Posts Tagged ‘ sever the cucumber from the vine ’

the vines and the trash of life

November 5, 2009
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the vines and the trash of life

Now you’re gone, and it’s hotels and whiskey and sad-luck dames And I don’t care if they miss me, I never remember their names They say if you get far enough away, you’ll be on your way back home Well, I’m at the station, and I can’t get on the train Must be blind love, only kind of love is stone blind love Blind love, the only kind of love is stone blind love With your blind love, oh it’s blind love, stone blind love It’s your stone blind love -tom waits ps- it all goes to shit in the end. Eat a cucumber, make it tangy. it\’s over

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cut the fruit from the vine, and the whole world falls away

November 3, 2009
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cut the fruit from the vine, and the whole world falls away

I used to have a definite deathwish. During my twenties, I decided that I would kill myself when I turned 33. I wasn't depressed, I simply didn't want to grow old. “Decrepitude” has such a nasty ring to it—did then, still does—and an even nastier smell. And now, almost four years past that expiration date, I can report that I was being stupid. But then I go and write stuff like the following...

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this week on the avant guardian \/\/ sever the cucumber from the vine

November 2, 2009
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this week on the avant guardian \/\/ sever the cucumber from the vine

“The same thing can be both good and bad. Whenever you speak of good, bad is also present. The world is a mixture of both. There is not good without bad. They are both sides of the same coin. Both are necessary. We have been given free will and discriminating capacity to select what is beneficial to us and to avoid what is detrimental to us. Even cobra poison can be used as medicine.” HH Sri Swami Satchidananda

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