Shaking my fist at the æther » Quotes http://antisol.org/blog AntiSols Blog Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:42:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://antisol.org/?v=69 RIP Dan Simmons http://antisol.org/blog/2026/03/rip-dan-simmons/ http://antisol.org/blog/2026/03/rip-dan-simmons/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:33:40 +0000 antisol http://antisol.org/blog/?p=1933 Continue reading →]]>

To be a true poet is to become God.

I tried to explain this to my friends on Heaven’s Gate.

‘Piss, shit,’ I said. ‘Asshole motherfucker, goddamn shit goddamn. Cunt. Pee-pee cunt. Goddamn!’

They shook their heads and smiled, and walked away.

Great poets are rarely understood in their own day.

- Martin Silenus
]]> http://antisol.org/blog/2026/03/rip-dan-simmons/feed/ 0 QOTD http://antisol.org/blog/2026/02/qotd-15/ http://antisol.org/blog/2026/02/qotd-15/#comments Sat, 31 Jan 2026 18:36:54 +0000 antisol http://antisol.org/blog/?p=1891 “If you go home with someone and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them.”

- John Waters

]]> http://antisol.org/blog/2026/02/qotd-15/feed/ 0 Walking Away http://antisol.org/blog/2025/06/walking-away/ http://antisol.org/blog/2025/06/walking-away/#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2025 12:25:38 +0000 antisol http://antisol.org/blog/?p=1752 Continue reading →]]> “I love you, I do, Know that. And walking away from someone you love is one of the hardest fucking things in the world to do.”

- Ally, Mr Inbetween

It’s strange how sometimes you come across a piece of media which puts your current situation into words so perfectly.

]]> http://antisol.org/blog/2025/06/walking-away/feed/ 0 Summing Up Brisbane http://antisol.org/blog/2025/04/summing-up-brisbane/ http://antisol.org/blog/2025/04/summing-up-brisbane/#comments Wed, 09 Apr 2025 04:45:33 +0000 antisol http://antisol.org/blog/?p=1646 Continue reading →]]> Songs like Holiday in Cambodia and California Uber Alles made the Dead Kennedys underground legends in thousands of sharehouses by the time they toured Australia. When singer Jello Biafra threw himself into the audience at the Manly Vale Hotel in Sydney, everyone scattered and he crashed to the floor – crowd surfing hadn’t caught on yet in Australia.

The reception wasn’t quite so warm in Queensland, where police arrested black drummer D. H. Peligro on the street for “public drinking”. “His can of beer was unopened,” Biafra told US magazine Maximumrocknroll. “When Ray, our guitarist, tried to intervene, he was thrown in another police car and taken away.” The tour continued after the drummer was bailed out by promoter Roger Grierson but the incident left its mark.

“Summing up Brisbane, all I can say is it was the closest thing to a heavy, heavy, junta-style police state I’ve ever been in,” said Biafra.

]]> http://antisol.org/blog/2025/04/summing-up-brisbane/feed/ 0 QOTD http://antisol.org/blog/2024/07/qotd-14/ http://antisol.org/blog/2024/07/qotd-14/#comments Fri, 05 Jul 2024 11:51:22 +0000 antisol http://antisol.org/blog/?p=1517 “Those who need leaders are not qualified to choose them.”

― Michael Malice

]]> http://antisol.org/blog/2024/07/qotd-14/feed/ 0 Annihilation http://antisol.org/blog/2021/08/annihilation/ http://antisol.org/blog/2021/08/annihilation/#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2021 04:46:06 +0000 antisol http://antisol.org/blog/?p=1311 Continue reading →]]>
From dehumanization to arms production,
For the benefit of the nation or its destruction
Power, power, the law of the land,
Those living for death will die by their own hand,

Life’s no ordeal if you come to terms,
Reject the system dictating the norms

From dehumanization to arms production,
To hasten the nation towards its destruction
Power, power, the law of the land,
Those living for death will die by their own hand,

