Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Makata Magazine june issue

http://www.dalityapi.com/makata/

was published in this issue of Makata Magazine. so check it out

http://www.dalityapi.com/makata/

Broke Back Mountain Review


first of all I have nothing against gay cowboys I'm sure there are and do exist but maybe they weren't really represented here in this film.

I'm sure there are flaming Cowboys out there that can tame the land, punch cows, who is a friend of the Coyote, and able to "Wrastle" and even rip a Bear in half with his own bare hands and still be in good standing with his community, and companions...

now the film although at times poignant... there is a consistency that must be met or flaws in the story need to be improved.

Point one they are Gay Cowboys but they are hearding Sheep?
Point two They do it very Badly, because of having sex and all that not sure how Ennis could just be freezing one minute and the next minute

fucking a dude in the Ass, at least with Jack Twist
you can tell.

Point Three after it's all said done Not sure what Ennis does for a living but Jack Tries to get a job again on Brokeback and fails because he did a bad Job the first time and then Marries a girl and does poorly with farm Equipment, and We never See his Rodeo Skills if any at all

These were the worst Cowboys in the World. If I had a ranch I wouldn't hire them for anything because I would lose livestock

maybe if Clint Eastwood or Eli Wallach from The Good The Bad and The ugly were in it then yeah this would be realistic, maybe not as appealing to a general audience. but Realistic

There was a lot of mumbling here. the movie went on and on and yes eventually when a main character died It still went on and on. perhaps a crying game for Cowboys or sheep herders.
There are some aspects of this movie I thought was OK . But its No Lone Ranger and Tonto.
i wished I put this movie off a bit longer then caving the pressure of going the video store and not finding anything.

I much prefer Brokeback Moutain as told my Bunnies in 30 seconds So enjoy

http://www.starz.com/features/brokebackmountain/

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Palm Sunday Review


Ok I just read the last 50 pages today, whats amazing is that I read it in the lobby of a medical office as my wife was getting a check up after Gall bladder surgery. I was sitting in from of the elevator just reading and people watching. which is one of my favorite things to do. I saw a woman walking with two prosthetic legs it was cool. I'm not sure how it works but its cool, then I over some crazy conversations

Its Bleeding because you won't stop talking, if you'd stop talking you wouldn't be bleeding. now stop talking....

I thought this was a wife beating session but it turned out to be a woman with a pink bandage covering her mouth... but wait I was talking about Palm Sunday...

there was some cool stuff, His version of musical Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which the monster turned to be a 185 pound chicken, incidentily the first victim was a Doberman.

I also learned something about Jack kerouac, aparently towards the end of his life he was an Asshole. he tried to start a fight with Vonneguts son for some odd reason, he refered to his collegue Robert Bole as a Blue Gummed Nigger, and called the Jews the Real Nazi's. which is amazing to say such a thing. there really is no way you can say to defend a guy like that, unless he was testing people or just provoking responses. never the less it's important to note this was toward the end of his life, and as anyone would know about Kerouac, he must have been bitter over the death of his friend Neal Cassiday... And neal was his Muse of a sorts. at least this is my interpretation It's not a defense. because the kerouac of On the Road, is not the Kerouac in

Vonneguts Palm Sunday. This is a bitter man who died of alcoholism. Ironically the next Chapter seguays into the chapter about Celine who claimed to be a nazi simpathizer, and then in a way tries the best parts of celine. i understand this. You admire someone and learn of someones bad ideas about things you can't defend. accept bitterness is the only answer.

To find out for yourself then you need to read this book. Its a Must

Lightning strikes a praying woman

After Reading This Article I'm afraid to say Ha Ha!!!

DAPHNE, Ala. (May 29) - Worried about the safety of her family during a stormy Memorial Day trip to the beach, Clara Jean Brown stood in her kitchen and prayed for their safe return as a strong thunderstorm raged through Baldwin County.
Suddenly, lightning exploded, blowing through the linoleum and leaving a pockmarked area on the concrete. Brown wound up on the floor, dazed and disoriented by the blast but otherwise uninjured.

"I said, 'Amen,' and the room was engulfed in a huge ball of fire," she said. "I'm blessed to be alive."

Brown, 65, was hit by a bolt of lightning that apparently struck outside and traveled into the house Monday afternoon. She doesn't know how much time passed while she remained disoriented on the floor before Jamie Matthews, her 14-year-old granddaughter, discovered her after returning from the beach.
"I was just standing there when a huge ball of fire engulfed this whole room. I don't remember much after that," Brown said hours later as her family helped clean her home. "Concrete was everywhere."

"I said, 'Amen,' and the room was engulfed in a huge ball of fire."-Clara Jean Brown
Brown was at home alone when the storm hit, while her husband, James Brown, was at the store and her son and his family were on their way back from the beach.

James Brown said fire officials told him lightning likely struck across the street from the couple's home and traveled into the house through a water line. The lightning continued into the couple's backyard and ripped open a small trench, James Brown said. Pieces of concrete were scattered throughout the family's kitchen - ruining day-old brownies sitting on the stove.
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"Never in my life did I think something like this could happen," James Brown told the Press-Register. "I always thought if you're in a house that you're safe. That's not the case."
Mrs. Brown said paramedics suggested she go to the hospital, but she chose to stay at home with her family.

"I'm blessed. That's the good news," she said.
Eric Esbensen, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Mobile, said dime-sized hail and wind gusts of up to 45 mph were reported in coastal Baldwin County. As much as 3 inches of rain fell in some areas in three hours, he said.

Monday, May 29, 2006

No Bible Movies today


I survived a family grill out thankfully,

No Bible movies!!!

My nephew didn't say he hated me nor did he beg to stay at my house. which is refreshing. I don't understand why these kids want to come to my house? I'm not exactly a great guy or proper role model for them. and since these aren't my kids I can't correct them if they are bad. I'm only the uncle. knowing this they go crazy and fuck up everything and eat all my food, and change pass words on my computer or reconfigure things and not tell me.

So if you don't want Children to idolize you, then Be a total Jerk.

The food wasn't half bad either. My dad has been dying his hair and he looks like a dork that way. I'm 36 and my hair is going gray, and I'm just going to let it happen. I'm going to go Andy Warhol silver gray when I'm old. and believe me I'm going to be Crazy!!!

Anna Magnani

More Bukowski pics



Posing for the camera or looking for trouble?

Stereolab



I love this band so much, a feeling of peace washes over which i can't describe acuratrely like most people andf I think I'm a writer?

I'm listening to the Album Dots and Loops, and it is just wonderful
if any woman wanted to seduce they only need to play stereolab

Bored and dreading tomorrow

Just blogging and reading vonnegut, and killing time. nothing to talk about but its nice to just chill some time. I guess I can mention that I'm waiting to hear from a publisher. and we are still talking and thats good, so I'm anxious about it.

I guess its a burning thing really. the not knowing. if I was bored house wife I'd call a psychic or some Dopey shit like that. tomorrow I'm going to my parents for memorial day grill out. just hope it doesn't turn religious on me. nothing says misery like a good OL' fashion Bible Movie... Yippee!!!

or another Kirk Cammeron bibilical epic, that would be fun. now I know why Postal workers carry guns. I don't want to sleep because when I wake up I have to go. I just wish the short small hour of peace and silence could last a little bit longer.

Wish me Luck

2046 review.


Although at times a very hot movie. It was long and drawn out thus making it excuciating to my nerves.

Ziyi Zhang is a really hot lady, I like her in just about anything she is in. and Memiors of a Geisha was her best and she deserved an oscar for it. but 2040 I just felt like killing myself. it was good but it was too long and to many back and forth scenes which I hated.

Don't watch this unless your really in the mood for it.

Sunday, May 28, 2006

Davinci Code Review

Okay yeah yeah I saw the movie and it wasn't bad as I thought it was goingto be, in fact I didn't care about it enought to argue about or get into the controversy, so I'm just stating this so as to not confuse anyone. Controversy is always overated nor do I car whether jesus had children and so fourth. nor do I care about the Knights Templer or opus dei or any secret organization who are hiding the truth of such things.

What I want to say that this bring out the Art historian in me, since I took three years of of it at NKU. First off what I learn 15 years ago the story of mary magdalene was pretty much not a secret she is believed to have lived there during her old age living in a cave. This is a long held belief by lots of people in France. The picture above is a statue of her

The Penitent Magdalene 1453-55
Wood with polychromy
and goldHeight 188 cm

Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence

Qouting from Wikipedia

"The French tradition of Saint Lazare of Bethany is that Mary, her brother Lazarus, and Maximinus, one of the Seventy-Two Apostles and some companions, expelled by persecutions from the Holy Land, traversed the Mediterranean in a frail boat with neither rudder nor mast and landed at the place called Sainte Marie-de-Mer near Arles.

