The politics in this country is so very fuuuccckkkeeeddd. It's all acting. Does nobody get that? Don't lie, cheat, steal, or hurt anyone or any animal. I would love to see smaller police forces and about half the prisons. Don't be an asshole in life and support your local art community. Oh, and turn that fucking television, all 5 of them, OFF! Better yet, toss them and get a free library card. Do the same with your fone. Right there you have saved almost 400 bucks a month while freeing your mind at the same time. Believe it, television and the people on it, especially the news (just like banks), do not care about you or anybody you love. They all... mock you for money and recognition. Fuck them allllll!

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood (from Live at the El Mocambo)

Heart - "Barracuda" (1977)

Soundgarden - Fell On Black Days [Studio Version]

Know your place within the universe and realize you have approximately 75 years to deal with it. If you are spending your days doing things that have nothing to do with who you are, then you have got to realize at some point that your time is being wasted and it is being wasted by you. And then you have to know that one day you will be old, if you're lucky. You do not want to arrive at that place knowing you gave 40% of who and what you were in life. You see, if the city you are in now is the universe in which we live, the earth... is a germ on the carpet beneath you right foot.

If music grabs you and holds you, do that every single day. Be moved by the day. It could make tomorrows sun shine brighter.

A man can bust his ass working in a job he tolerates simply because he gets paid well. This is completely understandable. Financial freedom is a goal I think we all have at some point in our lives. It isn't until we get older that we realize just how awkward and often wrong that mentality truly is in life. The reason I understand it is because we were all taught what it means to be successful. The foundation of that learning was and is the acquisition of money to buy nice things, to separate oneself from the crowd, to be special and/or admired. But the thing is, money is just a tool. It really only brings debt. This is its design. Debt cannot be avoided and for the average man, debt is something to crawl out from under each and every month... hopefully with enough money left over for necessities like food and medication. And if a sudden illness or accident comes into play, this will of course affect work and hours at the job. For many folks, this is enough for termination with no regard for the employee or his family. It's just business. And yet through it all, through all the people that have and those who have not, everybody ages and everybody abandons their bodies at some point and moves on... without the money and things it bought. Because in reality, time is the real winner. And time should be spent doing the kinds of things that bring one joy. What does not factor into this equation is working strictly for the money. Basically, what this does is place a number on people. People with numbers have no life. Their life is only a number and their pockets are full of numbers with faces on the front. The funny thing is, a significant percentage of people with expendable income have it because they inherited it. And what do they do? They buy stuff which all just sits there. If they don't show it all off, it just sits there... and even then it all just sits there.