(NSW)
on large companies
"jeremy asked me if i liked my work.
'i think big companies are like marching bands. you know the big secret about marching bands, don't you?'
'no, what is it?'
'even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. the concealment of failure is built right into them. it's like the piano - as long as you play only the black keys, not the white ones, it'll sound ok, but on the other hand it'll never sound like real music either'"
eleanor rigby, douglas copeland
music monday
"My love for you is all but new; I'd give the rock, to only you; It is the piece, that can't break through; The window of our love"
6 years
"But you, you carry on; In pictures and in songs; And the unmade bed you slept in; Where I laid you down to rest one last time; Goodbye, dear friend"
Read Moreon quiet and noise
there's something about quiet that gives way for the noise - space that allows for the thoughts to come rushing in. elbowing each other for front of the line access. and sometimes that space - that many of us pay good money for - becomes quite claustrophobic.
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