Mary Magdalene came to Marseille and converted the whole of Provence. Magdalene is said to have retired to a cave on a hill by Marseille, La Sainte-Baume ("holy cave", baumo in Provencal), where she gave herself up to a life of penance for thirty years. When the time of her death arrived she was carried by angels to Aix and into the oratory of Saint Maximinus, where she received the viaticum; her body was then laid in an oratory constructed by St. Maximinus at Villa Lata, afterwards called St. Maximin."

So my point is all this crap about the movie is rediculous. it was a good movie and maybe the book is also, but since I learned about this years ago I never read it, so the movie did just fine.

I liked it. It kept my attention. My only complaint is that the this so called Secret is a bit misleading. But who cares it's a film? I guess They wanted to make it as Sexy as possible. I just wished they included this image into the mix of mary but I guess they were kind of stuck on the whole Davinci Thing, which is fine. over all I think you will enjoy this movie as I did. I left feeling Entertained and that is it. My wife and I enjoyed ourselves very much It was a satifying experience.

Ron Howard makes films with a masterful hand, and I like Tom hanks very much. I will say I had to get used to his hair do in the movie though. and always Sir Ian Mckellen is a scene stealer and was the best character in the whole film.

whats really weird is all these Uber Creepy Book The Diet Code

which I found at at Barnes and Noble


DESCRIPTION: As a master baker, painter, and woodworker, Stephen Lanzalotta has used the mathematical principles of The Golden Ratio (an integral plot element in The Da Vinci Code)

for more than 30 years. His realization that this seemingly magic formula, once used by Da Vinci, held the secret to optimal health and weight loss led him to apply it to his menu at his popular bakery/café. Thus was born THE DIET CODE, a revolutionary Mediterranean-style program that makes each meal as easy as 1-2-3 (1 part grain, 2 parts protein, 3 parts vegetable/fruit), to boost metabolism and spark weight loss.

The plan reveals Renaissance foods that promote weight control and includes unique tips for diet success, including: * Eat bread--but not without fat or protein * Cook pasta al dente to boost fat loss * Balance your plate by The Golden Ratio of carbs, protein, and fat. Combining menu plans and recipes, as well as Renaissance lore and Italian tips on healthy eating, this is a unique diet plan from the ages for the ages.

I don't think Obesity was a problem in the renaisance period. I think starvation and poverty was. in fact fat woman were considered Sexy. I don't think Davinci was the Richard Simmons of his time.

Then there is the Davinci Method

Book Description:

Break Out & Express Your Fire. Discover and master the fiery temperament shared by great leaders, entrepreneurs, artists and AD/HD-ers. Are you: - Impulsive? - Risk-taking? - Distractible? - Sensation-seeking? - Insightful or Intuitive? Do you: - Crave risk and excitement? - Have an addictive personality? - Rebel against authority? - Think differently?
Then you are a DaVinci. Discover the secret genius that drives risk-takers, rebels, entrepreneurs, artists and ad/hd-ers to achieve greatness. Learn how to express this fire and harness it productively.

this is the craziest of all. no one is a davinci or can even be davinci and this writer would have two be able to create masterful artworks himself and draw futuristic air craft or adavance our knowledge of the human body by being the first person to study dead bodies and illustrate and catalog our inner working mechanisms, and do so illegally, then maybe This writer could publish a book on how we all could be a genius.

I guess the Art historian in me felt the pressing need to say this because Leonardo isn't here to speak on his own behalf. then again I'm sure Scholars andd academics do a better job of this then I do.

So I'm done with my two cents. now fuck off

Saturday, May 27, 2006

Earthquake in Indonesia

By IRWAN FIRDAUS, Associated Press Writer 27 minutes ago

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia - A powerful earthquake flattened buildings in central Indonesia early Saturday, killing several hundred, injuring thousands and leaving overburdened hospitals appealing for help.

The magnitude 6.2 quake struck at 5:54 a.m. near the city of Yogyakarta, 250 miles east of the capital, Jakarta, as many people slept, causing death and damage there and in nearby towns, officials said.

"It felt really powerful, and the whole building shook," said Narman, a receptionist at a hotel in Yogyakarta. "Everyone ran from their rooms."
Eight hours after the quake struck, Social Affairs Ministry official Andriana, who goes by just one name, put the death toll at 1,325.

The Indonesian Red Cross said it had confirmed 446 deaths, adding that it had not been able to reach officials in the most devastated areas.
"Their (government) death toll is very possible," said Arifin Muhadi, head the Red Cross' disaster division. "We just don't know yet."

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ordered the army to help evacuate victims, as panicked residents ran into the smoldering streets, many clutching young children. He said he would head to the disaster zone in Central Java province later in the day.
In the chaos that followed the quake, rumors of an impending tsunami sent thousands of people on Java fleeing to higher ground in cars and motorbikes. But Japan's Meteorological Agency said there was no danger of a killer wave.

The quake also triggered heightened activity in nearby Mount Merapi volcano, which has been spewing out clouds of hot ash, gas and lava for several weeks, a scientist said.
The Red Cross said more than 2,800 people were injured in the temblor, many from collapsed homes and buildings, and regional hospitals put out an appeal for assistance.

"Please tell the central government to send help, we need help here," said Kusmarwanto of Bantul Muhammadiyah Hospital, the closest hospital to the quake's epicenter.

"There so many casualties. Houses ... are flattened. Many people still need to be evacuated," he said, adding that his hospital alone had 39 dead bodies and the numbers were rising.
Witnesses at hospitals said hundreds of injured were arriving for emergency treatment, many with broken bones and cuts.

TV footage showed damaged hotels and government buildings, and several collapsed buildings.
The quake cracked the runway in Yogyakarta's airport, closing it to aircraft until at least Sunday while inspections take place, Transport Minister Hatta Radjasa said.

Electricity and communications were also down in parts of the city, police said.
The quake's epicenter was close to the Mount Merapi, which has been rumbling for weeks. Activity increased as a result of the temblor, with one eruption soon after the earthquake sending debris some 2 miles down its western flank, said Subandrio, a vulcanologist monitoring the peak.

"The quake has disturbed the mountain," he said.
There were no reports of injuries as a result of the eruption.

Activity at Mount Merapi, one of the world's most active volcanoes, has picked up in recent weeks and almost all villagers living near the danger zone have been evacuated.

Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago, is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.

A magnitude 9.1 earthquake on Dec. 26, 2004, under the sea off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra Island triggered a tsunami that killed more than 131,000 people in nearby Aceh province, and more than 100,000 others in nearly a dozen other countries

Friday, May 26, 2006

Unloading some Bad Trauma on the World


Today was one fucking hellish soap opera after another and I was the biggest baby of them all, and why not, just because I'm a dude doesn't mean I'm beyond my emotions, which I might add can be pretty shakey at times.

Ive been couped in the house for three weeks My wife has undergone sugery of having her bladder removed. it was frighteningg really, because she had never been operated on for anything. perhaps just dental work, or donating blood and that is it. Me I have been poked and prodded by every quak this side of the cosmos. if someone told me I was abducted by aliens and anally probed.

I wouldn't be surpised. I hear thats how they get the best beef jerky to fuel these flying saucers

Me I have been gased disected scalped bandaged gased disected electrocuted poked by needles syringed morphined up you name it they did it to me,

all in the name of science and research. the only reason why they stopped doing it is because my mother said no. she finally saw what they did to me first hand. she saw them shock me and shock and stick needles all over me. it was relentless. now I think about with new eyes really. because I was bitter about it for some time.

it's nothing new really its just simple. there is always someone out there who was Fucked harder then you could possibly know. I feel some how its all over because I let it go. maybe not entirely but enough that I don't talk about it every fucking five minutes. its not healthy. I do try to tell people this because they go through things and they ask for my advice. My cousin Bill who has just gone through a great ordeal.

he lowned his father some money, and later went collect. when he got there His father in law stabbed him in the leg with a Butcher knife. three times. right in front of his children. Jesus Christ the whole world has gone crazy and eventually catches up to you to make your life just a little more interesting then it was yesterday.

So Bill calls me on the phone because he's afraid he may never walk again. aparently his injury is pretty fucking serious. he wants to know how I live thorugh life being as I am. My first Reaction yeah I'm disabled but I never been stabbed by anyone Illegally.

I don't know what that is like. he's afraid he may be disabled forever, and whats to know how to cope with it. Its' a good question. i don't know. I'm not religious or anything. I guess the key to be happy is to have series of really cool hobbies.

perhaps become a pro at your hobby and it might turn into something into a serious passion which sustains the will to live. personally I can't stand other disabled people because they are so whiny about every godamned thing in the world. I know some of them can't help it and I don't argue with them because somehow talking about it helps them a little bit.

