[ Video ] The Velvet Underground – After Hours

This song is no sofa pizza—it’s timeless—as well as Eddie Segwick. Well, sometimes I break my own rule. The song embodies what a suicide (the main theme of the song) is about; it goes on quietly without drama, but with a kinky optimism toward the future of...

[ Essay ] 10,000 hours to master, 10,000 hours to countdown

  by  shoothead  Malcolm Gladwell observed that we need to spend 10,000 hours, or approximately ten years, to master a skill. He cited The Beatles and Fleetwood Mac as examples: Even those music geniuses had to accumulate almost ten years of “practice”...