The Background 4 5

"The lighting is so important.

One thing that makes me nuts about the lighting now is that

they spend an enormous amount of time lighting the set,

the background.

But the most important thing in the scene is

the actor."

Donna Mills

"We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places

with background music.

 No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces,

which represent 30% of our musical experience."

Brian Eno

The Background 1 2 3

"Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring

of some secret imaginative background,

which never emerges explicitly

into its train of reasoning."

Alfred North Whitehead

"I just hope that our fans are people

who are inspired by music,

and just use our music

as a background or inspiration

for whatever it is they do."

Maynard James Keenan

"Man's unique reward, however, is that
while animals survive by
adjusting themselves to their background,
man survives by
adjusting his background to himself."
Ayn Rand

New Year Bloom !

 Happy Lunar New Year !

Cassandra Black

" Every man has his secret sorrows

which the world knows not;

and often times we call a man cold

when he is only sad. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Cutie March

“ War I abhor,

 and yet how sweet The sound

 along the marching street

 Of drum and fife,

 and I forget Wet eyes of widows,

 and forget Broken old mothers,

 and the whole Dark butchery without a soul. ”

Seneca the Younger

" Life is a series of experiences,

 each of which makes us bigger,

 even though it is hard to realize this.

 For the world was built to develop character,

 and we must learn that the setbacks

 and grieves which we endure

 help us in our marching onward. ”

Henry Ford

Marmalade Heart

 "We have all been placed on this earth

 to discover our own path,

 and we will never be happy

 if we live someone else's idea of life."

James Van Praagh

The M113s

 " Coming together is a beginning;

 keeping together is progress;

 working together is success. "

Henry Ford