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The Jazz Butcher
The Best Way
https://youtu.be/ZL2MTmQMN2o?si=6QZyr7JoNxz89b-L

The corporate lawyer will do anything and everything to bolster the bottom line of whatever particular company he or she represents. And if that means destroying the lives of others – or just reaming them inside out it – it can be rationalized easily enough: the law’s the law. This is the part liber...

This film transports us back to the dark ages for women enduring the trauma of an unwanted pregnancy. The age of the back room [or the back alley] abortions. In England. And not as an exchange of polemics [abstractions] either. This is how such things actually did unfold. On both sides of the track....

Monsieur Hire Alice: It’s nice to be watched. I enjoy it. But only because it’s you. I couldn’t with someone else. With you it’s different. I can see you’re sweet. Hire: How can you say that? You don’t know me. Alice [walking over to the bed]: Sit by me. We can talk more comfortably. Don’t you want...

Madness “ THIS IS MADNESS, ” TOM HISSED. "You said that already,” I whispered. “And yet, here we are, still doing it. So, if you don’t mind: This is madness.” Kevin Sands Cue the fish man? Here I mean. :wink: “A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, the...

Described as a misanthrope he is actually more than just that. The scene in the bowling alley for example. But he is definitely aberrant when engaging the opposite sex. He creates this fantasy in his head [re The Collector] and then fortuitously [voyeuristically] bumps into a beautiful incarnation a...

God “No matter what the cause, God is only as willing as you are.” Steve Maraboli Tell that to the Jews in Nazi Germany? In other words, it is never, ever God's fault? “I had a standing agreement with god. I'd agree to believe in him, barely, so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays.” Richelle Mead...

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Roussin: I can roughly guess what you’re feeling. Being taken hostage is not so different from what you’re going through. Am I right? Henriette: Hostage? [Awkward silence.] Roussin: Jean-Dominique was kind enough to give me his seat on a flight to Hong Kong. Then, ...

Existentialism edited by Robert C. Solomon John Shand enjoys a collection of essays about existentialism. Wilson accuses Sartre of pessimism. Sartre, in particular in his novel Nausea, supposedly presents a world stripped of illusion; a world revealed as it would be if devoid of the ordering categor...

The Records
Starry Eyes
https://youtu.be/lAH1ioLiaHw?si=CzQ-Vyxx7yPN-3Rb

Magnolia Electric Co
Night Shift Lullaby
https://youtu.be/JtctJ0J0C5U?si=t50GmGyF7D6TtW-s

Lyrics Natilie Merchant I should know to leave them home They follow me through the store with these toys I can't afford "Kids, take them back, you know better than that." Dolls that talk, astronauts, T.V. games, airplanes, they don't understand and how can I explain? I try and try but I c...

Woody Allen once suggested this: "I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That’s the two categories. The horrible are like, I don’t know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don’t know how they get through life. It’s amazing to me. And the miserable ...

Time “Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.” Graham Greene Anyone here know for sure? “There is a time in the life ...

Dead Man Walking Sister Helen: Think about it. Their kids are shot, stabbed, raped left in the woods to die alone. How’d you feel if somebody did that to your family? What would you do to them? Matthew: l’d sure as hell want to kill them. There you go? Prison guard: Tell me something sister, what i...