fibber mcgee (unfinished)

down on mainstreet,

and under a tree

i knew an old man

named fibber mcgee.

he was my friend.

fibber spent his days

trimming the tree.

didn't realize

the roots were rotten as could be.

wasting his ways away.

i pray for you,

mr fibber mcgee.

when water met fire

zach

"NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. — A reading at a North Carolina library was intended for young people, but the person behind the book attracted plenty of adults as well.

That's because the reader Tuesday was Zach Galifianakis, a comedian, movie star and Wilkes County, N.C., native. The Winston-Salem Journal reported Galifianakis was at the Wilkes County Public Library for a children's reading that drew hundreds.

Galifianakis joked that he would read from his movie, "The Hangover," but then read three children's books, one of which his father wrote.

He stayed afterward for nearly two hours, posing for photos and signing almost anything brought to him including old Wilkes Central High School yearbooks and a GQ magazine with his face on the cover."

Link: http://www.journalpatriot.com/fullstory.asp?id=2494

digital vs physical media

I came across an interesting site today... http://cultofless.com/

It explains the experience of Kelly Sutton, a 22-year-old dude from Brooklyn, who has adapted a digital minimalist lifestyle, ridding himself of most everything he owns save his laptop, one of those digital book reader things, a bed, clothes ... that sort of stuff.

I thought it was interesting, this is why. In my own little mind, I like to think we're all in this big war right now, a digital war. There's people fighting on one side to burn the books, digitize photographs, and make things faster, quicker, NOW. The digital. They're in Spock suits and live in a place that looks like the place in Tron. Then there's people on the other side, struggling to hold onto a rope of nostalgia, reading dusty books, flipping through photo albums, keeping 'the bulk' for whatever personal reason or attachment they have. The physical. They're in flannel shirts and sit on a porch somewhere in the South listening to Neil Young.

I'm not sure that one is right, and one is wrong though.

I think that each side seems to feed off of the other, which is awesome. When we become too digital, when music becomes like tap water on iTunes, there comes a group of people who move to the exact opposite side of the see saw and buy an old beat up record player. When we become to physical, lugging around a backpack of books and notes, we move towards laptops and digital books.

I like it. Anyways, I'm going to watch the Lone Ranger circa 1950's via the internet, so I like a bit of both haha

quote of the day

I was in a freight elevator with two mechanics today at work. It was kind of awkward and silent until ... one of the dudes started laughing super hard at a text he received from another friend of his. He then read it to the other dude, who then laughed even harder at it. I then laughed at them laughing haha.

The text read ...

"fuckin plumbers. he asked me how to shut off the water. i said TURN THE ISOLATION PIPES YOU MORON!!!!!"

haha

audrey

List of California

- Cartoon Art Museum

- Golf @ Stanford

- Trip to Neil Young's ranch

- Random trip to Vegas. New York New York hotel.

- Surfing @ Huntington Beach

- Reading in Alkatraz

- Hollywood/LA