If your parents were smart enough or motivated enough or functional enough to get your ass into the right school, you got a shot. And if they weren’t: Tough shit, little 8-year old boy, you’re fucked. For life.
/via +Kevin Kelly
If your parents were smart enough or motivated enough or functional enough to get your ass into the right school, you got a shot. And if they weren’t: Tough shit, little 8-year old boy, you’re fucked. For life.
/via +Kevin Kelly
Here’s what I love about Dylan: He was exactly as you’d expect he would be. He wouldn’t come to the rehearsal; usually, all these guys are practicing before the set in the evening. He didn’t want to take a picture with me; usually all the talent is dying to take a picture with me and Michelle before the show, but he didn’t show up to that. He came in and played “The Times They Are A-Changin’.” A beautiful rendition. The guy is so steeped in this stuff that he can just come up with some new arrangement, and the song sounds completely different. Finishes the song, steps off the stage — I’m sitting right in the front row — comes up, shakes my hand, sort of tips his head, gives me just a little grin, and then leaves. And that was it — then he left. That was our only interaction with him. And I thought: That’s how you want Bob Dylan, right? You don’t want him to be all cheesin’ and grinnin’ with you. You want him to be a little skeptical about the whole enterprise. So that was a real treat.
Was für ein grossartiges Interview mit dem US-Präsidenten! Man kriegt ja zuweilen das Gefühl vermittelt, dass der Mann irgendwie nichts auf die Reihe kriegt. Aber wenn man mal so zusammen gefasst liest, gegen was für unglaubliche Hindernisse er tagtäglich ankämpft, wächst der Respekt ihm gegenüber wieder gewaltig. Dazu kommen obige Zeilen, die von einem Verständnis für Echtheit zeugen, die ich so noch von keinem Politiker gehört habe. Ever.
Alle, die in den letzten zwei Jahren ihre Hoffnung auf die Möglichkeit einer besseren Welt verloren haben: Nehmt euch die Zeit für diesen Artikel. Es lohnt sich.