My iPhone Notes

You know how people write down stuff they don't want to forget? I do that too. And I have so many iPhone note pages with three words on them that are not just my shopping list that I figured I needed to impart some of these little nuggets of cleverness unto the people that read this thing, if only to remind myself that I exist. In chronological order.


Sept 23, 2009
Troubleshoot me

Sept 25, 2009
Remotecontrol me

Nov 21, 2010
"Where the city's ceaseless crowd moves on, the live long day."

- Walt Whitman (used in the film Manhatta)

Jan 16, 2011
My brother's social security number (I think).

Jan 22, 2012
"If they're too big to fail, they're too big to exist."

- David Stockman, Crony Capitalism

"In every political community there are varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals. Ten degrees to the left of center in good times. Ten degrees to the right of center when it affects them personally."

- Phil Ochs

May 26, 2012

Sordid Out 

(this is my future potential band's name)

May 27, 2013

Pride as a feeling only works when it remains inside.

July 24, 2013

Types of People:

1. Brilliant assholes

2. Brilliant nice guys

3. Idiotic assholes

4. Idiotic bullshitters

5. Brilliant bullshitters

And then there are those who just shut up and get it all done. 

August 13, 2013

To be specific is to be universal.

Oct 28, 2013

People act grateful but they're just greedy. 

Jan 2, 2014

Flags at half mast

Who died.

Jan 19, 2014
Inside Llewyn Davis. Best film of 2013. I want more beautifully shot movies about people who fail and nothing good happens.

Feb 3, 2014

I should translate my mother's book myself/

Jan 27 - Feb 4, 2014 (a prolific period clearly)

- Life: you think it's gonna be one thing, then it turns out it's what you thought it was gonna be before you thought it was gonna be that one thing.

- Sometimes a song sounds better in your head than in real life.

- Business is personal, money is psychological.

- I don't like diamonds for aesthetic reasons.

- I didn't really like the Coca Cola Superbowl commercial. The message was fine but the ad was cheesy. If it had been any other song (besides the Star Spangled Banner) there would be no controversy. Ok, maybe if it had been This Land is Your Land it would have been worse. But any other song and we wouldn't be talking right now. But then it would have resembled a lot of other diversity play ads and no one would have cared. I'm just guessing.