Show Notes
- White noise videos on YouTube
- The Rain Rain Sleep Sounds that often lulls Carly to sleep
- Carly’s Soundscape piece which explores the relationship between humans and sound
- Dylan Thomas, the great poet or the great drunk, who said “Time passes. Listen.”
- Midsommar, which they reviewed on the Scaredy Cats podcast
- Ronan Farrow’s Catch and Kill
- Anyone who had planned to listen to Carly’s earlier and terribly-timed recommendation is now urged to listen to the most recent episode of Reply All, The Least You Could Do instead
- Noblesse oblige, a French word expression, meaning “that nobility extends beyond mere entitlements and requires the person who holds such a status to fulfill social responsibilities”
- Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy tweet about committing 5 percent of his writer revenue to organizations that support the Black Lives Matter movement
- Immanuel Kant’s philosophy that people should not treat others merely as a means to an end
- Ben & Jerry’s ongoing commitment to employ and support those with criminal records
- Häagen-Dazs means drumroll please… absolutely nothing
- The story of Ben & Jerry’s vs Häagen-Dazs
- Planes with banners are not blimps, Carly
- The Hey and Apple standoff has reached a cease-fire, for now
- Live Nation’s baffling announcement that they want artists to carry the financial burden of cancelled shows post COVID-19
- Carly’s How to Build Your Own Personas piece
- Martin Freeman aka Ford Prefect aka the Hobbit aka the original Jim in the UK Office aka and Watson
- Be a Ford (our most recent AUA submission) and create your own collisions by using tools like Twilio and SuperPhone
- George’s interview with Ryan Leslie, Ryan Leslie's Plan To Disrupt The Music Business: Enable Artists - Not Apple - To Own Their Audience
- A reminder to join our Slack channel, if you haven’t already!
Three Things
George
- Loving: SCOTUS, in particular Justice Gorsuch’s ruling prohibiting discrimation based on sex, in turn upholding rights of the LGBTQ community, and Chief Justice Roberts’ DACA decision. Justice Sotomayor said of the push to end the DACA program that it was “contaminated by impermissible discriminatory animus” which was legal poetry to George’s ears
- Reading: The New Yorker piece by Jelani Cobb, Juneteenth and the Meaning of Freedom
- Listening: To Bob’s new record Rough and Rowdy Ways and (reading) the interview in the NYT, Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind, which refers to his work as lyrical Cubism
Dan
- Watching: The 1953 classic Roman Holiday. He doesn’t know why he decided to put it on, but he loved it and thinks you will too
- Watching pt 2: Dave Grohl’s Play, a 23-minute one-man-band recording where Grohl plays all seven instruments on the track, done in part to support music education
- Watching pt 3: Julian Velard, embodying the Remote Musician’s Handbook, with his new Friday Nite Live(stream) on Facebook, YouTube and Instagram and his podcast The Real Gentlemen of Queens
Carly
- Eating: Mint, the herb, not the financial planner. Mint in iced tea, mint on fish, in salad
- Remembering: Anthony Bourdain on the two year anniversary of his death, inspired by his role in encouraging his then girlfriend Asia Argento to speak on the record with Ronan Farrow whom Bourdain told “I am not a religious man. But I pray you have the strength to run this story.” Celebrate him by cooking a recipe, watching Parts Unknown or just remembering his extraordinary spirit
- Watching: Wetten das War’s, (in English Frank Elstner: One Last Question) conceptualized and produced by her beloved Zoo Agency and now streaming on Netflix
