Kevin Garnett is a crazy person. #Barfight
It’s like super fast DVR.
A whole year of CONAN condensed into four wonderfully convulsion-inducing minutes? Yup. This is that.
THIS. IS. AWESOME.
(Source: teamcoco.com)
Reblogged from nikita-banana (Originally from teamcoco)
From The Archives: Steve Jobs delivers Stanford University’s 114th Commencement Address on June 12, 2005. Topic: How to live before you die.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
(Full transcript here.)
Reblogged from thedailywhat
Make friends. And not Facebook friends. Real friends
that you can trust and will fall on a sword for. More than two, less than five; it’s called your inner circle.
Robbie Lloyd, Silva Artist Management
Life will deliver a few moments when something substantial is about to happen, when you know it’s substantial, when you’ve done everything you could to prepare for the moment, but still, you just don’t know. And it would be foolish to pretend otherwise. I felt that way when I was getting married, when both of my kids were being born, when I graduated college, and incredibly, when I was standing in front of that stupid Carl’s Jr. Oh my God. There is no stopping this now. Please tell me this will turn out all right. You take a leap of faith with life. You inhale and exhale. You hope.
Bill Simmons talking about when they launched Jimmy Kimmel Live in 2003
Possibly the best thing Ben Folds has ever done since Chatroulette requests…
Here is the setlist from this madness…
(Thanks to baristagirl for the setlist)
Paper airplanes are the best way to put together a setlist.
No seriously. I just got home from seeing Ben Folds play The National in Richmond, VA…. I’ve seen him a couple of times before, but this show was the best one. Mr. Folds had everybody write their song requests on paper planes (mine was “Army”) and float them onto stage when he walked out. From the array of tiny aircrafts on the floor he selected songs one at a time… he played the intro of repeat requests and sometimes part of a verse in a minor key, which was very funny. It seems that the most common requests were “Landed” and “The Luckiest”… (can we consider this a representative sample?)
The setlist:
The Luckiest
Missing the War
Landed
Landed intro
Luckiest intro (minor key)
Landed intro
Brick
There’s Always Someone Cooler Than You
Learn To Live With What You Are
Luckiest intro
Army
1 Angry Dwarf
Such Great Heights
Do You Know The Way To San Jose? (he bullshitted his way through this one and it was awesome.)
You Don’t Know Me
Effington
Still Fighting It
Luckiest intro
Faith (George Michael’s song - he made up for lack of lyrics with booty-shaking)
Losing Lisa
Effington intro (minor key)
Zak and Sara
Where’s Summer B.?
Self-requests: Hope Is A Bastard and Stephen’s Last Night In Town (complete with super drum solo and brief reprise of Faith)
The encore was a medley of songs on the remaining airplanes, so as not to waste everyone’s lovely ideas. This went as follows:
Adelaide/Bitch Went Nuts/Magic/Song For The Dumped/Sleazy (Ke$ha cover)/ Careless Whisper/Rockin’ The Suburbs/Annie Waits/Bad, Bad Leroy Brown/Not The Same/Emaline/Rock This Bitch/Jesusland/Sweet Caroline/Kate/Mess/Free Bird/Like A Virgin/Tiny Dancer/Bitches Ain’t Shit/Levi Johnston’s Blues/Bruised/Hiroshima (B-B-B-Benny Hit His Head)/Battle Of Who Could Care Less/Wandering/Fired/Don’t Change Your Plans/All U Can Eat/Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head/(Something that might have been Errant Dog?)/Uncle Walter/Creep
And finally he played Narcolepsy all the way through and I didn’t know I could feel piano through my feet but it’s totally possible.
And then I met him and he signed my ticket. :D
The opening act tonights was Kenton Chen, who very bravely chose to open with a cover of Sarah McLachlan’s “Angel”. He followed this with Brittany Spears’s “Toxic,” and then three of his own songs, “Fierce Tears,” “Take Me Home,” and “Anthem.” He has a huge voice for such a compact person! You should look him up.
Back to Ben for a sec: he said that there’s a “comprehensive album” in the works that has required going back through boxes of old demos from the time he was 12 until now. One of them apparently included an early version of LTLWWYA, recorded three years before its official release. Also, the inspiration for “Zak and Sara” came from seeing this girl watching her boyfriend practice guitar in a guitar store (which was apparently common at the time) and noticing that her eyes were glazed over. Mr. Folds imagined her imagining the music of the future while waiting for the song to be over so she could clap. He was also inspired by J.D. Salinger’s short story, Franny and Zooey, and said he liked Franny’s character.
So just in case you were wondering, now you know.
!!!
there are hours of my life that I will never get back thanks to this game.
…and I’m perfectly okay with that.
Reblogged from thelos (Originally from strangeblood)
If you’ve been a fan of rock music at all in the past 20 years, do yourself a favor and watch the new Foo Fighters doc. It’s awesome. It’s running on Palladia (which by the way, I could watch Palladia all day long… just sayin) and is hitting select theaters this week.
I’m going to go wish I was Dave Grohl now…
NFG are going to sell this shirt this coming week to raise money for Japan!
I love this shirt!! Everyone get it for a great cause; up on http://www.newfoundglorystuff.com next week!
Reblogged from steveisthereason (Originally from new-found-glory)
