Today is the day of tangents and I love it when this happens where I find myself wandering aimlessly through the world wide web in search of absolutely nothing. I know I have a list of things to do and that I should step away from the computer but I just can’t because I enjoy these rare occasions where I can just be happy in my momentary laziness on a cloudy Sunday afternoon. In fact I’m not really searching at all, I’m just letting links call out to me and before I know it, I’ve got 15 different fascinating windows open that follows a trail that makes no sense whatsoever.

I always find some fabulous bits of randomness this way, like this video of three foley artists reimagining silent films. A quote from the clip…“The center of sound is silence. At the heart of the sound process is not making sound”.

“The Noises Rest” from lonelysandwich on Vimeo.

Today I happened upon 43 Folders which I had actually found before but this was the first time I’d really paid attention to it. The most interesting thing is that I recognized the name of the blogger, Merlin Mann. The blog itself is about “finding the time and attention to do your best creative work”, which I suppose is quite funny as I had originally thought I was off wandering through irrelevant tangents and instead I find myself stumbling across something that provides advice on time managmenet for the crazy creative types. Go figure.

So this Mann guy, I know him better from his ties with one of my favorite groups The Long Winters out of Seattle (go see them live if you ever have the chance, you’ll have the best of times) and he also took some pictures of the band I used in an interview I did back in the day with lead-singer John Roderick for a music website (which oddly lost all it’s sense of punctuation) prior to the much better one I have been writing for the last few years now.

43 Folders is insightful but most importantly, intelligently entertaining and funny. Mann also contributes to many other things including the far less relevant but no less entertaining blog, You Look Nice Today, an audo-based journal of Emotional Hygiene, written by people like Mann, aka hotdogsladies along with Adam Lisagor, aka lonelysandwhich and Scott Simpson.

What does this have to do with anything? Nothing really. Well, perhaps that you can’t run away from time managment? ;-) I guess that’s my cue to tackle that list.

“You eventually learn that true priorities are like arms; if you think you have more than a couple, you’re either lying or crazy.”
-Merlin Mann