Zak Smith Live

Quotes 10/14- Schopenhauer, Paul McCartney

2009-10-14T12:36:00.004-04:00

"It is another instance of the obligatory optimism of these religions, which denounces self-destruction so as not to be denounced by it"- Schopenhauer

"Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs.
And whats wrong with that? I'd like to know, cause here I go again"- Paul McCartney

Quotes 10/12- Groucho Marx, The Young Rascals

2009-10-12T13:40:00.003-04:00

"Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do"- Groucho Marx

"Now baby it's for sure, I got the fever and you've got the cure"- The Young Rascals

Quotes 10/8- James A. Garfield, Jim Reeves

2009-10-08T08:00:00.001-04:00

"I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table"- James A. Garfield

"I'll still love you 'til the breath in my body is gone.
That's how it is with me
And you'll always be
The only love I ever knew"
- Jim Reeves

Quotes 10/7- Al Capone, The Third Bardo

2009-10-07T08:00:00.001-04:00

"This is virgin territory out here for whorehouses"-Al Capone

"I'm five years ahead of my time"- The Third Bardo

Quotes 10/6- Hegel, Bob Dylan

2009-10-06T08:00:00.000-04:00

"Only one man ever understood me. And he didn't understand me"- Hegels last words

"I never did know the score"- Bob Dylan

Quotes 10/5- Lord Byron, Jay-Z

2009-10-05T08:00:00.000-04:00

The glory and the nothing of a name.- Lord Byron

"My name is HOV"- Jay-Z

Quotes 10/4- Schiller, The Ramones

2009-10-04T08:00:00.000-04:00

"The law has cramped the flight of eagles to a snail's pace. The law never yet made a great man, but freedom will breed a giant, a colossus"- Friedrich Schiller

"Mr.Programmer I got my hammer
And I'm gonna smash my radio"-The Ramones

Quotes 10/3- Rocky Marciano, Paul Westerberg

2009-10-03T08:00:00.002-04:00

"That was a fucking dumb question. If I didn't think I was gonna win, why the hell would I be fighting?"- Rocky Marciano

"Look me in the eye
Then, tell me that I'm satisfied"- Paul Westerberg

Quotes 10/2- Charles Darwin, The Rolling Stones

2009-10-02T08:00:00.000-04:00

"We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence"- Darwin

"Mama says yes, Papa says no,
Make up you mind 'cause I gotta go.
I'm gonna raise hell at the Union Hall,
Drive myself right over the wall.

Rip this joint, gonna save your soul,
Round and round and round we go.
Roll this joint, gonna get down low,
Start my starter, gonna stop the show"- The Rolling Stones

Quotes 10/1- Matthew Arnold, Townes van Zandt

2009-10-01T08:00:00.001-04:00

"What helps it now, that Byron bore,
With haughty scorn which mocked the smart,
Through Europe to the Aetolian shore
The pageant of his bleeding heart?"- Matthew Arnold

"Poets tell how Pancho fell, and Lefty's living in a cheap hotel
The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold,
And so the story ends we're told
Pancho needs your prayers it's true, but save a few for Lefty too
He only did what he had to do, and now he's growing old"- Townes van Zandt

Quotes 9/30- Christina Rossetti, Lou Reed

2009-09-30T08:00:00.002-04:00

"love understands the mystery, whereof
we can but spell a surface history;
Love knows, remembers: let us trust in love:
Love understands the mystery"- Christina Rossetti

"And some kinds of love
Are mistaken for vision"- Lou Reed

Quotes 9/29- Spiro Agnew, David Bowie

2009-09-29T08:00:00.000-04:00

"A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals"- Spiro Agnew

"Come out of the garden, baby. You'll catch your death in the fog. Young girl, they call them the Diamond Dogs"- David Bowie

Quotes 9/28- James Dean, Elton John

2009-09-28T08:00:00.000-04:00

"They say you can't get it on with a girl in a Porsche. That's bullshit. If you don't believe me, ask Natalie".- James Dean

"And all the folks back home said I was a fool"- Elton John

Quotes 9/27- Dr. Jonas Salk, Kurt Cobain

2009-09-27T08:00:00.001-04:00

"There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?"- Jonas Salk

"In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun don't ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through"- Kurt Cobain (Song by Leadbelly)

Quotes 9/26- Trotsky, Binnie Hale

2009-09-26T16:21:00.001-04:00

"Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full"

L. Trotsky
February 27, 1940
Coiyoacan.

"The fundamental things apply
As time goes by"- Binnie Hale

Quotes 9/24- Freud, Eric Burdon and the Animals

2009-09-24T12:49:00.011-04:00

"Psychoanalysis here confirms what the pious were wont to say, that we are all miserable sinners"- Sigmund Freud

"I'm an animal"- Eric Burdon and the Animals

Quotes 9/23- Kierkegaard, Lynyrd Skynyrd

2009-09-23T11:46:00.004-04:00

"Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception"- Kierkegaard

"Lord knows, I can't change"- Lynyrd Skynyrd

Quotes 9/18- Hemingway, The Dubliners

2009-09-18T13:30:00.004-04:00

"If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it."- Hemingway

"Out from many a mud wall cabin eyes were watching through the night
Many a manly heart was beating for the blessed warning light
Murmurs rang along the valleys to the banshees lonely croon
And a thousand pikes were flashing by the rising of the moon"- The Dubliners

