“ It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us, and makes us unique. It’s not easy, but if you accept your misfortune, and handle it right, your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound reinvention.
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It is often much easier to entertain oneself than to entertain others.
It is often much easier to entertain oneself than to entertain others.
Jun 14
Jan 24
“ No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Jan 13
“ By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
— Robert Frost
Nov 02
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins - “I Put a Spell on You” (1956)
Fifty years later, still insane.
I Put a Spell on You - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hawkins had originally intended to record “I Put a Spell on You” as a refined love song, a blues ballad. He reported, however, that the producer “brought in ribs and chicken and got everybody drunk, and we came out with this weird version. I don’t even remember making the record. Before, I was just a normal blues singer. I was just Jay Hawkins. It all sort of just fell in place. I found out I could do more destroying a song and screaming it to death.”
[…]
Up to this time, Hawkins had been a blues performer; emotional, but not wild. Freed suggested a gimmick to capitalize on the “demented” sound of “I Put a Spell on You”: Hawkins wore a long cape, and appeared onstage by rising out of a coffin in the midst of smoke and fog.
The act was a sensation, later bolstered by tusks worn in Hawkins’ nose, on-stage snakes and fireworks, and a cigarette-smoking skull named “Henry”. The theatrical act was one of the first shock rock performances, and a basis for much that came later in rock and roll….
Rock n roll is so amazing.
Sep 10
» This is painfully accurate. and catchy...
So catchy!
(Source: butchwalker)
Sep 01
Muhaha I love this.
Ken Cosgrove shows Harry Crane the future of television
From a behind-the-scenes photography set at Rolling Stone. This photo by James Minchin III. (thx, Greg)
via itsnotforyou
Aug 05
“ Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
— Mark Twain
Jun 29
“ Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
— Calvin Coolidge
Jun 03
“ Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad Company.
— George Washington, “Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation,” Rule #56
Feb 19
1938 Dating Guide For Single Women
pbh3:
Apparently, the only keys to successful dating in the 1930’s for ladies were don’t talk too much, wear a bra, and don’t pass out in the middle of your date because you’re drunk.