I'm reading Kurt Vonneguts book Palm Sunday. which has helped me tremendously in expressing myself and someday I would want him to read this posting. His chapter on religion really helped me express to my mom and my wife how I feel about religion and God in a way I couldn't before. to be breif I come from a very religious family and I for one am not.

and in his chapter Religion he simply states something in away I couldn't for years.
maybe not in a million years.

But he said He was an athiest because "We don't have enough answers"

as to the creation or what exactly is god or the intentions or what god expects, plus doesn't make very many house calls. And that is what I have been dealing with this month. religion, helping the sick which is my wife after bladder surgery and dealing with my own self loathing and depression.

today I had a freak out which ended up in religious discussions with my wife, and I think to his chapter on religion where he says both he and his wife divorced because of religion. this bothers me because I don't want this to happen.

even religion is a sore spot for the both of us.people don't understand me nor my wife. I'm not an athiest, I'm not christian either because we don't have enough Information. It' doesn't mean I don't believe in God...

I Don't enough Information to act in any other way then to express myself as myself. I can't be you, I proably look terrible in your clothes, and perhaps I couldn't walk a mile in your shoes, and I don't expect you to walk in mine.

Why is this a bad philosophy?

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Bukowski



He's the man better then half the Shit out there and you better believe it Mother Fuckers

miserable day

Jesus I'm fucking depressed it seems as though no relief in sight. I'dd shoot myself but I have no rubber bullets. I feel trapped in my own home, and I'm so fucking Bored out of my gord. I don't even know what to write down. and here I am I think I'm god damned writer. I can't even spell
correctly have the time.

Latitia / Blog Transfer completed






Okay she's not my girl friend but I can dream can't I?

Now that my blog transfer is completed I can write whats been going on in my life and so on and so forth. saw some cool movies
and some Bad Ones.

So many things I missed commenting on like the last David Blaine special. I like his stuff, but I think he over extended himself this time. he could have held his breathe for 9 minutes but he was to tired . oh well better luck next time.

will catch up with things soon. theres a new firm pillow with my name on it right now. and it's calling me Craiiiiiggggggg Craiiiiiiig Crraaaaiiiiggggggg !!!!!!!

The Stranger by Albert Camus


Review of The Stranger by Albert Camus (Vintage International)

I once had a copy of the plague but I never got a chance to finish it, maybe i lost it?, but that was a long time ago. I read this book last week I think. I couldn't put it down, and I'm not sure why. I would read a couple of pages and put it down, thinking I'm never going to finish it because the book was going to be eventually hard to understand, it's going to get fluffy and theres going to be someone forced to wear a scarlette letter and someone is going to be shunned by society or the book was going to consist of a love story told through a series of boring letters back and fourth to each other, then I was thinking how boring Dracula was.

But none of that was in the Stranger. it was a short book with things I never cared about like court room drama and prison. I avoid story lines like these because it reminds me of dominic Dunne and his stupid show about rich people commiting murder. But for some reason I liked the Stranger. I liked the Characters vividness. the way Camus describes things it's like I was there.

so I baught the plague to see if I like it. Right now I'm reading Tales of Ordinary madness by Bukowski. some stories are great, and yet it's taking longer to read it then normal. which is weird because I could read Bukowski all day if i could. Reading Bukowski is like listening to 1990's era "Brag Rap" because he thinks he is the greatest Poet short story writer alive...

when he was alive. And listening to him trash other writers is delicious. I guess I like the mix of lies and honesty that he uses in his writing... but wait I was talking about Camus!! not bukowski. First of all I'm not going to spoil the book for you because I hate giving away the story. so your going to have to check it out yourself... Sorry!!

posted Friday, 14 April 2006


More Retired Generals Call for Rumsfeld's Resignation


Personally I think He should be in prison

WASHINGTON (April 14) - The widening circle of retired generals who have stepped forward to call for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's resignation is shaping up as an unusual outcry that could pose a significant challenge to Mr. Rumsfeld's leadership, current and former generals said on Thursday. Maj. Gen. Charles H. Swannack Jr., who led troops on the ground in Iraq as recently as 2004 as the commander of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, on Thursday became the fifth retired senior general in recent days to call publicly for Mr. Rumsfeld's ouster. Also Thursday, another retired Army general, Maj. Gen. John Riggs, joined in the fray.

"We need to continue to fight the global war on terror and keep it off our shores," General Swannack said in a telephone interview. "But I do not believe Secretary Rumsfeld is the right person to fight that war based on his absolute failures in managing the war against Saddam in Iraq. "Another former Army commander in Iraq, Maj. Gen. John Batiste, who led the First Infantry Division, publicly broke ranks with Mr. Rumsfeld on Wednesday. Mr. Rumsfeld long ago became a magnet for political attacks. But the current uproar is significant because Mr. Rumsfeld's critics include generals who were involved in the invasion and occupation of Iraq under the defense secretary's leadership.

There were indications on Thursday that the concern about Mr. Rumsfeld, rooted in years of pent-up anger about his handling of the war, was sweeping aside the reticence of retired generals who took part in the Iraq war to criticize an enterprise in which they participated. Current and former officers said they were unaware of any organized campaign to seek Mr. Rumsfeld's ouster, but they described a blizzard of telephone calls and e-mail messages as retired generals critical of Mr. Rumsfeld weighed the pros and cons of joining in the condemnation.

Even as some of their retired colleagues spoke out publicly about Mr. Rumsfeld, other senior officers, retired and active alike, had to be promised anonymity before they would discuss their own views of why the criticism of him was mounting. Some were concerned about what would happen to them if they spoke openly, others about damage to the military that might result from amplifying the debate, and some about talking outside of channels, which in military circles is often viewed as inappropriate.

The White House has dismissed the criticism, saying it merely reflects tensions over the war in Iraq. There was no indication that Mr. Rumsfeld was considering resigning.
"The president believes Secretary Rumsfeld is doing a very fine job during a challenging period in our nation's history," the White House spokesman, Scott McClellan, told reporters on Thursday.

Among the retired generals who have called for Mr. Rumsfeld's ouster, some have emphasized that they still believe it was right for the United States to invade Iraq. But a common thread in their complaints has been an assertion that Mr. Rumsfeld and his aides too often inserted themselves unnecessarily into military decisionmaking, often disregarding advice from military commanders.

Pentagon officials, while acknowledging that Mr. Rumsfeld's forceful style has sometimes ruffled his military subordinates, played down the idea that he was overriding the advice of his military commanders or ignoring their views.
His interaction with military commanders has "been frequent," said Lawrence Di Rita, a top aide to Mr. Rumsfeld.

"It's been intense," Mr. Di Rita said, "but always there's been ample opportunity for military judgment to be applied against the policies of the United States."
Some retired officers, however, said they believed the momentum was turning against Mr. Rumsfeld.

"Are the floodgates opening?" asked one retired Army general, who drew a connection between the complaints and the fact that President Bush's second term ends in less than three years. "The tide is changing, and folks are seeing the end of this administration."

No active duty officers have joined the call for Mr. Rumsfeld's resignation. In interviews, some currently serving general officers expressed discomfort with the campaign against Mr. Rumsfeld, which has been spearheaded by, among others, Gen. Anthony C. Zinni, who headed the United States Central Command in the late 1990's before retiring from the Marine Corps. Some of the currently serving officers said they feared the debate risked politicizing the military and undercutting its professional ethos.

Some say privately they disagree with aspects of the Bush administration's handling of the war. But many currently serving officers, regardless of their views, say respect for civilian control of the military requires that they air differences of opinion in private and stay silent in public.
"I support my secretary of defense," Lt. General John Vines, who commands the Army's 18th Airborne Corps, said when questioned after a speech in Washington on Thursday about the calls for Mr. Rumsfeld to step down. "If I publicly disagree with my civilian leadership, I think I've got to resign. My advice should be private."

Some of the tensions between Mr. Rumsfeld and the uniformed military services date back to his arrival at the Pentagon in early 2001. Mr. Rumsfeld's assertion of greater civilian control over the military and his calls for a slimmer, faster force were viewed with mistrust by many senior officers, while his aggressive, sometimes abrasive style also earned him enmity.
Mr. Rumsfeld's critics often point to his treatment of Gen. Eric Shinseki, then the Army chief of staff, who told Congress a month before the 2003 invasion of Iraq that occupying the country could require "several hundred thousand troops," rather than the smaller force that was later provided. General Shinseki's estimate was publicly dismissed by Pentagon officials.

