December 2009
24 posts
“What moron said that knowledge is power? Knowledge is power only if it doesn’t depress you so much that it leaves you in an immobile heap at the end of your bed.”
—Paula Poundstone
You Are Never Alone
Vic Chesnutt
“You Are Never Alone” - Vic Chesnutt
What for you then is the purpose of life? What makes it worthwhile for you to be here?
What makes me tick is maybe not what I think we’re here on this Earth to do. I’m sure that the meaning of life is to raise yourself to adulthood and procreate. That’s it. Self-preservation and preservation of the family unit. That is it. There is no other meaning. The rest is just frivolous entertainment or distraction.
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You fall in love with the places that you’re from. But then you grow older, and maybe you spend some time in a place that you don’t like. For all I know, you’re there right now.
If you were, you wouldn’t tell anybody, because that’s not hip; if you run down where you live, then you’re a dick. But at the same time, you’re not gonna love every place you live, and you’re dishonest—which is worse than being a dick—if you say, “Oh, yeah, I love every place I’ve fucking lived.” No, you don’t.
Sometimes you go someplace, and you feel that the air and the trees and the people and the streets, they’re all coming up against you, they’re all sort of like snakes, winding themselves around your ankles, trying to keep you in a place that’s neither nourishing your spirit nor feeding your heart.
And you think to yourself, “I have to get out of here,” and every time you think that, it’s like the snakes coil themselves a little tighter around your ankle. And you think, “Jesus Christ, I need a drink. I have to have a drink. I have to get out of this marriage. I can’t stand this anymore.”
And then the other person says, “You know you’re saying that shit out loud?”
” —John Darnielle
Sexy Santa
Bess & Andrew (Feat. Toby Goodshank)
“Sexy Santa” - Bess Rogers & Andrew Futral (Feat. Toby Goodshank)
Speechless.
“Apparently orgasm is the only point where your mind becomes completely empty – you think of nothing for that second. That’s why it’s so compelling – it’s a tiny taste of death. Your mind is void – you have nothing in your head save white light. Nothing save that white light and ‘YES!’ – which is fantastic. Just knowing ‘Yes.’”
—Jeff Buckley
“Let’s be shameless. Be greedy. Pursue pleasure. Avoid pain. Wear and touch and eat and drink what we feel like. Tolerate other women’s choices. Seek out the sex we want and fight fiercely against the sex we do not want. Choose our own causes. And once we break through and change the rules so our sense of our own beauty cannot be shaken, sing it and dress it up and flaunt it and revel in it: in a sensual politics, female is beautiful.”
—Naomi Wolf
“There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.”
—Charles Baudelaire
“A heart that is open to the world must be willing to be broken at any time.”
—Stephen Cope
“Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and then when you get a good angle, you throw it through a window to see what happens.”
—John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats
“We feel safest when we can communicate, no matter what.”
—Amanda fucking Palmer
Time To Pretend
MGMT
“Time to Pretend” - MGMT
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“This is just shit. It’s happening. No blame. Happening and on the rise it would appear. What can we do to delay it? Probably zilch. To stop it? Likely less. But to survive it? Now that sounds more promising. There is evidence of bad shit having been survived before. Ancient Advice Left in cave by Wise French Caveman: ‘When Bigbad Shit come, no run scream hide. Try paint picture of it on wall. Drum to it. Sing to it. Dance to it. This give you handle on it.’”
—Ken Kesey