Category Archives: Other peoples words

It Is The Time of Monsters and We Keep Feeding the Monsters

Posted on August 4, 2015 by randomyriad

“Perhaps the most succinct characterization of the epoch which began with the First World War is the well-known phrase attributed to Gramsci: “The old world is dying away, and the new world struggles to come forth: now is the time … Continue reading →

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Tilda Reads Rumi So Perfectly

Posted on July 26, 2015 by randomyriad

Tilda Swinton can read anything for me anytime she wants to. I would even listen to 50 Shades of Gray or Ayn Rand, if she would only breathe her magic into them. How does a woman enter poetry and live … Continue reading →

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4 More Quotes to Save the World by

Posted on July 22, 2015 by randomyriad

“They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.” – Mexican Proverb “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, … Continue reading →

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The Importance of Survival, Questioning the Obvious and The Rejection of Complicity in the Madness: We Need to Think About These Things.

Posted on July 4, 2015 by randomyriad

Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of … Continue reading →

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I’m Still Learning It- Chris Smither and a Lifetime of Killing the Blues.

Posted on June 28, 2015 by randomyriad

Originally posted on The Immortal Jukebox:
‘Somebody said they saw me, swinging the world by the tail, Bouncing over a white cloud – killing the blues’. (Roly Salley) ‘I been left for dead before – but I still fight on…

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