"Rumsfeld has been contemptuous of the views of senior military officers since the day he walked in as secretary of defense. It's about time they got sick and tired," Thomas E. White, the former Army secretary, said in a telephone interview on Thursday. Mr. White was forced out of his job by Mr. Rumsfeld in April of 2003.

Lt. Gen. Gregory Newbold of the Marine Corps, who retired in late 2002, has said he regarded the American invasion of Iraq unnecessary. He issued his call for replacing Mr. Rumsfeld in an essay in the current edition of Time magazine. General Newbold said he regretted not opposing the invasion of Iraq more vigorously, and called the invasion peripheral to the job of defeating Al Qaeda.

General Swannack, by contrast, continues to support the invasion but said that Mr. Rumsfeld had micromanaged the war in Iraq, rather than leaving it to senior commanders there, including Gen. George W. Casey Jr. of the Army, the top American officer in Iraq, and Gen. John P. Abizaid of the Army, the top officer in the Middle East. "My belief is Rumsfeld does not really understand the dynamic of counterinsurgency warfare," General Swannack said.

The string of retired generals calling for Rumsfeld's removal has touched off a vigorous debate within the ranks of both active-duty and retired generals and admirals.

Some officers who have worked closely with Mr. Rumsfeld reject the idea that he is primarily to blame for the inability of American forces to defeat the insurgency in Iraq. One active-duty, four-star Army officer said he had not heard among his peers widespread criticism of Mr.

Rumsfeld, and said he thought the criticism from his retired colleagues was off base. "They are entitled to their views, but I believe them to be wrong. And it is unfortunate they have allowed themselves to become in some respects, politicized."

Gen. Jack Keane, who was Army vice chief of staff in 2003 before retiring, said in the planning of the Iraq invasion, senior officers as much as the Pentagon's civilian leadership underestimated the threat of a long-term insurgency.

"There's shared responsibility here. I don't think you can blame the civilian leadership alone," he said.
Maj. Gen. Paul D. Eaton, a retired Army general, called for Mr. Rumsfeld's resignation in March.
The criticism of Mr. Rumsfeld may spring from multiple motives. General Zinni, for example, is in the middle of a tour promoting a new book critical of the Bush administration.

General Riggs, who called for Mr. Rumsfeld's resignation in an interview on Thursday with National Public Radio, left the Pentagon in 2004 after clashing with civilian leaders and then being investigated for potential misuse of contractor personnel.

But there were also signs that the spate of retired generals calling for Mr. Rumsfeld's departure was not finished. Lt. Gen. Paul Van Riper, who is retired from the Marine Corps, said in an interview Thursday he had received a telephone call from another retired general who was weighing whether to publicly join the calls for Mr. Rumsfeld's dismissal.

"He was conflicted, and when I hung up I didn't know which way he was going to go," General Van Riper said.

posted Friday, 14 April 2006

Anna Magnani / Mini Kiss



Anna Magnani

I saw this women in the film Open City I thought she was most stunning woman I've seen in a while, although I heard she was described on wikipedia that her career was not so successful because she was kind of rough I think that is what I enjoyed about her. i thought her presence was powerful and when she was shot down by Nazi's I thought the movie lacked impact or just fizzled out. I have just found muy new Crush. Anna magnani is my new Dream Girl

Rival bands clash over little-person KISS tribute

A Las Vegas incident highlights the MiniKiss- Tiny Kiss tussle over who owns the concept.
By Robert W. Welkos, Times Staff WriterApril 11, 2006
They might be pint-sized performers onstage, but offstage they're in a giant-sized dispute.Joey Fatale, the 4-foot, 4-inch New Yorker who heads the all-dwarf KISS tribute band MiniKiss, is denying published reports that he tried to sneak past security last month at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas to confront a rival band leader, 4-foot "Little" Tim Loomis of Tiny Kiss, for allegedly ripping off his idea for such a group.

Loomis, a former drummer for MiniKiss, was performing with Tiny Kiss, which includes three little people and a 350-pound woman, on St. Patrick's Day at Beacher's Madhouse, a Las Vegas variety show, when the incident occurred.Show host Jeff Beacher told The Times on Monday that Fatale "tried to sneak in saying he was Tiny Kiss" and had to be escorted from the premises.

According to the New York Post, Fatale's lawyers sent a legal cease-and-desist letter to the show trying to shut down the act. Loomis told the Post: "[Fatale] came out here [to Las Vegas] and tried to cause trouble, so I had him 86'd from the Hard Rock.

The impression I got was that he was looking for a fight. He'd been threatening me over the phone."But Fatale disputed the accusation, telling The Times: "This whole thing about me going to the Hard Rock with my gang — that didn't happen. What happened was, I went there because somebody told me [Tiny Kiss was] doing the show that night….

Nobody escorted me out of there. I went there by myself to approach them as a gentleman."Fatale says he has "nothing to say" about Loomis, except, "He's a nice guy." And, he added, "This is all a big publicity act for the guy at Beacher's."

posted Tuesday, 11 April 2006

Brazil Has their Shit straight

Brazil Has their shit straight

PIRACICABA, Brazil — At the dawn of the automobile age, Henry Ford predicted that "ethyl alcohol is the fuel of the future." With petroleum about $65 a barrel, President Bush has now embraced that view, too. But Brazil is already there.

Lalo de Almeida for The New York Times Ethanol, or alcool, is popular at a São Paulo station and across Brazil because it costs less than gas.
This country expects to become energy self-sufficient this year, meeting its growing demand for fuel by increasing production from petroleum and ethanol. Already the use of ethanol, derived in Brazil from sugar cane, is so widespread that some gas stations have two sets of pumps, marked A for alcohol and G for gas.

In his State of the Union address in January, Mr. Bush backed financing for "cutting-edge methods of producing ethanol, not just from corn but wood chips and stalks or switch grass" with the goal of making ethanol competitive in six years.
But Brazil's path has taken 30 years of effort, required several billion dollars in incentives and involved many missteps. While not always easy, it provides clues to the real challenges facing the United States' ambitions.

Brazilian officials and scientists say that, in their country at least, the main barriers to the broader use of ethanol today come from outside. Brazil's ethanol yields nearly eight times as much energy as corn-based options, according to scientific data. Yet heavy import duties on the Brazilian product have limited its entry into the United States and Europe.
Brazilian officials and scientists say sugar cane yields are likely to increase because of recent research.

"Renewable fuel has been a fantastic solution for us," Brazil's minister of agriculture, Roberto Rodrigues, said in a recent interview in São Paulo, the capital of São Paulo State, which accounts for 60 percent of sugar production in Brazil. "And it offers a way out of the fossil fuel trap for others as well."

Here, where Brazil has cultivated sugar cane since the 16th century, green fields of cane, stalks rippling gently in the tropical breeze, stretch to the horizon, producing a crop that is destined to be consumed not just as candy and soft drinks but also in the tanks of millions of cars.
The use of ethanol in Brazil was greatly accelerated in the last three years with the introduction of "flex fuel" engines, designed to run on ethanol, gasoline or any mixture of the two. (The gasoline sold in Brazil contains about 25 percent alcohol, a practice that has accelerated Brazil's shift from imported oil.)

But Brazilian officials and business executives say the ethanol industry would develop even faster if the United States did not levy a tax of 54 cents a gallon on all imports of Brazilian cane-based ethanol.

With demand for ethanol soaring in Brazil, sugar producers recognize that it is unrealistic to think of exports to the United States now. But Brazilian leaders complain that Washington's restrictions have inhibited foreign investment, particularly by Americans.
As a result, ethanol development has been led by Brazilian companies with limited capital. But with oil prices soaring, the four international giants that control much of the world's agribusiness — Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge and Born, Cargill and Louis Dreyfuss — have recently begun showing interest.

Brazil says those and other outsiders are welcome. Aware that the United States and other industrialized countries are reluctant to trade their longstanding dependence on oil for a new dependence on renewable fuels, government and industry officials say they are willing to share technology with those interested in following Brazil's example.

"We are not interested in becoming the Saudi Arabia of ethanol," said Eduardo Carvalho, director of the National Sugarcane Agro-Industry Union, a producer's group. "It's not our strategy because it doesn't produce results. As a large producer and user, I need to have other big buyers and sellers in the international market if ethanol is to become a commodity, which is our real goal."

The ethanol boom in Brazil, which took off at the start of the decade after a long slump, is not the first. The government introduced its original "Pro-Alcohol" program in 1975, after the first global energy crisis, and by the mid-1980's, more than three quarters of the 800,000 cars made in Brazil each year could run on cane-based ethanol.

But when sugar prices rose sharply in 1989, mill owners stopped making cane available for processing into alcohol, preferring to profit from the hard currency that premium international markets were paying.

