Marble Compostion Notebook

Movies and music and books can be trivial in the grand scheme of things, but I think its just our desire to fill our lives with sights and sounds and thoughts and ideas and people that bring us happiness.

I think the reason today is so sad is because it means a huge part of your life and my life can now forever only exist in the past.  There’s this line in the sand now regarding our culture, and the way in which I came to discover and understand it, and consequently understand the world and the people that inhabit it. 

Its a thing in your life than can still bring you happiness, but it will never be the same kind of happiness.  It can now only take you to a time in your past; maybe you’ll even get a little bit wistful too.  And there can never be the excitement that maybe, just maybe, they make something new that fills with you the same kind of energy and plain happiness.  No new sights or sounds or ideas to think about and share and simply enjoy.

It saddens me because its the loss of something that was always a fundamental in my life.  It was just one of those things in my life that was there, that served as a gateway for all the things that were fun and amazing in our culture.  One of those examples of all the incredible pieces of art and entertainment  that we can produce, and bond over.  One of those things that forces us to spend our time by simply enjoying it.   

It saddens me because you see how it has affected so many people.  And in this moment of sadness you feel connected to everyone.  No matter how different the details, you shared some sort of emotional connection to something.  It really reminds you of how alive you are and how great it can be, and it can overwhelm you.

I’ll have the same reaction when Paul McCartney (and Ringo) and Woody Allen and the Stones and Brian Wilson and Stan Lee and Spielberg and Bill Murray and countless others pass on.  The list is infinite, but pieces will always fall to your past and stay there. 

Maybe its just another big reminder that we are all going to die someday, and deep down we hope to leave some sort of impact on someone, maybe a lot of “someones.” 

Maybe its just a reminder to fill your life with as much happiness as you can, while you can.  To surround yourself with only the things that bring you joy.

I think “Rock With You” is simply wired in my DNA to always make me happy.

Marshall McLuhan

With every piece of information that comes out about Iran, especially how citizens across many countries are using new techonology to communicate important information about their rights and basic freedoms and working together as a people who share a common goal…

…it reminds me that you and I have done nothing substantial with the incredible techonolgical privileges that have been affored to us (especially you) (especially me).

“If brevity is the ‘soul of wit’ then is saying nothing the smartest thing you could do?”

- Pompous version of Me

An Update From My Dealer

“LA Confidential rite now.  Bomb kush strain.  Holler!”

Idolatry

“I’m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.”

Brubeck!

Things My Friends Have Said

RE: “Tiptoes” (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316768/)

“Producer: You mean you got me Gary Oldman?? I said Gary COLEMan!”
“Casting Director: oops, sry kthanxbai”

- Mark Blumberg, 5/11/09

Idolatry

“I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you’re an idiot.”

Martin!