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"If The Number One Song Is About Your Butt, That's A Problem"  ~The Red Bulletin | Repost WORDS: MARCEL ANDERS PHOTOGRAPHY: DAVID CLERIHEW AFTER THREE DECADES OF ROCK ’N’ ROLL, DAVE GROHL JUST WON’T QUIT, MAKING MOVIES AND TV, COLLABORATING WITH MUSIC LEGENDS, INTERVIEWING UNITED STATES PRESIDENTS. AND ALWAYS PUSHING BUTTONS. “I’M SURE THAT BY SOME OTHER PEOPLE’S STANDARDS WHAT I DO IS GARBAGE,” HE SAYS. “BUT SCREW THEM.” Dave Grohl became world famous in the 1990s as the drummer for Nirvana and has remained stellar ever since. He’s the lead singer of Foo Fighters (eight albums, 11 million copies sold, tons of awards and huge world tours) and has worked on musical projects with David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Nine Inch Nails and Queens of the Stone Age, among others. Last year he produced his first film, Sound City, a documentary about the titular Los Angeles music studio. Now he’s driving Sonic Highways, an ambitious project merging the latest Foo Fighters album,...

What You Can Learn from the Daily Routines of Top Performers ~Outside | Repost What the greatest adventurers, artists, runners, and entrepreneurs prioritize throughout their day, and how to incorporate that into you life ~ Brad Stulberg Feb 10, 2017  Photo: L to R: ryan_holiday/flickr; Hyosub Shin/AP; David Hanson/Aurora Photos; Christian Pondella/Red Bull Content Pool; cmichel67/flickr Routines bring structure to our days so we can get the most out of them. In his book,  Daily Rituals , author Mason Currey examines the routines of more than 150 great performers across diverse fields—artists, scientists, poets, mathematicians—and concluded that “a solid routine fosters a well-worn groove for one’s mental energies and helps to stave off the tyranny of moods.” Although there is no single best routine—the best routine is the one that works for you—learning from others is still instructive. Here, we consider the daily routines of some of the top athletes, artists, autho...

The Vital 3 Feet to Achievement ~Art of Manliness | Repost Art of Manliness’ note:  The following selection on “The Vital Three Feet to Achievement” comes from The Technique of Building Personal Leadership (1944) by Donald A. Laird. It has been condensed from the original chapter. For many years I have kept a magic rule on my desk. It has literally been worth more than its weight in gold to me. When I have an impulse to quit, this rule keeps me at work. When I become discouraged, it whispers encouragement. When I stop too long to watch the river, the rule calls me back. It all started back in the Colorado gold rush. A small-town Marylander was bit by the gold bug. This young man made the long trip to Colorado and started to dig for his fortune. And he did strike gold—an unusually rich vein. His find was so large that pick-and-shovel digging was inadequate. He needed machinery. He hurried back to Maryland, breathlessly told friends of his gold strike, of the great opp...

Roosevelt poses on a 1903 trip to Yosemite with naturalist John Muir. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt " I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. " ~Theodore Roosevelt I've always been a fan of Theodore Roosevelt.  If you asked me what it was based on, I would have to confess that it was all based on hear-say, so to speak.  Other than reading his "Man in the Arena" speech, I only have tidbits of school history and what I've gleaned from articles and common knowledge.  But the more I discover, the more I'm intrigued. To officially wet my appetite of my intrigue of Theodore Roosevelt, I picked up a copy of,  The Ris...

MUSIC REVIEW SERIES:   LOOKING BACK ON THE 80’S MUSIC  | 1981 THEN AND NOW Talk Talk Talk  ~Psychedelic Furs | Then and Now Like Echo and the Bunnymen and others, I didn't really pay a lot of attention to the Furs during my younger years.  I became more familiar with them later on.  Of course, in 1986, everyone became more familiar with the Psychedelic Furs.  None of us had a choice.  You can thank or blame John Hughes and Molly Ringwald.  I'm curious to know if the re-issue of their iconic, "Pretty In Pink" gained them more commercial success than all of their previous hits and sales. Chances are, you didn't know there was a re-issue of the song, "Pretty In Pink".  They re-recorded it for the movie.  The original recording first showed up on,  Talk Talk Talk.   It was much grittier and slightly less poppy then the 1986 recording.  In fact, the Furs do a good job of balancing post-punk grit with the right amo...