Quotes 9/16- Proust, Springsteen

2009-09-16T14:41:00.008-04:00

"It had been rendered supple and sensitive down to its smallest cells, like the instrument of a great violinist in whom, when one says that he produces a beautiful sound, one means to praise not a physical property but a superiority of soul"- Proust (translated by Mark Treharne)

"When the change was made uptown and the big man joined the band, from the coastline to the city all the little pretties raised their hands"- Bruce
Springsteen

Quotes 8/11- Marcel Proust, Kris Kristofferson

2009-08-11T20:31:00.006-04:00

"Maybe it is the nothingness that is real and our entire dream is nonexistent, but in that case we feel that these phrases of music, and these notions that exist in relation to our dream, must also be nothing. We will perish, but we have for hostages these divine captives who will follow us and share our fate. And death in their company is less bitter, less inglorious, perhaps less probable"- Marcel Proust

"Yesterday is dead and gone and tomorrow's out of sight.
And it's sad to be alone. Help me make it through the night"- Kris Kristofferson

Quotes 8/8- Oscar Wilde, Wilco

2009-08-08T15:10:00.002-04:00

“I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works"- Oscar Wilde

"The best song will never get sung, The best life never leaves your lungs"- Wilco

Quotes 8/4, Marcel Proust, Bob Dylan

2009-08-04T18:00:00.005-04:00

"Whether it is that the faith which creates has dried up in me, or that reality takes shape in memory alone, the flowers I am shown today for the first time do not seem to me to be real flowers"- Marcel Proust

"Well I'm wearing the cloak of misery
And I've tasted jilted love
And the frozen smile upon my face
Fits me like a glove

Well I can't escape from the memory
Of the one that I'll always adore
All those nights when I lay in the arms
Of the girl from the red river shore
"- Bob Dylan

Quotes 7/29, Schopenhauer, Lotte Lenya

2009-07-29T22:38:00.005-04:00

"What I respect is truth, therefore I can't respect what opposes truth. Just as the jurist's motto is: fiat justitia et pereat mundus, [Let justice be done though the world perish] so my motto is: vigeat veritas et pereat mundus, [Let truth prosper though the world perish] Every profession ought to have an analogous device"- Schopenhauer

"And at noon there will fall a hush upon the harbor
And they'll ask: Who's to die?
And then you'll hear me order firmly: All!
when the heads fall I'll cry: Hoppla!

And the ship with eight sails
And with fifty cannons
Will sail off with me"- Lotte Lenya

Quotes 7/28- Bram Stoker, Charlie Feathers

2009-07-28T11:44:00.003-04:00

"I want to cut off her head and take out her heart"- Bram Stoker

"Well, the sun is gone down
And you're uptown
And you're just out runnin' around
I can't hardly stand it
You're troublin' me
I can't hardly stand
It just can't be
Well, you don't know, a-babe I love you so
You got me all tore up, all tore up"- Charlie Feathers

Quotes 7/27- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Bob Dylan

2009-07-27T14:42:00.002-04:00

"And let us sup with summer; ere the gleam
Of Autumn set the year's pent sorrow free,
And the woods wail like echoes from the sea"- Dante Gabriel Rossetti

"So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late"- Bob Dylan

7/26- Orson Welles, Neil Young

2009-07-26T16:16:00.004-04:00

"You understand what I mean by 'they'. You know who they are. They are not essentially Republicans, but they have seized the Republican party as a vehicle for their ambitions. They are the partisans of privelege- the champions of monopoly- the opponents of liberty, the adversaries of the small buisness man, amd the small farmer. They have been here a long time. They used to run the Earth and run the world of men, but now- just now- they're losing out. They are making one of their last stands in this election. Must I name them? You know who they are. They have a long, long, weary, bloody history"- Orson Welles

"Weve been through some things together
With trunks of memories still to come
We found things to do in stormy weather
Long may you run"- Neil Young

Quotes 7/25- Thoreau, Sam Cooke

2009-07-25T15:50:00.001-04:00

"Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East — to know who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them — who were above such trifling...

'What!' exclaim a million Irishmen starting up from all the shanties in the land, 'is not this railroad which we have built a good thing?' Yes, I answer, comparatively good, that is, you might have done worse; but I wish, as you are brothers of mine, that you could have spent your time better than digging in this dirt.”- Thoreau

"All day long they work so hard
Till the sun is goin' down
Working on the highways and byways
And wearing, wearing a frown
You hear them moanin' their lives away"- Sam Cooke

Quotes 7/24- Mallarme, Peggy Lee

2009-07-24T15:42:00.002-04:00

"The flesh is sad- and I've read every book"- Mallarme

"Is that all there is?"-Peggy Lee

Quotes 7/23- Emily Dickinson, Warren Zevon

2009-07-23T18:27:00.004-04:00

"Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell"- Emily Dickinson

"If I leave you it doesn't mean I love you any less
Keep me in your heart for a while"- Warren Zevon

Quotes 7/22- Walter Pater, Bob Dylan

2009-07-22T13:57:00.004-04:00

"Natural laws we shall never modify, embarrass us as they may; but there is still something in the nobler or less noble attitude with which we watch their fatal combinations"- Walter Pater

"Life is sad, life is a bust. All you can do is do what you must. You do what you must do, and you do it well. I do it for you, honey baby, can't you tell?"- Bob Dylan

Quotes 7/21- Christina Rossetti, Bob Dylan

2009-07-21T17:35:00.004-04:00

"Not wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim;
Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright;
Not as she is, but as she fills his dream"- Christina Rossetti

