Charles Bukowski. Uncensored

"In 1993, candid conversations between Charles Bukowski, his wife, and his producer took place in Bukowski’s home during the recording session for his classic Run With the Hunted."

Ernst Fischer

“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.”

- Ernst Fischer

Yoda of Fashion World

“I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.”

- Yohji Yamamoto

Black

“Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. But above all black says this: "I don’t bother you - don’t bother me".” 

- Yohji Yamamoto

J. Robert Oppenheimer

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, ‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.’ I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

- J. Robert Oppenheimer 

Dalai Lama

Hundreds of stupid flies gather on a piece of rotten meat, enjoying, they think, a delicious feast.
This image fits with the song of the myriads of foolish living beings who seek happiness in superficial pleasures; In countless ways they try, yet I have never seen them satisfied.

-7th Dalai Lama (Songs of Spiritual Change)

Maurice Sendak

‎"We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures. … And then, we're supposed to be civilized. We're supposed to go to work every day. We're supposed to be nice to our friends and send Christmas cards to our parents. We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do."

- Maurice Sendak (RIP)

Tom Waits

Here's To The Crazy Ones

Before you...

Before you speak, listen.

Before you write, think.

Before you spend, earn.

Before you invest, investigate.

Before you criticize, wait.

Before you pray, forgive.

Before you quit, try.

Before you retire, save.

Before you die, give.

-William Arthur Ward 

"Death is Very Likely the Single Best Invention of Life"

Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

-Steve Jobs

Tom Waits - "More Than Rain"

Tom's advise on bad days.

"Eh this is about all the bad days in the world. I used to have some really bad days. And I kept them in a little box. And one day I threw them out into the yard. Oh, it's just a couple of innocent bad days. Well, we had a big rain... I don't know what it was growing in, but I think we used to put egg shells out there and coffeegrounds too. Don't plant your bad days! They grow into weeks, the weeks grow into months, and before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me: CHOKE those little bad days! CHOKE 'em down to nothing! There are your days, CHOKE 'em! You choke my days, I'll choke yours!"

Love

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

Pablo Neruda

The Acid House by Irvine Welsh

"I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature recognition of my own psychological vulnerability and my lack of suitability as a companion. Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as i struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life." 

— Irvine Welsh (The Acid House)

Walt Whitman

Be curious, not judgmental.

- Walt Whitman 

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening. Frank Tyger

"Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening."

- Frank Tyger

horseshit!

"Great art is horseshit, buy tacos."

- Charles Bukowski 

Fashion...

“I hate fashion... I'm simply a dressmaker"

-Yohji Yamamoto

Kids needs to be warned

Kids have to warned that there are bullshits coming down the road... Tell them what life in this country. It's about a whole lot of bullshit needs to be detected and avoided.

-George Carlin

Play Again Charlie Brown (1971)

My favorite episode. 

Schroeder and his Beethoven pieces and not selling out to Sally's quote when she got mad at her jumping rope. Amazing!

"Augh! I'm mad! I'm mad at the whole world! I'm mad at everybody! I'm mad at everything!"

-Sally Brown