“The story I am interested in is about asking what drives a powerful person—what makes them tick? How do they make and then remake themselves? I thought to myself, wouldn’t it be great if—as this piece would be principally composed of clubby dance music—one could experience it in a club setting? Could one bring a ‘story’ and a kind of theater to the disco? Was that possible? If so, wouldn’t that be amazing!”
-david byrne, introduction to Here Lies Love (2010), a collaboration between david byrne and fat boy slim which, though it doesn’t say it here, i think is the music to a musical he wrote about Imelda Marcos (which, though i love david byrne, does not look as amazing as it could have been - though, of course, the material was heavily censored)
18 hours ago | Tags: david byrne here lies love imelda marcos music fat boy slim
The four condemned Lincoln assassination conspirators (Mrs. Surratt, Payne, Herold, Atzerodt) with officers and others on the scaffold at Fort McNair. July 7, 1865. Photo by Alexander Gardner (via ghost cowboy)
21 hours ago | Tags: abraham lincoln execution
“Santa Rosa, N.M., March 12.— The peace officers of this county are looking for Cora Chiquita, known as “Cora the Cowgirl,” who made a sensation here on Friday night by riding up and down the main street, a revolver in each hand, yelling and shooting at everyone whose appearance did not suit her fancy.
Not until the girl, who is known far and wide as “the beautiful devil,” had loped out of town did the sheriff and his posse show their heads.
La Chiquita is one of the best shots in New Mexico, and is said to be in close touch with a bad gang of outlaws in the southwest. She is 23 years old, pretty as a picture, about a quarter-blood Cherokee, wears man’s attire, always carries two revolvers and is a fearless rider. Not long ago she was driven out of Arizona for general reckless shooting. She has killed several men.”
-Davenport (Iowa) Weekly Leader / March 14, 1902 (via ghost cowboy)
21 hours ago | Tags: cora the cowgirl
"On the night of the summer solstice last year, Nick stayed out with me doing field work until after 3 a.m. It took a long time because we took so many breaks to just fish-watch and brainstorm together. I learned much more from those “breaks” than from my intended data. That really stuck with me, because it made me realize what rare luck I had to find a mentor who really was happy to be in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of the night, watching fish with his student. There’s no more fitting tribute than that."
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Jason Neuswanger (March 2009), student of Nicholas Hughes (via the University of Alaska’s School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences’ memorial page)
there is something very satisying about investigating people who have passed away. i always feel strangely close to them, compelled to know everything about them, just because i can, because it is possible. because that’s it.
1 day ago | Tags: nicholas hughes sylvia plath quote
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white rabbits - percussion gun
percussion so reminiscent of goody two shoes, hard to resist (not that i was trying).
Play count: 13
4 days ago | Tags: white rabbits music
chessieann:
i believe there is something else
entirely going on but no single
person can ever know it,
so we fall in love.
it could also be true that what we use
everyday to open cans was something
much nobler, that we’ll never recognize.
i believe the woman sleeping beside me
doesn’t care about what’s going on
outside, and her body is warm
with trust
which is a great beginning.
—matthew rohrer
Reblogged from chessieann 5 days ago | Tags: poem matthew rohrer
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timbaland ft. j. timberlake - carry out
shock value II has an embarrassingly high play count on my itunes. no, really, embarrassing.
Play count: 10
1 week ago | Tags: timbaland music shock value II
