The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. To them... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, their very breath is cut off... They must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency they are not really alive unless they are creating. ~ Pearl Buck
What keeps most people from suffering very much is lack of imagination.... Everything great that we know has come to us from neurotics. It is they and only they who have founded religions and created great works of art. Never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor, above all, what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts upon it."
- Marcel Proust
In the psychopathic temperament we have the emotionality which is the sine qua non of moral perception; we have the intensity and tendency to emphasis which are the essence of practical moral vigor; and we have the love of metaphysics and mysticism which carry one's interests beyond the surface of the sensible world. What, then, is more natural than that this temperament should introduce one to regions of religious truth, to corners of the universe, which your robust Philistine type of nervous system, forever offering its biceps to be felt, thumping its breast, and thanking Heaven that it hasn't a single morbid fibre in its composition, would be sure to hide forever from its self-satisfied possessors?
If there were such a thing as inspiration from a higher realm, it might well be that the neurotic temperament would furnish the chief condition of the requisite receptivity.
- William James
"There is in every madman a misunderstood genius, whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him." –Antonin Artaud
Music
recommended listening:
NIRVANA, daniel johnston, jeff mangum, neutral milk hotel, primus, jane's addiction, the police, pj harvey, regina spektor, joni mitchell, ween, weezer, the velvet underground, lou reed, smashing pumpkins, radiohead, NIN, desaparecidos, white stripes, foo fighters, john lennon, the beatles, the ramones, led zeppelin, the who, queen, the cars, talking heads, violent femmes, bob marley, cat stevens, leonard cohen, neil young, simon and garfunkle, cream, frank zappa, david bowie, richie havens, sebadoh, folk implosion, massive attack, postal service, songs: ohia, antony and the johnsons, marth wainwright, the shins, tegan and sara, belle and sebastian, modest mouse, the moldy peaches, beck, tom waits, bob dylan, joan baez, palace brothers, will oldham, tori amos, amie mann, patsy cline, elliot smith, bright eyes, hope sandoval and the warm inventions, broadcast, iron and wine, tool, yeah yeah yeahs, the cure, bjork, yes, air, portishead, the pixies...
Movies
recommended viewing:
buffalo '66, the elephant man, fargo, john cassavettes' faces, the devil and daniel johnston, magnolia, the shining, dead man walking, miller's crossing, ran, the world of apu, dead man, sling blade, my dinner with andre, breaking the waves, heavenly creatures, the passion of the christ, the passion of joan of arc, jesus of nazareth, goodfellas, taxi driver, the color of money, true romance, saturday night fever, a clockwork orange, barry lyndon, happy feet, chopper, children of men, the grey zone, gummo, julien donkey-boy, bully, house of flying daggers, who's afraid of virginia woolfe?, elephant, shaun of the dead, trainspotting, the 400 blows, pather panchali, aparajito, spring summer fall winter.. and spring, boogie nights, punch drunk love, pleasantville, welcome to the dollhouse, happiness, storytelling, raising arizona, throne of blood, say anything, dogfight, waking life, donnie darko, heathers, dead poets society, spirited away, amelie, joe the king, me and you and everyone we know, raising victor vargas, good will hunting, there will be blood, the bicycle thief, umberto d, pulp fiction, memento, requiem for a dream, Nijinsky (or, the diaries of vaslav nijinsky), a huey p. newton story, the quiet room, the breakfast club, stand by me, the lost boys, basketball diaries, city of lost children, delicatessen, the princess bride, this is spinal tap, waiting for guffman, best in show, a mighty wind, Lord of the rings trilogy, hamlet ('91), Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory, napoleon dynamite, Ikiru (To Live), rushmore, the royal tenenbaums, the life aquatic, hurley burley, i heart huckabees, the truman show, whale rider, andre rubliev, jackie brown, reservoir dogs, kill bill, bottle rocket, whats eating gilbert grape, no country for old men, vanilla sky, before sunrise, slacker, a scanner darkly, natural born killers, virgin suicides, american beauty, pi; faith in chaos, the fisher king, harold and maude, edward scizzorhands, the butcher boy, labrynth, the ice storm, 3 o'clock high, kids in the hall Brain Candy, monty python's quest for the holy grail, defending your life, paranoid park, the nines, The Godfather I and II, Full Metal Jacket, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Dances With Wolves, Last of the Mohicans, Swingers, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the big lebowski, blood simple, Rebel Without a Cause, Splendor in the Grass, A Place In The Sun, Giant, Cool Hand Luke, The Hustler, mr. smith goes to washington, its a wonderful life, and more!
