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I despise modern music. Words cannot express how much it gets on my nerves – the false, pretentious, smug assertiveness of it. I hate business, having to deal with money. Money is one of the most hateful inventions of the human race. I hate the commodity culture, in which everything is bought and sold. No stone is left unturned. I hate the mass media, and how passively people suck up to it.” — Mr. R. Crumb
But whereas a girl of nineteen draws her confidence from a surfeit of attention, a woman of twenty-nine is nourished on subtler stuff. Desirous, she chooses her apéritifs wisely, or, content, she enjoys the caviare of potential power. Happily she does not seem, in either case, to anticipate the subsequent years when her insight will often be blurred by panic, by the fear of stopping or the fear of going on. But on the landings of nineteen or twenty-nine she is pretty sure that there are no bears in the hall.”
— Mr. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
““I will remember your small room, the feel of you, the light in the window, your records, your books, our morning coffee, our noons, our nights, our bodies spilled together, sleeping, the tiny flowing currents, immediate and forever. Your leg, my leg, your arm, my arm, your smile and the warmth of you who made me laugh again.””
- Mr. Charles Bukowski
A lot of people judge music by seeing what other kind of people like that kind of music, and then deciding if they like those kind of people.
-Mr. Diamond David Lee Roth
Everything i’ve got I stole off somebody. You hear something you love, and you make it your own - either because you can play it or because you can’t. You kind of put your own stink on it. - Mr. Red Volkaert
I forget the names
of towns without rivers.
A town needs a river
to forgive the town,
whatever river, whatever town-
It is much the same.
The cruel things I did,
I took to the river.
I begged the river:
Make me better.
-Mr. Richard Hugo
“The towns we know and leave behind,
the rivers we carry with us.”
This is General Curtis Goatheart. If you are viewing this film, then we are under extraterrestrial attack. Beware- your brain may no longer be the boss! If you are beginning to doubt what I am saying, you are probably hallucinating. Listen carefully!
What to do if an alien appears! ONE!
Drop beneath the seat of your plane and look away.
TWO!
Avoid eye contact.
THREE!
If there are no eyes, avoid ALL contact.
How to identify alleged sightings:
ONE!
Pie plates, or as reflections in the atmosphere.
TWO!
Dry cleaning bags filled with marsh gas, or…
THREE!
Mass insanity!
God was making men and every now and then He would do a job on one and say, “This one won’t do,” and He would toss it in a tub He kept there, maybe not even finished with it, And finally, 6 April 1862, the tub got full and God emptied it right out of heaven and they landed here, along this road, tumbled down in all positions, some without arms and legs, some with their heads and bodies split open where they hit the ground so hard. - Mr. Shelby Foote, “Shilo”
We Americans love to think ourselves innocent of the tragedies - personal and public - that the past and our compulsions have visited upon us, all of us. Most of all we want to be innocent of how much the ghosts and bones of our beautiful landscape have shaped and twisted virtually everything that has happened here; and we want to remain ignorant of how costly our innocence is to our governments, our communities and our hearts. In Mississippi I wandered among some of those ghosts and bones, and it is my great lesson to learned to stop trying to evade and forget what I have seen and heard and understood and now must know, but rather to embrace the ghosts and cradle the bones and call them my own. - Mr. Anthony Walton
I only think a work of art is dangerous if it falls on top of you and squashes you - Mr. Jake Chapman
