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    Saturday, November 21st, 2009
    3:28 am
    Cabin party/fever, the crowd brought us to _
     Nov 18 2009, 9pm
    D. Charles Speer & the Helix w/
    Black Twig Pickers and Cross featuring M.A. Turner
    710 Toms Creek Rd, Blacksburg, Virginia
    .. couldn't stand the weather, but you know the acoustics were perfect.
    http://strangeglue.com/reviews/d-charles-speer-the-helix-distillation

    elcaset_purist writes ..
    I understand that people on livejournal usually don't have a life, and that would include me too, so I'm not trying to insult you, But why do you guys care if someone fakes or otherwise "mocks up" a character? I mean we're all not gifted enough to write one character and one character only like Beckett did with his 50's trilogy. More than one talking? They're simply text on a page. Why spend hours typing and ranting about someone who makes them all up?

    towards a Mormon Rhetoric
    thanks, eraserset, but this is an *entertainment* site. if you want Wayne C. Booth, The Company We Keep is prolly sitting idle in the stacks down @ yr local uni !

    the crisis in Israel/Palestine: a debate
    .. i admire the people who believe that debate is still possible. Manny Theiner, for instance. the guy's clearly done his homework (and, in his spare time, brings the likes of Cecil Taylor t' tahn). mostly, though, it's people not listening, tawking past one another.

    (pt. _: the Characters)

    username "toddzombie" (presenting as "Jennifer

    .. of the Jungle" Judy Graubart) began debate by emphasizing her total belief in a Palestinian state, but qualified her position by asking "many on the Left today" why they focus exclusively on the government of Israel while ignoring the abuses of countless regimes around the world (some allied with Washington, some not).

    username "schristi" (presenting as kindler an'

    .. gentler "Joe," J. Arthur Crank) countered that Arabs/Muslims present a special case owing to long-standing - and largely unchallenged - negative representations in the Media (some long preceding the concept of "Islamo-Terrorism"). his example? Spell Binder: "what is this shit, Jen? i mean, *fuck* Letterman."

    .. with an eye twards scoring points with the audience, Jennifer asks, "Just who is this 'Joe Arthur Crank'? Populist 'voice of the people' or someone else entire? Mayhaps he is none other than .. King of the Southern Counterfeiters Donald Dewayne Woods! This shameful former associate of the Knights of the Golden Circle equates Masons and Rabbis with 'witch doctors' and 'mafia,' yet claims as his personal savior none other than Francis Bacon, the rock on which Technocracy was built. This 'plainspoken' man represents the very pinnacle of arrogance, ladies and friends."

    .. the Occasion for the argument now thoroughly dissolved, Crank counters with some smoak of his own: "and THAT is no woman. Her legs? a hologram. I see through ALL its disguises .. and what does my penetrating eye report to brainsight television? I see a 50 year old foreskin broker from Queens. Tele-graphing from there, I mean. And 'classy' down to the last detail with massive silvery knobs and gilt box all decked out for DECEPTION."

    and so on.

    "I look at the floor and I see it needs swee.ping .."
    [misheard lyric, "Stick Man Waltz"]
    officer, officer, everything's cheaper by the pound
    to ..
    on the sun, on the sun, everything's cheaper by the pound.

    marginalia:
    (msg to el gordo)
    .. whoa, jake! you sound like one of those conspiracy letters that show up at the precinct every full moon.

    and lest we forget:

    pics or it didn't happen.

    and, no, your unproduced screenplay doesn't count (other Bad Evidence includes snapshots of your girlfriend's slightly discolored arm [am i right in assuming you and she's called it quits?]).

    Wisdom or Warfare?
    regarding certain .. narrow, self-obsessed and decidedly unsexy readings of the past, well .. no one - save yourself - gives a good goddamn. all that matters is what goes on now. and that vendetta-as-screenplay (since doomed by your own flakey online monologues), "it" was brought to my attention in 1997 (as Trivia). yes, you were pleased enough to brag about its awesome powers of get-evenness to other targets of your serial insults, insults that failed to strike home because you never in all your days took time to know another person. this is but one of the qualities that makes you such a star amnesiac and unwitting Digger of Holes for a script doomed by your own hand mouth.

    st_nthem_n: "the pompatus of love"
    did you know
    .. that there are millions of men - and even some women - who are married to or dating "old flames" of Hoyt Stainwell, Lord Huddleston? maybe he chatted one up in the bingo hall, or knew somebody who was a "dear friend" of another. a couple of 'em he even had longer-than-two-month relationships with. Whatever: it was all deep and meaningful. .. and - who knows? - you could be with "his" girl right now (many are).

    true fact, foax !

    for next time:
    While you've addressed a number of your fears (of being a "redneck," of bullying women), you have yet to take Ownership of them.

    let's work on that.

    Current Music: THNAK YOU / r_yal tr_x
    Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
    11:52 am
    Watch and Learn ..
    [ out of respect for guitar hero Leslie West, i won't be posting a 1970 snapshot of him here ]

    "Here I am in the Edith Wharton Suite of a bed & breakfast in Amherst, Mass., Thanksgiving Day 1994."
    "Which part of 'no fat chicks' don't you understand?"
    "I'm not a girl."
    "That's right: you are .. mittle-age Drama Queen."
    "La-la, I can't hear a word of your crazy talk. I'm singing: LA-LA. And watching X-Files. And not talking to you anymore starting . Now."
    "Promises, promises .."

    C. Chao writes:
    You are MY bitch now. Surfergirl’s watching you 24-7 baby. give me a reason to send a mystery dossier to your boss. You know, like I hear you like to do.* That’d be okay, right? Right? Give me a reason.

    .. that's some funny shit. i mean, i'm splitting my sides here. but, um, when do you plan to get around to doing something - anything - that hasn't been done before? all of this would be the Perfect Setup for someone intent on framing you .. except you prove time and again that you are exactly and inescapably yourself (that's some Sad shit).

    [ * interesting. don't much care whether you recognize that i've never done that to anybody: what you think is your own affair. if this has happened to you, i can only wonder who all you've managed to piss off in the NYC biosphere ]

    [& the obligatory gloss]

    Current Music: "Pink Elephants on Parade" | Sun Ra / Arkestra
    Monday, November 16th, 2009
    7:17 am
    what is your "best of" falling apart?
     Circus Band, Jake Winstrom, the Judys
    7:30pm @ the Kirk Avenue Music Hall
    .. one of those curiosities discovered at the last moment. turns out the Wading Girl abruptly dissolved (after 7 years, i guess), leaving ministrix of accordion Sarah Garrison out there to sea:

    13 The Dresden Dolls - Pretty in Pink
    14 Kristin Hersh - Wave of Mutilation
    15 The Caulfield Sisters - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
    16 Underdog - I Melt With You
    17 The Wading Girl - Danke Schoen
    18 Frank Black - Repo Man

    (Mason Adams profiles Sarah)
    A couple of years ago, Sarah got "sick and tired of all my friends telling me there's nothing to do, nowhere to play," she says. Since her parents have a farm in Elliston, she asked if she could use it for a festival.

    When she was 20, Sarah booked about seven bands, printed up hundreds of invitations, made t-shirts and secured a corporate sponsor. About 400 people showed up for the first Farm Out festival, including a few bands that weren't scheduled to play, but did anyway.

    .. so, yeah, Sarah is a "Mr Who" who happens t'be a lady (but first things first ..)

    The Judys are a duo from Hollins. one Judy was sick (present, but wearing a mask), so that left one Judy, albeit with one gorgeous monster of a voice (well, Beth Ortonish at least).

    Hard Knocks in Knoxville
    originally on the bill was the Tenderhooks who ... maybe split up on tour? in any case, it was now Jake Winstrom solo: extraordinary songwriter and performer, the sort of - how you say? - urgent delivery that wasn't always present with the band.

