Yesterday I asked my ESL class this: ‘What’s your dream?’ And one of my Saudi Arabian students spoke up. He had every right to come up with something like: to be famous, rich, successful, whatever (and the question was ‘dreams’, not ‘goals’, so you’d expect him to say something even …
The wealthiest person is a pauper at times, Compared to the man with a satisfied mind. (from Satisfied Mind) This is not the most well-known cover that Jeff Buckley recorded, but one thing this guy did amazingly well was to give a cover an unforgettable, Jeff Buckley-ey feel. He recorded it for a …
Seems like a good day for this, since these guys play up here on the Sunshine Coast tonight. They’re kind of doing their own thing and aren’t like any other artists. I’ve written about them before here and here and for the story for how they formed, listen to this right here. Bliss …
Illy’s a rapper (is he though?) but you’ll never hear an Illy song about bangin’ bitches, pimpin’ rides or makin’ it rain. He also doesn’t crap on about fame, fortune, status, success (in the bullshit, most superficial sense of the world) or swag. And why not? Because that shit matters absolutely 0.00000000*. …
There’s so much first-rate philosophy fanned out across both Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey, but theirs comes down to this: The first part… just. Works. Be excellent to each other (and then after that… party on). Instead of judging and saying people do stupid shit, or criticising …
I could be wrong here, but I suspect that if you understand physics, and you understand Greek and Roman philosophy, you pretty much understand life. Philosophy teaches us about the internal world –that of self-examination and why we do everything we do, so we can live the best life we …
