26 Haziran 2009 Cuma
RIP
25 Haziran 2009 Perşembe
tick-tock tick-tock tick-tock! it's five past dreams.
19 Haziran 2009 Cuma
A Man Without A Country
“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”
“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
“One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.”
“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.”
“Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.”
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
“All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.”
“I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.”
“I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival.”
“Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we’re hooked on.”
“We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.”
"Things don't stay the way they are... It's too entertaining to try to change them."
“There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.”
“The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.”
“When you get right down to it, everybody's having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everybody. And the hell of it is, nothing seems to help much.”
“Make love when you can. It's good for you.”“I have this theory about why men kill each other and break things. ... Never mind. It's a dumb theory. I was going to say it was all sexual ... but everything is sexual ... but alcohol.”
“Beer, of course, is actually a depressant. But poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.”
“Old Norwegian Proverb: Swedes have short dicks but long memories.”
“I am of course notoriously hooked on cigarettes. I keep hoping the things will kill me. A fire at one end and a fool at the other.”
“About astrology and palmistry: They are good because they make people feel vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.”
“What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?”
“This is my principal objection to life, I think: It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.”
“What does “A.D.” signify? That commemorates an inmate of this lunatic asylum we call Earth who was nailed to a wooden cross by a bunch of other inmates. With him still conscious, they hammered spikes through his wrists and insteps, and into the wood. Then they set the cross upright, so he dangled up there where even the shortest person in the crowd could see him writhing this way and that. Can you imagine people doing such a thing to a person?”
“The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority.”
“If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.”
“How embarrassing to be human.”
“Do you realize that all great literature--Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, A Farewell to Arms, The Scarlet Letter, The Red Badge of Courage, The Iliad and The Odyssey, Crime and Punishment, The Bible, and ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’--are all about what a bummer it is to be a human being?”
“Freud said he didn’t know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to.”
“What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn’t get so mad at them.”
“Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?”
“I sometimes wondered what the use of any of the arts was. The best thing I could come up with was what I call the canary in the coal mine theory of the arts. This theory says that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. “
“Is it possible that seemingly incredible geniuses like Bach and Shakespeare and Einstein were not in fact superhuman, but simply plagiarists, copying great stuff from the future?”
“[Vietnam] only made billionaires out of millionaires. [Iraq] is making trillionaires out of billionaires. Now I call that progress.”
“If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington DC.”
“While we were being bombed in Dresden, sitting in a cellar with our arms over our heads in case the ceiling fell, one slider said as though he were a duchess in a mansion on a cold and rainy night, 'I wonder what the poor people are doing tonight.' Nobody laughed, but we were still all glad he said it.”
"That was the strength of the Nazis... They understood God better than anyone. They knew how to make him stay away."
“Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler.”
“We cannot get rid of mankind's fleetingly evil wishes. We can get rid of the machines that make them come true. I give you a holy word: DISARM.”
“History is merely a list of surprises. ... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Please write that down.”
“I used to think that science would save us, and science certainly tried. But we can't stand any more tremendous explosions, either for or against democracy.”
“I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.”
“The only difference between Bush and Hitler is that Hitler was elected.”
“If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke.”
“I don't care if I'm remembered or not when I'm dead.”
“You know, the truth can be really powerful stuff. You're not expecting it.”
“Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.”
“Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.”
"Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference".
“The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.”
When the last living thing
Has died on account of us,
How poetical it would be
If Earth could say,
In a voice floating up
Perhaps
From the floor
Of the Grand Canyon,
"It is done.
People did not like it here."
7 Haziran 2009 Pazar
Satin Pillows to cry on, Nothing Else to rely on
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
And nothing else matters.
Never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don't just say
And nothing else matters.
Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us something new
Open mind for a different view
And nothing else matters.
Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know, whoa
But I know...
Never cared for games they play
I'd never cared for what they do
I'd never cared for what they know
And I know..
Yeah!
So close no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
And nothing else matters...
6 Haziran 2009 Cumartesi
"..and don't forget Logan Echolls. Every school has a Psychotic Jackass. He's ours." (or maybe not?..♥)
5 Haziran 2009 Cuma
"Savvy?.." ♥ The Ultimate Captain ♥
4 Haziran 2009 Perşembe
"Selaryumda Toplez Vaziyetteyim.."
3 Haziran 2009 Çarşamba
Nâzım Türküsü
"Nâzım’ı ve diğerlerini güzel yapan, çalışkanlıkları, inatları, entelektüel gelişkinlikleriydi. Güzelliklerinin ölçütü ise, sadece kendini ayakta tutmakta değil, başkalarını da ayakta tutabildikleri bir üretkenlikte saklıydı. Toplumsal eşitsizliklerden kişisel çıkarları için faydalanmayı tercih etmedi bu güzel insanlar. Tam tersine, bu eşitsizliklerin, yoksulluğun, gericileşmenin, ayrımcılığın, savaş çığırtkanlığının üstüne yürüdüler, böyle güzelleştiler.
