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That's the stuff right there.
Country blues guitarist and singer Big Bill Broonzy performing "Hey Hey Baby" live in 1956. Song can be found on his 1955 album Big Bill Blues. m.youtube.com/watch?v=gSHBcO…
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No government has the right to:
• decide on the truth of scientific principles,
• determine the aesthetic values of artistic creations,
• limit the forms of literary or artistic expression,
• pronounce on the validity of historic, religious or philosophical doctrines.
Advice I need to hear on the regular...
"Things take the time they take. Don't worry."
Mary Oliver, who would have been 91 today, on how to live fully: themarginalian.org/2015/02/0…
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When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means the sun is about to set ~ Lin Yutang
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In the early stages of our screenplay, too often we think in terms of plot points and information.
It's why we get so many screenplays that just go along. Something happens. Then something else. And then something after that.
Stop doing this. Instead, think in terms of great scenes.
Kick-ass, emotional, hilarious, horrifying, sexy, romantic scenes.
Any story idea can produce information. Does your story idea produce great scenes?
The best, high-concept ideas promise those scenes in the logline.
So start with this early.
If your idea doesn't give you great scenes in its conception, maybe the idea itself isn't ready.
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Every book I own is a direction I went on or could have gone on.
My library is not a library. It is a map.
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What is your favorite song from Keb's new album 'The Breakdown' so far? Let us know below! ⬇️
Listen to the album and order it on vinyl or CD today at the link in bio. 🪕
@ConcordJazz @saltomgmt #blues #americana 😎
At some point in your life all the chasing will stop and you'll find you can relax into yourself as easily as floating on your back, trusting the water to hold you up and bear you along.
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Bringing sanity back to maps as told by @joshjohnson
Some medieval wisdom, still so relevant today...
'Wa þære þeode þe hæfð ælðeodigne cyng' (Woe will come to the nation which has a foreign king...)
As the Bayeux Tapestry goes on display in London, my latest column for @HistoryToday is about a manuscript where we hear, briefly, the voice of the conquered historytoday.com/archive/out…
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"This is how magic is done..."
“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up.
This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.”
- Terence McKenna, Unfolding the Stone, Lecture,
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We like to think that making rules will keep bad things from happening. But just look around you––it never does. Changing hearts is the only effective way, and even that offers no permanent guarantees.
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I woke up to an interview with Wynton Marsalis on the BBC this morning that was one of the most real and interesting conversations with a musician that I've heard in a long time. Thought I'd share it with you:
bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct8hq0