If you have to choose between gout and death, choose death. You'll find a way to thank me later. - @Earp, three hours out of rehab.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” Oscar Wilde (De Profundis)
I know it's hard being a cop … But some jobs can't have bad apples. Some jobs, everybody gotta be good. Like, pilots. American Airlines can't be like, 'You know, most of our pilots like to land, we just got a few bad apples that like to crash into mountains.' - Chris Rock
This is totally paraphrased because I lost the quote and don't know who it was: Making art in a small, dreary studio forces you to ignore the surrounding space and instead your mind becomes the studio. You concentrate only on what's before you, and shut out everything else. This activates the imagination.
I don't know if I've posted this one before, but this quote is something if someone ever said it to me, I'd never love anyone else ever. "You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated." Howard Roark from The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
From my romantic viewpoint, it is pretty marvellous. It would most definitely apply to @Cave Troll . But with my "darkness is everywhere" glasses on, it's a pretty terrifying threatening statement. Something a serial killer might say before they gut their obsessive love interest.
Reminds me of how so many girls though the Police song Every Breath You Take was so romantic, until people pointed out it's really obsessive and bordering on creeping.
Years ago, I heard a woman singing the song "Cathy's Clown" ... the one the Everly Brothers made famous. It totally transformed the song. Without changing a word, the song stopped being a song about a guy being cruelly ignored by a girl who spurned him, and became a song about a girl being stalked by a guy after she broke off the relationship. (It may have been the Reba McEntire version). Here are the lyrics: https://genius.com/The-everly-brothers-cathys-clown-lyrics In the same vein, I heard a guy singing "I Don't Know How to Love Her" from Jesus Christ Superstar. He did change the gender, and again it transformed the song and showed how equally vulnerable a man can be in such a situation: "I don't know how to love her I don't know how to move her I'm a man I'm just a man And she's had so many men before In very many ways I'm just one more..."
The thing is, Sting has explicitly said it's about a controlling, obsessive creep: "I think the song is very, very sinister and ugly and people have actually misinterpreted it as being a gentle little love song, when it's quite the opposite." If you want a cover that changes things up (and I know I've mentioned this here before but it was years ago) listen to Warren Zevon's cover of "Back in the High Life Again." Winwood's version is all upbeat and happy but Zevon's voice changes it into George telling Lenny about the rabbits again as they take their last walk together: The original: The improvement (IMO): Steve Winwood suffered a setback, but he's on the way back up. Warren Zevon?