"Though nothing looks familiar to me
I know I've stayed here before
Once a thousand nights ago
With the girl from the red river shore"- Bob Dylan

Quotes 7/20- Euripides, Elvis

2009-07-20T18:25:00.003-04:00

"Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far"-Euripides

"When you left you know you told me
That some day you'd be returnin'
In a fancy car, all the town to see, oh yeah
Well now everyone is watching you
You finally had your dream, yeah
And you're ridin' in a long black limousine"- Elvis Presley

Quotes 7/19- Kings 18:41, Emmylou Harris

2009-07-19T15:54:00.004-04:00

"He said to his servant, 'go up now, look toward the sea'. He went up and looked, and said, 'There is nothing'"- Kings 18:41

"Well you really got me this time
And the hardest part is knowing I'll survive.
I have come to listen for the sound
Of the trucks as they move down
Out on ninety five
And pretend that it's the ocean
coming down to wash me clean, to wash me clean
Baby do you know what I mean"- Emmylou Harris

Quotes 7/18- Thoreau, John Lennon

2009-07-18T23:40:00.003-04:00

"Read the best books first or you may not have a chance to read them at all"- Thoreau

"Life is very short and there's no time"- John Lennon

Quotes 7/17- Browning, Tom Petty

2009-07-17T22:48:00.003-04:00

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"- Browning

"Oh and if perhaps I lose you in the smoke down the road, I want you to know you were the one"- Tom Petty

Quotes 7/16- Shakespeare, Bob Dylan

2009-07-16T22:38:00.003-04:00

"If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I'd have thee beaten for being old before thy time"- Shakespeare

"'We'll meet on edges, soon," said I
Proud 'neath heated brow"- Bob Dylan

Quotes 7/15- Tolstoy, Van Morrison and Pink Floyd

2009-07-15T14:03:00.004-04:00

"He could not renounce his actions, extolled by half the world, and therefore he had to renounce truth and goodness and everything human"- Tolstoy

"There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ships smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I cant hear what youre sayin.
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now"- Van Morrison and Pink Floyd

Quotes 7/14- James Joyce, The Beatles

2009-07-14T13:29:00.002-04:00

"...yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes."- James Joyce

"Na na na, na-na na na..."- The Beatles

Quotes 7/13- Anne Frank, U2

2009-07-13T19:21:00.004-04:00

"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands"- Anne Frank

"Walk on, Walk on
Leave it behind
You've got to leave it behind

All that you fashion
All that you make
All that you build
All that you break
All that you measure
All that you steal
Leave behind it behind
Leave it behind you've got to leave it behind

All that you reason
All that you sense
All that you speak
All you dress up
All that you scheme

Leave it behind, you've got to leave it behind "- U2

Quotes 7/12- Lew Wallace, Billy Joe Shaver

2009-07-12T17:15:00.004-04:00

"A precious specimen nick named 'The Kid', whom the Sheriff is holding here in the plaza, as it is called, is an object of tender regard. I heard singing and music the other night; going to the door, I found the minstrels of the village actually serenading the fellow in his prison"- New Mexico Territory Governor Lew Wallace on Billy the Kid in 1879

"Dance on the mountain,shout in the canyons
Swarm in a loose heard like a wild buffalo
Jamming our heads full of figures and angles
And telling us shit that we already know"- Billy Joe Shaver

Quotes 7/11, Basil King, Bruce Springsteen

2009-07-11T22:02:00.003-04:00

"Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid"- Basil King

"This is a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win"- Bruce Springsteen

Quotes 7/10- Samuel Johnson, Richard Tauber

2009-07-10T07:38:00.000-04:00

"You can never be wise unless you love reading"- Samuel Johnson

"Drink to me only with thine eyes"- Richard Tauber

Quotes 7/9- Yeats, The Everly Brothers

2009-07-09T19:29:00.003-04:00

"Enough to know they dreamed and are dead; And what if excess of love bewildered them till they died?"- Yeats

"Only trouble is, gee whiz, I'm dreaming my life away"- Everly Brothers

Quotes 7/8- John Ford, Waylon Jennings

2009-07-08T18:40:00.003-04:00

"I envy not the mightiest man alive,
But hold myself, in being king of thee,
More great than were I king of all the world.
But I shall lose you, sweetheart"- John Ford

"Never stop believing in your smile
Even though you didn't stay it was all worth while
You were the best thing in my life that I recall
You and me we had it all"- Waylon Jennings

Quotes 7/7- Tolstoy, Jerry Lee Lewis

2009-07-07T16:39:00.003-04:00

"It's all nonsense! One can kill, and steal, and still be happy..."- Tolstoy

"Well the way is dark
The night is long
I don't care if I ever get home
I'm waiting
At the end of the road

Well the stars may not shine
Neither the moon
What the heck we don't want no blues
I'm waiting
At the end of the road "- Jerry Lee Lewis

Quotes 7/6, Kierkegaard, Otis Redding

2009-07-06T08:00:00.001-04:00

"The cunning of one who is dead consists in this, that one does not get him away from where one left him"- Kierkegaard

"Sitting in the morning sun, I'll be sitting when the evening comes"- Otis Redding

Quotes 7/5, Goethe, The Beatles

2009-07-05T00:29:00.000-04:00

"As everything in the world amounts after all to nothing to speak of, a person who drudges for the sake of others, for money or honours or whatnot, without following his own ambition, his own need, is always a fool"- Goethe

