Bits and pieces

I have an iPhone and as most smart phone users know there is usually some sort of notepad app that comes with the phone. I use mine quite a bit. I have usually a total of 15 or more notes. They range from the standard to-do lists and grocery lists to major project lists and lists of CDs, bands, authors and books I want to check out. The two most used notes aren't any of these though. They are eloquently titled "Random Thoughts" and the creative "More Thoughts."

These two notes are bits of poetry, song lyrics, story ideas of mine as well as quotes, movie lines, song lyrics and other odd bits that I've collected from others. I've been collecting quotes and such for years. Sometimes I look back at all the bits and scraps of paper, the notebooks and such and laugh at the things I wrote down, but I've managed to hang on to many of these gems.

Tonight I am going to share some of these:

"The Singularity Is Near" Ray Kurzweil. (This is actually the title of a book, but I love it as a quote.)

"Looking at my life hurts."

"God's been a real sport to me," Christopher Walken as Johnny Smith in The Dead Zone 

"It makes you feel lonely the way you do at a party in a room full of people. Smothered, suffocated by their closeness, but so far away, alone, separated by an incredible distance, a gulf, right next to you, so far . . . within your reach, but a touch feels like a ghost, like a faint breath of air across the skin, no more real than the plastic plants in the planter atop the ledge, alone."

"This ain't rock and roll, this is genocide." David Bowie

"Meanwhile the TV runs constantly in the background like Danny Elfman music played at 45 rpms and I KNOW I am going nuts!"

"Fuck this . . . " AC/DC intro to Problem Child

"My love is like a salted plain
Where flowers wither in pain,
My love is like a toxic rain
Where cancer thrives and tumors reign."

"I have become a silent movie" Elliott Smith

"There are times when the only time I feel real is when I've read something I've written."

"A sonic architect" Jimmy Page referring to U2's The Edge.

"God is anecdotal"

"I am an undercover rock star." Kelly Taylor

"Tie me to a cross and hang me high, its time for this tragedy to end."
 
"I realized today that I had forgotten who I was."