03.03.10
Ducks in a Row
Every collaboration needs someone fascinated with the details perhaps to the point of obsession, and we’re fortunate enough to have four people that fall into this category. But my role is a bit different. You’ll never see me giddy with excitement for a certain typeface or passionately arguing the pros and cons of a particular app functionality, though I can appreciate the geekdom involved. Instead, I’m busying myself with the stuff most people find unglamorous and tedious. Naz refers to it as “administrivia,” and he loathes it. I, on the other hand, may have an unnatural love for making lists, researching, muttering to myself about other things that come to mind, and running errands on behalf of Weightshift. You can’t imagine the profound sense of achievement that washes over me when I get to erase a task from my dry erase board. (In an alternate world, I’d be BFFs with Rory Gilmore, and we would gush over our infatuation with to-do lists while drinking coffee at Luke’s. [Kudos to those who even know who the hell Rory Gilmore is.])
02.21.10
Disconnect
There’s a song by Rollins Band called Disconnect. Good ol’ Hank Rollins sings these lyrics:
Too damn bad if at the end of the day the only thoughts
In your brain are all the things that they say, what a waste
Too damn bad if at the end of the line you got no idea
What’s on your own mind, you got no one to blame but yourself
Too much to know, too much to see,
It might mean something to you but it’s nothing to me
It’s just another ad for someone’s version of how they think it should be
I want to pull it out
I wanna break it all down, I wanna pull it out
Disconnect myself, disconnect myself
I wanna see it go down, disconnect myself
Rollins Band came out with that song in 1994. It’s from the album Weight, which also features the song that you might know Henry from due to its popularity as an MTV video, Liar. Disconnect is an honest opener, and for me, Hank is one hell of a straight shooter. He speaks, sings, screams and shouts, directly.
