-Niccolo Machiavelli
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-Niccolo Machiavelli
There were no judgments to be made, yet out of necessity one had to select. Beyond good and evil was all right in theory, but to go on living one had to select: some were kinder than others, some were simply more interested in you, and sometimes the outwardly beautiful and inwardly cold were necessary, just for bloody, shitty kicks, like a bloody, shitty movie. The kinder ones fucked better, really, and after you were around them a while they seemed beautiful because they were.
-Charles Bukowski
regal – family of bears
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if you’re looking for a sign, download the ep. “soft words” got these eyes of mine a little wet.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
James & Evander – We Used To Write Short Stories (JandEless Never Miss)
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-Albert Camus
Huntsville, Alabama has been suffering lately. Only a week after a horrific middle school shooting in the nearby town of Madison, the deranged Dr. Amy Bishop went to a faculty meeting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and killed several members of the Biology Department. Bishop’s psychotic spree put Huntsville briefly in the national news, and no one in town is happy about the negative attention.
It’s a shame. Despite the recent violence, Huntsville is a gentle place and its residents display a hospitality that tends to shock people who visit from outside of the South. Located in the hills that presage Appalachia, it’s also a stunningly gorgeous natural treasure that glows green in the summer and blooms full-force in the springtime. Historically it is distinguished as well– Huntsville was the first capital of Alabama, and in the 1960s it was the first Alabama city to fully desegregate.
Nowadays, Huntsville can boast of having the best music scene between Austin and Athens. G-side has been generating a lot of press for the rap game in “the 256,” but there’s a lot of other stuff happening too. My favorite place in town is Vertical House Records, a store in an old textile mill that hosts touring bands like Nobunny and Juiceboxxx and propagates music by local hootenanny-influenced punkers like Thomas Function and the Pine Hill Haints.
The point is this: don’t let all that violence distort your opinion of Huntsville, because it’s a great place and doesn’t deserve to be thought of as anything less. Next time you think of “the Rocket City,” don’t think of Dr. Bishop. Think of these sweet tunes:
Pine Hill Haints – My Bones Are Gonna Rise Again
Thomas Function – Sherman’s March
Chocolate Chip – Suzy Certain
Puppy Hearts – When Kingdom Come
Rise Up Howling Werewolf – the Hearse
-Karl Marx
Michael Parallax – Tambourine
Michael Parallax – Lazer Tusks
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-Randall Jarrell
— Thomas Wolfe, The Hills Beyond
There was a time when not a day went by that I didn’t steal a book. It wasn’t that I didn’t have money; but there’s never enough money to buy all the books we need to read or simply admire, hold, caress, knowing that we have them, that they’re ours because no longer theirs.
-Rodrigo Fresan, Granta: Notes Toward the Memoirs of a Book Thief (translated from Spanish by Natasha Wimmer)
Clément Rosset
In Joyful Cruelty, Clement Rosset lays the foundation for a new philosophy that refuses to turn away from the world and thereby accepts a confrontation with reality in all of its immediacy. An almost spiritual practice, his theory is at once cruel because it destroys all illusion and joyful because it allows one to see the world in its simplest and purest terms. Perpetually at odds with contemporary Jacques Derrida, Rosset developed his anti-philosophical philosophy in response to what he felt was the post-modern misappropriation of Nietzschean thought. Out of print for nearly 20 years, it is the first and only work by Rosset to be translated into English.
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-Gertrude Stein
-Andre Bazin
