Wednesday, October 10, 2007

"Life is a desperate struggle to become in fact what you are in design." --Ortega E. Gasset           # "There is really nothing you must be. There is really nothing you must have. And there is nothing you must do. There is nothing you must know  There is really nothing you must become. However, it helps to understand that fire burns and when it rains the earth gets wet. (However there are consequences. Nobody is exempt.)                         ---????                # West lies Puget Sound East the Mighy Cascades run free North is the University South, a great tree All these things were loved by me.                             ---????? Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon our hearts until, in our own despair against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.                 --Aeschylus 10:19:06 AM    comment []

Big Joe Turner   Every juke joint Boogie woogie pianist three day rent party 4 am tenor saxophone battle Kansas City black woman California    white woman New Orleans    Creole every tapping foot every dress slit up the side every shot of whiskey, vodka and gin every blues song every song that ever swung every Chicago ballad and New York rhythm and blues shuffle every Saturday night kiss every Sunday night tear everything that was good and right everything that had love for the world is in a grave in Gardena                     --Dave Alvin from “Any Rough Times Are Now Behind You, Selected Poems and Writings ’79 to ‘95               10:02:05 AM    comment []