Presto Agitato

Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida

It's seventeen minutes, folks. You'd best settle in....

I don't know who kept spilling his kool-aid on the camera lens, but I hope they fired him.

Fixing the Headline

Drudge had the headline: Velvety underground spider in Israel named for Lou Reed...

That's Loureedia annulipes to you.

Considering Harvey

Jim Parsons, who plays the social-misfit (dysfit) Sheldon Cooper in ‘Big Bang Theory’, is recreating Jimmy Stewart's Elwood P. Dowd in a Broadway production, this summer, of Harvey.  Shit, I might have to see that!

From a New York Times interview with Parsons:

‘One of my very early teachers said over and over again: “What are you bringing to the party?”  That expression never left me.

‘Well, what about it?  What am I bringing to this party?’

‘If I’m not making a choice with each and every line’, he continued, ‘then why are you bothering watching me?’

Yes, yes, that's exactly it.  If the performer doesn't care about every word of every line of the play, or every phrase and every note of a song, then why in hell should I care?  How can I care?  The ultimate purpose of a performance – the goal of the performer – is to evoke a particular emotion or set of emotions, and perhaps with them to inspire a thought.  Without that evocative purpose, the performance is nothing — or less than nothing, reducing to agonizing mush what, in other hands, might have been great and beautiful.

The same goes for professional writing: If the writer can't be bothered to fuss over every thought, over every paragraph, every sentence, every phrase, and every word, then he's just a lousy blogger.  (Sorry about that….)  The reader, who's laid down his money and his time for this, deserves better.

Heartbreaker

Of Loud Guitars, Big Guns, and Fast Cars

I'll bet you didn't know Ted was born a poor black child!

An SRV Minute

Quote of the Day: Self-Esteem

I won’t stop telling you how great I am.  Find someone else for that. — Gene Simmons (to Bob Lefsetz)

(In case you missed it, Bob, Mr. Simmons is also much smarter and cleverer than you are.  And better-looking, which really has to hurt!)

Apache!

Blast from the Past: Falling to Pieces

I could use another such vacation.

My Mood Today Is…

Cracked!