9/9/2013 ~ 1 min read

Circa Jan 7, 2001


A post from a notebook that I kept : There is no such thing as comfortable. Success is:

  • Self contained
  • Focus
  • Conviction
  • Hardcore with a twist of funk
  • Handstands
  • Trust no one - Hey, why should I? Trust is earned.
  • Not being a scapegoat. Ever. For yourself, your failures or someone else’s.

I’m not sure what I was thinking back then but I was listening to a lot of Mushroomhead (Carefule here unless you still really like metal, I stopped following them so close around 2004) and Unified Culture at the time. On one of the Mushroomhead albums they had a quote from Arthur Rimbaud

I alone posses the key of this wild pageant.


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