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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

We are monkeys with money and guns.

Tom Waits once said: We are monkeys with money and guns

He also said:
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. Leona Helmsley’s dog made 12 million last year… and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio made $30,000. It’s just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains.


His favorite movie memories:
Brando in The Godfather dying in the tomatoes with scary orange teeth. The speech by Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner as he’s dying. (Strangely in line with mine.)

His words to live by:
Jim Jarmusch once told me “Fast, Cheap, and Good… pick two. If it’s fast and cheap it wont be good. If it’s cheap and good it won’t be fast. If it’s fast and good it wont be cheap.” Fast, cheap and good… pick (2) words to live by.

Tom Waits rules.