A Character with Sharp Angles

the blues [chuckles]. This is, to me, real, real, real beautiful. But … and it has a form, and it’s traditional, but I like the idea of some kind of “modern blues.” Just kind of … breaking that. I don’t know if you can break it, really, but … “modern blues”! I just like that idea.

—David Lynch, (Non-)Musician: The L.A. Weekly Interview - Page 1 - News - Los Angeles - LA Weekly (via Instapaper)

It was a region, he added, where the favorite farewell was “May there be a road.

—Frank Bessac, Scholar and Adventurer, Dies at 88 (via Instapaper)

cool is not a way of life; it’s a state of being” - Stephen King

—What We Learned About Stephen King During His Seven-Year Entertainment Weekly Stint (via Instapaper)

He also showed me, through negative example, how not to be a mean tyrant but, if you have to be, do it with a sense of humor and style. But most of all, Don showed me how to think like an artist about music.

—The Daily Swarm - Teenage Days With Captain Beefheart: Peter Gordon Remembers Don Vliet… (via Instapaper)

There was no sense of musical concordance or common practice, nothing was to be taken for granted or accepted without question. Authenticity of purpose, of intent and a direct connection to the subconscious were foremost concern.

—The Daily Swarm - Teenage Days With Captain Beefheart: Peter Gordon Remembers Don Vliet… (via Instapaper)

2010 will be regarded by historians, I fearlessly predict, as something of a neon hologram.

—Politics, the Economy and the Media in 2010: A Look Back - TIME (via Instapaper)

“lugubrious semirelevance”

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