the big 1-9. yesterday all of my coworkers were asking how it felt to be 21. i said i'd let them know in two years.

aaah, my last hear of teenhood. WATCH OUT! IMMA GO CRAZY!

     "It's good at first to be out in the night, naked to the cold mechanics of the stars. Space hurls outward, falconswift, mounting like an irreversible injustice, a final disease. The cold night air is reality at last: indifferent to me as a stone face carved on a high cliff wall to show that the world is abandoned. So childhood too feels good ( Read more... )

'Humanity takes itself too seiously. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different."

The Picture of Dorian Gray

on a completely different note: SPICE GIRLS REUNION! WOOOOOH!! should be playing in LA in December. *i hope i go, i hope i go*

The artist is the creator of beautiful things.
   To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
   The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.
   The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. 
   Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt ( Read more... )

i finally watched the rocky horror picture show... and i can't stop doing the time warp and singing "sweet transexual". it could be my new favorite movie, and tim curry is definately one of my new favorite actors. now my perspective of all the movies he's been in has completely changed.

it's just a jump to the left
a then a step to the right
with ( Read more... )

"...It was not 'the nature of men, but the education of men' that made them [the Indians] 'barbarous and uncivil'."

From: Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror. 1993. Little, Brown & Co.
"The 'Tempest' in the Wilderness: The Rationalization of Savegery"

"To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without the virtue in the ( Read more... )

My my my it's a beautiful world
I like swimming in the sea
I like to go out beyond the white breakers
Where a man can still be free (or a woman if you are one)
I like swimming in the sea.

My my my it's a beautiful world
I like drinking Irish tea
With a bit of lapsang souchong
I like making my own tea.

My my my it's a beautiful world
I like driving my car
Roll ( Read more... )

Just a small town girl, livin in a lonely world
She took the midnight train goin anywhere
Just a city boy, born and raised in South Detroit
He took the midnight train going anywhere

A singer in a smokey room
A smell of wine and cheap perfume
For a smile they can share the night
It goes on and on and on and on

Strangers waiting, up and down the boulevard
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there was a decorated general with ( Read more... )

It ended on the beach
It ended with a hulk of serpents formed into a boat
& when he'd made it, sat in it & sailed away
A boat that glided on those burning waters, no one knowing when he 
     reached the country of Red Daylight
It ended on the rim of some great sea
It ended with his face reflected in the mirror of its waves
The beauty of his face returned ( Read more... )