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Carl Sagan:

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”

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Lyrics and artwork for the latest from The Strokes – One Way Trigger.  Their new album Comedown Machine is dropping in March.  Get excited.

Note: at first I didn’t like this song but it quickly got stuck in my head and grew on me.  Definitely not for everyone but worth a listen.  Starts off like a Nintendo game with Julian hitting some high notes, the break is classic Strokes though.

Music: The Strokes, Artwork: Warren Fu (I think).

Check out the documentary Searching for Sugar Man.  It’s an incredible story about Rodriguez, a singer / songwriter from Detroit that despite being incredibly talented never had any measure of success in the US.  However, in Cape Town South Africa he was literally more popular than Elvis.  What’s interesting is that EVERYONE in Cape Town not only knew about Rodriguez but, as the story in Cape Town goes (and there were many versions), they believed he tragically committed suicide on stage.

The documentary chronicles the search for what happened to Rodriguez and the man they discovered.

Every once in a while I like to check out The Heads of State.  I don’t know what it is but there’s something about their art that really draws me in, I love it.  You just know good design when you see it and these guys have some of the best around.  There’s actually some pretty good art floating around on Pinterest as well.

I find it rejuvenating to sometimes take a break from the day-to-day and take in some stimulating art (whatever form that may be).

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one