January 2011
33 posts
“By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you...”
– Socrates
“Mm ba ba de
Um bum ba de
Um bu bu bum da de
Pressure pushing down on me...”
– Under Pressue, Queen/David Bowie
“I steal from every single movie ever made. If people don’t like that, then...”
– Quentin Tarantino, Empire magazine interview, 1994.
Letter II
It isn’t that I wish you ill, or that I am utterly without regrets, trust me most my life can be explained by a baffling number of missed opportunities. I didn’t take the road less travelled, I grabbed a machete and made a path through a dense forest of neurosis. I did it with my free will, a heavy head of equal parts ignorance and arrogance and a hell of a lot of self loathing. I know that I...
“When a man walks into a room, he brings his whole life with him. He has a...”
– Don Draper, Mad Men
“[Verse 1: Black Thought]
Knocked up 9 months ago
And what she finna have she...”
– Seed 2.0, The Roots ft Cody Chesnutt
“Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good.”
“Unchain my heart (unchain my heart) baby let me be (unchain my heart)
Unchain...”
– Unchain My Heart, Ray Charles
“No, Donny, these men are nihilists, there’s nothing to be afraid of.”
–
Walter Sobchak, The Big Lebowski
See, this is exactly what I’m talking about: when...
Your Favorite Raconteur
Saints don’t care much for what the future holds, Us sinner we just waste away in the best of times, Tomorrow I will be just another lost to the regrets, My heart and head will ache from the excesses, I’ll be some foul-spirited ill-willed jabberwocky. But tonight, I want to steal a moment of your attention. Sometimes I fashion myself an impossible drunk, Cut from the cloth of the mad drunk...
“It was one of those nights when the sky came down and wrapped itself around the...”
– Mickey Spillane, The Big Kill
“I used to be able to at myself and grin without giving a damn about how ugly it...”
– Mickey Spillane, One Lonely Night (1951)
“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.”
–
Rick Blaine, Casablanca
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
“I Know You
I know you
you were too short
you had bad skin
you...”
– I Know You, By Henry Rollins (this is the poem that got me to love poetry)
The Truth Is...
In the past year I realized I am more of a sinner than a saint. I often wonder if sainthood is a myth. If we are all selfish petty creatures because this past year I certainly found out I am capable of exorbitant amounts of pettiness. Truth is though, occasionally I do not mind it too much.
I found that between alcohol and caffeine I can keep a smile on my face most of the time, and though I...
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