QUOTES
sept 8, 2008
"you can't push the river"
-unknown
august 26, 2008
"I know you're antiseptic
Your deodorant smells nice
I'd like to get to know you
But you're deep frozen like the ice
He's a germ free adolescent
Cleanliness is her obsession
Cleans her teeth ten times a day
Scrub away scrub away scrub away"
poly styrene, x-ray spex
feb 19, 2008
you don't have to know the right way home, let your boyfriend tell the driver which way to go. it only gets inconvenient when you want to go home alone"
thr hold steady
Feb 4, 2008
"the heart that cracks open can contain the whole universe"
Ms. Marcy
jan 22, 2008
"but it was four tops all nite with encores from stage right, charges from the bass knives to the treble, but on stage they aint got no roots rock rebel"
the clash
dec 5, 2007
"patient as pebbles but ready to jump"
chris marker
September 23, 2007
"let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker wil be sorry"
mark twain
August 29, 2007
"you like crack and black, you like crack and black"
marti wilkerson, coce, beaut
August 20, 2007
"lights going out and a kick in the balls, that's entertainment"
paul weller
July 11, 2007
"and late at night all dolled up like christ, i walk the water between the piers "
antony
June 7, 2007
"called in an APB with the FBI... i just can't find my mind "
the cramps
May 29, 2007
"i wish i was a racehorse, so i could run around in circles fast as i could without any thought "
holly ramos, gold and catholic
April 30, 2007
"death comes sweeping down the hallway in its sunday best, death you made me sick and crazy"
patti smith
March 29, 2007
"FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD"
new york post headline, 1975
Feb 25, 2007
"messed up like a sunrise too early in my eyes, messed up like a prize fight, at least you could have tried"
holly ramos and jesse malin, cigarettes and violets
Feb 6, 2007
"i am nobody's million dollar baby anymore"
patti smith
jan 1, 2007
"love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes,running through the mountains, drinking poison, and now quietly choosing annihilation"
Rumi
Dec 14, 2006
"I don't want no presents, idon't need no cards, i ain't got no pretty lights in my back yard... cause yo're not coming home to me, I got no christmas, I don't need no christmas tree" FUR
Nov 20, 2006
"i want to sing like birds sing, not worrying who hears or what they think"
Rumi
Nov 2, 2006
"i lit a cigarette for your brother .."
Patti Smith, We Three
Oct 16, 2006
"all that remains is future"
Patti Smith at the last night of CBGB's.
Sept 26
"you know if it came true, i'd be so good to you. i'd never treat you cruel, as long as i got you around"
Ramones
Sept 15
"soundcheck at 9:02, recordstores and interviews, oh but i can't wait to be with you tomorrow"
Ramones
July 27
"women in dark glasses, what i don't see is translated by god"
Patti Smith
July 15
"I'm gonna make a science fiction movie about you so i can sit in the dark and watch you!"
FUR
July 5
"Up in your window, you bite your nails in your underwear. Sometimes it so hot, and sometimes it's just the clothes you wear"
FUR
June 16
"that doesn't mean i didn't try...you can't put your arms around a memory.
Johnny Thunders
June 7
"love is all i bring, uptown top ranking- no pop, no style, we're strictly roots"
Althea and Donna
May 26
"ah, my sad scholar it is ok that you are old, but not an asshole"
Rosa Cabracas in Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
May 9th
this is my yearly repeat of one of my most favorite poems ever by Sufi poet Hafiz
WHAT THE HELL
The real love
I always keep a secret.
All my words
Are sung outside Her window,
For when She lets me in I take a thousand oaths of silence.
But,
Then She says,
O, the God says,
"What the hell, Hafiz,
Why not give the whole world my address."
May 1st
i thank the lord for the people i have found
elton john
March 29
you're squawking like a pink monkey bird
And I'm busting up my brains for the words
david bowie
March 15
drink all your passions and be a disgrace. close both eyes to see with the other eye. open your hands if you want to be held.
-rumi
Dec 18
"life, for all its agonies is exciting and beautiful and amusing and artful and endearing and whatever is to come after it, we shall not have this life again" rosie macaulky
July 15
"It was a teenage wedding and the old folk wished them well" chuck berry
May 16
"I'm not asking you to say words like yes or no" bob dylan
April 24th
"somebody told me theres a girl out there with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair"
Led Zeppelin
April 14th
"everyone wll help you discover what you set out to find, but if i can save you any time, come on give it to me, i'll keep it with mine"
Bob Dylan
April 5th
"look and you will find it. what is unsought will go undetected"
Sophocles
March 23th
"PAY ATTENTION TO THE VIVID"
Allen Ginsberg
March 17th
"whenever i have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one i haven't tried before"
Mae West
March 4th
"just keep writing 'em. you'll use them later"
Hattie
on song writing
Feb 2nd
"I was hoping to have my cake and eat it too...wouldn't you?"
Eleanor Whitledge
Jan 24th
quote for the week
"Out Beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there is a field.
I will meet you there."
Rumi
nov 28th
quote for the week
"Don't worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive.”
Howard Thurman
oct 21st
Vice? Virtue? Aim above morality!"
Maude, Harold & Maude
oct 1st
quote for the week
"i'm just like that bird, singing just for you" bob dylan in your a big girl now
sept 14th
quote for the week
"you should get to know your town just like i know mine" johnny thunders as quoted by the clash in "groovy times"
aug 5th
"i'll be your sister"
lemmy
july 25th
"i'm your dog but not your pet"
frank infante
july 15th
"she's good lookin' and american"
iggy pop
july 9th
"what does it mean to be found obscene in new york? this is the most sophisticated city in the country. This is where they play genet's the balcony. if anyone is the first person to be found obscene in new york, he must feel utterly depraved"
lenny bruce
july 5
"i am your savior
i am your lover
i am several others
amd i am your mother
who moves from your presence
my radiant
my eminant
epidemic"
patti smith
july 2
"i was born in hampstead. my mother wasn't screaming so they didn't bwelieve she was in labor. later i went to convent school. later i rode in leather. later i took some pills. i needed to lose..." marianne faithful
April 2nd
this is one of my most favorite poems ever by Sufi poet Hafiz
WHAT THE HELL
The real love
I always keep a secret.
All my words
Are sung outside Her window,
For when She lets me in I take a thousand oaths of silence.
But,
Then She says,
O, the God says,
"What the hell, Hafiz,
Why not give the whole world my address."
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