I miss him. :(

“I’ve got a mobile scanner and I listen in on conversations. Late at night, loads of couples phone each other up and watch films together. It’s a really popular pastime. I could listen to it for hours. As they’re watching their film, you can turn the TV on and watch it with them. You get the commentary simultaneously. If you listen for more than fifteen minutes, you always get something spicy.
— Richard D. James

“Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from hapening all at once. Lately it doesn’t seem to be working.”

-Anonymous

Always good to revisit something as brilliant as Bill Hicks every so often. Amazing guy.

Alan Watts was incredible (and if you don’t know who he was, you can click on his name to go to the Wikipedia entry about him).

The following is an excerpt from the preface of his book “This Is It,” and an audio recording of a lecture that he gave called “Not What Should Be, But What Is.” The excerpt gives a bit of insight into his general philosophy on what he dedicated his life to, and the audio recording is just brilliant. He was articulate, funny, entertaining, insightful, and is a joy to listen to.

“I am neither a preacher nor a reformer, for I like to write and talk about this way of seeing things as one sings in the bathtub or splashes in the sea. There is no mission, nor intent to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter. We should see at once that the high ideals for which we are killing and regimenting each other are empty and abstract substitutes for the unheeded miracles that surround us - not only in the obvious wonders of nature but also in the overwhelmingly uncanny fact of mere existence. Not for one moment do I believe that such an awakening would deprive us of energy or social concern. On the contrary, half the delight of it - though infinity has no halves - is to share it with others, and because the spiritual and the material are inseparable this means the sharing of life and things as well as insight. But the possibility of this depends entirely upon the presense of the vision which could transform us into the kind of people who can do it, not upon exhortation or appeals to our persistent, but consistently uncreative, sense of guilt. Yet it would spoil it all if we felt obliged, by that same sense, to have the vision.”

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Alan Watts - Not What Should Be, What Is

Some funny drunk text messages from last night:

1) “Squishy squid monkey-man party and pants made from pancakes?”

2) “Smoldering lobster play-pen fashion show. Hyena Labrador running mates. Octopi frolicking froth-boat. Smash my panda repeatedly. Now.”

3) “Anal licking alligator.”

HAhadfhadkjfhas!! Wtf?!

“My voice is unadorned. I don’t try for perfection. I try to be honest and truthful and soulful with the voice I have. If I make mistakes in notes, or there are cracks in notes, I don’t fix them. That’s the way it is.”

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” - Dr. Seuss

“When the criticalness and discrimination of dualistic perception are set aside, the absolute perfection and beauty of everything stands revealed.

Art seeks to abstract this awareness when it takes one moment in time and freezes it in photographic art or sculpture. Each stop frame depicts the perfection that can be appreciated only when a single view is isolated from the distortion of the superimposed story. The drama of every moment of existence lends itself to preservation when art saves it from the extinction of transformation of material form called history. The innocence intrinsic to any given moment is apparent when that moment is taken out of the context projected onto a sequence of selected moments which then become a ’story’. Once converted into a story by the dualistic mind, the terms ‘good’ and ‘bad’ are then applied. One can readily see that even the terms good or bad refer in their origination to what is really merely human desire. If something is desired, it becomes a ‘good’, and if undesired, it becomes a ‘bad’. If human judgmentalism is removed from observation, all that can be seen is that form is in constant evolution as ‘change’, which is neither intrinsically desirable nor undesirable.”