[ thx @stretta ]

“If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.'”

The filming, the sound toys/gear and especially the music all come together for this.

[ thx kosta ]

My quick, annotated notes from a first late-night watching of this:

Production standards of: 1) State of Independence, 2) Tomorrow Never Knows, 3) Velvet Underground

"you're getting humans learning from machines."

The Lafayettes - "Life's Too Short"

"I spent a large part of my childhood singing things I don't understand. [...] I just sang it as pure sound."

"listen to nothing."

"I used to have 7 of these."  re: Yamaha DX-7 synths

"I wanted the idea to be seductive and the result to be seductive."

switching from Art Context to Health Context (re: Bloom, relaxation, etc.)

"I make my own target around wherever my arrow landed."

"Gospel music is never pessimistic."

[ thx Brian Eno ]

There's a whole mystique about making POACHED EGGS that I've never understood.  It's just like making sunnies: You crack the eggs in a bowl, heat the pan, slide them in-- only there's water in the pan instead of butter.  The way I make them, they're simple-- no swirling shit around.  No vinegar.  No little cups to break the eggs in.  You do have to pay attention to the heat, though.  You don't want the water to boil rapidly, but you don't want the water to stop boiling, either, so you have to make adjustments to the heat while the eggs are cooking.  And you do need a slotted spoon to get them out.  That's the only special tool.  They are so easy and really delicious.  Poached eggs have all the runny, eggy goodness of a sunny without the distraction of the butter flavor.  As I get older, I'm less and less prone toward gilding something that is already perfect.  There's nothing better than a poached egg on a piece of crunchy buttered toast or English muffin.  Nothing.