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nprfreshair January 14th 2012 Post has 58 notes.
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"The NSA was spending billions of dollars on new collection systems and vast amounts of computer hardware and software, and jamming it into its headquarters, but did not build additional power stations to keep the systems up and running. So you had these embarrassing instances … where if you plugged in a coffee pot, you literally could knock of the electricity for an entire wing at NSA headquarters."

— Historian Matthew Aid details why America’s spies are struggling to keep up. (via nprfreshair)

January 4th 2012 Post has 72 notes.
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zoom Aretha Franklin in the December 1986 issue of Interview

Aretha Franklin in the December 1986 issue of Interview

January 1st 2012 Post has 3 notes.
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St. Vincent’s Annie Clark performs “Surgeon” on The AV Club’s One Track Mind

The series, which will have an initial run of ten weeks—every Thursday, starting next week, Oct. 27—pairs an A.V. Club writer with a songwriter they admire for a conversation focused on one specific song. In addition, the interview subjects will provide us—and you—with an intimate performance of that song, in various awesome locations.

nprfreshair June 2nd 2011 Post has 89 notes.
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"His coming out was actually this gesture, of him saying ‘I want life. I want more life. I want something.’ And this was a man who was so self-denying for so long — this very polite, quiet man. And he [wanted] sex. … It’s just weird, to think of your parent that way … This is a man who had defused himself, who had tamped down his desires. And when he came out, it was the beginning of him becoming more vivid and hot and present, which was often messy but always wonderful."

— Filmmaker Mike Mills on his father coming out at the age of 75, after his wife died. [complete interview here] (via nprfreshair)

discreetmath April 9th 2011 Post has 627 notes.
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discreetmath: This interview made my entire fucking day, I swear. THIS! SO FUCKING THIS!

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This interview made my entire fucking day, I swear.

THIS! SO FUCKING THIS!

bobulate July 20th 2010 Post has 20 notes.
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Emotion will drive the machine

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Bill Murray on how you get comic pitch (before touching on Ghostbusters 3, Barack Obama, Garfield, then deciding the interview is over and disappearing):

Well, obviously a lot of it is rhythm. And as often as not, it’s the surprising rhythm. In life and in movies, you can usually guess what someone is going to say — you can actually hear it — before they say it. But if you undercut that just a little, it can make you fall off your chair. It’s small and simple like that. You’re always trying to get your distractions out of the way and be as calm as you can be [breathes in and out slowly], and emotion will just drive the machine. It will go through the machine without being interrupted, and it comes out in a rhythm that’s naturally funny. And that funny rhythm is either humorous or touching. It can be either one. But it’s always a surprise. I really don’t know what’s going to come out of my mouth.

As Robin points out over at Snarkmarket, the entire interview should almost not be excerpted; it’s too much fun. Go read it in one fell swoop.

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Have I mentioned lately that I love Bill Murray?

July 29th 2009 science interview
"

Heitler gave his lecture, and then, somewhat tired, he sat down on a chair; now you know that Heitler is a little man, and as he was sitting there, Pauli came at him with rather violent remarks. His argument was roughly this: We know that this particular approximation is wrong in the case of large distances, for then there is always…no repulsion, no saturation. We also know that this particular approximation is quite wrong when the two nuclei are very close together, when we get repulsion. And Pauli, as usual, walked up and down, and then approached Heitler rather threateningly, saying, “Nun gibt es eine an die Gruppen glaubende Physiker appeilierende Aussage, die behauptet, dass trotzdem in einem Zwiscbengebiet diese Annherung wenigstens quantitativ das Richtige geben soll,” and at this particular moment, the chair on which Heitler was sitting collapsed under him and Heitler fell over backwards.

The audience roared with laughter and said, “Pauli effect!” I don’t know whether anyone engineered that; it would, of course, not have been beyond Gamow to do it, but I don’t think he had an opportunity. But it was also characteristic of Pauli who was very much against a lot of mathematics on uncertain foundations.

