Tomorrow is 11/1/11.

The numbers all go to ELEVEN! (Michael McKean, Christopher Guest)

The United Nations says today symbolically marks the moment when the world’s population reaches 7 billion. A little more than two centuries ago, the global population was 1 billion. How did it grow so big so fast?

nprmusic:

David Lynch has always played up music and storytelling in his films and TV work. His first album as a solo musician lives up to his reputation for dark, dreamlike imagery.

Stream Crazy Clown Time now.

some music for your monday morning

by @ababst on Twitter

Happy Halloween! See you Monday, when Tom Waits is on!

wobbly #2 (by Melody Kramer)

Don’t hate.

somethingoutofamovie:

I follow all 3 NPR blogs. I know you’re jellin.

(Guys really don’t hate they are super interesting, and you should listen to them on the radio too!!!)

Also, my favorite npr show comes on in an hour :D

cosign. don’t hate.

Larry David on Fresh Air. (He’s mentioned today in David Bianculli’s review of Primetime in America.)

Novelists think a lot about God … [because] we create whole worlds and we people them and then we tell the people what to do: We make them fall in love or fall out of windows. So there is that curiosity about God that I think all novelists have.

— On today’s Fresh Air, writer Scott Spencer talks about religion, chaos, prison writing, violence and defending others.

David Edelstein reviews Anonymous: Anonymous is a poor piece of storytelling, likely to confuse those who know nothing about Shakespeare and incense those who know anything.

David Bianculli explains why the new four-part documentary series called America in Primetime, which premieres this Sunday on PBS, is “the smartest TV show about television I’ve seen in about 20 years.”

carrythatwait:

laughingsquid:

It’s Great to Be Alive!, A Grim Safety Manual for Kids

Good to know! I’m new to this whole “autumn” thing.

Are those leaves, hearts or blood?

Monday: Tom Waits. [More from NPR Music]

good day at work

1. halloween-themed donuts courtesy of david bianculli

2. listening to tom waits so i can write about tom waits

3. we’re currently discussing the pros/cons of love, actually

bapeonion asked: Somehow the stars must have aligned yesterday: I was thinking about my own news media "diet" all afternoon, unaware of Terry's delightful interview with David Carr until I caught it on Tumblr. Thank you Terry and your production staff for the great piece, and thank you Fresh Air Tumblr for echoing it on my favorite media dieting service.

Thanks! What is your media diet? (Mine is a combination of RSS-feeds, Facebook posts from friends/media types, Twitter, the Philly newspapers (which I get delivered…), The NYTimes, and various posts on sites like Metafilter and Arts/Letters Daily.)

Anonymous asked: Hey guys--noticed on the Deer Tick Review Chris Ryan is credited for "Clowning Around" when it should be Dennis Ryan. Love the tumblr.

Thanks for letting us know. I passed this along to the producer and Ken.