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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| acf5741 | a production company working on a new animated series called me to ask if they could use the name "Duff" for a brand of beer in the show. I laughed and said of course, no problem. The whole thing sounded like a low-rent art project or something--I mean, who made cartoons for adults? Little did I know that the show would become The Simpsons and that within a few years I would start to see Duff beer glasses and gear everywhere we toured." | Duff McKagan | ||
| a19597a | endangering someone else was unacceptable. I was not going to participate in any situation where an innocent third party was being harmed. | Duff McKagan | ||
| 1dde847 | What have I done? What have I become? I am a monster." "Mary," whispered Jesus, "you are forgiven." A wave of peace came over her like nothing she had ever felt before. In the cave, she had experienced release. But now she felt the tendrils of healing gently digging deeper into her, like a new tree planting its roots into her heart, the true Tree of Life. But there was so much darkness in her. It was as if her soul was stuck in deep sludge... | Brian Godawa | ||
| d4bbf1d | All twelve of the disciples began casting out demons from those near them, in the power and authority of Jesus. The crowds moved away in fright. The celebration had been interrupted. The crowd ran away in droves. Hundreds of them. They seemed frightened to death by what they saw. Simon knew where they were running to: Pan's cave on the outskirts of the city. He knelt beside a young girl on the ground spitting up foam and speaking what sound.. | Brian Godawa | ||
| aea2c7c | Jesus looked outside the city just to the east where a cliff was visible, rising up a couple hundred feet in the air. It was the destination of the fleeing demoniacs: the sacred grotto of Pan. Jesus turned to the disciples and said, "Men, it is time to storm the Gates of Hades." | Brian Godawa | ||
| f2b2d33 | What we recommend is a contest." "Of Champions?" asked Achish. "Yes," said Goliath. "If you assemble your forces for war, we will call out their mightiest champion to engage in single combat with our mightiest champion to resolve the conflict without massive loss of soldiers." It was a common stratagem from their Aegean origins. But it was also known and practiced among Mesopotamian and Canaanite cultures as well. So the Israelites were fam.. | Brian Godawa | ||
| c2c50eb | Achish of Gath did not have one champion to face this cowardly messiah king, wherever he was hiding. He had six. Six times the odds in his favor. "I will take your advice," said Achish. "I will prepare for battle. Where do you think would be the optimum location for your victory? Somewhere to aid our invasion of Israelite territories." Goliath said, "The Valley of the Terebinth, fifteen miles southwest of Bethlehem." The Valley of the Tereb.. | Brian Godawa | ||
| 8761585 | Arisha noticed that all the greenery and trees were dying the more they walked on. They finally arrived at a large clearing of a hidden valley. But it was desert like, bounded by the foothills of the mountains on one side and the dry rocky bluffs on the other. It seemed strange to Arisha. It seemed like a little pocket of dry desert death in the midst of an otherwise lively area. She stopped, stunned by the sight before her. | Brian Godawa | ||
| e78ba08 | A huge tree, hundreds of feet around had grown up into the clouds high above her. Its roots at the ground level were serpentine, twisted around like a tangled pile of, well, the only thing she could think of was snakes. She wondered if the mushrooms were distorting her vision, but she was not sure. She was surprised that she had not seen this tree from a distance and wondered why it was the only living thing in this little valley of deadnes.. | Brian Godawa | ||
| 074276e | A beautiful woman approached them with two young daughters by her side, about the same age as Arisha. She was stunning to Arisha. If Izbaxl's music tranquilized her fears, this woman's raven black hair, sensuous movement and penetrating eyes sedated her soul. Her voice expressed motherly assurance. "Welcome, Izbaxl. I see you have brought someone new to the goddess. A maiden. Sedated." How did this phantom-like beauty know anything about me.. | Brian Godawa | ||
| 4b6ba8d | Edna more willingly believed in Elohim's beneficence. When the river had returned to its natural southward current, she wondered how many other miracles they would take for granted with such lack of gratitude. The provision of food to fill their bellies? More salvation from the enemy's mace? The devoted love of a man with a woman? The conception of a new human life? The birth of a child? It seemed everything kept pointing back to Methuselah.. | Brian Godawa | ||
| 1655320 | Then Methuselah embraced Havah. She whispered to him, "Methuselah, you shall outlive us all." That struck him as a bit odd, out of place. Maybe she had lost some of her wits in her old age." | Brian Godawa | ||
| 0ca1ba2 | he had visited his distant kin, Noah. There, he had been told of the Creator Elohim, and his vindictive judgment on mankind that was the origin of the Great Flood. Nimrod rejected this despotic deity and his capricious obsession for controlling things from on high. How dare this supposed Creator make mankind and the angels, and then demand sniveling toe-licking slavery. Against this monolithic tyranny stood the pantheon of gods, who watched.. | Brian Godawa | ||
| e09429e | I had grown up idolizing Prince, who played over twenty instruments on his debut album, which featured the amazing credit line "written, composed, performed, and recorded by Prince." | Duff McKagan | ||
| 459faed | Sweet Child" was bumped from number one by "Don't Worry, Be Happy," but Appetite climbed back to the top of the album charts and stayed there for a few weeks that fall. Our lives began to change irrevocably." | Duff McKagan | ||
| caf4bd7 | The archangels were well acquainted with the Mother Earth Goddess and her protective parasites. Her evil was ancient. Before the Flood, she had resided in the land now called Arabia. It had been a vast fertile continent in antediluvian days. But Gaia sucked the soul out of the environment and turned it into a lifeless desert. She had the ability to manifest herself between heaven and earth, unseen by mortal eyes from a distance behind a vei.. | Brian Godawa | ||
| 4238625 | A deep sorrow came over Mary for all the child sacrifices she presided over at the base of this monstrosity. The deaths of the innocent gave Gaia life and sustenance, and enslaved women to the illusion of empowerment. The goddess feasted on the flesh and blood of the offering of their wombs. They believed that somehow they were helping their community and saving Mother Earth in giving up their offspring. And every human offered up was absor.. | Brian Godawa | ||
| df227e5 | Tohu wabohu. Formless and void. The desert of Azazel was the haunt of jackals, the habitation of siyyim and iyyim demons, Lilith the night hag and her serpent Ningishzida. Here the night creatures howled, the centaurs dwelt, and the satyr goat demons danced upon the ruins of desolation. Chaos and disorder. But it was not night, it was day. The demons seemed held at bay, their whisperings carried only by the winds. | Brian Godawa | ||
| b506626 | Jesus led her out of the canyon, back to the camp. Mary said, "I definitely want the water." Jesus smiled. "The water you will have." "What will become of the gods?" she asked. "The roots and tunnels of Gaia lead down to Hades. The angels will drag them down to Tartarus and bind them with the others." She blurted out what she had just realized. "You are dispossessing the gods from the land." He looked at her as they walked through the fores.. | Brian Godawa | ||
| 20523ce | In mere moments, the armed guards were dead, the nobles were dead, and all of Nimrod's potential rivals had been purged in a river of blood. In mere moments, Nimrod had consolidated and secured his absolute power through a swift and mighty show of force, sorcery and bloodshed. He breathed a sigh of great accomplishment. Nimrod was indeed potentate of all the land. Semiramis was his queen. But now, he must rally the mob or find himself overr.. | Brian Godawa | ||
| a2b30ee | precious look on John's face. A mixture of revelation and confusion, like he doubted what he had been proclaiming might actually be coming true. Jesus had chuckled and thought of dunking John in the water as a playful prank, but thought better of it because of the seriousness of the moment. Baptism was a serious sacrament indeed. It was a symbolic ritual that recapitulated the cleansing waters of the Great Deluge. In the days of Noah, the f.. | Brian Godawa | ||
| 0cc53a3 | wonder what city the 'Son of David' is going to enter in triumph to claim his universal kingship? Why, Jerusalem of course, where he will claim the holy temple and demand eternal priesthood according to the order of Melchizedek. And there you have it. The Messiah as prophet, priest and king. But why wait? Let us go there right now." The wind whipped up around Jesus. Sand got in his eyes. He closed them tight and stood up from the ground. Wh.. | Brian Godawa | ||
| c226f56 | You will have your earthly inheritance without all the death and destruction and bloodshed of the Day of the Lord." And then he spilled the barley. "All I ask is one teeny tiny thing in return. All you have to do is fall down and worship me." Jesus looked Belial in his eyes, deep dark pools of malevolence. He whispered back, "Be gone, Accuser. For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.'" Belial sig.. | Brian Godawa | ||