Brazilian motorists were left in the lurch, as were the automakers who had retooled their production lines to make alcohol-powered cars. Ethanol fell into discredit, for economic rather than technical reasons.

Consumers' suspicions remained high through the 1990's and were overcome only in 2003, when automakers, beginning with Volkswagen, introduced the "flex fuel" motor in Brazil. Those engines gave consumers the autonomy to buy the cheapest fuel, freeing them from any potential shortages in ethanol's supply. Also, ethanol-only engines can be slower to start when cold, a problem the flex fuel owners can bypass.

"Motorists liked the flex-fuel system from the start because it permits them free choice and puts them in control," said Vicente Lourenço, technical director at General Motors do Brasil.
Today, less than three years after the technology was introduced, more than 70 percent of the automobiles sold in Brazil, expected to reach 1.1 million this year, have flex fuel engines, which have entered the market generally without price increases.

"The rate at which this technology has been adopted is remarkable, the fastest I have ever seen in the motor sector, faster even than the airbag, automatic transmission or electric windows," said Barry Engle, president of Ford do Brasil. "From the consumer standpoint, it's wonderful, because you get flexibility and you don't have to pay for it."

Yet the ethanol boom has also brought the prospect of distortions that may not be as easy to resolve. The expansion of sugar production, for example, has come largely at the expense of pasture land, leading to worries that the grazing of cattle, another booming export product, could be shifted to the Amazon, encouraging greater deforestation.

Industry and government officials say such concerns are unwarranted. Sugar cane's expanding frontier is, they argue, an environmental plus, because it is putting largely abandoned or degraded pasture land back into production. And of course, ethanol burns far cleaner that fossil fuels.

Human rights and worker advocacy groups also complain that the boom has led to more hardships for the peasants who cut sugar cane.
"You used to have to cut 4 tons a day, but now they want 8 or 10, and if you can't make the quota, you'll be fired," said Silvio Donizetti Palvequeres, president of the farmworkers union in Ribeirão Preto, an important cane area north of here. "We have to work a lot harder than we did 10 years ago, and the working conditions continue to be tough."

Producers say that problem will be eliminated in the next decade by greater mechanization. A much more serious long-term worry, they say, is Brazil's lack of infrastructure, particularly its limited and poorly maintained highways.

Ethanol can be made through the fermentation of many natural substances, but sugar cane offers advantages over others, like corn. For each unit of energy expended to turn cane into ethanol, 8.3 times as much energy is created, compared with a maximum of 1.3 times for corn, according to scientists at the Center for Sugarcane Technology here and other Brazilian research institutes.

"There's no reason why we shouldn't be able to improve that ratio to 10 to 1," said Suani Teixeira Coelho, director of the National Center for Biomass at the University of São Paulo. "It's no miracle. Our energy balance is so favorable not just because we have high yields, but also because we don't use any fossil fuels to process the cane, which is not the case with corn."
Brazilian producers estimate that they have an edge over gasoline as long as oil prices do not drop below $30 a barrel. But they have already embarked on technical improvements that promise to lift yields and cut costs even more.

In the past, the residue left when cane stalks are compressed to squeeze out juice was discarded. Today, Brazilian sugar mills use that residue to generate the electricity to process cane into ethanol, and use other byproducts to fertilize the fields where cane is planted.
Some mills are now producing so much electricity that they sell their excess to the national grid. In addition, Brazilian scientists, with money from São Paulo State, have mapped the sugar cane genome. That opens the prospect of planting genetically modified sugar, if the government allows, that could be made into ethanol even more efficiently.

"There is so much biological potential yet to be developed, including varieties of cane that are resistant to pesticides and pests and even drought," said Tadeu Andrade, director of the Center for Sugarcane Technology. "We've already had several qualitative leaps without that, and we are convinced there is no ceiling on productivity, at least theoretically."
posted Monday, 10 April 2006

Rose Tattoo's guitarist dies

March 28, 2006, 10:45 AM ET

Christie Eliezer, Sydney

Pete Wells, slide guitarist and one of the founders of Australian power blues band Rose Tattoo, died in a Sydney hospital early yesterday morning (March 27). He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2002 and had spent the last five weeks in the hospital. According to friends, he was due to turn 60 this year.Wells emerged in 1966 playing bass in the Brisbane blues band Head.

He moved to Sydney and joined heavy metal band Buffalo. The band's "Volcanic Rock" was the first Australian metal album to go gold; the act also scored an overseas deal with Vertigo.In 1976 he switched to slide guitar, formed the seminal Rose Tattoo and went on to hire lead singer Angry Anderson. They became one of Australian's main street outlaw bands and found a loyal following in the United Kingdom, Germany and France.

Wells' original concept for the band was for all the members to sport bright orange hair, tattoos, shaved eyebrows and black T-shirts and jeans.Rose Tattoo's influence later became apparent on U.S. rock combos like Guns N' Roses, who covered its track "Nice Boys (Don't Play Rock'n'Roll)," Motley Crue and L.A. Guns.Rose Tattoo's self-titled debut album was released in November 1978 on Albert Records. It became an instant classic, thanks to tracks like "Rock'n'Roll Outlaw" and "Bad Boy for Love." Wells left Rose Tattoo in 1983. But he rejoined in 2000 for tours in Europe and for a 2002 album, "Pain."

In between running a tattoo parlor, House of Pain, Wells later played in a series of bands such as Illustrated Men, Scattered Aces and Romeo's Dog. He also made music with his partner, Lucy De Soto. His five solo albums, including 1991's "Everything You Like Tries To Kill You," showed his love for country blues and his whisky-soaked drawl.Australian acts such as the Beasts of Bourbon, Paul Kelly and Tim Rogers staged benefit concerts for Wells in Sydney and Melbourne last September. A memorial service will be held Friday (March 31) in Sydney.

posted Wednesday, 5 April 2006

I feel sorry for Nirvana Fans

I feel sorry for Nirvana Fans

For the Record I never was a Nirvana Fan as much as I was a fan of Courtney Love, and I'm not! not sure about that movie Kurt and Courtney but I'm sure after reading this article I'm sure there is some validity to it.

Courtney & Nirvana: Smells Like a Sellout03/31/2006 12:56 PM, E! OnlineNirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit"--coming soon to a soap ad near you?

So far Courtney Love is ruling that out, but chances are we'll be hearing more of the seminal grunge band's music in unexpected places now that Kurt Cobain's cash-strapped widow has agreed to sell off a 25 percent stake in the Nirvana song catalog in a deal valued at $50 million, per Rolling Stone.

On the other end of the deal is Larry Mestel, the former COO of Virgin Records and current head of Primary Wave Music Publishing.
To preemptively squelch backlash from fans worried about the over-commercialization of a decidedly anticorporate band, Love sought to assure the Nirvana faithful that the music won't simply be licensed to the highest bidder.

"We're going to remain very tasteful, and we're going to [retain] the spirit of Nirvana and take Nirvana places it's never been before," Love told the magazine.
"I took on a strategic partner, Larry Mestel, to help me comanage the estate because it was overwhelming," Love said. "The affairs of Nirvana are so massive and so huge, and they've all fallen on my lap.

"I own almost all of [the publishing]...and it proved to be too much for me. I needed a partner to take Kurt Cobain's songs and bring them into the future and into the next generation. And this guy's the guy to do it," she said.

Following her husband's 1994 suicide, Love became the primary benefactor of Cobain's estate, which included ownership rights of more than 98 percent of Nirvana's song catalog. The other two former members, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, own the remainder--slightly less than 2 percent split between them. The new deal does not affect their portion.

Mestel, too, is quick to quell rumors that he's just another suit out to profit on Cobain's legacy.
"My goal is to keep the music very true to who the songwriter was and what his passions and tastes would be and to work through Courtney to figure out exactly the best way to go about exposing his music to a new youth culture to a new generation," Mestel said.
He also told Rolling Stone that he was thrilled to have been able to buy into the Nirvana catalog and become, with his three-year-old company, a part of music history.

"The appeal to me is that [Cobain was] one of the most important songwriters of his time," Mestel said. "Kurt was an incredible songwriter, and Courtney is an exceptionally talented person herself. So I felt the combination of Courtney's creativity and the things I can add can really help in creating more value for these copyrights."

Novoselic and Grohl, long-time adversaries of Love, have yet to comment on the new deal. But we're guessing they're none too pleased.

When rumors first swirled that Love was looking to unload a stake in the lucrative catalog, it was expected that the duo may have first dibs, but, based on their troubled history with Love, it's doubtful they were ever offered the chance.

In 2001, Love filed suit against Grohl and Novoselic in an attempt to gain sole custody of the Nirvana songbook, calling the duo merely "sidemen" in the band, which she equated as a one-man show--the man of course being her late husband. The same year, Grohl and Novoselic struck back, filing their own suit alleging Love was using Cobain's music to "further her own career goals," calling her a "greedy prima donna" with a "waning recording and acting career."
Love also filed suit against Grohl and Novoselic and Nirvana's label, Universal Music Group, to block the release of a Nirvana box set, The Heart-Shaped Box. The suit was eventually settled and the album released.

In an interview with Blender magazine last year, Love claimed that "$40 million has been stolen from me and Frances by a fiduciary institution." In July, she blamed former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl for her financial woes, telling Spin magazine that Grohl had been "taking money from my child for years."

Aside from the wrangling over Nirvana, Love's once considerable fortune has been sapped by lawsuits, liens and numerous drug-related charges. In January, a mortgage company took possession of a Seattle-area house owned by Love (and the former residence of Cobain's sister), after the singer-actress failed to make payments. Last August, a Manhattan financial firm moved to foreclose on her pricey New York condo, claiming she had not made a mortgage payment in months.

But things are looking up. Aside from the Mestel deal, Love was given a good report card in February by a Los Angeles judge in her last remaining drug case. For her part, Love told the judge she had put her "very gnarly drug problem" behind her.

She's also resuming her own music career. Love is in the studio recording a follow-up to her 2004 solo album, America's Sweetheart. Linda Perry, Moby and Billy Corgan are pitching in, with the latter joining Love for a track called, aptly enough, "How Dirty Girls Get Clean."

posted Monday, 3 April 2006tags:

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i cant believe billy is going near that woman!!!


Review of Bottle Rocket

great movie one the funiest I've seen in awhile, well worth buying or renting, just get it. the characer are great but don't expect and spoilers here. thats not my style just go see it and you won't be mad.

posted Thursday, 30 March 2006

ABC's Extreme Exploitation / SARS THE MUSICAL

ABC's Extreme Exploitation

from the smoking gun.com This makes me Sick

MARCH 27--Not content with humdrum stories of poverty, heartache, and distress, the producers of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" have compiled a creepy wish list of woe for the next season of the hit ABC television series, The Smoking Gun has learned.
in an e-mail forwarded earlier this month by an ABC executive to network affiliates, the program's casting agent details the exact kind of tragedies and rare illnesses being sought by the Top 20 show. Families featured on the program have their often ramshackle homes renovated for free by a platoon headed by handyman/heartthrob Ty Pennington. The show is maudlin, tug-on-your-heartstrings television, "Queen for a Day" with finish carpentry.

Based on the ABC e-mail, it appears that victims of hate crimes and violent home invasions and families coping with the loss of a child killed by a drunk driver make for good television. And the show would also absolutely love to feature those battling skin cancer, Lou Gehrig's disease, and muscular dystrophy.

Oh, and families with multiple children with Down Syndrome would be ideal, whether the kids are "either adopted or biological," the e-mail notes. And, shooting the moon, the program's "family casting director," Charisse Simonian, would love to locate a kid suffering from Progeria, the rare condition that causes rapid aging in a child (for those unaware of Progeria, the ABC e-mail helpfully describes it as "aka 'little old man disease.'")

As if that terrible affliction weren't enough, Simonian is also on the hunt for a child with congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis. "This is where kids cannot feel any physical pain," she notes. But the hunt for a young victim--who will likely die before 30--will not be easy. "There are 17 known cases in US," she writes, before chirpily adding, "let me know if one is in your town!" Such spirit in the face of tragedy.

The March 10 correspondence was written by Phinel Petit-Frere, a network executive based in New York, who passed along the makeover show's wish list to network affiliates in the Southeast. The affiliates were requested to help in locating prospective families for the series, which finished eighth in last week's Nielsen ratings. When contacted by TSG, Petit-Frere said he only forwarded the memo on Simonian's behalf and directed other questions her way. (1 page)

SARS: The Musical

Lord of the rings Musical sounds so fucking Retarded to me, and toronto spending so much money $25 million to recover 2003 SARS Scare, is kind of funny, I would never go see a musical version of the lord of the rings, thats just crazy to me. I think Canada should be a little more bolder about this and go one step further. instead of lord of the Rings, or even god forbid. a musical version of the matrix, why create a musical about your worst problem. SARS. Could you imagine SARS the Musical? thousand of chinese girls in balet slippers and leotards daning balet while wearing surgical masks. Now that would be Awesome.

SARS: The Musical
Billed as the most expensive musical ever at $25 million, Toronto is pinning its hopes on the show revitalizing the city's beleaguered theater industry, which has never fully recovered from the SARS outbreak in the spring of 2003. The city lost an estimated $1 billion in tourism dollars, after 44 people died of the respiratory syndrome.

"It's a Mirvish & Co. production - you're going to get the best there is," former Toronto Mayor David Crombie said just before the curtains went up. "Before SARS, we were on an upward trajectory, and I think this is a terrific reminder that we're back."

David Mirvish is a Toronto-based theatrical producer who owns the Princess of Wales Theatre and has produced numerous shows in Canada and abroad.
"I feel relief that we've come to the end of the first phase of our journey," Mirvish said after the performance. "One never knows in theater - it's a tough audience. But if tonight is repeated every night, we're in good shape."

The show did get a standing ovation, but not a wild encore callback to the actors.
"I thought the special effects were awesome, I loved the Finnish music and I thought it followed the Tolkien story," said Scott Ward of Kansas City, a lifelong "Lord of the Rings" fan of who has visited Tolkien's grave in Oxford, England.

The music was an amalgam of sounds by Bollywood master A.R. Rahman and Varttina, a Finnish folk group, combined by musical supervisor Christopher Nightingale.
Another true Hobbit-head - and there weren't many at the invitation-only, black-tie affair - said he appreciated the attempt, but that in the end, something was missing.
"The synergy didn't quite work," said Jonathan St. Rose, who joked that one of the only A-pluses he got at university was in Middle-earth studies. "I don't sense the angst, the soul, the kick that drives the heart of `The Lord of the Rings."'

03/24/06 13:52 EST

posted Saturday, 25 March 2006

Scattern Poems Kerouac

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Review of Scattered Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series).

Yes this collection is very scattered, so far it's okay in the sense it's not very focused. can't really say its a collection well thought out. it's still worth the read. there were many peaks and vallies with this one I Liked the one about rimbuad. which makes me want to check his stuff out. perhaps later. to be honest I like his other poems much better. I guess when you read these You really have to focus on the meter and rythm to actually enjoy them.

posted Wednesday, 22 March 2006

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im so glad that there are other people out there who read jacks stuff, i love him!! he is all about rhythmn and flow.
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Review of 100 Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings


Review of 100 Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings

at first I liked this book, some of the poems which are numbered and not titled, are some of the strangest ones I've read. the avant gardeness of it all really is a joy. but later it loses its punch with me. I would like to add that why most editors or poetry publications are sticklers for punctuation and grammer, and yet here is a guy, breaking all these rules. And we and everyone else have to adhere to strict and rediculous guidelines.

over all this book is okay. which may be blasphemous to Cummings Fans. if they are out there? please don't write me if you are because I really don't care one way or the other. he's ok and thats all I got to say about that. I will however point out that womens hairy vagina is a real turn on for E.E Cummings, in fact he refers to it as Electric.

posted Wednesday, 22 March 2006

three Bee Dreams in one day

I am walking in my parents yard, there are Dandylions i see bees on them. i wake up then I a dream a similiar dream to that one. then I dream of someone saying Look out for bees at the bottom of the swimming Pool

this is odd because I only dream of about bees once in a blue moon when something is about to happen. I will keep you posted about the signficance.

posted Thursday, 16 March 2006

Day before Funeral

todays meeting of in-laws the only people who genuinely speak to me was the one who see's electricity, the man with one arm, the man who thinks he looks like john wayne. and a women whose name was Snookie.
posted Thursday, 16 March 2006

ON THE ROAD


Review of On the Road

Now that I am finished Now I know why people are creaming in their pants over this book. It's great. but that is an understatement. it shows Borroughs at his most weird, and not even in Burroughs words. Sometimes you can't see how weird you are unless someone else points it out to you. I don't even think Burroughs knew how weird he was.
Strong chapters thus far. In part 2 is chapter five- seven eight. just really good stuff. i just wish I didn't put reading this book off when I was a kid.

Neal Cassiday was a trip. he kept refering to people as "Kicks" I feel now that neal was definetly Jacks Muse. he got him laid he kept the party going, and in the midst of all this partying he always remined jack to observe life and all it's glory. the trip to mexico alone was very powerful stuff. I wish everybody had a friend like Dean or Neal cassiday, I wish I had one to inspire me to write. In reading this book I must it is the first Novel I read in over nine years. I read lots of poetry lately but not a novel. so I feel good about this.
Get this book I highly recomend it.

posted Wednesday, 15 March 2006

Bee Dreams 4th so far in 5 yrs

last night I dreamed that I was standing on the sidewalk, I think was 6th street in newport by the high school

all around me bees swarming but also there therewere giant bumble bees about 1 1/2 inch in length. these giant Bumble bees were in mid flight but in suspended animation. I always seem to be dreaming about about bees who can't move and then come to life. but there was something else. Koi pond fish where also present among the Bees. Each bee and each fish with their own individual movement frozen in time.

posted Tuesday, 14 March 2006

Yes Impeach the president!!

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has spoken: President Bush must be impeached. It's a political earthquake that is shaking the establishment across the country. OK, maybe across San Francisco Bay, to Berkeley
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Some critics of the president applauded the latest attempt by San Francisco's governing board to wade into Washington's affairs. Others rolled their eyes.
"This should certainly force a special convening of Congress," San Francisco's Democratic Mayor, Gavin Newsom, said sarcastically. "I'm surprised the president himself didn't shorten his trip to India to deal with it."

San Francisco this week became the biggest of the scattered left-coast bastions to pass such measures; Others include Santa Cruz, to the south, and Arcata, far to the north.
The resolution continues a long tradition of mutual antipathy between Bush and San Francisco, a city he has never visited as president.

"San Francisco is a fabulous place, but most Americans don't take their political cues from the city by the bay," said Republican National Committee spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt.
Some members of Congress — who actually have the power to impeach — were unaware of the vote days after it was taken. Others, like Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the liberal Democrat whose district includes much of San Francisco, urged the president's opponents to channel their anger into the 2006 congressional and 2008 presidential campaigns.

"If they don't like the policies of our country, I encourage everyone to mobilize to change who is in power in Washington, D.C.," Pelosi, a fierce Bush critic, said at a Washington news conference.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., was also unfazed by the supervisors' call. "It would seem to me that there is plenty to occupy them on civic issues," she said.

Rep. Barbara Lee, the Berkeley-Oakland Democrat who cast the lone vote against authorizing Bush to use force against terrorists after Sept. 11, favors the creation of a congressional committee to investigate pre-Iraq war intelligence and identify impeachable offenses.
"I appreciate the sentiment expressed by this resolution, and I look forward to a day soon when we will have a Democratic Congress that will take its oversight and accountability responsibilities seriously, and I encourage people to keep that issue in mind when they go to the polls in November," she said.

The supervisors' measure invokes the laundry list of charges against Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney: They misled the country into the war. They authorized torture. Their administration failed in its response to Hurricane Katrina. They authorized illegal domestic wiretapping.

"On a list of 4,000 or 5,000 things I'm focused on, it's not even on that list," Newsom said in an interview with The Associated Press. "That being said, I understand where it comes from, and that sentiment is certainly expressed in the resolution.

"It's an expression of frustration, and it's something the majority of San Franciscans probably feel," he said.

The vote fits in with a rich history of San Francisco supervisors trying influence U.S. policy, and beyond.

In the last year, the board has passed resolutions:
_Condemning the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China.
_Insisting that the U.S. government comply with international laws on the use of torture.
_Urging Congress to demand that Bush withdraw American troops from Iraq.
_Demanding that Fox News fire Bill O'Reilly. (Newsom signed that one.)
"I think it's an example to people around the country," said Bob Fertik, president of ImpeachPAC, a group that seeks the impeachment of Bush and Cheney. "A majority of Americans support impeachment. They're looking for leadership, and San Francisco's providing it."

In fact, it's impossible to gauge Americans' attitudes on impeachment. Mainstream pollsters have shied away from asking the question, saying they prefer to wait until talk of impeachment becomes "serious."

posted Thursday, 9 March 2006

Yanni 911

Yanni 911

I guess New Age isn't as enlightened as people previously thought?

Silvia Barthes claims that the keyboardist and composer struck her in the face last Thursday night after telling her to leave his home near Palm Beach, Florida. Barthes, who had a mark on her face, also accused Yanni, whose real name is John Yanni Christopher, of grabbing her and throwing her on a bed.

Yanni was arrested and charged with misdemeanor domestic battery. Yanni, through his lawyer, denies the allegations.

Transcript of the 911 call:

911 Operator 1: 911 What’s your (?) emergency?
911 Operator 2: (inaudible)Barthes: Yes, yes
O1: OK, what’s the problem there ma’am? Barthes: In the house
O2: A case of domestic violence, when she locked in the room.. Ma’am?
Barthes: Yes?
O2: Your husband or boyfriend?
Barthes: Huh?
O2: Your husband or your boyfriend?
Barthes: He’s my boyfriend.
O2: Does he have any weapons?
Barthes: Yes, he has one (crying)
O2: How many does he have?
Barthes: Uh, he...you do have weapon- he’s not using his weapon, he just beat me.
(Operators talking to one another)
O1: ma’am you’re at (says address)?
Barthes: yes (crying) yes
O1: OK, and you’re inside the house?
Barthes: yes
O1: Is he still inside the house?
Barthes: Yes right now.
O1: Alright what’s your.. (breaks up)
O1: Alright just stay inside, stay inside the room locked, and we will send and officer over to meet with you ok?
Barthes: OK, OK, OK ... Oh please
O1: Alright, bye bye.

posted Wednesday, 8 March 2006

I DIED PART 2

I died part 2

A letter from Tom Weast the President of Base Art Galllery

about my death mix up


craig,
pendery had some kind of meltdown - he was supposed to have a show down the street at one of john rice's friend's home- (the tall blonde who goes to india and is into meditation. she is usually stoned.) anyway, it fell through and he stormed into base carrying his paintings that he was going to show there- during the opening night of final Friday in january, and he was talking about the stuck-up -ieness of the main street scene! i missed it all cause i was sick and couldn't make it.

i told john rice the at this month's recent hanging (weds before the final friday) about john zeh - the gay activist who died according to the newspaper. i told him he was the guy who always drank from our beer keg and would never leave. he always had some young boy with him who looked like a squatter kid. john rice didn't know who i was talking about. i told him he was the guy who was in the wheelchair and he mixed him up with you. how he did that is beyond me. i think john is getting some bad ass weed these days.

anyway, at the opening, john rice shows up in an all black suit and tie. when everyone asked him what the deal was he told them tom told him craig had died and he was just paying tribute to you. he was about to get out your tv's and put some flowers on them or some shit. everyone freaked out and was coming up to me asking me how it happened. i told them john was getting some bad ass weed these days.

there is no comparison between you and john zeh. he was a freaking creepy dude man.

-tom

posted Tuesday, 7 March 2006

Last nights oscars

I think John Stewart is the man, I thought he did great last night, in fact better than I thought he would. I'm not sure if he should do it again, because there ar more important things to do.

posted Tuesday, 7 March 2006

I Died

A Letter I got from my Publisher

Craig,

sorry for the long silence; I'll have some constructive feedback for you by mid-week... though it goes without saying, if you'd like to publish again, I'm more than open to the possibility.

I can't seem to find your phone number in my email backlog... call me sometime,

Heard some interesting news about you, recently... apparently, somebody's going around telling people that you're dead. Jim Pendery heard it at Final Friday last month...

Mick
Best Regards,Mick Parsons, Publisher
One-Legged Cow Press
http://www.oneleggedcowpress.org/

Oscillons from the Anti-Sun Review


Review of Oscillons from the Anti-Sun

A great joyous ambition collection of music and I'm glad there are bandsa like Stereolab in the world get this box set if you ever want to know what a real alternative band sounds like.

posted Friday, 3 March 2006

The President has No Balls

The President has No Balls

perhaps right now the only thing that could save or redeam mr Bush, is the capture of Osama Bin Laden. which I predict will happen within a week to a month. and thats only because right now bush looks like a moron in the public eye. everyone from the left and right are looking at him a bit funny. I'm sure other people have said this better than could but I'm still adding my two cents.

the republicans have a war on terrorism, supposedly and yet there haven't been any in the united states sincwe 2001. There were rumors of possible threats but none so far. We have color coded threats and nothing has ever gone beyond yellow accept orange and still nobody cares. We even just found a couple of weeks ago that a terrorist attack in Los Angeles and yet we just found this out. If this were true where are the suspects? Why wasn't the govenor of california nortified. why wasn't the mayor of los angelos notified? In fact even he wanted to know that himself. I believe this was just a lie. there were no threats because if there were the republicans wiould have used this as an example of the dangers we are in. for years i have been wondering where are all the terrorists?

Another question that comes to mind. Probably like most americans i had just found out that our ports are own by the chinese and british. I did not know that. I Want to know who made that deal possible?

