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- Kuz0
now where's that kelpie the brave thread whence one needs it?
- Kuz0
"I still have my hair, and when I recovered I took my feeble lungs, and Seeing Red, to Philadelphia. I was going to meet a man who, more than any other I know, lives absorbed in the present moment. My film director friend Ian Knox and I drove from New York and, close on midnight, arrived at the home of Pat Martino, the subject of the film we were making. As a young jazz guitar virtuoso starting out alongside John Coltrane, Pat was one of the finest musicians of his generation. Insect-thin and fastidiously dressed in black with cropped white hair, he is cadaverously handsome and unsettlingly serene. We sent out for Chinese food and got talking. With a catalogue of successful albums to his name, and on the brink of a major new recording deal, Pat became seriously ill. He was diagnosed with manic depressive disorder, but then the seizures started. The brain scans revealed a large arteriovenous malformation in his left temporal lobe. The surgery that saved his life wiped his memory. He had no idea who he was and didn't recognise his parents. The amnesia ripped selfhood from his brain. Nothing mattered; life was meaningless; he was nobody. They tried to coax him back to being the "somebody" he once was. His father would play Pat's old records at full volume—an intolerable torment. Pat could stand it no longer and left. He drifted, for a time living in Japan and then Amsterdam. He was recalled to Philadelphia on the death of his mother. His father died soon afterwards, and it was too much. Pat's life fell apart, and he ended up once more on a psychiatric ward. But it was there that an astute psychiatrist gave him a primitive computer to play with. It contained a music program, and Pat began to play, like a child with a toy. There was nothing to achieve, nowhere to go, forward or backward, nothing to do except play. It was an epiphany. It was like being born again, he says, but "living entirely in the moment." The music mattered; life was meaningful; he was somebody. And with music as the golden thread, he began to weave a new version of himself. He took up the guitar again, studying technique, via tuition videos, from a great teacher—his former self. Pat's memory is now substantially recovered, but he still has a residual, Zen-like focus on the "now." He claims to have a heightened sense of aliveness, of selfhood, of the sheer privilege of being alive. In the Moment is what we're calling the film."
Paul Broks
- CALLES0
Quote of the Day:
It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers.
Anon
- allterrain0
"Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized".
- Adolf Hitler
- FrdmOfSpch0
"When you desire the common good, the whole world de­sires with you. Make humanity's desire your own and work for it. There you cannot fail,"
Mahraja Sankaracharya
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Quote of the Day:
Up in space when you see a sunset or sunrise, the light is coming to you from the sun through that little shell of the Earth’s atmosphere and back out to the spacecraft you’re in. The atmosphere acts like a prism. So for a short period of time you see not only the reds, oranges and yellows, the luminous quality like you see on Earth, but you see the whole spectrum red-orange-yellow-blue-green-ind... You come back impressed, once you’ve been up there, with how thin our little atmosphere is that supports all life here on Earth. So if we foul it up, there’s no coming back from something like that.
John Glenn, first American to orbit the Earth (1962) and former US senator.
- lowimpakt0
"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."
Frank Zappa
- kezza_20
It's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better."
Mr J. Ive
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Quote of the Day:
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
Shakespeare ('A Midsummer's Night Dream')
- grunttt0
"i love to roll your balls around in my hands. in a little while i'm going to put your balls in my mouth"
-my wife, last night...... we were making sausage balls.
- v-gates0
Liiving has become the ideology of its own absence.
Theodor Adorno
- CALLES0
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
Simone Weil
- flavorful0
The liberals can understand everything but people who don’t understand them.
- Lenny Bruce
- Ampersanderson0
"let's collectively blow on it."
— my boss
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Quote of the Day:
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
- skt0
Quote of the Day:
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson
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(May 8 07, 08:09)haha, that's quality.
- Witt0
^ lol
- geralddean0
Come a lil' closer.. I won't eat you!
- said the spider to the fly
- flavorful0
“Death, Sadness, Despair, and Disease; The myriad miseries of our quotidian existence. Life is suffering, the world is sorrow. History is a nightmare of which no man can awake, and time is the dolliest thread doomed to perpetually circumnavigate in ever wider circles the pool of fate.”
- Stephen Colbert