This fall’s political campaign is devolving into a mud slinging contest about which political party to blame for our continuing economic crisis. It’s all a little hard to swallow. What we really need to do is look in the mirror: our financial crisis originated in our own household balance…
Lights Out: PROTIP: If your daughter walked in on you having sex, recording her reenacting the sounds she heard and then uploading it to YouTube is something of a parenting faux pas.
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I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories but find yourself moving on. It’s perfectly normal.
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| — | Nicholas Sparks (True Believer) (via quote-book) |
How much are you willing to love when you know you will lose it all in the end?
(via alicec, 365thoughts)
If you want to be a person of influence, or if you want to lead, or for that matter if you want to succeed, start reading. These days, you have less competition than your parents had, or their parents for that matter. If you read as few as fifty books, you’ll be considered a genius. Subscribe to the Economist and read a handful of articles each week and your friends will wonder when you intend to run for congress. Turn off your television and read two books a week next year and you’ll be counseling the Pope or the President. It’s true what I learned all those years ago: Readers are leaders.
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| — | Donald Miller (via azspot) |
Chewbacca had tons of memorable quotes from the Star Wars films! My personal favorite was “OW RAW AH AHH RAHH!”. Pure genius, right?! (Larger Image)
More Savage Chickens Star Wars: HERE
Forty-seven years after her death, Edith Piaf is soundtracking the biggest, darkest, most bombastic blockbuster of the summer. Composer Hans Zimmer has revealed that Inception’s entire soundtrack, from the booming trombone theme to the strains of rising dread, originates from one of the chanteuse’s most famous songs.
Anyone who has seen Christopher Nolan’s movie will recall Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien, the song used to signal a “kick” to another reality. But Piaf’s famous ballad does not just permeate Inception as a sample – it’s in the soundtrack’s DNA.
“Just for the game of it,” Zimmer told the New York Times this week, “all the music in the score is subdivisions and multiplications of the tempo of the Edith Piaf track.” The clearest example is Inception’s theme, which an enterprising YouTuber has already deciphered, speeding up the booming trombones to reveal Piaf’s Gallic melancholy. “I was surprised how long it took them to figure it out,” Zimmer said. “[It] wasn’t supposed to be a secret.”
