"There's a difference between living somewhere and being part of somewhere."

-> John Boyega

"Can't make the frug contest, Helen; stomach's upset. I'll fix you Ubik! Ubik drops you back in the thick of things fast. Taken as directed, Ubik speeds relief to head and stomach. Remember: Ubik is only seconds away. Avoid prolonged use."

V, UBIK
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THE SKY I SCRAPE: Top Ten Pearl Jam Moments of 2014, #2:

AVOCADO'S ROUGH CUTS LEAK

Gibran Khalil Gibran: THE NEW PLEASURE

Last night I invented a new pleasure, and as I was giving it the first trial an angel and a devil came rushing toward my house. They met at my door and fought with each other over my newly created pleasure; the one crying, "It is a sin!" -- the other, "It is a virtue!"
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Gibran Khalil Gibran: AMBITION

Three men met at a tavern table. One was a weaver, another a carpenter and the third a ploughman.
Said the weaver, "I sold a fine linen shroud today for two pieces of gold. Let us have all the wine we went."
"And I," said the carpenter, "I sold my best coffin. We will have a great roast with the wine."
"I only dug a grave," said the ploughman, "but my patron paid me double. Let us have honey cakes too."
And all that evening the tavern was busy, for they called often for wine and meat and cakes. And they were merry.

And the host rubbed his hands and smiled at his wife; for his guests were spending freely.
When they left the moon was high, and they walked along the road singing and shouting together.
The host and his wife stood in the tavern door and looked after them.

"Ah!" said the wife, "these gentlemen! So freehanded and so gay! If only they could bring us such luck every day! Then our son need not be a taven-keeper and work hard. We could educate him, and he could become a priest."
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ISHMAEL:

"You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live." 

Gibran Khalil Gibran: THE WISE KING

Once there ruled in the distant city of Wirani a king who was both mighty and wise. And he was feared for his might and loved for his wisdom.

 Now, in the heart of that city was a well, whose water was cool and crystalline, from which all the inhabitants drank, even the king and his courtiers; for there was no other well.

 One night when all were asleep, a witch entered the city, and poured seven drops of strange liquid into the well, and said, "From this hour he who drinks this water shall become mad."

 Next morning all the inhabitants, save the king and his lord chamberlain, drank from the well and became mad, even as the witch had foretold.

 And during that day the people in the narrow streets and in the market places did naught but whisper to one another, "The king is mad. Our king and his lord chamberlain have lost their reason. Surely we cannot be ruled by a mad king. We must dethrone him."

 That evening the king ordered a golden goblet to be filled from the well. And when it was brought to him he drank deeply, and gave it to his lord chamberlain to drink.

 And there was great rejoicing in that distant city of Wirani, because its king and its lord chamberlain had regained their reason.

Gibran Khalil Gibran: THE FOX

A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, "I will have a camel for lunch today." And all morning he went about looking for camels. But at noon he saw his shadow again -- and he said, "A mouse will do."

Gibran Khalil Gibran: WAR

One night a feast was held in the palace, and there came a man and prostrated himself before the prince, and all the feasters looked upon him; and they saw that one of his eyes was out and that the empty socket bled. And the prince inquired of him, "What has befallen you?" And the man replied, "O prince, I am by profession a thief, and this night, because there was no moon, I went to rob the money-changer's shop, and as I climbed in through the window I made a mistake and entered the weaver's shop, and in the dark I ran into the weaver's loom and my eye was plucked out. And now, O prince, I ask for justice upon the weaver."

 Then the prince sent for the weaver and he came, and it was decreed that one of his eyes should be plucked out.

 "O prince," said the weaver, "the decree is just. It is right that one of my eyes be taken. And yet, alas! both are necessary to me in order that I may see the two sides of the cloth that I weave. But I have a neighbor, a cobbler, who has also two eyes, and in his trade both eyes are not necessary."

 Then the prince sent for the cobbler. And he came. And they took out one of the cobbler's two eyes. And justice was satisfied.

ESPERANDO SIN ESPERAR XLVIII: Eddie Vedder said...

"We've figured out after all these years that if everybody just puts their stamp on it, then it sounds how we want it to. Then it sounds new, 'cause everyone is growing, you know." (Eddie Vedder on PJ's new album) 

ESPERANDO SIN ESPERAR XXXVI: reminder

Matt Cameron revealed [in November 2012] that Pearl Jam will likely head back into the studio in March to finish their new album.

ESPERANDO SIN ESPERAR XXIX: discovering NO CODE

-> PEARL JAM NO CODE 

ESPERANDO SIN ESPERAR XXVIII: discovering NO CODE

-> PEARL JAM NO CODE 

ESPERANDO SIN ESPERAR XXV: Stone has said...

via and translated by http://www.pearljamonline.it/naeng.htm
18th of January 2013 jamonline.it:

Question: 
Eddie Vedder said that you are halfway done with your next album ...
 
Stone Gossard: 
"More or less. We have five songs ready, more to come in the next three, four months. It could be done by summer, who knows."
 
Question: 
How is it going to sound? Or how would you like it to sound?
 
Stone Gossard: 
"We are at too early a stage to speculate. We still don't have an album idea to discuss, speculation would not help. I do not want to think about it: I want to do it, first. Obviously I hope it will be a great record. I hope it sounds fresh in people's ears. Interesting. Different. These are intangible qualities: you know you have them captured only after you did."
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what is life ?

ESPERANDO (al nuevo elepé de pearl jam) SIN ESPERAR XI

"the band is as healthy as ever" 
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Gibran Khalil Gibran: THE SEVEN SELVES

In the silent hour of the night, as I lay half asleep, my seven selves sat together and thus conversed in whispers:

First Self: Here, in this madman, I have dwelt all these years, with naught to do but renew his pain by day and recreate his sorrow by night. I can bear my fate no longer, and now I must rebel.

Second Self: Yours is a better lot than mine, brother, for it is given me to be this madman's joyous self. I laugh his laughter and sing his happy hours, and with thrice winged feet I dance his brighter thoughts. It is I that would rebel against my weary existence.

Third Self: And what of me, the love-ridden self, the flaming brand of wild passion and fantastic desires? It is I the love-sick self who would rebel against this madman.

Fourth Self: I, amongst you all, am the most miserable, for naught was given me but the odious hatred and destructive loathing. It is I, the tempest-like self, the one born in the black caves of Hell, who would protest against serving this madman.

Fifth Self: Nay, it is I, the thinking self, the fanciful self, the self of hunger and thirst, the one doomed to wander without rest in search of unknown things and things not yet created; it is I, not you, who would rebel.

Sixth Self: And I, the working self, the pitiful labourer, who, with patient hands, and longing eyes, fashion the days into images and give the formless elements new and eternal forms--it is I, the solitary one, who would rebel against this restless madman.

Seventh Self: How strange that you all would rebel against this man, because each and every one of you has a preordained fate to fulfil. Ah! could I but be like one of you, a self with a determined lot! But I have none, I am the do-nothing self, the one who sits in the dumb, empty nowhere and nowhen, when you are busy re-creating life. Is it you or I, neighbours, who should rebel?

When the seventh self thus spake the other six selves looked with pity upon him but said nothing more; and as the night grew deeper one after the other went to sleep enfolded with a new and happy submission.

But the seventh self remained watching and gazing at nothingness, which is behind all things.
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wisdom (love) Weisheit (Liebe) sabiduría (amor)

Francisco Varela speaks

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