Friday 29 June 2012

Sunday 24 June 2012

"Good words, But deeds must prove it also; ... remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear."
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- Wuthering HeightsEmily Bronte

Thursday 21 June 2012

                          MR FITZGERALD
         Did you notice the new secretary in my office? 
         A temp agency sent her to help out while Miss 
         Hamish was in the hospital. Her name's Samantha. 
         She's a really sweet girl. She's a newlywed, lives 
         here in town and... I could tell from the moment 
         she got here that she really wants to work here 
         permanently. I mean, a 5 minute commute, very 
         convenient for her, right here in town. It would 
         be a great job for her. Yeah. Anyway, this morning 
         she was trying to figure out through a series of 
         sideways questions exactly how serious Miss Hamish's 
         illness was. And, she was acting concerned of course, 
         but I could see in her eyes, you know, she doesn't 
         know Miss Hamish, she can't help it. There's a 
         part of her that wants Miss Hamish to die. It'll 
         get her the job.

                          TERRI
         So?

                          MR FITZGERALD
         So Miss Hamish is dead Terri. I got the call an 
         hour ago.

                          TERRI
         Sorry Mr Fitzgerald.

                          MR FITZGERALD
         Don't say things you don't mean Terri. You're not 
         sorry she's gone. You barely knew her.

                          TERRI
         Sorry.

                          MR FITZGERALD
         Now after I got off the phone with the hospital 
         I called the temp agency and I told them, you know,  
         we're going to hire Samantha permanently. And they 
         thanked me and they said they'd call her and give 
         her the news, and I said you know, if you don't mind, 
         I would rather do it, because I kind of wanted to 
         spring the news on her, you know, what a great way 
         for she and I to start working together, right? But 
         now, I have to tell her she's got the job, and I will  
         have to watch, while she pretends to be sad. 
         Life's a mess dude. But we're all just doing the best 
         we can. You know? You and me and Samantha. We're just 
         doing what we can. So if I hurt you or if I lied to 
         you, all I can tell you is I'm sorry, and I will try 
         to do better. Maybe I will do better, or maybe I'll 
         do even worse, I don't know. I screw up all the time.  
         Because that's what people do. You know?

Sunday 17 June 2012

Memorable Weekend Quotes.

"It's not about the bridges."

Friday 15 June 2012

America.

America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
America two dollars and twenty-seven cents January 17, 1956.
I can't stand my own mind.
America when will we end the human war?
Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb
I don't feel good don't bother me.
I won't write my poem till I'm in my right mind.
America when will you be angelic?
When will you take off your clothes?
When will you look at yourself through the grave?
When will you be worthy of your million Trotskyites?
America why are your libraries full of tears?
America when will you send your eggs to India?
I'm sick of your insane demands.
When can I go into the supermarket and buy what I need with my good looks?
America after all it is you and I who are perfect not the next world.
Your machinery is too much for me.
You made me want to be a saint.
There must be some other way to settle this argument.
Burroughs is in Tangiers I don't think he'll come back it's sinister.
Are you being sinister or is this some form of practical joke?
I'm trying to come to the point.
I refuse to give up my obsession.
America stop pushing I know what I'm doing.
America the plum blossoms are falling.
I haven't read the newspapers for months, everyday somebody goes on trial for
murder.
America I feel sentimental about the Wobblies.
America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.
I smoke marijuana every chance I get.
I sit in my house for days on end and stare at the roses in the closet.
When I go to Chinatown I get drunk and never get laid.
My mind is made up there's going to be trouble.
You should have seen me reading Marx.
My psychoanalyst thinks I'm perfectly right.
I won't say the Lord's Prayer.
I have mystical visions and cosmic vibrations.
America I still haven't told you what you did to Uncle Max after he came over
from Russia.
I'm addressing you.
Are you going to let our emotional life be run by Time Magazine?
I'm obsessed by Time Magazine.
I read it every week.
Its cover stares at me every time I slink past the corner candystore.
I read it in the basement of the Berkeley Public Library.
It's always telling me about responsibility. Businessmen are serious. Movie
producers are serious. Everybody's serious but me.
It occurs to me that I am America.
I am talking to myself again.
Asia is rising against me.
I haven't got a chinaman's chance.
I'd better consider my national resources.
My national resources consist of two joints of marijuana millions of genitals
an unpublishable private literature that goes 1400 miles and hour and
twentyfivethousand mental institutions.
I say nothing about my prisons nor the millions of underprivileged who live in
my flowerpots under the light of five hundred suns.
I have abolished the whorehouses of France, Tangiers is the next to go.
My ambition is to be President despite the fact that I'm a Catholic.
America how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
I will continue like Henry Ford my strophes are as individual as his
automobiles more so they're all different sexes
America I will sell you strophes $2500 apiece $500 down on your old strophe
America free Tom Mooney
America save the Spanish Loyalists
America Sacco & Vanzetti must not die
America I am the Scottsboro boys.
America when I was seven momma took me to Communist Cell meetings they
sold us garbanzos a handful per ticket a ticket costs a nickel and the
speeches were free everybody was angelic and sentimental about the
workers it was all so sincere you have no idea what a good thing the party
was in 1835 Scott Nearing was a grand old man a real mensch Mother
Bloor made me cry I once saw Israel Amter plain. Everybody must have
been a spy.
America you don't really want to go to war.
America it's them bad Russians.
Them Russians them Russians and them Chinamen. And them Russians.
The Russia wants to eat us alive. The Russia's power mad. She wants to take
our cars from out our garages.
Her wants to grab Chicago. Her needs a Red Reader's Digest. Her wants our
auto plants in Siberia. Him big bureaucracy running our filling stations.
That no good. Ugh. Him makes Indians learn read. Him need big black niggers.
Hah. Her make us all work sixteen hours a day. Help.
America this is quite serious.
America this is the impression I get from looking in the television set.
America is this correct?
I'd better get right down to the job.
It's true I don't want to join the Army or turn lathes in precision parts
factories, I'm nearsighted and psychopathic anyway.
America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

Allen Ginsberg

Tuesday 12 June 2012

If you spend half a working Monday googling depression are you

a) More productive than you would have been shuffling tea bags
b) Less productive than your colleague who
c) Depressed
d) Apat

Thursday 7 June 2012

The Second Coming.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?


William Butler Yeats

Monday 4 June 2012

Lesbian sex with Kathy Bates.