I AM BOTH A PRISONER AND AN ADDICT

"I think of the enormous contribution Verdi made to the life of the planet and the enormous cooperation he was given by by orchestras and singers...And I think of what an enormous opportunity it is to be alive on this planet. Having myself been cold and hungry and terribly alone I think I still feel the excitement of that opportunity. The sense of being with some sleeping person - one's child or one's lover-and seeming to taste the privilege of living, of being alive. "

"Since I know so much about incarceration and addiction why can't I write about it? All I seem to be able to do is howl; let me out...I am both a prisoner and and an addict."

"I find myself greatly fatigued. I am pleased to make coffee in the kitchen and chat with the old dog. I am Better Davis and the old dog is Geraldine Fitzgerald in the last scenes of "Dark Victory." Now we have to learn to live again, 'says the old dog. And I say 'If I can laugh I can live."

-From the journals of John Cheever
NEWSWEEK/OCTOBER 22, 1984

Stupid Things People Say

This meeting will be short.
Looks don’t matter to me.
It won’t hurt.
I’m sorry I didn’t answer your email yesterday but I didn’t get it.
I can’t promote you until you make a mistake and fix it.
I can’t see you anymore because I was pretty drunk last weekend and I think I got married.
She’s just a friend.
I love Star Trek.
The batteries in my cell phone were dead.
She’s just a room mate.
Hold this money in the casino and whatever I say, don’t give it to me.
I woke you up to tell you that I took the phone off the hook so it wouldn’t wake you up.
I’m not unemployed; I’m going to start a website.
I just do it for my sinuses.
I know exactly where I am.

JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE NIGHT [1932] Louis-Ferdinand Celine

"The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how far people can go in the way of crumminess. When the grave lies open before us, let's not try to be witty, but on the other hand, let's not forget, but make it our business to record the worst of the human viciousness we've seen without changing one word. When that's done, we can curl up our toes and sink into the pit. That's work enough for a lifetime."

The Worst Argument

The most heated argument I have ever had was not about politics or religion or morals.
It was about an artificial leg. More on that later…

Twisted Sense of Humor?

TAE: Paramedic From Hell
http://www.netreach.net/~rjones/taestuff/taestuff.html

Money

Money I Have Wasted

Leading Edge Computer
Attorneys
Dog Obedience Training
Counting Crows Concert Tickets
Loan of rent money to my room mate who lost it in the casino the next day
Gym memberships
Video Update Stock
Self-help books
Honeymoon Lingerie


Money I Have Spent Well

Trip to Portugal
Horseback riding lessons
Neil Young Concert Tickets
Xanax
Trip to Brazil
Fight Club DVD
Books by Pablo Neruda
Restraining Orders
Fire Extinguishers
Mace