Category: The Lists

Authors on Taking a Chance

Five Cents of Wisdom

  • “Don’t let them slow you down. Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.” -Thomas Wolfe-
  • “Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” -Mark Twain-
  • “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far it is possible to go.” -T.S. Eliot-
“Chess Set”
  • “If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.” -Neil Gaiman-
  • “Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson-

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Authors on Loneliness

Seven Points to Ponder

  • “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald-
  • “The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.” -Charlotte Bronte-
  • “But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone.” -bell hooks-
“Morning Commuter”
  • “Be good and you will be lonesome.” -Mark Twain-
  • “I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky-
  • “If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.” -Aldous Huxley-
  • “Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship-but the loneliness of the soul in its appaling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.” -Sylvia Plath-

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Time in the Title: The Mix Tape

  1. “Time”—Pink Floyd
  2. “Time is Marching”—John Lee Hooker
  3. “Time is on My Side”—The Rolling Stones
  4. “Time is a Train”—Amy LaVere
  5. “Time Machine”—Ingrid Michaelson
  6. “Time to Get Ill”—Beastie Boys
  7. “Wasting Time”—Kid Rock
  8. “Time”—Tori Amos
  9. “Time in a Bottle”—Jim Croce
  10. “The Only Time”–Nine Inch Nails
  11. “Party Time (Anthem 2018)”—Madeleine Peyroux
  12. “Just Passin’ Time”—Dwight Yoakam
  13. “Time”—Prince
  14. “This is the Right Time”—Lisa Stansfield
  15. “Running Out of Time”—Joan Osborne
  16. “High Time We Went”—Joe Cocker
  17. “The Last Time”—Janis Joplin
  18. “One More Time”—Sam Cooke
  19. “One Last Time”—Sara Watkins
  20. “Closing Time”—Pieta Brown
“Jukebox”

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Give the Devil His Due: The Mix Tape

A Side

  1. “The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie”–Colter Wall
  2. “The Devil’s Right Hand”–Bob Seger
  3. “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”–The Charlie Daniels Band
  4. “The Devil Takes Crae of His Own”–Band of Skulls
  5. “Friend of the Devil”–Ramblin’ Jack Eliot
  6. “Speak of the Devil”–Chris Isaak
  7. “Seven Devils”–Florence and the Machine
  8. “Sympathy for the Devil”–The Rolling Stones
“Dock Jukebox”

B Side

  1. “Born By the Devil”–Lightnin’ Hopkins
  2. “Me and the Devil Blues”–Eric Clapton
  3. “The Devil Had a Hold of Me”–Gillian Welch
  4. “Me and the Devil”–Gill Scott-Heron
  5. “Preaching Blues (Up Jumped the Devil)”–Robert Johnson
  6. “The Devil’s Gonna Lie”–Otis Taylor
  7. “Devil’s Got to Burn”–James Blood Ulmer
  8. “Keep the Devil Down”–North Mississippi Allstars

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Five Working Movies

Movies About Work to Watch After Work

  • Up in the Air–For those who’ve been laid off or fear being laid off. A great movie for not so great times.
  • Wall Street–An OG movie about hustling (and not in a good way) to get the top.
  • Clerks–The classic niche movie for all retail workers.
  • Office Space–What most of us at dead end jobs wish we could do but don’t.
  • Glenngarry Glen Ross–The movie that made a generation wonder if they were good enough to be a closer.

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Authors on Working

Several Cents Worth of Common Sense

  • “The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.” -Arthur Miller-
  • “You should not confuse your career with your life.” -Dave Barry-
  • “Do not whine…Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.” -Joan Didion-
“Notice”

  • “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson-
  • “Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today’s employer is seeking.” -Patrick Kennedy Toole-
  • “If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you are a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.” -Kurt Vonnegut-
  • “In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not subversive.” -Bill Waterson-

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Authors on Borrowing

Six Bits of Wisdom to Borrow

  • “Neither a borrower nor lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend.” -William Shakespeare-
  • “The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.” -Charles Lamb-
  • “Acquaintance (n). A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.” -Ambrose Bierce-
“Library with Flag”
  • “To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.” -Samuel Johnson-
  • “Borrow trouble for yourself, if that is your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.” -Rudyard Kipling-
  • “Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they’ll all come around wantin’ to borrow money. I’ve always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.” -Richard Pryor-

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4th of July: The Mix Tape

A Side

1. “America”–Neil Diamond

2. “Living in America”–James Brown

3. “Ragged Old Flag”–Johnny Cash

4. “Born in the USA”–Bruce Springsteen

5. “American Pie”–Don McLean

6. “Surfin’ USA”–The Beach Boys

7. “R.O.C.K. in the USA”–John Mellencamp

8. “Back in the USA”–Chuck Berry

9. “Star Spangled Banner”–Jimi Hendrix

“Legion Memorial #7”

B Side

1. “The Heart of Rock & Roll”–Huey Lewis and the News

2. “American Girl”–Tom Petty

3. “Dancing in the Streets”–Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

4. “Fortunate Son”–Creedence Clearwater Revival

5. “Sweet Home Alabama”–Lynyrd Skynyrd

6. “Chicken Fried”–Zac Brown Band

7. “Cheeseburger in Paradise”–Jimmy Buffett

8. “All Summer Long”–Kid Rock

9. “We’re an American Band”–Grand Funk Railroad

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Getting By: The Mix Tape

1. “House Rent Boogie”—John Lee Hooker

2. “Fast Car”—Tracy Chapman

4. “Another Day in Paradise”—Phil Collins

3. “Marie”—Townes Van Zandt

5. “Sittin’ on a Poor Man’s Throne”—Bobby “Blue” Bland

“Couple at Jukebox”

6. “King of the Road”—Roger Miller

7. “Broken Down”—Eric Clapton

8. “Times Gettin’ Tougher Than Tough”—Them

9. “Hard Time Losin’ Man”—Jim Croce

10. “Hard Time”—Gillian Welch

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Musicians on Selling Out

Four Bits of Wisdom

  • “Selling out is doing something you don’t really want to do for money. That’s what selling out is.” -Bono-
  • “Most of the people who call me a sell out were 7 when I was face-down in the punk trenches.” -Henry Rollins-
“Accordion Music”
  • “It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.” -Mick Jagger-
  • “There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won’t.” -Annie Lennox-

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