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Requiem
by Robert Louis Stevenson

Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.

This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.

A person from the country of Nauru is called a Nauruan; this is the only palindromic nationality.

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Come- Across Quotes

Somebody has to go polish the stars,
They're looking a little bit dull.
Somebody has to go polish the stars,
For the eagles and starlings and gulls
Have all been complaining they're tarnished and worn,
They say they want new ones we cannot afford.
So please get your rags
And your polishing jars,
Somebody has to go polish the stars.

~Shel Silverstein~




Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning

~Virginia Woolf~

The Swinging Sixties

A BASS PLAYER’S 23RD PSALM
The Lord is my drummer, I shall not rush,
He maketh me to layout in tasteful places,
He leadeth me beside cool meter changes,
He restoreth my “one.”
Yeah, man, though I read through the trickiest of charts,
I will fear no train wrecks,
For You are with it.
Your ride and Your snare they comfort me,
You setteth up a solo for me
In the presence of mine guitarists,
You anointeth my lines with drive,
My groove overfloweth.
Surely good feel and swing will follow me
through all the tunes of each set,
And I will dwell in the pocket the whole gig long.

Jennifer LOVE Hewitt

Watch the Woman's Eyes

House

Wilson: "Beauty often seduces us on the road to truth."
House: "And triteness kicks us in the nads."
Wilson: "So true..."

Cameron: "Sex could kill you. Do you know what the human body goes through when you have sex? Pupils dilate, arteries constrict, core temperature rises, heart races, blood pressure skyrockets, respiration becomes rapid and shallow, the brain fires bursts of electrical impulses from nowhere to nowhere, and secretions spit out of every gland, and the muscles tense and spasm like you're lifting three times your body weight. It's violent, it's ugly and it's messy, and if God hadn't made it unbelievably fun, the human race would have died out eons ago."

Cameron: "Men should grow up."
House: "Yeah, and dogs should stop licking themselves. It's not going to happen."

"A fool may throw into a well a stone which a hundred wise men cannot pull out."
------Russian Proverb

"In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or die of boredom."
-----------------William Burroughs

‘Got tight last night on absinthe. Did knife tricks.’ –Hemingway

"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
-Oscar Wilde

"The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world."
-Leonard Cohen

You're Gonna Lose That Girl

The beatles
by Hanvak

And then there's everyone else...

An artist cannot fail. It is a success just to be one.
- Charles Horton Cooley from en.wikipedia.org

Latest Interview With Leonard Cohen

HOW MUCH LAND DOES A MAN NEED?

SPOILER ALERT (if you're into Tolstoy)

Here's the last line of the short story:


His servant picked up the spade and dug a grave long enough for Pahóm to he in, and buried him in it. Six feet from his head to his heels was all he needed




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"I'll go along with the charade
Until I can think my way out
I know it was all a big joke
Whatever it was all about"

- Bob Dylan, "Tight Connection To My Heart"

It's not courage if you're not terrified." - D. Blagdan

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." - Nietzsche



Piracy, like romance, is never dead.

‘I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.’ –Edgar Allan Poe

Did you know... The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.

excerpt from "Juniper Tree Burning"

"It’s easier to find sympathy for a child, isn’t it? Teenagers are harder to pity. I hate the little shits myself, can’t stand them, with their hormonal poisoning, their know-it-all struts giving them a blind man’s road map, their clumsy bullheaded charge through the china-shop rooms of a heart. Underneath that oily, acne-treatment veneer lurks their desperate need, their whining, oozing, helpless sniveling: Tell me who I am, love me love me do, like the chorus to a bad song playing over and over until, singing it helplessly, you’d shoot yourself in the head just to get it out of your mind. True, some of them are slick, strutting their newest fashions and newer slang, but it’s an oil slick, a sebum-clogged skin-deep slick, and if you’re lucky, they put on a good act because worst of all is the kid whose case is so bad, whose oil so black and sludgy, that you take one look and get sucked into the tar pit of their desperation. These belly-slithering outcasts—they’re the worst, and if you see one, don’t walk. Run. Run as fast as you can, because they’ll get you. They are not harmless. They’ll lie; they’ll cheat and steal and scam their way into a little love, and then they’ll slide off into the dark, leaving you covered in their slime. Don’t pity them. Hold them completely responsible. Children, they know not what they do, but any kid old enough to get her period, to poke his willy into girls, to leave home, do drugs or any of a thousand decisions teenagers make, any kid that old should be held responsible for the damage done along the way. You can’t have it both ways, you teenage monsters. You don’t get to act like you know everything, and then cry, But I didn’t know!"

–Goldberry Long, Juniper Tree Burning

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it. Mark Twain

Never hesitate to ride past the last street light at the edge of town.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." -Steven Wright

White Rabbit

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Recall Alice
When she was just small

When men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know

When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said;
"Feed Your Head,
Feed Your Head."

