Avocado

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Theme: Music

1. The full moon is calling / The fever is high / And the wicked wind whispers / And moans
   - The Eagles, One Of These Nights


2. And it's whispered that soon, if we all call the tune / Then the piper will lead us to reason / And a new day will dawn for those who stand long / And the forests will echo with laughter
   - Led Zeppelin, Stairway to Heaven


3. All the people we used to know / They're an illusion to me now / Some are mathematicians / Some are carpenter's wives / Don't know how it all got started
   - Bob Dylan, Tangled Up In Blue


4. There's room at the top they are telling you still / But first you must learn how to smile as you kill / If you want to be like the folks on the hill
   - John Lennon, Working Class Hero


5. Heard the singers playin', how we cheered for more / The crowd had rushed together tryin' to keep warm / Still the rain kept pourin', fallin' on my ears / And I wonder, still I wonder who'll stop the rain
   - Creedence Clearwater Revival, Who'll Stop The Rain


6. The exodus is here / The happy ones are near / Let's get together / Before we get much older
   - The Who, Baba O'Riley


7. Keep me in a daydream / keep me goin' strong / You don't wanna save me / sad is my song
   - Stevie Wonder, Superstition


8. But oh how it feels so real / Lying here with no one near / Only you and you can hear me / When I say softly, slowly
   - Elton John, Tiny Dancer


9. What'll you do when you get lonely / And nobody's waiting by your side? / You've been running and hiding much too long / You know it's just your foolish pride
   - Derek and the Dominos, Layla


10. Now she walks / through her sunken dream / To the seat with the clearest view / And she's hooked to the silver screen / But the film is a saddening bore / For she's lived it ten times or more / She could spit in the eyes of fools
    - David Bowie, Life On Mars


11. Then the door was open and the wind appeared / The candles blew then disappeared The curtains flew then he appeared / saying don't be afraid / Come on baby... and she had no fear
    - Blue Oyster Cult, (Don't Fear) The Reaper


12. Seeing her skin feeling silky smooth / Colour of cafe au lait / Made the savage beast inside / Roaring till it cried More, More, More / Now he's at home doing 9 to 5 / Living his brave life of lies
    - Patti LaBelle, Lady Marmalade


13. This city desert makes you feel so cold / It's got so many people but it's got no soul / And it's taken you so long to find out you were wrong / When you thought it held everything
    - Gerry Rafferty, Baker Street


14. Now here I go again, I see the crystal visions / I keep my visions to myself / It's only me / Who wants to wrap around your dreams and... / Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
    - Fleetwood Mac, Dreams


15. Too hot, too greedy / How could you leave me / When I needed to possess you? / I hated you. I loved you, too.
    - Kate Bush, Wuthering Heights


16. There is no pain, you are receding / A distant ship smoke on the horizon / You are only coming through in waves / Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
    - Pink Floyd, Comfortably Numb


17. Love is an angel disguised as lust / Here in our bed until the morning comes / Come on now try and understand / The way I feel under your command
    - Pattie Smith, Because the Night


18. But there are times that you feel you're part of the scenery / All the greenery is comin' down, boy / And then your wife seems to think you're part of the / furniture oh, it's peculiar, she used to be so nice
    - Supertramp, Take The Long Way Home


19. But what a fool believes he sees / No wise man has the power to reason away/ What seems to be / Is always better than nothing
    - The Doobie Brothers, What A Fool Believes


20. You see I've been through the desert on a horse with no name / It felt good to be out of the rain / In the desert you can remember your name / 'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain
    - America, Horse With No Name

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Wet Concrete

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Made by starphotographs

Theme: Music
1. Come hell or high water, this sick world will know I was here!
2. The kids will grow up to be assholes.
3. I don't look both ways before I cross the street, or my heart, or my fingers.
4. Sharpen the axe, stomp the flames out on backs, I will be who you want me to be!
5. The most important part of your body is the one that currently hurts.
6. Life is long when you're lonely.
7. You don't want your messes cleaned; you don't want your bodies fixed.
8. The beauty is unbearable, we want to stretch it all out.
9. So if he gets chopped up to bits, it must have been an accident.
10. Let's cast a mirror right back at fear!
11. There's a tombstone that waits of your very own.
12. And it's the last thing you should ever do... But if you look at the abyss, it will look right back at you.
13. So I will saunter down this hallway dark; I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive, god willing, I'm alive!
14. This is what you are. You are what you are.
15. The horror is in our hands, the hands that hold our hearts down.

from the Now You are One of Us album by Paper Chase

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Grand Ink

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Made by starphotographs

Theme: Literary
1. Stories you can use to make people laugh or cry or sick. Or scared. To make people feel the way you felt.
2. Most people, they’ve never killed a chicken, much less a human being. People, they have no idea how tough this is going to be.
3. We love drama. We love conflict. We need a devil or we'll create one. None of that is bad. It's just the way human beings operate.
4. Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening.
5. Something or someone lived or died so you could have this life. This mountain of the dead, they lift you into the daylight.
6. The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.
7. I fucked up. I can't fix this. Can I?
8. To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.
9. If you love something... Set it free. Just don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.
10. Most people would never admit it, but they'd been bitching since they were born. As soon as their head popped out into that bright delivery-room light, nothing had been right.
11. In our secret heart’s heart, we love to root against the home team. Against humanity. It’s us against us.
12. We are all connected on the inside. Your ass is just the far end of your mouth.
13. This morning, we were astronauts. Explorers. Awake while they slept.
14. What you have to love about drinking is, every swallow is an irrevocable decision. You charging ahead, in control of the game. It’s the same with pills, sedatives and painkillers, every swallow is a definite first step down some road.
15. You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.
16. A cough-cough, here. A cough-cough, there. Here, a gripe. There, a bitch. Everywhere, a complaint.
17. A game of pool. Music on the jukebox. A couple hamburgers with fried eggs, French fries.
18. Nobody knows how she got that biohazard sample from the lab.
19. So far, no one’s volunteered to swing the cleaver. Not because it’s too disgusting, too awful, but because it would so put him in the driver’s seat.
20. With a mug of hot tea and some Vicodin in my bloodstream, I look up from my book to watch the bugs outside the windows.
21. There’s no law yet says folks can’t pay to sock you.
22. There’s the rumble of springs inside the old sofa. There’s the rasp and—click—of a cigarette lighter. Then a sigh. A whiff of cigarette smoke.
23. Each of us trying to be the camera, not the subject.
24. Some deeds are too low to even get a name. Too low to even get talked about.
25. This way to die takes all night.
26. If no one wants something pretty and polished and old, there’s a terrible reason why.
27. It’s maybe not the Good Life, but it’s the Good-Enough Life.
28. The moment they opened the box, when they saw what was inside, it was too late.
29. We recite this: the Mythology of Us.
30. Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.

from Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

Proper Terms Purple

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Made by shipwreck_light

Theme: Words
1. Gaggle
2. Float
3. Flutter
4. Murder
5. Parade
6. Chirm
7. Shoal
8. Skein
9. Drove
10. Covey
11. Murmuration
12. Descent
13. Zeal
14. School
15. Glozing
16. Siege
17. Skulk
18. Rake
19. Covert
20. Bask

Newsprint

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Made by starphotographs

Theme: Quotations
1. All things are delicately interconnected.
2. You live the surprise results of old plans.
3. Your oldest fears are the worst ones.
4. Someone wants to cut a hole in you and fuck you through it, buddy.
5. Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison.
6. If you have many desires your life will be interesting.
7. You can make yourself enter somewhere frightening if you believe you'll profit from it. The natural response is to flee, but you don't act that way anymore.
8. The future is stupid.
9. You are so complex that you don't always respond to danger.
10. Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later.
11. In a dream you saw a way to survive and were full of joy.
12. You are a victim of the rules you live by.
13. With bleeding inside the head there is a metallic taste at the back of the throat.
14. Disgust is the appropriate response to most situations.
15. More than once I've wakened with tears down my cheeks. I have had to think whether I was crying or whether it was involuntary like drooling.
16. Much was decided before you were born.
17. People won't behave if they have nothing to lose.
18. It's an extraordinary feeling when parts of your body are touched for the first time. I'm thinking of the sensations from sex and surgery.
19. Boredom makes you do crazy things.
20. With all the holes in you already there's no reason to define the outside environment as alien.
21. Some days you wake up and immediately start to worry. Nothing in particular is wrong, it's just the suspicion that forces are aligning quietly and there will be trouble.
22. Protect me from what I want.
23. What a shock when they tell you it won't hurt and you almost turn inside-out when they begin.
24. How concise that you can cry from awful wounds, desertion, happiness, memories, humiliation, disappointment, or grandeur.
25. Enjoy yourself because you can't change anything anyway.

lines by Jenny Holzer

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Monolith

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Made by starphotographs

Theme: Literary

1. Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes.
2. Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.
3. It may be the wrong decision, but fuck it, it's mine.
4. Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.
5. Out of the blue, beyond any cause you can trace, you'll suddenly realize things are not how you perceived them to be at all. For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were.
6. ...And there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone except to the one who can't take any of them along.
7. Love of love written by the broken hearted, love of life written by the dead.
8. What can I say, I'm a sucker for abandoned stuff, misplaced stuff, forgotten stuff, any old stuff which despite the light of progress and all that, still vanishes every day like shadows at noon, goings unheralded, passings unmourned, well, you get the drift.
9. I took my morning walk, I took my evening walk, I ate something, I thought about something, I wrote, I napped and dreamt something too, and with all that something, I still have nothing because so much of something has always been and always will be you.
10. Beneath all that cool psuedo-academic hogwash lurked a very passionate man who knew how important it was to say "fuck" now and then.
11. Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding.
12. Do not wake me from this slumber, but be assured that just as I have wept much, I have also wandered many roads with my thoughts.
13. Absolutely nothing visible to the eye provides a reason for or even evidence of those terrifying shifts which can in a matter of moments reconstitute a simple path into an extremely complicated one.
14. Not all complex problems have easy solutions; so says science (so warns science.)
15. Quick note here: if this crush-slash-swooning stuff is hard for you to stomach; if you’ve never had a similar experience, then you should come to grips with the fact that you’ve got a TV dinner for a heart and might want to consider climbing inside a microwave and turning it on high for at least an hour.
16. Myth makes Echo the subject of longing and desire. Physics makes Echo the subject of distance and design. Where emotion and reason are concerned both claims are accurate.
17. I want something else. I’m not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it’s drenched in sunlight and it’s weightless and I know it’s not cheap. It’s probably not even real.
18. May I suggest you drink plenty of wine and dance in the sheets of your wedding night, because whether you know it or not, now you are truly prosperous.
19. Me feeling dumb and sad, a bit like a broken thermos- fine on the outside, but on the inside nothing but busted glass.
20. I will become, have become, a creature unstirred by history, no longer moved by the present, just hungry, blind and at long last filled of mindless wrath.

lines from House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Grasshopper Green

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Made by shipwreck_light

Theme: Words

1. Blatherskite
2. Lackadaisical
3. Squiggle
4. Bumbershoot
5. Flummox
6. Malarkey
7. Fuzzle
8. Caboose
9. Fisticuffs
10. Cockalorum
11. Skullduggery
12. Tiddlywinks
13. Umpteenth
14. Drachenfutter
15. Cattywampus
16. Snookered
17. Collywobbles
18. Widdershins
19. Kerfuffle
20. Squirrel

Fade To Grey

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Made by shipwreck_light

Theme: Words
1. Grumpish
2. Snowbroth
3. Orison
4. Whilom
5. Rathe-ripe
6. Physic
7. Furbish
8. Scantling
9. Sciolist
10. Malison
11. Bubble-bow
12. Crankum
13. Scapegrace
14. Peregrinate
15. Venery
16. Billow
17. Pitchkettled
18. Behoof
19. Deliciate
20. Gyve

