What is “Try Not to Breathe” about? The Studio 360 podcast interviews a listener who, remembering how her father died of a sudden illness, has a touching eureka moment about the message of the song on R.E.M.’s
Automatic for the People: “I think it’s about somebody who has reached the end of their life.
They have a level of acceptance that maybe the people around them don’t have. I felt like that was my dad talking to me.... It’s about facing the truth and accepting that life is ugly sometimes.” (Contains download link and embedded player of radio segment.)
posted by joeclark
on Nov 3, 2009 -
44 comments
Dreams: Night School Revonsuo puts it, "The primary function of negative dreams is rehearsal for similar real events, so that threat recognition and avoidance happens faster and more automatically in comparable real situations."
posted by drea
on Jan 3, 2008 -
57 comments
Scary Stuff: Count Floyd's Scary Little Christmas Promo,
Dr Cube's Posse,
A Scarier Skeleton by Jack Handey [mp3],
The Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra Trailer [previously],
Shining,
Plan 9 From Outer Space - Best Lines,
Re-Enactment - Pan's Labyrinth,
[previously]
Scream in 30 Seconds and Re-Enacted by Bunnies,
Season of the Witch,
The Thing in Lego,
REM & Muppets - Furry Happy Monsters.
Happy Halloween everyone!
posted by McLir
on Oct 30, 2007 -
14 comments
Kingpins Bowl & Brew, in Athens, GA, is one of those "hipster- and family-friendly" small town places where locals of all ages get together. It's got a bar. It's got bowling. It's got an arcade. And on Saturday evening, it had Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe, the original members of
REM,
reunite and play a "impromptu" seven song set in the arcade.
It was only the second time since Berry left the band in 1997 that the original members played together.
posted by NotMyselfRightNow
on Oct 11, 2005 -
48 comments
