stuff: the digital scrapbook of matthew domurat

Hells yea!  Dawes with Mumford & Sons!

DAWES WITH MUMFORD & SONS!

During the 20 year celebration of the World Cafe show from WXPN in Philadelphia, Dawes and Mumford and Sons played together on stage for the first time ever. Watch as they play “When My Time Comes”. 

A Micro-Film shot in New Hope, PA

I don’t do this enough, nor do I take it serious enough.  We need to embrace it individually, as well as socially. We like to think we do it collaboratively during timed meetings with agendas, but sometimes it’s best to grab one other person and take a walk.  For some alone time - pack your lunch and go to the nearest park.  If it’s cold outside, head to any quasi-quiet establishment with a bar - coffee bar preferable!  Me, sometimes I just take some solitude at Fred’s Breakfast - with a side of freshly squeezed OJ.

  (via Why Your Schedule Should Have a Weekly Appointment Dedicated to “Thinking Time”)

I firmly believe in an organized desktop.  After clutter collects on the desktop every few days, I’ll organize it; but an artsy desktop theme seems to help keep you organized each and every day.  

(via How to Design and Create a Clean, Organized Desktop)

(Source: Lifehacker)

The full video is here, but the most poignant section about life and death is in this clip.

The text, thanks to Ryan, “Steve Job’s 2005 Stanford Commencement Speech, where he addresses his mortality.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true. 

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Just too good not to share - lots more Slim at Live and Breathing.

(via Langhorne Slim & the Law: We Love the Animals | Live and Breathing)

Free Blitzen Trapper & Dawes EP Tour Sampler. Excellent.

(via NoiseTrade | Thousands of Albums. Completely Free. Completely Legal.)

(via Riot on the Dance Floor by Steve Tozzi — Kickstarter)