"Life is very short and there's no time"- John Lennon

Quotes 7/4, Lincoln, Conway Twitty

2009-07-04T00:18:00.001-04:00

"The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature"- Abe Lincoln

"Hello darlin' nice to see ya
it's been a long time
you're just as lovely as you used to be
how's your new love are you happy
hope you're doin' fine
just to know it means so much to me"- Conway Twitty

Quotes 7/3- Hemingway, Paul Simon

2009-07-03T08:00:00.001-04:00

"The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life — and one is as good as the other"- Hemingway

"Kathy I'm lost I said. Though I knew she was sleeping. I'm empty and aching and I don't know why"- Paul Simon

Quotes 7/2, Kierkegaard, George Harrison

2009-07-02T08:00:00.001-04:00

"My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love"- Kierkegaard

"Without your love I'd be nowhere at all
Id be lost, if not for you"- George Harrison

Quotes 7/1- Oscar Wilde, The Beatles

2009-07-01T20:25:00.003-04:00

"Only the great masters of style ever suceed in being obscure"- Wilde

"Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9"- The Beatles

Quotes 6/30- William Blake, Lynyrd Skynyrd

2009-06-30T08:00:00.003-04:00

"...& is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification"- William Blake

"I never cared for school or any golden rules
Papa used to always say I was a useless fool
So I left my home
to show them they was wrong
And headed out on the road singing my song
Then one sunny day. the man, he looked my way
And everything that I dreamed of, it was real
Money, girls and cars; and big long cigars
And I caught the first plane home so papa would see

When I went home to show em they was wrong
All that I found was two tombstones
Somebody tell me please was I right or wrong
Oh, such a sad song
First I got lost, then I got found
But the ones that I love are in the ground
Papa I only wish you could see me now
Take a listen papa
Whoo, I learnt how to play my guitar
Gonna be a superstar

First I got lost, then I got found
The ones I love are in the ground
Wont you tell me please was I right or wrong

If theres any way you can hear what I say
Papa, I never meant to do you wrong
All the money, girls and cars. and all the words and all the cigars
Papa, I just want you to know they couldnt take your place

When I went home to show em they was wrong
All that I found was two tombstones
Somebody tell me please was I right or wrong
Oh, such a sad song
First I got lost, then I got found
But the ones that I love are in the ground
Somebody tell me please was I right or wrong"- Lynyrd Skynyrd

Quotes 6/29- Nietzsche, Bruce Springsteen

2009-06-29T08:00:00.005-04:00

"Every great phenomenon is followed by degeneration. Particularly in the realm of art..all great talents...seem to devestate the nature around them"- Nietzsche

"These things that have comforted me, I drive away
This place that is my home I cannot stay"- Bruce Springsteen

Quotes 6/28- Walter Benjamin, Bob Dylan

2009-06-28T08:00:00.005-04:00

"In the ruins of great buildings the idea of the plan speaks more impressively than in lesser buildings, however well preserved they are"- Walter Benjamin

"Once I had mountains in the palm of my hand,
And rivers that ran through ev'ry day.
I must have been mad,
I never knew what I had,
Until I threw it all away"- Bob Dylan

Quotes 6/27- Shelley, Neil Diamond

2009-06-27T08:00:00.004-04:00

"Bravely bearing on, thy will is destined an eternal war to wage with tyranny and falsehood, and uproot the germs of misery from the human heart"- Shelley

"'I am,' I said
To no one there
An no one heard at all
Not even the chair
'I am,' I cried
'I am,' said I
And I am lost,
and I can't even say why'"- Neil Diamond

Quotes 6/26- Emerson, Etta James

2009-06-26T08:00:00.006-04:00

"And though no muse can these impart, throb thine with nature's throbbing breast, and all is clear from east to west"- Emerson

"I don't want you to be no slave
I don't want you to work all day
I don't want you to be true
I just want to make love to you"- Etta James

Quotes 6/25- Johnson, Percy Sledge

2009-06-25T08:00:00.001-04:00

"It is better to live rich than to die rich"- Samuel Johnson

"I give you everything I have trying to hold on to your highclass love"- Percy Sledge

Quotes 6/24- Cervantes, Chuck Berry

2009-06-24T08:00:00.000-04:00

"What wonder that they should be frantic, when people who are in their senses canonize their frenzy"- Cervantes

"Sweet Little Sixteen
She's just got to have
About half a million
Framed autographs
Her wallet's filled with pictures
She gets 'em one by one
She gets so excited
Watch her look at her run

Oh mommy mommy
Please may I go
It's such a sight to see
Somebody steal the show
Oh daddy daddy
I beg of you
Whisper to mommy
It's all right with you"- Chuck Berry

Quotes 6/23- Aristotle, Faron Young

2009-06-23T08:00:00.006-04:00

"They do not make the good any more good by making it eternal; a white thing that lasts a long while is no whiter than what lasts but a day"- Aristotle

"I want to live fast love hard die young and leave a beautiful memory"- Faron Young

Quotes 6/22- Juvenal, The Temptations

2009-06-22T08:00:00.004-04:00

"What good man...thinks any human ills outside his concern"- Juvenal

"Ball of confusion, that's what the world is today"- The Temptaions

Quotes 6/21- Kerouac, Jackie Wilson

2009-06-21T08:00:00.002-04:00

"Nothin a junkey likes better than sittin with a new shot and knows tommorow's plenty more"- Jack Kerouac

"Now once I was downhearted, disapointment was my closest friend. But then you came and it soon departed and you know he never showed it's face again. That's why you're love keeps lifting me higher and higher. Keep lifting me higer and higher"- Jackie Wilson

Quotes 6/20- Goethe, Frankie Valli

2009-06-20T08:00:00.004-04:00

"'So long as I see these eyes open', I said, looking into hers intensely, 'there is no danger of my falling asleep'"- Goethe

"Pardon the way that I stare, there's nothing else to compare"- Frankie Valli

Free Mp3 6/19- The Traitor

2009-06-19T16:00:00.005-04:00

Leonard Cohen at his best is one of the greatest songwriters of all time. This song, Hallelujah, Tower of Song, Chelsea Hotel, and a couple others, are some of the best songs ever written. "And should rumour of a shabby ending reach you, it was half my fault and half the atmosphere"

The Traitor

Songs You Should Hear 6/19

2009-06-19T13:17:00.000-04:00

Ain't It A Shame- Nirvana

A great cover by Nirvana.

