Jan
21
2010
Last night I was sat listening to the Muslim prayers – the Salah on television, and it struck me how really quite poetic they are. It reminded me of a time I walked into the Anglican cathedral in Liverpool and heard a choir rehearsing parts of Mozart’s Requiem, which was extremely haunting especially with the choir out of site. I stood and listened for what felt an age.
I’m not religious, I am seriously not religious – I have loathed organised religion since I was capable of free thought. I can’t stand the notion of faith in a higher being, I can’t stand the way it is used to control people, and I really can’t stand that its followers actually believe that I’m the stupid one. But hell, I can give as good as I get on that score. However, I have to admit that the various religions have given the world some things of real beauty in terms of architecture, art, poetry and music. It’s a pity they couldn’t have done the same for society. Continue Reading »
Dec
23
2008
You’re a big man, but you’re in bad shape. With me it’s a full time job. Now behave yourself.
Jack Carter (Michael Caine)
From Get Carter (1971)
Jan
16
2008
I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.
Salvador Dali
Jan
14
2008
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Salvador Dali
Jan
09
2008
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that’s even remotely true!
Dec
30
2007
Wanting to be someone you’re not is a waste of the person you are.
Kurt Cobain (1967 – 1994)
About Kurt Cobain
Dec
15
2007
I. Laying Plans
1. Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to the State.
2. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to
ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be
neglected.
3. The art of war, then, is governed by five constant factors, to
be taken into account in one’s deliberations, when seeking to determine
the conditions obtaining in the field. Continue Reading »
Dec
14
2007
Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines.
Dec
10
2007
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
About Marcel Proust
Dec
08
2007
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
About Friedrich Nietzsche