Graves – Garden State
Each minute we spend worrying about the future and regretting the past is a minute we miss in our appointment with life – a missed opportunity to engage life and to see that each moment gives us the chance to change for the better, to experience peace and joy... To be...
David Schrader – Pup Tent
Charlie Brown: I’m lonely. I feel that no one really cares about me. How can I cure this loneliness?Lucy: Get some friends! Five cents, please...— Charles Schulz, Peanuts Crank up the Wayback Machine, Mr. Peabody. Set the dial to a church retreat, eons ago in the...
Ashtray Petting Zoo – Alma Mater Sweater
Etheline: Chas came home.Margot: What do you mean?Etheline: He and Ari and Uzi are going to stay with me for a little while.Margot: Why are they allowed to do that?...That night, Etheline found all of her children living together under the same roof for the first time...
Sam and the Savages – Feel the Need
Eli: I'm not in love with you any more.Margot: I didn't think you ever were.Eli: Let's not make this harder than it already is.Margot: OK.Eli: OK what?Margot: OK, I'm not in love with you any more either.-- from The Royal Tenenbaums What is that feeling when you're...
Saltlick – Day 16
To have some suffering is very important. You learn from suffering, and against that background, you can recognize happiness. -- Thich Nhat Hanh Suffering directs a man to look within. If it succeeds, then there, within him, is the beginning of his learning. -- Søren...
Partial Traces – Here We Go
To have some suffering is very important. You learn from suffering, and against that background, you can recognize happiness. -- Thich Nhat Hanh Suffering directs a man to look within. If it succeeds, then there, within him, is the beginning of his learning. -- Søren...
The Turkey Buzzards – Swing Bridge
The biggest danger, that of losing oneself, can pass off in the world as quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. is bound to be noticed. -- Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death Kierkegaard argued that an earthly...
Asbestos Lead Asbestos – I Don’t Want U 2 Leave
In popular fiction, a Coming of Age event - accompanied by mild trauma, often of a sexual nature - is required to ferry one across the Rubicon that separates Childhood from Adulthood. I feel somewhat cheated by having never experienced such an episode. One day I was a...
Backyard Star – Enemy
Married people pledge love for each other throughout eternity. Well, now, that is easy enough but does not mean very much, for if one is finished with time one is probably finished with eternity. -- Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or Kierkegaard’s young aesthete therefore...
Sofa City Sweetheart – Annie Stays Home
There was a time, eons ago, when I knew with one hundred percent certainty that a particular co-worker would knock on my door every Sunday afternoon. Bill would enter my apartment - invariably shirtless as he was one of those men who simply can’t stand to wear a shirt...
