One day you will wake up & there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. 

Do it now.

film adaptation

 

each reader creates his own film inside his head,

 gives faces to the characters, 

constructs every scene, 

hears the voices, 

smells the smells. 

And that is why, whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves feeling disappointed, saying: 

‘the book is so much better than the film.

 

 An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. 

An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, 

when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another.

 

Where do one's fears come from? 

Where do they shape themselves? 

Where do they hide before coming out into the open?

 

Ownership is not limited to material things. 

It can also apply to points of view. 

Once we take ownership of an idea — whether it’s about politics or sports — what do we do? 

We love it perhaps more than we should. We prize it more than it is worth. 

And most frequently, we have trouble letting go of it because we can’t stand the idea of its loss.

 What are we left with then? 

An ideology — rigid and unyielding.

 

And although I have seen nothing but black crows in my life, it doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a white crow. 

Both for a philosopher and for a scientist it can be important not to reject the possibility of finding a white crow. 

You might almost say that hunting for 'the white crow' is science's principal task.

 

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color

 - but we have been the colorists: 

it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear 

and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things

 

Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

 

The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; 

and this is a form of consolation open to every one.

 But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole!

 We are like lambs in a field,

 disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, 

who chooses out first one and then another for his prey.

 

I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, 

or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone

 

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure

 

Style means no shield at all.
Style means no front at all.
Style means ultimate naturalness.
Style means one man alone with billions of men about.

 

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic
with divine creatures
who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

 

the price of creation
is never
too high.

the price of living
with other people
always
is.

 

Love is not a candle burning down. 

Life is. 

And love and life are not the same 

or else Love, having choice, nobody would ever die

 

Tell him to seek the stars and he will kill himself with climbing

 

people so tired
mutilated
either by love or no love

 

Why do we embroider everything we say

with special emphasis

when all we really need to do

is simply say what

needs to he said?

Of course

the fact is

that there is very little that needs

to be said.

 

And it seems people should not build houses anymore 

it seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floors
under electric lights
without shades;

it seems there is a lot to forget
and a lot not to do

and in drugstores, markets, bars,
the people are tired, they do not want to move, 

and I stand there at night
and look through this house and the house does not want to be built

 

there's no clarity.

there was never meant to be clarity

 

We don't always have the time to think before we act and that's what gets us in trouble. 

Once that first shot is fired, we're committed. There's almost no way to take it back. 

The question becomes: 

do we keep firing back and declare an all-out war?

 

Infections have a nasty way of sneaking up on you. 

You're feeling pretty good, you think the infection is gone, and then, it reappears, out of nowhere. When your body's still weak, when you're barely recovered, BAM! You're infected all over again.

 And once the infection spreads, once it gets into your bloodstream, well, then you really have to watch it, cause that's the kind of infection that can kill you. 

You know that thing, that terrible thing, you thought you had laid to rest? What if you didn't? 

You know that thing you think you finally figured out? What if you haven't? 

When do you know you've put something to bed? When is it finally safe to move on?

 Maybe you never know. Maybe you just have to test the water. You have to see how it feels.

 And if it feels good, I mean really good, then, hell,  go for it.

 

They say love knows no bounds. 

I don’t know about that. 

 Love definitely has bounds.  Love has boundaries. We know this. We knock them down, build them back up, then knock them down again. 

But does it have to be that way? 

Can’t we learn? Can’t we be brave? Can’t we believe? Because, maybe, that’s all we need. A little courage. A little hope. A little belief. 

Maybe there are no boundaries if we choose to not see them. Maybe love is unlimited if we’re just brave enough to decide love is limitless. 

Maybe there’s enough happy for everyone.

 

if history has shown us anything, one person's normal is another's complete chaos. 

For so long, we've been conditioned to think if we aren't normal, it's a bad thing.

Maybe it's time to rethink what the rules of normal are. 

Maybe it's time to rethink everything.

 

It's one of the great tragedies of life — something always changes

 

Life is if full of rooms.

It is not what we do in the rooms that matters, but who we spend it with.

 

all I have to do is extend my hand but I can't run that far.

 

Not all complex problems have easy solutions;

so says science

(so warns science.).

 

What can I say, I'm a sucker for abandoned stuff,

misplaced stuff, forgotten stuff, any old stuff which despite the light of progress and all that, still vanishes every day like shadows at noon, goings unheralded, passings unourned,

well, you get the drift.

 

Here then - the after math of meaning.

A lifetime finished between the space of two frames.

 

Absolutely nothing visible to the eye provides a reason for or even evidence of those terrifying shifts which can in a matter of moments reconstitute a simple path into an extremely complicated one.

 

Look to the sky, look to yourself and remember:

we are only God’s echoes and God is Narcissus.

