From the sleeve notes of Jim White's album No Such place
A man who robbed several savings institutes armed with a cucumber received a 5 year jail sentence yesterday...
... the famous line from William Faulkner's "the wild palms" which stated between grief and nothing I will take grief. I confided this sad truth to my friend Diego Riewald. He laughed an replied Okay man, but for me the prospect of nothing is much more interesting! To this day Diego's laughter rings happily in my ears... Thank you Sir.
The sad irony of Love is how seldom you feel it, yet it's all you dream about , night and day. Sometimes you throw yourself in the sea of faith and the sharks of doubt come and they devour you. Other times you throw yourself into the sea of faith only to find the treasures lost in the shipwreck inside of you.
White has appeared in a BBC Arena documentary about the poor white population in the southern states of Merika. It is a fourway collision at the crossroads, between poverty, violence, religion, and salvation.
Searching for the wrong eyed Jesus on the BBC
Searching for the Wrong eyed Jesus... the documentary
He is the wide eyed madman in rags standing at the junction shouting at the traffic Are you going my way??? Nobody in their right mind would stop and pick him up... except perhaps another madman.
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