Quotes 6/19- Shakespeare, Sam Cooke

2009-06-19T08:00:00.002-04:00

"That nature, which contemns its origin, cannot be bordered certain in itself"- Shakespeare

"I was born by the river, in a little tent. And just like that river I've been running ever since"- Sam Cooke

Quotes 6/18- Keats, Bob Seger

2009-06-18T08:00:00.003-04:00

"She dwells with beauty- beauty that must die; And joy, whose hand is ever at his lips bidding adieu"- Keats

"And I remember what she said to me
how she swore that it never would end
I remember how she held me oh so tight
wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then"- Bob Seger

Songs You Should Hear 6/17- Simply Beautiful by Al Green

2009-06-17T14:36:00.004-04:00

Al Green- Simply Beautiful

One of Al's best songs. He had one of the greatest producers of all time in Willie Mitchell and this song is a good example of that. Soft and close is sometimes hard to do and there's no song that's ever been done half as soft or closer.

Quotes 6/17- James Joyce, The Beach Boys

2009-06-17T08:00:00.002-04:00

"His unremitting intellect is the hornmad Iago ceaselessly willing that the moor in him shall suffer"- James Joyce

"I keep looking for a place to fit
Where I can speak my mind
Ive been trying hard to find the people
That I wont leave behind

They say I got brains
But they aint doing me no good
I wish they could

Each time things start to happen again
I think I got something good goin for myself
But what goes wrong

Sometimes I feel very sad
Sometimes I feel very sad
(cant find nothin I can put my heart and soul into)
Sometimes I feel very sad
(cant find nothin I can put my heart and soul into)

I guess I just wasnt made for these times"- Brian Wilson

Videos You Should See 6/16- Johnny Rotten on the Death of Sid Vicious

2009-06-16T20:00:00.000-04:00

Johnny Rotten on the Death of Sid Vicious

From the great Sex Pistols documentary The Filth and the Fury, Johnny talks about Sid.

Free Mp3's 6/16- Under Your Possession Acoustic

2009-06-16T09:00:00.001-04:00

Girls and pills, acoustic style.

Under Your Possession Acoustic

Under Your Possession

Just like a gun your memory is pressing on the back of my tongue. Just like a loaded weapon.

Under your possession. You little pills are blessings. Under your possession. You little pills are blessings.

Don’t try to run from the things that they do. You can hide from everyone, but turn around they’ve caught you.

Under your possession. You little pills are blessings. Under your possession. You little pills are blessings.

I could never stand to turn my back on you, relationships are built on trust. Picking off the berries that have asked for you to lighten up your crush.

Drops in the sun. There’s nothing that will last you. When life is all done just leave me a last few.

Under your possession. You little pills are blessings. Under your possession. You little pills are blessings.

Quotes 6/16- Hemingway, The Beatles

2009-06-16T08:00:00.002-04:00

"That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best — make it all up — but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way" - Hemingway

"Expert, texpert choking smokers
don't you think the joker laughs at you
See how they smile like pigs in a sty
See how they snide
I'm crying

Semolina Pilchard
climbing up the Eiffel tower
Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna
Man, you should have seen them kicking
Edgar Allen Poe

I am the eggman
They are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g' joob"- The Beatles

Free Mp3 6/15- The House You Haunt

2009-06-15T13:17:00.002-04:00

A rotting, decrepit, steadfast heart.

The House You Haunt

The House You Haunt

What wraught the house that dreamed of you.
And stood in the night like a frame that had lost a jewel.
But one soul was kept to hold on to and walk forever in its halls and empty rooms.
Always I will be the house you haunt.
Always I will be the house you haunt.

Recalled to life through faded rooms.
The wasted and gone are shown by the light and move.
Who loved them best and let them go to rest in peace have found a home. Forget, but the walls will know.

Always I will be the house you haunt.
Always I will be the house you haunt.

Beneath the stars we made a tomb.
Awake in the night and see scrawled across the room.
"This world of ours is not for you"
They hold who's left alive who raise their home on the souls they lose.

Always I will be the house you haunt.
Always I will be the house you haunt

Videos You Should See 6/15- Dylan at Newport in '65

2009-06-15T11:56:00.001-04:00

Bob Dylan- Newport '65 Maggies Farm

The performance where Bob Dylan broke free.

Songs You Should Hear 6/15- Jesus of Suburbia

2009-06-15T11:54:00.001-04:00

Green Day- Jesus of Suburbia

My favorite Green Day song. Clearly influenced by the Who.

Quotes 6/15- Kierkegaard, The Clash

2009-06-15T08:00:00.001-04:00

"Let others complain that the times are wicked. I complain that they are paltry; for they are without passion"- Kierkegaard

"I'm so bored with the USA"- The Clash

Free Mp3 6/14- Connection

2009-06-14T15:40:00.002-04:00

This is a Stones song from the sixties. I like their original recording because it's so sloppy it's like they don't even care. The song is so fucking stupid that it's charming to me.

Videos You Should See 6/14- Lawdy Miss Clawdy from Elvis's 1968 Comeback Special

2009-06-14T11:52:00.001-04:00

Elvis- Lawdy Miss Clawdy 1968 Comeback Special

I love this song, I love this version.

Songs You Should Hear 6/14- Careful by the Wu Tang Clan

2009-06-14T11:49:00.001-04:00

Careful- Wu Tang Clan

I love the first lyrics in this song.

"Wait, hold up, chill, what's that son?
Damn.. nigga got fucked, shit, huh?!"

Quotes 6/14- Kurt Vonnegut, Johnny Cash and June Carter

2009-06-14T08:00:00.000-04:00

"It is never a mistake to say goodbye"- Vonnegut

"I believe my steps are growing wearier each day
Still I've got a journey on my mind
Lures of this old world have ceased to make me want to stay
and my one regret is leaving you behind.

If it proves to be his will that I am first to go
And somehow I've a feeling it will be
When it comes your time to travel likewise don't feel lost
For I will be the first one that you'll see.

And I'll be waiting on the far side banks of Jordan
I'll be waiting drawing pictures in the sand
And when I see you coming I will rise up with a shout
And come running through the shallow waters reaching for your hand.

Through this life we've labored hard to earn our meager fare
It's brought us trembling hands and failing eyes
I'll just rest here on this shore and turn my eyes away
and then you'll come then we'll see paradise.

And I'll be waiting on the far side banks of Jordan
I'll be waiting drawing pictures in the sand
And when I see you coming I will rise up with a shout
And come running through he shallow waters reaching for your hand.

And I'll be waiting on the far side banks of Jordan
I'll be waiting drawing pictures in the sand
And when I see you coming I will rise up with the shout
And come running through he shallow waters reaching for your hand"- Johnny Cash and june Carter

Songs You Should Hear 6/13- Too Many People by Paul McCartney

2009-06-13T15:50:00.001-04:00

Too Many People- Paul McCartney

This song has been interpreted as Paul attacking John and Yoko, and Paul has admited that at least some of the lines were written about them. John would respond with "How Do You Sleep At Night".

Too Many People Going Underground
Too Many Reaching For A Piece Of Cake
Too Many People Pulled And Pushed Around
Too Many Waiting For That Lucky Break
That Was Your First Mistake
You Took Your Lucky Break And Broke It In Two
Now What Can Be Done For You
You Broke It In Two

Too Many People Sharing Party Lines
Too Many People Never Sleeping Late
Too Many People Paying Parking Fines
Too Many Hungry People Losing Weight

That Was Your First Mistake
You Took Your Lucky Break And Broke It In Two
Now What Can Be Done For You
You Broke It In Two

Too Many People Preaching Practices
Don't Let Them Tell You What You Wanna Be
Too Many People Holding Back, This Is
Crazy And Maybe It's Not Like Me

That Was Your Last Mistake
I Find My Love Awake And Waiting To Be
Now What Can Be Done For You
She's Waiting For Me

Videos You Should See 6/13- Spinal Tap Clips

2009-06-13T11:47:00.001-04:00

Spinal Tap Clips

The best rock movie ever.

Free Mp3 6/13- K (Acoustic)

2009-06-13T08:10:00.003-04:00

K Acoustic Version

K

The stars are in the sky. The words are in my heart. I could let them out but I don’t know if I could get them back.
And life is short and hard. Shots in every bar. You take the tips the you pay the debts to push them off but they don’t come off.

Hey Kate, I’m out on my own here, I’m standing alone here. Hey Kate, don’t stand on your own babe, don’t stand all alone baby.

When the wishing stops and the hands arive, it’s a long drop and I can’t fly and I can’t fly.
There’s less and less I want. The list is getting small. I can’t make it stop it’s been to long it’s gone to far.

Hey Kate, I’m out on my own here, I’m standing alone here. Hey Kate, don’t stand on your own babe, don’t stand all alone baby.

And if we can’t go back. And this is how it ends. Here in this bar, I’m gonna try hard to remember for always the touch of your skin.

Hey Kate, I’m out on my own here, I’m standing alone here. Hey Kate, don’t stand on your own baby, don’t stand all alone baby.

Quotes 6/13- Yeats, Ben E. King

2009-06-13T08:00:00.000-04:00

"And may these characters remain when all is ruin once again"- Yeats

"If the sky that we look upon should tumble and fall
Or the mountain should crumble to the sea
I won't cry, I won't cry, no, I won't shed a tear
Just as long as you stand, stand by me"- Ben E. King

Free Mp3 6/12- No Plan B

2009-06-12T21:25:00.014-04:00

I was in a basement when I came up with this song. I was talking to this kid who was in a band and I asked him if he was planning on going back to school. He said that he wanted to make it in the music buisness and that "there is no plan B". This was a couple years ago, maybe he's given up by now or maybe he's still trying. Either way it was clear that he meant it at the time. A statement of devotion to the love you can't help but choose. The question is how much you're willing to sacrifice to what it is you are. Somethings you can change and somethings you can't - Alcholholics Anonymous.

No Plan B

No Plan B

Like a fever while it's thick on the vine. Once it's picked the juice is pouring like wine.
The soul's one record plays, "No Cause Like Mine". The walls and shutters shake. The boy is tied.

