"Almost cut my hair, it happened just the other day, ...But I didn't, and I wonder why. Feel like letting my freak flag fly and I feel like I owe it to someone." -- Crosby # "Psychedelics were probably the single most significant experience in my life. Psychedelics didn't give me any answers. What I have is a lot of questions." -- Jerry Garcia # "We made mad love, shadow love, random love, and abandoned love, Accidentally, like a martyr. The hurt gets worse, and the heart gets harder." -- Warren Zevon, "Accidentally, Like a Martyr" # "His hair was perfect." -- Warren Zevon, "Werewolves of London" # "The world is simply not black and white. In fact, today it looks kind of paisley. Oh oh..." -- Kent Stewart # "I don't want no peace. I need equal rights and justice." -- Peter Tosh # "Let's have a party, and end the war." -- The Desert Peach Musical # "Fan mail. I'm getting fan mail." -- Erwin Rommel, The Desert Peach Musical # "Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love, and let us value the gossip of nasty old women at less than half a penny." -- Catallus # "Not every girl can jump into a tank and go and look for eternal youth. You should be proud." -- Hewlitt & Martin # "Our secret weapons seemed to be working perfectly... Two pairs of Wrangler flares, charged with the magical powers of heavenly soul enlightenment and ultimate awareness." -- Hewlitt & Martin # "Anybody that can talk baseball with Nixon in the east and cover a presidential campaign in California while riding a Vincent powered motorcycle can carry a gun in my presence." -- Dick Winningstad # "Don't ruin your best pipe trying out a new drug." -- Minstrel # "Give yourself over to absolute pleasure. Swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh. Erotic nightmares beyond any measure. And sensual daydreams to treasure forever. -- The Rocky Horror Picture Show # "Whatever happened to Fay Wray, that beautiful, satin-draped frame? As it clung to her thigh, how I started to cry, 'cause I wanted to be dressed just the same." -- Dr. Frank N. Furter # "Great poetry is more than good advice." -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko # "In a world of scarce prison resources, sending a drug offender to prison for one year is equivalent to freeing a violent criminal to commit 40 robberies, 7 assaults, 110 burglaries, and 25 auto thefts." -- James Ostrowski # | |.| |.| |\./| |\./| . |\./| . \^.\ |\\.//| /.^/ \--.|\ |\\.//| /|.--/ \--.| \ |\\.//| / |.--/ \---.|\ |\./| /|.---/ \--.|\ |\./| /|.--/ \ .\ |.| /. / _ -_^_^_^_- \ \\ // / -_^_^_^_- _ - -/_/_/- ^ ^ | ^ ^ -\_\_\- - # | Just Say No: |.| |.| To Bigger Government... |\./| |\./| Higher Taxes... . |\./| . \^.\ |\\.//| /.^/ \--.|\ |\\.//| /|.--/ And More Crime. \--.| \ |\\.//| / |.--/ \---.|\ |\./| /|.---/ \--.|\ |\./| /|.--/ Just Say No- \ .\ |.| /. / _ -_^_^_^_- \ \\ // / -_^_^_^_- _ -To Prohibition. - -/_/_/- ^ ^ | ^ ^ -\_\_\- - # "In countries where coca use is tolerated it is either ingested by chewing the leaves or in a tea or beverage. What would we think of people who based down caffeine and smoked it? That is what they think of us." -- Jim Kaade # "Hi, my name is Jim and I'm a recovering gun controller..." -- Jim Miller # "Lao-Tzu's social philosophy is that violence is wrong, and that the best government is neither kind nor harsh, but rather barely detectable." -- Larry Gonick # _ __ __ __ __ __ ' ) ) / ` / ) / ) / ` /--' /-- /--/ / /-- / (___, / ( (__/ (___, # "As regards pacifism, I have respect for the position, if it comes from someone who is honestly willing to take a sound thrashing and not lift a finger in their own defense. Most of the 'pacifists' I know don't hesitate to delegate a sound thrashing onto someone else by calling police." -- William Abernathy # "The thought of sending goons with guns to enforce pacifism by taking my property from me is one of the more amusing hypocrisies of the 'peace-loving' gun banner. Witness the love-in at Waco." -- William Abernathy # "How can you expect your children to respect authorities who will ruin a person's life for possession of marijuana or put a man in jail for using a drug with the abuse potential of a cocktail?" -- Dr. David Smith # "The problem is that the only thing worse than Guns n' Roses is censorship." -- The Economist, 12/23/89 # "The DEA hates LSD because it epitomizes many of the best characteristics of the alternative drug culture: it is non- addictive, rarely causes crime or violence, and often begets strong spiritual feelings. Moreover, it is distributed by people who have a strong ethical sense that is difficult for narcotics agents to penetrate." -- Dale Gieringer, California Drug Policy Reform Coalition # "Refrigerator... Why are we always sooner or later... Bitchin' in the kitchen or crying in the bedroom all night." -- Shock Treatment # _ ( | ___\ \ (__() `-| (___() | (__() | (_()__.