Likwit Allstars (Tash, J-RO, E-Swift, Madlib, Phil Da Agony, Defari, King Tee, Lootpack, Wildchild, J Wells, and Styliztik), “Cali Kings”
From Cali Kings - Mix Tape Vol. 1, 1998
Split Infinitives
Gravity
Dir. by Alfonso Cuaron, 2013
Well, I wish the first time I saw this wasn’t on a 15” computer screen.
(Source: youtube.com)
View Larger The Company You Keep
Dir. by Robert Redford, 2013
This was better than I expected and I know it’s Redford’s own fusty ode to ’60s radicalism, but I couldn’t help think it would be better if the lead were played by Warren Beatty. Though I guess that’s technically true of almost every movie.
Majical Cloudz, “Turns Turns Turns”
From Turns Turns Turns EP, 2012
Souls of Mischief, “Step to My Girl”
1992
When I worked for Jack Fischer at Harper’s, he would look at the final galleys. He would take his pencil and he would go through and make changes—cross things out, put things in—and it would go right off to the press. I was appalled. Writers deserve the final word about their prose.
I believe in the writer—the writer, above all. That’s how we started off: admiring the writer. We organized the New York Review according to the writers we admired most: Edmund Wilson, Wystan Auden, Fred Dupee, Norman, Bill, Lizzie, Mary among them. Each of them had a confident sense of their own prose, and it meant a great deal to them—the matter of a comma, a semicolon, a word—and it does to our writers today. And so, when it comes to making a change, we should not do it without their permission. If a moment comes at some point where we see something should be improved, we don’t just scribble it in but call them up wherever they are. And that is, I think, crucial.
