Psychedelic Punk and Blues band from Long Island NY USA
Long Island, New York
Joined July 2012
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“… Cassio. … O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!” #Othello #Shakespeare #1622
“… he who would claim to have all truth and the only truth, is a bigot, a fool, or a knave.” #RalphWaldoTrine #InTuneWithTheInfinite
“… People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didnt believe in that. Tomorrow wasnt getting ready for them. It didnt even know they were there.” #TheRoad #CormacMcCarthy
“… What floods of native blood are spilt!
What sewers of treason drain our land!
How many scourges have we felt
In the late aspiring tyrant’s hand!” - from “Perfidious Britain” #CanterburyPoets #JacobiteSongsAndBallads
“… Is it possible to ‘know’ with closed eyes? It is, if the mind doesn’t close with the eyes.” #AmitGoswami #TheCosmicDancers
“… the only limit to our knowledge is the labour that can be devoted, and the number of centuries we are content to wait.” #ArthurStanleyEddington #StellarMovementsAndTheStructureOfTheUniverse
“…everything was madness, intemperance, delirium. —Come on, come on, enjoy yourselves, life is short. Bad days are numerous; who knows if today will have for you a tomorrow. Have fun, then! Take pleasure in everything and everywhere.” #EugeneSue #KernokThePirate
“… Look at a man in the midst of trouble and danger, and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is. It is then that true utterances are wrung from the depths of his heart. The mask is torn off; the reality remains.” #Lucretius #OnTheNatureOfTheUniverse
“‘… there are only two options open: dumb obedience or revolt.’” - #HonoréDeBalzac #PèreGoriot
“Time only—time and the event, will convince incredulity.”
#QuentinDurward #WalterScott #PatrickBraybrooke #MomentsWithBurnsScottAndStevenson
“Our mentality was to go for it, whatever ‘It’ might be. Like dropping in on a wave or hitting the half-pipe on a skateboard. Maybe something amazing will happen. Maybe you’ll splatter all over the place. You won’t find out sitting on the sidelines…” #KeithMorris #MyDamage
“Fame is the thirst of youth,—but I am not
So young as to regard men’s frown or smile
As loss or guerdon of a glorious lot;
I stood and stand alone,—remembered or forgot.” #LordByron #ChildeHaroldsPilgrimage
“… He once told me that he would rather do a favour to an enemy than to a friend, because, in the latter case, it would mean selling his beneficence, whilst hatred only increases proportionately to the magnanimity of the adversary.” #AHeroOfOurTime #MikhailLermontov
“Zero
Is where the Real Fun starts.
There’s too much counting
Everywhere else!”
#Hafiz #IHeardGodLaughing #DanielLadinsky