Television
the simpsons, the sarah silverman program, south park, family guy, the daily show, colbert report, saturday night live, conan o'brien, inside the actors studio, curb your enthusiasm, da ali G show, movies
Books
While I am writing, I am far away; and when I come back, I have already left. ~ Pablo Neruda
recommended reading:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (kaufmann translation), the brothers karamazov (andrew macandrew trans.) and most anything by fyodor dostoevsky; in search of lost time; ressurrection (vera trail trans.), the cloud of unknowing, the essays and religious/philosophical writings of tolstoy, montaigne, schoepenhauer, seneca, plotinus, proclus, ficino, bacon, nicholas of cusa, and emerson; the death of ivan illych and other stories, the stories of kafka, chekov, leskov, chateaubriand, gide, and nerval, hamlet prince of denmark, leaves of grass, the way of chuang-tzu, the toa te ching, the hua hu ching, yoga sutras of patanjali, the diamond sutra, the bhagavad-gita, the ashtavakra gita, gitanjali, the practice of the presence of God, the essential qabalah, the letters of abelard and heloise, the king james bible (esp. the gospel of luke, the epistle to the romans, ecclessiastes, and the book of job), revelations of divine love, selected writings of meister eckhart, the verses of rumi, omar, sanai, shakespeare, joyce, shelley, baudelaire, neruda, blake, and rilke; anna karenina, the catcher in the rye, franny and zooey, nine stories, raise high the roof beam carpenters, 1984, strait is the gate, the immoralist, don quixote, wise blood, the violent bear it away, the fixer, beneath the wheel, siddhartha, demian, narcissus and goldmund, this side of paradise, a prayer for owen meany, a confederacy of dunces, madness and genius, saints and madmen, the astrological writings of Rob Hand, Jeffrey Woolf Green, Liz Greene, and Stephen Arroyo, Meditations on the Tarot; a Journey into Christian Hermeticism, The Kybalion, The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall, The Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes, and Care of the Soul by Thomas Moore
Heroes
Valus's Details
Status:
In a Relationship
Here for:
Networking, Friends
Orientation:
Straight
Hometown:
fucking Atlantis or someshit
Body type:
5' 7" / Average
Ethnicity:
White / Caucasian
Religion:
Other
Zodiac Sign:
Scorpio
Smoke / Drink:
No / No
Children:
Undecided
Education:
High school
Occupation:
Midwife of the Soul
Income:
Less than $30,000
Valus borderline anything Posted at 5:13 AM Mar 31 view more
About me: I march to the off-beat of a differently-abled drummer.
'Would you know your Lord's meaning in this thing? Know it well. Love was his meaning. Who showed it to you? Love. What did he show you? Love. Why did he show it? For love. Keep yourself therein and you shall know and understand more in the same. But you shall never know nor understand any other thing, forever.' - Julian of Norwich
.... 'Judgment is the antithesis of understanding, and hatred of evil is the craftiest and least well-known of vices, so easily is it mistaken for love of good.' - Valus
Parallel Aspects (similar to conjunctions):
Sun Parallel Moon, Sun Parallel Uranus, Moon Parallel Uranus, Neptune Parallel Ascendant, Neptune Parallel Venus, Neptune Parallel Mars, Venus Parallel Mars, Venus Parallel Ascendant, Mars Parallel Ascendant, Saturn Parallel Pluto
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." ~ J. Krishnamurti
Who I'd like to meet:
And anyone who has something to say.
“Wise men speak because they have something to say;
Fools because they have to say something.”
~ Plato ...
And anyone who fits this description:
"I love him whose soul is deep, even in being wounded, and who can perish of a small experience: thus he goes gladly over the bridge."
- Nietzsche..... Aquila non captat muscas
hey love! are you not feeling well? hope you can make it to the memorial party for rikki tomorrow at ian's mum's farm. please call me if you are in doubt or want to drive out there together. <3
Hey there, I just visited Lindaland for the first time in a few weeks and read about your being in hospital! Everything ok? Thats not good dude, you always seem to be living life on the edge... Hope you are feeling better! :)
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live mad to talk mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing but burn burn burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'awww!' "-Kerouac (On the Road)
