George Henry Seeley - Pond with Geese, 1917

The moon was shining. I thought, "I've finally come to the very depths of this miserable world!"

Takuboku Ishikawa, from “Romaji Diary & Sad Toys,” published c. 1985

Heinrich Kühn (1866–1944) - Landschaft mit Linden / Landscape with Linden Trees, 1898/99

Shannon Ebner: 'WET WORDS IN A HOT FIELD', Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA

"But it was not a simple case of going out for a couple of beers and going home. That is not my story. I took it to excess. I crossed a line and I couldn’t get back. I had long periods of sobriety when I was focusing on football but I always had a drink at the end of it. I would just fall off the wagon. It was like a running joke. "

- Tony Adams

Somebody inside of me has always tried, with all his strength, to be nobody.”

— Albert Camus, from a notebook entry featured in Notebooks (1951-1959)

Donata Wenders ph. | Sunday Afternoon, Los Angeles, 2010

Ruin your life

It's the same old story, of a man and his search for glory

And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.
Ernest Hemingway - Letter to his family (18 October 1918)

Alternate poster for The Usual Suspects

16 Years of Alcohol, Richard Jobson, 2003

“More than sky, warmth, humanity,
more than dark sorrow, the poet.
Pointless discussing the eternal,
or anything that simply isn’t.”

— Boris Ryzhy, How the Granite is Covered in Ice

The Usual Suspects, 1995.

Don't bother with churches, government buildings or city squares, if you want to know about a culture, spend a night in its bars

Ernest Hemingway