Life’s no ordeal if you come to terms,
Reject the system dictating the norms

From dehumanization to arms production,
To hasten the nation towards its destruction
Power, power, the law of the land,
Those living for death will die by their own hand,

Life’s no ordeal if you come to terms,
Reject the system dictating the norms

From dehumanization to arms production,
To hasten this nation towards its destruction,

It’s your choice, your choice, your choice, your choice,
Peace or annihilation

- APC

]]> http://antisol.org/blog/2021/08/annihilation/feed/ 0 QOTD http://antisol.org/blog/2021/08/qotd-13/ http://antisol.org/blog/2021/08/qotd-13/#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2021 07:21:18 +0000 antisol http://antisol.org/blog/?p=1291 Continue reading →]]> “I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.”
- J.R.R. Tolkien.

]]> http://antisol.org/blog/2021/08/qotd-13/feed/ 0 QOTD http://antisol.org/blog/2021/07/qotd-12/ http://antisol.org/blog/2021/07/qotd-12/#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2021 14:24:03 +0000 antisol http://antisol.org/blog/?p=1236 “Even if you do manage to succeed at polishing a turd, at the end of the day all you’ll have to show for it is a polished turd”
-Me

]]> http://antisol.org/blog/2021/07/qotd-12/feed/ 0 QOTD http://antisol.org/blog/2021/04/qotd-11/ http://antisol.org/blog/2021/04/qotd-11/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:55:01 +0000 antisol http://antisol.org/blog/?p=1203 This one made me really chuckle:

Opera Tech Support: Why do you assume the same file uploads produce the same md5?

Me: Uh… because I understand what an md5 is.
(explains the concept of cryptographic hashes)

]]> http://antisol.org/blog/2021/04/qotd-11/feed/ 0 QOTD http://antisol.org/blog/2021/01/qotd-10/ http://antisol.org/blog/2021/01/qotd-10/#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2021 04:25:02 +0000 antisol http://antisol.org/blog/?p=1178 Continue reading →]]> “Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.”

-Noam Chomsky

]]> http://antisol.org/blog/2021/01/qotd-10/feed/ 0 Experts http://antisol.org/blog/2020/12/experts/ http://antisol.org/blog/2020/12/experts/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2020 15:52:22 +0000 antisol http://antisol.org/blog/?p=1174 “x is an unknown quantity, and a spurt is a drip under pressure”

– Leonard Bruce O’Neill, 1954-2003

]]> http://antisol.org/blog/2020/12/experts/feed/ 0 The Parable Of Glenn Mcgrath’s Haircut http://antisol.org/blog/2020/11/the-parable-of-glenn-mcgraths-haircut/ http://antisol.org/blog/2020/11/the-parable-of-glenn-mcgraths-haircut/#comments Sun, 22 Nov 2020 05:49:29 +0000 antisol http://antisol.org/blog/?p=1151 Continue reading →]]> By TISM

My mate Roger got a girl pregnant when he was fourteen.

He was so shit-scared he told me. And when he said that her dad was a cop I thought he was joking.

I told him he’s got to tell someone, and so he went and told a teacher,
and the girl eventually got an abortion.

He was fucking shitting himself, let me tell you, but six months later he was fucking around like always.

“You betta watch it” I thought to myself. But Roger was pretty fucking sure of himself.

He was the guy who first brought a block of hash to a party.

Because I was his friend I was there when he first showed it to people, and we all went down the backyard and he rolled a joint.

Where did he get it from?

My parents would have killed me if they knew. I thought we’d all turn into junkies or something if we had too much.

The last time I saw Roger was last year at the Boxing Day test.

He’d turned into such a fat, normal, yobbo cunt.

“The wife nearly didn’t let me out today” he said.

And he did all that chanting yobs do, like “Ooh, Aahh, Glenn Mcgrath”.

“It got you in the end” I thought to myself, as I looked at Roger. “Life got you in the end, pal”.

“You were such a cocky, successful winner when we were sixteen, but now you’re just another sad fat prick sitting in the MCG, high-fiving in self-congratulation, as if it’s you that had the skill and determination to play for Australia”.

It’s the cunts with the bad haircuts that you’ve got to watch out for. There’s never been a popular teenager yet who’s done rat’s with their life. It’s the fucking dorks that give it a real go.

Glenn Mcgrath got 5 for 50 that day.

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Open up your eyes, kid
When are you going to learn?
What were you thinking?
You really got some nerve
Shining in the gold light
Glorious victories
But now you realize it’s true what ya mama said,
You can’t win everything, everything, every time

You’ve never gone too far give up
You’ve never gone too far give in
You’ve never gone too far to let go, of all that you believe in
You’ve never gone too far turn back, of all that you’ve been fighting for
There’s still a chance to prove what your mama said
You can’t win everything, everything, every time

When you can’t win, fail with me
Time to fall in love again
Fail epic
Fail epic

When the night is bright, clear
And you can reach the stars
There’s no need to hide,
I’ve seen just what you’re capable of
I know I’ve got the power hidden somewhere deep
The power to lose it all

When you can’t win, fail with me
Time to fall in love again
Fail epic

When you can’t win, fail with me
Open up your heart
Fail epic
Fail epic

You’ve never gone too far give up
You’ve never gone too far give in
You’ve never gone too far to let go, of all that you believe in
You’ve never gone too far turn back, of all that you’ve been fighting for
There’s still a chance to prove what your mama said
You can’t win everything, everything, every time
Win everything, everything, every time
Can’t win everything, everything, every time

- The Presets

]]> http://antisol.org/blog/2020/10/fail-epic/feed/ 0 QOTD http://antisol.org/blog/2020/07/qotd-9/ http://antisol.org/blog/2020/07/qotd-9/#comments Sun, 19 Jul 2020 18:21:38 +0000 antisol http://antisol.org/blog/?p=1038 Continue reading →]]> “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”

― C.S. Lewis

]]> http://antisol.org/blog/2020/07/qotd-9/feed/ 0 Self-Transforming Machine Elves http://antisol.org/blog/2020/07/self-transforming-machine-elves/ http://antisol.org/blog/2020/07/self-transforming-machine-elves/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2020 08:40:27 +0000 antisol http://antisol.org/blog/?p=1007 Continue reading →]]> Excerpts from this article, where Terrence Mckenna describes the “Self-Transforming Machine Elves”, or “Jeweled, Self-Dribbling Basketballs” – nonhuman entities many people claim to have encountered during a DMT experience. The whole article is worth reading, but I’ve edited it down here to remove most of Terrence’s trademark rambling (and delightful) style of talking to keep it to just a description of the entities. Mainly because I was reminded of the somewhat-famous ending quote and I wanted it on my blog:

DMT does not provide an experience that you analyze. Nothing so tidy goes on. The syntactical machinery of description undergoes some sort of hyper-dimensional inflation instantly, and then, you know, you cannot tell yourself what it is that you understand. In other words, what DMT does can’t be downloaded into as low-dimensional a language as English.

The place, or space, you’ve burst into—called “the dome” by some—seems to be underground, and is softly, indirectly lit. The walls are crawling with geometric hallucinations, very brightly colored, very iridescent with deep sheens and very high, reflective surfaces—everything is machine-like and polished and throbbing with energy.

But that is not what immediately arrests my attention. What arrests my attention is the fact that this space is inhabited—that the immediate impression as you break into it is there’s a cheer. [...] You break into this space and are immediately swarmed by squeaking, self-transforming elf-machines…made of light and grammar and sound that come chirping and squealing and tumbling toward you. And they say, “Hooray! Welcome! You’re here!” And in my case, “You send so many and you come so rarely!”

The elves, or “jeweled self-dribbling basketballs,” come running forward. They’re “singing, chanting, speaking in some kind of language that is very bizarre to hear, but what is far more important is that you can see it, which is completely confounding!” And also, something is “going on” that over the years McKenna has come to call luv—”not ‘light utility vehicle,’ but love that is not like Eros or not like sexual attraction,” something “almost like a physical thing,” “a glue that pours out into this space.”

