October 2011
1 post
September 2011
3 posts
“Well, as Jean-Paul Sartre says in Barlett’s Familiar Quotations, “Hell is other people.”
—Hocus Pocus, Kurt Vonnegut
1 tag
“A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life”
by David Foster Wallace
When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces.
The man who’d introduced them didn’t much like either of them, though he acted...
August 2011
3 posts
Voyager
Seriously, there is so much Deus Ex Machina in this show. Who let these writers get away with this…?
Hey Tumblr.
I’m Back!
November 2010
1 post
“I see you, and I know that my dreams are right, right a thousand times over, just as your dreams are. It is life and reality that are wrong. I understand it only too well, your dislike of politics, your despondence over the chatter and antics of the parties and the press, your despair over the war, the one that has been and the one that is to be, over all that people think, read, and...
September 2010
2 posts
2 tags
“The Undiscovered Self” by Carl Jung
Holy shit!
from amazon:
Together for the first time in one paperback volume are two of Jung’s major late works, in the version published in The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, as rendered by Jung’s official translator. “The Undiscovered Self” (1957) integrates many of Jung’s lifelong social and psychological...
August 2010
5 posts
2 tags
Creativity and Culture.
Why are our cultures boundaries so rigidly defined? Many people seem to have this (wrong) idea about their place within the creative culture, an unspoken assumption about their relationship as simply consumers to be filled with the product that the producers offer to us as entertainment. Culture is not simply monologue, to be spoon fed to us by the television, magazines or our favorite blog, but...
simplicity and reinvention.
With the realization that within a few days most of everything on my vision board (my cork board where I post personal goals, projects i would like to see completed, etc) will be fulfilled, I’ve realized that it is time to take stock and move forward. I know that I need to visualize where I would like to see myself in one years time or else run the risk of a loss of direction and stagnation,...
Two Snaps
18+ miles, Medford to Jacksonville and around.
I made this track today. It’s my first...
July 2010
2 posts
June 2010
2 posts
Summer Reading List 2010 Edition
Summer officially kicks off with the completion of my Tai Chi Final tomorrow. Time to get thinking about what to read.
The Portable Atheist- Edited by Christopher Hitchens
Being and Nothingness- Jean Paul Sartre
On The Road- Jack Kerouac
Beyond Good and Evil- Friedrich Nietzche
Nine Stories- J.D. Salinger
The Undiscovered Self- Carl Jung
Galapagos- Kurt Vonnegut
The Teachings of Don Juan-...
Isis has the coolest merch ever.
Yeah. Thats a Pint Glass.
Yeah. That says “nothing is true. everything is permitted.”
Yeah. Totally gonna drink out of it errrrryday…
May 2010
7 posts
Giving a home to a couple pictures from the last...
Outside of Casa Amigo, right before it was apparently robbed. As we left about 3 cop cars pulled in lights-a-flashin’
Christopher, in an early morning coffee run.
Buddhist Scripture
11. The defeat of Mara
Because the great Sage, the scion of a line of royal seers, had made his vow to win emancipation, and had seated himself in the effort to carry it out, the whole world rejoiced - but Mara, the inveterate foe of the true Dharma, shook with fright. People address him gladly as the God of Love, the one who shoots with flower-arrows, and yet they dread this Mara as the one who...
April 2010
2 posts
Naked Lunch
“Mohammed? Are you kidding? He was dreamed up by the Mecca Chamber of Commerce.”
-William S. Burroughs
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
“She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, “I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.”
-Haruki Murakami
March 2010
7 posts
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
But now we have with us some concepts that greatly alter the whole understanding of things. Quality is the Buddha. Quality is scientific reality. Quality is the goal of Art. It remains to work these concepts into a practical, down-to-earth context, and for this there is nothing more practical or down-to-earth than what I have been talking about all along… the repair of an old motorcycle.
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Das Energi
Refuse to have anything to do with any thing (like a nation or person or corporation) that seeks to grow wealthier rather than healthier, larger rather than truer. Do nothing to contribute to that cancerous growth.
Isolate it. Let it die.
-Paul Williams
Tale of a Tub
each day demands we create our whole world over,
disguising the constant horror in a coat
of many-colored fictions; we mask our past
in the green of Eden, pretend future's shining fruit
can sprout from the navel of this present waste.
-Sylvia Plath
“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.”
– Frank Zappa
“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since...”
– Ernest Hemingway
Belief and Technique for Modern Prose by Jack...
Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
Submissive to everything, open, listening
Try never get drunk outside yr own house
Be in love with yr life
Something that you feel will find its own form
Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
Blow as deep as you want to blow
Write what you want bottomless from bottom of mind
The unspeakable visions of the individual
No...
My band’s first recorded output. Give it a...
February 2010
7 posts
Walden
It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really hear and understand, would be more salutary than the morning or the spring to our lives, and possibly put a new aspect on the face of things for us. How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!
-Henry David Thoreau
Caddyshack
Carl Spackler: So I jump ship in Hong Kong and I make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas.
Angie D’Annunzio: A looper?
Carl Spackler: A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I’m a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald…...
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Unless you’re fond of hollering you don’t make great conversations on a running cycle. Instead you spend your time being aware of things and meditating on them…thinking about things at great leisure and length without being hurried and without feeling your’e losing time.
What I would like to do is use the time that is coming now to talk about some things that have come to mind. We’re in such a...
Heads Will Ache
A heart that craves doesn’t have to stay that way.
Just let some things go. in time, you’ll find needing things only kills you slowly.
-Mike Kinsella.
Daisy
Well if we take all these things and we bury them fast And we’ll pray that they turn to seeds, to roots and then grass It’d be all right, it’s all right, it’d be easier that way Or if the sky opened up and started pouring rain Like you knew he was trying to start things over again It’d be all right, it’s all right, it’d be easier that way
-Jesse Lacey
Never Been Born
These old bones don’t feel so old when I’m home with you.
When I’m not with you, I’m getting drunk with college kids, learning lessons that didn’t stick, telling lies to stay interesting.
These old bones don’t feel so old when I’m home with you. In bed with your youth, they way your skin sticks to your ribs, the way my hips fit in your hips, I’m 18 again, dependent like an infant and content...
August 2009
4 posts
climb every mountain
The longer I teach, the more I am impressed with one unassailable fact: most of what becoming good or great on the guitar is about has nothing to do with “musical ability”. It has everything to do with that group of qualities loosely spoken of as “character”. When I was 16 years old, I met a friend who enabled me to put an end to my desperate search for a classical...
I got inspired around 11:30 AM.
By about 11:30...
“Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a...”
– Henry David Thoreau
July 2009
6 posts
