The world of Craigslist musicians wanted ads is vast and contains multitudes; I’m already exchanging e-mails with a dude who writes noodly, oddly sensitive songs about Red Stripe and has an AK Press sticker on his guitar.
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people just don’t do business like they used to
I can’t even begin to talk about how perfect this is; in related news, my uncle briefly worked at a funeral home and liked to drive the hearse through drive-throughs and order two hamburgers, one for him and one for the guy in the back.
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Television - Earth Tavern, Portland, Oregon, July 2, 1978
Because I care about you, and because someone requested it, here’s another re-up of this mindbogglingly awesome Television gig. It’s important that you listen to this.
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When was super depressed, I wasn’t working—I was always too depressed. Hemingway did his best work when he didn’t drink, then he drank himself to death and blew his head off with a shotgun. Someone asked John Cheever, “What’d you learn from Hemingway?” and he said “I learned not to blow my head off with a shotgun.” I remember going to the Michigan poetry festival, meeting Etheridge Knight there and Robert Creeley. Creeley was so drunk—he was reading and he only had one eye, of course, and had to hold his book like two inches from his face using his one good eye. But you look at somebody like George Saunders—I think he’s the best short story writer in English alive—that’s somebody who tries very hard to live a sane, alert life.
You’re present when you’re not drinking a fifth of Jack Daniel’s every day. It’s probably better for your writing career, you know? I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist.
—In an interview with The Fix, Mary Karr debunks the toxic mythology that it is necessary to be damaged in order to be creative. My own vehement defiance to that mythology is what led me to choose Ray Bradbury – the ultimate epitome of creating from joy rather than suffering – as the subject of my contribution to The New York Times’ The Lives They Lived.
Pair with Karr on why writers write.
(via explore-blog)
Read Mary Karr’s memoir Lit and then read Infinite Jest and then bow before Mary Karr who is your rightful queen.
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world's most formal "musicians wanted" advert
Now that I’m a working stiff I can do this now, evenings and weekends of course.
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(Source: iamtannergarza, via tvlanddryspell)
