Dirty Projectors, originally uploaded by Wexner Center
Last night, Dirty Projectors at The Independent; this was my first time seeing them live, and they absolutely killed.
Matt Webb's keynote at reboot11 is pretty great and inspiring and full of interesting things. One of those interesting things is this mention of a South Indian martial art called Kalarippayattu:
There's this idea in Kalarippayattu that you reach with your body an optimal state of awareness and readiness [p19], where you're instinctively and intuitively ready for anything, and it's as if, and I quote, "the body becomes all eyes."
Which reminds me of Roald Dahl's The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More
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Chipotle pork cheeseburger, from gourmet.com
This--a chipotle pork cheeseburger--is what I'm going to eat tonight. We have leftover chipotles in adobo, and I bought some ground pork at the farmers market, and I made some mayonnaise, &c. I'm excited about this [1].
Updated 10pm: and it was good.
[1] Less so by the glass of water, though.
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