What could I do but cut down the cherry tree. There is no plan B.

Listen close and you can make out the whine of the signal from the stars to the spine.
Born and a toll to pay. One name to sign. Grip hard and make it plain. Or scratch and sigh.

What could I do but cut down the cherry tree. There is no plan B.

Let him bring forth what is inside, what he brings forth will save his life. If he does not, what he won't bring, will rot and destroy everything.

Burning bridges babe to give me some light. All around the ones who failed in the fight.
The friends you've thrown away. The bonds untied. The chant "Stars start only with selfish guys"

What could I do but cut down the cherry tree. There is no plan B.

No Plan B Live Solo Piano Version

Songs You Should Hear 6/12- There Ain't No Good Chain Gang- Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash

2009-06-12T15:00:00.000-04:00

There Ain't No Good Chain Gang- Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash

It's an awesome song from a 1978 Johnny Cash album. It went to number two on the charts.

"There ain't no good in an evil-hearted woman
And I ain't cut out to be no Jesse James
And you don't go writing hot cheques down in Mississippi
And there ain't no good chain gang"

Videos You Should See 6/12- Chuck Berry and Keith Richards Fight

2009-06-12T12:26:00.002-04:00

Chuck Berry and Keith Richards Fight

Chuck Berry getting annoyed at Keith Richards. This is from one of the greatest rock and roll documentaries ever, Hail Hail Rock 'N Roll.

Quotes 6/12- Oscar Wilde, Tom Jones

2009-06-12T08:00:00.002-04:00

"Without your art you are nothing"- Wilde

"I awakened this morning
I was filled with despair

all my dreams turned to ashes and were gone.
And I looked at my life it was barren and bare"- Tom Jones (Song by Danny Small)

Songs You Should Hear 6/11- Wrote a Song For Everyone by Creedence Clearwater

2009-06-11T15:47:00.001-04:00

Wrote a Song For Everyone by Creedence Clearwater

Aside from being one of the most consistent bands ever, Creedence Clearwater (and therefore John Fogerty) wrote some of the best lyrics of the 60's. This is a track off their 1969 album Green River. Although the large majority of their records don't really have a "contemporary", visions of the sixties, psychedelic, far out feel to them, Creedence's records WERE actually more locked into what was going on in the world at the time than almost any of their contemporaries. Vietnam is everywhere in their songs. It's the jungle in "Run Through the Jungle", it's obviously front and center in "Fortunate Son", and it's the war that the singer sees himself going to in this song.

Met myself a comin' county welfare line.
I was feelin' strung out, Hung out on the line.
Saw myself a goin', down to war in June.
All I want, All I want is to write myself a tune.

Wrote A Song For Ev'ryone,
Wrote a song for truth.
Wrote A Song For Ev'ryone
When I couldn't even talk to you.

Got myself arrested, Wound me up in jail.
Richmond 'bout to blow up, Communication failed.
If you see the answer, now's the time to say.
All I want, All I want is to get you down to pray.

Wrote A Song For Ev'ryone,
Wrote a song for truth.
Wrote A Song For Ev'ryone
When I couldn't even talk to you.

Saw the people standin' thousand years in chains.
Somebody said it's diff'rent now, look, it's just the same.
Pharoahs spin the message, round and round the truth.
They could have saved a million people, How can I tell you?

Wrote A Song For Ev'ryone,
Wrote a song for truth.
Wrote A Song For Ev'ryone
When I couldn't even talk to you.

Free Mp3 6/11- Right Here

2009-06-11T13:42:00.008-04:00

This is a home demo of a song I wrote called Right Here. It says "You don't have to go" to someone who's been gone for a long time. But if you find a way to say goodbye for your entire lifetime long then in a way that person's never really gone. And so here you are honey.

Right Here

Right Here

Put your hands against the glass. I wasn't young but you can call it that. When time and distance stab you in the back.

Honey you don't have to go. Some things change and some things don't. I've been around, been far and near, and all I want is to be right here.

And in the end it all rolled back. The sea beats out "Was it worth all that?"
And all I've got is what my heart beats back.

Honey you don't have to go. Some things change and some things don't. I've been around, I've been far and near, and all I want is to be right here.

And it's easy to forget. And what you want turns into what you get.
But while my heart can beat it won't forget.

Honey you don't have to go. Some things change and some things don't. I've been around, I've been far and near, and all I want is to be right here.

Videos You Should See 6/11- Don't Stop Believin' in the Sopranos Finale

2009-06-11T13:00:00.001-04:00

Don't Stop Believing in the last Sopranos

They always used music to great effect in the show, and they never used it better than in the last scene of the last episode. It's the last supper, "focus on the good times”, Don't Stop Believing. There was an awesome article that this guy named Bob Harris wrote about this episode, you can read it here.

Quotes 6/11- Charles Dickens, Roy Orbison

2009-06-11T08:00:00.000-04:00

"'It was a troubled dream?' said Richard, clasping both my guardian's hands eagerly.

"Nothing more, Rick; nothing more."

"And you, being a good man, can pass it as such, and forgive and pity the dreamer, and be lenient and encouraging when he wakes?"

"Indeed I can. What am I but another dreamer, Rick?'"- Dickens

"When I stop dreaming, that's when I'll stop loving you"- Roy Orbison (Song by the Louvin Brothers)

Free Mp3 6/10- That's Life

2009-06-10T13:30:00.009-04:00

Sinatra is as great as everyone says he is. That being said though, I never liked his version of this song, it always sounds stiff to me. It's a great song though, someone is contemplating suicide and the music is upbeat. If they're going to tap dance on your grave anyway you might as well tap dance all the way up to the hole.

