Jason Cosper

Category: Quotes

  • Little Bad Days

    I used to have some little bad days, and I kept them in a little box. And one day, I threw them out into the yard. “Oh, it’s just a couple little innocent bad days.” Well, we had a big rain. I don’t know what it was growing in but I think we used to put eggshells out there and coffee grounds, too. Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me. Choke those little bad days. Choke ‘em down to nothin’.

    Tom Waits

  • But a -1 to Actually Being Cool

    Me: You’re a Latina. You have a culture. I’m a WASP. Nerd culture is all I’ve got.
    Her: You’re grasping at straws.
    Me: I might be, but those straws are +2 to my constitution.

  • Patchouli and Failure

    Well Intentioned, Slightly Grungy Youth: Hey man, got a moment for Greenpeace?
    Businessman: Got a moment for a shower, hippie?

    Oh Greenpeace street team, will you ever catch a break?

  • Embrace The Dork Side

    Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.

    Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

  • Motivation

    “Everybody keeps on talking about it, nobody’s getting it done.”

    LCD Soundsystem, “Yeah (Crass Version)“

    *sigh* I hate being one of those new age douchebags that talk about personal mantras — but I still feel compelled to share this.

    I have to confess that every time I find myself hitting a brick wall mentally or I start lacking any sort of motivation, the line above manages to find its way into my head — and always at the right time.

    And as cheesy as this might end up sounding, whipping out my iPod and giving the track a quick listen actually ends up pushing me forward.  At that very second I want to be the person who stops letting the talk and bullshit cloud my mind and instead be the one who starts doing.

    So that’s what I do.  Well, for the most part anyway.  I mean, it can never really be that simple, can it?

    Still, I’ve realized the strength of this song.  “Yeah” is my auditory can of spinach.  It works really well at giving me short bursts of awesome, and that’s totally fine by me.

    So what kicks your ass into high gear?  Enquiring minds want to know.

  • A Bottle Full Of Guilt

    “In Fiji, a state-of-the-art factory spins out more than a million bottles a day of the hippest bottled water on the U.S. market today, while more than half the people in Fiji do not have safe, reliable drinking water. Which means it is easier for the typical American in Beverly Hills or Baltimore to get a drink of safe, pure, refreshing Fiji water than it is for most people in Fiji.”

  • On Taking Charge

    “Sometimes you just have to be the boss of dancing.”

    Michael Scott, The Office

  • Hands On Experience

    Jason: Are you too much of a lady to give a handjob?
    Sarah: Why should I give handies when I can give vaginies?

  • Perspectives

    “There’s more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat’s perspective, they all suck.”

    ZeFrank

  • Losing My Edge

    “I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.”

    LCD Soundsystem, “Losing My Edge“