Regardless of your hockey team, this Stanley Cup Finals intro is absolutely unbelievable…
Ray Bourque interview, @TheKillers ‘All These Things That I’ve Done’ playing, Jon Hamm narrating… Just perfection. Made me tear up.
Extremely well done 👏🏽👏🏽
When the President of the United States openly says he does not care about the financial situation of the American people, he ceases being the President of the United States.
"Stop complaining about gas prices."
"You're going to feel so silly when gas prices go back down."
"Short term pain for long term gain."
"I'd rather pay more for gas than Iran have a nuke."
"At least it's not as bad as Joe Biden."
Literally just shut the fuck up.
George Carlin in 2005:
"They don't want people smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they're getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago."
He died in 2008. Nothing changed.
After everything we've had to endure since 2020, millions of the forgotten men and women of America Trump once said he cared about will just go back to their normal lives, work hard, toss their dusty red MAGA hats into the trash, and never vote again.
And I'm one of them.
Happy Easter Everyone!
Was just thinking this morning…
Imagine you’re sitting on a bench in a beautiful field surrounded by beautiful forest; like a scene from Bambi in Spring, animals and sunlight scattered everywhere in pastoral glory.
Okay, now imagine there is a large Jackson Pollack painting sat on an easel in front of you; bright colors splashed chaotically in every direction like skid marks on a New York pavement.
What does it look like in this setting? Does it look like art? Is it beautiful? Is it even interesting? Or does it look like something that should be removed? Does it look more like trash when compared to the majesty of its surroundings?
It just makes me wonder. It’s one thing to pretend we like Jackson Pollock while standing in a cement building in New York City, but once you take his painting outside, the object itself seems absurd, offensive even. What business do we have calling that ‘great art,’ when there is so much natural beauty around us?
I don’t think this applies to all modern art.
I heard that Brian Eno has a method of watching a river while listening to a mix. If the music doesn’t flow with the river, he knows he has to change something.
Maybe a good metric for painting should be—if we place it in a field surrounded by natural beauty, does it look nice there? Or would we rather just throw it in a bin?
I’m not saying painting has to be beautiful per se. I imagine any paining by Goya or Francis Bacon looking very elegant in a field somewhere.
But what is the point of making anything at all if it would be nicer to just stare at a tree?