Nâzım, işgal altındaki bir şehirde büyüdü ve bağımsızlık peşinde, Anadolu’nun yollarına düştü. Araştırdı, sorguladı; uzaktan laf yetiştirmeyi değil, mücadele etmeyi, mücadelenin içinde yer almayı tercih etti.
Bu tercihleri onu şu sonuca taşıdı:
'Toplumsal devrim hedefinden yoksun bir bağımsızlık savaşı kurmaca bir savaştır.'
Heyecan dolu bir yurtsever olarak bağımsızlık yolunun, eşitlik, özgürlük, kardeşlik zeminini döşemekten geçtiğini gördü.
Ve bu noktadan itibaren, tüm hayatını, tüm yaratıcılığını, tüm entelektüel birikimini, tüm heyecanını, ‘insanlığın gençliği’ olarak nitelediği sosyalizm mücadelesine adadı. Kendini adadıkça kendini geliştirmek zorunda hissetti; kendini geliştirdikçe, memleketinin ve tüm insanlığın ulu kurtuluş düşüne daha çok inandı, sevdi ve bağlandı…
Nâzım’ın, ekmeğe, kitaba hasret tüm insanlığın şairi olmasını sağlayan işte bu büyük sevdasıydı. Ortadoğu’dan Uzak Doğu’ya, Latin Amerika’dan Kuzey Amerika’ya, Avrupa’dan Afrika’ya kadar tüm 'büyük insanlık' onun bu sevdasına, hasretine ve inadına inandı ve yürekten sevdi Nâzım’ı.
Onu düşünmek, güzel şey…
Onu düşünmek, ümitli şey…
Dünyanın en güzel sesinden, en güzel şarkıyı dinlemek gibi bir şey…
...
Büyük insanlığın en güzel şarkısını hep birlikte söylemek dileğiyle…
Selam ve teşekkürler sana Nâzım!"
2008, Moskova'dan bir panel broşürü
PİRAYE İÇİN YAZILMIŞ 21-22 ŞİİRLERİ
22 Eylül 1945
Kitap okurum:
içinde sen varsın,
şarkı dinlerim:içinde sen.
Oturdum ekmeğimi yerim:
karşımda sen oturursun,
çalışırım:
karşımda sen.
Sen ki, her yerde "hâzırı nâzır"ımsın,
konuşamayız seninle,
duyamayız sesini birbirimizin:
sen benim sekiz yıldır dul karımsın...
23 Eylül 1945
O şimdi ne yapıyor
şu anda, şimdi, şimdi?
Evde mi, sokakta mı,
çalışıyor mu, uzanmış mı, ayakta mı?
Kolunu kaldırmış olabilir,
- hey gülüm,beyaz, kalın bileğini nasıl da çırçıplak eder bu hareketi...
O şimdi ne yapıyor,
şu anda, şimdi, şimdi?
Belki dizinde bir kedi yavrusu var,
okşuyor.Belki de yürüyordur, adımını atmak üzredir,
- her kara günümde onu bana tıpış tıpış getiren
sevgili, canımın içi ayaklar!..
Ve ne düşünüyor
beni mi?
Yoksa
ne bileyim
fasulyanın neden bir türlü pişmediğini mi?
Yahut, insanların çoğunun
neden böyle bedbaht olduğunu mu?
O şimdi ne düşünüyor,
şu anda, şimdi, şimdi?..
24 Eylül 1945
En güzel deniz:
henüz gidilmemiş olandır.
En güzel çocuk:
henüz büyümedi.
En güzel günlerimiz:
henüz yaşamadıklarımız.
Ve sana söylemek istediğim en güzel söz:
henüz söylememiş olduğum sözdür...
30 Eylül 1945
Seni düşünmek güzel şey
ümitli şey
dünyanın en güzel sesinden en güzel
şarkıyı dinlemek gibi bir şey.
Fakat artık ümit yetmiyor bana,
ben artık şarkı dinlemek değil
şarkı söylemek istiyorum...
1 Ekim 1945
Dağın üstünde:
akşam güneşiyle yüklü olan bir bulut var
dağın üstünde.
Bugün de:
sensiz, yani yarı yarıya dünyasız geçti
bugün de.
Birazdan açar
kırmızı kırmızı:
gecesefeları birazdan açar kırmızı kırmızı.
Taşır havamızda sessiz, cesur kanatlar
vatandan ayrılığa benzeyen ayrılığımızı...
6 Ekim 1945
Bulutlar geçiyor: haberlerle yüklü, ağır.
Buruşuyor hâlâ gelmeyen mektup avucumda.
Yürek kirpiklerin ucunda uzayıp giden toprak uğurlanır.
Benim bağırasım gelir: -"Pîrâye, Pîrâye!.." diye
--Nâzım Hikmet