“If you go home with someone, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ’em.” — John Waters
Tag: quotes
after the waltz
You must, after the age of 33, continue to do a certain type of work, or else go into the shoe business; forget music or it’ll turn into hatred, or else reiteration, redundancy, and in many cases death. — Garth Hudson of the Band, 1984. I wonder what Patterson Hood would think of that. One…
they say danko would have sounded just like me
“You grow up with a dream of discovering this place, not in terms of Columbus but in terms of your own imagination.” — Robbie Robertson of The Band At the moment, in between trashy mystery paperbacks, I’m slowly reading — savoring — Barney Hoskyns’ Across The Great Divide: The Band and America, which is exactly…
be brand new
the royal nites @ slim’s, originally uploaded by minervacat. “See what everybody else has seen, think what nobody else has thought.” — Albert Szent-Gyoergi
young wild things tour: fall out boy
young wild things tour: fall out boy, originally uploaded by minervacat. So, the question is, “Are you good? “ Simple, easy, and sure way to find out is you. No one can answer this question but yourself. If you aren’t sure if your work is good, then probably your work is not good enough. Don’t…
as it is that you like what you do
baseball: gwinnett braves @ durham bulls, originally uploaded by minervacat. Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself. — Stephen Sondheim
tell her i’ve been wasted since last week
carrboro farmer’s market, originally uploaded by minervacat. “But, – and there it is, – we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens that it is the nature of life to live and move, to want to live and move. If it were not for this, life would be…
superchunk @ the cradle
superchunk @ the cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. “Rock and roll doesn’t necessarily mean a band. It doesn’t mean a singer, and it doesn’t mean a lyric, really. It’s that question of trying to be immortal.” — Malcolm McLaren
another one from a musician that hipsters roll their eyes at
local 506 rockin’ eve: hammer no more the fingers, originally uploaded by minervacat. “If for one minute you think you’re better than a sixteen year old girl in a Green Day t-shirt, you are sorely mistaken. Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and…
for your definition of genius
baseball: jacksonville suns @ carolina mudcats, originally uploaded by minervacat. sometimes genius is being completely ordinary. — Pete Wentz