While I’m away #4: a piece of wisdom I like:
“I detest love lyrics. I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the U.S. is that most people have been raised on love lyrics. You’re a young kid and you hear all these love lyrics, right? Your parents aren’t telling you the truth about love, and you can’t really learn about it in school. You’re getting the bulk of your ‘behaviour norms’ mapped out for you in the lyrics of some dumb fucking love song. It’s a subconscious training that creates a desire for an imaginary situation which will never exist for you. People who buy into that mythology go through life feeling that they got cheated out of something.”
Frank Zappa – from ‘The Real Frank Zappa Book’ (Simon & Schuster)
This man was a genius
If you knew him personally, genius seems to barely touch the reality of his existence. The man knew more than he could possibly transmit to the rest of us. Listen to his classical music and his jazz. It is hard to comprehend this man’s intelligence.