Daily Archives: July 2, 2009

Hilarious documentary on Wildwood, NJ, my ancestral homeland.

Via FourFour and Jezebel.   From DanielNester.com

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Jackson Browne and "These Days": covers, chords, etc.

I’ve grown to love Jackson Browne’s “These Days,” a track most people know through the version recorded by Nico and seen in this scene in Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums. It’s a simple song that runs down five chords: C, … Continue reading

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A mini-commonplace.

If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone–from Kenko’s Essays in Idleness, translated Donald Keene We must … Continue reading

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