Somebody to Love

When the truth is found to be lies
And all the joy within you dies

(Chorus)
Don't you want somebody to love
Don't you need somebody to love
Wouldn't you love somebody to love
You better find somebody to love

When the garden's flowers, baby, are dead
Yes, and your mind, your mind is so full of red

(Chorus)

Your eyes, I say your eyes may look like his
Yeah but in your head, baby
I'm afraid you don't know where it is

(Chorus)

Tears are running, they're all running down your breast
And your friends, baby, they treat you like a guest

(Chorus)

"All Screwed Up"

'Transformers' actor Shia LaBeouf gave a shocking interview with Parade magazine saying his humor comes from "seeing my parents have sex, smoke weed, my mom being naked ... [and] twisted R-rated humor." The actor also answered questions regarding his breakup with longtime girlfriend China Brezner.

"The good actors are all screwed up. They're all in pain. It's a profession of bottom-feeders and heartbroken people," the actor told Parade.

Parade writer Dotson Rader describes Labeouf as "foul-mouthed, resentful, funny, prickly, quick-witted, and charming -- a package of contradictions."

LaBeouf told Rader he's uncertain as to why he broke things off with his longtime girlfriend after three years of dating, "Maybe it was career pressure. ... Maybe I chose work. Every man has those feelings of escape and survival. I know you shouldn't be that way. I'm trying to understand it and find the answers. I don't have them now."

He continued, "Why did the love of my life and I break up? ... Man, I have no idea. What was that all about? I have no answers to anything. None. Why am I an alcoholic? I haven't a damn clue! What is life about? I don't know."

For more with the 23-year-old actor, check him out in Parade magazine, in newspapers June 14. LaBeouf can also be seen in 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen', coming to theaters June 23.

I Heard of a Man

I heard of a man
who says words so beautifully
that if he only speaks their name
women give themselves to him.

If I am dumb beside your body
while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips.
it is because I hear a man climb stairs and clear his throat outside the door.


Leonard Cohen
From 'Let Us Compare Mythologies'

"When the only tool you own is a hammer,
every problem begins to resemble a nail."


Abraham Maslow

Love Will Remain My Master

Love Will Remain My Master

I promised you
I'd disappear in five minutes
without a place to go?
the rain still sheeting in the streets
no place of refuge anywhere?
The city's coffee bars define boredom,
where shall I embark on my own?
when you are the sea
the sails
and the journey
Is it possible for me to stay
another ten minutes
till the rain stops?
It's certain that I'll depart
after the clouds move on
and after the winds abate
Otherwise, I shall remain your guest
until morning.


Nizar Qabbani

Translated by L Jayyusi and J Reed

"It's so long since I've had sex, I've forgotten who ties up whom." .. Joan Rivers

Kerouac

How to Meditate

-lights out-
fall, hands a-clasped, into instantaneous
ecstasy like a shot of heroin or morphine,
the gland inside of my brain discharging
the good glad fluid (Holy Fluid) as
i hap-down and hold all my body parts
down to a deadstop trance-Healing
all my sicknesses-erasing all-not
even the shred of a “I-hope-you” or a
Loony Balloon left in it, but the mind
blank, serene, thoughtless. When a thought
comes a-springing from afar with its held-
forth figure of image, you spoof it out,
you spuff it off, you fake it, and
it fades, and thought never comes-and
with joy you realize for the first time
“thinking’s just like not thinking-
So I don’t have to think
any
more”

Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose garden.
-TS Eliot, Four Quartets, "Burnt Norton"

Bertrand Russell

'The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.'

"There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on." - Rod Serling

"Are You the New Person Drawn To Me?" --Walt Whitman

Are you the new person drawn toward me?
To begin with, take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose;
Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal?
Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover?
Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy’d satisfaction?
Do you think I am trusty and faithful?
Do you see no further than this façade, this smooth and tolerant manner of me?
Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man?
Have you no thought, O dreamer, that it may be all maya, illusion?

"A fanatic is a person who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
- Winston Churchill

“The world must be all fucked up,” he said then,“when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.”(Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

Dostoevsky by Charles Bukowski

against the wall, the firing squad ready.
then he got a reprieve.
suppose they had shot Dostoevsky?
before he wrote all that?
I suppose it wouldn't have
mattered
not directly.
there are billions of people who have
never read him and never
will.
but as a young man I know that he
got me through the factories,
past the whores,
lifted me high through the night
and put me down
in a better
place.
even while in the bar
drinking with the other
derelicts,
I was glad they gave Dostoevsky a
reprieve,
it gave me one,
allowed me to look directly at those
rancid faces
in my world,
death pointing its finger,
I held fast,
an immaculate drunk
sharing the stinking dark with
my
brothers

I couldn’t allow myself to think about her very long; if I had I would have jumped off the bridge. It’s strange. I had become so reconciled to this life without her, and yet if I thought about her only for a minute it was enough to pierce the bone and marrow of my contentment and shove me back again into the agonizing gutter of my wretched past.

–Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer






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" When I go mad,
I call my friends by phone:
I am afraid they might think
they're alone.

-----Theodore Roethke




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Lhasa de Sela

She's evidently been around a few years, but I've just discovered her!

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Oliver Messiaen on Birdsong in his Music

Another Guilty Pleasure ---just don't fool yourself!!

The Reality

"You can change your life by refusing to believe your own lies."

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