For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world read more

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.

"I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes read more

"I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic."

In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried read more

In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.

It's going to be nice to get home but we still lost the game. We wanted to come out with read more

It's going to be nice to get home but we still lost the game. We wanted to come out with a win.

It's really hard for us to win these matches when we surrender half a dozen points due to poor match-ups. read more

It's really hard for us to win these matches when we surrender half a dozen points due to poor match-ups. Our freshmen have shown a lot of poise, but we lost two valuable guys to injury in the beginning of the year and you just can't replace them.

The proximity of the Bay Area's 7 million residents places our local parks under intense pressure from residential development on read more

The proximity of the Bay Area's 7 million residents places our local parks under intense pressure from residential development on their boundaries. Such development disrupts the natural rhythm of the forest.

With the exception a few individuals, most of the defendants prefer to remain silent when asked to enter plea of read more

With the exception a few individuals, most of the defendants prefer to remain silent when asked to enter plea of guilty or not guilty.

We had to take one bus trip for eight hours. It was a nice bus, leather seats and all that. read more

We had to take one bus trip for eight hours. It was a nice bus, leather seats and all that. But eight hours on a bus? That's crazy man.

We haven't even considered it. We are, right now, trying to make sure everyone who lives within the reservation boundaries read more

We haven't even considered it. We are, right now, trying to make sure everyone who lives within the reservation boundaries is taken care of.