Jeremy Bent

Month: September 2008

  • Definitive evidence of needing a haircut

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    Two people who had never seen me before separately came to the conclusion that I looked like David Hasselhoff. “But like a young David Hasselhoff!” they said, trying to soothe my horrified reaction. Damage done, ladies. Time to get this mop chopped.

  • More Quotations

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    I can’t stop quoting Joseph Campbell, but apparently he can’t stop being incredibly insightful. Mythology is defeated when the mind rests solemnly with its favorite or traditional images, defending them as though they themselves were the message that they communicate.

  • Three Years

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    That’s how long I’ve been in New York. I rolled in here on a Dominican shuttle bus three years ago today and had to take a cab 70 blocks to my friend Bob’s apartment because they didn’t go below 125th St. Blame my dad. The more I think about my move to New York, the…

  • 8 bits are all you need

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    I’ve been teaching myself the ways of the surprisingly robust Little Sound DJ, a composition tool and music tracker for the Nintendo Game Boy. Coming off the musical high of working with the Apple Sisters, I wanted to keep pushing my brain towards musical endeavors. I got seriously inspired watching the chiptune documentary, Reformat the…

  • More Excerpts

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    From Hero With A Thousand Faces: Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history or science, it is killed. The living images become only remote facts of a distant time or sky. Furthermore, it is never difficult to demonstrate that as science and history, mythology is absurd. When a civilization begins to reinterpret…

  • I can do this.

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    I’ve been thinking “I can do this” more than I ever have previously in my life. I mean it in the sense of, “If I devote enough time and energy to this, I can accomplish this and accomplish it well.” Cases in point: -Roller derby: possibly the jumping off point for all this positivity. I…

  • Late to the Party

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    I saw a couple of minutes of Dr. Horrible a few months ago, but I finally got around to watching the whole thing on Monday. Surprise! It’s great (as everyone besides me has known for months). It’s great in its execution, polish, and general sense of fun. I watched it on Hulu, which should be…