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38. Most Days (2009-01-16)
10 months ago
INT. OFFICE - MORNING

Apple galette, Notes from Jesse, Costco transitions, So sorry

State: Tightening ends
Hear: "Brand New Love" by Sebadoh tinysong.com/16WD
See: The Onion Apple Wheel video (n.b.: VERY noisy) tinyurl.com/8x53o8
Idea: Get (back) into music; also Eno on singing: tinyurl.com/5wv9pl
Fact: Star Wars nut + Van Hœt cameo

Then: Apple packaging

Credits

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  • sirtimbly 10 months ago
    I know Tae Kwon Do, but I have zero expectation of ever having to deal with a physical confrontation in my life. Which is nice, because I'm pretty sure I would still be quite afraid.
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  • dalas verdugo staff 10 months ago
    I'm the same way with clothes.
  • Merlin Mann plus 10 months ago
    What's your go-to uniform?
  • dalas verdugo staff 10 months ago
    I wore the same pair of Levi's jeans for about a year until they started to fall apart. Then I just bought three more pairs of the same model (511). I just pull a random t-shirt out of a stack in the morning, and if I have to look slightly nicer, I have two thrifted polo shirts that I choose from.

    Luckily, Portland is very informal.
  • Nick 10 months ago
    514 all the way!
    also, 516 is acceptable.
  • Daniel Jackson 10 months ago
    I bend to the 'peer pressure' created in my mind, and vary the upper half. Well, at least the t-shirt. And underware. When I am seen by the same people in the same week.
    I wear my underware on the outside.
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  • Sarah Wedde 10 months ago
    You can definitely wear the same clothes to work every day, in my experience. People are way too confounded to say anything. It's just small children you have to watch out for.
  • Daniel Jackson 10 months ago
    Mmm.. I've had a comment once.. From a person my own age. Who I saw once every week on the same day. Only slightly awkward, but she spoke the truth.

    Guess I needed to make sure I had a rotation of either six or eight sets of clothes, so Wednesday wasn't always the same.
    :P
  • Sarah Wedde 10 months ago
    "So?" works pretty well in reply to the confused people who think it's their job to comment on you. And is way less effort than changing yourself to please other people.
  • Daniel Jackson 10 months ago
    Just, "not care"??
    That's crazy talk. Crazy talk! That would be like, not seeking approval and acceptance from others and living for that purpose, and all those other freeing, hippy like things!..
    Jokin' :)
  • Sarah Wedde 10 months ago
    You're right. I apologise for such incendiary talk. Were my idle chatter to incite a worldwide breakout of pinko pacifism I would be utterly distraught.
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  • Matt Witmer 10 months ago
    Really weird that you would bring up "This I Believe" today. My English Professor just gave us the assignment of writing our own.
  • Merlin Mann plus 10 months ago
    It's not _so_ bad. It's just so hokey most of the time.

    For example, Penn Jillette's was IMO amazing. And uncharacteristically iconoclastic:
    tinyurl.com/9vxys
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  • kevin 10 months ago
    I left a kind of snarky joke comment before, but I wanted to say that I really do enjoy these. They feel very genuine and earnest.

    Don't worry about the length, just y'know, go with it.

    Clothes: same way. When they opened an American Apparel in my town I went apeshit. Solid colors and no logos or slogans? I'm there. I own 9 grey tshirts. I'm a graphic designer and I hate logos and making color decisions. Basically I'm Cayce Pollard from William Gibson's Pattern Recognition. Which is a good read, if people are interested.
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  • John Moltz 10 months ago
    3 things:

    1 - Pro tip: the kids don't say "That's how I roll" anymore. It's "That's how I do" now.

    2 - My first viewing of Star Wars (saw it 10 times in the theater), just as the Rebels are starting their attack run on the Death Star, I mean right as they are flipping over and descending, THE FILM BREAKS. And that's it. Can't be repaired in time for us to see the rest before the next showing. We were all issued passes to come back and see it later.

    3 - I *may* have a blaster and no Han. If so, it's yours. I'll check.

    If anyone from Pricewaterhouse Coopers is reading this, I *am* including that in the 10 viewings. Just for the record.
  • Merlin Mann plus 10 months ago
    We should totally get gay-married. Dressed as stormtroopers. You and me.

