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.."In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman..." -Nancy Astor
.."Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world..'s estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences..." —Susan B. Anthony
"You knock on twenty doors or so, and twenty guys tell you to go to hell, or that they haven’t got time. But maybe at the fortieth or sixtieth house you find the one guy who is all you need."
-César Chávez
"You are never strong enough that you don’t need help."
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Pull an A in summer school Bangsisms
"Don’t ask me why I obsessively look to rock ’n’ roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I guess it’s just that I glimpsed something beautiful in a flashbulb moment once, and perhaps mistaking it for prophecy have been seeking its fulfillment ever since."
"Lou Reed is my own hero principally because he stands for all the most fucked-up things that I could ever possibly conceive of.Which probably only shows the limits of my imagination."
"Style is originality; fashion is fascism.The two are eternally and unalterably opposed."
"All it takes is insane persistence and a total disregard for everything but getting that yawp out if you gotta howl at the moon. And obviously most folks aren’t gonna howl at the moon just to prove a point."
"The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no."
"At its best New Wave/punk represents a fundamental and age-old Utopian dream: that if you give people the license to be as outrageous as they want in absolutely any fashion they can dream up, they'll be creative about it, and do something good besides."
"They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again."
"I mean I think that it's very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to wear a Chairman Mao button, or do a lot of these things with out knowing what's behind it, and what it really means."
...I'll admit in front that I have a special affinity for things that don't quite fit into any given demarcated category, partly because I'm one of those perennial misfits myself by choice as well as fate or whatever. By profession, I am categorized as a rock critic. I'll accept that, especially since the whole notion that someone has a 'career' instead of just doing whatever you feel like doing at any given time has always amused me when it didn't make me wanna vomit. O.K., I'm a rock critic. I also write and record music. I write poetry, fiction, straight journalism, unstraight journalism, beatnik drivel, mortifying love letters, death threats to white jazz critics signed 'The Mau Maus of East Harlem,' and once a year my own obituary (latest entry: 'He was promising...'). The point is that I have no idea what kind of a writer I am, except that I do know that I'm good and lots of people read whatever it is I do, and I like it that way."
"...I’m really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there’s something inherently, even violent about it, it’s wild and raw and all this. On the other hand, the fact is that ‘Sugar Sugar’ is great Rock 'n' Roll, and there’s nothing rebellious about that at all. I mean that’s right from the belly and heart of capitalism..."
"I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic is still my greatest pride, because I would rather write like a dancer shaking my ass to boogaloo inside my head, and perhaps reach only readers who like to use books to shake their asses, than to be or write for the man cloistered in a closet somewhere reading Aeschylus while this stupefying world careens crazily past his waxy windows toward its last raving sooty feedback pirouette."
"What is more American than the garage band? Call up a bunch of your buddies, get some six-packs or some weed, plus a guitar or two, a bass or drum kit, and you've got instant fantasies about instant stardom. Of course, at certain times and places, fantasy and reality have intersected, and that is part of what rock is all about. Given that the greatest garage bands could barely play, we may assume not only that virtuosity has nothing to do with the form, but also that the utopian dream of everyman an artist come true right here, in our suburban land of opportunity--the ultimate proof that rock & roll is the most democratic and all-American of art forms."
"Bubblegum, after all, is the bottom line of rock & roll. It matters because the real truth is that there will always be at least one tender spot deep in the heart of rock & roll which should never grow up and never will. So you're all welcome to your hash pipes. I'm a Fleer man myself." Great Quotes .."E.T. fo-fo.." -Ari..as a tiny tiny child. She had no intentions of being cool, it just happened.
.."AH! SCENE KIDS!.." -Ari
.."You know I do DDRMAX and eat bacon at the same time..." - Alejandra
.."I dreamed ET was trying to shoot me while wearing gray sweats..." -Alejandra
Me: and so..emo was born..
.."I learned that stools don..'t float..." -Alejandra
*singing* aaaawwwooooeeeeoobleeeeeuu..I don..'t understand what they..'re saying i just like the pitch.."-Ari
.."Karma has leukemia???.." - Kenyon
.."I..'m the Hulk!!!!!!!!.." *unbuttons sleeve* - Me
.."You can..'t let them win! They play like girls!.."-Coach Gage. Yes. This was during the girl..'s tennis season. dear god.
ha..but you gotta admit that was funny
.."THIS IS GOD. YOUR SERVE WILL BE IN..." -Me..tennis practice is interesting
.."this is God. Wake UP!.."-Me...if I haven..'t called you and said that to you, or if you haven..'t been there when I..'ve done that...you haven..'t lived. ha
.."No not the ..'gringo,..' the white boy!.." -Jennie
.."Five.." -Liv
*in the middle of art test* .."What the hell is Newton doing here?.." -Mamma
.."Because....'I..'m bad!..'.." - Liv
.."I am shoving the spoon of espanol down your throats!.." - Ms. Simms..she wasn..'t trying to be funny. She was serious. That made it funnier..."I didn..'t swear blow anything up! ::whispers::today..." - Heather
Mary: How cool would it be to be like Gandhi?
Heather: That..'s be awesome! You..'d be like .."EAT MY...flowers..." =D
.."Heather, Mary, Beatriz.." -Heather and I
.."No, she teaches better than you do..." -One of mom..'s students. It was his response to another math teacher asking him if my mom..'s class was hard.
::Reaches for an oreo:: .."This is going to be cannibalism.." -Timmy
.."See that BIG blue thing???.." -Heather
.."I can..'t walk that fast, my legs are too tiny!!.." - Heather
.."Chepsi.." - Heather..she was trying to say .."Pepsi.."
.."That..'s my backyard. And those are my brother..'s bubbles..." -Heather
hahah..Heather was funny today.
.."I..'m diggin..' this plate..." - heather
.."OOh OH YEAH look at the sexy, purple sock!.." - Sydnie
.."i just like the blue light sound.."-liv
.."damn you chad i effing love church.." - liv
.."But I didn..'t buy any pantyhose!.."-Ale
.."It..'s the center of the indie universe.."
"See, that's why I'm not an ant." -David