Through the cacophony of existence, "Desiderata," a poem penned by Max Ehrmann in the whispering twilight of 1927, glides elegantly as a wisp of smoke, inviting the reader into its quiet sanctuary. The poem is a whispered lullaby in the midst of an orchestral storm, a guide for finding the marble in the vast ocean of sand. "Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

When a Nashville journalist asked Dex Romweber about a new song the guitarist had recorded, Dex told him, “It’s a kind of a dark, sort of hillbilly blues…folkie, rock ‘n’ roll thing. It’s hard for me to describe. You’ll just have to hear it.” Dex’s music mixes so many uniquely American elements that even he has trouble describing it. What you hear when you listen to it, though, is a veritable who’s-who of rock music’s Southern progenitors: Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, Link Wray, Buddy Holly, Little Richard.

It’s late 2015 and the Hotline Bling video has just dropped. Twitter, Instagram, and Vine all give their own spin on the video.There’s a Buzzfeed listicle about the best ones and people actually read it. It’s all anyone on the internet can talk about. Memes themselves have a longer half life and it remains in the collective consciousness for at least a week.  Today, those memes are merely a memory.

Novak Djokovic defeated Daniil Medvedev in the final of the US Open 6/3 7/6 6/3 to clinch his 24th Grand Slam singles title and extend his H2H over Medvedev to 10-5. The Serb has now won three of the calendar year’s four slams for a record fourth time: In my semifinals recap, I touched on two key areas in the Djokovic/Medvedev rivalry: First serve Forecourt ability: slice/drop shots/volleys etc. Because both are natural counterpunchers, the rallies tend to extend when the free points on serve dry up.

In a recentVarietyprofile, Joe and Anthony Russo, the filmmaking brothers most famously responsible for a string of super-successful Marvel movies, opined about the future of movies. Drawing on their own experience, professional plans, and intuition, they painted a picture of a film industry still figuring out how to incorporate the upheaval of the streaming era (fair) and about to undergo an even more radical transformation due to other technological developments. It’s here that the Russos’ thinking gets a little, well, fuzzy.