    Think about it. Take your time. I can wait.
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  • Aaron Tait plus 10 months ago
    Where do you get your energy from? How can you monologue for 18 minutes straight? My god I need to get my ass in gear.
  • Merlin Mann plus 10 months ago
    Aaron, if I had a way to turn it off, I would. Ask any of my exhausted friends. And wife. And pretty much anyone else.
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  • Stephen Lewis plus 10 months ago
    That second picture on the right reminds me of "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer." Good day.
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  • Todd Johnson 10 months ago
    It's weird how consuming a different type of content can change your perception of the content creator. What I mean is, I'm used to mostly reading your work, so I've had the perception of you that I tend to get of favorite writers: admired, but distant. Now, having you "in person", as it were, talking at me for a quarter-hour a day, I almost get that "TV personality" feeling: the admittedly delusional thing of "Oh, I know this guy. He comes into my house every so often and we chat." Overall I really like it; it's sort of like peeking behind the curtain. But the shift in perception is interesting. Also this comment is way too long. Insert fart sound.
  • Stephen Lewis plus 10 months ago
    I know what you speak of Todd. I just try not to let that pseudo-personal perception become a misconception. Snazzleberry.
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  • Tim Schönfeld 10 months ago
    brand new love is gorgeous. i really fell in love with the song when i heard the deadsy cover. they do a good version of tom sawyer, too
  • Merlin Mann plus 10 months ago
    Superchunk also had a great old ep that included both "It's So Hard to Fall in Love" and "Brand New Love" (also on the "Tossing Seeds" collection). Love those.
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  • Bill Seybolt 10 months ago
    Right there with you on Star Wars. Saw it several times in the theater and collected all that I could. (Still have several complete collector's card sets.) Also had The Story of Star Wars LP. Nearly the entire dialog of the movie. Had the whole thing memorized.

    I remember very vividly reading an article in Starlog magazine about how you could tell if you had the Force. I tried for an hour, concentrating on moving a bean across a piece of cardboard on my bed.
  • Merlin Mann plus 10 months ago
    > I tried for an hour, concentrating on moving a bean across a piece of cardboard on my bed.

    Gold.
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  • viscousplatypus 10 months ago
    Seriously, the length is a non-issue. I watched it. Then watched it again.
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  • Found my entire Star Wars collection in my grandma's garage when we were cleaning it out over Christmas break. So many memories. So much nerdiness.

    I want to build a display case for it in my basement office but I think that's maybe taking it a step too far. I'm afraid that if I did that I'd cross the threshold into being "that guy."

    I don't want to be that guy. I've tried hard over the years to avoid that trap.
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  • Dan Mulvey 10 months ago
    I love Costco for their pizza... but the Costco by me has asked me not to sneak into the food court anymore unless I become a member.
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  • David Delony 10 months ago
    Brian Eno's first solo album is "Here Come the Warm Jets."
    By the way, what do you use to do your videos?
  • Merlin Mann plus 10 months ago
    Yes! Of course. Thank you. LOVE that record.
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  • Brian Fernandes 10 months ago
    I decided I'd rather come here and watch 18 minutes of you every day than 2.5 minutes of Jimmy Fallon every day.
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  • Bridget 10 months ago
    I kind of love that you keep hats stored in random places in case you need them, like cops and/or spies might do with guns.
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  • bonsai 10 months ago
    Great work. Keep it up. Some days on Most Days it's as if you're channeling aspects of Ze Frank's The Show. It seems as if your time & temp reports are a version of Twyla Tharp's Egg warm-up exercise. Aside from the MacWorld slides, you've at least tried her 'box' idea too:

    youlooknicetoday.com/episode/selfish-express

    Not to worry about the hats, Spatial Redundancy one of nature's Design Patterns to add ductility to an otherwise brittle system. A prime example is found in mappings between genotypes and phenotypes.

    On more pressing matters, I'm wondering if your original Luke has the built-in lightsaber (stored physically inside the action figure's arm like some kind of ulnary tapeworm) or a later model with separate 'lit' and 'unlit' parts which could socket into the hand. Ah, the good 'ole days before swivel-arm battle grip introduced in the mid-80s. 'Yo Joe.

    Ahem, speaking of too long...*slaps self*
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  • Richard Henry 10 months ago
    I would like to see you do more singing.
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  • Cams Campbell 10 months ago
    Uncle Jack took John and ME. You need the accusative case there. Interestingly, I have a grammar nerd book whose title is Between You and I - amusing, no?
  • Cams Campbell 10 months ago
    My previous reply probably seemed a little flippant and it (and some other more serious things such as how come my universal remote takes three batteries - don't you just hate that?) was keeping me awake so I got up and wrote a blog post explaining my sad case of pedantry (it's an illness, honestly!)

    cams.vox.com/library/post/between-you-and-i.html
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