One Trick Pony - Reflecting on Shared Memories
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One Trick Pony - Concerns Over Pain Relief and Medication Use
Jonah:
You got any percodans?
Marion:
No, but I got some aspirin in the bathroom. What's wrong?
Jonah:
Pain, uh... I got a pain.
Marion:
You really should watch it, you know, you just like to take pills.
Jonah:
Who, me? That's the truth.
Marion:
You sound like Matty.
Jonah:
I am Matty, just older.
Marion:
Here's your aspirin.
Jonah:
It's not what I really need.
Marion:
What do you need?
Jonah:
A job.
Marion:
A job?
Jonah:
A hug?
Marion:
Jonah, what are you talking about?
Jonah:
I figure the band is broken up.
Marion:
That's crazy, what about the album?
Jonah:
Gone.
Marion:
Well, I don't understand. I thought you said everything was going well.
Marion:
You said everything was going well.
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One Trick Pony - The Struggle for Connection and Presence
Marion:
What are you so afraid of? That young girls won't like you on the road?
Jonah:
I'll tell you what I'm afraid of, I'm afraid of you boring me to tears. Yeah, you know, Marion, you know, you used to, you know—YOU'RE SO FUCKING BORING!
Jonah:
I-I'm sorry. I don't know what you want. You want me to drive a cab? You want me to give guitar lessons to 13-year-old kids? I'm a player, that's what I do.
Marion:
No, I just want—I just wanted... I just wish that when you were here, you were really here. I mean, really with us. Not just sleeping here, or talking on the phone here, or trying to write songs here, but... here. A family. The road is the road. This was supposed to be home.
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One Trick Pony - Caring for a Fern: A Conversation
Jonah:
The fern is doing very well.
Marion:
Yes, the fern is doing well, it's doing very, very well.
Jonah:
You spray it regularly, do ya?
Marion:
I spray it every day, I talk to it, give it lots of encouragement.
Jonah: [whispering]
You haven't told her about our separation?
Marion:
No, absolutely not. I didn't think it would be wise at this time, it's just beginning to sprout new leaves.
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One Trick Pony - Reflections on Aging and Time Passage
Marion:
It's the longest adolescence I have ever seen. Well, admit it, in six years, you'll be forty years old. Now, you've gone directly from adolescence to middle age.
Jonah:
In six years I'll be forty years old. In sixteen years, I'll be fifty years old. In twenty-six years, I'll be sixty years old. In a mere sixty-six years, I'll be a hundred years old.
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One Trick Pony - The Evolution of Jonah's Sarcasm
Marion:
You don't always have to be sarcastic.
Jonah:
Well, I'm not always sarcastic. Well, I was sarcastic in the late seventies, maybe 77, 78, but really, since... February 79 I have hardly been sarcastic.
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Altered States - The Nature of Human Existence and Pain
Eddie Jessup:
I can't live with it Emily, the pain is unbearable.
Emily Jessup:
We all live with it. That unbearable terror is what makes us such singular creatures. We hide from it, we succumb to it, mostly we defy it! We build fragile little structures to keep it out. We love, we raise families, we work, we make friends. We write poems...
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Altered States - Struggling with Inner Terror and Redemption
Eddie Jessup: [[terror; [life; [nothing; [truth; [all; [human; [Reality|real]
You saved me. You redeemed me from the pit. I was in it, Emily. I was in that ultimate moment of ] that is the beginning of ]. It is ]. Simple, hideous nothing. The final ] of ] things is that there is no final Truth. Truth is what's transitory. It's ] life that is ]. I don't want to frighten you, Emily, but what I'm trying to tell you is that moment of terror is a real and living horror, living and growing within me now, and the only thing that keeps it from devouring me is you.
Emily Jessup:
Why don't you just come back to us?
Eddie Jessup:
It's too late. I don't think I can get it out of me anymore. I can't live with it. The pain is too great.
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Altered States - Exploring the Concept of Self and Memory
Eddie Jessup: [[Buddhist; [God; [Self; [Mind]
What dignifies the Yogic practices is that the belief system itself is not truly religious. There is no ] ] per se. It is the ], the individual ], that contains immortality and ultimate truth.
Emily Jessup:
What the hell is not religious about that? You've simply replaced God with the Original Self.
Eddie Jessup: [[energy]
Yes, but we've localized it. Now I know where the Self is. It's in our own minds. It's a form of human ]. Our atoms are six billion years old. We've got six billion years of memory in our minds. Memory is energy! It doesn't disappear — it's still in there. There's a physiological pathway to our earlier consciousnesses. There has to be; and I'm telling you it's in the goddamned limbic system.
Mason Parrish:
You're a whacko!
Eddie Jessup: [[God]
What's whacko about it, Mason? I'm a man in search of his true self. How archetypically American can you get? Everybody's looking for their true selves. We're all trying to fulfill ourselves, understand ourselves, get in touch with ourselves, face the reality of ourselves, explore ourselves, expand ourselves. Ever since we dispensed with ], we've got nothing but ourselves to explain this meaningless horror of life....Well, I think that that true self, that original self, that first self is a real, mensurate, quantifiable thing, tangible and incarnate. And I'm going to find the fucker.
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Altered States - Defying Reality Through Love
Emily Jessup:
Defy it, Eddie. You made it real. You can make it unreal. If you love me... If you love me, Eddie, DEFY IT!
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Altered States - Embracing Truth and Its Consequences
Emily Jessup:
He's a truth lover. Reality to Eddie is only that which is changeless, immutably constant. What happened to Eddie tonight, that was Eddie's idea of love. That was consummation. He finally - got it off with God. He finally embraced the absolute, was finally ravished by truth and it goddamn near destroyed him.
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Altered States - Unrequited Love and the Illusion of Reality
Emily Jessup:
He doesn't love me. He never loved me. I was never real to him. Nothing in the human experience is real to him.
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Altered States - The Illusion of Great Truths in Life
Emily Jessup:
You are a Faust-freak, Eddie! You'd sell your soul to find the great truth. Well, human life doesn't have great truths. We're born in doubt. We spend our lives persuading ourselves we're alive. And one way we do that is we love each other.
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Altered States - The Complexity of Intimacy and Spirituality
Emily Jessup:
Sex is a mystical experience for you. You carry on like a flagellant which can be very nice, but l sometimes wonder if it's me that's being made love to. I feel like I'm being harpooned by some raging monk in the act of receiving God.
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Altered States - Obsessed Love and Emotional Turmoil
Emily Jessup:
Of all the God damn men in this world, why do I have to love this one? I can't get him out of me. Do you know how many men I tried to fall in love with this past year? But it won't work. No matter who I'm in bed with I have to imagine it's him or nothing happens. No matter who I'm eating with or walking with there's always this pain because it isn't him. I'm possessed by him.
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Continental Divide - Appreciating Ornithology for Its Uniforms
Ernie Souchak:
But why ornithology?
Nell Porter:
I like the uniform.
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