Can't stop listening.

Rikki Ililonga and Musi-O-Tunya Dark Sunrise 

craft

Xavier Viramontes A Life in Print as seen on KLCS

www.xavierviramontes.com * www.alifeinprint.net * www.galeriadelaraza.org

credibility counts

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful.

-Edward R Murrow (1908-1965)

embracing success

"I love my success... I love that people know me and say hello. Tell me the downside. When people talk about the burdens of success, you want to spit in their fucking face." — Joan Rivers

top

Is it wrong to use your sex appeal?
Well, not if you’re hungry

Is it the only reason you should use it?
Probably. Because you know, if women could sleep their way to the top there would be many more women at the top.

-Gloria Steinem
(from an interview with RussiaToday.com 3/3/2009)

add to the reading pile

Buddhist nun joins forces with 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' author
The siblings' book, Rich Brother, Rich Sister, celebrates both business acumen and Eastern religion. The Long Beach nun wonders: 'Am I selling out?'

By Louis Sahagun February 9, 2009 (LATimes.com)

aint it the truth...

I'm always in the mood for Randy Newman lately. And that's not necessarily a good thing. It seems like whenever the country's kind of at a low point, I’m always in the mood for Randy Newman.
-Sarah Vowell on KCRW

nice to meet you, mr. disfarmer

From Disfarmer.com:

Nothing speaks more eloquently about Disfarmer's artistry than the photographs themselves. His genius was the ability to capture without judgment, the essence of a people and a time.

perception

"You see things in a different way, I think, if you've ever taken music seriously. Even if you're not a great musician"

-Bill Clinton, 2008
from Specatacle, Elvis Costello with...

the professional perspective

"Work is much more fun than fun"

-Noel Coward (b.1899, d.1973)

true los angeles royalty

Happy Birthday, Rodney Bingenheimer, b.1947

aka Mayor of the Sunset Strip

birthday rollcall

Happy Birthday Jonathan Swift (b.1667), Mark Twain (b.1835) & Abbie Hoffman (b.1936)

american badass

“Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, (b.1815 d.1902)

y'argh, it's halloween

Barack H Obama (mid 60s)

Yes We Can (Hold Babies)

Yes We Can (Hold Babies) is the international source for pictures of Obama holding babies. There are occasionally some kisses involved, sometimes the babies are a little too old to be classified as babies, and sometimes we just post pictures of Obama

making it look effortless

Oh You Pretty Things by David Bowie

Recorded for the BBC in 1972, originally released on Hunky Dory in 1971

no nailpolish...just sayin'

happy birthday to a real innovator

Bootsy Collins, b. 10/26/1951

You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.

happy 100th to an LA original

well hello again, mr. buffett

Mr. Buffett has long had a fascination with Goldman and first visited the firm when he was 10 with his father, according to someone familiar with the matter.

-from "Buffett to Invest $5bn in Goldman" on http://www.wsj.com/