Life Mottos? Huh? Or maybe here are those statements (by people, songs, books, movies)
that have stuck in my craw for my entire life. These mottos are somewhat
in chronological order (latest at top).
Luckily for us viewers Rocketboom with Joanne Colan and Andrew Baron too has continued to be produced since July 12, 2006 and I still make it part of my daily regimen. The Monday to Thursday videos are news, observations, correspondent reports (Africa, Boston, ... ) but my favorites are "Freaky Fridays" which show the creative artistry of Joanne, Andrew and the Rocketboom team. Here are some Freaky Friday Videos I liked in 2007(at least enough to put them on my phone):
2/02 NY Fairy Tale,
2/9 Backwards,
3/30 Sounds of Chinatown,
4/27 NYC,
5/14 Art
(Nota showa - These are links to wmv files - adjust your browser.)
Perhaps I like them a lot as they show NYC at it's normalest which
reminds me of the time I lived there.
Video Blogging? Yup I'm normal ... for the past year(s) [2004-June 23, 2006] I have been following a daily Video Blog from NYC called Rocketboom. It's presented by Amanda Congdon and yes she is a very intelligent pretty 25 yo ex model and has been touted in NY Times, Wired, NPR, Rolling Stone, Yahoo, Itunes, Tivo etcetera. But what she gives each weekday is a 3-4 minute pc erudite presentation which is a pleasure to watch. Rocketboom might disappear (after all what is permanent?) but her current offering and archives are worth watching.
Although the last Amanda Congdon Rocketboom was June 23, 2006, the episodes for 3 months prior to that date (with only Amanda producing) were not up to the high level of much of the historical archives. There is much brouha about Amanda's departure from Rocketboom production, take a look at her current video blog at ABCnews.com and you may understand why I do not miss her.
Rural Rob in his LJ journal February 2005 (posted from another LJ user):
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first
their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination,
and third, their industry. -- John Ruskin.
Ramon Stoppelenburg is from Holland (Zwolle/Amsterdam) and kept a wonderous log and record of his 2 year world-wide travel at no cost at http://www.letmestayforaday.com in 2001-2003. He published a book (Zonder een cent op zak de wereld rond about it (and other things) (Nederlands only) in 2004. In 2007/8 the book is being translated to English! The quote below on the left is the last frame of Ramon's 22 week compilation movie.
Orgin unknown; in 2007 Ramon said it was by Satchel Paige.
Click to view Ramon's 22 Week Compilation movie.
Lecture I wish I had seen (2004) - Larry Wall (Mr. Perl):The State of the Onion given at 2004 OSCON. It's not only that I am a dedicated XScreenSaver user or that I do not now do Perl, but Larry's "disjointed" verbiage meshes well with my thinking.
"May the longtime sun shine upon you; all love surround you... and the pure light within you...guide your way on...". It googles out to be amongst popular Quotations, Blessings & Prayers but I first saw it
in big wall poster letters in a Golden Temple restaurant in Amsterdam's Jordaan district in the
70's. It is also sung by the Incredible String Band in "A Very Cellular Song" in their 1968 album "The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter".
"Don't Look Back ...I wanna hold your hand"Mick Jagger and Peter Tosh in a video originally aired in 1978 on "Saturday Night Live". I heard/saw it on Nederlands TV VPRO - my teenage daughter was watching an MTV predecesor equivalent.
"No Woman No Cry" by Bob Marley in Live!. I first heard the song in the 70's on a record played by teenager Sylvain in Amsterdam.
"Messe de Requiem" by Gabriel Fauré 1887-1890, This stayed with me ever since I went to
Victor's
(An American artist acquaintance
living in a boat
in Amsterdam's Amstel River in the 70's) exhibition in the Stedelijk Museum in 1978/9. Fauré's Requiem was playing continuously at the exhibit.
Movie: "Themroc" 1973 I forgot the title of this film for almost 30 years and just found it (2007) with a proper google search. Although the film is considered to be nihilistic, anachronistic and cannabalistic (so if you are a bit squeamish ignore it), the reviews and myself think of it as a weird comedy expressing an angst which I appreciated. (I haven't seen it recently as it not available in the USA)
Book:"Rememberance of Things Past (Ŕ la recherche du temps perdu)" - Marcel Proust 1913-1927; Taking the title quite literally, I have found I can never go back to places of my memory as places have changed along with my changed perception.
Book:"So it goes." - Kurt Vonnegut in "Slaughter House-Five" 1991
Book:"The Castle" - Franz Kafka 1926; This book has been my blueprint for the complexities of Phone Companies and other huge corporate entities. Kafka wrote about these organizations almost a century ago.
"I had one once but the wheels fell off."
"No Soap. Radio." - I don't know where this comes from - not a comedy
group or song but at least one other person wonders also.
"Never whistle while you're pissing" - by Hagbard Celine from the Illuminatus! Trilogy.
"Don't run through the rain - walk it's the same distance." said to me by a fellow bus-rider (High School) - I think his name was/is Bruce Albert while we were walking/running to the bus as it was raining.
"Nobody Loves me. I'm going into the garden to eat worms. Yesterday I ate two smooth ones and one wooly one."
are the words that were in a
framed picture
which hung over the commode during my youth (0-16yrs) in our Woodstock (NY) house.
"These are the noises ... but what is worse yet are the stillnesses" by Rainier Maria Rilke.
has been on my car
