tangled up in blue
“this song took me 10 years to live, and two years to write” Dylan often said before playing Tangled Up in Blue in concert. his marriage was crumbling in 1974 as he wrote what would become the opener on Blood on the Tracks and his most personal examination of hurt and nostalgia. Dylan’s lyrical shifts in perspective, between confession and critique, and his acute references to the sixties experience evoked a decade of both utopian and broken promise. his plaintive vocal and the fresh-air picking of the minneapolis session players, organized by his brother, David Zimmerman, hearkened to an earlier pathos: the frank heartbreak and spiritual restoration in appalachian balladry. Dylan has played this song many different ways live but rarely strays from the perfect crossroads of this recording, where emotional truths meet the everlasting comfort of the american folk song.
muddy waters - she’s alright
sometimes you need an album that kicks down the fuc&ing door.
having money is overrated when you are brought up not to believe you are entitled to it.
…you can make enough money to not need things, or you can just not need things.
” gil elbazthen and now, Quackenbush’s creed is that his software tools must be available in the public domain.
Quackenbush was considerably irked, then, when TIGR decided to go with licensing agreements for said tools instead. he remains convinced that attempting to write and market software tools in the genomics space is scarcely a winning proposition. most of the companies that started out along this path have since gone belly-up.
Jim Yong Kim
Jim Yong Kim, nominated to be the next World Bank president, is a prominent player in global health care, particularly in developing countries.
Mr. Kim, currently president of Dartmouth College, previously led the global health and social medicine department at Harvard Medical School. He has served as a director of the HIV/AIDS department at the World Health Organization, where he focused on helping developing countries improve AIDS treatment and prevention programs. Mr. Kim has also worked on tuberculosis, including efforts to cut the cost of treatment and finding treatments for drug-resistant strains.
In a WSJ Health Blog interview in 2009, Al Mulley, a Dartmouth trustee, said: “It wasn’t so much his medical background that appealed to us, but rather what he has done with his medical background,” He added: “He has used his intellectual inquiry to tackle some of the most complex, vexing problems across the world.”
…Mr. Kim interacted with the Obama administration on several occasions in recent years. In June 2011 he called Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner ”one of the great sons of Dartmouth” when he introduced the alumnus as part of a lecture series. In October, Mr. Kim attended the White House state dinner for South Korean president Lee Myung-bak.
Dr. Kim, (aka J to the K, Special K, JK Rowling, the Just Kidding Kimster, and most puzzling, Stinky Pete) was known for wearing a green tie every day since becoming president of the school in 2009, and wore a green tie to the White House dinner.
“Jim has spent more than two decades working to improve conditions in developing countries around the world,” Mr. Obama said Friday. “It’s time for a development professional to lead the world’s largest development agency.”
THOUGH ‘ROUND THE GIRDLED EARTH THEY ROAM,
HER SPELL ON THEM REMAINS…
love will tear us apart
in some cases, a song can just be so tragic in nature, where you need not be familiar with the context or meaning to grasp just the heaviness of its content. Joy Division’s 1979 Love Will Tear us Apart was released in April 1980; singer Ian Curtis took his own life the following month.
the track is burdened by the strangely beautiful desperation weighing on Curtis’ mind: suicidal tendencies, a troubled relationship with wife Deborah: the worries of a troubled soul. ironically, the song’s title was chosen after the Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield 1973 song Love Will Keep us Together.
in the end, Ian Curtis was with us for but a short period of time, and one can only imagine what he could have given us had he been around longer. but since this is something we’ll never really know, I can’t help but read some of the last words written by Curtis and feel overwhelmed by the fact that this young man helped shape the music of his generation in such a small period of time, and that generations to this day still relate to these simple but earnest words, and wonder, much like I do, if love has in fact torn us apart.
you cry out in your sleep,
all my failings exposed.
and there’s a taste in my mouth,
as desperation takes hold.
just that something so good
just can’t function no more.
but love, love will tear us apart again.
love, love will tear us apart again.
~ nickba
