February 2012
31 posts
“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
– Virginia Woolf
“I like cigarettes… I like to think of fire held in a man’s hand. Fire, a...”
– Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Radiohead, Pyramid Song
“It was a strange world ahead that would unfold, a thunderhead of a world with...”
– Bob Dylan, Chronicles Volume One
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love...”
– Charles Bukowski
“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m...”
– Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same source I have not taken My sorrow; I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone; And all I loved, I loved alone. Then- in my childhood, in the dawn Of a most stormy life- was drawn From every depth of good and ill The mystery which...
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
– Jack Kerouac, Dharma Bums
January 2012
71 posts
“Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living.”
– Carl Jung (A Dangerous Method)
Watchresidentzoopolis:
Lily Yeh: Dandelion Project:
A five minute clip from the upcoming feature film The Barefoot Artist. Lily Yeh is a global artist who is fueled by a belief that art is a human right, and that artists can create a foundation for profound social change. Slight of frame, but large in spirit and vision, the 70-year-old artist was born in China, lives in Philadelphia, and now, as...
“What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not...”
– Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One
“The beauty of things must be that they end.”
– Jack Kerouac, Tristessa
“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
– Mark Twain
