The Small Demons Blog

"Experts, when they see a drawing for instance, take it from Durer or Rembrandt or Picasso onward;..."

Sat, 04 May 2013 16:15:29 -0700

“Experts, when they see a drawing for instance, take it from Durer or Rembrandt or Picasso onward; the creative being, in whatever sphere he works, is aware of the empty paper behind.”

- Max Frisch, Sketchbook 1946-1949

"I will surprise you sometime I’ll come around Oh, I will surprise you sometime I’ll come..."

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 22:40:01 -0700

“I will surprise you sometime
I’ll come around
Oh, I will surprise you sometime
I’ll come around, when you’re down”

- Interpol, Untitled.Just love this song.

naveen: a year in review, my thirtieth.timehop reminded me - i...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 07:57:31 -0700

naveen:

a year in review, my thirtieth.

timehop reminded me

- i traveled. and i traveled again. and then once more just for good measure. i went to los angeles, woodstock, austin, marfa, niagara falls and tulum. a few friends told me that the best thing to do would be to leave the country – to give myself entirely to the idea of “going away” instead of small weekend trips. some even threatened to drop me off at JFK some afternoon so i would do it without making excuses to turn back. i finally left on a longer, one-way journey: switzerland; france; monaco; spain; morocco; gibraltar; portugal; germany; greece; turkey; lebanon; jordan; israel; india. and when i came back from that, it still didn’t seem quite enough so mars and i went to santiago, buenos aires, colonia and to the end of the world.

- i read a lot of books - once four in a week! i finally got a kindle and i found i no longer add recommendations to my wishlist – i simply buy them and have them on my kindle instead. when i traveled, i tried to read books that were pertinent to the place i was in (or near). england got the art of travel. paris, a moveable feast. tulum got on the road. cote d’azur got the count of monte cristo. india, the great railway bazaar.

Foursquare founder matches what he reads with where he is…

"I want to dance. I want to win. I want that trophy. So dance good."

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:10:13 -0700

“I want to dance. I want to win. I want that trophy. So dance good.”

- Uma Thurman as Mia Wallace, Pulp Fiction

"This is the best bad idea we have sir. By far."

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 20:56:12 -0700

“This is the best bad idea we have sir. By far.”

- Argo

"I killed you, Mr. Anderson, I watched you die; and with a certain satisfaction, I might add. And..."

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:17:25 -0700

“I killed you, Mr. Anderson, I watched you die; and with a certain satisfaction, I might add. And then something happened. Something that I knew was impossible, but it happened anyway: you destroyed me, Mr. Anderson.”

- Agent Smith, The Matrix Reloaded.

"Neo, sooner or later you’re going to realize just as I did, there’s a difference between..."

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:55:23 -0700

“Neo, sooner or later you’re going to realize just as I did, there’s a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path.”

- Morpheus, The Matrix.

cloudunbound: This just in: Small Demons, which tracks cultural...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:29:09 -0700

cloudunbound:

This just in: Small Demons, which tracks cultural references in books and could function as a readers’ advisory tool, has added a most eXXXcellent new feature that bridges the gap between book and music clubs: The Book Is the Playlist, aka integration with iTunes and Spotify.

Request for Valla of SD: may I soundtrack a book that doesn’t have many music references? I’m thinking here of The Catcher in the Rye.

Good thinking. Adding this to our list. In the interim, a little hack could be to you use Collections? Music contained within Collections should be playlist-able in the fairly short term. The proper user-driven soundtracking of a book will probably take us a while…

"I want to know, have you ever seen the rain"

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:45:51 -0700

“I want to know, have you ever seen the rain”

- CCR, Have You Ever Seen the Rain

"I shouldn’t tell you this Mandrake but you’re a good officer and you have a right to..."

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:24:27 -0700

“I shouldn’t tell you this Mandrake but you’re a good officer and you have a right to know … it looks like we’re in a shooting war.”

- General Jack D. Ripper, in Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Still my favorite movie.

"Just cause you feel it Doesn’t mean it’s there"

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:23:35 -0800

“Just cause you feel it
Doesn’t mean it’s there”

- Radiohead, There There

"New York was his town And it always would be."

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 23:08:56 -0800

“New York was his town
And it always would be.”

- Woody Allen, Manhattan

"Though you can see when you’re wrong, you can’t always see when you’re right."

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 12:30:00 -0800

“Though you can see when you’re wrong, you can’t always see when you’re right.”

- Billy Joel, Vienna

"Whatever makes you happy Whatever you want"

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:00:00 -0800

“Whatever makes you happy
Whatever you want”

- You know who it’s by. You know where it’s from.

"Not quite educational in the ‘school’ sense, more in the ‘life-enriching’ sense"

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:14:15 -0800

"Not quite educational in the ‘school’ sense, more in the ‘life-enriching’ sense":

We’ll take it.

Elvis Presley and Sophia Loren, goofing around on the Paramount...

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:34:20 -0800

Elvis Presley and Sophia Loren, goofing around on the Paramount Lot. Sent to us by Pamela Keogh as a token of thanks for indexing her biography of Elvis. Long live the King.

"Suddenly I came to, I pulled through Amazed at what I saw Struggling hard to find the words When..."

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:17:00 -0800

“Suddenly I came to, I pulled through
Amazed at what I saw
Struggling hard to find the words
When words tend to stick right in my craw”

- Edwyn Collins, If You Could Love Me

"Because we’re joined at the heart Beats faster, hits harder than a boxer When we are apart"

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:36:00 -0800

“Because we’re joined at the heart
Beats faster, hits harder than a boxer
When we are apart”

- James, Don’t Wait That Long

"‘Cause you said the brains I had went to my head."

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:18:00 -0800

“‘Cause you said the brains I had went to my head.”

- Oasis, Don’t Look Back in Anger

"I’m like a rough diamond that just needs a little polishing, that’s all."

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:13:12 -0800

“I’m like a rough diamond that just needs a little polishing, that’s all.”

- Handsome Boy Modeling School, Look At That Face