--| # "LSD has an unfortunate, but unavoidable side-effect. It makes rich white Republicans look like fascist toads." -- Barry Smith # "Physics as we know it will be over in six months." -- Max Born, 1928 # "I wish I had Angels who sang in my dreams." -- Nanci Griffith, If Wishes Were Changes # "There's a storm out on the ocean; God bless the ships at sea. There's a storm down in my lover's heart, Oh, God bless me." -- Nanci Griffith, Storms # "If wishes were changes, we'd all live in roses, and there wouldn't be children who cried in their sleep." -- Nanci Griffith, If Wishes Were Changes # "When women are done wrong in blues songs, they generally do some major butt whuppin' before the song is over." -- Wayne Bledsoe # "You are a fluke of the universe. You have no right to be here. And whether you believe it or not, the universe is laughing behind your back." -- Deteriorata # "Fortune comes a crawlin', Calliope woman, Spinnin' that curious sense of your own; Can you answer? Yes, I can... But what would be the answer to the answer man? -- St. Stephen (Grateful Dead) # "Always loved the girl next door -- anyplace but home!" -- Bill Monroe, "Free Born Man" # "Weave a circle 'round him thrice; Avert your eyes with holy dread; For he on honey dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of paradise." # "In Xanadu did Kublai Khan A stately pleasure dome decree, Where Alph, the sacred river ran, Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea." # "The bus may be different, but it's the same trip." -- Grace Slick # "What is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?" -- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland # "She had read several nice little stories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts, and other unpleasant things, all because they WOULD not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; and that, if you cut your finger VERY deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked "poison", it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later." -- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland # "Ain't no doubt about it, we were doubly blessed; 'cause we were barely seventeen and we were barely dressed." -- Meat Loaf (Paradise by the Dashboard Lights) # "I've been lonely, I've been cheated, I've been misunderstood. I've been washed up, I've been put down, and told I'm no good; But with you I belong, cause you help me be strong. There's a change in my life, since you came along." -- "Change in My Life" (Leap of Faith) # "He died of a rare disease. Symbolism." -- Freedom Beast, Animal Man #13 # "My opinions are mine and mine alone (unless I only live in your dream, in which case they are yours and I denounce all responsibility)." -- Scott Johnson # "I smoke two joints in time of peace, two in time of war; I smoke two joints before I smoke two joints, and then I smoke two more." -- The Toys # "Surely both in China and in Japan, art is what we create when we are unable to suppress our feelings." -- Ki No Tsurayuki # "Life's a dance. You learn as you go." # "Dancing is especially known by its circulation of the blood, to keep off the disease of old age." -- Suma Genji # "Won't you take that ride ride ride ride, on heavy metal... It's the only way that you can travel down that road..." -- Heavy Metal # "So farewell to the guns and the drilling and the marching, and when I get back home no more soldierin' for me." -- Rostover # "Around and around and around went the big sails, turning the shaft and the great wooden wheel. Creaking and groaning, the millstone kept turning grinding to flour the good corn from the fields." -- Windmill # "You're a damned fool if you stay, but there's no better place to go." -- Haul Down the Sails # "And the young people ask, what are they marching for.... and I ask myself the same question. And the band plays Waltzing Mathilda; and the old men still answer the call and year after year, the numbers get fewer... someday no one will march there at all." -- Waltzing Mathilda # "Waltzing Mathilda, Waltzing Mathilda; Who'll come a Waltzing Mathilda with me? and their ghosts may be heard as they march by the billabong, who'll come a Waltzing Mathilda with me." -- Waltzing Mathilda # "Never knew there were worse things than dying." -- Waltzing Mathilda # "The psilocybin mushroom has an overdose level of about half the victim's body weight. Pretty hard to swallow in one go. Especially on toast." -- Derek Tearn # "Now you tow it to the repo-man's front door, and you give him these keys, I don't need 'em no more." -- Come a Long Way Michelle Shocked # "People who claim to know jackrabbits will tell you they are primarily motivated by Fear, Stupidity, and Craziness. But I have spent enough time in jackrabbit country to know that most of them lead pretty dull lives; they are bored with their daily routines: eat, fuck, sleep, hop around a bush now & then.... No wonder some of them drift over the line into cheap thrills once in a while; there has to be a powerful adrenalin rush in crouching by the side of a road, waiting for the next set of headlights to come along, then streaking out of the bushes with split-second timing and making it across to the other side just inches in front of the speeding front tires." -- Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 # "Sex and violence has become an everyday thing for the 1980s generation that once embraced the Reagan Revolution. We live in savage times. Oliver North is a hero, Ed Meese is rich, and a monstrous film called "Blue Velvet" is nominated for three academy awards." -- Hunter S. Thompson Generation of Swine # "People who work the long distance lines at the darkest hour of the morning tend to be a special breed. When the phone rings at three it will not be the Culligan Man, or anybody else with a straight job." -- Hunter S. Thompson Generation of Swine # "Not even the Book of Revelation threatens a plague of vengeful yahoos." -- Hunter S. Thompson Generation of Swine # "What do you say about a generation that has been taught that _rain is poison_ and _sex is death_? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring rain on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison scum right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation." -- Hunter S. Thompson Generation of Swine # "If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix." -- Hunter S. Thompson Generation of Swine # "The Egyptians, you may recall, invented the _colonnade._ The Greeks combined it with their own motifs and began building those famous temples that look like banks!" -- Larry Gonick A Cartoon History of the Universe # "Why, this is so simple, a _child_ could learn it!" "Good. Are there any children around who can teach it to us?" -- Larry Gonick A Cartoon History of the Universe # "Our only pleasures are a job well done, a glorious death, and humping little boys!" -- Larry Gonick A Cartoon History of the Universe # "So sex was good for individual differences, and individual differences were good for survival. Therefore, sexual beings _survived,_ and the ones who did best were the ones who _liked_ sex the _most_ -- which is why sex felt good _then_, feels good _now_, and can only feel _better_ tomorrow." -- Larry Gonick # Aiko Aiko all day, jockomo feno na na nay, jockomo feena nay. Aiko Aiko # Well I ain't superstitious, but a black cat crossed my trail, Don't brush me with my broom, Babe, I just might land in jail. Ain't Superstitious / Meet Me on the Bottom # I told Althea I'm a roving son, and I was born to be a bachelor. Althea told me, okay, that's fine, so now I'm trying to catch her. Althea # I have spent my life seeking all that's still unsung. Bent my ear to hear the tune, and closed my eyes to see. When there was no strings to play, you played to me. Attics of My Life # In the book of love's own dream, where all the print is blood. Where all the pages are my days, and all the lights grow old. When I had no wings to fly, you flew to me. Attics of My Life # In the secret space of dreams, where I dreaming lay amazed. When the secrets all are told, and the petals all unfold. When there was no dream of mine, you dreamed of me. Attics of My Life # Well I taught that weeping willow how to cry cry cry, Taught the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky. Tears I cried for that woman are gonna flood you big river, And I'm a gonna sit right here until I die. Big River # If you hear that same sweet song again, will you know why? Anyone who sings a tune so sweet is passin' by, Laugh in the sunshine, sing, cry in the dark, fly through the night. Bird Song # I've had liquid laughs in cars, and I've hurled from moving cars, And I've chuckled when and where it suited me. But if I could choose the spot, To regurgitate me lot, then I'd chunder in the Old Pacific Sea. Bondi Pier # Maybe you'll find direction, Around some corner where it's been waiting to meet you. What do you want me to do, to watch for you while you are sleeping? Then please don't be surprised when you find me dreaming too. Box of Rain # What do you want me to do, to do for you to see you through? It's all a dream we dreamed one afternoon, long ago. Box of Rain # What do you want me to do, to do for you to see you through? A box of rain will ease the pain, and love will see you through. Box of Rain # There are times when I have begged you And you do the same to me. If you can't or won't admit it, At least we pulled you through. Built to Last # Three blue stars, set o'er the hill. Call them back; you never will. All these trials, soon be dead. We all need something built to last. Built to Last # Trouble ahead, Lady in red, Take my advice you'd be better off dead. Switchman's sleeping, train hundred and two is On the wrong track and headed for you. Casey Jones # Trouble with you is the trouble with me, Got two good eyes but you still don't see. Come round the bend, you know it's the end, The fireman screams and the engine just gleams... Casey Jones # Blow the horn, tap the tambourine. Close the gap on the dark years in between. You and me, Cassidy. Cassidy # Look for a while at the China Cat sunflower, Proud walking jingle in the midnight sun. Copperdome bodhi drip a silver kimono, Like a crazy quilt stargown through a dream night wind. China Cat Sunflower # If you can abide it, let the hurdy-gurdy play, stranger ones have come by here before they flew away. I will not condemn you nor yet would I deny, I would ask the same of you, but failing, will not die. China Doll # Take up your china doll, take up your china doll, it's only fractured and just a little nervous from the fall. China Doll # I'd rather be in some dark hollow where the sun don't ever shine Then to be at home alone and knowin' that you're gone Would cause me to lose my mind. Dark Hollow # Well blow your whistle freight train carry me far on down the track Well I'm going away, I'm leaving today I'm goin', but I ain't comin' back. Dark Hollow # I'd rather be in some dark hollow where the sun don't ever shine Then to be in some big city, in a small room, with you upon my mind. Dark Hollow # Mirror shatters in formless reflections of matter. Glass hand dissolving to ice petal flowers revolving. Lady in velvet recedes in the nights of goodbye. Shall we go, you and I while we can Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds? Dark Star # Which is to say, hey hey, keep yer day job Don't give it away, keep yer day job, whatever they say Keep yer day job 'till your night job pays. Day Job # Tried to please her, she only played one night stands Tried to please her, she only played one night stands now She was a day tripper, Sunday driver yeah It took me so long to find out, and I found out Day Tripper # Once I Knew A Preacher, Preached The Bible Thru And Thru He Went Down To Deep Elem, Now His Preaching Days Are Thru Deep Elem Blues # When I awoke, the Dire Wolf, six hundred pounds of sin, Was grinning at my window, all I said was "Come on in". Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me. Please, don't murder me. Dire Wolf # The Wolf came in, I got my cards, we sat down for a game. I cut my deck to the Queen of Spades, but the cards were all the same. Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me. Please, don't murder me. Dire Wolf # In the backwash of Fennario, the black and bloody mire, The Dire Wolf collects his dues, while the boys sing 'round the fire. Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me. Please, don't murder me. Dire Wolf # Hear the mighty engines roar, see the silver bird on high She's away and westward bound, far above the clouds she'll fly There the morning rain don't fall and the sun always shines She'll be flying over my home in about three hours time Early Morning Rain # Long distance runner, what you holdin' out for? Caught in slow motion in a dash for the door. The flame from your stage has now spread to the floor You gave all you had. Why you wanna give more? The more that you give, the more it will take To the thin line beyond which you really can't fake. Fire On The Mountain # Well everybody's dancin' in a ring around the sun Nobody's finished, we ain't even begun. So take off your shoes, child, and take off your hat. Try on your wings and find out where it's at. The Golden Road (to unlimited devotion) # Well the oppressors are trying to keep me down Trying to drive me underground And they think that they have got the battle won I say forgive them Lord they know not what they've done. The Harder They Come # And I'll keep on fighting for the things I want Though I know that when you're dead you can't But I'd rather be a free man in my grave Than living as a puppet or a slave. The Harder They Come # Paradise waits, on the crest of a wave, her angels in flames. She has no pain, like a child she is pure, she is not to blame. Poised for flight, wings spread bright, spring from night into the sun. Don't stop to run, she can fly like a lie, she can't be outdone. Help on the Way # Tell me the cost; I can pay, let me go, tell me love is not lost. Sell everything; without love day to day insanity's king. I will pay day by day, anyway, lock, bolt and key. Crippled but free, I was blind all the time I was learning to see. Help on the Way # Nine mile skid on a ten mile ride, hot as a pistol but cool inside. Cat on a tin roof, dogs in a pile, Nothin' left to do but smile, smile, smile!!!! He's Gone # I need a woman 'bout twice my age A lady of nobility, gentility and rage Splendor in the dark, lightning on the draw We'll go right through the book and break each and every law. I Need A Miracle # I need a woman 'bout twice my height Statuesque, raven-dressed, a goddess of the night. Her secret incantations, a candle burning blue We'll consult the spirits maybe they'll know what to do. I Need A Miracle # Annie laid her head down in the roses. She had ribbons, ribbons, ribbons, in her long brown hair. I don't know, maybe it was the roses, All I know I could not leave her there. It Must Have Been The Roses # I don't know, it must have been the roses, The roses or the ribbons in her long brown hair. I don't know, maybe it was the roses, All I know I could not leave her there. It Must Have Been The Roses # One pane of glass in the window, No one is complaining, no, come in and shut the door, Faded is the crimson from the ribbons that she wore, And it's strange how no one comes round any more. It Must Have Been The Roses # The highway is for gamblers, you better use your sense. Take what you have gathered from coincidence. The empty handed painter from your streets Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets. It's All Over Now Baby Blue # All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home All your empty-handed armies are all going home. Your lover who has just walked out your door has taken all his blankets from the floor. It's All Over Now Baby Blue # Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to do. Nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free. Feelin' good was easy Lord, when Bobby sang the blues. Feelin' good was good enough for me, good enough for me and Bobby McGee. Me and Bobby McGee # Is there anything a man don't stand to lose, When the devil wants to take it all away? Cherish well your thoughts, and keep a tight grip on your booze, Cause thinkin' and drinkin' are all I have today. Mexicali Blues # Is there anything a man don't stand to lose When he lets a woman hold him in her hands? He just might find himself out there on horseback in the dark Just ridin' and runnin' across those desert sands. Mexicali Blues # Big locomotive right on time, big locomotive coming down the line. Big locomotive No. 99, left the engineer with a worried mind. Monkey and the Engineer # Open up the switch I'm gonna let him through the hole, Cause the monkey's got the locomotive under control. Monkey and the Engineer # Never trust a woman who wears her pants too tight She might love you tomorrow, but she'll be gone tomorrow night Never Trust A Woman # I was born in the desert Raised in a lion's den I was born in the desert Raised in a lion's den Oh, my number one occupation is stealing women from their men All New Minglewood Blues # Like my father before me, I'm a peaceful man Like my brother before me, I took a rebel stand Just 18, proud and gray, but a Yankee laid him in his grave Swear by the blood running through (on) my feet You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat The Night They Drove Ole Dixie Down # All my life I've been waitin', tonight there will be no hesitatin' Oh boy, when you're with me Oh boy, all the world would see that you were meant for me Oh Boy # We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee; We don't take our trips on LSD; We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street; We like livin' right, and bein' free. Oakie From Muskogee # We don't make a party out of lovin'; We like holdin' hands and pitchin' woo; We don't let our hair grow long and shaggy, Like the hippies out in San Francisco do. Oakie From Muskogee # I'm proud to be an Oakie from Muskogee, A place where even squares can have a ball. We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse, And white lightnin's still the biggest thrill of all. Oakie From Muskogee # Leather boots are still in style for mainly footwear; Beads and roman sandals won't be seen. Football's still the roughest thing on campus, And the kids here still respect the college dean. Oakie From Muskogee # I would marry you sweet William-O, I would marry you sweet William-O I would marry you but your guineas are too few And I fear my mama would be angry-O. Pretty Peggy-O # As we rode out to Fennario, as we rode out to Fennario Our captain fell in love with a lady like a dove, And called her by a name, pretty Peggy-O. Pretty Peggy-O # I left my home in Norfolk Virginia, California on my mind. Promised Land # Come all without, come all within. You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn. Quinn The Eskimo # Now the race is on and here comes pride up the back stretch, Heartaches a goin' to the inside, my tears are holding back, tryin' not to fall. My heart's out of the running, true love scratched for another's sake, The race is on and it looks like heartaches, and the winner loses all. The Race Is On # One day I ventured in love never once suspecting What the final result would be. Now I live in fear of waking up each morning, And finding that you're gone from me. The Race Is On # It's a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken, Perhaps they're better left unsung. I don't know, don't really care Let there be songs to fill the air. Ripple # Reach out your hand if your cup be empty, If your cup is full may it be again, Let it be known there is a fountain, That was not made by the hands of men. Ripple # There is a road, no simple highway, Between the dawn and the dark of night, And if you go no one may follow, That path is for your steps alone. Ripple # Said Santa to a boy child "What have you been longing for?" "All I want for Christmas is a Rock and Roll electric guitar" And away went Rudolph a whizzing like a shooting star Run, Rudolph Run # Said Santa to a girl child "What would you like most to get?" "I want a little baby doll that can cry, scream and wet" And away went Rudolph a whizzing like a Saber jet Run, Rudolph Run # You can shave my head, clean as my hand And my strength will become as natural as any old man. Samson and Delilah # If I had my way, if I had my way, if I had my way, I would tear this old building down. Samson and Delilah # She had rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes. And I knew without askin' she was into the blues. She wore scarlet begonias tucked into her curls, I knew right away she was not like other girls. Scarlet Begonias # In the thick of the evening when the dealing got rough, She was too pat to open and too cool to bluff. As I picked up my matches and was closing the door, I had one of those flashes I'd been there before. Scarlet Begonias # In that case I don't want no part That would only break my heart Well, if you feel like loving me and if you got the notion I second that emotion. I Second That Emotion # The bottles stand as empty, as they were filled before. Time there was and plenty, but from that cup no more. Though I could not caution all, I still might warn a few: Don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools. Ship of Fools # Silver threads and golden needles cannot mend this heart of mine And I dare drown my sorrow in the warm glow of your mind You can't buy my love with money 'cause I ain't never been that kind Silver threads and golden needles cannot mend this heart of mine Silver Threads and Golden Needles # They walked along by the old canal a little confused, I remember well And stopped into a strange hotel with a neon burnin' bright He felt the heat of the night hit him like a freight train Moving with a simple twist of fate Simple Twist Of Fate # A saxophone someplace far off played as she was walkin' by the arcade As the light bust through a beat-up shade where he was wakin' up She dropped a coin into the cup of the blind man at the gate And forgot about a simple twist of fate Simple Twist Of Fate # He woke up, the room was bare, he didn't see her anywhere He told himself he didn't care, pushed the window open wide Felt an emptiness inside to which he just could not relate Brought on by a simple twist of fate Simple Twist Of Fate # He hears the ticking of the clocks And walks along with a parrot that talks Hunts her down by the waterfront docks where the sailors all come in Maybe she'll pick him out again, how long must he wait Once more for a simple twist of fate Simple Twist Of Fate # People tell me it's a sin to know and feel too much within I still believe she was my twin, but I lost the ring She was born in the spring, but I was born too late Blame it on a simple twist of fate Simple Twist Of Fate # Sugar magnolia, blossoms blooming, heads all empty