[Vol. 1 Issue #165]

A rest day, a lighter newsletter with music, comedy, and art. Today is a quick read with plenty of time for an afternoon nap.

Bigmouth Strikes Again:

Stories | News | Music | Art & Design - With A Shout (out)

Big People

Soul Asylum Seekers

John Mayer

A Twitter thread hit the inbox from Sahil Bloom who Retweeted Nathan Baugh, who clipped part of Zane Lowe's interview with John Mayer. In the short clip (2 minutes), Mayer talks about how he always sings when he picks up the guitar to start building a song. He says you waste time if you don't start with your mouth. The words can be gibberish, but to go along with guitar, piano, or whatever you use to create music, you must immediately use your mouth to shape the song.

Guitar Hero

Interesting that such a talented musician talks about the importance of words and melodies and how that shapes the song from the beginning. In under two minutes, Mayer and Zane Lowe talk about what it means to be fearless in music, and our favorite quote is from Mayer at the beginning when he's talking about songwriting:

Spotlight

Lucy Beaumont

A British comedian talks with The Guardian about a day in the life. Lucy Beaumont is also married to another British comedian Jon Richardson and life with Jon, and their child sounds as typical as it is for the rest of us. Beaumont's take on a Sunday roast made us look up what a British Sunday Roast is; other than that, the article's headline sent us in a different direction.

Big Things

Stranger Things

Thoughts

Yesterday we looked up images for The Thinker, the famous statue for one of the articles we highlighted. We didn't know anything about the statue. Further research suggests that the bronze sculpture created by Auguste Rodin in the 1800s was inspired by Dante's Inferno and placed in front of The Gates of Hell, another work by Rodin. Wikipedia reports that workers at the foundry named The Thinker after Michelangelo’s statue of Lorenzo de Medici.