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“To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles… ” (Shakespeare)

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Skip James | Cypress Grove Blues | 1931

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You frequently state, and in your letter you imply, that I have developed a completely one-sided outlook and look at everything in terms of science. Obviously my method of thought and reasoning is influenced by a scientific training – if that were not so my scientific training will have been a waste and a failure. But you look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralizing invention of man, something apart from real life, and which must be cautiously guarded and kept separate from everyday existence. But science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated. Science, for me, gives a partial explanation of life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment. Your theories are those which you and many other people find easiest and pleasantest to believe, but so far as I can see, they have no foundation other than they leaf to a pleasanter view of life (and an exaggerated idea of our own importance)... I agree that faith is essential to success in life (success of any sort) but I do not accept your definition of faith, i.e. belief in life after death. In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall come nearer to success and that success in our aims (the improvement of the lot of mankind, present and future) is worth attaining. Anyone able to believe in all that religion implies obviously must have such faith, but I maintain that faith in this world is perfectly possible without faith in another world… It has just occurred to me that you may raise the question of the creator. A creator of what? ... I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our significant race in a tiny corner of the universe, and still less in us, as still more significant individuals. Again, I see no reason why the belief that we are insignificant or fortuitous should lessen our faith – as I have defined it.

Rosalind Franklin

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There are certain hours of the night when I wake to the sound of a train. It roars right through my apartment. At times, it feels as if it will lift me out of bed. All that earsplitting thunder and then silence. I’m alone. I’m very much alone in a city that at times makes people feel old and used. But I am somehow lucky. Even during the darkest hour I always manage to pull through.

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America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing. America two dollars and twenty-seven cents January 17, 1956. I can’t stand my own mind. America when will we end the human war? Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb I don’t feel good don’t bother me. I won’t write my poem till I’m in my right...

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BEFORE MIDNIGHT is now playing in wide release. 

apparently i liked it. 

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The Pool Repairman

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♡

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There’s a sadness about looking back when you get to the end: a sadness that waits at the end of the street, a cigaret that glows with the glow of sadness and a cop in a yellow raincoat who says It’s late, it’s late, it’s sadness. And it’s a sadness what they’ve done to the women I loved: they...

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Magician Woody

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Neil Young / Harvest Moon

When we were strangers, I watched you from afar. When we were lovers, I loved you with all my heart. 

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how badly I want to take a road trip on Route 66

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SXSW POSTER: “Maidentrip”

one of my favorite things about SXSW (and there are many) is that they always pay particular attention to poster design. if you walk around the convention center floor, it’s nearly impossible to miss the giant gallery of *gorgeous* one-sheets for the films playing at the fest, and it looks like 2013 will continue that proud tradition. via Badass Digest, here’s the first promo art for “Maidentrip,” a documentary about Laura Dekker, the Dutch teenager who sailed across the Pacific Ocean. by herself. and here i was being all proud about that sweetly timed subway transfer i made this morning.

the official synopsis:

“Born on a boat and raised in shipyards, Laura Dekker grew up with one dream: to sail around the world alone. At thirteen, her daring plot sparked resistance from Dutch authorities and a global storm of media scrutiny. A year later, she won the right to set sail. Now, far from land, family, and unwanted attention, Laura spends her pivotal teenage years exploring the world alone in search of freedom, adventure, and lost childhood dreams. Jillian Schlesinger’s debut feature amplifies Laura’s brave, defiant voice through a mix of Laura’s own video and voice recordings at sea and intimate vérité footage from locations including the Galapagos Islands, French Polynesia, Australia, and South Africa.”

FILM.COM

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People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality, their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain

Jim Morrison Emphasis "It's all in how you carry it..."