How Special You Are (and aren't)

Cover of The Way to Love (Image Pocket Classics)

"When someone tells you how special you are, all that you can say is: This person given his particular taste and needs, desires, appetites and projections has a special desire for me, but that says nothing about me as a person. Someone else will find me quite unspecial and that too says nothing about me as a person."

- Anthony De Mello. The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of. Image Books,1991. pg 139

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Crates to Concrete

"From my beginnings as a studio rap tunes 
Kids cut class but I'd be rapping in my high school bathrooms 
Clap boom with freestyle and mix while
thick tiles, reviberatin' sounds I kicks wild
Whatever worked I rearanged it right
Putting my brain in tight flows
remained in night mode,
it strained til light glows til sunrise,
burnin' my eyes til I'm close so I finished it right,
Yo put up the mic, ah one two, check it check
and yo don't step I keep my memory set
maintained and do I screwed up to get ahead, but like my man said
it's gonna turn from green to red
so bring the breaks for the lyrics tapes so they can hear it
thinks they don't fear it wait til they can clear it
with tapes and the emcee at the mix shows thinkin' in quick flows,
I'm waitin' for my chance to flip prose
Save the drama for your baby mama 
I wrote a comma at the end of ninety one
I'm back to bomb ya kid
you better come correct to streets save the week,
cause we're brining it from crates to concrete.

- Kish "Crates to Concrete" from the 1994 album A Nation of Hoods.

Check out Silent Cacophony today to see the autograph I got from Kish back when this album first dropped.

Being Me is, like, Enough

Image via Wikipedia

"But there are sometimes in my life where being me, right now, where I am, is just like, enough."

- Angela Chase from My So-Called Life

Of course, she is played by the gifted and talented, Claire Danes.

I so love her!

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Donkey in the Well

I found this parable on Twitter and loved it so much. It fits in with the Motivational Monday theme too.

Surf on over there and check it out.

http://thechrisvossshow.com/donkey-in-the-well-story-life-parable/

Happy Monday Everyone!

Best Date Ever

Reblogged from http://samuraifrog.tumblr.com/post/1279029408

Sincere Apologies

Sorry that I haven't been updating this blog on a regular basis. I love it, I really do. It's a great collection but I just find myself so bogged down with things lately that updating this blog just hasn't been a priority.

Bear with me, I plan to return here with a vengeance really soon. Until then I will continue to post sporadically. I have been keeping Silent Cacophony running quite well though. Come see me over there in the mean time.

Love is Fire!

"They say love is friendship set on fire. And if you're lucky enough to find someone you can give yourself to, mind, body and soul, you should hold on, and hope like hell you don't get burned."

- Being Erica Season 1, Episode 9 "Everything She Wants"