“I’ve had a total recalibration of my mind, you know. I mean, it’s like, I’ve been banging my head against this 19th century type, um, what? Thought mode? Construct? Human construct? Well, the wall doesn’t exist. It’s not there, you know. I mean, they tell you, look for the light at the end of the [...]

Isn’t that what being young is about, believing secretly that you would be the one person in the history of man that would live forever?-Vanilla Sky

 
Radio Host: What’s your latest obsession?
Hank: Just the fact that people seem to be getting dumber and dumber. You know, I mean we have all this amazing technology and yet computers have turned into basically four figure wank machines. The internet was supposed to set us free, democratize us, but all it’s really given us [...]

People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
                  -Things Have Changed, Bob Dylan

Consciousness is a terrible curse. I think, I feel, I suffer.

I woke up this morning with a strong urge to write a short piece on Charlie Kaufman; screenwriter extraordinaire. (This is a prelude, a practice exercise if you will for another essay on Kaufman I’ll be writing soon for…academic (sic) purposes.)
Charlie Kaufman for [...]

Remember, when in doubt, don’t ever do what you really want to do.
-Nathan Bronfman, Human Nature

“What’s life without the ability to make stupid choices?”
-Dr Gregory House

I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
                            -Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/07/11/1183833599460.html
Sith Lord, Emperor Palpatine…er…Pope Benedict XVI has ‘corrected‘ erroneous interpretations of the 1960s reforming Vatican Council. As of now Protestant churches are not really churches and the Orthodox churches are ‘wounded churches’. But he does admit there are elements of truth in the aforementioned churches. The humility!
The new document, issued by the Doctrine of the [...]

Time, time, time, see whats become of me
While I looked around
For my possibilities
I was so hard to please
But look around, leaves are brown
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter 
                                  -Simon & Garfunkel