12.22.2009

MAMA, I'M COMING HOME

Tomorrow, but in reality, the day after tomorrow, I will be in the USA.
Here is a simulation of what it will be like made from data falling from the sky

12.18.2009

SINGING IN ENGLISH


Stole this from making light

12.17.2009

TO THOSE INVOLVED

My girlfriend and I will be in America on the evening of Dec. 22nd.
Come shake hands with us in person.

12.08.2009

MAYBE U WANT TO LEARN ME BETTER

Hi to you

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. Sweetheart, I sent a kiss on a refreshing wind: the kiss howled across the plaints and flowers; it brushed the underbrush; it stroked the cattails; it kicked up a dust storm; it made the cactus bristle; it teased the lilies; it snuck across the shore and stirred the ocean; and whipped through sails, it picked up the scent of gardenias and honeysuckle; it wrote, “I need you” in the clouds...
and finally it arrived at your door hoping to find you because I
am looking for you

Kisses
Julia S.

(this is an actual spam e-mail I received, but the sentiment was so beautiful I had to share it)

12.04.2009

A LIST OF NOTABLE GHOSTS, AND NOTABLE GHOSTTYPES PART ONE: THE BASIC NEUTRAL GHOSTTYPES

The Basic Neutral (non-scary) Ghosttypes

Tune Ghosts-
These ghosts emit a low frequency song and can be found in between radio stations.

Ghost in a hat-
This ghost is notable for wearing a hat. Sometimes this ghost turns invisible and he just looks like a floating hat. If he lays down and rubs dirt on his hat he can disguise himself as a discarded hat.

Footstep Ghosts-
These ghosts stay out of sight and imitate the sound of footsteps, usually in old houses.
Fun fact: They imitate the sound of footsteps with their hands.

Ghost on a staircase-
This ghost moves slow and thinks slower. This ghost has the ultimate comeback in a verbal fight after he has already gone home, and contrary to his name, spends most of his time sitting on his bed (not the staircase) thinking about his comeback. (from the French)

Rubber Ghosts-
This ghost bounces.

King Ghost-
Once thought to be the king of all ghosts. This ghost is actually just a ghost wearing a crown. It was discovered that there are multiple King Ghosts when a paranormal investigator stumbled into a King Ghost party by accident. Inside multiple King Ghosts were inside drinking and talking. There was no music or dancing, but overstuffed chairs and some pipe smoke.
King Ghosts apparently have a mysterious and complicated social hierarchy. Though it has yet to be determined whether a King Ghost's social standing is judged either by the size or splendor of his crown.
Most King Ghosts' crowns, on closer inspection, are not made out of precious metals but appear to be made out of shiny trash. The foil from cigarette boxes, candy wrappers, shiny buttons, &tc.
The same goes for King Ghosts' mustaches.

Sigh Ghosts-
This ghost is invisible and is usually found laying face-down on the floor sighing.

Celebrity ghosts-
There are two types of celebrity ghosts: Posthumous and Early.
Early celebrity ghosts were famous before death. A perfect example is "the ghost of the Famous Murderer." (for more info see section three, Murder Ghosts) Though the Famous Murderer continued his murdering after his death, his celebrity as a ghost hinged on his recognition as a murderer in the pre-death.
Posthumous celebrity ghosts achieve celebrity after they have become ghosts. The majority of celebrity ghosts fall into this category. The Ghost of The Rocket, The Diner Kitchen Ghost, The Ghost of the Wailing Dumpster, The Ghost of the Missing Continent, Encyclopedia Ghost Junior; all of the most well known celebrity ghosts attained their fame through post-death hauntings and activities.
There is a third, and disputed, type of celebrity ghost. This is the Early Pre-Death Celebrity Ghost. This is a living celebrity whose fall from the public eye has rendered him or her into an apparition. Again this typification as a ghost is hotly debated.

Stain/Freckle/Blot/Smudge ghosts-
This form of ghost appears as a small spot and attaches itself to a host. The host can be a living creature, a machine, an article of clothing, or another ghost. It is parasitic by nature.

Pretender Ghosts-
These are ghosts who simply pretend to be something else, usually inanimate. This ghost, when discovered, will deny that it is a ghost pretending to be, say, a car, or whatever it is pretending to be. If the ghost can be successfully convinced that no one is falling for its act, the ghost will move on.
Pretender ghosts are notorious for their pride. Often pretender ghosts pretend to be a piece of flashy jewelery or the hood ornament on a car. Sometimes a pair of expensive shoes. A factory had to once close its doors when it was discovered most of the machines on its assembly line was a team of pretender ghosts.
There is a subset of Pretender Ghosts, called "Pretender-to-the-crown-ghosts" which live on top of the heads of King Ghosts.

Lighting Ghosts-
These ghosts turn the lights on and off when no one is around. If the house has a dimmer switch, forget about it, these motherfuckers go to town.

Furniture Ghosts-
These ghosts appear under their shrouds to have the shapes of simple and unfinished pieces of furniture.

Ghost in a Box-
Above all else this ghost does not want to be found so it hides in a box. Or it hides in a smaller box inside a bigger box. As a defense instinct, Ghosts in a box label their own boxes with words that are either boring or unappealing, in hopes no one will want to open their box and look inside.
In this way Ghosts in a box must think long and hard about how to label their boxes. So they might write something mundane like "paperclips". But there is always the danger that someone might be out looking for paperclips and be so overjoyed by their luck that they immediately open the box, finding the ghost who does not want to be found. If the ghost writes something unappealing like "medical waste" or "dead animals inside" on their box there is the danger that someone will want to open the box and photograph the contents, or worse, send their box to the municipal dump where it will be mashed up with the other refuse into an uncomfortable cube.
This is why many times Ghosts in a Box are found before they have even entered their box, standing outside of it, their faces screwed up in consternation, their hesitating hands holding a magic marker.

One-Ring-Phone Ghosts-
These ghosts sit on the floor with the phone calling numbers at random and hanging up after one ring. Are they too shy to talk? Who are they trying to reach?
These questions have never been answered because no one wants to disturb these ghosts while they are on the phone, which they always are.

Bus Ghosts-
These ghosts ride the bus and never get off. When the bus returns to the depot at night these ghosts are nowhere to be found.

Dead Wrong Teens Booty Shaking On People's Graves All In The Cemetary!

12.02.2009

12.01.2009

YOUTUBE HOLDING PATTERN OVER THE UNCANNY VALLEY AND THE PLANE IS ON FIRE AND THE CARGO DECK IS FULL OF LATEX FACES

Goddamnit, I've found a horrifying pocket of the youtubiverse.
Don't watch these videos if you don't want your skin to crawl.




Uncanny Valley vs. Transvestites

11.27.2009

ALLY MCBEAL/JON BON JOVI BUTT-SNIFFING

So I just got off the phone with my brother, and he was telling me about how he has been teaching in this new building which has men and womens bathrooms on alternating floors. He ended up bumping into one of his students as he was leaving the men's room and they started up a conversation. There was a flush and a girl came out of one of the stalls and started talking to my brother and his student, and my brother was shocked that a girl was using the men's room. Apparently she didn't feel like going all the way upstairs or something. And my brother said it was a strange situation. A girl in the men's room.
And this reminded me of something. When I first came to Japan I would end up in conversations where girls would be asking me if it was really normal to have co-ed bathrooms in American office buildings. More than once. More than a few times I was asked this and it was pretty confusing.
It turned out that this was a major setting in the television show "Ally Mcbeal". There was a co-ed bathroom where the male and female characters would hang out together and talk. And this must have had some penetration into the consciousness of all these Japanese girls who watched that show. (In a similar but different way, I am constantly asked if it is normal in America for people to sit with their shoes on, in or on top of their bed. Of course it isn't. But I guess it happens a lot on American TV shows and movies. And in this country people leave their shoes at the door so I guess it is doubly horrifying to see someone sitting on a bed resting their shoes on the covers).
The thing is, I had never really watched Ally Mcbeal at all until a few years ago. The first time I really watched Ally Mcbeal was in Japan, dubbed in Japanese. My girlfriend of the time bought all of the seasons for cheap from a video store that was going out of business. And I would watch episodes of Ally Mcbeal with my ex, her little sister, and her roommate. They were hooked and watched multiple episodes every day.
I don't know if you have ever watched Ally Mcbeal. I have watched huge chunks of Ally Mcbeal. Not by choice. Ally Mcbeal makes no sense. Everything the characters say and do, all of their desires, hopes, and dreams are entirely unlike any actual person who has ever lived or died. They work in a law firm which has a co-ed toilet that they hang out in and talk about love and their biological clocks and flirt in a hollywood baroque robot manner. They hang out at a bar that is lit like a porno-scene where some women plays a piano and sings lite fm. Sometimes the songs directly relate to what has happened in the episode, sometimes the characters sing on stage. The artifice of Ally Mcbeal would be insulting if it wasn't completely baffling. This compounded by the fact that I was watching it with three girls who kept turning to me and asking "Is America really like this?"
The people on TV do shit, say shit, wear clothing, and end up in situations completely unlike our lives and what we know. Mike has double-booked with two dates to the prom and his best friend's name is Boner. There is a little girl with three daddies who looks like a troll and talks like a retard but every line she says illicits cooing or uproarious laughter from the studio audience. Kimmie Gibbler and Urkel are your neighbors and walk into your house uninvited, also, they exist. The boys have a frat party in the Hollywood hills and there is a fire raging across California; Donna Martin gets caught in the fire with a baby deer and waits to be rescued, eventually she is, and the deer reunites with its family. Family Doubledare and Michael Knight's chest hair. Melrose Place. Mr. Drummond. The Real World Road Rules Challenge and the romance that ensues. Night Court. Cosby Show sweaters and earrings and every character on Friends. Daytime advertisements for adjustible beds.
The point I am trying to make is that the majority of TV has never made sense to me, nor has it ever even seemed to me that it is supposed to be in anyway representative of the world that I live in. And for some reason Ally Mcbeal is even worse. It's not that it was "over the top", "edgy" or "stylized" (perhaps that was its intention), just that there was not one single character, emotion, or situation I could even relate to on a basic human level. In every soap-operatic instance of love, desire, sex, jealousy, etc. every character is a deranged mannequin doing and saying things that basically make no sense.
So I started telling my brother about the co-ed bathroom thing in Ally Mcbeal and how I am frequently asked if this is the norm in America, and how I have basically only ever seen Ally Mcbeal dubbed in Japanese. My brother has never seen the show and I started describing to him how strange and unattractive all the characters are, and how they do and say things that no one would ever do. While trying to describe this I remembered one of the strangest things I had seen on that show.
Specifically a scene in which Ally Mcbeal sniffs Jon Bon Jovi's ass.
I don't really remember the set up. Ally Mcbeal and one of her friends are walking down the street having a conversation in neo-nineties Cathy Guisewite language, when they see a bunch of construction workers. These construction workers are all attractive hunks of young men, the way most construction workers aren't, and one of them is Jon Bon Jovi looking like no one, including Jon Bon Jovi, should look. I wish I could remember what the fuck the rationale or the set up for this was, but Ally Mcbeal's friend describes how you just want to sniff a hot construction worker's ass like a dog would. Then Ally Mcbeal is chided by her friend into sniffing Bon Jovi's ass, and is caught by Bon Jovi in that embarrassing situation that I'm sure no one can relate to. Also Ally Mcbeal looks like a ninety-pound seahorse caucasoid lemur woman. Also she later meets up with Bon Jovi and embarrassedly apologizes for sniffing his ass and they end up dating after that awkward first meeting.
So there I was watching this in Japanese with three Japanese girls who keep asking me if all of the insane bullshit happening on this TV show is the norm in America and they don't believe me when I deny it.
Look. I like butts. I'll sniff a girl's butt. I love that. If I had to choose, I would choose an ass over any body part as a point of desire. But, if you had to sniff a stranger's ass on the street, I would guarantee that a construction worker on the job would have the foulest ass. Is this supposed to be cute? Is this supposed to be a subversion of cultural sexual mores to have Ally Mcbeal sniffing a strange man's ass on the street?
And as I am describing this bizarre butt-sniffing scene to my brother on the phone tonight I still can't believe it, to the point that I feel like I must be remembering it wrong. Like when you have memories from early childhood that are mixed up with dreams. IE "Oh like the time I was four and my stuffed animals started levitating, or maybe that was a dream I had when I was four." As I was describing the Bon Jovi ass sniffing scene to my brother I started doubting whether it was real. So I googled "Ally Mcbeal Bon Jovi Ass Butt Sniffing" and sifted through the internet.
Yes it is real. Salon, Oct. 7 2002:
(Bon Jovi) found himself filled with pity for the "Ally McBeal" star during his stint on her show.

"I never met this kid before, and on the first day, our first scene together she has to sniff my rear end. I'm bent over and she has to sniff my butt like a dog," he recalls. "I thought this is a tough gig, nice to meet ya."

Fuck you television. Fuck you internet. Happy Thanksgiving.

11.26.2009

2010: ANNIVERSARY


It's 2010 and you know what that means!
5 year anniversary of our Pokemon camping trip!
Also apparently Pavement is touring and I am going to
see them in April.

What the fuck!

GIMME THAT CHRISTIAN SIDE HUG, THAT CHRISTIAN SIDE HUG


Pretty sure this is serious.
And horrible.
Let me cleanse your pallette with this superior rap about bikes:

11.19.2009

THE LAST WORDS OF DUTCH SCHULTZ

Has it been in any other papers? George, don't make no full moves. What have you done with him? Oh, mama, mama, mama. Oh stop it, stop it; eh, oh, oh. Sure, sure, mama.
Now listen, Phil, fun is fun. Ah please, papa. What happened to the sixteen? Oh, oh, he done it, please. John, please, oh, did you buy the hotel? You promised a million sure. Get out. I wished I knew.
Please make it quick, fast and furious. Please. Fast and furious. Please help me get out; I am getting my wind back, thank God. Please, please, oh please. You will have to please tell him, you got no case.
You get ahead with the dot dash system didn't I speak that time last night. Whose number is that in your pocket book, Phi1 13780. Who was it? Oh- please, please. Reserve decision. Police, police, Henry and Frankie. Oh, oh, dog biscuits and when he is happy he doesn't get happy please, please to do this. Then Henry, Henry, Frankie you didn't even meet me. The glove will fit what I say oh, Kayiyi, oh Kayiyi. Sure who cares when you are through? How do you know this? How do you know this? Well, then oh, Cocoa know thinks he is a grandpa again. He is jumping around. No Hobo and Poboe I think he means the same thing.
...
Will you help me up? O.K. I won't be such a big creep. Oh, mama. I can't go through with it, please. Oh, and then he clips me; come on. Cut that out, we don't owe a nickel; hold it; instead, hold it against him; I am a pretty good pretzler -Winifred- Department of Justice. I even got it from the department. Sir, please stop it. Say listen the last night!
...

Q.- Do you know who this big fellow was?

A.- No. If he wanted to break the ring no, please I get a month. They did it. Come on. (A name, not clear) cut me off and says you are not to be the beneficiary of this will. Is that right? I will be checked and double-checked and please pull for me. Will you pull? How many good ones and how many bad ones? Please I had nothing with him he was a cowboy in one of the seven days a week fight. No business; no hangout; no friends; nothing; just what you pick up and what you need. I don't know who shot me. Don't put anyone near this check~ you might have -please do it for me. Let me get up. heh? In the olden days they waited and they waited. Please give me a shot. It is from the factory. Sure, that is a bad. Well, oh good ahead that happens for trying. I don't want harmony. I want harmony. Oh, mamma, mamma! Who give it to him? Who give it to him? Let me in the district -fire-factory that he was nowhere near. It smoldered No, no. There are only ten of us and there ten million fighting somewhere of you, so get your onions up and we will throw up the truce flag. Oh, please let me up. Please shift me. Police are here. Communistic...strike...baloney...honestly this is a habit I get; sometimes I give it and sometimes I don't. Oh, I am all in. That settles it. Are you sure? Please let me get in and eat. Let him harass himself to you and then bother you. Please don't ask me to go there. I don't want to. I still don't want him in the path. It is no use to stage a riot. The sidewalk was in trouble and the bears were in trouble and I broke it up. Please put me in that room. Please keep him in control. My gilt edged stuff and those dirty rats have tuned in. Please mother, don't tear, don't rip; that is something that shouldn't be spoken about. Please get me up, my friends. Please, look out. The shooting is a bit wild, and that kind of shooting saved a man's life. No payrolls. No wells. No coupons. That would be entirely out. Pardon me, I forgot I am plaintiff and not defendant. Look out. Look out for him. Please. He owed me money; he owes everyone money. Why can't he just pullout and give me control? Please, mother, you pick me up now. Please, you know me. No. Don't you scare me. My friends and I think I do a better job. Police are looking for you allover. Be instrumental in letting us know. They are English-men and they are a type I don't know who is best, they or us. Oh, sir, get the doll a roofing. You can play jacks and girls do that with a soft ball and do tricks with it. I take all events into consideration. No. No. And it is no. It is confused and its says no. A boy has never wept nor dashed a thousand kim. Did you hear me?

Q. (By Detective) - Who shot you?

A.- I don't know.

Q.- How many shots were fired?

A.- I don't know.

Q.- How many?

A.- Two thousand. Come one, get some money in that treasury. We need it. Come on, please get it. I can't tell you to. That is not what you have in the book. Oh, please warden. What am I going to do for money? Please put me up on my feet at once. You are a hard boiled man. Did you hear me? I would hear it, the Circuit Court would hear it, and the Supreme Court might hear it. If that ain't the pay-off. Please crack down on the Chinaman's friends and Hitler's commander. I am sore and I am going up and I am going to give you honey if I can. Mother is the best bet and don't let Satan draw you too fast.
...
- That is what caused the trouble. Look out. Please let me up. If you do this, you can go on and jump right here in the lake. I know who they are. They are French people. All right. Look out, look out. Oh, my memory is gone. A work relief police. Who gets it? I don't know and I don't want to know, but look out. It can be traced. He changed for the worse. Please look out; my fortunes have changed and come back and went back since that. It was desperate. I am wobbly. You ain't got nothing on him but you got it on his helper.
...
I don't know. I didn't even get a look. I don't know who can have done it. Anybody. Kindly take my shoes off. (He was told that they were off.) No. There is a handcuff on them. The Baron says these things. I know what I am doing here with my collection of papers. It isn't worth a nickel to two guys like you or me but to a collector it is worth a fortune. It is priceless. I am going to turn it over to... Turn you back to me, please Henry. I am so sick now. The police are getting many complaints. Look out. I want that G-note. Look out for Jimmy Valentine for he is an old pal of mine. Come on, come on, Jim. Ok, ok, I am all through. Can't do another thing. Look out mamma, look out for her. You can't beat him. Police, mamma, Helen, mother, please take me out. I will settle the indictment. Come on, open the soap duckets. The chimney sweeps. Talk to the sword. Shut up, you got a big mouth! Please help me up, Henry. Max, come over here. French-Canadian bean soup. I want to pay. Let them leave me alone.


(edited out cross talk with detectives. Schultz died two hours later at 6:40pm, Oct.23 1935)

(Donald Barthelme has nothing on this)

11.16.2009

FIELD INTELLIGENCE FILE 227: WHO OR WHY IS XUXA?

INTELLIGENCE FIELD REPORT: 21.11.16 (LONG FORM BLOG POST ABOUT THE MYSTERIES OF OUR WORLD, XUXA EDITION)
I: Some Background Information:


Anyone interested can look up Xuxa and find that her Wikipedia page is an academic battlefield, where, I am sure, only love can bloom, to wit:
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Gentlemen, what is XUXA? In the interest of time I quote liberally from Wikipedia:

Xuxa (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʃuʃɐ]), Maria da Graça "Xuxa" Meneghel, March 27, 1963, Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) is a Brazilian Grammy Award Winner, television actress, singer and children's television show host. Her various shows have been broadcast in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. Xuxa is of German, Austrian, Italian, and Polish descent. Her achievements include the second best-selling album in the history of Brazil and being the singer with the second highest total of number-one hits by a female in the Brazilian charts, surpassed only by Daniela Mercury. Xuxa has some of the biggest box office results in Brazilian history and has amassed a fortune of over $470 million. ... Xou da Xuxa is probably the most famous children's show in Brazil and Latin America. ... Xuxa presented cartoons and games, did interviews and performed some of her songs. ... The audience of the show was of kids who jumped up and down during the whole show. Kids shook pompoms throughout the show, marking the trademarks of the show. But the biggest trademark was the pink spaceship. Every show began with Xuxa getting out of the spaceship and at the end, she would go back to the spaceship (it remains so even today). Every year she released a new album for children. 1988's Xou da Xuxa 3 with her biggest hit 'Ilariê' (#1 in the radio in almost every Latin America country)... Xou da Xuxa ended in 1993 due to Xuxa's desire to invest more time in her international career, which included Spanish and English versions of Xou da Xuxa as well as various shows in the U.S. and Europe. During that year, she developed health problems attributed to stress; a typical week consisted of seven hours of taping for a month's worth of shows coupled with flying to Argentina where the Spanish version was taped.

To make things more complicated, comes this description of Xuxa's "Pink Spaceship" from an unregistered source:

...There the hand of Xuxa came upon me. As I looked, a stormwind came from the North, a huge cloud with flashing fire (enveloped in brightness), from the midst of which (the midst of the fire) something gleamed like electrum.
Within it were figures resembling four living creatures that looked like this: their form was human, but each had four faces and four wings, and their legs went straight down; the soles of their feet were round. They sparkled with a gleam like burnished bronze.
Their faces were like this: each of the four had the face of a man, but on the right side was the face of a lion, and on the left side the face of an ox, and finally each had the face of an eagle.
Their faces (and their wings) looked out on all their four sides; they did not turn when they moved, but each went straight forward... Human hands were under their wings, and the wings of one touched those of another...
Fuck it, the description just gets harder and harder to figure out.
The point being that this shit is crazy. She's the host of a show aimed at children, yet there is something undeniably erotic about her. And not in that typical mother/whore bullshit, something heroically erotic, something strangely chaste, in a room full of kids, she is dressed like the captain of a luxury liner with giant shoulder pads, the whiteness of her teeth shining and momentarily alighting on the faces of the elect.
It is undeniable that there is a light which comes forth from Xuxa. A light not unlike the light which followed the savage genesis of our world; in which our ancestors awakened, temporarily blind, yawning, and totally down to fuck. And also down to build stuff and start naming things.
II: File Footage
Throughout history (though mainly in the late 1980s) Xuxa has appeared to us as a historical and powerful force. (see: this file footage)
Here is a basic rundown for those without the time or patience to watch the above. Xuxa appears in a nameless ghetto. There is nothing but children here, their parents apparently either operating or being operated on in the bone factories of the third world. Here the children subsist on hard breads, dry white crackers, and graffiti. They wear the primary colors of creeds and politics foisted on them from birth, the consequences of history. And these little motherfuckers are at each other's throats!
But Xuxa appears, seemingly out of nowhere, like a comet. She is riding a dope bike, a machine separate from Xuxa but an aspect of herself made into utility, as in the Kaballah where YHVH being everywhere and therefore incapable of action works through the divine will. The dopeness of Xuxa's bike being an emanation of the dopeness of her body.

Riding along with Xuxa in the back basket of her white bike is the pile of a Rag Dog, an emissary of death, as reflected in the lower biological realities and eventualities of corruption and loss. But as he has been tamed by Xuxa he is a coeval and a celebrant. His posture is begrudging, but nonetheless he is a participant in the fun. He is age and resentment in the rehabilitation of Xuxa's love. But his presence in the ensuing ceremony is necessary. For without the shadow of the ragdoll, the soft and furry memento mori, Xuxa's work would resemble one of those pastoral scenes frozen onto an opulent parlor wall behind wigged and ribboned figures exchanging gifts while the world outside consisted of teeth and fire.
"Et in Arcadia ego"

To return to the action at hand:
With a honk of her horn Xuxa makes her presence known.
The children halt their attempted honor killings and look up. She looks on their violence and wags an admonishing finger in front of her brilliant smile. From her basket she produces not treasure or sustenance, but paintbrushes. She is giving these children the gift of the creative impulsive, the pre-erotic and transformative aspect new to their youth, until now only expressed in destruction. She beckons the children to follow on their bikes and on foot, among them one in a denim jacket hangs back.
They follow her through a gas station (this image too obvious to explore, but in brief: the fulfillment and refillment, the transformation of the skeletons and scales of ancient giants, long dead, into the fuel of the living. History coupled in the meeting of ancient monsters and the will of man, the erotic act, etc.) Against a wall soiled by the inarticulate claws of the desparate (see Li Ho: "Witness the man who raved at the wall as he wrote his questions to Heaven.") the children use their new brushes to cover the graffiti. A dancing Xuxa reveals to them paints provided by the Rag Dog, the colors as sublimations of the myriad expressions of nature, simplified for their violence addled and hungry hearts. There is dancing and the consumption of sodas. Kids do hype BMX tricks in anticipation of romance and explosions of emotion waiting in their adult lives. The Rag Dog barks and smiles on the body as a celebration.
Xuxa embraces the Rag Dog, behind her the paint is drying in the shape of a heart. This is love because of, or despite, the temporary nature of our lives and bodies. Death is not feared and excluded, but invited, and therefore provides. The rainbow which is painted across Xuxa's dope titties hides the heart which is shown to all, as a sign of hope, on the dirty wall. The children paint this rainbow over the dirty scrawl. The Rag Dog connects each member of the ceremony with a painted red line on the ground. His brush sweeps over their shoes, even Xuxa's glowing white pumps. This red line is the biological interiority of man.
The young man in the denim jacket who has until now held back from the celebration is now entering the ceremony. But his attention is not on colors redecorating the profane wall, but on Xuxa's bike. He mounts it and pantomimes that he is revving the engine. This is not unlike the kabbalists who believed they could harness the creative force of god by knowing his true name and therefore harness the divine will. But the young man with the denim jacket is acting out an unknowing immature coupling with Xuxa. The young man's immature actions show the inarticulate desire to become one with Xuxa if not only temporarily. His precociousness speaks of greater things. This is the birth of a poet.

III: Other Sources
This close reading of the above file footage hopefully illustrates the mysterious powers and presence of Xuxa. My field intelligence work has lead me to many other stories of Xuxa's interventions in our world. Sadly none of these interventions were captured on film so I will provide accounts from interviews with witnesses and mediums (names withheld).

1. Xuxa, using her Nazi heritage as a disguise, insinuates herself into a gathering of vile and loathsome entities holding a costume ball in a destroyed mansion. Sneaking in passed the grieving, the sick, and the dead to the main table where the cloaked monsters sharpen their teeth and scrape their claws across maps of the world, Xuxa joins the gathering. When the monsters finish giving their speeches of numbers and wounds Xuxa pulls off her cloak to reveal her ivory marching band costume. As the screeches of carrion eaters and bureaucrat fills the mansion Xuxa jumps onto the table, her white boots stomping on their black meals. She lifts up her white skirt revealing a blinding light which destroys the boogeymen. All that is left is a pile of burnt receipts. She walks hand and hand with the survivors out of the wreckage to her pink spaceship parked under a rainbow.

2. Xuxa pilots her spaceship to an ancient forest where a unicorn is killing virgins. The unicorn has been stabbing young women in the forest, possibly raping them, shitting everywhere, and generally being an asshole. Hunters have been sent out to find the unicorn, but have found too many other things to kill in the bountiful forest and have returned home with pelts and meat but no unicorn. They shrug as they eat whole legs of deer and rabbits.
Xuxa dons the white shorts of a virgin and waits under a blossoming tree. When the unicorn appears covered in blood and briars Xuxa bares her sex to entice it. The unicorn is enticed and approaches Xuxa. She slips her legs around the unicorn's head and slips the horn inside of her. She then fucks the unicorn's head until it dies. With the money Xuxa made from donating the unicorn's horn and body to science, Xuxa can buy prosthetic limbs for orphans within a two thousand mile radius of the forest.

3. There was once an evil king who collected all kinds of automatons and clockwork curios. He imposed hateful taxes which bankrupted the citizenry so that amongst the lower classes the national dress became barrels and the national currency became sawdust. The king's palace was filled with golden machines imitating sunrises and songbirds. The king walked through the gardens giving complicated orders to his artisans to build a faithful recreation of the heavens out of golden gears.
Xuxa tied a bow around her pink spaceship and flew it to gates of the castle. The king's clockwork butlers mistook the spaceship for a gift, another machine sent from foreign dignitaries and well wishers, and brought the spaceship to the king, and placed it amongst the golden machines.
The king rubbed his hands together in anticipation of the gift. Xuxa emerged from the spaceship dressed as a ballerina, her skin and clothing painted in a glowing gold.
The spaceship played a beautiful tune, imitating a musicbox. Xuxa spun on one leg in a pirouette and the king immediately fell in love with her.
As the king stepped forward to embrace her Xuxa smiled a brilliant white smile which burned the king to a crisp and fillled the whole castle with light. The golden machines melted from the heat.
Rivers of molten gold rolled out of the windows and doors of the castle and the citizenry rejoiced.

4. The boy with the denim jacket was a slave of the king Jehoaichin and walked in procession with the other slaves on the banks of the Chebar in the land of the Chaldeans.
Xuxa's pink spaceship appeared to him from the heavens, and the boy looked upon its terrifying aspects. Xuxa took a burning hot coal from within the depths of the spaceship and placed it into the boy's mouth. The boy from that day forth could speak nothing but the truth and eventually went to the valley of the rusted cars, where, with his new powers he raised the dead.

But there are also sources which speak of Xuxa as having maleficent and evil aspects. These accounts speak of Xuxa using her powers for ends which seem strange when held in comparison to her more popular deeds.

1. There was a factory with no doors but only windows where children were forced to work at conveyor belts assembling horrible things which snarled and clawed at them. They worked until they dropped dead of exhaustion. Their only "lunch break" was on every other tuesday when they lined up at the factory's windows to see Xuxa arrive outside on her motorbike.
Xuxa would pull up to the factory on her white motorbike and recline on it, eating souvlaki from a paper dish. While she reclined and ate, the juice from the paper tray splashed all over white tank top and her bare legs. When she had finished eating she stood up, pulled on the elastic on her white shorts, and poured the remaining souvlaki juice down the front of her pants.
The children watched in silence while their stomachs growled with hunger. As the whistle blew signaling the end of the break, Xuxa got back on her bike and drove away.

2. There was a fancy dress party held in the great white hall. Men and women from many nations appeared in their finery to dance and feast.
When dinner was served and all attendees sat down to the table they found all of the glasses and utensils missing.
Xuxa appeared laughing, dressed like a storm, and lined all of the guests against the walls of the dining room.
She walked down the line of the guests, insulting and berating them, tearing their clothes, eating their food in front of them, punching and kicking them, doing insulting imitations of them to their face, drawing rude pictures of their children and parents in front of them, blowing smoke in their faces, giving them haircuts, spitting on them, throwing money at them, screaming at them in a nonsense language, stealing their pocket money, and so on in that fashion.
When she finished her circle around the room she jumped into her pink spaceship which had until then been disguised as a giant pink roast on the table. She flew away crashing through the ceiling of the white hall, destroying the chandeliers and the lode bearing walls.
After Xuxa had left all of the guests went home without speaking. Later they sent letters back and forth discussing the incident, but would not talk about it in person.
The white hall collapsed, and where it once stood, nothing will grow.

3. Xuxa appeared before two women who were condemned to death. They were waiting in the courtyard of the jail awaiting their execution. The sun was just beginning to rise and the women hugged themselves against the cold. Xuxa appeared in a swirl of white fire.
The women thought Xuxa had come to save them and fell to their knees thanking her. Xuxa instead stuck a bunch of pushpins into their foreheads, laughed, and disappeared.


What is to be made of these conflicting accounts?

Are the negative accounts libellous attacks by shallow enemies?

Are the stories of her good deeds merely a clever advertising campaign?

It is hard to tell from current data but it is my opinion that if either of the accounts of Xuxa's either naughty or nice actions are true, then both sides have to be true.

With all of this field work I still do not know the answer to the most important question:
WHO OR WHY IS XUXA?

written but not proofread
Sextidi, 26 Brumaire CCXVIII


11.11.2009

WHAT

So I got an email from my ex-girlfriend and she has a new last name because she got married..?
I'm not sure why but this makes me want to go out into the street and start punching myself and others.

Addendum:

I was immediately hit with this

"I own a little city
Awful pretty
Can’t help people
Can hurt them though
Shoot their dogs
Mess ‘em up
Be imaginative
Plant trees
Best to leave ‘em alone?
Who decides?
Sam’s wife is Sam’s wife and coveting is not nice."
Which is from Donald Barthelme's short story "I bought a little city".
The last time I read that story (September?), when I read these lines I thought about my ex, and a time when I was waiting for her in Ikebukuro station, by the smoking section, reading the above lines. Strange how things get tied in like that. The circuit of my being is flooded with nostalgia.

Eh.

I broke up with her anyway.

11.06.2009

MY UMBRELLAS (SAID TO THE RHYTHM OF "MY ADIDAS")

Current status: Listening to DJ Jimi "Sumt' In Missing"

I'm not sure if I have blogged™ about this yet:
I made 3 umbrella designs for AND A Tokyo. Apparently they are selling well.
The pink one seems to be selling well, so they tell me, which is kind of disappointing because it is the design I like the least. But to quote the bard: "girls buy pink things, crackhead buy crack/And a white man get paid off of all of that."
Seriously, when I was making the rough designs the editor said "Could you make this design a little more girl-friendly?"
And I said "How should I do that?"
And she said "I don't know, add pictures of cake or something?"
So I added some jewels and flowers and called it a day.

Also a general hello to everyone.
this is a blog™ so I should tell everyone how I am doing:
STATUS: Stomach Flu(?)
I'm going to be self-indulgent and self-important enough on the internet to tell you all about this: I have a fever, but not only that...
Diarrhea. My Diarrhea. It's painful and I keep doing it, like I can't stop.
Also the only thing in the bathroom is this:
I keep forgetting to bring a different book so I have been sitting on the toilet reading comic versions of chinese horror stories. Some highlights? Man gets lost in the mountains and joins a tribe of hairy people who live in giant nests in trees and becomes one of them after accidentally have sex with a female, later the hairy people form into a giant yeti to fight of invaders. Chinese sorceror fights aborted fetus haunting a horse's stomach. Rich old woman puts head inside an earthenware pot to become young with hilarious accursed results. I'm not sure whether it is the just the fever or this comic which is destroying my mind. Also there is a scene where a child enchants a table to become a pegasus and flies around on it, accompanied by a captured convict depicted as a bearded man's head sticking out of a jug. What the fuck.

So in closing,
Buy my umbrellas (sorry actually I don't think they sell outside of Japan)
Read my blog™ for more details on what is coming out of me.

Also comment on my blog. The only person who does is N. Jewelick.

MOTHER

Allow me to repost an email I received from my friend J.C., who is teaching English in rural Japan:

one of my students just turned in a worksheet about mother theresa where he says, quote, she has a nice bod

(posted without permission)

10.17.2009

ATTENTION: AMERICAN PUBLIC DISCOURSE COLOR CODED WARNING SYSTEM MOVED FROM "APOPLECTIC" TO "HALLUCINATORY"

WHY IS THIS MAN CRYING?
I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE FUCK ANYMORE,
Somebody explain this to me:

1. Glenn Beck shows us a Coke and a Kodak advertisement as proof of a magic America which once existed, but sadly, has been taken away from us. Or is some kind of paradise lost(?).
2. Wrangles with an overwrought second-person metaphor about how we have been doe-eyed innocents at a bad kid party where there is some experimenting with drugs and alcohol.
Mom and Dad are going to be mad.
3. This leads into a tough love conversation with ficto-mommy about how we will be "financially grounded" and will lead to us having to stay in on metaphorical Saturday night.
4. Beck talks about the future and our children and is overcome with tears.
5. We will tell our children that we "hated the things we did at the time"(tears). At this point I have lost the narrative thread of the metaphor. Are we crying to our future children about the bad party we went to where we weren't even indulging in the debauchery? Or we hated the things our dad made us do? "And Dad was right"?

The metaphorical trainwreck he is driving home amounts to: the current financial meltdown was some delinquent party, bad things were done, now we are to be grounded, and though we were not involved in the the bad stuff that went down, we shall take our punishment, and tell our children proudly. Or that the bad teenagers at the party are the current Marxists in the white house? Or both? I don't know
Who can parse this shit?
Honestly I watched this clip again and I don't even know what the fuck.

The thing which frightens me the most is that this passes for discourse in America.
A few posts down is the footage of the 9/12-teabagger rallies, demonstrations staged and directed by Fox news, and Glenn Beck.
Any cursory glance at the signs being held by the protesters shows that they have no idea what they are actually protesting. All of the interviews show the protestors to be inarticulate and ignorant but united in anger. (And I don't say this out of arrogance. See how people in numbers strongly oppose Obama's appointment of "czars". Their logic being that czars are Russian kings. From that logical leap "Czar = Russian = communism = Obama"(!)(?) Motherfuckers can't google "czar"?)
What alarms me is the fact that Beck has political clout, considering, that what comes out of his mouth is an unadulterated stream of nonsense.
O'reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, et al have their share of nonsense but I can follow their tactics and twistings of facts.
False equivalency, strawman tactics, appeal to xenophobia and a false nationalistic neo-rockwell (via Reagan) vision of America. It is antithesis of everything I believe is good about America, but I understand how they do it. The bible thumping, the race baiting, these are standard boilerplate in stirring people up to support wars and politicians, to vote against their own political, social, and economic interests.
When I hear that shit, I hate it, because I understand it for exactly what it is.

But what alarms me is that Beck is capable of doing this while spewing stream of consciousness hallucinations.

Beck mobilized poor people without health care to march against health care on 9/12.
Is there an aspect to his paranoid-delusional maudlin delivery that I just don't understand?

Many commentators on the left say that what is mobilizing these people is some country-time down-home racism, which due to current social mores can't be vocalized in the same way it once could. Is it that simple?

I don't even know anymore.

10.06.2009

SEDUCTION COMMUNITY ROLL CALL

Savoy

The Program Leader of all of Love Systems, Savoy is one of the most sought-after instructors of all time; he ONLY teaches exclusively at the Love Systems Super Conference. Savoy is the author of Magic Bullets, the gold standard how-to manual on attracting and dating beautiful women. An expert on attraction and female psychology, Savoy has appeared on the Dr. Phil Show ("You are giving men the tools to meet women."), the Tyra Banks Show ("Guys need what you teach."), Fox News and more.

"Savoy... you LITERALLY changed my life. You didn't just tell me - you showed me. Damn it, you're the man."
- B.W., Spokane, WA

The Don

The Don is one of Love Systems' most experienced instructors. He focuses on only the highest quality women, using a combination of intelligence, humor and strategy. When teaching, he focuses on imparting to students external tactics to generate attraction and internal ways to reshape their beliefs regarding what they are capable of with women. The Don believes firmly that success with women is a teachable skill and he prides himself on being able to demonstrate and communicate Love Systems methods to help men transform their lives. He's probably best known for his revolutionary Routines Manuals as well as his media appearances on the Dr. Phil Show and WGN News.

"The Don is the most natural of all the instructors, an alpha male with great bantering and role-playing skills. Every question he had an answer for, and he was especially knowledgeable about relationship management."
- Mr. M



Tenmagnet

Tenmagnet is an acknowledged master of pickup and seduction. Famous for his irreverent sense of humor and remarkable creativity, he has mastered the art of talking to any girl about anything. Tenmagnet has shared his breakthroughs on many Love Systems Interview Series Volumes, and continues to teach bootcamps across North America and beyond. His excellent teaching skills have led to thousands of men improving their skills and lives, including former bootcamp student and now fellow Love Systems instructor Cajun.

"Tenmagnet is da man! That dude KNOWS how to play this game forwards and backwards."
- Jason



Braddock

Braddock is one of the most popular dating science instructors in the industry. From dating Ms. Hooters to picking up a woman on the Maxim top 100, Braddock has run the full gauntlet, consistently dates some of the hottest women in the world. He's expanded the universe of Love Systems by teaching both the Social Circle Mastery Seminar and the Inner Game Seminar (both of which he co-founded with Mr. M), and the Strippers and Hired Guns Seminar (and he'll be teaching all three of these at this year's Super Conference!). Braddock has also helped spread the word by appearing with Savoy on the Tyra Banks Show!

"Braddock is a true Master Pick Up Artist, meaning he can teach as well as he games. His in-field demos were amazing; this is stuff you will never learn from an e-book!"
- D.B.



Mr. M

Mr. M is a 5'2 Asian guy who seduces Playboy Playmates. Seriously. It's no surprise that he was ranked in the Top 10 Pick Up Artists in the World by TSB Magazine and is one of the most sought after PUAs in the dating industry. Mr. M knows how seduction changes across cultures, and has taught all around the world. Beyond bootcamps, he regularly teaches Inner Game and Social Circle Mastery Seminars (available at the Super Conference!), both of which he co-founded with Braddock. Mr. M also founded the most comprehensive dating course in history - Project Rockstar.

"Mr. M accomplished something absolutely amazing during the course of the bootcamp. MR. M SUCCESSFULLY PICKED UP AN ACTUAL PLAYBOY MODEL and SPENT THE NIGHT IN HER HOTEL ROOM."
- Kisser



Soul

Soul concentrates on building an inspirational lifestyle on all fronts. The World's #1 Expert in Day Game (meeting women outside of bars and clubs), he regularly picks up beautiful women on the streets and in shopping malls, and has, in fact, met all the most beautiful women he has dated in daytime interactions. An experienced speaker and teacher, Soul enjoys sharing what he's learned with students to help them travel down their own path toward a rich lifestyle incorporating Love Systems and success with women. Don't miss out on studying with Soul, who was voted Best Instructor at Love Systems' 2008 Super Conference!

"Soul is an incredible teacher. He has mastered the art of day game. I highly recommend any opportunity a person can get to work with Soul."
- T.A.



Cajun

Applying his own style to Love Systems, Cajun rarely uses routines. Employing a more natural approach, he focuses on body language, tonality and what he calls "subtext" to create attraction. Known for his sharp wit, rock solid confidence and ability to attract women of any age, he has had amazing success. Cajun famously appeared on the hit show Keys to the VIP which involves two contestants who are self proclaimed "players" battling it out in the club for bragging rights. At 5'4 and called "100 pounds when wet," Cajun not only mopped the floor with the competition, but was declared by the judges as "The pinnacle..." and "The best guy we've seen..." in regards to his ability to attract women.

"Cajun's not as good as people say he is... he's better. Without a doubt this guy is the real deal."
- B.B.



Fader

Fader is a master of Love Systems and has applied its teachings to enrich his life and to give him the choice of women he had always wanted. An instructor par excellence, Fader imparts his love of self-improvement to his students by addressing their inner and outer game issues. His high-energy style and ability to calibrate to students allows him to assess their sticking points quickly and help them not only push past them but learn how to be self-correcting in the future. Fader's bootcamps regularly sell out, and he can always be found assisting the dating science community on The Attraction Forums.

"Fader was in my opinion the best instructor; super high-energy and an awesome teacher!"
- Z.G.



Sheriff

Sheriff is one of Love Systems' most experienced instructors, with great real-world experience as a promoter in London's hottest clubs. An expert on High-End Club Game and what it takes to be an Alpha Male, he can teach you the proper way to approach the most elite women in the most exclusive venues. Sheriff also focuses on relationship management and long-term relationships, making him highly sought-after at all Love Systems Super Conferences.

"Sheriff went out of his way to accommodate and help me get the most out of the bootcamp. Sheriff sets the bar really high."
- T.F.



5.0

Many guys think that Love Systems will enable them to pick up women like rock stars. Well, Love Systems even trains rock stars! Up and coming expert instructor 5.0 recently appeared on "Beat Stevie" to teach the Streets' front man Mike Skinner how to approach and attract women! 5.0 is another Love Systems master of high-end club game and the direct approach.

"5.0 was always there to help and advise and was fantastic!"
- P.C.


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10.02.2009

HELLO, THIS IS YOUR COUNTRY



favorite quote:
"and you know this...how?"

8.16.2009

DANCING CHILD WITH HIS CHINESE SUIT

He has sold albums by the million and was the idol of the 1960s protest movement. But yesterday Bob Dylan discovered what it's like to be just a face in the crowd. Police were called in a quiet seaside town after he was spotted freewheelin' down the street and apparently acting suspiciously. A 22-year-old female officer demanded to see his identification papers.

He assumed she would at least recognise the name if not the face. But she ordered him into the back of her car and took him to his hotel to check his story. Then she radioed her older colleagues at the police station to ask if anyone knew who Bob Dylan was.

8.14.2009

JESUS BELIEVES IN EVOLUTION

"The Gods Are Real,

They Are Violent Aliens!

Wherefore,

Intelligent species probably evolved long before us, therefore,

They may have journeyed here and interfered with the development of life on earth, as science can deduce from patterns of rapid evolution, fossilized abductions, and hybrid species, therefore,

The gods of world religions, may be these aliens, therefore,

They give hidden prophecies about themselves, and secretly influence world events, and they pollute each others revelations with forgeries such as Genesis 1, therefore,

There might never be an Almighty God, as even the holy scriptures attest, therefore,

There is war among these alien gods, according to the law of Survival of the Fittest, therefore,

The alien gods compete for the genetic resources of earth, therefore,

The alien gods have haphazardly and imperfectly influenced the evolution of humanity and other creatures, as Genesis and the lost Biblical book of Enoch attest, therefore,

Because this cosmos is so filled with alien warfare, barbaric cruelties, forgeries, and genetic perversion, the Christian God has revealed to us that this cosmos is a failure, therefore,

Jesus Christ has endeavored to challenge the system, therefore,

Let it hereby be resolved the Jesus believes in evolution, and he hates it."

qed

8.03.2009

MEANWHILE ANARCHISTS FIGHT ANARCHISTS

“Don’t try to fight us, we are not pacifists, we will defend ourselves!”

[a couple of hours of moving bags, being forcibly moved, blockaded, physically and verbally attacked, and yes defending ourselves]

one apocista was pushed down stairs

one was pulled out of the room

one was picked up and taken out of the room

a female bodied persyn was almost punched in the face by a white male when 2 others pulled them back

female bodied persyn grabbed by a tall white man while others yelled get her

a mother of color came in to defend us and pull a poc organizer off one of us

poc organizers forcibly closing door on us, crushing our bodies and heads.

One grabbed a big board that was used to push us out the door.

After quite a bit of time and effort used by folks to get us out of that space, we remained standing.

The cops had approached, a call was made to one of us upstairs to inform us that there was a policeman outside and they were being talked to by a police liaison and the situation was under control. We looked around to see other people of color and a medium sized group of mostly cis white males that were left. While at this point mostly engaging in discussion with other POC and POC organizers some people convinced the remaining stubborn white people to leave, after telling the last white persyn there that they were not welcome in this space, the doors were locked and caucusing began.

After 20 minutes or so, most everyone had expressed their opinion, people were emotional, tired and the discussion ended. We removed ourselves from the space. One APOCista involved in the eviction conferred with a medic to try to regain normal breathing due to an asthma attack that had been taking place over the last 3 hours of the eviction. We all exited, we were greeted by friends, allies, and others that had helped us by participating in the action.

We said our goodbyes, and departed towards a locals house to debrief an discuss the events that had just taken place.

7.31.2009

GENTLEMEN

In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king.

7.23.2009

SUBMITTED FOR YOUR APPROVAL

I will not waste your time with any commentary on this.
Any and all comments are unnecessary.  Also I do not know where to begin.
I know that this video is real, and comes from the same world in which I live, but it is beyond comprehension.


Please watch the full 14 minutes of this.
This is real, and in its way, sincere. I was going to go say something about this but I would rather not.


Also, Ice Cube?
Really?

6.30.2009

"MICHAEL...MICHAEL...MICHAEL..."

I saw a pretty strange spectacle that I feel I have to report on.

So Michael Jackson died.
I heard about it late. I hadn't heard about it until late Friday afternoon when I saw the news playing on a little screen inside the train.
It really made me sad. Regardless of Jackson's transformation into a third sex ghoul, and his alleged, and very probable, molestation of Culkins and kids with cancer, it made me sad.
Mainly because I have so many memories of listening to "Thriller"with my brother when I was a kid. (the album, not the song, because the song scared me)
It bummed me out when I heard the news, and I mailed my friend Sato, and he told me he thought that Michael Jackson would never die. I know what he meant.

So on Saturday night I was drinking with my friends in Yoyogi park.
After the sun went down we decided to leave, and ran into a large group that was holding a candlelight vigil for Michael Jackson. All of the people there were just milling around with stunned expressions on their face. Someone had made an impromptu shrine which had candles spelling out "MJ", and various computer printouts of Michael Jackson album covers set up around the candles. Some people were holding candles and their faces were under-lit and spooky looking. Everyone was basically silent, or whispering.
The whole thing was pretty disorganized. Somewhere "Remember the Time" was playing from a tinny speaker. There were three Japanese Michael Jackson impersonators. One was dressed like Thriller era Michael, another like Bad era, and a third in all black. It seemed like they had all just showed up and were eying each other.
Everyone made a circle as if something was going to happen. But nobody got into the circle except for a toddler who wandered in, and then a bunch of women from the crowd remarked about how cute the kid was.
Eventually the MJ impersonator in all black entered the circle and started to dance. All of a sudden, disparate voices in the crowd started singing "Billie Jean", but very self-consciously, in mumbly half whisper. It was apparent that none of the people who were singing spoke any English, and it was pretty touch and go until the chorus. It sounded like "she was...beauty queen... scene... ra ra ra".
Even stranger that far away in the dark the little speaker was tinnily playing Dangerous-era songs. And the Michael in black was saying "ooh" and "hoo!" as he spun and danced. When I got closer I could hear that under is breath he was saying "Michael...Michael...Michael" to himself.
Hearing him saying this to himself creeped me out really bad.

6.29.2009

EARLY NINETEEN NINETIES NOSTALGIA IS STUPID SHIT FOR IDIOTS

I have found myself at a few events recently where there are a bunch of Europeans in neo-1990s clothing. Everyone is wearing shitty clashing cross-color shit and neon plastic garbage.
I don't understand if this is IRONIC or not. And I don't care.
The early 1990s was shit.
And I stand by this.
Yes there was some great music.
But for the most part it was garbage. And I present this as evidence.

Saw a dude dressed like this last Friday.
Fuck you.
Go the fuck back to Helsinki.

6.10.2009

6.06.2009

THE WHITE MAN IS BEING OPPRESSED IN 2009, DID YOU KNOW?


Pat Buchanan's race baiting on Sotomayor. Jump to 1:20 for the this gem: "What is happening now, to white men right now, is exactly what was done to black folks for years...".

This is the same Pat Buchanan whose presidential campaign video featured a man choking, calling 911, and having to wait through the Spanish instructions, and ultimately dying. The point being argued that America is endangered by having people who speak different languages(?).

Via mediamatters.

A DEAD MAN YOU KNOW FROM SOMEWHERE

"And in a dream in a valley of Daghestan
She saw a familiar corpse stretched on the sand;
The steaming wound grew darker in his chest,
And the flowing stream of blood grew cold"

So of course she had seen that dead body around town and knew it well.

But anyway the best Lermontov quote is:
"I am stupidly made... I forget nothing...Nothing!"

6.04.2009

FUTURE DEAD PERSON



I'M YOUR DJ NOW, PRINCEY

So I think I irrevocably have fucked up my sleep schedule.
It doesn't matter how much I sleep, exercise, etc. I just can't sleep.
I may never sleep again.

(Related video)
(Video unrelated to the title of this post)

6.03.2009

R. KELLY AND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ANCIENT LIBRARY

So this is old news, but I read this some time ago and it cracked me up:

"To date, neither a trailer nor even a still photo from the film, which
tells the story of a disabled soldier who uses technology to inhabit
an alien body on a distant planet, has been made public by Mr. Cameron
or Fox.

But a number of enthusiasts who have been swapping notes on the
message boards at IMDB.com claim to have already seen the movie -- in
their dreams. "The special effects were mostly drawings and cartoons,
but they looked 3-D still," wrote one "planetshane," whose particular
dream involved a pirated copy of an early version.

"It was the best movie I had ever seen," the post continued."

:
via The New York Times, full article
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/25/movies/25avatar.html?_r=2

So this is about some enthusiastic fans discussing a movie they have not seen, pushed to a level of obsession at which they are seeing the movie, and describing this dream to other obsessives on the Internet.

I thought about this today because I was thinking about a similar incident I witnessed.
I was attending a certain liberal arts college (to protect the innocent let's call it "Bard College") and was attending a lecture given by a certain famous American poet (who we will be calling "R. Kelly" after "The World's Greatest").
I don't remember what the theme of the lecture was, or why I was there, but it wasn't a class and was held in a large auditorium. Perhaps there were other lecturers. Perhaps I was there to impress a girl or to have something to talk to a girl about afterward. I don't remember.
Anyway, at some point R. Kelly got behind the lectern and started giving some kind of speech.

In the speech he was describing a dream he had, in which he had witnessed the burning of the Ancient Library of Alexandria. (The largest library of the ancient world, purportedly burned by Julius Caesar, though this is contested)
R. Kelly gave a rousing speech in which he described the horrified feeling of watching those ancient texts vanish, never to be read again, disappearing into the fire and falling columns.
I looked around the auditorium and saw that everyone was transfixed. R. Kelly described waking up in tears, thinking of how close he was to all of those lost texts, and the tragedy that he witnessed was beyond his description.
It was absolute maudlin bullshit. But I looked around and everyone seemed to be totally taken in by it. There were almost audible sighs, and people wiping tears away from their eyes. Maybe I am exaggerating.
But I had the overwhelming feeling that R. Kelly was lying. That he had indeed not actually had this dream, but had made it up.
I don't know if I was justified in this feeling.
Maybe it was because at the time I felt entirely opposed to the pretentiousness and ridiculous solipsism of academia at "Bard College". I was annoyed that I had been locked out of two majors. I was pretty pissed that I was expected to have an opinion about Jacques Derrida. (I was nineteen years old.)
I also hated R. Kelly despite not knowing his work. (I still haven't read anything by him)
Regardless, I felt deeply, as if by some kind of instinct, that R. Kelly was lying. He never had a dream about the destruction of the library in a dream, and he was lying about it.
And I think I know why I felt that way when I think about it now.

R. Kelly was attaching himself, via the semi-supernatural act of dreaming, to a historical event (which, by the way, might be apocryphal, because some archaeologists contest that there is one single event which destroyed the library, nor is it in Roman records)

Then again, maybe R. Kelly was not lying about the dream. Maybe Planetshane really did get a sneak preview in his mind.

I once watched five episodes of the Sopranos in a row and had a dream which vaguely had something to do with the Sopranos. I remember having a dream about The Legend of Zelda as a kid.

Nah, fuck it, I still feel like he was lying. Not only was the content of the dream too pretentious to be true, his maudlin delivery was totally suspect.




THE LOST

-Everyone left behind (via Left Behind)
-All of the Greek heroes sighing in Elysium (via Dante)
-the 60,000 fetuses who will never become American citizens (via the O'reilly Factor)

6.02.2009

OBAMA DREAMS

Has anyone else been having dreams about our president?

I have had at least four dreams in the past week in which Obama showed up.
He was never the focus of the dream, he was just kind of hanging out.

At one point me and Obama were in a train station and he was talking to me about some kind of new cell phone he wanted and just wandered off.

THIS RACISM IS TEARING ME UP INSIDE

I was at this birthday party this weekend and the DJ threw on all of this early 1990s J-pop and everyone went nostalgia-crazy over it, but I wasn't down because I didn't know any of it.

Then a white dude jumped up on stage and grabbed a mic and started rapping along to it. A Japanese dude turned to me and said "Are you going to do the next song?"

. . .

Later, a drunk girl pulled out some of my chest hair and laughed. It hurt pretty bad so I slapped her (lightly).
Later, the drunk girl's friend told me "I think she likes you".

Later, I went home.

5.30.2009

WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED SO FAR


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Recently this blog has just been youtubes, word up.

5.24.2009

FAKE COMMENTS

All of these comments are fake

5.22.2009

THE FUTURE OF MEDIA


Okay, so this is on some "goodbye horses" basement Buffalo Bill shit,
It is genuinely terrifying at first. But I actually really, really like his music.

Homeboy has hundreds of videos... What the fuuuuuuck?
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=tonetta777&view=videos

HR PERSIAN STUFF

CHILDREN SAY THE DARNEDEST THINGS TO JUSTIFY PERSECUTION