and I don't care, Saw my baby down by the river, knew she'd have to come up soon for air. Sweet blossom come on, under the willow, we can have high times if you'll abide We can discover the wonders of nature, rolling in the rushes down by the riverside. Sugar Magnolia # She comes skimmin' through rays of violet, she can wade in a drop of dew, She don't come and I don't follow, waits backstage while I sing to you. Sugar Magnolia # I looked over Jordan and what did I see coming for to carry me home A band of angels is coming after me, coming for to carry me home. Swing Low Sweet Chariot # Skippin' through the lily fields I came across an empty space, It trembled and exploded, left a bus stop in it's place. The bus came by and I got on, that's when it all began, There was cowboy Neal at the wheel of the bus to never ever land. That's It For The Other One # To be with you, once more, to be with you. With our bodies close together let the world go by, like the clouds a'streamin' to lay me down, one last time, to lay me down To Lay Me Down # Arrows of neon and flashing marquees out on Main Street. Chicago, New York, Detroit and it's all on the same street. Your typical city involved in a typical daydream Hang it up and see what tomorrow brings. Truckin' # Well the first days are the hardest days, don't you worry any more, 'Cause when life looks like Easy Street, there is danger at your door. Think this through with me, let me know your mind, Wo, oh, what I want to know, is are you kind? Uncle John's Band # It's a buck dancer's choice my friend; better take my advice. You know all the rules by now and the fire from the ice. Will you come with me? Won't you come with me? Wo, oh, what I want to know, will you come with me? Uncle John's Band # Goddamn, well I declare, have you seen the like? Their walls are built of cannonballs, their motto is "Don't tread on me." Come hear Uncle John's Band playing to the tide, Come with me, or go alone, he's come to take his children home. Uncle John's Band # It's the same story the crow told me; it's the only one he knows. Like the morning sun you come and like the wind you go. Ain't no time to hate, barely time to wait, Wo, oh, what I want to know, where does the time go? Uncle John's Band # I live in a silver mine and I call it Beggar's Tomb; I got me a violin and I beg you call the tune, anybody's choice, I can hear your voice. Wo, oh, what I want to know, how does the song go? Uncle John's Band # You got to listen to the heavens, you got to try to understand, The greatness of their movement is just as small as it is grand. Walk in the Sunshine # You got to deep-six your wristwatch, you got to try and understand, The time it seems to capture is just the movement of its hands. Walk in the Sunshine # Well, I saw Lon Cheney walking with the Queen Doing the werewolves of London I saw Lon Cheney Jr. walking with the Queen I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's And his hair was perfect Hi ho, the werewolves of London, draw blood Werewolves of London # "Owl looked at him, and wondered whether to push him off the tree; but, feeling that he could always do it afterwards, he tried once more to find out what they were talking about." -- The House at Pooh Corner # "There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count." -- Rabbit, The House at Pooh Corner # "Pooh," said Rabbit Kindly, "you haven't any brain," "I know," said Pooh Humbly. -- Winnie-the-Pooh # "I have been Foolish and Deluded, and I am a Bear of No Brain at All." -- Winnie-the-Pooh # "When you go after honey with a balloon, the great thing is not to let the bees know you're coming. Now, if you have a green balloon, they might think you were only part of the tree, and not notice you, and if you have a blue balloon, they might think you were only part of the sky, and not notice you, and the question is: Which is most likely?" "Wouldn't they notice _you_ underneath the balloon?" you asked. "They might or they might not," said Winnie-the-Pooh. "You never can tell with bees." -- Winnie-The-Pooh # Looking very calm, very dignified, with his legs in the air, came Eeyore from beneath the bridge. "Eeyore, what _are_ you doing there?" said Rabbit. "I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer." -- The House at Pooh Corner # "But, Eeyore," said Pooh in distress, "what can we -- I mean, how shall we -- do you think if we ---" "Yes," said Eeyore, "One of those would be just the thing. Thank you, Pooh." -- The House at Pooh Corner # "Supposing we hit him by mistake?" said Piglet anxiously. "Or supposing you missed him by mistake," said Eeyore. "Think of all the possibilities, Piglet, before you settle down to enjoy yourselves." -- The House at Pooh Corner # "Tigger is all right _really_," said Piglet lazily. "Of course he is," said Christopher Robin. "Everybody is _really_," said Pooh. "That's what _I_ think, said Pooh. "But I don't suppose I'm right," he said. "Of course you are," said Christopher Robin. -- The House at Pooh Corner # "Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?" "Supposing it didn't," said Pooh after careful thought. -- The House at Pooh Corner # "Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully. "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever." "And he has Brain." "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain." There was a long silence. "I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything." -- The House at Pooh Corner # "A party for Me?" thought Pooh to himself. "How grand!" --- Winnie-the-Pooh # "When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do _you_ say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting _today_?