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From an interview with physicist Hendrik Casimir by Thomas Kuhn, transcribed as part of the Niels Bohr Library’s oral history project. The project puts online transcripts of interviews with over 500 of the past century’s greatest physicists.

The above quote namedrops Walter Heitler, Wolfgang Pauli (and an effect not quite as famous as his other one), and George Gamow.

July 17th 2009 movies interview quote
"Dance can say things, it’s physical expression of an emotion. It’s part of a language people use…that just expresses joy in an emotional, accessible way. How I got underneath that is that the whole movie is told from one person’s point of view, and we are trying to photograph how somebody feels rather than the objective reality of a situation. When you’ve had a successful run [with the opposite sex], it feels like the world is smiling at you. You feel like you’re dancing in the streets. Whether or not that’s true is irrelevant. You are along for the ride. That’s how I justified that. It’s the same justification for the narrator. It’s the same justification for the non-linear storytelling, the fact that he’s remembering. You’re inside somebody’s head and he’s analyzing the situation, trying to find meaning in it. He has put himself as the hero of the storybook/fairy tale that’s not exactly going the way he thought it would."

— Director Marc Webb justifying the dance sequence in (500) Days of Summer.

July 6th 2009 literature interview
"Morley Callaghan. Hunter S. Thompson. Tupac. These are the writers who made me think that writing could be fun! … Tupac is a bit cheesy, but that was part of what I loved about it. You’d have these angry crazy songs about shooting people and then a dance hit and then crazy paranoid ranting and then a love song to his mom. And you realize, fuck it, you can do whatever you want."

— Adam Morgan of Bookslut.com interviews Joey Comeau.

June 24th 2009 journalism internet quote interview
"Any time that you’re trying to get people to give you stuff, to do stuff for you, the most important thing is that people know that what they’re doing is having an effect. It’s kind of a fundamental tenet of social software. … If you’re not giving people the “I rock” vibe, you’re not getting people to stick around."

— The Guardian’s Simon Willison outlining the lessons learned from the newspaper’s extravagant attempt to crowdsource the reviewing of 457,153 pages of governmental expense reports.

June 18th 2009 interview movies
"My memories of New York are unrealistic. The New York that I grew up loving was, ironically enough, the New York of Hollywood parties … I never knew New York as it really existed. For that, you have to speak to Spike Lee or Martin Scorsese."

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In preparation for the upcoming film Whatever Works, director Woody Allen and star Larry David answered questiosn for reporters last week.

It is, at times, absurd and hilarious how similar Allen and David are to the characters they write and play. You could put “George Costanza” in front of any answer, and never know the difference.

June 10th 2009 Kaki King Tupac mp3blag interview music mashup
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The Hood Internet - “Bone Chaos in the Ghetto (2Pac vs Kaki King)”, via The Hood Internet via a wonderful interview with Kaki King on Flavorpill.

May 22nd 2009 quote interview porn movies
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Whereas your typical adult starlet looks like a cut-rate Tara Reid impersonator, [Sasha] Grey is the scraggly, edgy, angel-headed hipster whose clothes and affection I’d want. And though she already has 150 titles to her name (including the auspicious “Oral Supremacy” and “Bring’em Young”), still Grey plays the hip chick that just loves to bone—not the sickly blonde who is plowing her way through an insurmountable amount of daddy issues.

So when it comes to Steven Soderbergh’s newest movie, “The Girlfriend Experience,” obviously there’s an elephant in the room. That elephant is shaped like Sasha Grey’s vagina.

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— Natasha Vargas-Cooper reviews Steven Soderbergh’s new film, The Girlfriend Experience, starring none other than pornstar Sasha Grey as a high-class call girl. Needless to say, Natasha is unimpressed. But I don’t mean to pigeonhole Grey (that’s what she said?), she sounds much more layered whilst being interviewed.

December 11th 2008 Cate Blanchett interview quote
"Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you-you’re being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge."

— Cate Blanchett being interviewed by The White Stripe’s Jack White in this month’s Interview.