From the Sports Illustrated Vault, a 1979 profile of O.J. Simpson
“Fame,” O.J. said, walking along, “is a vapor, popularity is an accident, and money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.”
“Where’d you get that from?” Cowlings asked.
“Heard it one night on TV in Buffalo,” O.J. said. “I was watching a late hockey game on Canadian TV, and all of a sudden a guy just said it. Brought me right up out of my chair. I never forgot it.”
This is the quote on the first page of David Halberstam’s 1981 book The Breaks of the Game, which follows the 1979 Portland Trailblazers. It’s a book thats long out of print. I had to get it from the library, a special inter-library loan at that. The quote in the book does not include the last line from the article:
The character of O.J. Simpson will endure. It will be his legacy.
Really liking this album, it reminds me of the Stars… but performed by a band half as old and twice as pretentious.
I’m quite enjoying this album as well, even though I can’t really give it an identity like the last two M83 albums. Albums don’t have to have a theme, or identity, but since the last two did, it feels like this one should as well. The first one had a “in the country” theme, and the last one was very much a “in the city” theme. This one, I don’t know. Is the theme “in the park… hanging out with a bunch of weirdos”? But it sounds like nothing like George Michael!
