couldn’t have said it better myself…

You should be cautious about knowing who I am. It irks me. To be known. It’s fucking impolite. To think you know someone. As if a someone is just so. “I know you!” Oh do you now? How about now?

You should be wary of names and photographs. They are liars. They freeze what wants to melt.

I have stared long into mirrors. I don’t know me. Why should you? I don’t pound out letters to find myself. Let’s burn that fucker down. I am not some butterfly pinned to a science project.

How do you get from moment to moment? Focus now. Shit. You missed it. You have to watch. Have you ever watched yourself from here to there? Focus hard enough and things get blurry.

A self is a product of blurred distinctions. But what of that blur? That’s where it’s at. You think you’re some thing but you’re not. You’re a bomb.

i just discovered the notorious bhj... better late than never.

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Tagged as: quotes,links,peoplewhokickass August 12, 2009 @ 12:33 am

if, by rudyard kipling

one of my favorite poems, in honor of national poetry month

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Tagged as: quotes,writing,poetry April 17, 2009 @ 12:45 pm

the wisdom book

i want this book.

“no one can teach me who i am.  you can describe parts of me, but who i am and what i need, these are things i have to find out myself.” - chinua achebe

“your best work is your expression of yourself.  now you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you’re the only expert in it.” - frank gehry

“love something.  i think we’ve got to learn to love something deeply.  i think it’s love.  it sounds sentimental as hell, but i really think it is.” - andrew wyeth

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Tagged as: art,books,quotes,videos February 26, 2009 @ 03:57 pm

check out kurt vonnegut’s motivational posters

see the rest of the set at sloshpot

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Tagged as: quotes February 24, 2009 @ 03:48 am

what i’m reading…

  from a review of the dresden files: “Harry Dresden, the series’ protagonist, is everything that’s great about the hardboiled anti-hero, with a twist: He’s a wizard trying to make a living working practical magic in a modern world that’s foolishly rejected the supernatural in favor of science and technology. Part average guy, part renaissance man, Harry’s got a dark side, a wicked sense of humor and a deeply rooted, personal code of honor that drives him to risk everything to fight the supernatural forces preying on his clients, an attitude that puts him at constant, dangerous odds with both the bad guys and the authorities alike.”

“there is no truer gauge of a man’s character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.” - harry dresden

they’re quick easy reads and by golly i love every one of ‘em. 

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Tagged as: books,quotes January 09, 2009 @ 05:32 am