Minutes of a Monday #31

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Brain Food > Only the greats steal

“If you listen to Nevermind, the Nirvana record, I pulled so much stuff from the Gap Band and Cameo and Tony Thompson. All that - that’s old disco. That’s all it is.

Nobody makes the connection. I told Tony Thompson that. He came to my house for a barbecue with somebody, and I was like, ‘man, I just want to thank you because I owe you so much, I’ve been ripping you off my whole life.’ He goes, ‘I know.’”

Foo Fighters lead singer and former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, proving that great artists do indeed steal.

Soul Food

“Well I think grief reinvents us. When I say grief, I mean the second life we lead after trauma. It feels more essential. The way we respond to things is altered – we become, as human beings, more precise.”

Nick Cave

LOL

Billy Connolly on the joke that got him applause in an airport:

Appendix

“I soon realized that the project was over-staffed and most people were pretending to work. And I also realized that was the job I was hired to do; my job was to pretend. If this had been the only time this ever happened to me, I would consider it an anomaly. Unfortunately, this has been the case with almost every tech job I’ve had for years.”

Emmanuel Maggiori on killing time in Tech.

AOB

Forgive the late email and continued Nick Cave references. His book Faith, Hope & Carnage has me hooked (and I’m almost finished it).

Have a great week.