On not worrying

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

- Matthew, 6:34

On sickness

how long can i contain
this wretched that no cure can tame
feel
it coursing through me still
never knew
that i
could be
so ill

- Pale Saints Hair Shoes

Tonight we'll stay alive

Don't you try to shoot up the sky, to shoot up the sky,
tonight,
we'll stay alive

- The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Stay Alive

Too late

Been meaning to tell you what I've been thinking of
You an me forever
Let's fall back in love

- Slow Club Let's Fall Back In Love

Philosophy by stealth

Parapsychology has no word for the uneasy feeling you have when you're in the presence of yourself. *

...

* Although, strictly speaking, humans feel it all the time.

- Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

More on being happy

There ought to be a prison for dudes who think they can make some happiness in this life.

Roast Beef, Achewood

Fly forever

Which arrow flies forever?
The arrow that has hit its mark.

- Vladimir Nabokov, A Russian Beauty

Sometimes it's better to let go

I said "How could he ever leave you?
You two were good, you were so right."
She said "I wish that he just left me;
He'd be alive, alive tonight."

St. Etienne, Like A Motorway

When I see the towers fall...

When I see the towers fall,
It cannot be denied that,
As a spectacle,
It is a realization of the mind.

- Shackleton, Blood On My Hands

All you need

All You Need Is Love Was Not True

- Xinlisupreme, All You Need Is Love Was Not True

Hope

You might sometimes think you're sinking, but I'll laugh and tell you it's just fine.

- Slowdive, Alison, as paraphrased by Isis.

You were the dawn

It's not that I can't go on without you
Got a lot of things to do
Busy, busy all the time
Still I can't stop thinking about you

- Electrelane, Birds

Schizophrenia, USA

It is clear that the appalling Abu Ghraib photographs were already intensely eroticised stagings whose scenarios were derived from cheap American pornography. Love and Napalm: Export USA, indeed. Part of the reason that the Abu Ghraib images were so traumatic for a deeply conflicted American culture which combines religious moralism with hyper-sexualised commerce, and which is united only by a taste for megaviolence, is that they exposed the equation between military intervention and sexual humiliation that the official culture both depends upon and must suppress.

- K-Punk

Kings were raw

Ray: How do you even get to be king, anyway?

Roast Beef: Just punch hell of suckers in the mouth and tell chicks straight up that you like them.

- Achewood

Where can you be, my love?

Your voice
was a satellite spinning next to me
now I can't hear
over the radio, someone said
A satellite just went down, into the sea

So I go
I fathom leagues
I am the undertow
I wait peacefully

So now I'm waiting for a signal or a sound
where can you be found now?
where can you be found now, my love
where can you be?
waiting for a signal or a sound

- TV on the Radio, Satellite

Epitaph

So listen, sweet Lord, forgive me my sins
'cause I can't stand this life without all of these things
I know I done wrong, I found heaven on Earth
I know I done wrong, but I could've done me worse

Jesus please meet me at the centre of the Earth
'cause these wings are gonna fail me, and I could've done me worse...

- Spacemen 3, Walking With Jesus

The rest of your life, aged 5

Philippe: Mr Bear, what will the rest of my life be like?

Cornelius Bear: Well, I suppose you'll enter grade school, were you'll preoccupy yourself with conspicuously eating only the most popular items. Then you'll go to college, where you'll form an experimental band that will do controversial things, like play in 15/23rd time and shower together. After college, you'll take a trip to the southern California desert, where you'll eat plants that your parents despise, and realise that you are fantastic. From there you'll attempt to write the great American novel, and support yourself if ways not of your choosing. Hopefully sooner rather than later you'll crack open a book that is older than Coca-Cola and realise that here, under the sun, there is nothing new left to be written. Once you recover, you can just rattle of what you like and sell it by the pound.

Philippe: Wow, I get to take a shower with a band? Totally cool!

- Achewood

When it all gets too much, part 2

I want nothing
Than to dissolve in the night and to feel direction no more.

- The Black Ghosts, I Want Nothing

When it all gets too much, part 1

Baby baby, ain't it true?
I'm immortal when I'm with you
But I want a pistol in my hand
I want to go to a different land

- PJ Harvey, Big Exit

Ray on comedy

Any good executive can spot a cokehead. A great one can make him a Belushi.

- Ray Smuckles, Achewood