A wolf and a lamb, driven by thirst, came to the same stream. The wolf stopped upstream, the lamb much further downstream. So that scoundrel, in his insatiable hunger, saught a pretext for a quarrel.
“Why,” said he, “are you muddying the water I’m drinking?”
Fearfully, the lamb replied: “I’m sorry, but how could I do that? [...]
In 1991 my favorite band in the world, hands-down, was Pixies. Ask my wife. “Bossanova,” “Surfer Rosa” and “Doolittle” were the only cassettes in my car. I listened to them over and over and over again. They are still my favorite band to this day (although, The Smiths will always be [...]
To enjoy all music equally, to listen to a Jazz piece after a U2 song on your “shuffle”-set digital music player, is nonsense. It’s like deciding to pledge your undying love to a woman because, after all, you are a people person. “Hey, you’re ‘people,’ so why not?” Listening to music can’t be like flipping [...]
Your proclivity toward duplicity does not meet with my complicity.
I can’t and won’t deal with this turbulence—I’m seeking synchronicity.
You tell a million lies every minute—I’m sick of your multiplicity.
Don’t try to sell it cuz I ain’t buyin’—don’t even attempt to solicit to me.
Your predilection for deception is no way to gain my affection.
Though you think [...]
I’m verbally pugilistic.
And tho’ you may not dig me at first, I grow on you like something cystic.
I’m not being narcissistic,
But for you to try and out-word me, that’s like a mortal tryna battle a mystic.
This ain’t gon’ go 12 rounds of 3 . . . you’d just end up paying defeat a visit.
For you [...]
