This is the wordpress/youtube/77MaidenLane version of a mixtape, for TPH:
There is a minor theme here, especially in the denouement, about Stanford University and fast food, for what that’s worth. Also, no need to do more than about 30 seconds of each video, except as an encore. For some reason I want to find something rhythmic by Fugazi, like Furniture, if it exists. Also, I would have liked to find an excerpt from “Treasure of Sierra Madre” about “badges”. We all have our badges, of courage, of inclusion, some are like scars, other self-incurred, with varying levels of self-inducement and self-consciiousness. Paraphrasing Jes Yu quoting Mark O’Brien, we are all co-creators of everything else.
If you presented this to a client in the ad world burger wars, you would have to mention BPM (beats per minute) and SPB (seeds per bun):
If I was a, for example, purely hypothetically, 54-year-old Stanford grad with time on my hands, in the “free time life-style”, I might strike up a correspondence or make a study of this, my favorite young Farm Product, Kristine Flaherty, from Chicago, pka (performer known as) K.Flay. 2fer from her:
I don’t want to explain any of this too much but it is useful to note that here K.Flay is reacting to something else, which both limits and frees her. Not that I have ever been, but it’s a marriage of sorts:
I just counted. It would take about 34 minutes to watch all these, so like I said, just watch the first 30 seconds of each to get about 90 percent of the effect. I added about 364 words to the above plus this not-very-flaherty-like self-capture:
Hey, man. I know where you are coming from. (Yeah, bullshit. Which reminds me of the time you edited my

MBW on 2/7/12 at 6:45 p.m. photo (c) Earthwise Productions by Mark Weiss, for Plastic Alto blog, "4tph"
column “What’s A Titan?” and suggested that my phrasing “what the hell is a Titan” did not add much to my style; remember the admonition, follow it, but dissent from it here, because I am quoting I.M.)
the hidden track is “furniture” by fugazi; chosen for some combination of angst and optimism. The words:
This is a song with no words Nobody can hear the missing They just look at my mouth And look at my mouth and say Hey man, I know where you’re coming from (Yeah.. bullshit!) Furniture has no say in life It was made to be used by people How many times have you felt like a bookcase Sitting in a living room gathering dust Full of thoughts already written? (How ’bout now?)
see also: Chair-Man, in the California Cooler video. also, I traded messages with Ian MacKaye today; I’m a big fan and worked with him briefly in 2004.
Thank you, MarK, for this. It got me thinking (about what – I’m not so sure). But I liked it. Good to reconnect.
if you can get around to it, watch all 14 (!) videos and make list of positioning statements. I will pay you — what is our standard deal — oh yeah, $200 for the first 400 hours.
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