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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Vonnegut around the web today

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

From a blog called Off With Her Head!

So It Goes: Guillermo Del Toro Discusses His New Take On Kurt Vonnegut’s "Slaughterhouse-Five"

That's Vonnegut's way through it, and Beckett's and Kafka's and Bill Hicks' way through it; it seems to be the way I get through it, too.

Shalom Auslander describing his new memoir (portlandmercury.com).
Let others bring order to chaos. I would bring chaos to order, instead.

Vonnegut on Chaos
It turns out that the Dandy Warhols recorded an entire album of songs (2003’s “Welcome to the Monkey House”) about a book of Kurt Vonnegut short stories with that title.

I am a scientist. (not-pop jukebox)