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May 12, 6:22am: Charles Bukowski

if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don't do it.
if you have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter
searching for words,
don't do it.
if you're doing it for money or
fame,
don't do it.
if you're doing it because you want
women in your bed,
don't do it.
if you have to sit there and
rewrite it again and again,
don't do it.
if it's hard work just thinking about doing it,
don't do it.
if you're trying to write like somebody
else,
forget about it.

if you have to wait for it to roar out of
you,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else.

if you first have to read it to your wife
or your girlfriend or your boyfriend
or your parents or to anybody at all,
you're not ready.

don't be like so many writers,
don't be like so many thousands of
people who call themselves writers,
don't be dull and boring and
pretentious, don't be consumed with self-
love.
the libraries of the world have
yawned themselves to
sleep
over your kind.
don't add to that.
don't do it.
unless it comes out of
your soul like a rocket,
unless being still would
drive you to madness or
suicide or murder,
don't do it.
unless the sun inside you is
burning your gut,
don't do it.

when it is truly time,
and if you have been chosen,
it will do it by
itself and it will keep on doing it
until you die or it dies in you.

there is no other way.

and there never was.

CNN - Chief Long Wolf goes home, 105 years late - September 25, 1997: May 11, 5:50am 1 review history
http://cgi.cnn.com/WORLD/9709/25/chief.long.wolf/; Chief Long Wolf, part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, died of pneumonia and was buried in London in 1892.
His body was returned to South Dakota in 1997.

May 8, 5:07am: Batman
youtube.com/watch [youtube.com/watch]

Walking the Camino de Santiago, Way of St James, Welcome page.: May 7, 10:50am 4 reviews religion, travel
http://www.caminodesantiago.me.uk/; Camino de Santiago de Compostela

The Camino de Santiago de Compostela, also known in English as The Way of St James, is a collection of old pilgrimage routes which cover all Europe. They all have Santiago de Compostela in north west Spain as their final destination. For more than 1000 years pilgrims have been walking along the Camino de Santiago.

Rivers and Tides. Art of Andy Goldsworthy: May 7, 10:21am 2 reviews arts
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8480463057406057702; to watch

Picassos Guernica in 3D - by Lena Gieseke: May 5, 8:00am 14 reviews arts
http://www.lena-gieseke.com/guernica/movie.html; A stunning idea, just beautiful.

Google Image Result for http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/storage/mondrian.jp…: May 5, 2:22am 0 review
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Banksy is going underground with tunnel art exhibition - Times Online: May 5, 2:21am 1 review art, street
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts...; Banksy is going underground with tunnel art exhibition

An exhibition of street art organised by Banksy in London features his Cave Painting. Next to it, the graffiti artist Vhils works on his piece. The elite of the London art world will convene in Lambeth tonight to examine graffiti in a dank railway tunnel. It is not a location that has been listed among London's main cultural attractions. In fact, it compares unfavourably with other dank tunnels in the capital.