Tom Waits

 There no such thing as The Devil It's just God when he's drunk 

God downs a whole bottle of Jack Daniels them goes down to LA to have some fun 

You want to find God then go down to Heart Attack aka The Bouldevard and the corner of Vine Street on a Saturday night 

You'll meet God when he's at the bar next to you, he's on Jack straight

Kill Bill 3

 The third film has been planned for a long time 

It involves BB and Nikki being grown up, Nikki looking for revenge on The Bride, Sophie and Elle also, and mentoring her 

Elements like that 

Whether it ever gets made or becomes another Vega Brothers we will see

 It always relied on the timeline being right, the actors and characters being the right age

 It obviously won't be called Kill Bill 3 though it would make them a trilogy 

Quentin changes his concepts as he moves on and a lot of these never get made 

Hateful Eight was originally going to be the direct sequel to Django but ended up as a new story

Robocop

 Lose The Arm has got to be the most horrific scene in the series 

People have noted the parallel to Six Million Dollar Man 

Steve wakes up and learns he has only his left arm remaining 

Rudy explains it to him and we see the heart monitor 

He tries to kill himself at night and the nurse saves him 

He begs to die

 Rude shows him the bionic arm and he rejects it, turns away 

Alex is waking up to exact same situation 

So we know what Steve went through, what the realty is for someone 

In this case he cannot move or speak , he can just see and hear 

Then the order to remove the arm 

The boss gives the order and then walks away

 The med team have to proceed

 The instruction to put him back under, so the arm can be removed 

Leaving him to wake up limbless 

The silent scream that nobody hears

Trinity sees the sun

 There is debate about how old the Matrix actually is

200 years like Morpheus states Several hundred years as some have surmised, given that this is the 6th version, which Morpheus didn't know Maybe it didn't matter The point is, with Neo injured, when they go above the clouds, Trinity sees the sun She sees the real sun, shining above the clouds The only human born in the Matrix, watching the artificial sin every day of their life, to see the real sun However the machines made the sun look in the matrix, would they be able to ever really capture it Then Trinity gets to see it for real, for one moment, with her real eyes Truly a glimpse of heaven that was waiting for her after she died The point is, we all FEEL why

and of course, Neo would never get to see it, even though he was there 

Paradise Lost 

cd0572cen1920x1080pc

Jenifer Estes

 

Everyone knows who Helen Keller is, what she went through, the life she led 

Not everyone has read her work, though it's well worth it as it's truly inspiring

 She wrote a book about her religious faith, her belief in God called Light In My Darkness 

One of the most profound things she wrote was on her concept of life after death, Heaven, reincarnation 

She wrote that dying and leaving this place is like going into the next room "Only in the next room I will be able to see " 

I like the idea that Helen is in the next room and she's can see

 I also like to believe that Jenifer is in the next room, and there she is able to walk and run and dance again

Seven

 

His mother was a prostitute

John's father was a wealthy man who was married with a family 

John's mother was a whore who died from a disease she caught

 John never has the chance for a wife and family and envies that in David

 It is a reminder what his father had and took for granted 

His father was greed, greedy for money for sex 

It is easier for a camel to pass though the eye of a needle that for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven, 

Jesus tells us John's father is suffering in hell

Like David has, and like John's father had and took for granted

John was maybe always Envy and came to realise that fully through his Envy of David, a life he could never have 

He takes David's life away and allows him to do the same to him with his Wrath 

John probably believed he was going to Hell, having visited each sin upon the sinner and their murders as well as his suicide, as it was 

He believes he is going down to whatever Circle of Hell he belongs in, those of you who have read Dante may have your interpretation of what John took from that, what he expected 

Like the killer Jeremy in Hideaway, film based on the Dean Koontz book, who commits a murder suicide, asks Satan to take his soul, the goes on the journey ending up in the Lake Of Fire 

John no doubt believes in the Hell he is going to 

David now faces Hell on Earth, the optimistic future with his wife, and the child he just found out about, taken away by John, and the murder he committed means he faces a long jail term, possibly Life, and that as an ex cop

Though Apathy is not a Deadly Sin in the list of Seven, it is presented here as such 

Apathy is what allows the other sins to happen 

For evil men to do evil they just need good men to do nothing 

The club owner has allowed the Lust crime to happen due to his Apathy 

Somerset is aware of his own rising Apathy and plans to retire and move away 

At the end he overcomes his Apathy, the only character to survive and find redemption

In Fight Club, Fincher's next film with Brad Pitt, the Father conversation between Tyler and Jack echoes this 

 

 

Only when we've lost everything are we free to do anything 

 

• Raindrops on roses
• Happy Disney animals
• This makes my parts hurt

 

• • Watching white moon face
  • The stars never feel anger
  • Blah, blah, blah, the end
• 
  

 

• • A tiger can smile
  • A snake will say it loves you
  • Lies make us evil
• • 
    

 

• • The blood, is it mine?
  • Yeah, I say. Some of it.
  • This is a wrong answer
• • 
    

 

• Worker bees can leave
• Even drones can fly away
• The queen is their slave 

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

 

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. 

