June 2011
26 posts
“There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven’t noticed already.”
—The Illuminatus! Trilogy
Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson (via willuminati)
Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson (via willuminati)
“I think it’s interesting the two drugs that are legal - alcohol and cigarettes, two drugs that do absolutely nothing for you at all - are legal, and the drugs that might open your mind up to realise how you’re being fucked every day of your life? Those drugs are against the law. Coincidence? See, I’m glad mushrooms are against the law, cos I took ‘em one time, you know what happened to me? I laid in a field of green grass for four hours, going, ‘My God, I love everything.’ Yeah, now if that isn’t a hazard to our countries…How are we gonna justify arms dealing if we know we’re all one?”
—Bill Hicks (via likethesun)
Straight to the Top (Vegas)
Tom Waits
“Straight to the Top (Vegas)” - Tom Waits & Greg Cohen
“This last eclipse in Cancer asks us to sacrifice and devour those stories that no longer serve us. Through this strange act of auto-cannibalization, we will be made whole again. Weakness devoured becomes strength- the strength to begin again.”
—Austin Coppock
We Found Each Other in the Dark
City and Colour
We Found Each Other in the Dark - City and Colour
Yesterday, I received this text: “Ah, long day at work. BUT i just bought two tickets to see City and Colour in november. I think it’d be fun to bring someone special along ;-)”
And that special someone is me. I am very excited.
“Olive Garden? That. Is. Not. Italian. Food. It may sound Italian, but so does chlamydia. That’s not any good, either.”
—Bourdain Ruminates In Springfield - A La Carte Dining Blog — CTnow.com (via rexineffex)
“Only a shipwrecked person who has just escaped drowning could understand the psychology of someone who breaks out in laughter just because he is able to breathe.”
—Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
(via aperfectcommotion)
(via aperfectcommotion)
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Misirlou | Dick Dale & His Del-Tones
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!”
—Hunter S. Thompson
Tom Waits - Sea Of Love
Tom Waits’s rendition of “Sea of Love”
“No good you say? Well, that’s good enough for me. You’re the same kind of bad as me.”
—Tom Waits
“Revolution comes in the strangest way.”
—David Bowie, We Prick You
“We are not children of celestial fuckin’ light, walkin’ arm-in-arm into the Age of Aquarius. We are wankers who wreck the planet an’ piss on each other, ‘til half the world’s starvin’ an’ the other half’s busy findin’ new ways to keep from noticin’ it. That’s the fuckin’ limit’ve our potential, believe me.”
—John Constantine (via whispersfromtheothers)
