Oceana Interview

Oceana // Dog Radio II from James Lano on Vimeo.

O’Brother – Ascension : Audiotree Live

I like the way this builds.

Headlight Silhouette

Night time in PA

 

Campfire Photo

This is one I took of my cousins by a campfire we built at my Gma’s house.

Thoughts on George Saunders’ Quote

George Saunders is a fiction author that I really dig because of his unique way of conveying stories. He originally got a geophysical engineering degree, which he talked about:

“Any claim I might make to originality in my fiction is really just the result of this odd background: basically, just me working inefficiently, with flawed tools, in a mode I don’t have sufficient background to really understand. Like if you put a welder to designing dresses.”

I think this speaks to the fact that we should not worry whether or not we have enough expertise in given subject. If you’re a bull rider who loves to paint, then paint. If your a student like me who wants to write poems or stories or take photographs, then write and shoot. Sometimes it is through an untrained eye that we best see the world.

George Saunders did not fret that he did not know enough; neither should we.

Diction

The accent, inflection, intonation, and speech-sound quality manifested by an individual speaker, usually judged in terms of prevailing standards of acceptability; enunciation.

I appreciate how dictionary.com defines the word, they use good diction to define the word diction which may sound like a small matter but to me it is no small feat haha.

Diction is also defined as the style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words. 

I wonder how few people comprehend the word diction in comparison to how many people have ever  used a dictionary; I believe that is irony.

Shaun White’s Perfect Run

Perhaps the smoothest thing on snow I’ve seen…Perfection

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“A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart – chaff and grain (bad and good) alike knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it; keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”

George Eliot Quote

“I think I should have no other mortal wants if I could always have plenty of music.  It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.”

Jimi Hendrix – Hear My Train A Comin’ (Acoustic)

You never see Hendrix on acoustic.