The Metaplane

We're just skeletons melting in the grand face of being reason, candies given to the diseased taste sweet and rot your teeth sounds arou...

I don't know.

Many people desire power and freedom, and think that the one can bring about the other. But amassing power usually means giving up most of y...

I don't know why sadness and beauty seem bound together for me, and for many others. I know this perception isn't universal, but it...

No, not really. Actually it said I would "step on the soil of many countries." It's talking about the future, so I don't t...

When I was younger all I wanted was to be world class at something (well, everything) - be recognized for breaking new ground, outstanding o...

Sometimes it rains. The sky is dark when it shouldn't be, colors are washed away. I saw a cat under a bush trying to stay dry and lookin...

The moon is a sickle in the sky Crying star-tears, she follows me home Around the hushed sounds of leaves And trees and things A verdure I h...

There's something timeless about the music of Nick Drake and Syd Barrett. That "timeless" appellation, along with words like ...

Truth and beauty are both fleeting pleasure is fleeting you can only grasp them for an instant before they are gone crush them like a moth i...

Big science seems like it's in a real funk. The world wars generated loads of big science, including such magnificent (and terrible) spe...

It tastes like beef but it's not beef Looks like the ocean but it's just waves of heat Feels like a friendship but it's just som...

No need to make the thing sad, or uncomfortable Give it hypnotic-eyed background music Make it exotic and effervescent, a feather Feel out o...

Why do so many people have the ability/desire to forecast the future of things to a certain point, like convergence of communications techno...

There is no such thing to me anymore as intelligence, as it relates to something desirable to attain. All philosophical possibilities have b...

It's crazy how things can seem so real and so horrible, then the entire universe changes and now they seem so real and not so horrible. ...

I wish the world could find equilibirum in a state of wholesome family values. Wholesome because it nourishes our souls, provides the susten...

My tooth hurts. It's the one I had a root canal on - how can that one hurt? But it does, though my stomach's doing better. Spent mos...

I catch the flames with my face Stand holding the blame and the door When it all goes to crap Don't lie to me anymore, I know There'...

The world is supposedly so big But he can't really see it It fits in the telly And the outside seems grim Not that he's ever really ...

So here I am coming back to life, clearing the fog away and all that. Slowly starting to reestablish a link with the past, get some perspect...

It's another day. It's easy not to notice. One day seems much like the next when you're on the treadmill. Sliding through time w...

The biggest problem in this world is that people don't think for themselves. They let other people do the thinking for them, because the...

It's hard not to get sad. It's hard not to collapse under the weight of a million feelings. I feel so much. Every moment is pregnant...

Psychiatrists, support groups and web forums, even mass media talk about finding happiness. It's the holy grail of the new millennium......

the night is a black day shadows fill up corners pick up stones on a moonlit beach hear the waves screech night is a fugitive from everythin...

I'm getting really sick of movie previews showing the entire movie, twists included. Of course, there might be the oh-so-original second...

I've just had one of those miserable dream-a-thons where I was systematically bombarded by the realization there is no afterlife, showin...

I know the theory of "drive reduction" has fallen out of favor with psychologists since its hayday in the 70s, but I often feel th...

If you want to simulate what it probably feels like to be on opium, queue up a bunch of songs from Air, Mogwai, Cat Power, and Red House Pai...