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Because, in the end, no one will ever give a shit who has kept shit ‘real’ except the two or three people, sitting in their apartments, bitter and self-devouring, who take it upon themselves to wonder about such things. The keeping real of shit matters to some people, but it does not matter to me. It’s fashion, and I don’t like fashion, because fashion does not matter.

What matters is that you do good work. What matters is that you produce things that are true and will stand. What matters is that the Flaming Lips’s new album is ravishing and I’ve listened to it a thousand times already, sometimes for days on end, and it enriches me and makes me want to save people. What matters is that it will stand forever, long after any narrow-hearted curmudgeons have forgotten their appearance on goddamn 90210. What matters is not the perception, nor the fashion, not who’s up and who’s down, but what someone has done and if they meant it. What matters is that you want to see and make and do, on as grand a scale as you want, regardless of what the tiny voices of tiny people say. Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back because it came from a smelly and ignorant place in me, and spoke with a voice that was all rage and envy. Do not dismiss a book until you have written one, and do not dismiss a movie until you have made one, and do not dismiss a person until you have met them. It is a fuckload of work to be open-minded and generous and understanding and forgiving and accepting, but Christ, that is what matters. What matters is saying yes.

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Dave Eggers (via Tom Armitage: jonascarlsson)

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Structurally we fucked it up. European tech companies would normally have been picked up by media companies in Europe but they are in such a bad state this is not possible. So before anyone puts money into new companies, we need to ask: who is going to by all the shit in our existing portfolios?!

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“We f**cked it up”: Lack of media companies buying startups is Europe’s achilles heel says Hommels (via pheelmore) (via david-noel)

Media companies may or may not have gotten smarter, but they sure got poorer.

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Tonight, there will be a reunion. Are you ready for a summit at The Garden? Are you ready for the Bridge and Tunnel summit meeting right here right now? Cause Long Island is about to meet New Jersey on the neutral ground of New York City. So I’d like to invite out the King of Long Island out to meet the E. Street Band.

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Bruce Springsteen introducing Billy Joel at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Concert on HBO. (via gbattle)

Is there a way I can watch this without subscribing to HBO? I’m willing to pay-per-view.

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You can watch a lot of live feeds on justin.tv  (Yes, it’s illegal, but they seem to have no problem streaming live games and other events.)

And he has defenders. Glenn Abel, a critic for the Web site The Wrap, wrote that he’d seen every one of Leno’s shows and it’s better than most people think. “Overall, `The Jay Leno Show’ is consistently funnier than `Saturday Night Live’ and is often the most entertaining show in its time slot,” Abel wrote.

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Jay Leno losing his audience to DVR machines - Yahoo! News

Really, Glenn? Really?!?!

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I haven’t watch the Leno show, but I can say with confidence SNL has hardly been the funniest show on TV this year. If I didn’t DVR it and can fast forward through it I don’t I’d watch it either.

A study in the January-February 2009 issue of the journal Health Affairs concluded that 75 percent of the country’s $2.5 trillion in health care spending has to do with four increasingly prevalent chronic diseases: obesity, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Most cases of these diseases, the report stated, are preventable because they are caused by behaviors like poor diets, inadequate exercise and smoking.

— NY Times: Health Care Savings May Start in Employee Diets (via jayparkinsonmd and evangotlib) (via david)