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April 24, 2012
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"For the first eight years of our marriage, [Michelle and I] were paying more in student loans than what we were paying for our mortgage. So we know what this is about.

And we were lucky to land good jobs with a steady income. But we only finished paying off our student loans—check this out, all right, I’m the President of the United States—we only finished paying off our student loans about eight years ago."

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—President Obama in North Carolina today on why Congress has to act to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling (via barackobama)

CHECK THIS OUT, ALL RIGHT, I’M THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

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Shit, I’m still 48k in debt for my for-profit school non-transferable associate’s degree.

I mean, it’s nobody’s fault but my own, but it’s crazy that 1 year of school is going to cost me 400 bucks a month for the next 20 years.

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April 23, 2012
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"Don’t f*cking tell me that the arts are useless. In such a visual, media-oriented society, design, creativity, and ART are everywhere. When you go home at night, you don’t read the latest science journals about finding the largest prime number, YOU WATCH F*CKING TV, WHICH IS MADE BY WRITERS, ACTORS, DIRECTORS, AND ARTISTS. Seriously. do. not. f*cking. TELL ME that the arts are unimportant. Just because it’s not in a museum or a literary journal does not mean it’s not art."

— Viva La Propagandista: The 13 Most Useless College Majors (As Determined By Science)

I would argue that one the of the great things about art is that you don’t NEED a degree. You just make it. There’s a lot of sense in NOT getting 80k in debt to write television shows. Instead, live off of a fraction of that and go try to write television shows.

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Yup

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March 19, 2012
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apoplecticskeptic: joshsternberg: Personification of perfection.  If it wasn’t for Rubber Soul, we would never have gotten this album. Without Pet Sounds, we would never have gotten Sgt. Pepper. I really wasn’t quite ready for the unity. It felt like it all belonged together. Rubber Soul was a collection of songs … that somehow went together like no album ever made before, and I was very impressed. I said, “That’s it. I really am challenged to do a great album - Brian Wilson This interesting calculus is why music has been on a steady decline. Are there any analogous examples today?  “It was Pet Sounds that blew me out of the water. I love the album so much. I’ve just bought my kids each a copy of it for their education in life … I figure no one is educated musically ‘til they’ve heard that album … I love the orchestra, the arrangements … it may be going overboard to say it’s the classic of the century … but to me, it certainly is a total, classic record that is unbeatable in many ways … I’ve often played Pet Sounds and cried. I played it to John so much that it would be difficult for him to escape the influence … it was the record of the time. The thing that really made me sit up and take notice was the bass lines … and also, putting melodies in the bass line. That I think was probably the big influence that set me thinking when we recorded Pepper, it set me off on a period I had then for a couple of years of nearly always writing quite melodic bass lines. “God Only Knows” is a big favorite of mine … very emotional, always a bit of a choker for me, that one. On “You Still Believe in Me”, I love that melody - that kills me … that’s my favorite, I think … it’s so beautiful right at the end … comes surging back in these multi-colored harmonies … sends shivers up my spine.” - Paul McCartney Yessssss. Such a great record

apoplecticskeptic:

joshsternberg:

Personification of perfection. 

If it wasn’t for Rubber Soul, we would never have gotten this album. Without Pet Sounds, we would never have gotten Sgt. Pepper.

I really wasn’t quite ready for the unity. It felt like it all belonged together. Rubber Soul was a collection of songs … that somehow went together like no album ever made before, and I was very impressed. I said, “That’s it. I really am challenged to do a great album - Brian Wilson

This interesting calculus is why music has been on a steady decline. Are there any analogous examples today? 

“It was Pet Sounds that blew me out of the water. I love the album so much. I’ve just bought my kids each a copy of it for their education in life … I figure no one is educated musically ‘til they’ve heard that album … I love the orchestra, the arrangements … it may be going overboard to say it’s the classic of the century … but to me, it certainly is a total, classic record that is unbeatable in many ways … I’ve often played Pet Sounds and cried. I played it to John so much that it would be difficult for him to escape the influence … it was the record of the time. The thing that really made me sit up and take notice was the bass lines … and also, putting melodies in the bass line. That I think was probably the big influence that set me thinking when we recorded Pepper, it set me off on a period I had then for a couple of years of nearly always writing quite melodic bass lines. “God Only Knows” is a big favorite of mine … very emotional, always a bit of a choker for me, that one. On “You Still Believe in Me”, I love that melody - that kills me … that’s my favorite, I think … it’s so beautiful right at the end … comes surging back in these multi-colored harmonies … sends shivers up my spine.” - Paul McCartney

Yessssss.

Such a great record

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March 10, 2012

Like Crazy film score

This music is so good
Composer Dustin O’Halloran, you rule!

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February 12, 2012
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Jennifer Hudson

Made my cry. One of my biggest musical influences won a Grammy.
Solid Evening.

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February 12, 2012
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Dan Wilson

Writer of Adele “rolling In the deep” and that classic Semisonic Jam “closing time”. Great to see him onstage accepting an award with Adele

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February 12, 2012

Nicki Minaj?

Not sure what just happened?

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February 12, 2012
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thefader: MINAJ LOSES ONE Awesome!

thefader:

MINAJ LOSES ONE

Awesome!

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February 12, 2012
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sealegslegssea: But really, congrats JV, Bon Iver got me through really hard times and this photo is just extra ace Agreed.

sealegslegssea:

But really, congrats JV, Bon Iver got me through really hard times

and this photo is just extra ace

Agreed.

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February 07, 2012
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Love

Love

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February 05, 2012

Madonna.. Yawn

At least they got some VERY relevant filler for the rest of the performance.

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January 23, 2012
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themattsmith:

thelicenselab:

Today in serendipitously relevant examples of past productions:

Year of the Dragon* featuring Burst Collective co-conspirator J Todd.

*now available as part of the Mixtape Music Library via Sony/ATV Music Publishing as XMT105_01 I Put The Fire Right Where You Are 

Sometimes I write music that I actually listen to when I’m not at work.

Fun Fact: J Todd (was?/is?) in the group Def Harmonic with fellow Tumblr datatimesemotion, AKA Lunaversol 9

J Todd also owns Classic Slice pizza here in Milwaukee, Wi.
It is delicious!