Videos You Should See 6/10- Bono Sings With or Without You with Girl

2009-06-10T12:00:00.001-04:00

Bono sings With or Without You with girl

First off it's U2's best song, second, and I'm not really sure why, this is really moving to me. Springsteen brought a girl on stage in his Dancing in the Dark video (Courtney Cox), but it wasn't like this. That looked stupid; this looks beautiful.

Songs You Should Hear 6/10- From Boulder to Birmingham by Emmylou Harris

2009-06-10T11:00:00.002-04:00

From Boulder to Birmingham by Emmylou Harris

A great, great song by Emmylou Harris about her overdosed and dead mentor Gram Parsons. It's from off her 1975 debut album Pieces of the Sky and it's written by her and songwriter Bill Danoff. (Danoff also wrote the songs Take Me Home Country Roads and Afternoon Delight). Emmylou has yet to write, or co-write, a song anywhere near as good as this one is. I don't know who was responsible for the lyrics in the verses but they're the most beautiful and sad evocation of survivor's guilt that I've ever heard.

I don't want to hear a love song
I got on this airplane just to fly
And I know there's life below
But all that it can show me
Is the prairie and the sky

And I don't want to hear a sad story
Full of heartbreak and desire
The last time I felt like this
It was in the wilderness and the canyon was on fire
And I stood on the mountain in the night and I watched it burn
I watched it burn, I watched it burn.

Well you really got me this time
And the hardest part is knowing I'll survive.
I have come to listen for the sound
Of the trucks as they move down
Out on ninety five
And pretend that it's the ocean
coming down to wash me clean, to wash me clean
Baby do you know what I mean

Quotes 6/10- Mark Twain, John Denver

2009-06-10T08:00:00.000-04:00

"Heaven for the climate, hell for the company"- Mark Twain

"Country roads, take me home to the place I belong"- John Denver

Videos You Should See 6/9- Dave Mustaine and Lars Ulrich in Some Kind of Monster

2009-06-09T14:00:00.003-04:00

Dave Mustaine and Lars in Some Kind of Monster

The best scene from the Metallica documentary Some Kind of Monster. Getting kicked out of Metallica can make you a broken man.

Free Mp3 6/9- Make Love Easy

2009-06-09T13:22:00.003-04:00

I recorded this at a circus.

Make Love Easy

Make Love Easy

I know we've met some other time. Welcome back. Welcome back, it's been a long while.
We are running on such short time. In the snow the clocks still go, the tower bells chime.

Life is hard. Life is hard. There's so much that's hard. Make love easy.

In my dreams there's a place to hide. There's no tears cried, you're at my side, we skip the bad lines.
But I wake up to a world of sighs. Just what to do to get to you I just can't decide.

Life is hard. Life is hard. There's so much that's hard. Make love easy.

Coming round again to show the things that you have dropped into my bowl.
If you don't believe this never ends I've got something to show you, I've got something to show you, I've got something to show you.

Good things often get left behind to beg and die with hungry eyes in a ditch a mile wide.
Don't be guilty of such a crime. The verdict sent reads innocent when two hearts entwine.

Life is hard. Life is hard. There's so much that's hard. Make love easy.

Songs You Should Hear 6/9- Beggin' by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons

2009-06-09T10:00:00.002-04:00

Beggin'- Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons

An awesome 1967 song by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. The first time I heard it I thought it was something Kanye West produced.

Quotes 6/9- Lord Byron, The Coasters

2009-06-09T08:00:00.005-04:00

"Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;
The best of life is but intoxication"- Lord Byron

"If you feel like you wanna fly, just get a little high.
And if you can't get your black feet on the ground, just buy another round"- The Coasters (Song by Ashford & Simpson and Joey Armstead)

Free Mp3 6/8- Traitor's Way

2009-06-08T20:30:00.003-04:00

"Where does your loyalty lie?" is a question that human beings constantly have to answer. Clearly in the song the "correct" response seems to be "to the human race" (and in a broad sense I think it is), but lets get more specific. I was thinking about the Iraq war when I wrote the song, and about how nationalism leads to a disregard for the human life that doesn't live in the same place we do. And it does, and a major part of the song is clearly about that. But putting aside the Iraq war for a minute, what if you narrowed down the phrase "the land where you reside" to "the city that you live in"? Or how about to "the house that you live in"? Or how about even further to "the people in that house"?. So if it's, "to the human race or the people in your home" where does that leave you? If your child committed what you believed to be an awful crime would you turn them in? It's a disturbing question, it's certainly not a question that's original to me, and it's a question that the human race will have to ask themselves for as long as we're still around.

Traitor's Way

A Traitor’s Way

Where does your loyalty lie. To the human race or the land where you reside. And there’s a time when silence is the same as to hide. And there’s a time when a traitor’s way is not taking a side.

And from the heart through the fog and the sky. Through the crowd, pushing back against the tide.

Where does your loyalty lie. To the human race or the land where you reside. And there’s a time when silence is the same as to hide. And there’s a time when a traitor’s way is not taking a side.

Lifted up from the ground to your eyes. Look here past the haze, through their lies.

Where does your loyalty lie. To the human race or the land where you reside. And there’s a time when silence is the same as to hide. And there’s a time when a traitor’s way is not taking a side.