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“The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It
is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art
and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer
wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffed out
candle. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there
is something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity
reaches us only indirectly: this is religiousness. In this sense,
and in this sense only, I am a devoutly religious man”
in 1930, Rabbi Herbert Goldstein telegrammed Einstein:
“Do you believe in God? Stop. Answer period. 50 words. Stop”
Einstein, to the consternation of some of his fellow scientists had referred to himself as “religious.” The above is Einstein’s response.
How To Tour in a Band
How to Tour in a Band or Whatever
by Thor Harris1-Don’t Complain. Bitching, moaning, whining is tour cancer. If something is wrong fix it or shut the fuck up you fucking dick. goddamn.
2-If you fart, claim it.
3-Don’t Lose shit. Everybody loses shit. Don’t fucking do it. Asshole.
4-Don’t fuck anyone in the band. There are tons of people to fuck who are not in this band. Dumbass.
5-If you feel like shit all the time, drink less beer at the gig. You will play better & feel better. What are you… a child? Some have the endurance for self abuse. Most don’t.
6-Remember the soundman’s name. He will do a better job.
7- Eat oranges. Cures constipation & prevents colds.
8-Masturbate. Duh… Where & when? Be creative. You’re an artist right?
9-If YOU can’t carry your suitcase 3 blocks, it’s too goddamn big.
10-Respect public space in the van. Don’t clutter, you Fuck.
11-If you borrow something, return it. Not Fucked Up.
12-Do not let the promoter dick you or talk you out of the guarantee. If there were not enuf people there, it’s their fault.
13- Driver picks the music.
14-One navigator only (usually sitting shotgun). Everyone else shut the fuck up.
15-Soundcheck is for checking sounds. Shut the fuck up while everyone else is checking.
16-Don’t wander off. Let someone know where you are.
17-Clean up after yourself. What are you… a goddamn toddler?
18-Touring makes everyone bi-polar. Ride the waves as best you can and remember, moods pass. So don’t make any snap decisions or declarations when you are drunk or insane.
19-Fast food is Poison.
20-The guestlist is for friends, family & people you might want to fuck. Everyone else can pay. They have day jobs.
21- Don’t evaluate your whole life while you’re sitting in a janitor closet waiting to go on. You think you’re above having shitty days at work? Shut up & do your goddamn job.
This list was written under the influence of lots of esspresso & anti-depressants while on tour w/ such greats as Shearwater, Swans, Smog, Lisa Germano, Angels of Light, Bill Callahan & many more. I hope this list will help you get along w/ your co-workers whatever your job is. Contributions to the list by Jordan Geiger, Kimberly Burke, Brian Orloff, Brian Phillips Celebrity Gang Bang, Kevin Schneider, Jonathan Meiburg, Michael Gira and some other folks.
Thanks for not being an asshole, Thor Harris
grow the fuck up
The most depressing thing about growing up is watching people lose their sense of spontaneity. They think they’re becoming mature and responsible, but really they’re just becoming afraid.
Afraid of falling on their ass.
Afraid of getting hurt again.
Afraid of appearing foolish.
As we get older the world seems to put pressure on us to become more calculated. And we overwhelmingly acquiesce to the notion that if we calculate our choices, we somehow gain control over the future.
But that is a lie.
It’s a false sense of security. And it only serves to allow fear to dominate our consciousness; to become our guiding light.
I know I’m over-simplifying it—and I know it’s immature—but I’d rather fall on my fucking face in front of everyone a thousand times before I resign myself to playing it safe.
Letters of an old contrarian
“In one way, I suppose, I have been “in denial” for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely that reason, I can’t see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it’s all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me. Rage would be beside the point for the same reason. Instead, I am badly oppressed by a gnawing sense of waste. I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read—if not indeed write—the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?”
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Hitchens on battling cancer. (via cajunboy) (via soupsoup)
Brilliant and jarring… For as long as it takes to read this essay, you will have his cancer. And when you are done reading it, you will not have it anymore. (Hopefully he won’t, either.) But what you will be left with in your newly-minted “still hopefully cancer-free” state of health is a better appreciation of your life.
“At times, Gabe Saporta overdoes the festivities, but he rarely regrets it.”
regrets are worthless…. ;)
who write this stuff!? some of it is spot on, i have to admit..
although i wonder if by reading it it becomes self-fulfilling…
i don’t know if i believe in the notion that who your life is somehow preordained based on the seemingly irrelevant date of your birth… but maybe i do.
does any of this seem right to you guys?
Gabe Saporta responds very strongly to the emotional tone and atmosphere around him, and can be dominated by his fluctuating and unpredictable moods. Saporta often appears irrational to others because he cannot always explain the reason or source of his feelings. Anyone who lives with Gabe Saporta must accept his ups and downs and appreciate Gabe’s need for times of withdrawal.
