meager violence
When I'm not at work, I spend time with my wife, read many books, try to write the kind of stuff I want to read, and stomp around old, dusty places to shoot photos I want to see.
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“I’ve seen that things find their void when they search for direction.” - Federico Garcia Lorca
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“I was born to hustle roses down the avenues of the dead.” - Charles Bukowski
photos by Jay Halsey
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“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
photos by Jay Halseymosaic skull by Matthew Alexander
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“I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It’s still my symbol of rebellion — against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others’ ideas.” - Johnny Cash
photos by Jay Halsey
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“The people wait. Sweltering in the glare, roasting in their cars bright as beetles under the soft roar of the sun.” – Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang
photos by Jay Halsey
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“This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.” - Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
photos by Jay Halsey
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“On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.” - Cormac McCarthy, The Road
photos by Jay Halsey
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“It’s not money, it’s feeling—you don’t feel anything, and we feel too violently.” - Ponyboy Curtis
photos by Jay Halsey
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My wife just made a joke about having a hot date at work after I complimented her looks when she arrived home.
Me: Does he have enough money to pay our bills?
Her: No. He lost his savings of 100 dollars at the horse tracks.
Turns out she’s got a student whose dad is a rancher, and let him bet his 100 bucks on the track. Kid lost it all. Lessons are learned in all ways.words and photos by Jay Halsey
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We kept watching the numbers and we drove higher and higher into the hills and the houses got richer and richer and I got more nervous. It’s true that the richer people became the less human they became, and so I began to get unhappy. Nervous and unhappy.
— Charles Bukowski -
Don’t ask me anything. I’ve seen that things find their void when they search for direction. There is a sorrow of holes in the unopened air, and in my eyes clothed creatures—undenuded!
— Federico Garcia Lorca -
For remember, in any movement there are opportunists, power-grabbers, wolves in Revolutionary clothing. These are the men who bring down a Cause. I am for a better world, for my child, for myself, for you, but be careful. A change of power is not a cure. Power to the people is not a cure. Power is not a cure. The whole accent of your thinking must not be how to destroy a government, but how to create a better one. Don’t be trapped and fooled again. And if you win, beware of a very Authoritarian government with rules that might bind you worse than ever before.
— Charles Bukowski
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Man is the only animal that has True Religion—several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself, and cuts his throat if his theology isn’t straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother’s path to happiness and heaven.
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For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can’t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don’t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
— Charles Bukowski (via heoro)
