Jeremy + Melissa

Hipstervention

Hipstervention



Some good friends of mine decided to unleash a necessary coolness that the web truly needs. The product they are putting out is not just meant to be watched and enjoyed...it's meant to be absorbed. This is a level of cool that you stick with, and just hope that it sticks to you. Trust me, you need this.

Save the Bottle Rocket Motel...All in and proud of it.

So there are times in my life where I have to say to myself..."I am going to let this affect me"...pertaining to the consumption of art of somekind. I do this before in most cases. The Save the Bottle Rocket Motel event was one of those times. I was in pretty early, as on one night while doing my pre-Jimmie Fallon web-surfing, I stumbled across Andy Carl Valentin and Chris Durbin's website www.reservoirgeeks.com - I followed the link to the FaceBook page and I was a believer. In my mind I am telling myself to keep this short because of my lack of self-regulative writing, so I will be brief. This event was one of the most fun nights of my life. I felt the genuine nature of Andy and Chris right away. Every time I looked at them they seemed to be as "in wonder of the awesomeness" as I was. I saw Bottle Rocket by myself in a theater in Washington D.C. in 1996. Since then I have seen every Wes Anderson movie on opening night, period. All of his characters speak to me and the difficulties I face as a human first and a man second. The event was such an organic hybrid of being human and ingesting artistic impression, that I was almost more excited for the post event mental deconstruction. When going over it with my girlfriend, I likened it to a land and culture that existed for a moment in time, an oasis of cool, a village that was built in one night, for one night. In the end...it was less about the event and more about us...and that's the Bottle Rocket way. I will write less emotionally another time. Thanks Andy and Chris.

To Clarify

It is therapeutic for me to contemplate the things I enjoy by qualifying and quantifying them in terms of lists (often in my head). These pop-culture nuggets are important. I like to permit them to have meaning. Little windows for those who care. So, when I say "Of All Time" I of course mean "My Favorite", which is the same thing. Otherwise what are opinions for? The time for wimpy opinions has long passed. So read mine and hopefully share yours.

If, by Rudyard Kipling

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling

"The Myth About Boys"

To new visitors. Please click on the Time Magazine link and read the article, The Myth About oys, and share your thoughts and comments. I believe that this is the most important article written in the last 15 years.

The State of Man

So what are your thoughts on the state of man? How do you fit into this world, or even your world? Do you struggle in ways that you feel are unique to you?