November 10th, 2010
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Oh my sweet Carolina
Ryan Adams
Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams - Oh My Sweet Carolina

Ryan Adams has been playing in our house for weeks. Mostly his old stuff: Heartbreaker, Demolition, Strangers Almanac. We’re having an alt-country party on Thursday and need to prepare, see?

Sometimes we get drunk and Joz plays this song on guitar. The rest of us sing along, coming in and out of tune and stumbling over the hard-to-remember parts.

This is one verse we never miss, though:

Up here in the city feels like things are closing in
The sunset’s just my light bulb burning out
I miss Kentucky and I miss my family
All the sweetest winds they blow across the South

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November 9th, 2010
Zoom Dave and Sarah helped me create timhackbarth.fm for your listening / viewing pleasure… Fresh, no?

Dave and Sarah helped me create timhackbarth.fm for your listening / viewing pleasure…

Fresh, no?

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October 20th, 2010
Zoom Sorry I haven’t written much, I’ve been busy updating the musical interests on my Facebook profile.

Sorry I haven’t written much, I’ve been busy updating the musical interests on my Facebook profile.

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October 14th, 2010
Find something you love, for reasons you understand, that not everyone agrees with you about, and put your _____ in it.
Gene Siskel on investing (The blank is “money,” but the sentence could be about a lot of things if you put different words like “time” and “energy” into it.)
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October 4th, 2010

And a star was born…

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September 27th, 2010

Our thinking mind is mainly two-fold: (1) a judicial mind which analyzes, compares and chooses. (2) a creative mind which visualizes, foresees, and generates ideas. Judgement can help keep imagination on the track, and imagination can help enlighten judgment.

In the average person, judgment grows automatically with years, while creativity dwindles unless consciously kept up. Circumstances force us to use our judicial mind every waking hour. From rising to retiring - from childhood to the end - we exercise our judgment. And by exercise it grows, or should grow, better and stronger.
Alex F. Osborn - Applied Imagination
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September 7th, 2010
Zoom sarahachtemeier: About 2 months ago I bought a nectarine at Raaaaandallll’s* grocery store here in Austin, and it was absolutely the most delicious nectarine I had tasted in my whole life. Writing thank-you notes is in my blood (Mom is from the deep South), and I knew that whoever grew something as good as that nectarine could not go un-thanked. Read the rest

sarahachtemeier:

About 2 months ago I bought a nectarine at Raaaaandallll’s* grocery store here in Austin, and it was absolutely the most delicious nectarine I had tasted in my whole life. Writing thank-you notes is in my blood (Mom is from the deep South), and I knew that whoever grew something as good as that nectarine could not go un-thanked.

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September 3rd, 2010
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
Biz Stone
August 24th, 2010
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D-U-Why?!
Mike Birbiglia
Returning to the Scene of the Crime

This is Mike Birbiglia reading his story “D-U-Why?!”, excerpted from Episode #379 of This American Life.

Don’t listen to this while shopping at Whole Foods. It could lead to embarrassing sniffles and watery eyes in the coffee aisle.

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August 23rd, 2010

This was Saturday night at Conjunctured. Careful viewers might catch a glimpse of me in a blue-checked shirt. Perhaps even a few glances.

Via Kienan. Created by Nick Simonite.

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