My friends’ band Fictionist is competing to be on the cover of Rolling Stone. Go here to give them 5 stars: http://www.fictionist.com/rollingstone/xzp. Don’t wait - voting for this round ends on May 11!
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Mar
19
You’re a genius all the time
Be in love with your life
Something that you feel will find its own form
Be crazy dumbsaint of the mindIn tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
Accept loss forever
Believe in the holy contour of life
-Jack Kerouac
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Mar
19
Whenever people judge me for how much of my time I spend watching TV and horror movies I wonder if they’ve ever even been happy ever. EVER.
Joey Comeau
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Atmosphere - Yesterday
“…Or am I just going crazy ‘cause I miss you?”
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Mar
18
Mind = Blown
I started reading The Journal of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth Patchen today. Yes, yes, it blew my mind… but that seems to be putting it lightly. I found myself writing down excerpts practically every time I turned the page.
For the inquiring minds, here are some that stood out to me.
“Think enough and you won’t know anything.”
“People don’t want to be healed. They want a nice juicy wound that will show well when they put neon lights around it.”
“-the only escape from war is to become a soldier, to lose all touch with your own identity, to become part of one huge quivering mass of fear and horror-“
“The question is not: do we believe in God? but rather: does God believe in us? And the answer is: only an unbeliever could have created our image of God; and only a false God could be satisfied with it.”
“I have forgotten my mask and my face was in it.”
“Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you’d rather be doing anything else: and you’ve just done it.”
I have a feeling Kenneth Patchen and I have just embarked on a wonderful friendship.