 It's hard to admit when we're wrong, but even though everything looks fine, there's a problem.

 Something is broken and you have to see where it's broken and set about fixing it or it's all gonna come apart.

 

“The true man wants two things: danger and play.”

“Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”

“The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously!”

“Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.”

 

In 1888, William Williams Keen became one of the first surgeons to successfully remove a brain tumor. 

A big win. It's true. You can look it up. 

What's harder to find, however, are stories of all the times old Double Billy K tried to pull a tumor out of a brain and lost. 

The losses must have happened. 

The key, though, win or lose, is to never fail.

And the only way to fail is not to fight. 

So you fight until you can't fight anymore. Hold up your head and enter the arena and face the enemy. Fight until you can't fight anymore. Never let go. Never give up. Never run. Never surrender.

Fight the good fight. 

You fight. Even when it seems inevitable that you're about to go down swinging. 

Why do we even try when the barriers are so high and the odds are so low? Why don't we just pack it in and go home? It would be so, so much easier.

It's because in the end, there's no glory in easy. No one remembers easy. They remember the blood and the bones and the long, agonizing fight to the top.

 And that is how you become legendary.

 

They say there's one sure sign of a successful negotiation. It's that when the parties leave the table, they feel like they have been screwed. The goal is a compromise, a situation where everybody wins. They say that negotiation is an art form. Yet, when we negotiate, we have a strategy. We use tactics. "Strategies" and "tactics" aren't words we use for seeking a compromise. These are words for going to war.

Migration

 

So, there's this bird. 

Some sort of swallow I think. 

Every September, thousands of them ditch rainy Seattle to winter in Mexico. 

These birds aren't dumb.

 And every year, crowds of people gather around Seattle to drink beer and watch the flocks take off. They call it the Great Migration. 

I don't know how those birds do it. Travel thousands of miles without getting lost. Banging into windows, being eaten by cats. 

But every spring, they're always here. 

I guess they come back to what they know. 

People say it's pretty cool, watching them go. They say you can actually see the moment when, at some mysterious signal, all at once the birds decide to leave.

 So maybe I've been missing out. 

Whatever

... there's always next year.

 

There are times in our lives when love really does conquer all: exhaustion, sleep deprivation, anything. 

And then there are those times when it seems like love brings us nothing but pain. 

We're always looking for ways to ease the pain. 

Sometimes we ease the pain by making the best of what we have. Sometimes it's by losing ourselves in the moment. 

And sometimes all we need to do to ease the pain is call a simple truce

.

 

 We're all looking for answers, in life, in everything.

Sometimes the answers we're looking for have been hiding just below the surface. 

Other times, we find answers when we didn't even realize we were asking the question.

 Sometimes the answers can catch us completely by surprise. 

And sometimes, even when we find the answer we've been looking for, we're still left with a whole hell of a lot of questions.

 

The human life is made up of choices. Yes or no? In or out? Up or down? And then there are the choices that matter: to love or hate, to be a hero or to be a coward, to fight or to give in, to live or die... Live or die? That's the important choice, and it's not always in our hands. Yes or no? In or out? Up or down? Live or die? Hero or coward? Fight or give in?  I'll say it again, to make sure you hear me: the human life is made up of choices. Live or die? That's the important choice … and it's not always in our hands.

 

The skin is the largest organ in the body. 

It protects us. Holds us together. Literally lets us know how we’re feeling. 

The skin can be soft and vulnerable. Highly sensitive. Easy to break. 

 No matter how thick-skinned we try to be, there’s millions of electrifying nerve endings in there. Open and exposed and feeling way too much. 

Try as we might to keep from feeling pain. Sometimes it’s just unavoidable. 

Sometimes, that’s the only thing left: just feeling.

Climb

 

If you’re a climber there’s always another mountain. 

They take pictures of mountain climbers at the top of a mountain. 

They’re smiling, ecstatic, triumphant. 

They don’t take pictures along the way cause who wants to remember the rest of it. 

We push ourselves because we have to, not because we like it. The relentless climb, the pain and anguish of taking it to the next level. Nobody takes pictures of that. Nobody wants to remember. 

We just wanna remember the view from the top. The breathtaking moment at the edge of the world. That’s what keeps us climbing. And it’s worth the pain. 

That’s the crazy part. 

It’s worth anything.