QUOTES FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER
dec7: "That's the way I comm." - Miguel San Luis, ;]
dec7: "Ayaw nila yung natural." - Klaudine Leano, her answer when I asked her why in the world did flavored condoms have to be invented
dec15: "Akiro Kurosawa is a world-class artist. He does not speak English. Pedro Almodovar does all his films in Spanish. He is a world-class artist. Kris Aquino speaks perfect English but she has no class." - Herbert Go, or is it Co?
dec16: "Loss has a wider choice of directions/ Than the other thing" - a poem, where did I find this?
dec26: "It doesn't matter for crap that you've got three years of sobriety or that you finally look good in a two-piece bathing suit or you've met that perfect someone and you've fallen deeply, wildly, passionately in love. Today, as you pick up your dry cleaning, fax those reports, fold your laundry, or wash the dinner dishes, something you'd never expect is already stalking you." - Chuck Plalahniuk, from Rant
dec27: "Backstage, I would beat her up." - Joy Chiong (10 year-old kid), this is what she'd do to Sarah Geronimo if she even tried to sing a single line from Avenue Q, love it!
dec29: "Behaving -undetectably-as what is expected of one is also a protection against fear of what one really is, now."
"He passes a hand over her damp breasts, gives a lazy sigh, and is asleep on his back. Would he have wanted to take her nipples in his mouth, commit himself to love-making, if he hadn't fallen asleep, or was his a gesture from the wings just in case the audience might catch a glimpse of a slump to an off-stage presence?"
"The prisoner holds the hand of his pale girl with her big nervously-exposed teeth; no beauty, all love. The last place to look for love is in beauty, beauty is only a skin, the creature's own or that of another animal, over what decays."
- Nadine Gordimer, from Spoils
dec31: "I see a reflection of a samurai in the glass of a painting and I come to Japan- reason is discarded & I'm just going where the voices of the moment seem to send me. I'm the barbarian stalking the temples of Kyoto for long-departed wisdom; I wallow in the aesthetics hoping that they purify the beholder./ These are my introspective whimperings. I'm a self-indulgent child- why can't I grow up? I ask that sincerely." - Griffin to Sabine, April 5th
"Two days out from the Solomons we were hit by a freak wave and I was catapulted overboard. I don't swim, and I went straight down, but I didn't panic, which was strange. I could see sunlight making exquisite patterns on the water's surface above me. everything seemed fascinating and very slow. All around me lionfish darted like golden suns and moons in an alchemist's dream. I looked down to where a vast labyrinth of black seaweed awaited me. An intense misery swelled over me. It was then that I saw, or thought I saw, something quite impossible. Striding through the water and towards the labyrinth came my samurai. He turned and looked towards me, and I stopped falling and became aware of a moment of choice- I could go up or down. I thought of all your trust and patience wasted." - Griffin to Sabine, July 4th
- Nick Bantock, from Sabine's Notebook: In Which The Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues
On to 2008....
dec7: "Ayaw nila yung natural." - Klaudine Leano, her answer when I asked her why in the world did flavored condoms have to be invented
dec15: "Akiro Kurosawa is a world-class artist. He does not speak English. Pedro Almodovar does all his films in Spanish. He is a world-class artist. Kris Aquino speaks perfect English but she has no class." - Herbert Go, or is it Co?
dec16: "Loss has a wider choice of directions/ Than the other thing" - a poem, where did I find this?
dec26: "It doesn't matter for crap that you've got three years of sobriety or that you finally look good in a two-piece bathing suit or you've met that perfect someone and you've fallen deeply, wildly, passionately in love. Today, as you pick up your dry cleaning, fax those reports, fold your laundry, or wash the dinner dishes, something you'd never expect is already stalking you." - Chuck Plalahniuk, from Rant
dec27: "Backstage, I would beat her up." - Joy Chiong (10 year-old kid), this is what she'd do to Sarah Geronimo if she even tried to sing a single line from Avenue Q, love it!
dec29: "Behaving -undetectably-as what is expected of one is also a protection against fear of what one really is, now."
"He passes a hand over her damp breasts, gives a lazy sigh, and is asleep on his back. Would he have wanted to take her nipples in his mouth, commit himself to love-making, if he hadn't fallen asleep, or was his a gesture from the wings just in case the audience might catch a glimpse of a slump to an off-stage presence?"
"The prisoner holds the hand of his pale girl with her big nervously-exposed teeth; no beauty, all love. The last place to look for love is in beauty, beauty is only a skin, the creature's own or that of another animal, over what decays."
- Nadine Gordimer, from Spoils
dec31: "I see a reflection of a samurai in the glass of a painting and I come to Japan- reason is discarded & I'm just going where the voices of the moment seem to send me. I'm the barbarian stalking the temples of Kyoto for long-departed wisdom; I wallow in the aesthetics hoping that they purify the beholder./ These are my introspective whimperings. I'm a self-indulgent child- why can't I grow up? I ask that sincerely." - Griffin to Sabine, April 5th
"Two days out from the Solomons we were hit by a freak wave and I was catapulted overboard. I don't swim, and I went straight down, but I didn't panic, which was strange. I could see sunlight making exquisite patterns on the water's surface above me. everything seemed fascinating and very slow. All around me lionfish darted like golden suns and moons in an alchemist's dream. I looked down to where a vast labyrinth of black seaweed awaited me. An intense misery swelled over me. It was then that I saw, or thought I saw, something quite impossible. Striding through the water and towards the labyrinth came my samurai. He turned and looked towards me, and I stopped falling and became aware of a moment of choice- I could go up or down. I thought of all your trust and patience wasted." - Griffin to Sabine, July 4th
- Nick Bantock, from Sabine's Notebook: In Which The Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues
On to 2008....