things i suck at:
- maths
- being mad at puppies
I love the desert, Arabic language, politics, history, social theory, culture, vintage motorcycles, and Pearl Jam. Oh, and my dog, Bandit.
I excavate artifacts from around the web and curate them here.
I excavate artifacts from around the web and curate them here.
- girl:: i don't normally like chest hair, but--
- me:: *rips open shirt, carnivorous chest hair devours her*
Alrighy, here’s our new video for our song “Know Your Face”.
Big thank you to the fellas at Dreadnought Cinema for the slick video. They’re the same guys who did the Old Hours video last month.
We are currently in the studio working on our first album which will be followed by a 3 week tour through a great deal of the west this September. Word is we’ll be going from Phoenix to Austin, to Denver to Salt Lake, as far north as Seattle, down to LA and some places inbetween. I’ll post all of our dates in the near future in case any of you would like to catch us. Hope you like the video. Give us a like on facebook and look up some of the other awesome performance videos by Dreadnought Cinema.
Jared & The Mill
“Know Your Face”
So my good friend Mike is a wicked string plucker in a band called Jared & The Mill. They’re really talented. Mike’s a class act—he’s a fellow bearded brethren (I shouldn’t even have to say any more at this point) from the southwest, a restless spirit, wanderer, traveler, old soul, lover of literature and art and history and the intersections of people, places, and stories. He has a great blog that always warms my spirit whenever I visit. You should check out his band’s latest song/video, and if you’re anything like me, you’ll enjoy his posts and should follow his blog.
one of the greatest things
about giving up an amazing grad school offer and risking so much for this idea a couple friends and i had
is being part of a small group of people who share common values and visions, a sense of ethical responsibility, and the desire to place people over profit and turn down the big money for the right reasons.
for the past couple months, we’ve been making pretty good money doing work that we started, we created, we developed, and that we’re passionate about and interested in. but we sat down the other day and talked about the direction we were headed in, the responsibilities and obligations we had to certain clients, and made a really, really important and scary decision that has now left us penniless.
it was the decision between making a lot of money—close to $50,000/mo starting out (divided up amongst our team and business expenses, of course) while compromising our principles and ideals—or making no money at all (for the short term only, inshallah) and keeping those principles intact.
we chose the latter. it was unanimous. not a single one of us needed convincing that it was the right thing to do. not a single one of us questioned the value of retaining our steady income and receiving a massive raise over the shared principles that have guided our venture and our friendship so far.
and you know what? is it scary? of course. but it also feels damn good. it’s the same reason i turned down the job with facebook. the job(s) with government agencies: the refusal to let money dictate the trajectory of my life or compromise my character.
god,
birdsong on my tongue—
soaring, sweeping, sweet,
and free,the gift of sunlight
through leaf and tree, refracted
wobbling like a spoonmoss and twigs, scattered,
broken like fingerbonesthe roar of water, ancient
and seamless—
fertilized the crescent,
baptized the christ,
kissed my cheek
things i found in the woods
The humanities give us a chance to read across languages and cultural differences in order to understand the vast range of perspectives in and on this world. How else can we imagine living together without this ability to see beyond where we are, to find ourselves linked with others we have never directly known, and to understand that, in some abiding and urgent sense, we share a world?
Judith Butler, h/t Chris.
Is that a capri sun?
haha, yes it is. you must have missed this.
Anonymous asked: JOSH, are extremes bad in love?
Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being.
If not, leave this gathering.Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.
- Rumi
Love is eXtReMe
chotai asked: i hate tumblr but i love you.
i want more men
with flowers falling from their skin
more water in their eyes
more tremble in their hands
more women in their hearts
than
on their bodies
more softness in their height
more honesty in their voice
more wonder
more humility in their eyes.
real men, nayyirah waheed (via nayyirahwaheed)
