27
Jul
2010
I’m Not Sure Yet if This is Depressing Or Not
“You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.”
– Joseph Campbell
Kameron Hurley
“I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.”
- Mary Wollstonecraft
Archive for the ‘words’ Category
23
Jun
2010
Words for the Road
“As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.”
-Eckhart Tolle
01
Jun
2010
08
Feb
2010
Quote of the Day
“Don’t smell like sunsets and baby powder. Smell like Jet Fighters and punching.”
- Old Spice body wash ad
(I shit you not!)
05
Feb
2010
Quote of the Day
“(on the creation of gendered fantasy genres in bookstores)…. one which is full of boys’ stuff like blood and killing, which is for boys and which boys should read, and one which is full of stuff that girls enjoy, like blood and fucking, which is for girls and which girls should read.”
I’m not sure if graduating from “romance” to “blood and fucking” is an improvement (Twilight, best I understand, doesn’t have much of either. It’s pretty straight romance), but put in those particular terms, it does remind me that there’s a primed but largely untapped “blood and fucking” market (Joe Abercrombie’s “Best Served Cold” is a good example of a true “blood and fucking” book). I know this, of course, but every time somebody passed on GW because they thought it was “unmarketable” really threw me for a loop.
20
Jan
2010
Tonight’s Song, Stuck on Repeat
This is War
30 Seconds to Mars
(from here, naturally. Tho it’s on repeat for writing-related reasons!)
A warning to the people
The good and the evil
This is war
To the soldier, the civillian
The martyr, the victim
This is war
It’s the moment of truth and the moment to lie
The moment to live and the moment to die
The moment to fight, the moment to fight, to fight, to fight, to fight
To the right, to the left
We will fight to the death
To the Edge of the Earth
It’s a brave new world from the last to the first
To the right, to the left
We will fight to the death
To the Edge of the Earth
It’s a brave new world
It’s a brave new world
A warning to the prophet, the liar, the honest
This is war
To the leader, the pariah, the victim, the messiah
This is war
It’s the moment of truth and the moment to lie
The moment to live and the moment to die
The moment to fight, the moment to fight, to fight, to fight, to fight
To the right
To the left
We will fight to the death
To the edge of the earth
It’s a brave new world
From the last to the first
To the right
To the left
We will fight to the death
To the edge of the earth
It’s a brave new world
It’s a brave new world
It’s a brave new world
I do believe in the light
Raise your hands up to the sky
The fight is done
The war is won
Lift your hands
Towards the sun
Towards the sun
Towards the sun
Towards the sun
The war is won
It’s the moment of truth and the moment to lie
The moment to live and the moment to die
The moment to fight, the moment to fight, to fight, to fight, to fight
To the right
To the left
We will fight to the death
To the edge of the earth
It’s a brave new world
From the last to the first
To the right
To the left
We will fight to the death
To the edge of the earth
It’s a brave new world
It’s a brave new world
It’s a brave new world
A brave new world
The war is won
The war is won
A brave new world
I believe in nothing
Not the end and not the start
I believe in nothing
Not the earth and not the stars
I believe in nothing
Not the day and not the dark
I believe in nothing
But the beating of our hearts
I believe in nothing
One hundred suns until we part
I believe in nothing
Not in satan, not in god
I believe in nothing
Not in peace and not in war
I believe in nothing
But the truth of who we are
12
Jan
2010
Everybody’s a Critic
“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much other fiction. By contrast, the audience for an obscure novel is largely composed of people who read a lot. That means the least popular books are judged by people who have the highest standards, while the most popular are judged by people who literally do not know any better. An American who read just one book this year was disproportionately likely to have read ‘The Lost Symbol’, by Dan Brown. He almost certainly liked it.”
— The Economist
14
Dec
2009
04
Dec
2009
24
Nov
2009
Quote of the Evening
“I don’t want to survive. I want to LIVE.”
- The Captain, WALL-E
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