Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Laughter in the dark

YAY! Beckett!!
Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Laughter in the dark: "Many people met Beckett and inevitably drank with him. It is true that he drank quite a lot and is almost certainly truer that he needed to drink, both to vivify a spirit that had 'little talent for happiness' and to lessen the barrage of fellow imbibers. All his works are littered with non-stop talkers, the quaquaquas."

2nd Law: The Oscars: Looking through a gold-plated statuette onion - research material - that's entertainment

2nd Law: The Oscars: Looking through a gold-plated statuette onion: "Which points back to my initial question: what do award ceremonies that parade spectacular stories about marginalized voices have to do with the existence in reality of political and economic marginalization? The Oscars, historically resistant to union politics, epitomize American capitalist traditions of financial opportunism and their dubious ethics, while simultaneously literalizing our culture’s profound need for the escapist fantasy of the Oscar ceremony.

Will the crew members, technicians, acting extras, janitors, and catering staff for Brokeback Mountain be attending this year’s awards festival? I would venture not. "

Click opera - March 3rd, 2006

Momus is a lucky bastard...
he gets the coolest jobs in the world...
like "Unreliable Tour Guide" for the Whitney Biennieal.
Click opera - March 3rd, 2006: "I also felt a bit mean telling people looking at the Daniel Johnston cartoons that Johnston actually gets these drawn by a 14 year-old in Hong Kong who's only paid $5 per drawing, and that Johnston, far from being some kind of outsider artist, is in fact an advertising man working on Madison Avenue (which happens to be the Whitney's address). Or that a slide sequence of Nan Goldin-like nudes had been made in iPhoto and iTunes, and been demoed by Steve Jobs at the last Apple Expo. In fact, I felt like someone might punch me saying these things. So as the day wore on (and no doubt as my blood sugar levels declined -- I didn't even stop for lunch) I got a bit more poetic and lyrical, sitting on the floor in the corner of rooms with more ambient washes of electronic sound in them, improvising abstract imagery in a 'mesmeric' voice. I enjoyed that; it was a bit like being an improvising poet in residence, and I felt like I wasn't going against the grain of the work on display or irritating people too much."

what's up?

haven't been blogging much...
mostly been hiding in the cave.
whoohoo.

running crew on "uncle vanya"
sound design for "(sic)"
and getting ready for auditions
for the auditions for "speeding motorcycle"
and sleeping...
lots of sleeping...
not enough looking for work.

this is what's going on.

The lower the President's approval rating gets
the less angry I feel
and the less vital political blogging seems...
of course that leaves me more free time
for reading about the lizard people, etc,
but I really haven't been doing much of that either.

I could write about the big open sore on my leg,
but I don't think you want to read it.
Gross is not really my thing.

I think when I come up from the cave
there'll be some real drinkin'
and night or two of madness...
then probably back to work...

eh, work.

REAL ART (and politics and culture)

REAL ART (and politics and culture): "This is why the American public is unaware that higher paid jobs in export and import-competitive industries are being phased out along with engineering and other professional 'knowledge jobs' and replaced with lower paid jobs in domestic services. The replacement of higher paid jobs with lower paid jobs is one reason for the decline in median household income over the past five years. It is not a large decline, but it is a decline. How can it be possible for the economy to be doing well when median household income is not growing and when economic growth is based on increased consumer indebtedness?"

So, yeah, it'd be great if all the low paying jobs were going overseas and we could train for higher paying ones here...
only it's the higher paying jobs going overseas...
get it now?

REAL ART (and politics and culture)

REAL ART (and politics and culture): "This is why the American public is unaware that higher paid jobs in export and import-competitive industries are being phased out along with engineering and other professional 'knowledge jobs' and replaced with lower paid jobs in domestic services. The replacement of higher paid jobs with lower paid jobs is one reason for the decline in median household income over the past five years. It is not a large decline, but it is a decline. How can it be possible for the economy to be doing well when median household income is not growing and when economic growth is based on increased consumer indebtedness?"

So, yeah, it'd be great if all the low paying jobs were going overseas and we could train for higher paying ones here...
only it's the higher paying jobs going overseas...
get it now?

REAL ART (and politics and culture)

REAL ART (and politics and culture): "This is why the American public is unaware that higher paid jobs in export and import-competitive industries are being phased out along with engineering and other professional 'knowledge jobs' and replaced with lower paid jobs in domestic services. The replacement of higher paid jobs with lower paid jobs is one reason for the decline in median household income over the past five years. It is not a large decline, but it is a decline. How can it be possible for the economy to be doing well when median household income is not growing and when economic growth is based on increased consumer indebtedness?"

So, yeah, it'd be great if all the low paying jobs were going overseas and we could train for higher paying ones here...
only it's the higher paying jobs going overseas...
get it now?

Sol Legion Clan � Forums � Insomnia and the Strange things you find on the net � Starbuck: Lost in Castration

One for the geeks:

Sol Legion Clan � Forums � Insomnia and the Strange things you find on the net � Starbuck: Lost in Castration: "'Re-imagining', they call it. 'un-imagining' is more accurate. To
take what once was and twist it into what never was intended. So that
a television show based on hope, spiritual faith, and family is
unimagined and regurgitated as a show of despair, sexual violence and
family dysfunction. To better reflect the times of ambiguous morality
in which we live, one would assume. A show in which the aliens
(Cylons) are justified in their desire to destroy our civilisation. "

Dirk Benedict on the new BSG sounding like the earth-2 supes in "infinite crisis"...

echoes of fanboyism
ripples and waves
and regret

Is it only natural that we remake the stories we heard as children into stories that speak to us now?
where does that leave kids today?
with their own stories.
I like my Batman a little tortured and crazy,
my Wonder Woman a warrior, and my Green Lantern a mass murderer - o.k. that last one is a joke, although I do still have some issues with Hal Jordan being back,
and I grew up with Hal Jordan and Barry Allen...
I had DC ship me "Green Lantern" and "Flash" every month. They weren't bagged in mylar and backed with acid free cardboard. They came in brown paper, in the regular mail, and they were magic. Green Lantern was a grand space opera, Hal Jordan a man without fear. After the original crisis I guess I stopped really paying attention, and somewhere down the line I think they made Hal an alcoholic, and then they had him go nuts...and he killed alot of people...800 and something , sacrificed his life eventually to save the world, did some time as the spectre, and now he's back. Shouldn't he get credit for saving the world? Shouldn't that wipe out all the bad stuff? No. That's what superheroes do. They save the world. That's the job.
Anyway, GL is just one of the titles/family of titles that just got more or less rebooted (Titans, Outsiders, Legion, etc.) and now we're about to pick up "one year later" after the new crisis... It looks like there really will be some major changes in the primary DC universe, if they do go back to the "multi-verse" (which I'm not convinced is happening), but I really have no idea what they could be. It could go in pretty much any direction from what we've seen so far.

I really dig the new Battlestar Galactica,
and I have high hopes for the new DC Universe.
The Crisis and all it's tie-ins are being as well written and nicely handled as any of these big events ever are...
much better than "House of M/Decimation" over at Marvel.
I did enjoy "The Other" in the Spiderman books,
and I'm curious about "Civil War" but generally
I think I'm more interested in Marvel movies,
and DC books these days.

But of course the best realization of the DC Universe is, hands down, the animated DCU of "Justice League Unlimited" and all the precursors to it - an amazing amount of continuity, great takes on the characters (visually and otherwise), it pretty much has it all...
Really. Any of you who are or once were DC fanboys should seek out the DVD's of any of the animated DCU stuff from recent years. I'm worried about the animated DCU now too though. Apparently "JLU" is over, and if "The Batman" is the new direction they are going in (c'mon man, the penguin doing kung-fu?) I'm not terribly excited...

anyway, how's that for a ramble?

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Battlestar Galactica talkback on AICN:
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the most interesting things I learned here is that Dirk Benedict is kind of a jerk and that he gets be a "cancer survivor" after being diagnosed by a psychic and and healing himself through a macrobiotic diet.

The voices in my head told me I had ebola,
but I cured it with 8 glasses of water a day.
Can I call myself an ebola survivor now?

Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.

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"The Love God Loves No More... "

I was a HUGE Don Knotts fan as a kid...
The Incredible Mr. Limpitt, his movies with Tim Conway...

It's sad.
I've had flashing moments of Barney Fife in at least a couple of characters I've played...
In certain situations
it's just hard
not to think
of a man
with a gun
and one bullet
in his pocket.

Uncle Vanya

so, I know I bug you a lot about shows,

and probably you either just ignore me

now, or ya don't, and it doesn't matter much

what I'm gonna say,

but I'm gonna say it anyway...

this is a beautiful show.

there are amazing things happening -

character to character, actor to actor, actor to audience,

and every possible permutation thereof, it's beautiful...

it's also sad, and funny, and and all that other messy human stuff...

It's about regret, and change, and midlife crises, and unrequited love, and loveless marriage, and getting old, and all that...

is it perfect?

no, if it were perfect it wouldn't be beautiful,

it'd be dead.

but it's not,

it's alive -

every night...

 

got interrupted by someone coming by,

and had to go do the show...

afterwards, someone said to me,

"well, you have to like russian literature..."

and of course you do, so this play is perfect

for you, right?

 

anyway, come see "Uncle Vanya" -

you won't be disappointed.

 

http://www.infernalbridegroom.com/archives/vanya.html

 

 

http://notacompliment.blogspot.com

 

 

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This is a script I would love to read...


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Nick Cave's "Gladiator II"

whoohoo!

Untitled Document

I could try to say smart things about "Uncle Vanya",
but it'd just be showing off,
and ultimately meaningless compared to the show itself...
so go see it...

Untitled Document

"I chose to direct this play simply because it´s a beautifully written play," says IBP associate artistic director Tamarie Cooper. "Although it´s set in late-19th-century, rural Russia, the themes are timeless and universal. It´s a play in which nothing happens and everything happens. Chekhov vividly renders the human condition with all its hopes, dreams, struggles, disappointments, failures, and ultimately, resignation. Is it sad? Yes, but it´s funny, too. I often find myself simultaneously laughing and crying right along with these characters. I´m also thrilled to be working with an excellent ensemble of unique and talented actors, who are quite suited for their various roles."


It's beautiful.

Guardian Unlimited Sport | Small talk | David Icke

Via Warren Ellis:
Guardian Unlimited Sport | Small talk | David Icke: "David Icke is a former Coventry City goalkeeper and BBC sports presenter turned writer and campaigner who's convinced, amongst other things, that Earth is run by 'reptilian humanoids'. In an appropriate departure from the norm, Small Talk conducted its chat by email "

pretty good recent interview with The Ickester...

Democrats boot candidate who didn't fit the mold | IndyStar.com

Go Team Democrat!
Democrats boot candidate who didn't fit the mold | IndyStar.com: "Admitting he'd been forced out, Hackett said it best: 'For me this is the second betrayal. First my government misused and mismanaged the military in Iraq, and now my own party is afraid to support candidates like me.'"

ya fuckin' morons!

Think Progress � Administration Outsources Operations Of Six U.S. Ports To The United Arab Emirates

Think Progress � Administration Outsources Operations Of Six U.S. Ports To The United Arab Emirates: "The Bush administration has outsourced the operation of six of the nation’s largest ports to a company owned by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a country with troubling ties to international terrorism. The $6.8 billion sale would mean that the state-controlled Dubai Ports World would control “the ports of New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia.”"

Well, at least Houston is not on the list.

cheney - the most dangerous game

http://www.the7thfire.com/Politics%20and%20History/most_dangerous_game.htm


http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2006/02/accidents-will-happen.html


See! See!

"Trance-formation of America" = best book ever!

I wasn't surprised Cheney shot someone,
just surprised it was an old man and not a little girl.

David Icke, Lizard People & Symbols (article) by Silvia Hartmann on AuthorsDen

David Icke, Lizard People & Symbols (article) by Silvia Hartmann on AuthorsDen: "I've always been rather fascinated by David Icke and what he has to say for himself.


He's clearly an intelligent, compassionate person who is determined to make a change in this world, and there he stands and goes on about how US presidents turn themselves practically into gigantic lizards and drink the blood of babies whilst worshipping a large owl.

In all sincerity.

A lot of 'lizard' type illuminati conspiracy theories revolve around the use of symbols, hidden, mystical meanings, intent and symbols in buildings, street layouts, and most everything the secret rulers of their human slaves are producing.

David Icke angrily says often, 'They are completely OBSESSED with symbols!' "

We Licke Icke

We Licke Icke: " * David Icke believes that the former US President George Herschel Walker Bush is a lizard and a drug dealer.
* The Washington Post believes that former US President George Herschel Walker Bush is not a lizard, and not a drug dealer.
* Adequacy.org believes that former US President George Herschel Walker Bush is not a lizard, but is a drug dealer.

So, it appears that we disagree with Icke on the subject of whether Bush was a lizard, and with the Post on the subject of whether Bush was a heroin pusher. And the fact is that, while it's more or less impossible to prove one way or the other whether Bush is an Annunaki lizard from the fourth dimension, it's very easy indeed to show that Bush was the head of the CIA during the period in which Air America was carrying opium by the ton from Burma and Laos to the heroin labs of Hong Kong and Saigon, from whence it was sold to American GIs. So it appears that David Icke makes a claim that is pretty difficult to believe, with not much evidence in favour of it, while the Washington Post is asking us to believe something in the face of a vast amount of conclusive contradictory evidence. Furthermore, while Icke's organisation is supported almost entirely in the free market by selling books and videos to the public, the Washington Post is bankrolled partly by the CIA, and partly by the Reunification Church of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, a bona fide cult."

You know I love David Icke, right?
I'm still not sure how we're supposed to defeat the reptiles with love though.

