Even after all this time
The sun never says to the earth
‘You owe me.’
Look what happens with a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.
-Danny Ladinsky / Hafiz rendering
Finish Each Day
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finish every day and be
done with it.
You have done what
you could.
Some blunders and
absurdities
no doubt have crept in;
forget them as soon as
you can.
Tomorrow is a new
day;
begin it well and
serenely
and with too high a
spirit
to be cumbered with
your old nonsense.
This day is all that is
good and fair.
It is too dear,
with its hopes and
invitations,
to waste a moment on
yesterdays.
100 shades of white
Rutherford Chang collects first pressings of The Beatles’ White Album (902 copies, to be exact). What happened when he took 100 of his records, recorded them playing on his analog vinyl player, and overlaid the tracks on top of each other?
This:
(Side 2 only available on vinyl).
like a rolling stone
The new dylan video for ‘like a rolling stone’ is out. All the channels are pretty interesting, although Young Bob is probably my favorite.
Reminds me of that time I went to the second inauguration of GWB for ‘turn your back on bush‘. I drove, Trey rode, and we met some people from ‘the movement’ in Georgia somewhere. Picked up a kid who looked like a young Bob Dylan, and one of the old hippie ladies went crazy for him. Some real Harold & Maude shit. The roads were wintry mix awful & we arrived at 4am with the Postal Service “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight” playing on the ipod. Slept on a floor for a few hours and then it was go time. Lots of machine gun carrying men on the rooftops. Tear gas and fences. Met a cute anarchist at the after party with a tattoo of Sisyphus on her back that I never got to see.