OctoberOct 26 Monday 09
I hope we don't hear Marley's chains we forged in life
Nothing like being in the midst of something, totally engrossed, totally focused, and not thinking about anything else in the world.... when suddenly something from the past shows up out of nowhere and knocks you flat on your butt. Kinda like those Stride Gum …
(via JimmyBond8's Xanga)
OctoberOct 8 Thursday 09
“I know I'm unlovable
You don't have to tell me
For message received
Loud and clear
Loud and clear
Message received
I don't have much in my life
But take it - it's yours”
The Smiths (Unlovable)
OctoberOct 6 Tuesday 09
Greatest Adult Swim Bump ever! ∞
“Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed”
Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)
OctoberOct 5 Monday 09
Once Upon a Time.... Crap hit the fan
Inspired by Knox's title, I thought I'd do my rambling about 'Once upon a time'. It is indeed a place where stories start. But I feel like its really more than that. If you just started with that and then told about a bunch of random everyday events, it …
(via JimmyBond8's Xanga)
SeptemberSep 15 Tuesday 09
Prophet? Seer? Aruspex? That black lady from the Matrix?
Ok, I'm probly not any of those. Besides, I can generally only pick out the bad things that are going to happen as they happen. I know this, because that's exactly what I've managed to do in the past. Many, many times.
Today, my auspex again came to be …
(via JimmyBond8's Xanga)
AugustAug 31 Monday 09
“This isn't who I am. From confidence to self doubt in 60 seconds.”
Bayside (They Looked Like Strong Hands)
“You said, 'Hello, do you have the time?'
Well, It's not mine for me to keep
You smiled and you said, 'Let me buy you a drink'
Well, I just can't trust a girl that does the buying”
Umbrellas (Angel or Demon)
“Let's call it off, let's take the memories and run
I'll be the villain, the man with the smoking gun
I guess this is goodbye!
So have a nice life!
See you at the replay lounge”
The New Amsterdams (Bad Liar)
“A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.”
Lois McMaster Bujold (A Civil Campaign)
“A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.”
John Updike (Assorted Prose)
“(Watching a riot in a South Korean congress)
It looks like someone is about to introduce a bill...
(Somebody throws a folder full of papers at the judge)
And there it is.”
Jon Stewart (The Daily Show)
“There will come a time in your life when you will become infatuated with a single soul. For this person you'd do anything and not think twice about it, but when asked why... you have no answer. You'll try your whole life to understand how a single person can affect you as much as they do, but you'll never find out. And, you'll love this person without regret, for the rest of your life.”
Anonymous
“Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.”
Dennis (Monthy Python & The Holy Grail)
“I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.”
Pietro Aretino
“It's all so complicated with the flowers and the romance and the lies upon lies!”
Dr. Zoidberg (Futurama)
“Morbo congratulates our gargantuan cyborg president. May death come quickly to his enemies!”
Morbo (Futurama)
“On Brian Wilson:
Pet Sounds is an unbelievable record. It's like classical music. Wonderful compositions, beautiful singing. I think the compositions stand up to any kind of interpretation. I've heard "Put Your Head On My Shoulder" played on the cello and it sounds like a piece music that's been with us for hundreds and hundreds of years. It sounds like it's always been there. And I think maybe in a hundred years' time people will be playing their songs on the piano trying to work out where they came from.”
Elvis Costello
“The two candidates were said to have spent the evening poring over the complex and detailed Supreme Court ruling. But whereas Gore was poring over it with his eyes and mind, Bush was pouring a glass of juice over it because, quote, "I don't want to finish my juice."”
Jon Stewart (The Daily Show)