The Wire is like Shakespeare. No matter what you’re experiencing, you can find a line or a scene that makes sense of what you’re going through. Obviously the parallels here only extend as far as the first line - ‘I feel old’. But you get where I’m going.
— Kripy
This album was my whole life in 1996. I listened to it on my Dad’s walkman on the school bus every day.

When I was living in Mexico, this was a really big chart album. I first heard it playing on a stereo in a cemetery on the night of the El Día de los Muertos. ‘Lento’ was the first song I’d heard in Spanish where I could instantly make out every word of the chorus.
When you’re learning a new language, there some moments like that, where words just becomes clear.
The chorus is really simple:
“Ser delicado y espera
Dame tiempo para darte
Todo lo que tengo”
It means: “Be delicate and wait, give me time so I can give you all that I have.”
Anyway, I was checking referrer stats in We Are Hunted’s analytics recently and one of our top referrers via Twitter has been @julietav - which is none other the the Julieta Venegas. She has music taste too. Through her Twitter, I discovered this amazing cover of ‘My Girls’.
The world gets smaller when you’re online.
Taken By Trees - My Boys (Animal Collective cover)
This is an exhaustive list of enduring and real human dilemmas.

From Y Combinator to Sequoia. This looks like the start of a great story.
In advertising, and also editorial, when people have 2 days, the briefing is much better, and the discussion is much better. It’s not that people just sign off on anything because they’re in a hurry. They’re just really looking at what they have, and trying to make the best product, and get it done.
If the anxiety is about the deadline, then the energy really focuses on the result. If there is not anxiety about a deadline, all of the anxiety goes right to the creative part.
"— The 99%
How artists conduct business.
(via stellavista & letters of note)
When I’m rich, I will have this framed in my bathroom.
— Steve Jobs (via hrrrthrrr)
— Ghandi (via davemorin) (via tedr) (via mikehudack)
— Jakob Nielsen on user satisfaction with corporate communications via social media.
- Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
- Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
- Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
- Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.
- Start as close to the end as possible.
- Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
- Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
- Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.