Damn, I love this holiday CD. It’s my favorite because it swings so nicely. (Second favorite is The Christmas Album by Nat King Cole).
The Storyverse Comes Alive
Small Demons, who’s tagline is Welcome to the Storyverse, is a vast expanse of possibility for the curious. It contains, “The people, places and things from books, and everywhere they can take you.” According to the site, which is in Beta test mode,
It all begins here. Suppose someone took every meaningful detail from all the books you love. Every song mentioned, every person, every food or place or movie title. And what if they did that for all the books everyone else loves, too. The ones you’ve never heard of. Suddenly you’ve got a whole world of seemingly random people, places and things, all gathered in one place.
Together they create something vast, wonderful and entirely new. A Storyverse. A place where details touch, overlap and lead you further. To new music to listen to. New movies to watch. Places to visit. People to know. And of course, new books to read. Getting started is simple. Just choose a book. See where it takes you.
Sign me up. I can’t wait to dive into this.
Alejandro Jodorowsky is a fascinating human.
Yes, it’s that time again
National Novel Writing Month is almost here and that means 30 days of writing madness if you take up the challenge to participate in the always fun NaNoWriMo.
The idea is simple: write a novel in a month.
No plot, no editing, no worries, just write. Because you can’t edit and refine the novel you haven’t yet written.
The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds and makes of all political and social life a mass illness. Without this housecleaning we cannot begin to see. Unless we see, we cannot think.
New MU Season
The new Mysterious Universe season is in full swing. If you haven’t listened yet, you should.
If you like fringe science, the supernatural and the strange, all delivered with a nice dose of humor, it is essential listening.
In fact, become an MU Plus subscriber for the extra content. It’s more than the worth the 9 bucks a month. In fact, it’s a bargain. Just saying.
The Secret Bookstore
Watch this spare, stunning and wonderfully moving video. I adore books and was blown away by this piece.
Michael Seidenberg’s unwavering commitment to a noble and somewhat dying institution, the bookstore, is heart wrenchingly beautiful.
I hope I get to visit there one day.
(Via the Paris Review Daily)
Chamblin: A True Literary Gem
Chamblin Bookmine is so very wonderful. A vast labyrinth of old books, amazing literary finds and great staff. A true literary gem in an age of commodified reading, big chain bookstores and the e-book. Glad you’re here in Jax, Chamblin.
What Jacksonville needs to do is become the center of a new cultural renaissance. No politics, no B.S., just people who give a damn coming together to create the kind of city we want to live in, work in and play in. Spark arts, spark culture, spark creativity. Spark giving back. I’m just saying.
To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.
Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick