Love & Water Crystals

This is a water crystal frozen with love and gratitude:



Notice its beauty? And by beauty I mean symmetry.

Here is a water crystal frozen with hate:

















Your physical body, you human being, is made up primarily of water. 55-60% water, to be factual. Do you really want to subject your 'water' to hate, or any negative emotion? To learn more, visit this website:

http://www.hado.net/dremoto/project.php

Please read the information found at the Dr. Emoto's website to learn more. To clarify, I do not mean love toward water to look like this:



In fact, quite the opposite.

The American Attention Span

Here is a picture of that attention span (and I think it's being generous):



This blog is designed for Americans. Colorful pictures, and few words. More matter, less art.

God, I Love Baroque Music

Isn't it wonderful? Because it's primarily based on mathematics? Concise, accurate, drawn out to perfection?

Baroque sheet music (the tangible aspect of transcendent music):




Here is a pile of 'baroqueness':

Meet Bill Viola

Bill Viola is a contemporary video artist. Here is an image of his work (which doesn't do him any justice):



His website is billviola.com (click on it to go there now).

Here is another picture:

How To Stop Being An Alcoholic

LSD. Lucy. In the sky. With diamonds. Lucy. Lucy. You dig? Here is Lucy (treat her well, and she will satisfy):



How does it help with alcoholism? Here is alcoholism:




LSD is awareness. After taking Lucy, you become aware. You suddenly realize, "Hey, this alcohol is killing me. Hey, I'm killing myself." And you stop drinking. LSD does not cure alcoholism; it increases awareness so you are no longer a moron.

Here is a picture of you taking LSD:

Necrophagia; Famous Gore Band & Bona Fide Yogis

Necrophagia's album, Death Is Fun.


Death is fun; sounds like a yogi sentiment if I have ever heard one.

Necrophagia is an exquisite gore band. Here is more Necro art work:

Speaking of Serena

Serena Maneesh. The Norwegian band. Here are the members:



Here is the Serena Maneesh album cover:

Here is My Outfit for Tomorrow

Yes, I do wear two outfits each day. I change at noon. It's my quotidian ritual. My outfit for tomorrow:

The Funniest Man In Showbiz

Daaaay Vid Letterman!


Don't discredit him. He's one of us.

The Golden Fleece

To understand the origin of what is known as the 'golden fleece', (you might have heard of Jason & the Argonauts, and the Quest for the Golden Fleece) you must read chapter 1 of James Burke's "Connections". Here is a golden fleece (it's majestic):

Richard Wagner

Do you enjoy Richard Wagner? Do you call him Dick? His last name is correctly pronounced with a 'v': Vagner. But Philistines call him Richard Wagner, with a 'w'. Like a wagoner, or someone who directs, or drives a mobile wagon. The mistake is even more egregious when those Philistines call him Dick. Dick Wagoner. Here is a photo of the man himself:



Here is a photo of a Philistine, maybe more aptly written in lowercase, unless at the beginning of a sentence. Philistine. Or, philistine. Here is a picture of a philistine:

Bill Maher; Everybody's Should-Be Hero

The man is humorous, intelligent, and classy. Here is how that combination manifests:



Here are the pleasant results of that combination:


What would he say about Kate Gosselin? Maybe Bill's already said something about her, at least indirectly, by saying something about "Americans", but I don't know for certain. Here is Kate Gosselin:

2010

Just think about it.

Goodbye Thanksgiving Blend!

It's safe to say the Starbucks Thanksgiving Blend is gone for the year. The blend was exquisite (I hope you purchased a pound before limited supplies dried up). Take a look at the package:



The Holiday Blend is decent (there is also a Christmas Blend, which is the same coffee, but packaged for the non-pagans), but not nearly as "transcendent" (and not a great picture):

I Make Up Everything

Short pieces that give you no information. That is what my blog is about. It looks like this (in a metonymical sense):



But it doesn't look like this:



I couldn't allow it to look like this. For a blog? The disparity is too much for a blog.

Bernanke; Should We Keep Him?

Hot debate in America about Ben Bernanke. Is he evil? Is he not evil enough? He seems to be saying (in the picture below), Why won't you just re-hire me without all the questions?

My brother, William James, from a past life

He is my brother in this life also. The Brothers James, as I understand it, refused to be separated when their time in the astral realm expired, and demanded to be returned to planet Earth together, in the same household. Here is my brother, as he was in his last life:



And yes, he was a serious man. And yes, he still is.

And if you have difficulties imagining reincarnation, here is an illustration:

Sherman Alexie Rails Against Kindle

Alexie stated on the Colbert Report that he was firmly opposed to the Kindle and other digital book formats because he fears piracy. Read the article from techdirt.com and decide for yourself; Is Sherman Alexie just paranoid, or is the book industry already cavorting down a similarly treacherous path that bankrupted the music industry?



And speaking of storytelling, click on the picture for a 'good' story.

I Am Henry James Reincarnated

This might sound outlandish, but the facts add up, I assure you.
I don't look like I used to look, but I'm working on being 'all right' with that.



Here is a picture of reincarnation (in case you need assistance imagining):

The Opiate of the Masses?

How can people care so much?

Hare Krishna

The New Rage? Would it be transcendent to dance on the lawn and chant, Hare Krishna? I think so.

Sex?

The ultimate moment of godliness? The Ultimate (with a capital 'U')?

The New War President?

A Post-Modern Painting

Clearly, this is a post-modern painting, with its complete lack of color coherency and obvious intent to confuse, disjoint, and dissatisfy the viewer. And that is only the background color scheme. Do you see the dominant almost right half red as it is intercepted, possibly usurped, by a shard of green, which is a steeply declining triangle, that makes the powerful readiness of the nearly square red section a farce. The green literally turns the red into a joke. Let us discuss grotesque as we fasten our attention on the almost perfect white square stacked atop the almost perfectly black square. Dear Lord, what is going on here? Just when we get used to irregularity, just when the viewer is stimulated with disjuncted, post-modern scattered nonlinearity, coherency reigns supreme with two normal squares, stacked up on top of one another. This is similar to having boasting about a 50s-esque family living in San Francisco's homosexual Castro in the 70s. Do you understand how disjointed this entire painting happens to be? How many times it steps out of the post-modern parameter, teasing with more normalcy, only to stumble backward into more post-modernity. The whole painting is post-modern squared.

So you ask, what shines through? The irregularity, or the coherency? Well, are you old school, or are you hip and post-modern-with-it? That may answer your question. But I say, let us see the crown. Have you seen the crown, hovering over that senselessly sensible color scheme? The crown establishes a state of power, of correction, and gives direction, as that is clearly where we are supposed to look for guidance and answers. Does the crown negate the entire color pattern background? Again, that depends on your modernly hip you are, or are not.

Naked Wizard

At the Coachella festival, a man called the Naked Wizard doesn't want to wear any clothing. This is not out of the ordinary at a festival such as Coachella, but three brutish policemen plead with the Naked Wizard to put his robe back on saying, "You'll have more fun with your clothes on." After the man refuses, the police move in on the man while a large crowd of festival goers form a circle, making the police brawl the center of attention. One man films the entire affair (see the video here), and we watch the police men bend the man's arms in painful positions, kicking his legs out from under him, and then one officer uses his fist to pin the Naked Wizard's long hair to the grass.

Soon, the Naked Wizard is being tased, again and again, in the heart and the back of the neck. The officers keep bending his arms and one officer drops his knee into the man's abdomen, which gets a shocked verbal response from the crowd.

It's unfortunate the crowd didn't act swiftly and rush these three policemen and beat them to a pulp. Many shocked reactions can be heard from the crowd as people watch a man getting beaten for not wearing clothing. Maybe America needs to get back to fighting the police when the opportunity arises. The crowd in this instance could have rushed the police, grabbed their tasers, and tased the officers until they couldn't stand any longer. The pretty Coachella girls should have pulled at the officers' hair and dropped their knees into their groins and guts. Some of the men could have twisted the officers arms and tried to make them scream. At least from the video, it looked like the police were enjoying it.

