Simple Things

Yes I've run a mile in my head
Didn't listen to the things that you said
But it's the simple things that make you smile
It's the simple things that make you smile

So what went wrong?
Was it me that let you down again?
So what went wrong?
How could I ever lose my best friend?

Cause I've climbed these walls to clear my head
Thought I was something more but I'm a fool instead
But it's the simple things that make you smile
It's the simple things that make you smile

So what went wrong?
Was it me that let you down again?
So what went wrong?
How could I ever lose my best friend?

So what went wrong?
Was it me that let you down again?
So what went wrong?
How could I ever lose my best friend?

But it's the simple things
It's the simple things that make you smile
It's the simple things
It's the simple things that make you smile

But it's the simple things
It's the simple things that make you smile
It's the simple things
It's the simple things that make you smile

We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teacher leave them kids alone
Hey teacher leave them kids alone

All in all you're just another brick in the wall
All in all you're just another brick in the wall
In the Wall

Revelations from the late, great Bill Hicks

...The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question, is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "hey - don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride..."

And we... kill those people.

Ha ha

"Shut him up."

"We have a lot invested in this ride. Shut him up. Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and my family. This just has to be real."

Just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter because: It's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defences each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.

Lines on Ale - EAP

Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chamber of my brain —
Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies
Come to life and fade away;
What care I how time advances?
I am drinking ale today.

Parabol/Parable

"So familiar and overwhelmingly warm
This one, this form I hold now.
Embracing you, this reality here,
This one, this form I hold now, so
Wide eyed and hopeful.
Wide eyed and hopefully wild.

We barely remember what came before this precious moment,
Choosing to be here right now. Hold on, stay inside...
This body holding me, reminding me that I am not alone in
This body makes me feel eternal. All this pain is an illusion."

HDH - So lovely

So what went wrong???

To Helena

Your smile melts my soul
the way you dance
the way you hug
never have I met anyone like you

My promise
I will never fail you
I will forever be there for you
You will always have my heart - Always

Philematology

Hmmmm... Interesting article on kissing. See it here

In the desert

"In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said: "Is it good, friend?"
"It is bitter-bitter," he answered;
"But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart.”

- Stephen Crane

Random HST

From The Great Shark Hunt (p. 71): tom keating (about HST): "... he's a goddamn lunatic - and you've got to be careful with a bastarrd like that, because no matter how hard he tries, he just can't help but tell the truth"

HST response "... I just sort of slumped down on my bar stool and stared at myself in the mirror... wishing, on one level that keating's harsh judgment was right... but knowing, on another, that the treacherous realities of the worlds I especially work in forced me to abandon the purist stance a LONG TIME AGO. If I'd written the truth I knew for the past 10 years, about 600 people - including me would be ROTTING in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today... ABSOLUTE TRUTH IS A VERY RARE AND DANGEROUS COMMODITY IN THE CONTEXT OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISM".