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?

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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."