Is the Dollar Seeing Its Last Days?

Pictures of a new North American currency called the Amero have shown up on the Russian Internet. The currency resembles the Euro and will be adopted by Mexico, the U.S., and Canada. Under the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), established by the Bush administration in 2005, what is known as the North American Union was created by enjoining Canada, America, and Mexico, and the Amero would be the common currency.

Has it already been printed? With the current economic problems, government officials still say they are working to keep the dollar strong, rejecting any notion of a North American currency.

World Digital Library

If you're interested in rare and esoteric writings from ancient and distant cultures and time periods, you might like to know about the World Digital Library, found at http://www.wdl.org/en/.
The site is easily manipulated and perused.

The digital library isn't comprehensive or based on quantity, but focus, rather, on quality, with a few hundred hard-to-find documents that have been carefully digitalized in order to be shared with information-seeking web travelers who deserve to have these kinds of treasured rarities readily available to them.

Dredging Up I Don't Know

The newest single from Dredg, called 'I Don't Know' is yet another disappointment from their forthcoming album, The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion. The song is bland and could have been written by anyone. The song is 3:44, just enough time to fit in the radio loop, and it sounds as if it were crafted in just such a manner; straight into catchy tune (an almost irritatingly bump-along digitally-altered bass riff), even catchier chorus, and a pseudo-intellectual message about not knowing where or what humans came from. As one of the hardcore Dredg fans, I was hoping their last album, 2005's Catch Without Arms would be their first and last great disappointment, and that maybe that record's dismal, anti-Dredgian sound and musical aestetic could be attributed to the record label's pressure for money owed, meaning the band was forced to produce soundless, typical, flavorless radio singles to catch the ears of the massive listening zombie music fans in hopes of "paying the dues" to the label. Apparently, with the just released single, I Don't Know, Dredg haven't found their way home to the sound and eclectic style that wowed many of us from the band's beginning.

Is there any hope The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion will redeem itself with the rest of the tracks surrounding this awful single? Probably not, but I'm hoping, because I've been waiting a very long time to be floored once again by an album from Dredg.

If you're curious, listen here.

Goldman Sachs 666?

Become a part of the rapidly spinning information vortex devoted to opinions and facts concerning Goldman Sachs at the following address:

http://www.goldmansachs666.com/

Goldman Sachs has hired a lawyer to shut down this blog, so read or add to it whilst you still are able.

See the Moon?

In 'See the Moon?', Donald Barthelme creates a character who frantically tries to explain everything he can about life to his unborn son, Gog. Gog, his beloved, hears about life in a fragmented (call it post-modern) frenzy, with bits of personal history from a few minutes in the past to many years ago. Like a human hopped up on too much coffee, suffering from too many thoughts with too little time to say them, the character jumps from idea to concept to obsessively categorizing certain aspects of life, trying desperately to get back to the main thread of what he feels necessary to be sharing with Gog. Similar to how Dean and Sal, in Kerouac's On the Road, rapidly talk while walking in the dark underneath the streetlights, and Dean says, "This is a parenthetical, Sal, and I shall get back to the main point at the very next street light."

See the Moon? captures for the reader the sheer volume of sights and sounds, understandings and perceived misunderstandings that patch together and highlight personal characters and lives. "In another month Gog leaps fully armed from the womb" (p.101, Sixty Stories, Peguin edition). This sentence comes at the end of Barthelme's short story and elucidates for us what the main character is trying to do with his constant abrupt changes and odd, personal reveries. He is dramatically and anxiously attempting to give every possible life experience to Gog before the baby is even born.

At times, the protagonist, if we can call him that, seems to be working out ideas and concepts for himself, because many things he says do not, and could not, apply to an unborn baby. "I set out to study cardinals...A perverse project, perphaps, but who else has embraced this point of view" (98)? A means for justification, by talking to the unborn child, while in reality working things outloud for himself.

Barthelme is famous for his off-the-wall, postmodern, and new way of telling a story. See the Moon? exemplifies his talent and gives support to why we still read him.