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Kurt, Dave and Chris:
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First let me apologize for taking a couple of days to put this outline together. When I spoke to Kurt I was in the middle of making a Fugazi album1, but I thought I would have a day or so between records to sort everything out. My schedule changed unexpectedly, and this is the first moment I've had to go through it all. Apologyfrom I would like to be paid like a plumber by Shaun Usher
Greatness and Build Something Beautiful
a great f*cking letter from Steve Albini to Nirvana.
So true:
“I think the pressures are always the same—the only difference is the amount of money that’s involved. I mean, it’s a lot of pressure to produce something for $25 dollars when you really need $25. It doesn’t matter if the pressure is for $2,500 or $25,000—it’s the same pressure.”
- Frank Stella.
“A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.”
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A friend asked a Busy Guy to lead a project, and instead of saying yes or rejecting it, the Busy Guy said: “I can’t commit to that, but I can commit to thinking about it, and if I come up with something I’m excited about, I’ll do it.”
Such tact in that answer.
-DP
It's wild how literally everything around us is the way it is for a reason ...and just stays that way, unless some strong external force causes it to change (quote from @MikeShatzkin's excellent newsletter) https://t.co/Ali22rYkn4
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The way of the tourist is to consume; the way of the pilgrim is to be consumed. To the tourist the journey is a means. The pilgrim understands that it is both a means and an end in itself. The tourist and the pilgrim experience time differently. For the former, time is the foe that gives consumption its urgency. For the latter, time is a gift in wh... See morefrom The Tourist and the Pilgrim
New Pop-up Walk, Reading Digitally in 2024 — Roden newsletter issue 091
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On shortcuts and longcuts
