Nick's Links and Lists

Hello, how are you? That's great!

Oh, you're saying I didn't even give you a chance to tell me how you were before I told you "that's great?"

So sorry. I need to work on my patience and my people skills. But while I do that, you should check out these links and lists! I'm going to try to update every day with either a bunch of links or a list about something.

More info to come soon. For now, just relax, and enjoy some links and lists.

• Mark Isham - "On the Threshold of Liberty"
• The Mystery - "Forgiven"
• John Frusciante: "Every Person"
• Girls: "Hellhole Ratrace"
• John Lennon: "Oh Yoko"
• Laava: "Wherever You Are"
• LCD Soundsystem: "Someone Great"
• Devendra Banhart: "Walilamdzi"
• Wavves: "Wavves"
• Julian Casablancas: "Glass"

• Here's an article from the NYTimes, about whether language shapes the way we think! I have not read it yet, but I'm planning on reading it tomorrow morning when I wake up.
• Ray Bradbury, the author of Fahrenheit 451, says the United States NEEDS A REVOLUTION! I don't mean to sound flippant by using the caps. It's just that I can't say the word "revolution" without cringing. And I'm all for a revolution. I just wish a certain band didn't have to bastardize the word.
• Tonight's episode of American Routes. American Routes is a 2 hour long radio show on NPR that airs every Saturday night. On tonight's episode the theme was music from New Orleans (5th year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina).
• The world's worst traffic jams

• A behind-the-scenes report on Trader Joe's
• A very interesting profile on actor/artist/blah blah blah James Franco

• The training of a Japanese Kodo drummer
• Saturn Devouring His Son (the painting)
• Nursery Days (the album)
• A Trip To The Moon (the film)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the TV series)

• Slate.com's response to the NYT's article on twentysomethings
• Does the past exist? (Oooh, trippy)
• Blurry People. It's like ChatRoulette but with more of a dating twist. The faces of you and your chat partner start out blurry, and the longer you chat the clearer your faces become. Kind of cool! It's like the perfected virtual experience of the adages Beauty isn't skin deep, or It's the personality, the friendship that counts.

• NYT's Book Review of JONATHAN FRANZEN'S NEW NOVEL Freedom
• Ray Kurzweil Responds to Neuroscientist Who Claims Kurzweil Doesn't Know the Brain

• An uber-thorough guide on backpacking
• Make sweet images online with DeviantArt Muro
• Photographs of The Great Depression
• The picture that used to be stretched across this page (NickOtto[dot]Com)
• Space Invaders!!!
• Is "God's language" incorrect? That is, is our system of numbers faulty?

• New York Times article about a NEW STAGE OF ADULTHOOD
• "You Smile" by Justin Bieber 8x slower than normal
• Four people and dog are living in an 180 square foot treehouse
• "Dream Song 29" by John Berryman