The Stone Roses, 2011
They’re back! Tickets for their Manchester Heaton Park gigs on June 29 and 30, 2012 go on sale at 9.30am (BST) this Friday, October 21.
Photo © Pennie Smith
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
- Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry in ‘The Diary of Anaïs Nin’
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This photo of Bill Clinton drinking beers with shirtless US soccer players is priceless. Bring on Ghana!
This postcard from Nicky Wire of the Manic Street Preachers says it all. The new Manics album now officially beats out The Arcade Fire for the album I’m most looking forward to.
I went on a song kick today….my iPod shuffled to Idlewild’s “Tell Me Ten Words” off of the album ‘The Remote Part’ and I’ve played it approximately 30 times in a row. I can’t even completely articulate what about that song grabbed me today - the album is one of my favorites, but that song is my theme today and specifically, I’m loving the line: “It’s what you thought you could be if you tried much harder.” Roddy Womble is truly a lyricist who falls into the poet category. Here are the complete lyrics:
IDLEWILD - “Tell Me Ten Words”
I have to stop saying “to be honest”, it’s not a real defeat
To have to stop saying “to be honest”, it’s not a great defeat
No, no, no, not such a great defeat
All these things that you don’t know, it seems so much better that way
All these things that you don’t know, it seems so much better that way
Can you tell me 10 words that you’d use, to describe the world
Can you tell me 10 words that you’ve used, to describe the world
To people, though people, never seem to know
To people, though people, never know
The more I say the more I keep confusing things, to make me feel complete
So I keep lying to be honest, it’s not a real defeat
No, no, no, not such a real defeat
All these things that you don’t know, it seems so much better that way
All these things that you don’t know, it seems so much better that way
Can you tell me 10 words that you’d use, to describe the world
Can you tell me 10 words that you’ve used, to describe the world
To people, though people, never seem to know
To people, though people, never know
It’s what you thought you are, it’s what you thought you are
It’s what you thought you are,
It’s what you never thought you are, it’s what you never thought you are
It’s what you thought you could be if you tried much harder
All these things that you don’t know, it seems so much better that way
A couple of months ago, my wife took passport photos of our kids so we could all go to Ensenada, Mexico and work with an orphanage our church supports. I’ve always hated my passport pictures (more so than other pictures of myself, mind you), but I loved the simplicity of the pics of my kids. They ended up being such beautiful snapshots of them. And check out how skinny their necks are!
Since I’m in love with my wife I’m posting another pic of her. Since we’re moving…I keep finding old pictures of us. Pictures I had forgotten about or didn’t even realize exsisted. Pictures that are of the pre-digital age. I could write an essay about this picture and maybe this summer when I have more time, I will. But suffice to say, I took this picture before we were married. Michelle is sitting in front of the Pepperdine chapel looking out a the Pacific Ocean. I still think I had the better view.
Columbia valedictorian plagiarizes section of commencement speech from Patton Oswalt: http://bit.ly/cKoZiS
