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"My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness painsMy sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,"John Keats I just woke up from a dream in which I'd been shot in the head 9 times but survived. My perception wasn't damaged, but my ability to relate to peopl...
"We were interested in not being considered professionals. I still consider myself an amateur filmmaker rather than a professional. Because professional means you do something for money, for a job. And the root of the word 'amateur' is a love of s...
"Drop out of life with bong in handFollow the smoke...Jerusalem"Sleep Time has been cleared for landing. History is on its final approach. Can you see it? Time, and also the world and everything in it, are the only passengers on Vanishing Into T...
I had a week to kill between the shows in São Paulo and Las Vegas, and I was out of money. It's unlikely I would have returned to Vegas early anyway, when I was already in an exotic, faraway, and foreign place, but even if I'd have rather been in V...
In spite of having every technical difficulty under the sun, or perhaps the moon, the show at the Nazaré Paulista Country Music Festival in Brazil was the 2nd best of the entire Poor Man's Nick Cave Tour. Only the show in Santiago was better. I wa...
"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."Eva Perón Nick Cave once said something to the effect that he chose his band members based on how well they got along. Playing ability is secondary. Being able to live on a...
Five years ago tonight was the night I arrived in Santiago, Chile. A long flight down from Mexico City, with a transfer in Bogotá. It was a long day. The flight left Mexico City at dawn, and the arrival in Santiago wasn't until 9 or 10pm. I forg...
"The road to hell is fraught with pearl.Shiny people going down."Fraught With Pearl This article is an afterthought to an afterthought, so I thought I'd use the title of a poem I refuse to write, "Suicide By Holding My Breath." The gist of the poe...
"Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish."Luke 13:2-3 Liberals have turned into Lt. Hauk and Sgt. Major Dickerso...
"Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even themost High, thy habitation; There shall no evil befall thee,neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. Forhe shall give his angels charge over thee,to keep thee in all thy ways."Psalm...
