“I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say. The first time I took ecstasy, all of that lifted away. All the anxiety, which is the baseline of my life in some way, and I had this moment of like, wait a second! Are there people who feel this way all the time? This is like a whole way to be, where you don’t feel anxious? Oh my god!”
Tag: 05.03.14
Six Ways Of Looking At Death
Dean Olsher talks with a maker of build-your-own-casket kits, a mortician on his way to pick up a body, a paleontologist with the long view (the extra-extra-long view) of mortality, a historian who thinks we look at death the ways Victorians looked at sex, a retired surgeon who’d never want to go back to life before his cancer diagnosis, and an author who argues we should have our funerals while we’re around to enjoy them, (audio)
You Need A Lot More Than An Artist To Sell A Fake Painting
“A network of people, sometimes unwittingly, repeatedly helped lend these fake paintings a veneer of credibility. When it comes to the sale of bogus art, it takes a village.”
The Seattle Dance Project Bows Out
“The number of empty seats on opening night was a sad reminder of what a struggle it can be to run a small dance company, even one as accomplished as this.”
Harrison Birtwistle Talks About A Life In Music
“In retrospect, I can see that as I learned to read music and to understand about notation, so there was a sort of creativity at work – I made efforts to write my own music. It sounded like nothing. I wrote single lines and I’ve been doing it ever since!”
Why Are Yahoo, Microsoft, Amazon, And Damn Near Everyone Else Invading Television?
“These brands may also want to pause to question just what the ‘hit’ status they are all chasing after really is. After all, Netflix doesn’t disclose measurement numbers, so no one knows how well these shows are really doing. But maybe the perception of having a hit is worth just as much as the real thing.”
Which Princess ‘Grace’ You See Depends Upon Where In The World You Live
“The Weinstein version of ‘Grace’ apparently shows Kelly’s story as a light fairy tale with a strong dose of wish fulfillment; French director Dahan and producer Le Pogam have fashioned a more melodramatic account that highlights Kelly’s hardships upon her arrival in the monarchy.”
Green Bay Symphony To Quit In 2015
“The board noted insufficient financial support, declining attendees and season ticket subscribers and the high cost of concerts as reasons for the decision.”
What’s The Best Way To Caption Shakespeare Plays? (Probably Your Phone)
“The idea is to make the theater more accessible to more people. There are all kinds of cool new technologies we could be looking at and exploring. We’re just experimenting to see what we can do.”
Wait, This Small Indie Bookstore Is Opening A Fourth Spot In Manhattan?!
“‘There was an idea in the past that if you had a lot of really good books and put them on the shelves, people would come,’ Mutter says. ‘And most booksellers recognized that that doesn’t work anymore.'”