I am Richard Swanhole

I never served my country.

Agreed.

thebucketnyc:

Dave of speechwriters llc layin down some licks. We’re doing an LP this month that is shaping up to really kick ass.

James Blake, via The Duke. I wonder if a fan has ever come up to him after a show & expressed romantic interest.

Brad Neely + Harry Potter = you should probably retire from whatever it is that you do, because there’s no way you’re even coming close to this. Ever. Click through the picture for free, legal MP3s.

Just looked up the translation, and it’s surprisingly apropos:

Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?

This is pretty rad.

There are times when this feels indulgent.

My contribution to the national discourse.