A throwback to my club days with these tracks, interestingly more popular then the typical stuff. I can remember them pounding the dance floor.
Forthefirsttimeinits120yearhistory, theBBCPromswelcomedRadio1toturnthehallowedRoyalAlbertHallintotheeuphoricmadnessofIbiza.
PeteTong, JulesBuckleyandtheHeritageOrchestratransformeddanceclassicsintoorchestralmasterpieceswiththehelpofJohnNewmanandEllaEyre.
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Maria Bustillos’s interview back in February with Bourdain before his sudden death. Ill be honest, Im still shocked by it. Im glad it opened a discussion about mental health and it’s implications, depression and alcoholism which were not in the mainstream media. I hope it will be in the forefront for the next decades. With the current state of affair, I really do hope alcoholism will be more researched and talked about. Its a nasty poison.
AnthonyBourdainhadstartedsmokingagain, wasthefirstthingInoticedashesatdownwithmelastFebruary. HewasabithungoverfromarecentworkingtriptosouthLouisianaforCajunMardiGras; “Harder partying than I’m used to, I gotta say,” he said, laughing. Despite his great height his leonine head seemed just huge, and a little fleshier than I’d imagined; there was this slight dissipation to him.Butno—whocouldbetroubledaboutthewellbeingofAnthonyBourdain? Justlookathim, sodebonair, socompletelyatease. Averitableprinceofsavoirvivre. Sixty-one, andstillveryelegantinhislooks; the word sexy came to mind. Almost an old-fashioned word now. The sort of person who seems to think with his hips, his hands. He was in love, he would later admit; he and his new girlfriend, Asia Argento, had started smoking again together. He was a little rueful about the smoking, had the air of someone who meant to quit soon.Ashestartedtotalk, everythingabouthimbecamefamiliaratonce; he slipped so effortlessly into the sleek carapace of his fame. The very air of vulnerability he projected, along with the rough candor, was part of this persona. But in fact he was a very private person, as his assistant, Laurie Woolever, reminded me after his death. Something I’d already known, from reading his books; he’d liked the piece I’d written about him and sent me an unbelievably kind note about it, which was what had emboldened me to ask for an interview. That, and he was famously generous to writers in general.
I loved this passage about him redefining of what luxury means and it begs the question, do you really need alcohol to be happy? Im on the spectrum that it shouldn’t. I do understand the feeling of eeriness, just pushed through the day and now letting go of all the care in the world.
When our intentions toward others are good, we find that any feelings of anxiety or insecurity we may have are greatly reduced. We experience a liberation from our habitual preoccupation with self and paradoxically, this gives rise to strong feelings of confidence.
I stumbled into this blog post about quake3 arena. I remembered that I had the original CD somewhere in a deep
and dark dungeon. I dugged it up and figured how to bring it to the 21st century.
Ive started getting back into journaling with DayOne recently. The reason why I like using DayOne is
supper simple. It’s a great interface. The sync features is great. It works with IFTTT.
It great with photo journaling. It has a bunch of workflow goodness on the iOS platform using workflow.app
and launch center pro. The problem I do have is that I spend quite a bit of time using my Debian box. I hope
my information is secured in the clouds within DayOne biosphere. In short I love being able to use the app
on my iOS devices. One thing that was bothering me a bit was that I wanted to be able to use it on my computer
which like I said its running Debian. I stumbled awhile ago jrnl. Its a
great way to keep a journal using the command line which is where I like to live. I wanted to send my journal
entries to DayOne from jrnl which is super easy. On this computer I also setup mutt
with my gmail account. The glue between jrnl and DayOne is ifttt.com. I have a recipe
that when I send an email to trigger@recipe.ifttt.com it forwards it to my DayOne journal. The recipe in
question is this one applets.
$ jrnl “Hey look, im using the command line to send to DayOne”
$ jrnl -n 1 | mutt -s “command line awesomeness” trigger@recipe.ifttt.com
How cool is that? Maybe I can also send my DayOne entry to jrnl.
“If we look at how we show up and fight in our relationship, it says a lot more about ourselves than it does about the person we’re calling crazy, even if your partner is acting in a way you find crazy,” Klow says. “How might it be possible to instead show up as compassionate and understanding and work toward greater clarity?”
It isn’t easy, Klow admits. Arguments trigger the fight or flight response in the brain, and when we fight, our prefrontal cortex, the part that controls reasoning, problem solving and language, goes “offline,” he says. So often when people fight, they try to manipulate the narrative or framework of the conversation, usually unconsciously, because they’re feeling threatened. In other words: Delegitimizing your partner’s feelings, is a cop-out when you don’t want to deal.
Yep.
We are, you might say, “brainwashed” into thinking that money is the source of happiness while what we really need to know is that inner peace is something that comes from within.
— Dalaï-lama
I often ask myself what is the purpose of our lives and I conclude that life’s purpose is to be happy. We have no guarantee what will happen in the future, but we live in hope. That’s what keeps us going.