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The straight left and the right hook.

Lessons learned from Morales-Pacquiao 2 and the Chip Kidd retrospective:

  1. The unstoppable straight left is what launched me to this stage. Trust it.
  2. Bludgeon with the left; develop the right hook for the knockout.
  3. The gloves make a difference.
  4. Don’t give the audience what they requested; give them what they need. They will be stunned.
  5. Professionals don’t take it personally.
  6. There is no number 6.
  7. Perfection isn’t everything. Second chances come to those who do well enough the first time around.
  8. Perfection is, nevertheless, worth pursuing.
  9. Every fight has its price.
  10. Entertain. Always.
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1 February 2006

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I’d never shown it to you.

2008 December 25

Though I completed this chapter of my pop music autobiography in late September, a few weeks into my first semester at Georgetown, only now in the more apparent denouement of my existential crisis do I feel compelled to write its intentions, framed in the context of two gifts I received in November.

Echoes

  • Ben Folds feat. Regina Spektor - You Don't Know Me
  • 'Til Tuesday - Voices Carry
  • Jon Brion - Little Person
  • Nancy Wilson & Cannonball Adderley - Save Your Love For Me
  • The Perishers - Rock, Best Friends
  • The Libertines - Death on the Stairs
  • The Libertines - Music When the Lights Go Out
  • The Libertines - Never Never
  • The Five Stairsteps - Ooh Child
  • Katy Perry - Electric Feel (MGMT Cover)

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