April 2011
tamburina:
According to Paul Hegarty, the paradox of nihilism is “that the absence of meaning seems to be some sort of meaning.”
According to Jonna Bornemark, “the paradox of nihilism is the choice to continue one’s own life while at the same time stating that it is not worth more than any other life.”
Nihilists are only nihilists until they are told why they are nihilists.
Well, most of...
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“Times are hard for dreamers.”
– Amelie
March 2011
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Saudade
A Portuguese language word difficult to translate adequately, which describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic longing for something or someone that one was fond of and which is lost. It often carries a fatalist tone and a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might really never return.
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musicfromthe90s:
Enjoy The Silence by Depeche...
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“Like all dreamers I confuse disentchantment with truth.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre
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“Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary...”
– Lyrical and Critical Essays, Albert Camus
“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”
– Oscar Wilde
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Today was a good day.
27’s BAAACCCKKKKK!!!!! AND SHE GAVE ME A LIVERPOOL SCARF & BEANIE!!!
We missed her a lot.
I feel like I did a damn good job on the outdoor stage today. The drummer and I are really really starting to click now and it just sounds tight as fuck. My favorite English teacher came down to visit us while we were playing and she was such a pleasant sight to see. She’s one of the most...
Tenho saudades tuas.
I figured something out
lucidambiguity:
turns out life is pretty simple, really
find out what makes you happy
discover who makes you happy
once you have these things, never let go
and you’re set
Simple, yet so hard…
“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy...”
– Oscar Wilde
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On a lighter note...
My good friend Anthony informed me that two kids from band were going on about how my sister was really hot. They didn’t know she was my sister until he informed them.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-3-27) →
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“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that...”
– Albert Camus
Anonymous asked: you sound like your girlfriend left you...what happened? weren't you guys in love?
“Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer”
– Oscar Wilde
I guess I didn't deserve you.
Even though i’m a changed man now, I guess I don’t deserve you.
I’m sorry. With everything in me I am sorry. I’m sorry I made you jump through hoops for me. I didn’t mean it. I was consumed with something. I don’t know what it was at the time but it took me over. I was confused and I didn’t know where to go.
I guess this is my punishment for slipping up....
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being...”
– Oscar Wilde
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Reflections on life, and the world.
I’m much too much of an idealist and romantic to live in the real world. This is why I’d just love to live simply in an apartment and own a little music shop or a record shop and live without the complications of adultery, drug use, alcoholism, greed and other assorted things that man is so infatuated with. I just want to be left alone with a loving wife and a couple of kids. I’m...
Maybe I was an asshole after all.
I deserve as much.
Seven Sins of Our System of Forced Education
tamburina:
1. Denial of liberty on the basis of age. In my system of values, and in that long endorsed by democratic thinkers, it is wrong to deny anyone liberty without just cause. To incarcerate an adult we must prove, in a court of law, that the person has committed a crime or is a serious threat to herself or others. Yet we incarcerate children and teenagers in school just because of their...
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Dear followers,
Thank you for following me. I apologize for my highly personal posts as of late as they are boring and borderline confusing.
I can’t even put up with myself sometimes and it’s a wonder how you guys do it.
*applause*
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Anonymous asked: what do you mean by something worth fighting for???
Looks like the college douchebags are running rampant across downtown LA. Sigh…
“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
– Oscar Wilde
Tangier intrigues me.
I think i’ll visit it someday. It sounds like a mysterious place with a lot of hidden things. Right up my alleyway. I always felt something special at the mention of the country of Morocco so I guess it’ll fit.
People I'd like to meet from throughout human...
Jesus Christ
Moses
Abraham
King Solomon
King David
Judas Iscariot
John The Baptist
Mark Twain
Oscar Wilde
Albert Camus
Leonardo Da Vinci
Michelangelo
Lorenzo de’Medici
Niccolo Machiavelli
Karl Marx
Jean-Paul Sartre
Henry David Thoreau
Stanley Kubrick
Salvador Dali
Pablo Picasso
Friedrich Nietzche (he’d probably scare me though)
Django Reinhardt
Louis Armstrong
...
Dear God,
If you’re out there, why do you let the shittiest things happen to good people?
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-3-20) →
I promise you I won't give up.
I'm disappointed.
Everything I had prepared and everything that everybody agreed with was thrown out the fucking window today. Not only did we look unprofessional and disorganized, we looked like a bunch of whiny teenagers who’ll fight for the next “in” thing to fight for.
Now people are talking about doing a walk out. I know for a fact that most kids at general public schools want to walk out...
Everything else has lost its meaning.
These trivial wonderings of teenagers seem so small to me now. There’s something bigger to fight for.
In the face of hate, in the face of adversity, and...
Love will always prevail.
The world may denounce it and the world may spit in the face of it, but it will always survive.
I made a promise. A promise to love a woman as much as I could love anything. But the world has broken her. I will not leave her. I will not prove to be another useless piece of scum on the face of the earth. I will not prove why people should be hated more.
In the face of...
March 21, 2011
The hardest day I have ever faced.
peppermintswirlscloudmydreams asked: I admire your blog.
You're very good at expressing yourself--I can relate to you about many things and I wish I could explain myself as well as you do.
So, thanks for following me! It's a joy to follow you back :)
You're very good at expressing yourself--I can relate to you about many things and I wish I could explain myself as well as you do.
So, thanks for following me! It's a joy to follow you back :)
