April 2008
49 posts
Long-Awaited Baby Boomer Die-Off To Begin Soon,... →
(via jayparkinsonmd)
“Our nation must steel itself for one vast, final orgy of Boomer self-obsession as we are hit with a bewildering onslaught of magazine pictorials, hardcover coffee-table books and multi-part, Motown-soundtracked television specials looking back on the glory days of the 1960s…”
Obama Plays It Safe →
yawn.
Defrag
“…I think my deepest cracks are due to emotionally evading things throughout my life. That is, failing to admit that something made me happy, sad, jealous, scared, etc — failing to admit that and how something effected me…”
from this post by jakob lodwick
“Only one thing is left for those who do not wish to change their way of life,...”
– Tolstoy, about 20 years before the Russian Revolution. It definitely doesn’t apply to now, though. Not at all.
“…Planting a garden sounds pretty benign, I know, but in fact it’s one of...”
– Michael Pollen, in his great article Why Bother in the nytimes
“Film is often just business — I understand that and it’s not...”
– Krzysztof Kieslowski
emily dickinson re-MUX fo yo face →
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Lightweight SMS'ing with Jakob
jakob lodwick: The Wall might be some falsehood deep in your subconscious; undoing it might be a release more than a revelation. It might be meaningless when articulated because its demise is simply a decongestion.
ben dickinson: I think you have hit the nail on the head. It feels like I'm blowing the nose of my subconscious
jakob lodwick: We spend our lives building up a model of the universe, adding layers constantly, making sense of the new in terms of the old. The farther back in time a knot, the more faulty conclusions have been built upon it. If you don't give up, you will inevitably untie it.
ben dickinson: your model is quite useful and right in line with what my own insight has been telling me. thank you for the encouragement!
“Boredom is the other side of creativity.”
– “ON BEING GOD”
alan watts "on being god"
WOMAN: God, why do you hide from the sight of so many?
GOD: Why do YOU hide?
break on through
i can tell i’m breaking through because everyday i realize a new painful fact about myself!
lammer's muxtape kicks ass →
“I write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle, worrying...”
– David Foster Wallace on Charlie Rose
“Does it really take any considerable time or effort just to understand that you...”
– Alan Watts The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
“Nor will it do to confront the opposition in public with polite and non-violent...”
– Alan Watts The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Errol Morris talks with Werner Herzog →
(via lammer)
dualistic thinking...
…is a prison feedback loop
worshiping what’s good in me/hating what’s bad in me
cut that shit out, you idiot!
oh shit, there i go again.
“…The absolutely vital thing is to consolidate your understanding, become...”
– Alan Watts The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
“The ‘beat’ mentality as I am thinking of it is something much more...”
– Alan Watts being weirdly prescient in “Beat Zen, Square Zen, and Zen”, 1958.
Perspective
a couple both dressed in purple in a sunlight patch at the top of the hill.
when i pass them, they are less interesting up close.
Ego is a Tool
Use it to do the work
Then put it down.
old couple
eats every meal together
him busting out witticisms in between eager bites
and punctuates each with YEAH! or OK!
gosh i never heard so many wonderful opinions!
i encourage him-
-how were those olympic protests today, Harry?
YEAH! OK!
she listens or doesn’t listen
quietly. and then she laughs and says something simple
and he looks at her smiling and starry-eyed
still in love
...
Philip Glass wrote an opera about Ghandi? →
old world
the whole human family was getting cold
we shared our secrets on the internet
but we lied to the ones we shared our beds with
we were flipped around
and we pretended not to notice each other on the street
and every time you went outside it was like a divorce hearing
like a guy said to me in a hardware store in bushwick when i was stoned
“it’s like you can’t even say good...
Should I Get Married?
“…God what a husband I’d make! Yes, I should get married!
So much to do! like sneaking into Mr Jones’ house late at night
and cover his golf clubs with 1920 Norwegian books
Like hanging a picture of Rimbaud on the lawnmower
like pasting Tannu Tuva postage stamps all over the picket fence
like when Mrs Kindhead comes to collect for the Community Chest
grab her and tell...
“It is no longer the choice between violence and non-violence in this world. ...”
– MLK, the day before he was shot. via janicza
Human Being #2
in the morning i go running. at night i smoke cigarettes.
Human Being
The only thing i seem to like more than feeling really good is feeling really bad.
“Where the leader himself becomes a servant, there are no rival claimants for...”
– Gandhi
my west coast salvation muxtape →
“We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about...”
– CS Lewis, Screwtape Letters