Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.
๐ฌ Ernest Becker
… and then I thought of ๐๐ต The Overview
Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.
๐ฌ Ernest Becker
… and then I thought of ๐๐ต The Overview
๐ Scripting News: Monday, March 24, 2025
Peter O’Toole starred in ๐๐ฌThe Ruling Class, a favorite when I was younger. The ๐ต๐ผ last song in the movie is pretty freaking great.
๐ฌ Dave Winer
I agree with Dave - ‘The Ruling Class’ was a good movie (not great - but good). ‘Favorite’? Not so sure, definitely not ‘in general- since it was pretty much panned at the time only time turning it into what we now call a ‘cult classic’. (But do watch the song - it has all the expected cheesiness of its time!)
Four years earlier was ๐๐ฌ If - now THAT was a film and arguably did for McDowell what Layer Cake did for Craig.
๐๐ต๐ผ Objects Outlive Us
Her shopping bag broke sending eggs and flour crashing
Down to the ground, just like star clusters smashing
But no one will give her a glance
They just shuffle on home in a trance
The tiniest lives fill their hives up with worry
To make it to church, well, she needs to hurry
When late she will bow down contrite
While a meteor turns out the light
And there in an ordinary street
A car isn’t where it would normally be
The driver in tears, ‘bout his payment arrears
Still, nobody hears whะตn a sun disappears
In a galaxy afar
First day of the new job and hะต was so nervous
The suit and the platitude, “Can I be of service?”
His boss made him clean all the cars
While he wondered, “Is there life on Mars?”
And meanwhile the stars line themselves up in order
While we bicker on with our fences and borders
But best not think about that
It’s better to live without facts
And now in her old wedding bed
A lady will dream that her husband is dead
Of course he’s alive, he’ll be home around five
Still, silence arrives, when a nebula dives into our Milky Way
The thunder and rain start, the paving stones melt
And oddly the first spots make Orion’s belt as
You queue at the bank for an hour
‘Cause a solar flare blew out the power
The nurse in the care home now empties a bath tub
The water will spiral, a galaxies vast hub
Is draining away as we speak
But she loses her job there next week
And there with his first telescope
A teenager stands full of hormones and hope
As he squints at the night, like a painting of light
He doesn’t suppose that a black hole implodes
In a trillion tears from now (Ah)
๐ฌ Andy Partridge (Music - Wilson)
Back on Apple. Specifically the difficualty people who should know better continue to fail miserably at understanding the company - and if they donโt understand - how can they explain?
๐ต Day Zero. Itโs here.
๐๐ต๐ผ This Bifrost from Austria - amazing as they are - are very different to
๐๐ต๐ผ The Danish Bifrost that I remember from the 70s
Danish Bifrost Hits (is that the right word)
Need to look into WOODKID more. A lot more.
๐ต Great Rockentours interview with Andy Partridge - more kudos and recognition of the Monkees than all their other shows added together.
Daring Fireball: Another Tim Cook Product Announcement Teaser on X: ‘There’s Something in the Air’
@gruber โฆ Is it just me that thinks ๐ missed a trick by not using ๐๐ต๐ผThunderclapโs song
