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clientsfromhell:

Me: You haven’t paid me in awhile, do you think you can write me a check today?

Client: No, I’ve run out of money.

Me: But last week you told me I could invoice you weekly.

Client: Yes, and you can.  What’s your point?

Me: It’s been a few weeks. I’m working every day for you and keeping careful track of my hours and submitting an invoice at the end of every week, under the assumption I’ll get paid for my work.

Client: I said you could invoice me, I never said I could pay you.

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newyorker:

Radiohead’s “Creep,” Sung by Prince and Carrie Manolakos

But the song was suddenly rehabilitated when, over the weekend, a video of a singer named Carrie Manolakos singing “Creep” at small concert in New York went viral.

Manolakos, whose background is in musical theatre, performs the song with perfect earnestness, closing her eyes and choking back tears. She floats lightly over the soft notes and reaches up to a stringent wail towards the middle of the song. She takes all the qualities that made “Creep” moving in 1992—what Nick Hornby, writing in this magazine in 2000, called the song’s “unnerving sincerity,” its “mournful anguish,” and “the brilliance of [its] conceit”—and repackages them in an old-fashioned night-club singer’s torch song.

Manolakos’s version does what covers ought to do; it picks up a song that has sunken into throwback territory, dusts it off, and treats it like a classic.

- Andrea DenHoed writes about the arc of Radiohead’s “Creep”: http://nyr.kr/IbOg2h

(via joshuanguyen)

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Another rant

Today the rant is about another recurring event.  People who keep asking me if I am still in Brazil.  Um.  Where was it unclear that I am starting a company here, which in no rational world could mean I would be back to the states in under 6 months.   Or am I missing something? 

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People and Travel

I just spent 3 days in Buenos Aires.  I was not a big fan of the city itself, though I can see how with more time there you could find lots of cafes, restaurants and generally places to hang out and take the city in.  But as far as sights or a general charm to the place, I did not really see it.  

The flip side was having a really good host who showed me a great time and revived my faith in people at large.  It is always refreshing to find someone who is genuinely good and generous and concerned with the world and its vices.  

In that sense, I think the city (and perhaps even the country) has a palpable intellectuality above Brazil.  Which is a good change of scenery.  Sometimes it is frustrating here to not be able to find people that are more intellectually curious.  That’s not to say it doesn’t exist, but perhaps it is just harder to find or less evident.  

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Trust

A strange thing has been happening lately.  I am wondering far too often whether people I meet are only interested in being my “friends” because of what I now do for a living.  You hear celebrities and other well-known people always talking about such things.  Seems so self involved and self important.  But, I am wondering how you deal with that.  How can you know when someone is genuine and likes you for you.  Not because they think maybe you are good to keep around so that when you are really running a movie studio they can somehow get into the glamour and glory of it all.  It’s a strange thing.  But as usual, I think too much.  My eternal burden.  

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Choral Hits

To anyone who was wondering where the awesome choral version of “Creep” currently playing in the trailer of “The Social Network” this link talks about the group, Scala, and the project, which is based in Belgium.  They really kick ass.