While sleeping, watch.

This suits this.

"To be stupid, selfish and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."

"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."



- Gustave Flaubert

True Thomas Excerpt

O see ye not yon narrow road,
So thick beset wi’ thorns and briers?
That is the Path of Righteousness,
Though after it but few inquires.
‘And see ye not yon braid, braid road,
That lies across the lily leven?
That is the Path of Wickedness,
Though some call it the Road to Heaven.
‘And see ye not yon bonny road
That winds about the fernie brae?
That is the Road to fair Elfland,
Where thou and I this night maun gae.

Man...is above all the plaything of his memory.- Andre Breton

Sublime Frequencies

Amare amabam: nesciebam quid amarem. Te inveni.

I was in love with love.
I knew not what to love.
I found thee.

-St. Augustine.

1.[Speaking of Ludwig Wittgenstein]: "The most perfect example I have ever known of genius as traditionally conceived; passionate, profound, intense, and dominating."  - Bertrand Russell

2."Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness." -Ludwig Wittgenstein

Jive Turkey

Suave.

Goethe on orbit

Can you dare even to think of yourself in the midst of this eternally living order without then asserting itself within you too something that is in ceaseless motion and describes its orbit about a pure center?
And even if you were to find it difficult to locate this center within you, you would recognise it by the fact that a kind and soothing effect emanates from it and testifies to its existence.

-Wilhelm Meister's Journeyings

Shingo Christ

Jesus was buried in Japan.

Too soon?

"It's not the black side, it's not the white side...it's the interface, the edge."

More Nabokov

My picture book was at an early age
The painted parchment papering our cage:
Mauve rings around the moon, blood orange sun;
Twinned iris; and that rare phenomenon
The iridule- when, beautiful and strange,
In a bright sky above a mountain range
One opal cloudlet in an oval form
Reflects the rainbow of a thunderstorm
Which in a distant valley has been staged-
For we are most artistically caged.

-Nabokov, Pale Fire

I once had the opportunity to buy a hat emblazoned with the words "If you ain't a fisherman, you ain't shit.", but didn't.

Regret means this, and nothing more.

Dumitru Dan is the man.

Express your thought and not the surface of it.- Albert Pinkham Ryder

The Race Track (Death on a pale horse)

Sound advice from the wailing souls

Press play....don't fight it.

Audio(visual) indulgences

On the level heavy.

EDIT: Hearing this again too..

And this.

Joanica

Heard some long low melancholic rumbles forming chords at this subway station in Barcelona today.

Updaikus

Week in London done.
Had a great time, saw some saints.
TFL did well.

Madrid-bound tomo'.
26 hour coach journey.
Avoid DVT.

Miquiztli

...and here's the little fellow in action.
 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda

Heartily recommend the first 48 minutes of this.

Refs for the road

 

"And I'll turn down eternity unless
The melancholy and the tenderness
Of mortal life; the passion and the pain;
The claret taillight of that dwindling plane
Off hesperus; your gesture of dismay
On running out of cigarettes; the way
You smile at dogs; the trail of silver slime
Snails leave on flagstones; this good ink, this rhyme,
This index card, this slender rubber band
Which always forms, when dropped, an ampersand
Are found in Heaven by the newlydead,
Stored in its strongholds through the years.
                                                                      Instead..."

- Vladimir Nabokov

Moebius/Giraud

Ichthyoallyeinotoxism (hallucinogenic fish poisoning)

Terence McKenna

“We are told ‘no’, we’re unimportant, we’re peripheral. ‘Get a degree, get a job, get this, get that.’ And then you’re a player, but you don’t want to play in the game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.”
– Terence McKenna

Faust on emotional honesty.

The few of understanding, vision rare,
who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried,
poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare,
them have men always burnt and crucified.

Rend the books, lest your heart be rent asunder.

The unlikelihood of the real

King Sunny Ade

King Sunny Ade laying down headphone gold.

Ambling Alp

"For breakfast, Primo has a quart of orange juice, two quarts of milk, nineteen pieces of toast, fourteen eggs, a loaf of bread and half a pound of Virginia ham."

Parra

Schopenhauer on marriage

"Marrying means to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find an eel amongst an assembly of snakes."