The Wu-Note Project – Wu-Tang Clan album covers re-imagined in Blue Note Records style.
Redo your iTunes album artwork. You’ll be glad you did.
Related viewing: Project Thirty-Three
DIANE
What do you know about scenery, or beauty, or any of the things that make life worth living? You’re just an animal — coarse, muscled, and barbaric.
MAX
You keep right on talking, honey. I like the way you run me down like that.
—Barrie Chase and Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear (1962)
“Assuming a man lives by himself and is willing to live as simply as Thoreau, he might write music that no one would play prettily, listen to, or buy. But if he has a nice wife, and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances? So he has to weaken (and if he is a man he should weaken for his children), but his music more than weakens – it goes ‘ta-ta’ for money! Bad for him, bad for music.”
—Charles Ives
“When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl. Then I say, ‘Bitch, you’re Lady Gaga, you get up and walk the walk today.’”
—Lady Gaga
(Via.)
Prince at the drums back in the day
On what was an otherwise quiet Sunday evening for me a couple of weeks ago, Questlove – of The Roots and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon fame – tweeted this:
can i get your opinion on something? can you follow me? do you ever sleep? awkward edition of: #QuestionsIDONTLike—
Questo of The Roots (@questlove) January 31, 2011
Just in case anybody was confused, I made this handy-dandy flow chart:
“One of the great paradoxes of rap: The toughest, coolest, most dangerous-seeming MCs are, at heart, basically just enormous language dorks. They love puns and rhymes and slang and extended metaphors; they accuse enemies of plagiarism and brag endlessly about their own hard-core habits of revision.”
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