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John Frusciante tells some jokes you gotta fuckin’ Google.

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When I joined the band after Hillel died, I was 18. They were 25 and they’d all grown up together and lived through a lot. I felt I wasn’t standing up to what Hillel had done. They saw me as someone who was just out of highschool and they called me “greenie”. I was the butt of all the jokes. I wanted to make it so nobody would laugh at me anymore, so I forced myself to grow up probably quicker than I should have.

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It’s about breaking up with my girlfriend, she found my absences too long and too frequent. I told her that it had to be that way because of my job and that it made me happy. She thought she could change the situation to her advantage. That wasn’t the case, not at all… that episode of my life forced me to write about loneliness and after listening to music I composed the words came out naturally. However, this is not a sad song. I love being alone. In this song I explain something very important in my life: my guitar remains my one and only true friend. I always needed it during both the happiest and saddest periods of my life.

John Frusciante about “Song to Sing When I’m Lonely” (via play-these-heavens-one-more-time)

The airing of the fanboy* grievances in London.

*Seriously, what did David Bowie do to him? ‘He’s no big deal’?? David did some shit.

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A bored Anthony is a handsy Anthony.

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Lightning doesn’t strike twice…But Flea does.

That time John called it.

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Mark Romanek recounts his embarrassing lapse in judgement.

If you’re wondering, the letter says:

Mark,

I’m going to sleep in Portugal and just realized I had not said thanks for doing such a good job on the video. You captured the movements and the energy of a live show in a way we have never had a video capture. It is wonderful to see each guy for longer than a fast moving shot that lasts for 1/10 of a second. Thanks again.

It was a pleasure,

John Frusciante

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I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.

John Frusciante of Red Hot Chili Peppers (via narleysanchezz)

“The sun is telling us that if you repeat an action every day (like learning something, playing something or making something), the object of your efforts will grow and grow. Your ability to express yourself or to give to the world around you will grow with your persistence in doing whatever that thing is you do. And even though the sun appears to go up and down, having its process of apparently rising up, peaking, going down, and then hiding, science has taught us that this only appears this way to our point of view and it is circling around, and shining at full strength always. Likewise our own ups and downs just appear as they do to us. In actuality we are thriving all the time. Everything we do is directed towards shining our form of light. We couldn’t do it if we were just peaking all the time, just as life as we know it would end if the sun always stayed at what appears to us as its highest point of strength. A person could never exceed at something if they just did it once in a while, it’s a hint and half that the thing we owe our existence to repeats its rounds every day. Persistence is an incredibly potent thing. We are lucky that life isn’t like dreams, in which the result of our actions is lost by the next dream. Here we have the ability to build a thing from day to day, whether it is skill at something or an actual edifice. Whether in the physical world or in our minds, this principle stands (…) Trying and giving up go hand in hand. But it’s trying that deserves the attention of our will. Giving up is just breathing out. Breathing in is the one we need to remember to do. Breathing out naturally follows. The important thing is just to keep breathing. To try and then just go through all that happens, including not trying. And so we hold our breath sometimes. These things aren’t problems. They are just living. As long as the message you send yourself is that it is important to you to be guided by the creative force inside you, in the long run you are on the same path as the sun. Of course you’ll seem to go up and down, and be in darkness and light. That’s life. The reality of it is that you are a shining star circling through space all the time. So by making your own circular actions (doing some creative or educational activity consistently) you will naturally become more of what you really are. And you are that already. It’s just a game to learn to be it more completely amidst environment, and the illusions of constant change and separateness. One entirety of everything is all there is, ever was, and ever will be.”

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John Lennon sucking on a lollipop

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Meghan Tonjes gives an inspirational speech against body shamers - Full video

When I’m making music I cease to exist, also the outside world ceases to exist and I’m in a world that I’ve created.

John Frusciante (via play-these-heavens-one-more-time)

I think only the individuals can say for themselves what’s good and what’s worthwhile. You know, these ideas that are perpetuated that trick us into thinking that there’s some sort of a criteria for these things is ridiculous. It’s only what makes you feel what you feel, you know… and only you know that. So, sometimes you got to clear your head a little bit and get away from caring about what your friends think is cool or whatever, to really listening to your subconscious and listening to your own real feelings and deciding for yourself what feels right to you.

John Frusciante about musical taste (The heart is a drum machine)

“Some of those technically perfect guitarists, who are so fast on the fretboard, give me the impression that they have been trapped in some kind of a prison that they can’t escape from. They’ve lost all sense of what music is really about: a universe of space and time, where rhythm, melody and silence have an unique importance. When you play music, each day you have a new adventure, you touch the infinite.”

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I can’t go from just watching TV to making music. I have to sit down and play along with Vol. 4 or something and then I feel like, “Okay, I’m in the zone now.” But what have I done when I’ve done that? I’ve gone back in time. I’ve aligned my spirit and my mind with Black Sabbath’s.

John Frusciante (via luminouslyobliviant)