Thao and her band stopped by New, Improved Recording studio in Oakland, California to record a set. Here's a taste. Get the rest here.
New, Improved, LIVE: Thao with The Get Down Stay Down - "Beat" from The Bay Bridged on Vimeo.
It's crude, and the Beatles had nothing to do with it except make the music, but the film Yellow Submarine is still a classic.
Jenny Lewis' lyrics in "Jenny, You're Barely Alive" remind me of this song. "It's all the treasures in the street as we drive right over them."
In humanistic psychology, the self already possesses everything he/she/it needs. Maybe so.
What do you think of this one, Station Agent? It's the studio version.
If you haven't seen Fargo, you have to! It's one of my favorite films, a low-budget classic. Right after this clip ends comes the best scene of all, for me. The cop says to the guy she has in the back of her patrol car, "There is more to life than money. Doncha know that?"
The northern accent with Scandinavian inflections left over from pioneering days, the cold, white weather, and the cop played by Frances Louise McDormand--who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her work in Fargo--make this a must see film.
1996.
James E. McWilliams is a professor of history at Texas State University, San Marcos. Here is a incisive article he wrote for The Washington Post, in which he explains why eating is not a personal decision. Imagine that!
I gave a talk in South Texas recently on the environmental virtues of a vegetarian diet. As you might imagine, the reception was chilly. In fact, the only applause came during the Q&A period when a member of the audience said that my lecture made him want to go out and eat even more meat. "Plus," he added, "what I eat is my business -- it's personal."
I've been writing about food and agriculture for more than a decade. Until that evening, however, I'd never actively thought about this most basic culinary question: Is eating personal?
We know more than we've ever known about the innards of the global food system. We understand that food can both nourish and kill. We know that its production can both destroy and enhance our environment. We know that farming touches every aspect of our lives -- the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the soil we need.
So it's hard to avoid concluding that eating cannot be personal. What I eat influences you. What you eat influences me. Our diets are deeply, intimately and necessarily political.
This realization changes everything for those who avoid meat. As a vegetarian I've always felt the perverse need to apologize for my dietary choice. It inconveniences people. It smacks of self-righteousness. It makes us pariahs at dinner parties. But the more I learn about the negative impact of meat production, the more I feel that it's the consumers of meat who should be making apologies.
Read the rest of the article.
I know my vegetarianism is inconvenient in society, but so was abolitionism in the 19th century.
I just watched the first three episodes of HBO's new series Bored to Death. I was worried that Jason Schwartzman's comedic style, which works very well in movies, wouldn't translate to a TV show, but the show far exceeded my expectations. As long as the quality doesn't suddenly plunge, this show could carve out quite a cult following.
This is the theme, co-written and performed by Schwartzman:
