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You Put All Your Hope In My Slim Chance

The Long Winters - “Carparts”

Thanks, Merlin.

I’ve seen every lover leave me the same way,
The harder they are the harder I try.
Well, that’s a lie, but I said it with a smile.

String Art Owls, Copper Pipe, and Bono’s Boss

  • John Roderick:
    People want art to be pure, and so they believe people make art directly from their heart to the brush, unmotivated by…
  • Merlin Mann (interrupting):
    That’s like saying strippers like to dance because they like wearing high heels. That’s so far off like how stuff gets made.

The latest Roderick on the Line podcast episode is a repeat of a 2007 Merlin Mann video interview with John Roderick of The Long Winters for The Merlin Show. I started to delete it, but man, am I glad I didn’t. This is solid gold.