| c419ef9 | David had asked Saul for split residence between Gibeah and Bethlehem. He would be gone to shear sheep in the summer months, and during lambing, as well as harvest, when all other hands were needed in the fields. Also, many of his older brothers would be conscripted in the military. Michal already dreaded David's absence and he had not even moved in yet. | Brian Godawa | ||
| b5317c3 | Dagon met with Ba'alzebul, Asherah and Molech in the sanctuary of his temple. They had come to discuss the latest intelligence delivered to them by Asherah's spies. Dagon said incredulously, "Nimrod? King Saul is in the hands of the spirit of Nimrod?" "So we think," said Asherah. Ba'alzebul added, "That means he cannot be the Chosen Seed of Yahweh." Molech said, "That means Israel's fall is at hand. I will have them passing their children t.. | Brian Godawa | ||
| eaa6404 | Anxiety was getting the better part of all of them. They had been seeking to destroy the Chosen Seed for so many generations, they had stopped counting. Ever since they and their two hundred comrade Sons of God had fallen from heaven before the Great Flood, they had sought to corrupt the human bloodline. They made Mount Hermon their cosmic mountain and base of operations. They revealed occult secrets to mankind, took on the identity of gods.. | Brian Godawa | ||
| 9f8be63 | watched Jesus and the disciples. The brothers saw residents of the city that were standing around or near the visitors begin to tremble violently. The people could not control themselves. They fell to the ground howling and screaming as if in torment. But the voices were not their own, for the cries had an eerie, otherworldly presence to them. Evil spirits possessed the people. There were a dozen or more of the spirits, all belching out bla.. | Brian Godawa | ||
| ca386ee | Only later did we hear the news: two fans had died, suffocated beneath other fans in the mud. Oh, fuck, no, no, no. Those two fans, Alan Dick and Landon Siggers, had just come to see a rock concert. They had tried see us, to sing along with us. And now they were dead. All | Duff McKagan | ||
| 88a498c | We were never any good at communication, especially when that meant confrontation. If we could have developed those skills then, the story of GN'R might have been very different. | Duff McKagan | ||
| edfbd8c | When I was thirty, I asked a nurse to let me die. In a couple days, I'm going to play "Cheap Sunglasses" alongside the man who wrote it." | Duff McKagan | ||
| c44f900 | On Christmas Day, 1989, I gave Mandy the Halliburton luggage Aerosmith had given me and asked her to get out. I was adamant. And I was keeping the dog. Merry fucking Christmas. | Duff McKagan | ||
| cc517d8 | At the end of the European leg, our lead guitar player pulled a knife on our bus driver in England. I | Duff McKagan | ||
| 031bc31 | we ended up closing the show with the cover song we had tried during sound check that afternoon, "Knockin' on Heaven's Door." | Duff McKagan | ||
| ef0f859 | Axl introduced me--as usual--as Duff "the King of Beers" McKagan. Soon after this, a production company working on a new animated series called me to ask if they could use the name "Duff" for a brand of beer in the show. I laughed and said of course, no problem. The whole thing sounded like a low-rent art project or something--I mean, who made cartoons for adults? Little did I know that the show would become The Simpsons and that within a f.. | Duff McKagan | ||
| b51a3d3 | We had a tour bus! We had a couple of real hotel rooms! And catering! Fuck, yes! | Duff McKagan | ||
| cf1b5d6 | loyal people have a mom they think is a saint. | Duff McKagan | ||
| c8f18a6 | we did an acoustic set at CBGB on October 30, 1987, where we debuted "Patience." | Duff McKagan | ||
| 24e0d79 | Grace has already told me and her mom to stay completely invisible. Her exact words: "You're not invited." | Duff McKagan | ||
| 851e97c | don't be a pussy. don't shy away from a situation just because it's tough. if you need to protect the one you love or things are tough at work... pin those ears back and remember who the fuck you are. | Duff McKagan | ||
| 1211d06 | Far fewer people know that Slash is also a world-class Russian crouch-down-and-kick-your-legs-out dancer. And | Duff McKagan | ||
| df46262 | Graustark novels | Jack Finney | ||
| f5ec4d4 | I won't let you stay here. Julia, we're a people who pollute the very air we breathe. And our rivers. We're destroying the Great Lakes; Erie is already gone, and now we've begun on the oceans. We filled our atmosphere with radio-active fallout that put poison into our children's bones, and we knew it. We've made bombs that can wipe out humanity in minutes, and they are aimed and ready to fire. We ended polio, and then the United States Army.. | Jack Finney | ||
| a68c26c | and--we're all actors by instinct, hams from birth--she | Jack Finney | ||
| bc1f9c3 | She always said, 'I know you like this,' which was a lie, because he had told her he didn't the last time. | Edward St. Aubyn |