Each “elf-machine creature” “elbows others aside, says, ‘Look at this, look at this, take this, choose me!’” They come toward you, and then—and you have to understand they don’t have arms, so we’re kind of downloading this into a lower dimension to even describe it, but—what they do is they offer things to you. You realize what you’re being shown—this “proliferation of elf gifts,” or “celestial toys,” which “seem somehow alive”—is “impossible.” This “state of incredible frenzy” continues for about three minutes, during which the elves are saying:

“Don’t give way to wonder. Do not abandon yourself to amazement. Pay attention. Pay attention. Look at what we’re doing. Look at what we’re doing, and then do it. Do it!”

]]> http://antisol.org/blog/2020/07/self-transforming-machine-elves/feed/ 0 QOTD http://antisol.org/blog/2020/06/qotd-8/ http://antisol.org/blog/2020/06/qotd-8/#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2020 06:50:09 +0000 antisol http://antisol.org/blog/?p=998 Continue reading →]]> “Remember, it is not enough to be insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. It is not he who reviles you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.”

- Epictetus

]]> http://antisol.org/blog/2020/06/qotd-8/feed/ 0 Sins http://antisol.org/blog/2015/11/sins/ http://antisol.org/blog/2015/11/sins/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2015 12:37:35 +0000 antisol http://antisol.info/blog/?p=762 Continue reading →]]> The Operative: Do you know what your sin is, Mal?
Mal: Aw hell, I’m a fan of all seven. (headbutt) But right now, I’m gonna have to go with wrath.

- Serenity

I’m also a fan of all seven. Here’s my list, in descending order of awesomeness:

  1. Pride
  2. Lust
  3. Sloth
  4. Gluttony
  5. Wrath
  6. Greed
  7. Envy
]]> http://antisol.org/blog/2015/11/sins/feed/ 0 Pet http://antisol.org/blog/2015/01/pet/ http://antisol.org/blog/2015/01/pet/#comments Thu, 29 Jan 2015 08:22:08 +0000 antisol http://antisol.info/blog/?p=535 Continue reading →]]> Don’t fret precious, I’m here
Step away from the window
Go back to sleep

Lay your head down child
I won’t let the boogeyman come
Counting bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums
Pay no mind to the rabble
Pay no mind to the rabble
Head down, go to sleep
To the rhythm of the war drums

Pay no mind what other voices say
They don’t care about you
Like I do
Safe from pain and truth and choice and other poison devils
See, they don’t give a fuck about you
Like I do

Just stay with me
Safe and ignorant
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep

Lay your head down child
I won’t let the boogeyman come
Count the bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums
Pay no mind to the rabble
Pay no mind to the rabble
Head down, go to sleep
To the rhythm of the war drums

I’ll be the one to protect you from
Your enemies and all your demons
I’ll be the one to protect you from
A will to survive and a voice of reason
I’ll be the one to protect you from
Your enemies and your choices son
They’re one and the same I must isolate you
Isolate and save you from yourself

Swinging to the rhythm of the new world order and
Counting bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums
The boogeymen are coming
The boogeymen are coming
Keep your head down go to sleep
To the rhythm of the war drums

Stay with me
Safe and ignorant
Just stay with me
Hold you and protect you from the other ones
The evil ones
Don’t love you son
Go back to sleep

]]> http://antisol.org/blog/2015/01/pet/feed/ 0 fortune http://antisol.org/blog/2014/11/fortune/ http://antisol.org/blog/2014/11/fortune/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2014 00:24:53 +0000 antisol http://antisol.info/blog/?p=474 Continue reading →]]> I have fortune integrated into various scripts. Because I can.

Today, logwatch gave me one that made me chuckle:

THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #12: LITHP

This otherwise unremarkable language is distinguished by the absence of
an “S” in its character set; users must substitute “TH”. LITHP is said
to be useful in protheththing lithtth.

