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"What, in this moment, is lacking? What's missing in the moment? When you really think about it.  Nothing's missing. " This was part of a You Made it Weird podcast episode.

"I think, you know, just going in there and being willing to kinda do anything cause I remember going up to Adam Mckay and saying hey,  Cause there were some cast members who were like "Uhm I'm just delivering a pizza in this sketch. Really? That's it? I don't wanna do it." I told Adam like "You know I love those little two line parts." Cause I can come in and just be odd and leave the sketch and you can sometimes get a laugh.  And that kind of attitude is what you have to have. Like obviously you want to be in as much as you can. But also doing the little parts, there's no small parts really. " This was part of Nerdist podcast episode with Will Ferrell

"I just see myself as a human being, Just trying to play my part.  I don't think of myself as much as a leader, I'm happy to share what I know." This was part of an HBR podcast interview with Yo-Yo Ma

I had been putting off this film for a couple years. Mostly because it seemed long. I had tried watching it twice before on separate occasions but the scenes always seemed to drag. Like the characters in the film, I was busy. Or at least that's what I think I was being. Busy. It's an entirely different story structure of what I've been used to. For the first half I didn't quite figure out what the premise was. Is this a story about these two old couples wandering around Tokyo? Or maybe they reminisce about their life while seeing their children? I like it because there's a subtlety to it. Like Life in general, Often we don't realize that this is it; That our daily lives are often mundane with the big moments happening in phases. The biggest draw I would say is that we have a tendency to become so enamored with our own lives that we forget the very people who raised us. That we drift away. It's hard not to feel sad for the grandmother, and for the gran...

"It is my view that the kind of guitar you have, the kind of pick-ups, the kind of strings, amplifiers make no difference whatsoever with the kind of music that you make. [...] Here's the forest not the trees answer for you. This guitar that he's asking about my favorite one. It was horrible and I tried to make it sound great and I was unable to. I switched the neck ten times and the pickups ten times, and the strings and I put little pieces of dead weight on it.  It never sounded great to me and I had this amp too that I was just like frustrated with.  So one day I went in there and I just, I spent hours fiddling, and finally gave up.  I got it as good as I wanted it to sound. I was not satisfied with it. It was not the tone I wanted. I marked the amplifier like this is the best that I can do and it's not what I want.  This is the guitar, I set it aside. I'm never going to think about it again. I'm going to use this sound in this guitar to n...

I wasn't quite sure what to expect of this book. Though I'm glad a friend referred me to it.  It read like a collection of stories viewed through the eyes of a found man. I can sense that he's really passionate about what he does and his faith. I guess being the main title. The main idea behind it is that Love simply takes action, for reasons beyond ourselves. Some things one may not easily identify with, but the stories overall were entertaining. I liked the part where he encourages his children about sending letters to world leaders. And then actually going to and meeting them. That may not be as feasible to most families but I feel that would teach children a little something more than trips abroad, and to actually have a sense of connection with people other than their own.

As the caption written on the title below says; it's a "medley of factual romances, happy or tragical, most of which made news." The first stories I wasn't sure if these were actual true stories. It seemed almost like a Gabriel Garcia Marquez plot.  Reading it now in 2016, some names seemed familiar; BenCab, the Aranetas, the Laurels. Others are some of which one will not usually learn in history class; though they may have made quite a stir at the time. It's an interesting insight on the toils and spoils of love. We oftentimes forget love transcends time. I wouldn't have known that the stories were from the 1960's-1970's if it wasn't stated. They could easily pass as today's stories. It seems love transcends distance and race as well. One is about a Japanese girl and a Filipino boxer. Another about a Yugoslav and a Filipina ballet dancer. Interesting ones also from a Colombian Miss International, an Irish American, and a German Barones...

Do you ever have these streaks where you listen to one song repeatedly for a period of time? I don't know what it is, but I'm having one of those with Copeland's song: She Changes Your Mind. "It was your Hello that kept me hanging on every word And your Goodbye that keeps me listening for your voice around each corner It keeps me listening for your voice around each corner"

I was going through some rough times a couple months back and this book helped me go through that period. This is the best piece of literature  I read this year.   I'm not going to write a summary. Instead I'm merely going to list a couple quotable quotes I'd like to remember. Book 1 - 4: When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own-not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness. Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him. We were born to work together like feet, hands, and eyes, like two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel ...

This was from a Conan Interview recently. To give a brief background, While Patton Oswalt had just won an Emmy, his wife passed away a couple months back. People ask me now like hey so " Are you happy like with the.."  Obviously, I'm happy to have won an Emmy but it's very abstract because  it's the flavor of happiness but there's no calories or nutrition there.  It's like it tastes like it but there's nothing. And again I'm not putting down winning an Emmy or anything like that. But, watching a bad movie with her  or fussing over what we're gonna pack for our daughter's like we're going on a trip  on a plane.  That was happiness, that's what it actually felt like for real.