Of Rap and Riches.
Most rappers sing about how miserable they are despite their riches. Most people like them for the misery, as well as their own aspirations for the riches.
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Juice.
Life is a fruit. Your loved ones, your friends, are seeds. Practical details - living, work, love - are the pulp. Juice is the essence of the fruit, the experience. The lessons in life. The truth. What remains, the make-believe - books, films, ads - is pulp fiction.
A few good thoughts
Behavior Manipulation. That's today's advertising. It's not all bad. But most of it is. Bad ideas emerge from bad intentions. Or greed. Bad communication emerges from bad vision. Bad ads emerge from the lack of something better to say. Good advertising is about love. About liking a product and saying something good about it. About suggestions, rather than persuasion. About the power of thought rather than influence of media. About informing and participating, rather than beating competition. Good communication is about good nature. And good people. About a world of good. That only exists within a few. A few good men.
10 reasons why people like to sit in the sun
10. To sun-bathe - to get a tan 9. To concept 8. Because it's so nice :) 7. Because indoors is exciting only in the night 6. Because it makes them feel active ( bloody reptiles ! ) 5. Because it gives them a chance to wear summer-dresses, shorts and slippers - reason to look sexy 4. Because it takes away headaches 3.They feel good, sun makes them happy 2. Because it's science - sunlight in your eyes makes the happiness hormones come out 1. You can kick off your shoes.
Reading Wisdom
Here are a few quotes from the famous book 'How to win friends and influence people' by Dale Carnegie. “Benjamin Franklin, tactless in his youth, became so diplomatic, so adroit at handling people, that he was made American Ambassador to France. The secret of his success? ‘I will speak ill of no man,’ he said, ‘…and speak all the good I know of everybody.’” “Criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home.” “Abe Lincoln once remarked that ‘most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.’” “‘Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbour’s roof,’ said Confucius, ‘when your own doorstep is unclean.’” “‘A great man shows his greatness,’ said Carlyle, ‘by the way he treats little men.’” “Lincoln once began a letter saying: ‘Everybody likes a compliment.’ William James said: ‘The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.’” “If some people are so hungry for a feeling of importance that they actually go insane t...
To Shub, my friend.
At times like this, when streaming's bored the shit out of me, when skype only pings people yapping, when books are boring, and sleep elusive, would I rather be lonely or stitched to another ? They're both doorways to death, my friend doorways to misery - one cold, one fiery, they're both thieves, of your sanity, and unsuspectingly brutal cuts under your skin, rubbed with salt and frozen, numb, intoxicated, bitter, dark. They make us drunk without drinking, act without thinking, sunk without sinking, hope without hoping, headbang without rocking, live life without stopping. And we, hopeful, hopeless, fresh-faced, clueless fools, swing for want from one to another, imagining our happiness in dreams far from real. Life is a sewage of mazes, my friend, there's no happiness. only illusion.