Cat Fur Grey

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Made by starphotographs

Theme: Comics
1. Ungainly persons, lumping through life.
2. If only I were someone else, whoever would I be? Pablo Picasso? Attila the Hun? I certainly wouldn't be me!
3. Think, damn you, think!
4. Hostility Toward Matter
5. The wagon of love breaks under the baggage of life.
6. "It was hell," recalls former child.
7. Wasted & Useful Lives
8.Hey, you fruit! You almost stepped on my foot!
9. Home for the Unpleasant
10. Two Guys Fooling Around with the Moon
11. Roots of Unhappiness; Seeds of Despair.
12. A Cumbersome Apparatus
13. Life is just a bowl of mutated cherries.
14. Exhibit Your Symptom
15. It's that awful anachronism person again!
16. The Legendary Socks of Wisdom, Apathy, & Equilibrium
17. Who's been eating in my bed?
18. Don't ask me! Go ask Mister Meditation in there!
19. One of many honest bones in my body.
20. Sometimes we eat Ugly Pie.
21. It rains on the just and the unjust alike, don't it?
22. What the hell... Let's plug it in!
23. The Bridge of Considerable Difficulty
24. Fuck this primitive shit!
25. Eat every day these drug balls. They will cure you but also make you very ugly.
26. Waiting for the cat to do his trick.
27. Futile Hurling
28. That old devil, Time.
29. It only hurts when I exist!
30. Alright, who used the toilet last?

captions from B. Kliban Cartoons

Blood and Conduction

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Made by starphotographs

Theme: Music

1. We're animated meat, accepting complete the infidelity of the body.
2. I'm drawing a bloodbath, with or without you!
3. So would you sleep where I sleep? Here with the bed bugs and bad beliefs.
4. We're all tubes with holes at the endings.
5. I'll have you pictured in my head: all of you butchered in your beds.
6. He wants to be alone, but he can't be lonely.
7. Forever, we're kicked up the ass by the future.
8. And I sleep in my clothes, because nobody knows when the shit goes down.
9. ...But I am horrified that you will say it's meaningless. A cosmic joke on me.
10. Our lumbering bodies that we have to feed, put to bed, take to the bathroom.
11. Good luck, godspeed, goddamn you all!
12. I'm part of the sun, I married the moon, my brother the comet.
13. Will you bleed and dress me where I'm found?
14. I want to be able to say, in a disassociated way: "what the fuck" and "whatever."
15. To whistle past the graveyard.

lines from the Someday This Could All Be Yours album by Paper Chase

Plain text version:
Blood and Conduction Made by starphotographs Theme: Music 1. We're animated meat, accepting complete the infidelity of the body. 2. I'm drawing a bloodbath, with or without you! 3. So would you sleep where I sleep? Here with the bed bugs and bad beliefs. 4. We're all tubes with holes at the endings. 5. I'll have you pictured in my head: all of you butchered in your beds. 6. He wants to be alone, but he can't be lonely. 7. Forever, we're kicked up the ass by the future. 8. And I sleep in my clothes, because nobody knows when the shit goes down. 9. ...But I am horrified that you will say it's meaningless. A cosmic joke on me. 10. Our lumbering bodies that we have to feed, put to bed, take to the bathroom. 11. Good luck, godspeed, goddamn you all! 12. I'm part of the sun, I married the moon, my brother the comet. 13. Will you bleed and dress me where I'm found? 14. I want to be able to say, in a disassociated way: "what the fuck" and "whatever." 15. To whistle past the graveyard. lines from the Someday This Could All Be Yours album by Paper Chase

Black Box

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Made by starphotographs

Theme: Literary

1. The sky is blue and righteous in every direction. The Sun is total and burning and just right there, and today is a beautiful day.
2. More and more everything in my life was a fix for an earlier fix for an earlier fix until I forget what the original problem was.
3. Even getting munched on by zombies beats the idea that I'm only flesh and blood, skin and bone. Demon or angel or evil spirit, I just need something to show itself. Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want my hand held.
4. On a night without the moon or stars you can’t see a thing, but you can imagine anything. At least that’s how I remember.
5. The same as most prayers, the bulk of what you hear is complaints and demands. Help me. Hear me. Lead me. Forgive me.
6. You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.
7. I locked myself in the bathroom and had what the psychology textbooks would call a quickie existential crisis.
8. There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead.
9. You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. Until it's too late. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.
10. Seeing it down in black and white, somehow you’re always disappointed in your life expectancy. How little you’ll really get done. The resume of your future.
11. People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone.
12. One day you're changing a patio lightbulb with a 5-year life span and realize how you'll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you'll be dead.
13. What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.
14. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can’t decipher. What we can’t understand we call nonsense. What we can’t read we call gibberish.
15. Still, just one time, I’d like to prove I know something better. I can do more than just cover up. The world can be a lot better than we settle for. All you have to do is ask.
16. Think of this as My Fair Lady or Pygmalion, only backward.
17. The epitaph reads: To the World He Was a Loser, But to Me He Was the World.
18. I realize I’m stuck with my body, and already it’s falling apart. My backbone feels hammered out of hot iron.
19. The sun we all have to share. A parking lot. Cigarette butts.
20. This might all have a natural explanation. It might be that nobody’s going to kill you. You might have absolutely nothing at all to be terrified about.
21. You’re that tree falling in the forest that nobody gives a rat’s ass about.
22. I’m too much of a mess to be recognized as an escaped mass murderer.
23. Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.
24. Whatever my real problems might be, I didn’t want them cured. None of the little secrets inside me wanted to be found and explained away.
25. The truth is, nobody laughs at these jokes except me, and I only laugh so I’ll fit in.
26. The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.
27. Today is just one of those days the sun comes out to really humiliate you.
28. Imagine how you’d feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn’t stand.
29. Do I need to tell you that prison makes Sodom and Gomorrah look like Minneapolis and St. Paul by comparison?
30. The joke is, we all have the same punchline.

Lines from Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

Plain text version:
Black Box Made by starphotographs Theme: Literary 1. The sky is blue and righteous in every direction. The Sun is total and burning and just right there, and today is a beautiful day. 2. More and more everything in my life was a fix for an earlier fix for an earlier fix until I forget what the original problem was. 3. Even getting munched on by zombies beats the idea that I'm only flesh and blood, skin and bone. Demon or angel or evil spirit, I just need something to show itself. Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want my hand held. 4. On a night without the moon or stars you can’t see a thing, but you can imagine anything. At least that’s how I remember. 5. The same as most prayers, the bulk of what you hear is complaints and demands. Help me. Hear me. Lead me. Forgive me. 6. You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist. 7. I locked myself in the bathroom and had what the psychology textbooks would call a quickie existential crisis. 8. There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead. 9. You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. Until it's too late. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble. 10. Seeing it down in black and white, somehow you’re always disappointed in your life expectancy. How little you’ll really get done. The resume of your future. 11. People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone. 12. One day you're changing a patio lightbulb with a 5-year life span and realize how you'll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you'll be dead. 13. What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too. 14. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can’t decipher. What we can’t understand we call nonsense. What we can’t read we call gibberish. 15. Still, just one time, I’d like to prove I know something better. I can do more than just cover up. The world can be a lot better than we settle for. All you have to do is ask. 16. Think of this as My Fair Lady or Pygmalion, only backward. 17. The epitaph reads: To the World He Was a Loser, But to Me He Was the World. 18. I realize I’m stuck with my body, and already it’s falling apart. My backbone feels hammered out of hot iron. 19. The sun we all have to share. A parking lot. Cigarette butts. 20. This might all have a natural explanation. It might be that nobody’s going to kill you. You might have absolutely nothing at all to be terrified about. 21. You’re that tree falling in the forest that nobody gives a rat’s ass about. 22. I’m too much of a mess to be recognized as an escaped mass murderer. 23. Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished. 24. Whatever my real problems might be, I didn’t want them cured. None of the little secrets inside me wanted to be found and explained away. 25. The truth is, nobody laughs at these jokes except me, and I only laugh so I’ll fit in. 26. The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground. 27. Today is just one of those days the sun comes out to really humiliate you. 28. Imagine how you’d feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn’t stand. 29. Do I need to tell you that prison makes Sodom and Gomorrah look like Minneapolis and St. Paul by comparison? 30. The joke is, we all have the same punchline. Lines from Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

Rusted Gears

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Made by starphotographs

Theme: Music
1. Anything can happen, anything can go wrong.
2. It pays to be informed!
3. I wish to use my body as a torch, I wish to use my body as a guide.
4. Why should we communicate sans technology?
5. "Look at me, lucky me: Mister Invincible."
6. Slowly but surely, he screams.
7. And that silence, it suits you.
8. Undetected by the noisy wood floor.
9. Throw your body on the apparatus!
10. Can I pour you another drink, lover?
11. Like atom bombs, if you will.
12. Did you really think you were quicker than me? Did you really think you were better than me?
13. Goddamn these hands, I let them touch you.
14. If the big one hits... I'll just meet you there.
15. Young bodies always heal quickly.

lines from the Young Bodies Heal Quickly, You Know album by Paper Chase