“Finish everyday and be done with it.  You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt have crept in; forget them as soon as you can.  Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.  This day is all that is good and fair.  It is too dear, with it’s hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on yesterdays.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What are we here for if not to enjoy life eternal, solve what problems we can, bring light, peace, joy for our fellow man and leave this dear, fucked-up planet a little healthier than when we were born?”

- Henry Miller

“We are as forlorn as children lost in the wood. When you stand in front of me and look at me,what do you know of the grief’s that are in me and what do I know of yours. And if I were to cast myself down before you and tell you, what more would you know about me that you know about Hell when someone tells you it is hot and dreadful? For that reason alone we human beings ought to stand before another as reverently, as reflectively, as lovingly, as we would before the entrance to Hell”

- Franz Kafka, written at the age of 20

“Only boring people are bored.” – Mad Men

After Sunset: The Life & Times of the Drive-In Theater (1995) – bit of a low budget documentary on the fading glory of the drive-in theater told by Jon Bokenkamp as he recounts a road trip taken with three college friends.  I got quite a kick outta this for two reasons.  First, I love drive-in theaters and have spent more than my share of nights sitting on the hood of a car staring at a huge wall of moving pictures under the stars.  Second, because I recently went on a road trip of my own where I visited many of the same spots shown in the film.  I spent half the movie exclaiming “I’ve been there!  I’ve been there!” to my empty apartment.  This film is sweet, like good old American pie.
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seems there’s a new documentary coming out about one of my favorite writers, William s. Burroughs, called William S. Burroughs: A Man Within.  it looks pretty interesting.  sadly, i’ll most likely have to wait till dvd to see it.  anyway, here’s the official website & the trailer…
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