HST Brilliance

"We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely -- at least, not all the time -- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness." 

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." 

"We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer...I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on Fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed. My father taught me that, along with a few other things that have kept my life interesting."

"I have never seen much point in getting heavy with stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I... And I have learned to live, as it were, with the idea that I will never find peace and happiness, either. But as long as I know there's a pretty good chance I can get my hands on either one of them every once in a while, I do the best I can between high spots." 


"Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be." 

shoot with mano

back to square one

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i give up.

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i wish that there wasn't so much space between us.

jimmy jazz

creative shoot with jess (www.jessybphoto.com). 

Hicks

Some self-affirming Bill Hicks' quotes for all y'all: 

"They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do just as well — you just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort. There is a difference."

"Here is my final point...About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography...What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, or take into my body as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet? And for those who are having a little moral dilemma in your head about how to answer that question, I'll answer it for you. NONE of your fucking business. Take that to the bank, cash it, and go fucking on a vacation out of my life." 

staying up all night

watching stars

crush

i think sunday girl is probably the only person to make kesha sound good (or only one willing)

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Just feels like everything's crashing down. There's only so much you can do before you give up. I think I just thought I could do this so much better than how it's all working out.

you & me

If the stars don’t shine, if the moon won’t rise, if I never see the setting sun again,
You won’t hear me cry, this I testify; please believe me, boy, you know I wouldn’t lie.
As long as there is you and me

existence precedes essence

excerpts from jean-paul sartre's "existentialism".

"...man is condemned to be free. condemned, because he did not create himself, yet, in other respects is free; because, once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."

"despair... it means that we shall confine ourselves to reckoning only with what depends upon our will, or on the ensemble of probabilities which make our action possible... the moment the possibilities i am considering are not rigorously involved by my action, i ought to disengage myself from them, because no god, no scheme, can adapt the world and its possibilities to my will. when descartes said, " conquer yourself rather than the world," he meant essentially the same thing."

"a man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing... reality alone is what counts that dreams, expectations, and hopes warrant no more than to define a man as a disappointed dream, as miscarried hopes, as vain expectations. you are nothing else than your life."

Guidance (divine or human) is irrelevant. Because no matter what it is, you still have to interpret what is said to you through your own experience. You will not necessarily know what the right answer is. You still have to interpret/filter it. You’re in control of the action that results. Religion is irrelevant of Existencialism. In either case, you are responsible for your actions (can’t say god made me do it)

“Existential anxiety” will happen. Has to do with 1) even if you try to be a good person all the time, you will make mistakes and those mistakes will cause regrets. The recognition that mistakes will happen. 2) recognizing that whatever advice is given to you, you still have to interpret it according to your own personal experience. You accept that there will be existential anxiety ( e.g. in the way that our mainstream culture accepts death. As a culture, we are not very good at untangling that anxiety. We’re not given a social structure to deal with it) when the big issues come in to someone’s personal experience, the anxiety will be significant. In existentialism, you face it . 

faith vs. reason

objectivist philosopher and atheist ayn rand. brilliant woman. 

"one of the results of acting on faith: you can't wait to get out of this life."

"what's wrong with that?"

"because this life is wonderful."

love right now

australian abbey lee kershaw