Planet Paul

‘Huckleberry Hound on the Moon’

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:24:17 -0400

‘Huckleberry Hound on the Moon’

”..an eight-inch shell burst three paces behind me. I...

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:47:00 -0400

”..an eight-inch shell burst three paces behind me. I heard the explosion, and felt as though I had been punched rather hard between the shoulder-blades, but without any pain. I took the punch merely for the shock of the explosion; but blood trickled into my eye and, turning faint, I called to Moodie: ‘I’ve been hit.’ Then I fell. A minute or two before I had got two very small wounds on my left hand: and in exactly the same position as the two that drew blood from my right hand during the preliminary bombardment at Loos. This I took as a lucky sign, and for further security repeated to myself a line of Nietzsche’s, in French transaltion:

Non, tu ne me peux pas tue!”

- Robert Graves - Goodbye To All That

‘Hey, Mister Eurovision Song Contest Man, Won’t you...

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:25:27 -0400

‘Hey, Mister Eurovision Song Contest Man, Won’t you take a listen to my song?’

- Neil Innes

‘I wasn’t totally on Debussy’s side; in a sense he had no...

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:00:43 -0400

‘I wasn’t totally on Debussy’s side; in a sense he had no right to disrupt the party. But artists are dogmatic and pig-headed, and they over-ride people. Most of the people I’ve dealt with in films have quite dispassionately sacrificed someone in their way who understood them. It’s not nice but that’s how it works. The end of the film, the music from his unfinished opera The Fall of the House of Usher, with Debussy alone in the castle and his ghostly mistress—whom he drove to attempted suicide—rising up, was an analogy of the lost romantic ideal he had destroyed by his disregard for people. You can be an egomaniac up to a point but in the end it can destroy you, or your work, or both.’

- Ken Russell on ‘The Debussy Film’, 1965

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Wed, 15 May 2013 07:26:54 -0400

‘Champagne for my real friends. Real pain for my sham...

Wed, 15 May 2013 04:24:03 -0400

‘Champagne for my real friends. Real pain for my sham friends.’

- Francis Bacon

‘Postcards from Paris’ by Marko Mäetamm

Tue, 14 May 2013 08:05:00 -0400

‘Postcards from Paris’ by Marko Mäetamm

Tue, 14 May 2013 08:03:48 -0400

‘Postcards from Paris’ by Marko Mäetamm

‘If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere...

Tue, 14 May 2013 07:55:00 -0400

‘If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well

It were done quickly: if the assassination

Could trammel up the consequence, and catch

With his surcease success; that but this blow

Might be the be-all and the end-all here,

But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,

We’d jump the life to come….’

- William Shakespeare, MacBeth

A Guide to Hobo Symbols. “The American hobo has a hard...

Tue, 14 May 2013 07:45:57 -0400

A Guide to Hobo Symbols.

“The American hobo has a hard time hoboing nowadays due to the increase in police surveillance of highways, railorad yards, sea shores, river bottoms, embankments and the thousand-and-one hiding holes of industrial night. - In California, the rat pack, the original old type who goes walking from town to town with supplies and bedding on his back, the “Homeless Brother”, has practically vanished, along with the ancient gold-panning desert rat who used to walk with hope in his heart through struggling Western tons that are now so prosperous they dont want old bums any more. - ‘Man dont want no pack rats here even though they founded California’ said an old man hiding with a can of beans and an Indian fire in a river bottom outside Riverside California in 1955.”

- Jack Kerouac, Lonesome Traveller

“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you’d drop...

Sat, 11 May 2013 11:38:23 -0400

“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”

- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451.

‘The way I write my novels can best be described as...

Sat, 11 May 2013 08:47:05 -0400

‘The way I write my novels can best be described as imagining that I’m going into the kitchen to fry a couple of eggs and then find myself cooking up a banquet. Starting with very simple things, they then word-associate themselves with further things until I’m up and running and eager to find out the next surprise, the next hour, the next day or the next week.’

‘Surprise is everything with me. When I go to bed at night I give myself instructions to startle myself when I wake in the morning.

- Ray Bradbury “The Importance of Being Startled”

Growing Up John Waters

Fri, 03 May 2013 19:54:04 -0400

Growing Up John Waters

William S. Burroughs ‘The Naked Lunch’

Fri, 03 May 2013 15:23:48 -0400

William S. Burroughs ‘The Naked Lunch’

I dream of Debbie

Wed, 01 May 2013 19:19:12 -0400

I dream of Debbie

‘The kind of people who always go on about whether a...

Wed, 01 May 2013 16:39:41 -0400

‘The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.’

- Joe Orton

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Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:37:20 -0400

Patti Smith advice to young artists: “Build a good name. Keep...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:10:17 -0400

Patti Smith advice to young artists:

“Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about doing good work. Protect your work and if you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency. Life is like a roller coaster ride, it is never going to be perfect. It is going to have perfect moments and rough spots, but it’s all worth it”

notpulpcovers: Corn Flakes

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:01:32 -0400

notpulpcovers:

Corn Flakes

‘The Dirty Dozen,’ New York, 1970s

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 06:05:56 -0400

‘The Dirty Dozen,’ New York, 1970s