_" said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said. -- Winnie-the-Pooh # "All Animals are equal. But some Animals are more equal than others." -- George Orwell, Animal Farm # "Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." -- George Orwell, Animal Farm # "You are very fat and stupid and persistently wear a ridiculous hat which you should be ashamed of." -- The Great Zaganza # "Reverse my buttocks, Sergeant Major!" -- The Shadowy Mr. Evans # "Monotony can damage your health!" -- Mr. Nobody # "I am old, Peter. I am ever so much more than twenty." -- Wendy Moira Angela Darling # "Television is bubble gum for the eyes." -- Frank Lloyd Wright # "It's time to stop defending a world sick with reason! Aristotle and Newton were useless farts who made a machine of this whirling, wonderful world. Let's stop all the clocks and kiss the walls goodbye." -- Mr. Nobody # "And now, let's bless 'em all: the long and the short and the tall, the mad, the bad, and the lonely. The ugly and the unsure and the completely invisible. And bless the little lamb who made us into sheep. Amen!" -- Mr. Nobody # "God knows I tried, as only a chimneypot can try. But they don't want strangeness and unpredictability in their lives. They tire of it so soon, though they never tire of tedium." -- Mr. Nobody # "Omnipotence is most omnipotent when one does nothing!" answered the machine. "You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down!" -- Stanislaw Lem The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age # "Bullwinkle, we're not running away!" "We're not?" "No!" "Then how come I'm out of breath?" -- Bullwinkle and Rocky # "Produce ships and sail which can be used in the air of the sky. Then you'll find men to man them, men not afraid of the vast emptiness of space." -- Johannes Kepler # "Are we not proof that the universe is a drooling idiot with no fashion sense?" -- Mr. Nobody # "...this is the first time I've actually stood on the surface of another planet.... a whole alien world...! Pity it's such a dump though." -- Arthur Dent # "The mice were furious." -- Slartibartfast # "Look," said Arthur, "would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?" -- Arthur Dent # "Perhaps I'm old and tired," he continued, "but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied. Look at me: I design coastlines. I got an award for Norway." -- Slartibartfast # Once a student asked the master Zoku: "Is the Buddha-nature simple or complex?" Zoku replied: "It is complex -- so complex that you can never comprehend it." The student then said: "I do not believe you. Who are you, anyway? I never heard of you." Of course not. There never was any such master as Zoku. # "On these magic shores children at play are forever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more." -- J.M. Barrie Peter and Wendy # "Yes, it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches." -- Stanislaw Lem The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age # "It is easier not to believe in electrons than in dragons: electrons, at least taken singly, won't try to make a meal of you." -- Stanislaw Lem The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age # "Living without hallucinations is like breathing with only one nostril." [Wisdom from a dying Weisshaupt in CEREBUS] # "I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle." - Arthur Dent # "I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed." - Marvin # "... one of those most bizarre of mathematical concepts, a recipriversexcluson, a number whose existence can only be defined as being anything other than itself." - Douglas Adams # "Grown men," he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, "do not behave like this." -- Douglas Adams # "The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair." --Douglas Adams # "We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!" - Vroomfondel # "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." - Ford Prefect # "Funny how just when you think life can't possibly get any worse it suddenly does." - Marvin # "There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another which states that this has already happened." - Douglas Adams # "Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word "safe" that I wasn't previously aware of." - Arthur Dent # "You'll have to excuse me, I'm terribly happy." - Arthur Dent # "Man then went on to prove that black was white and got killed in the next zebra crossing." - Douglas Adams # "You know, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young." "Why, what did she tell you?" "I don't know, I didn't listen." - Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent # "Myself I'd trust him to the end of the Earth." "Oh yes, and how far's that?" "About twelve minutes away, come on, I need a drink." - Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent # "I wouldn't trust myself further than I could spit a rat." - Zaphod Beeblebrox # "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe # "I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?" - The Ruler of the Universe # "The secret of healthy hitchhiking is to eat junk food." - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe # "I read of one planet off in the seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. Got potted straight into a black hole. Killed ten billion people." "That's mad." "Yes, only scored thirty points too." - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy # "A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms." -- Richard Henry Lee # "What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty.... Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins." -- Representative Elbridge Gary, Massachusetts # ``Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice: That alone should encourage the crew. Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true.'' -- The Hunting of the Snark # He came as a Butcher: but gravely declared, When the ship had been sailing a week, He could only kill Beavers. The Bellman looked scared, And was almost too frightened to speak: -- The Hunting of the Snark # Yet still, ever after that sorrowful day, Whenever the Butcher was by, The Beaver kept looking the opposite way, And appeared unaccountably shy. -- The Hunting of the Snark # ``For, although common Snarks do no manner of harm, Yet I feel it my duty to say, Some are Boojums---'' The Bellman broke off in alarm, For the Baker had fainted away. -- The Hunting of the Snark # They roused him with muffins---they roused him with ice--- They roused him with mustard and cress--- The roused him with jam and judicious advice--- They set him conundrums to guess. -- The Hunting of the Snark # `` `But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day, If your Snark be a Boojum! For then You will softly and suddenly vanish away, And never be met with again!' -- The Hunting of the Snark # ``I engage with the Snark---every night after dark--- In a dreamy delirious fight: I serve it with greens in those shadowy scenes, And I use it for striking a light: -- The Hunting of the Snark # ``But if ever I meet with a Boojum, that day, In a moment (of this I am sure), I shall softly and suddenly vanish away--- And the notion I cannot endure!'' -- The Hunting of the Snark # ``I said it in Hebrew---I said it in Dutch--- I said it in German and Greek: But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak!'' -- The Hunting of the Snark # In the midst of the word he was trying to say, In the midst of his laughter and glee, He had softly and suddenly vanished away--- For the Snark _was_ a Boojum, you see. -- The Hunting of the Snark # "Death's this tall guy with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a scythe and an hourglass and a big white horse and a penchant for playing chess with Scandinavians." -- Sexton Furnival # "When I was young I used to have this nightmare about dying. I used to lie awake at night screaming. All my schoolfriends went to heaven or hell, and I was sent to Southend." -- Arthur Dent # "Never drink more than two Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters unless you are a thirty ton elephant with bronchial pneumonia." -- Zaphod Beeblebrox # "Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them round to dinner." -- Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy Radio Series # "Life, don't talk to me about life..." -- Marvin the Paranoid Android # "I never could get the hang of Thursdays." -- Arthur Dent # "Reason notwithstanding, the Universe continues unabated." -- The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy Radio Series # "One's never alone with a rubber duck." -- Captain, 'B' Ark, Golgafrincham Evacuation Fleet # "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." -- Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy # "Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent more of it." -- Marvin the Paranoid Android # "Life is that property which a being will lose as a result of falling out of a cold and mysterious cave thirteen miles above ground level." -- Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy # "It's not a question whose habitat it is, it's a question of how fast you hit it." -- Arthur Dent # Footwarrior: All perverts, subversives and trespassers are to be shot! Arthur Dent: Well, that should keep you busy, 'bye now. -- Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy # "We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty." -- Vroomfondel, AUPSLOPTP # "I mean, yes idealism, yes the dignity of pure research, yes the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there comes a point I'm afraid where you begin to suspect that if there's any real truth it's that the entire multi-dimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs; and if it comes to a choice between spending another ten million years finding that out and on the other hand just taking the money and running, then I for one could do with the exercise." -- Frankie Mouse # _--_ _--_ _--_ _--_ _--_ _--_ _--_ _--_ ( () )___( () ) ( () )___( () ) ( () )___( () ) ( () )___( () ) \ / \ / \ / \ / ( ' _ ` ) ( ' _ ` ) ( ' _ ` ) ( ' _ ` ) \ ___ / \ ___ / \ ___ / \ ___ / .__( `-' ) ( `-' ) ( `-' ) .__( `-' ) ___ / ! `---' \ _--'`---_ .--`---'\ / /`---'`-' \ / \ ! / \___ / _>\ / / ._/ ! /\ ! / / ! \ / /-___-' ) /' /.-----\___/ / -) ! !_\______/\. ( < !__/ /' ( _/ \___// `----' | \ \ ! \ \ \ /\ \___/`------' ) \ ______/ \___/ ) /__/ \--/ \ / \ ._ \ `< `--_____----' \ / ! `. )- \/ ) ___>-_ \ /-\ \ / / ! / ! ! `. / / `-_ `-/ / ! ! ! /__ /___ / /__ \__/ ( \---__/ `-_ / / /__ (______)____) (______) \__) `-_/ (______) # "A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard." -- Oscar Wilde # "If after I am free a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit.... But if after I am free a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly." -- Oscar Wilde # "Once at least in his life each man walks with Christ to Emmaus." -- Oscar Wilde # _ ___ _// ( > / ___ . _ __/_/> __ __ __ , /___ (_) \/_