"...in the meathouse with the southpaw." My favorite movie lines.

"...in the meathouse with the southpaw." One of my favorite movie lines (from Rocky).
"What?" from the last scene of Birdie.
"Nee, nee" from Jack Nicholson in Easy Rider.
"Let's go," from the last scene in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest.
"I'm walkin' here!" from Midnight Cowboy.
"The messiahs are all in politics and they are killing us!" and "...you annoy me, therefore I exist." from Defiance.

One day I will combine these lines somehow in a poem. But in the meantime this brings to mind again the subject of wordplay. Recently, I even watched a film called Wordplay. It's a documentary about NYT crossword puzzle enthusiasts. Enjoyed it very much. It caused me to wonder too why my own brand of wordplay has never become fixed, framed in this way, fulcrums of meaning in little boxes, the printer's honeycomb. Then, without hardly thinking at all about it I realized that it is because my words are compelled to dance the tail-wag dance. But further, why do I say, "I hardly thought about it?" Well, it is because it was a visual that came to me - like a fragrance - before the words could muster. Sometimes I fear they shall never return to nourish the hive.

And now it occurs to me I left out the B-movie lines.

if you asked me what my favorite human sound was...

...it would be this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaFUS4HVpGg and it would be this too: http://www.balaams-ass.com/alhaj/calltoprayer.htm Yes, okay, I actually prefer this last one to Christian hymns. Can't say I understand why. I'm not a religious person in the conventional sense.

So how is it that religious "language can lead to acts of violence." I'd almost prefer that we speak in tongues than cry "death to the infidels!"

Chomsky after 9/11

If you aren't familiar with Mr. Chomsky... here's an interview that might give you an idea what he was about a few years ago right after his publication on 9/11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CKpCGjD8wg&feature=related and cont'd at http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB1q2tdb-Gw

lone wolves and bad apples...

The GOP and it's hucksters continues to appropriate the notion of natural selection on this end of the cultural/political debate over the origins of hate etc., but credits a "faith-based" "creator" as the origin of love and compassion. No wonder they are so misguided about whom "shall" get the pearly love and who is interlocking with hate.



It is incongruous to describe the Democrats or progressive as hateful when it the bad apples always seem to fall from the right side of the tree.

Banksters and Zombie banks

google this!: "banksters" (as in gangster/banker); here's a few samples.

http://books.google.com/books?id=vdYMOvkHbzYC&dq=banksters&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=67wY0NXRNT&sig=nAFaYAsuudoIY_kg7xyFvd7Z7bs&hl=en&ei=Iy4vSoekEJWSswO56oHNCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7

http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2009/02/can-banksters-be-trusted-short-answer.html



and "zombie banks":

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100762999

proofs - extracted from my post on another thread

Proofs of belief, like proofs of love, are more convincingly displayed through something other than words. It’s as simple as that (though some of us do distrust simplicity). So, why all the fuss over an American belief system? Whether you "have faith" in your elected officials, your boss, dad or pastor, you're still a foolish patsy whether you’re in bed with them or not.
What is a conjugal relationship? Working toward something better together? Coming up with solutions to immediate problems; planning for a future together? Jumping right in, foregoing fear and trusting each other. Sometimes having to forgive wrong-doings.
Words can be great but what’s holding it all together? Is this why it’s so easy for some to just "trust in God?" or-whomever, because nothing really does hold it all together for them; they need that belief system like some need love to feel right about themselves and the world. The "truth" is, we are each alone in the world with ourselves. Some of us have the tools, in the form of reasoning, to know whose allegiance we should foster, and others follow their passions.
The unfortunate aspect of that is that the passionate are often the ones with the convincing images, whether the marketing ploy in an ad or the reference to sin or evil in the sermon and spin. And the response to that might be that while the rational (liberal) has become more passionate, where are the images? They’re hurting for hype it appears but are afraid of doing just what the conservatives are doing: blowing smoke rings of dogma.

Vedere Aude!

"Come and see..." "I am sent to open your eyes..." " a thousand points of light..." "...read my lips..." "Read between the lines!"

Some of us believe that spiritual enlightenment brings rebirth with refreshed visual- thus moral-clarity. It may also be said that visual acuman brings about a better understanding of what is not physically visable.

Is it possible to "keep it together" at such a pace as this on this superhighway? - not "lose control"? Likely we will fall apart if little else but submission holds us together. And certainly we will lose control once we give away our reason to faith in gods and corrupt men.

Pay attention then to the images, the icons, the promises and misleading words that veritably engulf you in a hidden world of deception and greed! All you have to do is trust your own eyes; then educate them further.

from scratching the surface of truth we get...

I guess the intention in this blog is to explore what clouds the pond, what obscures meaning and truth. What keeps them afloat, what drags them deep into ulterior motive, skims the surface as propaganda, or blinds us with the glare of morality?!

A national flag may be like an imperative statement.

However, once we pick up a gun, too, it suddenly becomes exclamatory; there is no sound structure in war, only the emotional chaos of aggression and fear.