Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank--but that's not the same thing.
Schizophrenics, carnie barkers, and displaced Russians whose casual conversation goes like this, "You ever been with an Asian, Eh? They are the best, the Asians."
Rah Brahs, Raincoats, Leonard Cohen, Coachwhips, Dead Prez, Bad Dudes, His Hero is Gone, Flying Saucers. Indian Jewelry, Wu Tang, Mika Miko, Bad Dudes, High On Fire, Hospitals, Contortions, Shoplifting, The Intelligence, Suicide, A-Frames, Piranhas, Men's Recovery Project, and so on.
"But it seemed to Joe that none of these--Faustian hubris, least of all-- were among the true reasons that impelled men, time after time, to hazard the making of golems. The shaping of a golem, to him, was a gesture of hope, offered against hope, in a time of desperation. It was the expression of a yearning that a few magic words and an artful hand might produce something--one poor, dumb, powerful thing--exempt from the crushing strictures, from the ills, cruelties and inevitable failures of the greater creation. It was the voicing a vain wish, when you got down to it, to escape. To slip, like the Escapist, free of the entangling chain of reality and the straight jacket of physical laws. Harry Houdini had roamed the Palladiums and Hippodromes of the world emcumbered by an entire cargo-hold of crates and boxes, stuffed with chains, iron hardware, brightly painted flats and hokum, animated all the while only by this same desire, never fulfilled: truly to escape, if only for an instant; to poke his head through the borders of this world, with its harsh physics, into the mysterious spirit world that lay beyond. The newspaper articles that Joe has read about the upcoming senate investigation into comic books always cited "escapism" among the litany of injurious consequences of their reading, and dwelled on the pernicious effect, on young minds, of satisfying the desire to escape. As if there could be any more noble or necessary service in life."Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
George Deasey & Larry Dake mariah and bobby