#tape

The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is in the least danger, and fix its approval on the virtue that is nearest the vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there’s a flood; and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gone under. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#clive #extinguishers #fashions #lewis #staples

Beware the flatters of the world,for what may be music to the ears may be posion for the soul -David Meleno ↗

— Henry H. Neff

#music

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result? ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#debate #religion #screwtape #religion

In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record. ↗

— Steve Albini

#bands #big #black #chicago #demo

When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#construct #first #mix #out #song

I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#heard #i #nixon #saddened #shocked

Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#off #out #projects #slowly #sort

Tape is wonderful at preserving evidence - fingerprints, hairs, fibers. Tape preserves this, especially on the sticky side, even if the body's been out there for a year. ↗

— Michael Baden

#body #especially #even #evidence #fibers

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#i #just #little #performing #play

When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#among #calls #comedy #dumb #embarrassing