    "you can't prejudge who might change your life"
    "Circus Band" (i heard them too called "circus projekt"), a 7 piece instrumental combo playing their second debut. shocking news, that, as it sounded as though they'd always been together. in this Observer's view, the sounds they made were more engaging/adventurous than, sheesh, maybe 20 of John Zorn's "Filmworks" series (well, no one can take "She Must Be Seeing Things" away from him at least ..). you had Sarah on shitkicker accordion and, um, well it was about MUSIC, mainly, rather than band introductions. two drummers (trap set and bongos), bass, what looked from the side t'be an SG, a Yamaha electric piano and, sure, a multi-instrumentalist who lent sort of a th'Late Freyda Epstein aspect to the preceedings. Diaphanous Alice commanded violin, a cream colored Epiphone and is rumored t'be Red Clay River's fiddle-player "Camellia Delk" (put that between yer Large Advents !). but, what, with the half-duo and the guy who lost his band, who would've guessed that these th' Circus People would be putting on but half their show (which, i suppose, no one has seen yet) -- they are intended to accompany "aerial artists, hula hooopers and dancers" (one dancer, Theodora Duncan, was on hand and moving it with a focused abandon unprecedented in this dying railroad town).

    here's another list of music, stuff i've seen over at [info]lostcosmonaut mainly. Ida i've followed from the corner of my eye for years, fascinated that the Malarkies were joyously swallowed up by them sometime in the mid .. aughts (Ruth an' Matt - proof, i think, that quality is possible ..):

    Aislers Set - The Last Match
    Ida - Lovers Prayers
    Taken by Cars - Endings of a New Kind

    a post-Barney Miller era
    sure, there was *some* disappointment when i go to tawk with police detectives and there wasn't some thoroughly de.humored stereotype on the other side of the desk. hell, there wasn't even a desk; try conference room with a couple 20-somethings, male and female. thing of it is, though, some things have changed: the boys at the 12th Precinct, circa 1975, wouldn't be much help .. now .. with This. a rich array of civil options were touched upon ("though, of course, we can't give you advice in that arena") and a general opinion that we're not dealing with two distinct offenders, but - rather - one with what seems t'be a "weekend copycat" (64.131.245.158 and 64.12.117.10 respectively). cueing up "god will" by Mr Lyle Lovett / Who knows? merhaps there's mercy somewhere for these .. one and a half amnesiacs.

    sekrits: jean-pierre glupaoi (1964)
    "His attention was caught by the man then speaking from the floor. He was Pierre Schwartz, the only Swiss on the Moon, and he was making a motion that nationalism be condemned. He proposed that each base transfer a third of its personnel to another. This would also pave the way for men to think of themselves as Soviets only, not American Soviets or Russian or Chinese Soviets .."

    "At first, he did not understand. But the man was obviously repeating the same phrases over and over. Within a minute, Broward understood him. He was calling for help. He was Lieutenant Pablo Quiroga, and he was in the communications section of what was left of the cruiser Juan Manuel de Rosas. The de Rosas, with two destroyers, had detected and then pursued the remnants of the fleeing South African fleet."


    Justice Dept. doing contract work for al-Qaeda?
    here's a couple domestic renderings of the same story:
    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/nyregion/13seize.html
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091112/ap_on_re_us/us_mosque_forfeiture

    .. not too many ways you can spin this: the House of Saud is engaged in a multi-billion dollar takeover of Islam via global construction of Wahhabi schools (which teach not only hatred of Jews and Christians, but Shia and Sufis as well). and what is Wahhabism? an 18th century cult - sort of Islam's answer to Cromwellism - that was later promoted among the Arabs by the British to radicalize them against the Ottoman Turks (cf, the CIA's work during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan). but, yeah, the Saudis account for - what? - 10% of foreign investment in the US? hence, our corporate state's post-9/11 attitude of "thank you, sir, may i have another." now the Saudi's enemy is somehow our own. Iran, i mean. and it's the Alavi Foundation, devoted to preserving/maintaining Persian culture, who are the primary Shia org in North America. the Alavi Foundation is the "enemy" while Saudi suicide bombers continue to destabilize Iraq with their indiscriminate outrages in crowded Shia marketplaces.

    http://www.abna.ir/data.asp?lang=3&id=170620

    and it's not that our government is stacked with "crypto-Wahhabists," no, it's nothing ideological. it's all about MONEY. and who are the guys pushing this stuff and making a mockery of the victims of the 9/11 attacks? Lev L. Dassin (Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York); Assistant United States Attorneys Harry Chernoff, David Leibowitz, and John Cronan; the laughably titled "Foundation for Defense of Democracies" (see Clifford D. May of the Henry Jackson axis and Michael Ledeen, a perhaps too enthusiastic scholar of Italian fascism) and others seeking to strengthen the hand of the Saudi Royals, underwriters of "petro-jihad" (America supported the saudi's VA$T meddling in the last Lebanese election [against Shi'ite candidates, of course ..]).

    Scott Brookman song of the day
    from the guy who brought you "the man from operations," it's .. "It's Time to Get Away"

    tubeTraps

    think of them as an orgone box for your music !

    Caledonia Mission
    MOT Inspirction , 35.00
    Soot Measurement , 30.00
    4-Gasmet , 8.50
    Afmeldkosten , 7.50
    Hourly , 35.00

    Current Music: Deep Turtle / "La Poiquita"
    Sunday, November 8th, 2009
    11:01 am
    (Must've Been the) "Roses Are Free"
    Take a piece of tinsel and put it on the tree
    Cut a slab of melon and pretend that you still love me
    Carve out a pumpkin and rely on your destiny
    Get in your car and cruise the land of the brave and free ..


    "I watched a snail crawl along
    the edge of a straight razor. That's
    my dream. That's my nightmare.
    Crawling, slithering, along the edge
    of a straight... razor... and surviving."

    Identified as "Ft. Hood shooter"
    Brain Scientist (biochem degree from Virginia Tech) who growed up in the Bali Hai neighborhood of Vinton, Va.

    Take a wrinkled raisin, and do with it what you will
    Push it into third if you know you're gonna climb a hill
    Eat plenty of lasagna 'til you know that you've had your fill
    Resist all the urges that make you wanna go out and kill



    'V' invades, conquers Tuesday
    4 November 2009 9:47 AM, PST
    Fast National ratings for Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. TV audiences appear willing to welcome the Visitors back into their homes. ABC's remake/reboot/reimagining of "V" had a strong premiere on Tuesday in the first hour of what will be a four-episode November launch, followed by an eventual spring relaunch.

    High School Madness
    "you look funny, where are you from?"
    "America."
    "your parents, what are they?"
    "Palestinian."
    "what country is that?"
    "they came from Jordan."
    "you're Jordanese? i don't think so. i think you're Indian."
    "am not."
    "are too. hey guys - LET'S GIVE GANDHI A WEDGIE."



    Throw that pumpkin at the tree
    Unless you think that pumpkin holds your destiny
    Cast it off into the sea
    Bake that pie and eat it with me

    (No) Escape from Trance Mountain ..
    And among these “experiments” conducted on US Soldiers by their government, and was a “research specialty” of Major Hasan’s, one was one called Radio Hypnotic Intracerebral Control Electronic Dissolution of Memory (RHIC-EDOM) which was pioneered for the US Military in the 1960’s by New York University Professor J. Anthony Deutsch who…“indicated that the mind is a transmitter and if too much information is received, like too many vehicles on a crowded freeway, the brain ceases to transmit. The Professor indicated that an excess of acetyl choline in the brain can interfere with the memory process and control. He indicated excess amounts of acetyl choline can be artificially produced, through both the administration of drugs or through the use of radio waves. The process is called Electronic Dissolution of Memory (EDOM). The memory transmission can be stopped for as long as the radio signal continues”...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sargant

    [ thanks to Patrick for suggestions/inspirations / and, um, Michael Hoffman for his bold declaration that not only is the frame part of the picture, sometimes it's the most important part .. (KEYWORDS : Malaclypse the Younger , Nidal Malik Hasan , Apocalypse Now , Marlon Brando , Roanoke , Vinton , Anderson SC , Blue Ridge Mountains) ]

    Current Music: "Deer Park (live) The Fall.
    Sunday, November 1st, 2009
    11:52 am
    Dead Man's Cell Phone (Hollins Theatre, 10/31)
     local production of a play by Sarah Ruhl and, sheesh, what can i say about this elixir? best to start from .. before the beginning:

    Have some incidental music there in the theatre. have "abraham martin an' john" prior to Lanford Wilson's "fifth of july," see if i care. it's almost never incidental, but how often is it thought-ful? the Hollins folks made th' proto-mood with .. well, the sorta thing kids in the 80's associated with John Oswald. the "plunderphonics," i mean. now that stuff is all clichéville, pumped out by 14 yr olds with a MacBook in under-an-hour. ..all of which is to say that what was done could've been done badly .. or - how you say? - uninspiredly. so thanks from all us kids - who spend WAY too.much time in our "name that demiquaver" treehouse - for doing neither (* the end of the play - which you can surely discover on your own - really tied the room together, brought forward, to my thinking [from somewhere wayway back ..], an old oldie [all overcoats and wistful scattered loathing]).

    don't be fooled by descriptions
    this is not a "technology play." fucking The Departed is more about cell phones than this is (am i talking too much about movies? well, it's because i've seen more movies than plays, so - like - deal). but you see the technology thing themed out in cinema from time to time. i remember some indie kids - John Aguero and "Crowmeat" Bob Pence - made His Master's Voice about the radio-voice of departed fathers (i guess you could write a meditation, how radio made Hitler possible, but McLuhan already did that, right?). but there's only so.much you can do in your 10 minute (at best) movie / and where ya gonna go in your cynicaler-than-thou 90's anyways? all i'm saying is the technology in Ruhl's play, as part an' parcel of being "just another element," is incidental. the "what-if's?" are driven by questions of being, of communication (albeit as story rather than an Avital Ronell luxury yacht of analysis).

    .. anyhoo, i'm not going to tell you a g'damn thing about what goes on plotwise, only that every aspect of this particular production in the Valley was spot-on: sets, sound, ambience otherwise unnamed and, sure, a perfect cast. Dead Man's Cell Phone strook an eerie balance between the immediacy of the everyday and, well, the immediacy of the Otherworldly (das unheimliche, yo!). when's the last i enjoyed anything of this calibre? oh it's been some time, sure (The Water Hen of S.I. Witkiewicz, i'm thinking). no shit.

    [ end trans.mission ]

    C_l_r Gr_ve
    "In the The Third Policeman, Eternity is accessed by its managers - the policemen by a lift. It's hidden in a forest, in a 'bunker'. Whatever happens there involves a series of numbers: 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42 - as does much of the plot. In The Third Policeman, the policemen take down a series of readings from the machines that run Eternity. They're mentioned in the book - mostly decimals, in the form of: " [ insert faux Tractatus 'surdities *here* ]

    Voodoo Queen Marie
    Folks tell fabulous lies,
    they say the green light shines through her eyes,
    Say she’s a cat in disguise, say there’s horns on her head,
    Say she’s married as well,
    It’s said she wed the devil in hell—
    Turned him into a big black snake and keeps him under her bed ..


    [ sleestak and MindHive forever !]

    did i ever tell you
    .. the story of th' GHOST?

    Laird Huddleston come in at the short end of twin kingdom valley, a career-making moment t'be sure! a morning plunge in Lake Vokkatonic and, sheesh, two months later with th' butt-shavin' an'at (can lines off the sister-in-law's ass be far behind?).

    * "I Want to Live" (previously unreleased demo, 1975) – 3:23
    These non-album tracks were all included on Sand in the Vaseline, though three non-album tracks (1977 B-side "I Want to Live" and 1992's "Gangster of Love" and "Popsicle") remain exclusive to that compilation.

    The Wind Cries Lurky

    Murky's sidekick who looks like a giant brown
    Sprite with a large nose. Lurky actually delights
    in "all the pretty colors!" and dreams of one day
    riding a horsey like Starlite.

    "I Blame You" (Version 0.5)
    "you know what?"
    " ... "
    "I'll tell you then: I think Pugh would've let me stay at his cool party if I hadn't shown up with you."
    "You would like that? I thought you hated Pugh, that he was your 'romantic rival.'"
    "He's okay. If not for you, I think he and i would've really hit it off."
    "What about Amy? Your feelings for her? You'd let her slip away to Pugh, for fuck's sake?"
    "We could've shared."

    Tim(id[ation])
    "You once thought it was covering up that new leopard-skin pill-box vest that made you such an easy mark for swift party removal."
    "It *was* muy macho, you must admit."
    "But Chris had wore such a vest ages ago. It is not so original."
    "I don't follow: who is this 'Chris'?"
    "Chris is the record producer with the phonographic statuette. Prior to discovering his niche, he'd be down at the bingo hall fronting a band with the vest you so eloquently described, 'sperimentin with this whole 'my blues is a frog in the throat' routine. didn't pan out, but he found something that did, get me?"
    "hmm."
    "yeah."
    "well ... the Grammys are just a popularity contest. I think it's all just a dicks in the throat routine and you can tell him i said so."

    take th'needle off the rekkid ..
    The Apalachin Meeting was a historic summit of Donovan fans held at the home of mobster Joseph "Joe the Barber" Barbara in Apalachin, New York.

    On the set with Michael Landon
    Roly Poly (daddy's little savage)
    LOCATE / MONITOR / JAM

    Current Music: "ominous cloud" ~|~ Broadcast
    Friday, October 23rd, 2009
    1:45 am
    Expires on:
     Entered by: HOLLOWAY Last user: HOLLOWAY
    Film depth 1.88 width 252.0

    NOTICE: PLEASE READ BEFORE YOUR HOME TEAM CI MEETING WITH WALTER--BUT ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION MEANS YOU HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY TO SAFEGUARD IT. FOR BOVIOUS COMPETITIVE REASONS, THIS DOCUMENT SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN OUT OF THE BUILDING OR SHARED WITH PEOPLE WHO DO NOT WORK FOR OUR COMPANY.

    fIVE lb. blox of PLEASE ..
    Unfortunately modern man sees science, not as a specialized kind of knowledge about the material world we live in, but as an almost "mystical" concept encompassing his most cherished convictions; his belief in evolution, progress, and that all reality is subjective, measurable, and centered on man qua man. (see also: Pynchon's Dr. Pointsman)

    Worst Practices (or How To Dis-serve Your Mentee)
    Did you say something?
    --- I'm the ME in MENTOR
    --- When I want your opinion, I'll ask for it
    --- If it worked for me, it'll work for you


    [ th' rain in sdain falls mainly in se-dan ]

    PopCulture sigils (w/ "help" dialog)
    Anal from (Jeff) Montgomery (we mean it, MAAN)
    Ernestine Stavros: Apparatus of Capture

    Snappy's aroundTOWN
    Patrick McGoohan (d. 1/13/09), Ricardo Montalbán (d. 1/14/09), wags in the audience asking we thinkTogether The Prisoner an' FAHNtasy Island (& vice.versa). hey, *you first* / meanwhile ..

    Fredric Jameson, bitch (on Time Out of Joint):

    "The village has been constructed in order to trick him, against his will, into performing an essential wartime task for the government. In that sense, he is the victim of this manipulation , which awakens all our fantasies of mind control and unconscious exploitation, of anti-Cartesian predestination and determinism. [ ... ]

    Yet Dick also takes pains to make clear that the 1950s village is also very specifically the result of infantile regression on the part of the protagonist, who has also, in a sense, unconsciously chosen his own delusion and has fled the anxieties of the civil war for the domestic and reassuring comforts of this own childhood during the period in question."

    Ranger Wittgenstein Korner
    We begin with the question whether the toothache someone else has is the same as the toothache I have.

    what if by "toothache" we substitute, say, "midlife crisis"?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozires_Silva

    the Westchester Wing

    the Hep dialogue
    - toBe thinking always of some 'maginary character - on a BMW touring bike, with license plate "fed rut" - thatWho 'legedly burgered on my lawn, this can be a healthy concern? cripes, mister, i don't even *have* a lawn ..

    Oct/Aught9: One or Several "Toothaches"?
    Welcome home Macbeth
    It's been a long long time
    And everyone knows you're here
    It's easy to see they care

    And you know it's true
    You never saw things quite that way
    She knew it all
    And made you see things all her way ..

    cf, fromTo C(_sw_ll_n) Hayley Mills
    Mills' third wife was Yaroslava Surmach, an American artist of Ukrainian descent whose varied work included glass paintings, book illustrations, and stained glass window designs. They were married in 1959, about three years before Mills' death in 1962.

    By a strange coincidence, all three women died within a period of less than three months, Ruth on July 1, 2008, Freya on August 19, 2008, and Yaroslava on September 17, 2008. Mills had one child with each wife: Pamela (with Freya), Kathryn (with Ruth), and Nikolas (with Yaroslava).

    Meanwhile, they are th' Lonesome Tumblers, there on MySpace.

    aLso:

    The Beach Boys Love You ,
    the King of Norway [.nfws] loves you ,
    PAULA POUNDSTONE loves you !!


    Current Music: "Season of the Witch" (dunnaven /_)
    Saturday, October 17th, 2009
    10:52 pm
    Punjena paprika
    Parliaments have proven somewhat popular among users of cocaine.
    The recess in the filter may be filled with powdered cocaine and
    insufflated.

    [ *In the 18th century, the tobacco smoke enema, an insufflation of tobacco smoke into the rectum, was a common method of reviving drowning victims ]

    Walk-ins and Drive-bys
    / Grompy Bub likes to dwell in the past, thinking about things like making slingshots from a dogwood limb, jerking off a horse with an inner tube (and discarded shoe tongue), or how back in the "good old days," neighbor helped neighbor and no one one locked their doors ../

    Amy / C'ville / 198_
    she felt humiliated that she'd been dumped for somebody else (Seán Réamonn?) there in the City. as for the Dumper, well, he seemed happy then, oblivious but happy, before turning all - how you say? - "Johnny Claggart":

    wreck him! wreck him! if i can't have him, no one shall!

    [hints - picked up, at least, by every female in the room - that his "self-hating Cracker" persona it is but a red herring ..]

    Irene Miracle


    Swiss alien
    "what are you doing?"

    [non.committal reply, 'cause - yeah - i'm officially (still) half slee.ping ..]



    politics
    i am hoping that all of you in the Hollins district will support Charlene Waybright's board of supervisors bid. thanks!

    Nights in White Cheddar


    cut the soles off your shoes ..
    climb a tree and learn to play the flute [Mz Kimberly Wilder from up Lonn'guyland ..]

    ps/
    Manny Theiner in GQ (??)

    Current Music: Paul Le Mat & Beck/ Different Sons from diff. Mothers
    Monday, October 12th, 2009
    1:35 am
    End of the Season ..
     (last) thursday writes:

    Mac & Jenny Traynham -
    5-6 pm, Rke mtn campground
    - (120.4 - pkway)

    .. first time listening to them (Sunday, the 11th) and, though critics might shortfile 'em next to Norman & Nancy Blake (whose "all the good times are over" i adore), the music has a different feel, switching with ease between the understated and wicked-clever - rather than merely fast - banjo/guitar interplay. look forward to seeing them again.

    http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/mjtraynham2

    Activity Central
    shaping up to be a reasonable month. my stepbrother, following some employment uncertainty, landed a web.developer gig with the local health conglomerate. very congratulations! meanwhile, the Denver Broncos, who i'm sorta indifferent to, put a bang.shanga.lang on Brady & Co. (sorry New England fans, but if your boys weren't such an ongoing threat [i'm recalling their dismemberment of the Steelers in the 2002 AFC Championship], i wouldn't be such a - how you say? - Hayta).

    David Icke: Going for the One
    There have been reports that a phenomenon similar to folie à deux had been induced most recently by anthropologists in the South American rainforest by consuming ayahuasca and by military experiments for chemical warfare in the late 60's using the incapacitating agent BZ. In both incidents there were very rare claims of shared visual hallucinations.


    [ Mojique plants devices in the free trade zone ]

    O Willie, my darling
    .. we're turning the apples to feed the raccoons. put 3 or 4 inna bowl , no need to cut up, just poke some holes. fill bowl 3/4 the way with water, heat in microwave for 5 minutes. also, if you would, pick up a 10 lbs bag of potatoes. i think they can still be had for, sheesh, 3 bucks. thanks! Babs

    sinklandfarms.com
    a) turn on monitor / depress Fn and F4 together for transfer.
    2) to bring down de.icer, switch off Heater / Throttle / Clutch / Ignition (reverse to power on).

    Jess's co-worker
    .. he's always trying to phone her, leaving messages at the bingo hall, etc. guy claims that she's sending him "encouraging signals," leading him on, but i prefer to believe her story, that these attentions are entirely unwarranted, that she didn't - somehow - "bring it on herself." am i a disinterested party? fuck no, but i stand by my friends.

    Dateline: used t'be
    "This used to be a happy summer funtime place but now we've got major stranger danger here!"

    anonymousterror, not content to sing "tammy" over the phone, adopted the habit some 15 months ago of yanking my father's beard. it's all virtual, mind you, as my father - at 61 - could easily whoop King Tubby's ass. most of you consider that sort of behavior thoroughly out-of-bounds. one of you finds it "funny." guess we'll just have to agree that .. this isn't a point for discussion (EOM).

    Current Music: "Nine-Pound Hammer" (J. FAHEY)
    Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
    11:41 am
    Return to Boggy Creek (1977)
    .. carries over none of the original's docudrama elements. It stars Dawn Wells of Gilligan's Island fame, and the late Dana Plato of Diff'rent Strokes. Wells portrays the mother of three children who become lost in the swamp until the creature comes to their rescue.



    Henry Fielding
    "Once the Licensing Act passed, political satire on the stage was virtually impossible, and playwrights whose works were staged were viewed as suspect. Fielding therefore retired from the theatre and resumed his career in law and, in order to support his wife Charlotte Cradock and two children, he became a barrister."

    "Charlotte, on whom he later modelled the heroines of both Tom Jones and Amelia, died in 1744. Three years later Fielding – disregarding public opinion – married Charlotte's former maid, Mary, who was pregnant."

    "Fielding's ardent commitment to the cause of justice as a great humanitarian in the 1750s, coincided with a rapid deterioration in his health to such an extent that he went abroad to Portugal in 1754 in search of a cure. Gout, asthma and other afflictions meant that he had to use crutches. He died in Lisbon[3] two months later and his tomb in the city English Cemetery (a.k.a. "Os Cyprestes") may be visited, which also has the St. George's Church (Anglican church for Lisbon) inside the cemetery."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_War_of_1752-1753

    *GREAT NOBLE SOULS
    "but what about the children?"
    "what?"
    "Simmie and Viola learned about your past, the junk .."
    "what? i've never been on junk."
    "they know."
    "how was this 'learned'?"
    "that time you goaded me at the bingo hall. i told them after you left."
    "what?"
    "i was goa-ded."
    "tell me when i was on junk. just so our stories match."
    "you were recovering at Yaddo. it was the winter after your Uncle Jessup's suicide."
    "murder."
    "whatever."
    "well, i was at Yaddo, but i was resting .."
    "jeez, Hersch, how do you think that sounds? 'resting at Yaddo'?"
    "yeah, i see what you mean .."



    Hexham Herald -- "The right man, at last!"
    "Another celebrity came forth. The Wolf Committee met him at the station. There was a plaid shawl strapped to his back, and the flaps of his hunting cap were considered unprecedented. Almost everybody had confidence in the shawl, or felt that the flaps were authoritative. The devices by which he covered his ears made beholders feel that they were in the presence of Science .."

    McLuhan Song of the Day (4cara)
    In the age of the new knowledge industries the paradox of somnambulism amidst vast new acquisitions of knowledge was amply documented by Alexander Pope in The Dunciad early in the eighteenth century. He lived when it was quite observable that floods of printed materials had lowered the levels of conversation and social awareness to the point where a universal DULLNESS covered all. We now know that sleep and dullness can be the effects of overstimulation and excess of data. Max Picard has devoted an entire volume to this subject. It is called The World of Silence, and he says: "Man, however, who has become a mere appendage of verbal noise, believes decreasingly in the reality of his own existence." But the "sonorous silence" of Joyce is the ground for discovery, just as noise is the source of music.

    Be ddiawl?
    Hebrew National Ahmadinejad

    ps/
    (thanks to [info]alagbon)

    pps/ Andy Williams LSD (b.w.o. davMunro)

    / Kobo Abe & .. /

    Current Music: "the dream of leaping sharks" (pelt)
    Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
    11:50 am
    the UFO as Big as the Ritz
     "One day, among other instances, it chanced at Lyons that three men and a woman were seen descending from these aerial ships. The entire city gathered about them, crying out they were magicians and were sent by Grimaldus, Duke of Beneventum, Charlemagne's enemy, to destroy the French harvests. In vain the four innocents sought to vindicate themselves by saying that they were their own country-folk, and had been carried away a short time since by miraculous men who had shown them unheard-of marvels, and had desired to give them an account of what they had seen. The frenzied populace paid no heed to their defence, and were on the point of casting them into the fire, when the worthy Agobard, Bishop of Lyons, who having been a monk in that city had acquired considerable authority there, came running at the noise, and having heard the accusations of the people and the defence of the accused, gravely pronounced that both one and the other were false. That it was not true that these men had fallen from the sky, and that what they said they had seen there was impossible. The people believed what their good father Agobard said rather than their own eyes, were pacified, set at liberty the four Ambassadors of the Sylphs, and received with wonder the book which Agobard wrote to confirm the judgement which he had pronounced. Thus the testimony of the four witnesses was rendered vain."



    On November 58, 1980
    .. a Redding police-man on holiday in Toddmodern, NY was given physical examination by aliens and then set free to find a new illusion. Hizzn't that startling?

    of Polish Cowboys & Palestindians ..
    ( whatta Joak on Amalek ..)

    the UFO that slew a Pope
    A later Russell novel, Dreadful Sanctuary (serialized in Astounding SF in 1948; various revisions 1951 to 1967), also used a Fortean notion. One source was Fort's lost book with the one-letter title X, whose MS was destroyed, though various letters that Fort wrote about it survive. The premise: our civilization is invisibly controlled by far-off beings on Mars. Elsewhere, Fort suggested that Earth is a lunatic asylum where advanced races from other worlds dump their rejects; he painted a terrible picture of such visitors going native and sinking into "what their own far-advanced people regard as perhaps unmentionable, or anyway, unprintable, degradations. They would join our churches and wallow in pews. They'd lose all sense of decency and become college professors...."

    ps/
    the wife? she lost a baby teeth on the _ side of her smile. isn't that .. startling?

    the UFO as Shoggoth
    Happy Vulcan Nu.Yeer !

    pps/ Gamma Rays ! Marigolds !

    Current Music: "slippery people / tawking heds )
    Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
    2:46 pm
    "I am here to defend the FIRST SHOT."
     * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~

    .. John Henry Parker, esq

    The _ Testament of Towlmastr SIK
    In 1984, Lowe was dating actress Melissa Gilbert. In her recent autobiography, Prairie Tale: a memoir Gilbert is very open about sleeping with Lowe´s best friend, John Cusack,[4] while Lowe was away filming The Hotel New Hampshire. According to Gilbert, she had heard that Lowe was sleeping with his co-star, Nastassia Kinski and she slept with Cusack out of revenge.

    owned a wolf-hybrid called "MINE."
    .. Debt U. Damm? fnuff!
    - vents at Paul Auster (for Oracle Night ?) / "The novel elicited considerable controversy, as some of its passages are taken from Anatoly Kuznetsov's Babi Yar,"



    "First of all, Watson and Rosemary (along with Jay Sebring) at one time or another earned money in wig-making businesses that catered to clientele in the same general geographic area. You would have expected them to have at least known of each other. Rumors abounded with respect to LaBianca’s drug dealing. More substantial sources indicate that Sebring and Frykowski trafficked drugs as well. Watson’s burn of Bernard Crowe, a well-known drug dealer in the Hollywood area, is substantially documented, and indicates that Tex had a desire to take over at least Crowe’s interests in that part of LA."

    Sultans of Smarm
    Emerson's keyboard setup included the contiguous honeycombings of the land and the titan mountains, run through multiple Leslie speakers driven by HiWatt guitar amplifiers, as well as the odd haze we had ourselves perceived around the rampart-crowned peak, with ribbon controller and three-inch flexible yellowish tubes projecting from a Moog Minimoog synthesiser on top (except for a slight detritus bearing outgoing penguin tracks), an upright acoustic-electric piano that was used for honky-tonk piano sounds, a Hohner Clavinet and another Moog Minimoog synthesiser, all of them welcome as possible refuges in case we met unwelcome entities on their way back from the Abyss ..

    Slave to the Traffic Light
    Now that you've pretty much used up the whole "Mike Gangloff vs. Page McConnell" thing, why not put yr silly attentions on that witchers about to make uss piss blood ( ,Prometheus..). The ART ROCKERS, I mean. You know -- Gang of Four, that Beef Captain guy, any band with Lydia Lunch innit. You will send our band of a middle-western th' wicket-heads (@ U. of Proto-Kaw) with the South African passports case of Oxy-wash amatyl KILL the Artsy Wimps (we mean it !)



    Cannes
    "Without realizing it, the crowds under the palm trees were extras recruited to play their traditional roles. As they cheered and hooted, they were far more confident than the film actors on display, who seemed ill at ease when they stepped from their limos, like celebrity criminals ferried to a mass trial by jury at the Palais, a full-scale cultural Nuremberg furnished with film clips of the atrocities they had helped to commit .."

    [ On arrival, they find that the upper floors of the hotel are dedicated to prostitution and the bottom floors are occupied by terrorists. They also meet Freud's companion, Susie the Bear (Nastassia Kinski), a woman so obsessed with her unattractiveness that she spends all her time in a bear suit ]

    Current Music: Geraldo Pino & The Heartbeats (courtesy lemming_radio)
    Friday, September 4th, 2009
    1:45 am
    Zombies for a Summer Hotel ..

    Pin an' Cellar ..
    in which Stephen King and Harold Bloom feign blindness in order to feel.up Ursula K. Le Guin, issue pro-nouncements ..

    Dig a Ponus
    The adman (backed by logistics and psychologists) sought to approach the lowest levels of motives and intelligence in the public at large; they hit upon the primal sources of primitive magic and myth. Advertising has had to accept the accolades of "culture vultures" as a fringe benefit of its utterly degraded motives and ambitions.



    DUCKS, jas jas ..
    We have already seen how most people are perceptually inadequate to grapple with the immediate present. They prefer the familiar, even if this compels them to retreat to an earlier period of their own culture. In our own times this has taken the popular form of "camp" and the return to country music. It is parallel to the nostalgic charade at Versailles, when Marie Antoinette had the ladies in her court dress up as china shepherdesses.

    Arnold Toynbee, 2 Sept 1970
    Today, from all quarters of the globe, we are receiving well-authenticated reports of cold-blooded torture ... We realize now that Hitlerism was not just an isolated aberration. It was an ominous sign of the times ... We have learned how to fly and to split the atom, and how have we used these technological advances? The answer is given by the names of five cities: Guernica, Coventry, Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki.

    ps/ George Fell Into His French Horn

    Current Music: "waterfall" / 10cc
    Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
    1:54 am
    Tom Hanks, fresh
     .. from his lead in The Garth Hudson Story appeared in the David Caruso nightmare Cast Away. derided by some as "non-realistic," persons within the aviation community appreciate the film's frank depiction of FedEx's air fleet ("skyturds," essentially ..).

    b.fore the synod of whitby (aka "the Auldest Alliance")
    The Phoenicians were the first to establish trading posts in Libya, when the merchants of Tyre (in present-day Lebanon) developed commercial relations with the Berber tribes and made treaties with them to ensure their cooperation in the exploitation of raw materials.[11][12] By the fifth century BC the greatest of the Phoenician colonies, Carthage, had extended its hegemony across much of North Africa, where a distinctive civilization, known as Punic, came into being. Punic settlements on the Libyan coast included Oea (Tripoli), Libdah (Leptis Magna) and Sabratha. All these were in an area that later was called, Tripolis, or "Three Cities". Libya's current-day capital Tripoli takes its name from this.

    Hey, John, come and get me some candy goods
    Shucks, it sure feels like it's in the woods
    Spend some time on your January trips
    You got tombstone moose up and your brave-yard whips



    My August the Month of May (Ha'thorne)
    Tim Melville , Mary Horton ..

    [ activated radon vs. e-cigs ]

    "She asked me if I was a photographer and if I would take her picture. When I asked her her age, she laughed and said no one questioned her age when she helped drive the Fir Bolg from Erin, or something like that. She showed me something that must have been a driver's license. Whatever it was, I agreed."

    Imam Reagan?
    ".. that the world should begin to move once more toward the brink of an apocalyptic war because of the preachings of an eighty-year-old Moslem holy man who is probably foggy on what he had for breakfast by the time sunset rolls around." - either Stephen King or John McAdams (can't keep track ..) roundabout '81

    If you're anxious to find out when your friendship's gonna end
    Come on, baby, I'm your friend!
    And I know that you know that I know that you show
    Something is tearing up your mind.



    The Canadian television comedy show SCTV featured a character named "Sue Bopper-Simpson", a fictional daughter of The Big Bopper, played by Catherine O'Hara. The character was a part-time real estate agent who appeared in a musical entitled I'm Taking My Own Head, Screwing It On Right, and No Guy's Gonna Tell Me That It Ain't.

    fn 59.6: Do you always know how to play chess or only when you're doing it (i.e., participating in this Form of Life called "chess")?

    Tell me, momma,
    Tell me, momma,
    Tell me, momma, what is it?
    What's wrong with you this time?



    [ Keew'rds : Inglourious Texuns , Steve Miller , Billy Castillo , Fear 2 Stop , Coils 2 Menace , etc etc ..]

    Current Music: "Shadow World" (sun.ra)
    Thursday, August 13th, 2009
    1:38 am
    Joan's gone off to Tyre Fake ..
     We're coming to the beginning of a new era at the motel: Atajerk dissolves the Bektashi Order (who set up shop in Albania where they later face torment by red fascists and, most recently, by the cromwellian Wahhabists). Meanwhile, Odysseus leaves the island.

    Hinckley Commission fyndings
    shot to chest to immobilize, but couldn't get close enough to deliver coup de grâce behind ear. Mz Foster remained unimpressed.

    Mae Brussell's uncle, Brading's rabbi
    Brading was in Dallas on November 23, 1963. and was also at Dealey Plaza at the time of the shooting. He had arrived the night before, and had spent the morning in the offices of oil billionaire H.L. Hunt (a number of sources say that Jack Ruby also attended that meeting). He was arrested at the Dal-Tech building after the assassination when witnesses pedgged him as a suspicious character. Police took him in and quickly released him after he explained to them that he was in the middle of an oil deal, and entered the building simply because he needed to use a payphone.

    The Great Expectations Gap
    Like Marx, experiencing the new industrial society of England, Dickens was shocked by the disservices proliferating amidst the new service environment of the United States. In 1842, during a six-month visit to the United States, Dickens wrote his friend William C. Macready: "I believe the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation with ultimate failure of its example to the earth."



    Stephen King vs. Hal Incandenza
    Hawaii Five-0 and Vietnam (Danse Macabre, 1981)

    John Prine Song of the Day
    "please don't bury me"

    McLuhan '72
    The potential of the computer has been used no more than that of TV. Any new form is always used for the old job, because those in control are the servants of past experience rather than the masters of present fact.



    Current Music: "stop along the way" Apples (in Stereo)
    Friday, July 31st, 2009
    8:07 am
    The Wednefday of HAPPEN
     .. because Cara and i eloped (in the City).

    how can you be *prepared* for sooch tings? i bought a book ("Marriage for Complete Fucking Idiots") which included such gems as embroidered silk, not taffeta! and call baker re: apricot frosting. What? sometimes ye jest haffta Leep ..

    the salamony was 12 pm. arrove @ Catawba 'round 11:10. the bride she was a VISION - and i publically regret not having a proper photograph (can only use my camera in certain lighting conditions [needs . t'read . DIRECTIONS] and hers i couldnae hold steady enough to'btain proper effect [case a' nerves and/or "butterflies," no?]).

    .. the Bride, Mz Sangria Leibowitz of Catawba, wore a silk dress of blue merging with *purpose*, a floral sash, and a wrist-corsage to indicate her committment to becoming My Eternal Prom Date.

    the Groom, Mr Pablo Schwartz of Color Grove, wore a scramble suit from Channel One, mock bass player shoes and a bloo-tipped carnation. .. an' did i tell you Sangria had a pin on her sash?

    "that .. that's a Steelers pin."
    "yes."
    "but .. but you're a Patriots fan."
    "i did it for you, my love."
    "i .. don't know what to say."
    "here .. let me fix it to your tie. it's part of our narrative , our Story."
    "yes."

    Their Hearts were Full of Spring
    they exchanged small, but meaningful gifts (Edden Hammons to him , the Stylistics for her). the couple will Honeymoon hwerever they Wish (this Saturday? the Clifftop Festival in West Byg-d!).

    **************************

    "Campers in Control"


    thanks shady_lamarr !
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_sue

    Stephen King's dedication to Borges
    .. between Robert Bloch & Ray Bradbury.

    531 Lafayette / 544 Camp (N,O know)
    On Jekyll's side, the side presented to the public eye, it seems a lovely, graceful building, inhabited by some of London's most respected physicians. On the other side - but still a part of the same building - we find rubbish and squalor, people abroad on questionable errands at three in the morning, and that "blistered and distained door" set in "a blind forehead of discoloured wall .."

    Cara i was telling
    finished at last cPaglia's popular meditation Sexual Personae / it was kind and thoughtful. she winds down with Emily Dickinson, a poet i'm "unsure" about, but - at least - appreciate for forming an occasion for Paglia's Entertainment:

    Ye shall know them by the trail of embalming fluid ..
    She writes her cousins, "No one has called so far, but one old lady to look at a house. I directed her to the cemetary to spare expense of moving."

    1223-1226 (Norman Bequest)
    "pick up the snow? i'll do it an' sho them all."
    "but a summer's day, this being the first, it'll up an' pick its sef up."

    Grand go the Years - in the Crescent - above them -
    Worlds scoop their Arcs -
    And Firmaments - row -
    Diadems - drop - and Doges - surrender -
    Soundless as dots - on a Disc of Snow -

    Dickinson writes Higginson, "Nature is a Haunted House - but Art - a House that tries to be haunted."

    "She is a shark lured by spilled blood, a rustic hog snuffling out black truffles of woe. All of Dickinson's letters are archly seductive, but the letters of condolence are a sadomasochistic congress."

    "She dreads being seen precisely because her eye is so powerful and intrusive. Letters and poems allow her to be heard at a distance while remaining invisible, as if on a public-address system."

    Otis P. Lord
    1) "real life" Amherst judge , eDickinson correspondent.
    2) Eschaton judge , hed stuck in computer monitor (in sno'e-vember) ..

    " i caint wok ,
    i cain' tawk ,
    jus' got back from
    th' state of old nu yawk
    one morning
    be-faw day .. "

    A Frission of Koalas
    Prickle and Goo were named after Alan Watts' categorization of the two types of people in the world ("the prickly and the gooey – the rigid, critical and the easygoing and mellow") after Art Clokey heard him lecture at San Jose State University.[7]

    1. MALCOLM2 CAMPBELL (ARCHIBALD1) was born 1720 in Argileshier, Scottland,
    and died February 21, 1763. He married ISABELLA HUSTON.

    [ Notes for Malcolm Campbell.
    Came to Big Lick when boys were grown, from Pennsylvania. landed in
    Philadelphia from Ireland. Info from Frank Campbell, grandson on John, Son of
    William, was in Area in 1740's. Had land grant in Roanoke of 440 acres and a
    house at Lick Spring where the Bridge and Ironworks are now.
    Furnished the French and Indian war with supplies in 1758.     ]

    3. WILLIAM3 CAMPBELL (MALCOLM2, ARCHIBALD1) was born 1745 in Botetourt
    County, Virginia, and died June 1804. He married (2) SUSANNAH DABNEY
    February 14, 1781 in Botetourt County, Virginia.

    6. WILLIAM4 CAMPBELL (WILLIAM3, MALCOLM2, ARCHIBALD1) was born 1784, and
    died September 13, 1854. He married FRANCES SEATON December 20, 1806 in
    Amherst County, Virginia, daughter of WILLIAM SEATON. She was born 1782.

    iv. ALPHENIA CAMPBELL, b. 1825; m. JAMES MONROE LAVENDER, December 23,
    1852, Botetourt County, Virginia / Jacob Carper; b. Abt. 1818.

    vi. WILLIAM SETON LAVENDER, b. May 26, 1857, Meadow Creek/ Craig Co.,
    Virginia; d. September 03, 1933, Daleville, Virginia; m. ROSA LEE CUNNINGHAM,
    July 09, 1880, Haymakertown/ Rev. J.W. Wildman; b. July 14, 1855, Little
    River / Floyd Co., Virginia; d. May 04, 1926, Blue Ridge, Virginia.

    they say the Americans
    .. will return to the moon in 2020. i call Bullshit on that / because the Chinese will have eaten it already. yes, they will beat us to the moon, find it edible, and begin frying it with MSG and ginger root / present it as "dumpling."

    "Meadow Creek Jam"
    expected the usual mix of bloograss and/or old-time in this hilly holler. found instead what sounded like a fair approximation of .. Newfoundland folk music (no whaling songs per se, but ..)



    nex'week: John Stamos, gamechanger?

    [ KEYWORDS: meadow creek jam , craig county , figgy duff , bear , deers , vege-tables, shrubberies an' Beltaine farrs .. ]

    Current Music: DONOVAN "the sun is a very magic fellow"
    Thursday, July 16th, 2009
    1:10 pm
    it's all call waiting ..
     Every couple of years or so, my friends all meet at the Tower of Elostirion and have a reunion of sorts. These are people I have known for six, maybe fifteen years. We call it an "Aromatic Disturbance" because soap is a bourgeois crutch (man!). I guess because everybody exists in different states and it's hard to bring us all together (it's a CHORE to get Cathy and Parks Lanier, a married couple, even in the same room!).

    Let me explain something about my friends: they are all writing-obsessed, wannabe-verse dramatists (in *this* day and age!). All of the conversation hinges on Rilke, Joyce Carol Oates, the integrity of John Grisham, and Dan Brown before he sold out. Sound like fun? Well, it did to me about fifteen years ago when I was twenty-five and literature was the only form of currency in our dank garret apartments down by the marina. Now it's like being closeted in a bi-level with a bunch of Bradys.

    Here is some sample "conversation":

    You also talk of normal folks who want to stay in hell. I'm one of those types, yes. In fact, I thrive on hell. But you seem to be stuck in purgatorial limbo wishing with all your might you could be in hell. You, Pinnochio, can be your own faerie godmother -- can wave your own magic wand -- and descend into the furnace (if you think you can take it).

    I've lived here since 1987, watching guy's heads go up like Kennedy's at the opera from all the tedium. I've LIVED. My girlfriend and I went to a trendy joint we'd heard so much about. Recognized DOMINIC CHIANESE, JR. standing outside, son of the Sopranos actor. I spoke to him: "Hey, you're Dominic Chianise, Jr., son of the Sopranos actor!" He didn't look at us. This was getting embarrassing: here I am, a writer/director being ignored by the SON OF AN ACTOR. Did I mention I was with my girl? No way was this tyranny going to stand ...

    I said, "HEY, CHIANESE, why didn't your daddy's buttboys at HBO get back to me about my script, huh?" The freak turns on me and says, quote: "I will take you around the corner and rape you like a woman. I will rape you. I will rape you, then ignore you. In the old days you would be dead." Can you believe it? I pull out my camera to take his picture -- maybe he'll back off if he thinks I'm Press. But no -- he grabs my arm and says, "no photos here. You must leave now!" Then I wise up: he's a BOUNCER. Son of a famous actor forced to bounce. What a loser!



    ps/ "i only smoke after con-gress means
    .. i SMOAK !"

    of Pork Chops an' Pipes
    what's your poison? Professor Scott "R" Christianson's was pipes. a fellow KINKS enthusiast, he passed on up to five years bacc (He Will Be Missed).

    .. more recently - this year in fact - Lynn Barco, a post-occasional singer from back in the day, went out at 42 with kidney failure. she did vocals on Friendly's Cornshocker lp, a'shortive urban fu k/folk that was oddly bearable, narrowly endearing ..

    gurl frm th' north country ..
    "Confidential Clerk" he'sef, Mistah Ben Bruton (of Minot, N D, yo!) gedds extra points for identifying any band with Mike Patton innit as "Insane Clown Posse for grad students" (slainte, bitches !).

    The Classical
    Uno revienta los tímpanos y patalea como cristiano mientras se le vacía el cuerpo por el cogote tajeado. One bursts the eardrums and kicks as a Christian while he empties the body by the neck tajeado. The other part, the heart, crying like a child. The shrieks of Boschetito isolated in the feet of the bottom of the bakery were a strange mixture of both. Pork and goat, the Commander-gram drop late fault irredentist.

    Current Music: "Plea e Let Me Wonder" (Beach boys)
    Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
    3:14 am
    July 29
     births: Clara Bow, Irwin Corey, Lou Albano ..
    deaths: Tom Snyder, Luis Buñuel, Cass Elliot

    1014: Battle of Kleidion
    1966: the motorcycle becomes a *fact* in Bob Dylan's music/non.music ..
    2009: the Wedding of Sangria Leibowitz and Pablo Schwartz (as recorded in the marriage bonds of Salem, Virginia)

    Nevertellmetheodds
    .. was at the Pittsburgh messageboard / discovered a tour of ... Ultimate Vag with 500 mg (limbs from To Live and Shave in LA and Bardo Pond). used both bands as search terms to see if they'd be playing anyplace near. got a Winston-Salem hit / a private residence on Hawthorne Rd at 8 pm. Cara and i did the 2 1/2 hour drive a-and some kid who just come out of a coma said he didn't know what we were talking about. watched a BAR BAND downtown, had a couple drinks and returned to Roanoke. found a place on the Internet that listed the show on *another* street, in a different house at SIX p.m. not sure what to make of it / unless it was wee promoters fucking with each other, the Publick be damned..

    ps/ do you enjoy to read Roanoke Longevity Examiner? 'fess up / you know you do !

    Star Search (136199 Eris)


    [ key words : cello scrotum , guitar nipple , sam harris and dylan klebold ]

    Current Music: "kali the carpenter" (Neil Hagerty)
    Friday, June 26th, 2009
    1:33 pm
    "don't lose the smooth, Michael .."

    Current Music: "Michael Jackson" (Negativland)
    Friday, June 19th, 2009
    2:00 pm
    Quiet/Normal ("Kindness Atoll, miles from any sea .")
     .. thinking about Other Summers lately, i could only recall a series of Fall days leading up to the Feast of St. Andrew (itself [post]rainy and warm).

    the invitation arrived in the mug of August and was discovered in my (meaning our) 3-way Pittsburgh box. a gathering of "old-timers" in the Western Mountains, a New Year's celebration, though i don't know if it fit with or flew against Robert Graves' thorny reckoning. odd they should think of me, an office flunky for a season or two who never quite caught on to the flavor of the place. there was no pay or anything (it was sort of a retreat, except that in most cases people stayed). my father was there in '66 and rolled an unfortunate number in the course of a late night game (he stole away that evening and - for turning his back on the community and, more importantly, his Obligation - became known as "Papa Jinx").

    a flood complicated arrival and supplies were being moved from the lower cabins by earnest smiling youth. i noticed considerable staff turnover, the only familiar face being Becky's (perpetually 55ish and still running the office).

    i met someone whose language i recognized, an on.again/off.again Mennonite g_rl called Catherine or Katherine. we made general comments among the trees as the sun began to set and blue smoak drifted up from Cairn Ciel. as evening moved twards us and we twards it, the scene was marked by sporadic singing along paths smothered in low cloud as well as more private displays. among revellers we separated and i followed a small group into one of the rooms off the main building. in a shallow tiled pool surrounded by candlelight and reverent onlookers reclined a young Asian woman inking herself old.style (pre.electric, i mean) a tattoo of a salamander atop the left breast (a young man in black trunks held a mirror slightly above her dark, prominent nipples as she worked). whispering among the assemblage revealed that he was her boyfriend, that he was rumored to be a hermaphrodite. something i couldn't catch was said aloud and the lady/woman/g_rl growled, "OUT, ALL OF YOU." amid groans, i filed out with the others, to the main path.

    "what was that all about?" i asked.
    "someone - probably a new boy - addressed her as Olivia, that's all."
    "what's her name then?"
    "Helene. Olivia's the other Asian on staff."
    "ahh."
    "'cept it's not quite so simple: Helene and Olivia are twins."
    "simple mistake."
    "'cept if it was a new boy, he probably doesn't know that yet."
    "he will learn."
    "he'll never forget."

    Enter
    "Fritz" character, as.in "th'Cat," as.in Crumb's original .. envision(?) and not the Ralph Bakshi revisioning (might as well be zack snyder..). some - maybe Crumb himself - thought that Fritz was some wishful thinking on his part (though hardly IDish in the Crumbian economy..). Crumb himself claimed to have Richard Fariña in mind, Pynchon's old roommate who married Joan Baez's sister. said Farina's angle was to re-live/revive the Classic Beat Era .. of what exactly? late 40's to late 50's? Crumb seemed to think that Farina had too fond a grip on bourgeois values (is this why the Cuban/Irish American spent some time on the old sod playing IRA? i'm confused. though Burroughs hardly embraced his own background, it was his family connections that saved him when he shot his wife in Mexico City..). does it sound as if i'm poisoning my perception and yours with some steenkeen "Law of Identity"? Christ, i hope not / i hope sincerely to follow the lead of username th' "growingoldest" and *appreciate* that we are not even ourselves, much less Somebody Else...

    [ KEYWORDS: Balli the Sculptor , Emilio the Nebbish ]

    HEY! CREATURE! leave them Tims alone !
    [ Mistah Stephen W. Terrell from th' Santa Fe New Mexican ]

    The true magic of the West is summed up in the monologue about motels:

    Out west they’re always raising holy hell, kicking in walls, shooting guns, having fights and wild parties. Somebody’s always screaming bloody murder or fucking their brains out in the room next door. Back east motels are different. You never hear nothing, not a peep ... course they can kill your ass in either place. It’s just a lot more fun out west.

    If you’re only interested in the music, Allen distilled most of the songs from Pedal Steal onto a nine-minute medley on his 1999 Salivation album. But there you won’t hear about the spooky man in the Moriarty bar who warns of “The Creature” or Billy’s batty mom or the other lonesome ghosts of Pedal Steal.

    Current Music: "Aja" - STEELY DAN
    Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
    11:04 am
    Shmoopieland 3.0
     FROM: Z
    SUBJECT: exposition

    I think things have been going nicely, plot-wise, around here: there's action in the form of the roving gang hanging around the ice-cream shop hassling the locals, there's emotive tension in the form of the ex-lover, Vicki, returning to the small town...for what purpose? We're still unsure about that, but it's okay - Days of Our Lives wasn't completed in a day.

    The gang is easily dispatched, of course, there being several strapping men about who can easily take on the aging likes of hippie bikers like Elk, Jolson and Hyde - and notice the set-up for the kitty fight, where we all expect the 'nice' Amy to knock down the 'bad-girl' biker moll, Susan. This may not happen, of course, as plots swing wide in this arena - Susan may denounce her evil buddies after Pants gets a little too drunk and knocks her around a bit. If this happens she'll be taken in by the Shmoops and allowed to turn on her 'bad' friends...she might be the integral factor in this respect, the character who tips the balance of power outside the ice-cream shop. We'll be keeping our eyes on her, surely.

    Now, I have just one piece of advice. If we knew more about the Vicki character it would help to bridge the space between her return and the outcome...(I'm on the edge of my seat...does she need money? Is she pregnant?) This can be emotionally trying for the bud character, but he's no stranger to drama.

    Okay - quiet on the set and.....ACTION!!

    [ (Emergency ton.of) do da funky chicken ..]

    She was up there ..
    Futurama Dr. - off Bandy, aka SR 666 - wondering a. Did i wrote it and b. Did i meant it ..



    De Marsay's first sex with the girl is transvestite: she puts him in a red velvet gown and woman's cap and shaw. His pleasure is unsurpassed. Is it due to Paquita's virtuosity - or his female drag? Next day, he is furious: "Everything showed him that he had posed for another person." Yet when he returns to the boudoir for a final rendezvous, he initiates the transvestism. His femininity is surfacing. At climax, he is stunned by "the first mortification" of his pampered life: Paquita deliriously calls out a woman's name. He looks for a dagger to kill her, as if sudden action could remedy the affront to manhood. Paquita is clearly imagining her lover as the marquise, a transposition I call sexual metathesis. De Marsay has been drafted into a sexual theater: he exists only to phallicize an absent female lover. The girl with the golden eyes has exploited his virility for her own perverse purposes.

    Yesterday's thotz/op.inions
    .. that the Lady who dumped me for the fiddle player has since .. dumped the fiddle player for another / one she describes as "the Magic Mirror" and "the Twilight of the Place." i ahve, perhaps, misread (hardly the first time). here's more the neverending C. Paglia ("Sherry?"):

    "Shelley's fictive brotherhood is emotional and sexual dialogue with one's double, whose features alter, as in a magic mirror, to those of the opposite sex."



    thanks to username "toddzombie"
    .. for putting me in the way of this *most* enjoyable screenplay of Victor de Oliveira. very beyond John Shirley's "Eclipse" trilogy , it is - how you say? - it.is vera own Heavenly Music Corp'ration !

    by.way WZBC P_tr_ck
    The verdict brings to a close a parental kidnapping case that grabbed headlines because of the name Rockefeller and a suspect who claimed to have ties to the family of Standard Oil fame. Testimony presented by both the prosecution and the defense made it indisputable the defendant is really Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, 48, a German native who emigrated as an exchange student in 1978 and used grand exaggerations and outright lies to repeatedly change identities and invent new lives.

    The trial revealed more of the fabulist's ridiculous tales: His work with the international Trilateral Commission; the blame he bore for the collapse of the Asian financial markets; and that he ended seven mute years as a child with the word "woofness." The climax came when Rockefeller's former wife took the stand and explained how someone of her pedigree and stature could be so utterly duped by him during the couple's 12-year marriage.

    Three is never a crowd @ (Vico , Svevo)
    When they reached the top he made her sit down on the low wall, rested one arm lightly on her knee and sheltered her with his own umbrella from the fine, penetrating rain which had not stopped falling for the last few hours.
    "I am engaged," she said, in a voice into which she attempted to put a touch of sentimentality, which was very soon banished by a strong impulse to burst out laughing.
    "Engaged!" Emilio repeated the word. At first he was so incredulous that he at once began to try and discover her reason for telling him such a lie. He peered into her face, and in spite of the darkness he thought he could detect in her expression the sentimentality which had at once disappeared from her voice. It must be true then. Besides, what reason could she have had for telling him a lie? So they had at last found the third person they stood in need of!

    chazmartinbono
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Swift_Chase*

    * Cola Turka with vokka or rum , the wedge of lemon , 4,5 h-ts of windowpane (depending on your feel of adventure .._)

    Current Music: "everything you see (is your own)" - Duster
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