φιλια / friendship

If you think I am pining for your approval of my abilities—or lack thereof, you are sadly mistaken; for the audience I perform to is feeble-minded, the stage and name I perform upon is small and will quickly disappear long before the standing ovation (Valter 1985).

Now I only talk about my own vision of it, really, because it's not the sort of thing that you normally talk about with most hipsters. I think that the particular God we can conceive of is a god whose relationship to the universe we cannot divine; that is, how enormous. He is in the scheme of the universe we can't begin to say. But almost certainly, He is not all-powerful; He exists as a warring element in a divided universe, and we are a part of - perhaps the most important part of—His great expression. His enormous destiny; perhaps He is trying to impose upon the universe his conception of being against other conceptions of being very much opposed to His. Maybe we are in a sense the seed, the seed-carriers, the voyagers, the explorers, the embodiment of that embattled vision; maybe we are engaged in a heroic activity, and not a mean one (Mailer 1982).

To cherish love and friendship not only means to coddle, sweeten, or resuscitate old memories, but it also means to appreciate and later recapture the memories we can create for one another....That our mortal lives can't be wasted glamorizing this new hostility and separation between one another....That the present will always provide more than the past could possibly offer. And it is in our best interest as individuals, friends, brothers and sisters, to embrace these new moments of present and the beautiful memories that will manifest therefrom (Tenskwatawa 1957).


Torrent: Beirut [5CD]
Tagline: "Like an ancient day and I'm on trial. Let them seize the way, this once was an island."