Quoteworthy

"You can always tell gifted and highly intelligent people as they always turn to the past. Any young person who knows anything that happened before 1980, or 1990, or 2000 for that matter, is immediately someone who is intelligent, probably creative, maybe a writer. Nobody who is drawn to the past and learning about the past is not gifted."
-Mike Nichols 1931-2014












Now Playing: "All The Days" by HAERTS

National Poetry Day

"We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the Sun has become disgusted with waiting."
-Charles Bukowski

"Iron Sky" by Paolo Nutini (Live)

"Iron Sky"

We are proud individuals living on the city,
But the flames couldn’t go much higher.
We find God and religions too,
To paint us with salvation.
But no one,
No nobody,
Can give you the power,

To rise over love,
And over hate,
Through this iron sky,
That’s fast becoming our minds.
Over fear and into freedom.

Oh, that’s life
That’s dripping down the walls
Of a dream that cannot breathe
In this harsh reality
Mass confusion spoon fed to the blind
Serves now to define our cold society

From which we’ll rise over love,
Over hate,
From this iron sky,
That’s fast becoming our minds.
Over fear and into freedom.

You just got to hold on!
You just got to hold on!

Ohhh ohhhh oh oh

(To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair.
The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed,
the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die,
and the power they took from the people will return to the people.
And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men –
machine men with machine minds and machine hearts!
You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men!
You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful,
to make this life a wonderful adventure
Let us use that power!
Let us all unite!)

And we’ll rise over love,
And over hate,
Through this iron sky,
That’s fast becoming our minds
Over fear,
Into freedom.
Into freedom!

From which we’ll rise over love,
And over hate,
Through this iron sky,
That’s fast becoming our minds.
Over fear and into freedom.
Freedom!

Oh!
Rain on me!
Rain on me!
Rain on me!

Quoteworthy

"At that instant he saw, in one blaze of light, an image of unutterable conviction, the reason why the artist works and lives and has his being--the reward he seeks--the only reward he really cares about, without which there is nothing. It is to snare the spirits of mankind in nets of magic, to make his life prevail through his creation, to wreak the vision of his life, the rude and painful substance of his own experience, into the congruence of blazing and enchanted images that are themselves the core of life, the essential pattern whence all other things proceed, the kernel of eternity."
-Thomas Wolfe 1900-1938












Now Playing: "(At) The End (of a Rainbow)" by Earl Grant

Quoteworthy

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” 
-Vladimir Nabokov 1899-1977















Now Playing: "Video Games" by Lana Del Rey
*I admit that this is one of my favorite songs of the past few years.

Quoteworthy

“It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.”
-L.M. Montgomery 1874-1942













Now Playing: "Still" by jj

Quoteworthy

"Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky- all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it."
-Cesare Pavese 1908-1950














Now Playing: "Let Her Go" by Peer Kusiv (Passenger Remix)

Quoteworthy

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
-W.B. Yeats 1865-1939











Now Playing: "Come A Little Closer" by Cage The Elephant

Quoteworthy

"The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on."
-Chuck Palahniuk













Now Playing: "Magic Light" by Wampire
*One of my favorite and most-played songs of the year.

Quoteworthy

“For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir their veins? No: the night wind. What ticks in their head? The worm. What speaks from their mouth? The toad. What sees from their eye? The snake. What hears with their ear? The abyss between the stars. They sift the human storm for souls, eat flesh of reason, fill tombs with sinners. They frenzy forth.... Such are the autumn people.” 
-Ray Bradbury 1920-2012











Now Playing: "I Summon You" by Spoon

Quoteworthy

“We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.” 
-Thích Nhất Hạnh







Now Playing: "Strange Magic" by Electric Light Orchestra

Quoteworthy

"It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colors, a richer resonance to our words."
-Anne Rice








Now Playing: "There's A Sadness In My Heart" by Legs
*Great song for the month!

Quoteworthy

“There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man ... a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination.” 
-Rod Serling 1924-1975














Now Playing: "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" by The Temptations
*This is one of the earliest songs I remember listening to. 

Quoteworthy

"What exactly is the free world, anyway? I guess it would depend on what you consider the non-free world. And I can't find a clear definition of that, can you? Where is that? Russia? China? For chrissakes, Russia has a better Mafia than we do now, and China is pirating Lion King DVDs and selling dildos on the Internet. They sound pretty free to me. Here are some more jingoistic variations you need to be on the lookout for; "The greatest nation on Earth; the greatest nation in the history of the world"; and "the most powerful nation on the face of the Earth." That last one is usually thrown in just before we bomb a bunch of brown people. Which is every couple of years." 
-George Carlin 1937-2008












Now Playing: "Just Ain't Easy" by The Allman Brothers

Quoteworthy

"We know little of the things for which we pray."
-Geoffrey Chaucer 1343-1400











Now Playing: "The Letter" by The Box Tops

Quoteworthy

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.” 
-George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950












Now Playing: "Pictures of You" by The Cure

Quoteworthy: Charles Bukowski, 1920-1994

Now Playing: "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want" by The Smiths

Quoteworthy

“It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.” 
-Nick Hornby









Now Playing: "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison
*I like to sing "Krista, Krista" because I'm a lyrical purist and all.

Quoteworthy: Roger Ebert

"What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: curious and teachable."
-Roger Ebert 1942-2013










Now Playing: "That's What's Up" by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

Quoteworthy: Dorothy Parker 1893-1967

Now Playing: Coast to Coast AM

*EVPs!

Quoteworthy

"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
-Saul Bellow 1915-2005















Now Playing: "The Fall" by Rhye