Noam Chomsky on sports

Hope everyone enjoyed their superbowl...
this next bit is via Little Miss Messycovers.
Take it away, Noam...

Noam Chomsky on sports: "Take, say, sports -- that's another crucial example of the indoctrination system, in my view. For one thing because it -- you know, it offers people something to pay attention to that's of no importance. [audience laughs] That keeps them from worrying about -- [applause] keeps them from worrying about things that matter to their lives that they might have some idea of doing something about. And in fact it's striking to see the intelligence that's used by ordinary people in [discussions of] sports [as opposed to political and social issues]. I mean, you listen to radio stations where people call in -- they have the most exotic information [more laughter] and understanding about all kind of arcane issues. And the press undoubtedly does a lot with this."

Walt Disney Records – Song Albums – Devo 2.0

Walt Disney Records – Song Albums – Devo 2.0

insane...
really.

insomnia

I'm a prime candidate for Lunesta.
(which scares the hell out of me, by the way, the drug itself,
not that I'm a candidate for it...)
Woke up at 4:30 and by 4:35 I'd allowed myself
to think about "the adding machine" and,
well then there was no stopping it...
and now I have to get in the shower to
get ready for work...

so yeah, I've started work on "the adding machine"...
by work I mean reading it over and over and making lots of notes...
I'm talking to a few folks I'd like to have on the production team,
and I'm eyeing towards putting it up during the next real break I have,
and I have no idea when that will be...or where we'll do it...
although I'd love to get a cast pinned down for a public reading on May Day.

and Charlie and I are thinking about taking "Hamletmachine" and making a Last Bastions album from it...
I've only talked to a possible "Ophelia" so far, but Charlie asked me about it again
yesterday, so hopefully I'll pin her down soon and find our Hamlet too...

anyway, I'm off to the shower so I can go file.
got my friend john's car right now or I'd already be on the bike
and on my way...

insomnia

I'm a prime candidate for Lunesta.
(which scares the hell out of me, by the way, the drug itself,
not that I'm a candidate for it...)
Woke up at 4:30 and by 4:35 I'd allowed myself
to think about "the adding machine" and,
well then there was no stopping it...
and now I have to get in the shower to
get ready for work...

so yeah, I've started work on "the adding machine"...
by work I mean reading it over and over and making lots of notes...
I'm talking to a few folks I'd like to have on the production team,
and I'm eyeing towards putting it up during the next real break I have,
and I have no idea when that will be...or where we'll do it...
although I'd love to get a cast pinned down for a public reading on May Day.

and Charlie and I are thinking about taking "Hamletmachine" and making a Last Bastions album from it...
I've only talked to a possible "Ophelia" so far, but Charlie asked me about it again
yesterday, so hopefully I'll pin her down soon and find our Hamlet too...

anyway, I'm off to the shower so I can go file.
got my friend john's car right now or I'd already be on the bike
and on my way...

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I knew they'd never show it:

Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.:

"If you don’t want to register for the New York Times, then I’ll sum it up quickly. Showtime saw the episode, they freaked out, and they decided not to show it. Considering it’s Miike, that shouldn’t really surprise anyone. Hell, when I was talking to Stuart Gordon about the show before anyone had actually started shooting, I asked him which one would be the craziest, and he started laughing. “Oh, Miike. No question. American TV is just not ready.” Turns out Stuart’s prescient, because American TV indeed does not appear to be ready."

If you wonder how I knew throw "Visitor Q" or "Audition" into yr netflix queue...

National Gorilla Suit Day

National Gorilla Suit Day:

For Melissa:

"National Gorilla Suit Day, which mysteriously falls on January 31 of each year, is perhaps the important holiday of the year. Every National Gorilla Suit Day, people of all shapes and colors around the world get their gorilla suits out of the closet, put them on and go door-to-door."

Tracing An Email

Tracing An Email: "Tracing An Email"

via LifeHacker...
never know when it might come in handy...

what do I do here?

sometimes I just link to some political story with little or no comment...
it keeps me from e-mailing it to all my friends...
some of them got tired of that.

and more and more I just write...
some of it is true
and some of it is me
and some of it's malarkey

eventually I'm gonna dig through a lot of these fragments
and try to make some dialogue of it,
or see if there are any snippets
I can save
or whatever...

sometimes I waste everybody's time
trying to justify
and explain
what I'm doing here

you wanna know

you wanna know,
you really wanna know
what I believe?

I believe
knowledge informs perception
EVERYTHING is subjective
and words refer to words.

I believe the children are our future...
that's why I both hate and pity them.

I believe my job is making me crazy.
BWOOOHAHAHAHAHA!

I believe I am capable of great things.
Believing this sincerely means I don't
have to prove anything,
so why bother?

I believe I have to go to bed
now so I can get up and work
on my filer's tan in the mornin'

yeah... uh, so...

when I say
I don't believe
in regret
what I mean is,
I'm not saying,
I don't mean to say
that I don't believe
regrets exist
or even that I don't
(cause I do
yes I do),
that I don't
have them.
if I had a grain of sand
for every lost opportunity
I'd have a nice sandbox
at the very least
and I
could fill
a gallery
with pictures of lips
left unkissed
a library
of words unspoken...

what I guess I mean is, well,
it's just not
very productive,
is it?

Warrenellis.com � In Search Of The Next

Warrenellis.com � In Search Of The Next: "Last night I watched a bit of an old documentary about rave culture, BETTER LIVING THROUGH CIRCUITRY, wherein Genesis P-Orridge talks about putting together his pseudonymous early acid house project, Jack The Tab.

I was amused to note that the label on the first pressing had a John Byrne Superman drawing on it. Hard to imagine anyone less acid than John Byrne."


I had that record...
I liked it, but then psychic TV was the first show I ever saw at the axiom.
The Pain Teens opened up, making them the first local band I ever saw...
actually that's not true, I saw Sprawl and probably some others at the perpetual park party the year before and had seen the judy's at astroworld - but the pain teens were the first ones to make me think about doing it myself for real...
and they kicked psychic tv's ass...
this is of course completely irrelevant to what mr. ellis has to say in this post...and it's good...so go read it.

"And, you know, it’s entirely possible that Devendra Banhart has enough things in common with Connor Oberst that we are in fact on a journey into the future that ends in a bedroom stinking of cheap beer and incense with tear-stained wankrags under the bed and a copy of Johnathan Livingstone Seagull on the floor."

Mia Culpa: No paradise by the dashboard lights of the cars that children call "home"

Mia Culpa: No paradise by the dashboard lights of the cars that children call "home": "“We could request it, but we couldn’t mandate it. That’s what is holding that process up,” he told members of the Housing and Community Opportunity Subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee."

We have an administration that has no problem cutting through red tape in order to eavesdrop on American citizens, but won't cut through red tape in order to help American citizens devastated by a natural disaster.

Think about the priorities and values of these people for a moment, won't you?


U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said “bureaucratic nonsense” and a lack of manpower also appear to be contributing to the delays.

