"Now scientists have begun to examine how the city affects the brain, and the results are chastening. Just being in an urban environment, they have found, impairs our basic mental processes. After spending a few minutes on a crowded city street, the brain is less able to hold things in memory, and suffers from reduced self-control. While it's long been recognized that city life is exhausting -- that's why Picasso left Paris -- this new research suggests that cities actually dull our thinking, sometimes dramatically so.
One of the main forces at work is a stark lack of nature, which is surprisingly beneficial for the brain... Even these fleeting glimpses of nature improve brain performance, it seems, because they provide a mental break from the urban roil."
Cities = Bad. Nature = Good.
This is probably why I get really irritable in the mall, too. Just try and test my patience in the women's shoe section in Macy's. I will shoot you.
Joan is a tarot card reader in Portland OR. She works under the name "Toads Tarot Readings" and she makes the best bread in the world. In this video she shows us how to make her magical challah bread. Music is "Mr. Sandman" remixed by Squeak E. Clean.
So, everyone's doing "best albums," and "best songs."
Because everyone's doing it, I'm inclined not to. Those lists are arbitrary, anyway, and largely based on scenes. And sensibly so, because everyone's taste is influenced by their peers and surroundings. So, this is what I'm gonna do: Make a high-school-yearbook-style list, of notable musical individuals from the Portland Oregon scene. So, in the yearbook for Anne Adams High, there are zany black-and-white pictures captioned thusly for the following people and/or bands: Best cult personality: Luzelena, of Y La Bamba Most sincere: Ben, of Meyercord, Y La Bamba, and Aristeia Best heartstring-strummer: Kelli Schaefer Sluttiest strutter: Bailey, of Strength Best timekeeper: Matt, of Musee Mecanique Spirit of Tom Waits award: Andy Combs Most unwavering vocalist: Amanda of Point Juncture Washington The Loudest Whisper: A Weather Most going on: Starf*cker Best new punks: Experimental Dental School Most intrepid conquistador: Nick Jaina Happy new year. Stay cool don't change. B.F.F., K.I.T., ~Anne.
It's incredible how when one steps further away from something how that thing takes on a totally different appearance. Kinda eerie how if we look at the earths airplane travel it looks a lot like an ant colony.
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