]]> http://antisol.org/blog/2014/11/fortune/feed/ 0 Give up for australia http://antisol.org/blog/2014/07/give-up-for-australia/ http://antisol.org/blog/2014/07/give-up-for-australia/#comments Thu, 03 Jul 2014 06:19:10 +0000 antisol http://antisol.info/blog/?p=458 Continue reading →]]> May all our young Aussie swimmers
Be resigned to failure
May our nation’s state
Be always second rate!

May Timorese fisherman
Evade the Aussie sailor
Do as history teaches
Die on Middle Eastern beaches!

We produce a Norman May
Not a Norman Mailer
May our land’s vast distance
Always treat us with indifference!

Give up for Australia!
Give up for Australia!
Give up for Australia!
Give up for Australia!

-TISM

]]> http://antisol.org/blog/2014/07/give-up-for-australia/feed/ 0 QOTD http://antisol.org/blog/2014/06/qotd-7/ http://antisol.org/blog/2014/06/qotd-7/#comments Wed, 04 Jun 2014 02:17:16 +0000 antisol http://antisol.info/blog/?p=450 “It’s better to push something when it’s slipping than to risk being dragged down”
- Marilyn Manson, Into The fire

]]> http://antisol.org/blog/2014/06/qotd-7/feed/ 0 QOTD http://antisol.org/blog/2014/03/qotd-6/ http://antisol.org/blog/2014/03/qotd-6/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2014 01:21:13 +0000 antisol http://antisol.info/blog/?p=430 The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
- Nietzsche

]]> http://antisol.org/blog/2014/03/qotd-6/feed/ 0 QOTD http://antisol.org/blog/2013/08/qotd-5/ http://antisol.org/blog/2013/08/qotd-5/#comments Fri, 02 Aug 2013 02:07:25 +0000 antisol http://antisol.info/blog/?p=385 “If I speak at one constant volume, at one constant pitch, at one constant rhythm, right into your ear, you still won’t hear.”
- Faith No More – A Small Victory

]]> http://antisol.org/blog/2013/08/qotd-5/feed/ 0 QOTD http://antisol.org/blog/2013/08/qotd-4/ http://antisol.org/blog/2013/08/qotd-4/#comments Thu, 01 Aug 2013 04:33:27 +0000 antisol http://antisol.info/blog/?p=258 Continue reading →]]> (Dumb bitch parks illegally across my carpark exit)
Me: “You know that’s not a parking spot, right?”
Her: “Huh?”
Me: “That spot you’re parked in – it’s not a parking space, it’s the entrance to my carpark.”
Her: “What?”
Me: “I SAID THAT IS NOT A PARKING SPACE! MOVE YOUR SHITHEAP!”
Her: “There’s no need to scream!”

]]> http://antisol.org/blog/2013/08/qotd-4/feed/ 0 QOTD http://antisol.org/blog/2013/04/qotd-3/ http://antisol.org/blog/2013/04/qotd-3/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:43:36 +0000 antisol http://antisol.info/blog/?p=355 “I don’t want to talk about time travel shit. Because if we talk about time travel shit then we’re gonna be here all day, drawing diagrams with straws.”
- Bruce Willis, Looper

]]> http://antisol.org/blog/2013/04/qotd-3/feed/ 0 QOTD http://antisol.org/blog/2012/12/qotd-2/ http://antisol.org/blog/2012/12/qotd-2/#comments Sun, 30 Dec 2012 18:12:07 +0000 antisol http://antisol.info/blog/?p=259 Derek Zoolander: “it doesn’t mean that we too can’t not die in a freak gasoline fight accident.”
– Zoolander

]]> http://antisol.org/blog/2012/12/qotd-2/feed/ 0 QOTD http://antisol.org/blog/2012/12/qotd/ http://antisol.org/blog/2012/12/qotd/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:23:11 +0000 antisol http://antisol.info/blog/?p=254 Randall Flagg: Pleased to meet you, Lloyd. Hope you guess my name.
Lloyd Henreid: Huh?
Randall Flagg: Oh, Nothing, Just a little classical reference.

– Stephen King’s The Stand (Miniseries)

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