This might be my favorite music video ever. Maybe my favorite opening song lyric ever.
…Track #5 from Disc 1 of Jamey Johnson‘s latest album, The Guitar Song.
Life seems to go on without effort
“I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs, and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.”
…from The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot
Every minute is a short story
“When you’re a hunted man, every minute is a short story with a happy ending.”
…from Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts
My hope for a new year
“There was a time when reading wasn’t just for fags. And neither was writing. People wrote books and movies. Movies with stories, that made you care about whose ass it was and why it was farting. And I believe that time can come again!”
…Private Joe Bauers, Idiocracy
Tuning fork struck on a star
“So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her.”
…Scotty Fitzgerald, from The Great Gatsby, Chapter Six
Alright, alright…so I already stole that one…
So I left you to find my very own hat full of rain
“And now my lights, they never go down,
They waltz the moon and stars for me now
So you can find some local libertine
To take your daughters out on the town
And I can feel it in my aging bones
How the sound of the rain mixes up
Into the fountains where I drank my hero’s blood
So I left you to find my very own hat full of rain”
…from Orphans, Track #6 off of The Gaslight Anthem‘s American Slang
A self, like a needle, pushing in a vein
“and it was as if that was all God wanted:
not a wife, a house or a position,
but a self, like a needle, pushing in a vein.”
…from Olympia, by Henri Cole
Bamboo Mat
竹簟
元稹
竹簟衬重茵,
未忍都令卷.
忆昨初来日,
看君自施展.
Bamboo Mat
by Yuan Zhen
I cannot bear to put away,
the bamboo sleeping mat:
that night I brought you home,
I watched you roll it out.
…translated by Sam Hamill, from The Erotic Spirit
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