‘Lost’ audio: Garnett explains the island to ‘Big Baby’ from The Basketball Jones on Vimeo.

(HT to Geof and Kottke)

Anyway, today is Poem In Your Pocket Day (Thanks for the tip, Kari). I didn’t know that was today until I was already home, but as soon as I found out I knew what poem I would pick. It’s my favorite poem ever and it’s by one of my favorite Poetry/Prose Auteurs, Wendell Berry. It’s called A Warning To My Readers

Do not think me gentle
because I speak in praise
of gentleness, or elegant
because I honor the grace
that keeps this world. I am
a man crude as any,
gross of speech, intolerant,
stubborn, angry, full
of fits and furies. That I
may have spoken well
at times, is not natural.
A wonder is what it is.

i

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet.
You must depend upon
affection, reading, knowledge,
skill—more of each
than you have—inspiration,
work, growing older, patience,
for patience joins time
to eternity. Any readers
who like your poems,
doubt their judgment.

ii

Breathe with unconditional breath
the unconditioned air.
Shun electric wire.
Communicate slowly. Live
a three-dimensioned life;
stay away from screens.
Stay away from anything
that obscures the place it is in.
There are no unsacred places;
there are only sacred places
and desecrated places.

iii

Accept what comes from silence.
Make the best you can of it.
Of the little words that come
out of the silence, like prayers
prayed back to the one who prays,
make a poem that does not disturb
the silence from which it came.

(HT Rabbit Room)

I want a Thingamagoop!

So, you can check out my new tumblelog on tumblr here.

Enjoy

P.S. – I still maintain that Rowlf would make a way better Jules than Fozzie Bear.

P.S.S – Sorry if this post gave you complete pop culture/hyperlink overload

The Cold War Kids are a band that I’ve really been enjoying as of late, even though the only song I’ve been able to listen to all of until today was “Hang Me Up To Dry,” which was the free single on Itunes a couple of weeks ago (GREAT track, by the way). Well, like I said…that was the only one I could listen to UNTIL TODAY. I just found on their website that Cold War Kids has released an online live EP (the sound quality isn’t all that great, but it’s fun) of some REALLY random and fun cover tunes, including Elvis Costello’s “Indoor Fireworks,” Fiona Apple’s “Fast As You Can,” a Tom Waits tune, and there’s even a Lawrence Welk cover (yes, I’m serious). Check out the Benefit at the District EP here. Up next we have a band that I had honestly never heard of…and I’m pretty sad about that. Maximo Park is an English indie-rock band that is releasing a new album in April of this year…the free track I am speaking of is “Apply Some Pressure”, and it can be found here. This song is WAY too fun. And finally, we have The Good, The Bad, and The Queen. The latest in English supergroupdom, the new band consists of Blur/Gorillaz frontfella Damon Albarn, the bassist from The Clash, a former guitarist for The Verve, and Afrobeat pioneer Tony Allen. The first single from the album, “Herculean” is the Itunes free single of the week. Enjoy.