“Five months later, there should not be children living in cars. There should not be people without trailers,” she told Russo.

Mia Culpa: No paradise by the dashboard lights of the cars that children call "home"

Mia Culpa: No paradise by the dashboard lights of the cars that children call "home": "“We could request it, but we couldn’t mandate it. That’s what is holding that process up,” he told members of the Housing and Community Opportunity Subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee."

We have an administration that has no problem cutting through red tape in order to eavesdrop on American citizens, but won't cut through red tape in order to help American citizens devastated by a natural disaster.

Think about the priorities and values of these people for a moment, won't you?


U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said “bureaucratic nonsense” and a lack of manpower also appear to be contributing to the delays.

“Five months later, there should not be children living in cars. There should not be people without trailers,” she told Russo.

COMICON.com: BILL MUMY FROM TV TO LOST IN SPACE OGN

COMICON.com: BILL MUMY FROM TV TO LOST IN SPACE OGN: "THE PULSE: When did you first start thinking about writing your own comics?

MUMY: Well, like a lot of kids I used to write and draw my own comic books when I was a kid on the set of Lost in Space. 'Captain Panther and the Fox', 'The Comb', 'The Daredevils'... but I started writing real comics for Marvel in 1986 with the Comet Man. A six issue series that I wrote with Miguel Ferrer. It sold over half a million books."


I need to find this,
And read more about Miguel Ferrer's comic book career.

NEWSARAMA.COM: IMAGE COMICS #1 WEEK: FELL #1

NEWSARAMA.COM: IMAGE COMICS #1 WEEK: FELL #1

Free Warren Ellis!
go read.

Chron.com | Anti-DeLay ad surfaces on cable, liberal Web sites

Chron.com | Anti-DeLay ad surfaces on cable, liberal Web sites:

"WASHINGTON - The four Houston television stations that sold airtime for a commercial criticizing U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay refused to air it Wednesday after objections from a DeLay lawyer, but the ad was accessible on cable channels and the Internet."

So I remember having arguments with conservative friends as far back as high school where eventually they would say, "free speech isn't free."
Well hell, now you apparently can't even buy it.

Go "liberal" media!

yeah yeah

just called in sick.

couldn't do it today.

going to try to be productive,
get a script copied and out to folks,
get laundry done,
and maybe get some resumes out to other services
so I can find a job that starts at a reasonable hour
and is maybe closer to home...

or maybe I'll just sleep all day...

so, yeah...

I'm downloading a bunch of audio books...
now while I'm filing I can also be listening to the words of
Aldous Huxley, Noam Chomsky, Bertrand Russell, and Tony Robbins
(among others...)
Perhaps my brain won't completely atrophy...

but I tell ya what,
if I have had any problems with my numbers,
or alphabet, I've pretty much got them all sorted out now...
yahoo!

and now it's off to bed...

perhaps I'll dream of filing.

Project Earth: Satan is on the Prowl by Sherry Shriner

Project Earth: Satan is on the Prowl by Sherry Shriner: "Satan is real. And he is devouring the souls of men and women all over this planet and he has been doing it for thousands of years. As a fallen angel from heaven he is also the prince of demons. He controls both realms of beings, alien and the demonic.

Aliens are fallen angels. That is just another term for them. One they started referring to themselves as to hide the fact they are the fallen Watchers from heaven (Gen. 6:4) or those who rebelled with Lucifer against the Most High (Isaiah 14, Ezekiel 28).

Demons are the spirits of the human hybrid children that resulted from the offspring of human women and the Watchers who left heaven to cohabitate and impregnate human women. In other words, angels left heaven to come to earth to procreate with women. Thus their offspring were half human-half fallen angel. So they weren't fully human. When these half human children died their spirits were condemned to roam the earth. (a judgment against their parents the Watchers for their rebellion in leaving heaven). The Prophet Enoch says they are called demons. And that's where we get the terminology for them. The first 15 chapters of the Book of Enoch gives great insight into the era of the Fallen Watchers (see Enoch)."

I don't think any comments I could make could teach you more than just reading the rest of the wisdom of Sherry Shriner.

wanna write about....

why i play trombone

the bits in the brecht book that are 100% and some bits that are less than

the american cult of individuality and marxism

wallace shawn's "the fever"

art, artifice, and craft

big plans

why my peeps be dissin' irony


instead I'm going to file for a while...
take a nap,
then go see "Full Circle" again...



just go back to whatever you were doing.

only time

only time for
work
eat
and
sleep

oh boy!

still sick

just sick enough
so that
I can't sleep

calling in sick
for sure

finished reading "Caucasian Chalk Circle" today,
and watched three of the "Beckett on Film" films...
pretty impressive stuff...
after reading "CCC" and the "Brecht on Theatre" book
as well as some of Mueller's stuff and interviews and
articles on Mee I can't wait to see "Full Circle" again
this weekend...It took me a while to get into "CCC"
but once I did I tore through it,
and I couldn't help but hear A.J. when I read
Grusha's lines...
and the judge - brilliant character...
and using Mueller as his stand-in in "full circle" - inspired...


anyway, guess I'm going to try to go back to sleep...
we'll see.

being sick

is not much fun

by the time I got home from a great time at rudz
I was definitely sick.

Today's been all about the sleep.
whoohoo!

hope everyone had a great ny's eve...

James Wierzbicki / Terry Riley

James Wierzbicki / Terry Riley:
"''Music has to have danger. You have to be right on the precipice . . . not gliding along playing something you know. If you never get on the brink you're never going to learn what excitement you can rise to. You can only rise to great heights by danger, and no great man has ever been safe.''"

Final Episode of Dungeons and Dragons

My Alvistime gift to you.
As long as you are a big nerd.
Like me.

blog | Reviews index

blog | Reviews index:
"'the great instrument of moral good is the imagination', she says: 'If you cannot or will not imagine the results of your actions, there's no way you can act morally or responsibly. Little kids can't do it; babies are morally monsters - completely greedy. Their imagination has to be trained into foresight and empathy.'"

Without imagination
the categorical imperative
fails.

MyDD :: New Yorkers Support the Transit Strike

MyDD :: New Yorkers Support the Transit Strike

"I've been pretty surprised and somewhat disappointed by the hostility among some here to the striking transit workers in New York City. To be fair, the strike is illegal. It is unfortunately timed. It is incredibly hard on other workers in the city. However, is it wrong? Obviously, I don't think so. The Taylor Law, which makes strikes by public employees illegal, is a poor piece of legislation. I'm not against certain limits on strikes by public employees, but striking is quite frankly the only power labor unions have." (emphasis mine)

damn straight!

Pennies from Heaven (1981)

Pennies from Heaven (1981)

There are some amazing scenes in this movie...
unfortunately they keep being interrupted by plot,
and acting...

just one quick thing...

if 9-11 changed everything,
didn't the terrorists win?

I mean especially if it turned
our republic
into some kind of monarchy
which Bush seems to think it has...

grr...

knowledge informs perception

Lot of things I was going to say about this.
Don't know if it comes from Goodman, Quine, or elsewhere,
but it's true.

to that end I'm finishing "brecht on theatre",
researching Heiner Mueller (sp?)
(including reading "Hamletmachine" which is pretty
damn amazing),
and trying to learn more about some
of the other aspects of and issues raised by
"Full Circle" before I see it again in the new year.

You can enjoy the play without doing any of this of course.
I have three times already.

Having done my homework (so to speak)
I expect to see a very different show,
even if it's the same.

Eros Blog: The Sex Blog -- By Bacchus

Eros Blog: The Sex Blog -- By Bacchus:

Interesting theory...

"What I've learned running a sex blog is that there are a whole host of guys whose only mode of discourse about bodily appearance is to make a negative comment. I think perhaps it originates in adolescent one-upsmanship; one guy says 'Sally's hot, I'd like to do her' and the other guys all say 'No, man, she's a pig, she's got a huge ass' as a way of belittling the first guy. However it started, the result is a fairly large class of guys whose reflex response whenever they see an erotic picture is to say something mean and ugly about the body depicted."

that sparks an interesting discussion - read the comments - and gives me an idea for a BLP bit...

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall December 20, 2005 12:42 AM

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall December 20, 2005 12:42 AM

I've been suggesting that what's in play here in this NSA matter is a new technology of some sort -- one which conducts searches in ways that you just can't get warrants for. And here Kevin Drum pulls together several threads of information that point in what figure is likely the correct direction.


um, it's called Echelon folks...
ask somebody wearing the tin-foil and they'll tell ya all about it...
we've known about this for years.

Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | The Fix

Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | The Fix:

"Jimmy Carter, in a recent interview with GQ, recounts some of his brushes with the paranormal while he was in the White House, including a time when a small plane went down in the Central African Republic and the satellites couldn't find it: 'The director of the CIA came and told me that he had contacted a woman in California who claimed to have supernatural capabilities. And she went into a trance and she wrote down latitudes and longitudes, and we sent our satellite over that latitude and longitude, and there was the plane.' "

He never did tell us about the U.F.O.'s...
just about the lust in his heart...

Fw: [CTRL] JFK video

anyone else think bringing "Conjurella: The T. Casey Brennan Story" to the
stage is a winner of an idea?

----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 2:15 PM
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> -Caveat Lector-
>
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> inspiration for the song). As the video was broadcast
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>
> Says Mark: "FRANKENHEAD -- with Vampirella writer T.
> Casey Brennan -- the only way to chill with this
> murder conspiracy theory video is to check it out with
> a large video file."
>
> You can click on those words on the site, or go to the
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>
> http://www.marktv.net/FRANKENHEAD.mov
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> The same was podcast in Israel on Kitaro's Sideshow --
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The Comics Curmudgeon � Blog Archive � Marriage works

The Comics Curmudgeon � Blog Archive � Marriage works:
"Look at Loretta’s face. A lesser comic would have had her smirking triumphantly at the fact that she always gets the last word, or have her brow furrowed with rage that her foibles were being aired in a public forum. But the Lockhorns never feels a need to step back from the brink of the abyss, and so Loretta’s face is just one of numb depression: she and her husband can’t communicate, her marriage is killing her, and the overpriced, bald-headed sub-Freud across the desk isn’t going to say anything that’s going to fix it."

I'll just take this opportunity to say I'm amazed they haven't sold Hollywood a Lockhorns movie yet...

neomarxisme: Why I Should Not Rap

neomarxisme: Why I Should Not Rap:
"... my friends and I had the ill-conceived idea of doing a 'rock-rap band,' which came to be hilariously known as Red Star and Raised Fist. That band name was inspired from a paper I was doing on the Black Panthers (all us liberal American white kids go through a Eyes on the Prize phase), which was quite a big event in my young academic life because I 'e-mailed' Panther founder (and BBQ mastermind) Bobby Seale about COINTELPRO being all up in his shit - and he wrote me back 24 hours later with an incredibly detailed response still dripping with that classic Black Power outrage. "

click the link for more...
and by more I mean an Edith Wharton joke.

Susan Alcorn: Texas, Three Days and Two Nights

The Road, the Radio and the Full Moon
Texas: Three Days and Two Nights

By SUSAN ALCORN

Ron over at Real Art linked to this article, and lo and behold but if it's not written by THE MOST AMAZING pedal steel player you might ever hear...Susan Alcorn.

Have to head to work, but I'll try to update or post again later with more.

Fw: Where will they go?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Planned Parenthood" <PPHSET@PPHSET.org>
To:
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 2:41 PM
Subject: Where will they go?

> Now Where Will They Go?
> The government is telling almost 10,000 women where they can and can't go
> for their health care.
>
> The Texas legislative leadership has once again let down the working
> families of Texas by diverting critical health care funding. These funding
> cuts to Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas will seriously
> disrupt access to health care for Texas' low-income women by forcing them
> from their longtime trusted health care providers.
>
> For 70 years, Planned Parenthood has been here for the women and families
> who need us. Despite these funding cuts, we'll to do whatever we can to
> continue serving the women the state of Texas has left behind.
>
> Help Planned Parenthood Provid Health Care to 10,000 Clients.
> Click Here to Give
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Brazosport Little Players - Click to enter

watch this space for future developments and dreams of empire.

Daily Kos: UPDATE! NBC: Pentagon spying on Americans who oppose war?

Daily Kos: UPDATE! NBC: Pentagon spying on Americans who oppose war?: "Our own version of the notorious East German Stasi. "

COINTELPRO has been back for a while.

Women in Prison - The Movies - link NSFW

Envy the Cockroach was nothing like this,
no matter what the Houston Press review might have led you to believe.

Here's where I would say, "Come see the show."
'cept we're done.
If you missed it all I can say is, "Sorry for you."
Well I could say more, but "Sorry for you." is all you're gettin' anyway.

The Beginning

The Beginning

Come for the miracle virgin birth, stay for the drinkin' and revenge!


just doin' my part for the War On Christmas!!!

HoustonSoReal: Devin the Dude Live in Houston - Amazing.Houston young taggers kill a good thing

Scroll through the pics...

anyone you recognize?

hahaha...

anyway, keep reading houstonsoreal for all yr local hip hop needs...

The Washington Monthly

The Washington Monthly:

"This gives Kafakesque a very chilling and newly concrete meaning."


The Trial is the modern nightmare. It paralyzes me in ways most literature can only dream of. Spend a week locked in your house, with only enough light to read and give it a go sometime. Really.

Welcome to the nightmare.

interesting day

went and bought some books today.
couldn't afford it.
did it anyway.

Got "Brecht on Theatre" -
A collection of his essays.
It's amazing how much what
I've read so far reminds me of
what I like about Ives writing.
There is a certain toughness and orneryness
in the writings of both.


Also picked up "Harold Pinter - Complete Works Vol. 1"
Time to further my education.

Figured I'd have a lot of time this week to read,
but now I'll be learning lines instead.

Got a call from a friend and now I'll be doing some
scenes from "A Christmas Carol" at some kind of corporate
party, and then wandering around in costume.
It'll pay about the same as a week or so of filing,
and I'll get to drink.
This is a good gig.
I think I'm gonna get to be Cratchit.

So I guess I'll put the war on Christmas on hold for a night...

Last Chance to Envy the Cockroach! TONIGHT!

Not sure why the link only lists the nov. 10th date...
and it's only $10.00 not $20.00

 

http://www.spacetaker.org/event/review.html?event_id=2674

 

by: Lisa Ray

 

Envy the Cockroach begins with a knife to someone’s throat, and continues to grow more intense from that point on.

 

Produced by Dos Chicas, written and directed by Bob Morgan, and co-directed by Jon Harvey, Cockroach depicts the lives of three women whose chances of living productive, happy lives are as constrained as the prison cells they end up in. The play’s thematic frame lies within a quote from Johnny Cash’s liner notes to “Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison”:

 

“You sit on your cold, steel mattressless bunk and watch a cockroach crawl out from under the filthy commode, and you don’t kill it. You envy the roach as you watch it crawl out under the cell door.”

 

As the show plays out, it becomes clear that these women are not only less free than the proverbial roach, they are treated as less than such by the people in their lives, especially the men who are supposed to love them—their fathers, grandfathers and husbands.

 

The set is stark—cage-wire lines the backdrop and that’s about it. The play does not need more. Not only are lives of the characters, dark and devoid of aesthetic as well as emotional beauty; the cast, Mark Carrier, Jennifer Decker, Elizabeth Seabolt, Mike Switzer, Anne Zimmerman paint deep, complex pictures on this blank canvass that both draw in, appall, and sometimes even, amuse its viewers.

 

This is the kind of play in which the dialogue and the acting seem familiar in their realness and, interesting, in the way the lives of real people are. It is also manages to be darkly humorous—the situations of the character’s lives are so pathetic, and yet so emblematic of middle American society, that you have to laugh at them.

 

Seemingly casual nuances, like the country music background track playing Grandpa (Tell Me ‘Bout the Good Old Days) by the Judds, when “Grandpa” is a child molester, and indifferent and controlling husbands wearing a t-shirt that says “110% Catholic” are the kind of details that make this show a pleasure, even amidst all the pain.

 

Envy the Cockroach has all the major sins of humankind played out—murder, rape, incest, and worst of all, casual indifference. The women of the play are caught in a social cage that is not much different than their actual prison cells. The play alludes to this fact by casting the male actors in roles on both “the inside” and “the outside.” Switzer, who plays some of the women’s husband and fathers as their abusive prison guard, Harris, and Carrier, as both the seemingly refined, but actually weak and manipulative psychologist, Dr. Fiore, as well as the father figure for the women.

 

Everyone in the play is culpable, yet everyone is a victim, even Harris, who was repeatedly raped at his former job as a prison guard in a male prison. In turn, he rapes the women he is in charge of, in a truthful reproduction of the sad cycle of human emotional and physical reciprocity—It was done to me, so now; I will do it to you.

 

The psychological element to the play is highlighted by the relationship of the characters to their prison psychologist, Dr. Fiore. Dr. Fiore genuinely tries to help the inmates, but is caught up in his own imperfections and psychological motivations—causing him to attempt to treat them and manipulate them at the same time. Once again, the women become victim to a male who has emotional and physical power over them.

 

The play ends does not purport to give an answer to the problems of women’s degradation in a society that clearly gives deference to the powerful, but it does leave the audience with a sense of empathy for the type of people normally considered to be social outcasts or even pariahs—which, perhaps, is the foundation for solving any social ill.

 

 

 

http://www.spacetaker.org/event/?event_id=2674

 

Description: You sit on your cold, steel mattress-less bunk and watch a cockroach crawl out from under the filthy commode, and you don't kill it. You envy the roach as you watch it crawl out under the cell door. -Johnny Cash

 

From 1990 to 2001, the female prisoner population has more than doubled from 44,065 to 94,336. One third of these women reported having a parent or guardian who abused alcohol or drugs. 57% of women in state prisons reported that they were physically and/or sexually assaulted at some point in their lives. Female inmates who had been abuse victims were more likely to be imprisoned for a violent offense. As maximum security prisoners at Oakdale Reformatory for Women, Kaitlyn, Zoe, & Jolene contribute to these statistics, but all three are much more than just numbers. Each has a voice and wants to be heard. As they share the stories of their lives and crimes, the crucial role environment played in directing the life path they chose becomes painfully apparent. What would they have become if not subjected to abuse, denigration, and even oppressive protectiveness and love? With the help of their therapist Dr. Fiore, all three women attempt to understand how easily and unwittingly they became a product of their environment and how to accept the horrific crimes they committed.

 

Mark Carrier, Jennifer Decker, Elizabeth Seabolt, Mike Switzer, Anne Zimmerman

http://notacompliment.blogspot.com

 

 

The Washington Monthly

The Washington Monthly:

"Rising malpractice awards are not responsible for skyrocketing insurance premiums. The insurance cycle is."

Whatever the insurance industry tells you is probably a lie.

Not like back when Ives was in the business.

Acid Dreams: BZ Bombs Away

Acid Dreams: BZ Bombs Away:

This will be my new psychedelic band's name:

"EA-2277"

Via a scary story from Warrenellis.com about this stuff showing up in Iraq.

Guardian Unlimited Books | Special Reports | Art, truth and politics

All the talk about the Pinter speech...

This is the part that resonates with me the most:

Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task. More often than not you stumble upon the truth in the dark, colliding with it or just glimpsing an image or a shape which seems to correspond to the truth, often without realising that you have done so. But the real truth is that there never is any such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art. There are many. These truths challenge each other, recoil from each other, reflect each other, ignore each other, tease each other, are blind to each other. Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

No New Money for Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs

No New Money for Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs

The U.S. Office of Population Affairs began administering the Adolescent Family Life Act (AFLA) in 1981. This program was designed to prevent teen pregnancy by promoting chastity and self-discipline.[1] During its first year, AFLA received $11 million in federal funds. In fiscal year 2000, AFLA received $19 million.


See, the Republicans have wanted to go back to at least the 50's since Reagan. The U.S. Office of Population Affairs sounds like a terribly scary place. The world is insane. Fight back where you can. Buy condoms for teenagers. Or something.

still wired

Still wired from the show...

so here's a few thoughts

first a tale from the file room:

Coworker J: You mind if I bring a radio in here?

Me: No, that's fine.

J: You like jazz?

Me (o.k. I know where this is going. We're not going to be listening to KTSU. Grrr.): Yes, I like jazz.


(and then I'm treated to a full day of 95.7 smooth jazz. I am reminded that I actually miss Kikk sometimes and that smooth jazz is awful, and certainly not jazz...

I heard Phil Collins. I heard the art of noise. I'm not sure I heard a real quartet. I know I didn't hear any jazz. The highlight was Marvin Gaye.

The most depressing thing was hearing another crappy soprano sax drum machine sequencer, I would say massacre, but that implies aggression, is there a word for "soft disaster"? anyway, when the song is over they announce it was Gato Barbieri.
That made me sad. He made some amazing records for impulse and with Don Cherry back in the day, but now I guess at least he's getting paid. At least I got to file all day.)


and now, this:


Compliments make me uncomfortable.
Not that I don't think I'm hot shit.
Sure, of course, I'm hot shit.
But my ego really does not need your help.
I can barely lug the damn thing around as it is.



on another note:

Yum! Cheesy popcorn!




so, anyway, last chance to see the show is this weekend...
you can listen to an interview with Liz, Anne, and Jennifer
on KUHF between 3 and 4 tomorrow. Should be good.


Peace,
Rock On,
All That.

Eschaton

Eschaton: "It's one of those rather obvious things, but it nonetheless should be pointed out again and again. Productivity is up! Hooray! But real compensation is down. Boo."

BEYOND BELIEF MEDIA DECLARES WAR ON CHRISTMAS

Finally...
“No Christmas pageant or Nativity display is safe from our troops,” said Flemming. “Wherever the mythical figure Jesus is celebrated as if he were real, we will be there with an information barrage. We will undercut the idea that there is any point at all to celebrating the ‘birth’ of a character in a fairy tale.”

Fw: [IPCUSA] Teddy Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller held my Sister as Sex Slave! File Under: Research Material

----- Original Message -----
From: "spookyermomma"
To: <IPCUSA@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 10:26 AM
Subject: [IPCUSA] Teddy Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller held my Sister as Sex
Slave!

> Teddy Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller held my Sister as Sex Slave!
>
> Saturday, December 03, 2005
>
>
> [Note: Just to be clear--Barbara Hartwell is a prime candidate for
> the Hoo-Hoo Hotel, and who should receive the first bed available and
> free of charge. Here is the latest 'net find in her ongoing
> psychological saga]:
>
> Note from Barbara Hartwell:
>
> {This was} written by my sister, Irene Adrian. I have edited only for
> clarity and paragraph structure. The words are her own. Althougn I
> have no direct knowledge of the events she describes, to the best of
> my understanding, the chronology is accurate. I was in Omaha,
> Nebraska, living at my sister's home, at the time of my sister's trip
> to Mexico. I have heard bits and pieces of the story she tells here,
> over the years; but this is the first time the story has been relayed
> to me in it's entirety.
>
> I should also say that I have always known my sister Irene to be a
> truthful person and so I believe that the events she describes here
> are actual events, which she has related to the best of her memory
> and knowledge.
>
> The man using the pseudonym 'David' is Ted Kennedy. 'Henry' is Nelson
> Rockefeller. 'Mary' is Susan Ford (aka Brice Taylor, author of
> Starshine and Thanks for the Memories). [emphasis added]
>
> For the first public commentary ever written about Irene, a survivor
> and present victim of the CIA MK Ultra program please see this
> article on my website:
> http://www.ulster.net/~babs7/articles/babs/caseofireneadrian.htm
> [Note: Site no longer in commission; Recovered from Google's
> WayBackMachine.org:
> http://web.archive.org/web/20030423002918/http://www.ulster.net/~babs7
> /articles/babs/caseofireneadrian.htm]
>
> In order to be fair and in the interest of discovering the whole
> truth, I wish to say to anyone who reads this that I am mostly
> persuaded that Ted Kennedy is, in fact, himself a victim of the CIA
> and other mind control perpetrators. His behaviour, attitude, and
> general demeanor were that of a man coerced somehow and resigned to
> doing what he had to. I don't think he volunteered for this. I know
> this is a subjective opinion and maybe I'm completely wrong. I cannot
> say this of any other individual I have encountered in my mind
> control travels.
>
> ________________________________________________________
>
>
> The Mexican Horror
>
> by Irene Adrian Winter of 1974, early 1975: I was twenty one years
> old. I was living in Omaha, Nebraska. I worked part-time as a
> cocktail waitress in a place on 72nd St. called the Brook Park
> Lounge.
>
> One evening a group of about 6 men came in and sat in the very back
> of the lounge, in the darkest corner alcove, at a large round table.
> It was rare that anyone ever sat there. I took their orders and
> served their drinks. I noticed that many of the people already in the
> lounge when the group of men arrived appeared to be awed by the
> presence of one of the men. I had no idea who any of them were. (You
> have to understand that I had rarely, if ever, read a newspaper,
> watched TV news; never considered politics to be relevant to my
> life.)
>
> After they had been there a while and had several rounds of drinks,
> the bartender, Margie, approached me, pulled me aside, and told me
> that David, a lawyer in the group of men, wanted me to take a trip to
> Mexico with him. I was surprised and a bit perplexed at this. She
> took me over to the table and introduced me to him. I knew
> immediately, of course, that I certainly did not want to go Mexico
> with this stranger. At the same time my heart sank because I also
> knew that I would have to go. This is very difficult to explain if
> you have not been under mind control. Somehow, it was all quickly
> arranged down to time off work for me with the permission of my boss,
> John, the owner of the Brook Park Lounge.
>
> At this time I was living with a boyfriend, and my sister Barbara was
> visiting us. Barbara went shopping with me to buy a bathing suit, I
> had been specifically instructed to bring a bathing suit and my
> original birth certificate. Also I was specifically instructed not to
> bring a camera. I have no recollection of what my boyfriend thought
> of my suddenly going to Mexico with a strange man. I don't even
> recall discussing it with him, but Barbara says she remembers him
> being very upset...
>
> [complete article here: http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?
> name=News&file=article&sid=2745]
>
> [Those interested in tossing in their $.02 about Barbara Hartwell,
> can do so here:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/friendsofbarbarahartwell/]
>
>
>

Chron.com | Review: Suchu returns in top form File Under: YAY!

Suchu returns in top form:

The dancers' sustained pauses, hold-your-breath balances and tightly wound interrupted phrases were all glorious to watch, but the action didn't really get going until the table and chairs entered the scene.

I can not wait to see this show!

The only downside to doing Envy is only getting to see this Suchu show once, on closing night.

Why I like Patton Oswalt.

Before the interview I got into a Sour Look Fight with these two old biddies. Here’s why. The manager put on this “Classic Tunes No One Wants to Listen To, Ever, Only They’re Played by Meth Addicts on Toy Instruments and Mop Buckets”. And one of them is the “Wedding March”. No, really. The fucking “Wedding March”, which people don’t even play at weddings anymore. Imagine listening to it while you’re trying to read NEW AVENGERS. I ask you. So I beg the guy -- his name’s Nelson, and he’s really cool -- if he could maybe put on, you know, ANYTHING except the “Wedding March”. So he puts on Enya, which, compared to the “Wedding March”, is like trading being punched for being yelled at. And these two biddies near the window call the poor bastard over, and I hear, “Is THAT a regular customer?” And Nelson says, well, yeah, he comes in every Wednesday. And they look over at me -- this dumpy, mental patient-looking dude with a pile of comics in front of him and a pot of Assam -- and I guess they decide they don’t want to be followed home and skinned, but they give me these sour, old biddie looks which I’m sure shaved three years off my life. That’s right, you little alternative edge-walkers: I stared down two spinsters at a tea room while reading comics. Who wants to have a push-up contest?”]

I think I've read more interviews with him than I've actually heard or seen his stand up...
but just reading this interview...
well, it cheers me up.

Found via Warren Ellis (I think...)

Can we say that Republican is just a synonym for criminal yet?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/01/AR2005120101927.html

Justice Department lawyers concluded that the landmark Texas congressional redistricting plan spearheaded by Rep. Tom DeLay (R) violated the Voting Rights Act, according to a previously undisclosed memo obtained by The Washington Post. But senior officials overruled them and approved the plan.

BIll O'Reilly is still a moron....

Read it here:

Christmas, all right? Federal holiday, everybody gets off, no mail delivered, everybody shuts down. Federal holiday. Why is it there? To honor a philosopher, Jesus. Whose philosophy was part of the foundation of our country. All of this is indisputable. Can't dispute it. OK? A man was born, his name is Jesus, he had a philosophy, the philosophy was incorporated by the Founding Fathers to make up the United States of America, U.S. Grant signs into law the holiday, Christmas.

O.k. maybe I'm wrong, but wasn't Jesus the one responsible for throwing the money changers out of the temple? If the founding fathers had incorporated Jesus' philosophy into our constitution wouldn't we be communist, or at least socialist? I'm pretty sure he believed in healing the sick and caring for the poor. These were not on our the minds of our wealthy land-owning founding fathers when they wrote the constitution...


grrr...

moron.

Envy the Cockroach - COME FRIDAY!

If yr considering seeing the show we could really use ya there Friday night...

"We have a producer from “The Front Row,” radio show on KUHF, coming to see the show on Friday...  If you have anyone who might want to see the show and can come that day, please see if you can talk them into it."

 

so that's what I'm doing...

if it's finances keeping you away holler at me and we'll take care of ya...

 

here's the details on the show...

 

 

Envy the Cockroach
Runs:Nov. 11th-Dec.10th(see below for exact dates)
written & directed by Bob Morgan

"You sit on your cold, steel mattress-less bunk and watch a cockroach
crawl out from under the filthy commode, and you don't kill it. You
envy the roach as you watch it crawl out under the cell door."
-Johnny Cash

From 1990 to 2001, the female prisoner population has more than doubled from 44,065 to 94,336. One third of these women reported having a parent or guardian who abused alcohol or drugs. 57% of women in state prisons reported ...


...that they were physically and/or sexually assaulted at some point in their lives. Female inmates who had been abuse victims were more likely to be imprisoned for a violent offense.

As maximum security prisoners at Oakdale Reformatory for Women, Kaitlyn, Zoe, & Jolene contribute to these statistics, but all three are much more than just numbers. Each has a voice and wants to be heard. As they share the stories of their lives and crimes, the crucial role environment played in directing the life path they chose becomes painfully apparent. What would they have become if not subjected to abuse, denigration, and even oppressive protectiveness and love? With the help of their therapist Dr. Fiore, all three women attempt to understand how easily and unwittingly they became a product of their environment and how to accept the horrific crimes they committed.

CAST
Mark Carrier, Jennifer Decker, Elizabeth Seabolt, Mike Switzer, Anne Zimmerman


Runs:
Fridays, Saturdays
November 11, 12, 15, 18 & 19th
December 2,3,6,9 and 10
PAY WHAT YOU CAN on Tuesdays Nov. 15th and December 6

All reg. shows at 8:00 pm
FREE RANGE STUDIOS
1719 Live Oak #E

For reservations or information

dccommune@yahoo.com

or call 832-283-0858

http://notacompliment.blogspot.com

 

 

I bet sometimes even the three stooges laugh at noam chomsky

"Think of me as Chomsky with dick jokes." (Bill Hicks, American comedian, 1961-1994)

Bill Hicks gave us the truth
about as much as we could handle
and you know what?

he was funny.

you wanna be a prophet?
go ahead.
see where that gets ya.

You wann a be a prophet
people actually listen to
then your prophecy better end
with a punchline

or maybe
you could breathe fire
or something

Bill O'Reilly's War on Christmas

Put your O'Reilly Holiday Ornament on your Holiday Tree.
Happy Holidays!

freakin' moron.

I bet sometimes even Noam Chomsky laughs at The Three Stooges

Is truth the only valid purpose of art?
theater in particular?
Well, what is truth?
I'm pretty sure theater ain't about
mathematical truth,
or even logical truths,
or just simple statements of fact.
The truth about the human condition?
Two words: We're fucked.
Yeah. Great play.
Look, I'm not saying
don't pursue this truth thing
if that's your bag.
go for it.
rock on.
but even the greatest warrior for truth
needs to salve his wounds now and again,
right?
and who says sometimes the truth can't be light?
or silly?
I've seen a platypus.
that is true,
and silly.
I say life's too short
to spit on folks who
are doing it
really out there doing it
even if they ain't doing it
to your satisfaction
I reckon there's some who'd
say "life's too short not to spit
on those creative types who ain't
doing the real job of an artist.
ya know, truth."
Maybe they're right
Maybe I'm wrong
I sure as shit don't know nothin'
only proper thing I learned in college
is that I don't know nothin'
but look, even if you speak the truth,
even if you could,
I don't think it'd make ya any less likely
to be misunderstood...




I'm gonna try to sleep now.
bastards.

M

I

I am so self-involved
all I can write is
monologues

I am impatient
and I do not know
the value
of hard work

I am an only child
who has spent more
of his adult life
out of relationships
not in them

I am capable
of great deception

I am so self-involved

I am so self-involved

I am so self-involved


what about you?

The morning after the weekend before

Reading about hangovers is better than having them:

It's the taste of stale booze and nicotine and acetaldehyde and whatever this filth is on your tongue. It's the taste of ashtrays swilled out with morning-after dregs - which you don't recall drinking but you couldn't swear.

two quick ones

I.

A hearty to whatever
to whatever I deserve
and a fuck yeah
to what I want

sorry it's just how I feel

I'm sure yr right
and the responsible road
is the one to go down,
but doesn't that shortcut
look nice?


II.

When the last time
catches you by surprise
you find yourself thinking
"if I'd only knew
I would've spent
more time here,
more time there.
I would've
at least
took off
her socks.
I would've
at least
took
one last
long look"
When the last time
catches you by surprise.

today

today has been
the kind of day
that life
is all about

all highs
and lows

hoos from ya to boo



anyway,

first full TDU practice in a long time happening,
uh, right now...

rock on.