wreckandsalvage:

Word.

Listen up right now.

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now we’ve lost a real legend. Levon Helm was a  god behind a drumset and shaped one of the biggest and most influential bands in the 60’s and 70’s. in essence, The Band is dead. i’ll miss you Levon. 

nprmusic:

RIP Levon Helm. The 71-year-old lost a battle with cancer when he died Thursday afternoon in New York City. 

All Things Considered contributor Will Hermes remembers seeing the legendary drummer and singer at a roadhouse in Minneapolis: “It was like seeing the Rockies or the Grand Canyon.”

Photo: Jan Persson/Referns

just give a damn. i know i do. 

 via Color Me Katie: http://colormekatie.blogspot.com/2012/04/things-that-make-me-oh-so-happy.html

The precursor to the TSA. Now we’re missing out on unicorns. Dang it, Noah!!

Sunday funnies, “Mothergoose and Grimm”

this is so amazingly, wonderfully, nerdtastically cool. i want one for my house plz. 

laughingsquid:

Custom-Made LEGO Star Wars Organ Plays the Star Wars Theme Song

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I love my dad. We can just sit around and shoot the shit, trade stories, and share a beer. Good times. Who else has a good dad story?

i dont even want to think about what a particle physicist safe word would be. sheesh!

via  www.xkcd.com

smiling will always lift your mood, even if you’re having the worst day. just make yourself smile, and laugh, and your day will turn around. 

and besides, who’s gonna argue with Nat King Cole? i’m sure not. 

and what great tunes they are! a very nice sample for those of us who cant be at the festival this year. Thanks! 

nprfreshair:

71 tunes from SXSW….downloadable in one Zip file from NPR Music.

A fantastic article on the rise of small batch extreme and speciality brews. it tells about the beginnings of the Dogfish Head brewery in Delaware and other small breweries around the country. 

hooray beer!!

nedhepburn:

nevver:

Six Tips on Writing from John Steinbeck

1. Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.
2. Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material.
3. Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theater, it doesn’t exist. In writing, your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person—a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
4. If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it—bypass it and go on. When you have finished the whole you can come back to it and then you may find that the reason it gave trouble is because it didn’t belong there.
5. Beware of a scene that becomes too dear to you, dearer than the rest. It will usually be found that it is out of drawing.
6. If you are using dialogue—say it aloud as you write it. Only then will it have the sound of speech.

‘Cannery Row’ is one of the best books, and ‘Of Mice & Men’ can make a grown man cry. Steinbeck was a legend. Also; the third point here is vital, stellar advice.

Great advice. Just let go of it all and write.

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I am proud to be a slut. I use birth control, am in college, and can spell. its a trifecta. 

thanks to Rush Limbaugh for the re-definition of slut.