Jason Arnopp > Quotes

“If we devoted as much effort to investigating the dead as we do to building the weapons that make them dead, we’d know a lot more about life after death.” “Dead”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“Babies are so consistently insane that it’s hard to tell if they’re possessed, unless they start floating about).”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“My jeans remain unsoiled. My heebies are jeebie-less. There are no willies up me.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“Let me tell you: Theroux would shit himself.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“You can only live in a world of make-believe for so long, before reality comes calling.”
― Jason Arnopp, Beast in the Basement

“Bravado may feel like a shield, but when you're telling yourself lies, it becomes a prison.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“The lies we tell ourselves. Comforting justifications, designed to try and fill the holes in us. I”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“Sleep is when the brain processes everything. It’s when we delve deepest into that well.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“Arriving half an hour late at 1.30 p.m., I barrel in looking windswept and interesting.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“makes these thoughts rise from primeval depths. You find yourself fearing what countless ancestors feared before you, ever since the first ambiguous shadow was cast upon a cave mouth’s wall. The”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“Richey currently smokes 50 cigarettes a day, having started two weeks ago. “Whenever I do something, I like to do it a lot,” he explains back at the hotel. “When I was 13, I did a Shakespeare project that was 859 pages long. Everyone else just did six. I just had fuck all else to do but sit in and write...”
― Jason Arnopp, From The Front Lines Of Rock: interviews & heavy metal road stories with Metallica, Iron Maiden, Guns N' Roses, Jon Bon Jovi, Green Day, Korn, Nine Inch Nails, more! Relive the good old days of rock

“I had about 40 different nicknames, and I hated it, but I still thought I was better than the rest, because I was caring, sensitive and intelligent, and they weren’t!”
― Jason Arnopp, From The Front Lines Of Rock: interviews & heavy metal road stories with Metallica, Iron Maiden, Guns N' Roses, Jon Bon Jovi, Green Day, Korn, Nine Inch Nails, more! Relive the good old days of rock

“I don’t think I have a happy place. This possibility makes me ache.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“Bravado may feel like a shield, but when you’re telling yourself lies, it becomes a prison.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“We had each other. We had our health. You only tend to appreciate such things when they are gone.”
― Jason Arnopp, A Sincere Warning About the Entity in Your Home

“The irrational fear gene lives on in us all. It’s irritating, but these things need to be handled the same way as when you’ve taken a bad drug. Simply tell yourself how these crazy thoughts and anxieties are just down to the drug, nothing else. Then arm yourself, just in case. Damn”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“For this event, Richey insists on taking a suicidal Joy Division tape along as backing music. “Oh yeah!” mocks Nicky. “That’ll really get the tea party rockin’!”
― Jason Arnopp, From The Front Lines Of Rock: interviews & heavy metal road stories with Metallica, Iron Maiden, Guns N' Roses, Jon Bon Jovi, Green Day, Korn, Nine Inch Nails, more! Relive the good old days of rock

“Hell,” Tony Bonelli tells me, “is having no control.” Tony’s”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“video, then serve my time on their nine-day project across two weeks. The Harold”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“They say you don’t directly remember things you see. Instead, you remember a memory of a memory of a memory of a… The”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“HALF AN hour later, Richey James sits alone in the dressing room, smoking a cigarette and staring straight ahead. He’s not saying anything. Is it because he treasures his guitars, that he never smashes them? “No, I dislike my guitar intensely,” he sighs. “I can’t even be bothered to smash the fucking thing. It doesn’t deserve death...”
― Jason Arnopp, From The Front Lines Of Rock: interviews & heavy metal road stories with Metallica, Iron Maiden, Guns N' Roses, Jon Bon Jovi, Green Day, Korn, Nine Inch Nails, more! Relive the good old days of rock

“When I answer, a piercing electronic shriek crashes out of the speakers. Warped digital feedback: the kind of thing Aphex Twin used to put on his records (Eleanor: I know you’ll ask me to update this reference and make it a more current band. Sorry, but it sounded like Aphex Twin. Not my fault you’re too young to remember him.)”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“say, “then”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“Nicky: “19’ s probably your last good year. It’s all downhill from there...”
― Jason Arnopp, From The Front Lines Of Rock: interviews & heavy metal road stories with Metallica, Iron Maiden, Guns N' Roses, Jon Bon Jovi, Green Day, Korn, Nine Inch Nails, more! Relive the good old days of rock

“None of it is remotely unnerving, scary or—most importantly—convincing. My jeans remain unsoiled. My heebies are jeebie-less. There are no willies up me.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“The videos I do watch embroil me in a world that knows no boundaries when it comes to lame attempts at scaring the viewer. A world that never settles for just the one exclamation mark and knows nothing of the apostrophe’s correct function. A world that owes Mark Snow, the composer of The X-Files theme tune, millions of royalty dollars.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“I still like to think of Richey as being holed up in a Welsh valley somewhere, with a pile of books and a dog.”
― Jason Arnopp, From The Front Lines Of Rock: interviews & heavy metal road stories with Metallica, Iron Maiden, Guns N' Roses, Jon Bon Jovi, Green Day, Korn, Nine Inch Nails, more! Relive the good old days of rock

“But I, I was scared of wishful thinking, too. It’s like…the fear of hope. Misplaced hope. That’s the worst thing: misplaced hope.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“What do you do? When you’re an atheist, and a mad combat magician tells you to take immediate action to avoid an incoming paranormal entity on a Hong Kong houseboat, what exactly do you do about that?”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“Dead girls in the rear-view mirror may appear more real than they are.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks