Need I say more? Not as fun watching this shit at home on DVD - if you haven't seen this, you're not alive yet.
Find your local urban cinema if they still screen it, and go get your cherry popped. someday, I swear, I'll do a RHPS tour and open up for the movie, then spend the rest of the night throwing toast.
Do not watch this movie unless you are prepared to be very upset for a few days.
Incredible film making, beautiful music, a heartbreaking story and commentary about the death penalty...and Björk. How can you resist?
Zoë Keating & I were both devouring this book on the last tour. In a very Bill Bryson-y way, Pollan does this genius thing where he takes information that might otherwise bore you to death (how the corn industry works, eh??) and makes it fucking FASCINATING. Basically, Pollan set out to trace four meals (one from McDonald's, one from Whole Foods, one from an organic farm and one he creates by hunting and forraging) back to their origins. This book is made of win, I didn't want it to end.
I would recommend this book to anyone who interested in mindfulness and meditation (the idea, not the bullshit ritual) and doesn't want to read a bunch of woowoo new age or Buddhist books. Tolle is a great teacher and a great writer, he cuts to the essence of what Buddhism points to: the only way to escape suffering is to wake up to this moment. I've bought over 15 copies of this book and given them away in the past year since reading it.
I love much of PJ's work but this album is my favorite. I recently re-discovered it and it's even more fucking awesome than I remember.
All of her stuff is different: if you've tried dry or "Rid of Me" and it's too heavy for you, or if you're tried the newer stuff and it's too minimal/weird for you, try THIS. The production, the songwriting, the vocals, all of it are PJ at her fucking best. The woman is a Goddess.
There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been: a people busy and powerful, knowledgable, ambivalent, important, fearful, and self-aware; a people who scheme, promote, deceive, and conquer; who pray for their loved ones, and long to flee misery and skip death. It is a weakeing and discoloring idea, that rustic people knew God personally once upon a time - or even knew selflessness or courage or literature - but that it is too late for us. In fact, the absolute is available to everyone in every age. There never was a more holy age than ours, and never a less. - Annie Dillard
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thank you so much for your friendship and encouragement! I really appreciate you!
hope you are having a good day!
I want to invite you to sign up for my email list at jaetchison.com. you'll get a free download of one of the new songs off my album, "Now Is The Time"--of which we are making a music video--and it will make it easier for me to let you know new stuff that comes up and when I'm playing a show near you!
my record label tells me the free download offer is winding to a close soon, so I am hoping my friends will grab it today. :D
i sooo wish i could talk to you over the tele phone right now just so my head could really be on straight. Especially with unemployment and endless piles of shit. people suck in my town especially. i'm no martyr but if you could do me a huge solid and post something or nother of a joni mitchell "both sides now" then that would make my whole world. no joke. i'm soooo cynical right now.
Please help a bleeding heart. I'm done with no good emo boys forever and I'm wondering where all the hot goth men are hiding. those that will treat me like a real person for once. men suck. and people mostly suck. I love you and I hope we will meet on the best terms soon. we're both busy people so you know I won't hold my breath. punk cabaret is freedom ... yay. . . . :(
I know we spoke for a brief moment while you were out here in San Diego. I was trying to see if you had seen the movie All Tomorrow's Parties. You looked at me funny, and was like HUH? It's no wonder, cuz it's not out till the 13th and 14th at the IFC Center in NY. I see you're gonna be in Brooklyn on the 14th. Maybe you'd be able to go? I'd go, but of course I'm on the west coast. I'm preparing to move up to Yakima, WA. That's gonna be fun. Anyways, check out the trailer. You'll love it. It's like the trailer for A Clockwork Orange, so it's very Stanley Kubrick-ish. Also, check out the movie Tarnation. That's my brother's debut big movie. It's a documentary about growing up with a mother who has an unknown mental illness brought about by shock therepy, and how my brother overcame growing up in that sort of environment. It also touches a bit on him being gay and trying to fit into society pretty much. It's a great film, and I'm not just saying that cuz he's my brother. You can find trailers all over the internet for it. I also hear there's a free version to view somewhere. Haven't dug that deep cuz I own the dvd. PLEASE PLEASE do check it out. I'd love to hear what you think. Your music is inspirationable, and you just are an awesome person!!! Ok, I'm gonna stop now. Oh, and what are your thoughts on Lady Gaga? Just curious what you think of her.
Hey I'm sure you've been hearing this all season, but my friend was you for Halloween. I hope you like it. :) [it's tagged]. God, I sound like such a fangirl.
I don't know if you will read this yourself, but if you do I thank you for that too. If you don't that's fine too. I guess like every other person, I will have to save my quarters and what another lifetime to see you live and admire you from afar. (: I'm sorry again for sounding like a psycho.
This may sound like scary shit, but its true. I have never felt like I needed you more in my life. Listening to your music isn't enough. I am to damn broke to buy any other merchandise such as your books and such, but I am not going to write this so you pity me. I just want to know more than I already know because you have become like a mentor and at this point in my life I feel so lost. I am young and naive! I need your help in some way that not even I know. Its funny because I think I sound so fucking crazy, but I can care less.
I just started thinking back at the first time I met you. It was magical. I was speechless. I swear I felt like I was meeting God at the gates of heaven. To relive that moment would be awesome! I don't look at you or any other person with "fame" as a famous person. Hell, I could meet someone that is "famous" and just pass them by, but you. You are just a brilliant, talented, inspiring, (don't take this the wrong way) but you are a fucked up soul with powers, powers to change lives. Thank you for changing mine.
Fuck all that Hollywood bullshit. I know you came from Boston, but still. I thank you for not turning into some of that crap that ends up on todays MTV. Hell, had it been MTV a couple years ago...maybe, but now? You're better than that. I'm sorry for sounding like a maniac, but I am just so damn depressed and I want to thank you for helping me feel a bit better in a healthy way. It would be badass to fly country to country and shit with you and just get to know you as a person and not by what I've read or what other people write about you. We all know that will never happen.
I don't know if you will read this yourself, but if you do I thank you for that too. If you don't that's fine too. I guess like every other person, I will have to save my quarters and what another lifetime to s
Im driving 5 hours to see you in VA in two weeks, and I couldn't be more fucking excited. Any time shit has gone sour in the last month I'm like "Oh, going to see Amanda soon. Not upset anymore."
My halloween night was awful...about the only cheerful thing was my costume...and occassionally glancing at your eyeballs tattooed on my leg haha...hope you had a good one miss palmer :)
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