Stephen Colbert and Neil deGrasse Tyson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXh9RQCvxmg

Amazing interview.

John Cleese on creativity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VShmtsLhkQg

Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

"The Carpet Weavers"

A story spanning centuries and generations. The plot intrigues enough to pull you along but most of all, the writer shows an amazing ability to jump back and forth between times, places and protagonists, reveiling enough to tell the story yet keeping most of it hidden, the absence of details hidden at an incredibly large universe and history. Though a few people are paramount to the story (because they played key positions in the plot) none is *the* protagonist, thereby telling a vast tale that transcends normal humans, weaving ("ahem") a pattern literally larger than the universe.

words

• gorgonize - to have a paralyzing or mesmerizing effect on: Stupefy or petrify
• dactylion - an anatomical landmark located at the tip of the middle finger.
• enantiodromia - the changing of something into its opposite.
• hamartia - the character flaw or error of a tragic hero that leads to his downfall.
• ktenology - the science of putting people to death.
• montivagant - wandering over hills and mountains.
• ostentiferous - bringing omens or unnatural or supernatural manifestations.
• ultracrepidarian - a person who gives opinions and advice on matters outside of one's knowledge.
• yonderly - mentally or emotionally distant; absent-minded.

source (with illustrations of the words)
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/07/02/project-twins-unusual-words/

Darrin James Band - "Had Enough Of Me" (Thrones Of Gold)

"a dose of imperfection"

Jazzy, swingy, plinkyponk piano! Wonderful!