I also would like to point out. If we are in a war against terrrorism, and the most likely suspect in most americans minds, are Arabs. if Mr Bush is so Gung ho about this Port deal then more than likely it's because he knows the whole thing was a hoax. he knows the terrorists aren't as tiightly knit as previously thought. perhaps he knows the hijacking was the best thing they could do. thats all they had up their sleaves. maybe george and his corporate goon squads knew this and saw this as their chance to go after Sadam.

This really didn't go well as planned as most of you people know. So now with this Katrina mess coming to fruition, Oil crisis and even more katrina Woes, and now the ownership of Ports. it just seems the whole thing is piling up on him, so Now he's in Pakistan Strutting his stuff. If Osama Bin Laden is found. I now give it A month tops.

I'm not psychic i told my wife, come Election year that Gas prices will go down an average of $1.65 around the

Ohio Ky Indiana area, and nationally $1.85

it looks like this won't happen.. We'll See won't we? But I think It's a little to late to for Mr. Bush to prove he has Balls. he should have proven that in 2001

posted Friday, 3 March 2006

The IHOP SUCKS SAGA CONTINUES

The IHOP SUCKS SAGA CONTINUES

Today I got a letter from the Corporate headquaters of IHOP

IHOP RESTAURANT SUPPORT CENTER
450N. BRSND BLVD, 7TH FLOOR
GLENDALE, CA 91203-4415

the eveleope says City of Industry CA 917
and was shipped from Pasadena CA

the Letter says

Dear Mr. Caudill:
Thank You for sharing the details of your IHOP experience with us. I have forwarded your comments to the appropriate individuals to ensure that the issue is resolved at the restaurant.
As a token of our appreciation I have enclosed a Be Our Guest Certificate, Redeemable at any IHOP location in the United States and Canada
Thank you again for contacting us with your concerns

Sincerely,
Jeff Tafoya

the gift certificate is $15
So If I go there again perhaps things will be different? who knows.

Stay tuned!!!!!

posted Tuesday, 28 February 2006

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain


Review of The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain : New Poems

Buy it or steal he wouldn't care because he is dead.
Whenever I get a copy from the library I write little messages in the book so that people know that I was there. It's stupid but I do this. perhaps for preservation of something stupid.. i can tell by the conditions of the books how ratty some of the people who read his works are. he would have wanted it that way.

posted Tuesday, 21 February 2006

Slouching Towards Nirvana review


Review of Slouching Toward Nirvana : New Poems

Still reading the guy and can't get enough, I'm so surprised how a guy on the verge of death still maintains a certain amount of edge that most people lose after awhile. Bukowski was in his prime when most writers where getting soft after become famous.
Not his best collection of poems but well worth the read.

posted Tuesday, 21 February 2006


IHOP tragic service I left Hungry

I went to IHOP hungry, It was my first time ever visiting your establishment. I must say I waited quite ahwile without a greeter. when we were seated the table was dirty with an empty coffee pot. we were given our menu's. Again we Waited quite a while before anyone took our oder.
We had a very tall quiet waiter who wanted take our order before cleaning off our table. We asked if he could please clean our table. he walks away without taking the coffee pot or saying anything. he then tends to other customers Which really Pissed me off, After waiting a couple of more minutes. We decided to leave. and thats when Our waiter finally showed up with a wash cloth to clean our table. by that time I've already decided to leave. the waiter didn't apolgise nor seemed to care if we stayed or got a tip or anything. it was his lathargic attitude that repelled me to leave your restaurant.

In your Restaurant there was no identifiable manager so that we could complain, and there was no attempt to apologise by our server or a manager to rectify this eroneous problem.
We Left the Ihop at the Anderson Town Center and went to a Perkins in Northern Ky. I ordered an omellete just Like I never got to order at the IHOP. I had a good meal and was very satisfied with perkins with it's excellent service and polite servers. To which I gave My waitress a five dollar tip for $20.00 dinner for two.

Perhaps IHOP could be a better establishment then Perkins. But I will never know since first impressions are very important to me.
perhaps you can do better next time for future customers.
Also will add this is going to be posted on my blog.

posted Saturday, 18 February 2006

Me made this comment,

IHOP restaurants are FILTHY!!!
If you get coffee or soda, there's usually something disgusting floating in your beverage! I don't think they even clean the drinking glasses and coffee cups there.
I'd be afraid to eat at an IHOP because the dishes probably have viruses and bacteria all over them.
This has been a problem at IHOP restaurants not just in Cincinnati but also in other areas.


comment added :: 20th February 2006, 17:35 GMT

Fasslers Florist shop in Ft Wright KY Sucks!!!

A letter I sent to Fasslers Florist
The fact the flowers I ordered from you got to the place Long after after everyone else got their flowers pretty much ruined the surprise of sending someone a dozen roses. Now because of this, next year I have to try Much harder.
and I promise I won't be ordering from your company because you sucked the romance out
of my Valentines Day and my wifes. If 'I'm going to be buying a dozen Roses I'm going with a much bigger company. Your reprentative failed to tell when they might get there. or if they will be late.

$60 was an expensive failure

Abuelo's Blows!!!

The Mexican Embassy Blows!!!!
I never really thought of writing revues of restuarants but here goes
Atmosphere: gets an A+ For a franchise the place was beautiful
Waiter: A++ he was the coolest guy you ever would meet
Food : C- the food was terrible in the realm of authentic mexican cuisine
Price: F- for 34 dollars it wasn't worth it, I have had better mexican food with Taco making kits that you can get at the grocery store. Mix with Choulo Sauce and Yummy!!!
Ortega or Old EL Paso is awesome, even from Taco Bell. And taco Bell is an abomination against mexico or anything remotely TEX MEX
Even Chi's Chi's tasted more authentic then Abuelo's, and they Suck!!!
This place is not worth the time and effort. don't waste your time eat taco's at home!!!
I ordered two Fajita's for my wife and eye. not much is the sizzling department. the steak tasted good.

but the pico degallo was sub par. instead of refried beans I got bean soup, which I can make at home. instead of tortilla soup I got corn beaf hash like chunks in the soup, which was creepy. the tortilla was lame and the Salsa was mild. The restaurant was horribly understaffed for a restaurant that had just opened.

posted Tuesday, 14 February 2006


Peter Benchley Dies

NEW YORK - Peter Benchley, whose novel "Jaws" terrorized millions of swimmers even as the author himself became an advocate for the conservation of sharks, has died at age 65, his widow said Sunday
Wendy Benchley, married to the author for 41 years, said he died Saturday night at their home in Princeton, N.J. The cause of death, she said, was idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive and a fatal scarring of the lungs.
Thanks to Benchley's 1974 novel, and Steven Spielbergs's blockbuster movie of the same name, the simple act of ocean swimming became synonymous with fatal horror, of still water followed by ominous, pumping music, then teeth and blood and panic.
Spielberg certainly made the most superb movie; Peter was very pleased," Wendy Benchley told The Associated Press.
"But Peter kept telling people the book was fiction, it was a novel, and that he no more took responsibility for the fear of sharks than Mario Puzo took responsibility for the Mafia."
Besides his wife, Peter Benchley is survived by three children and five grandchildren. A small family service will take place next week in Princeton, Wendy Benchley said.

posted Sunday, 12 February 2006

Tokyo Fist Review


Review of Tokyo Fist

Plot Synopsis: A businessman, Tsuda, runs into a childhood friend, Tajuki, on the subway. Tajuki is working as a semiprofessional boxer. Tsuda soon begins to suspect that Tajuki might be having an affair with his fiance Hizuru. After an altercation, Tsuda begins training rigorously himself, leading to an extremely bloody, violent confrontation.
Shinya Tsukamoto is slowly becoming one of my favorite directors. he takes things I find so ordinary and make them unordinary. Like Boxing I don't care much about sports but he took something so plain and twisted it around to create a warped film about three people. who are sexually warped sado masochists. Lots of crazy stuff going here. Brilliantly filmed, masterfully desolate, and romantically bleak.

posted Wednesday, 8 February 2006


ASS In Mouth Disease

A bad concept I invented last year

I call it Ass in Mouth Disease.

Two people connected ass cheek to ass cheek, takes a crap into each others Ass.
Back and forth back and Forth, until the turd realises it can't go on any futher with this back and forth stuff. the turd falls out of whoevers Ass, onto the floor. A goat Eats it, and then dies from Ecoli. within 24 hours maggots and other unlpleasantries eat whats left of the goat. as the goat rots on the floor the two gentleman eat the rotting corpse, until they throw up into each others mouth. But wait. the ecoli causes one of the guy to get the hershey squarts. But he holds it because he has to work at Taco Bell or the walllart snack stand. as he enters the store. His pants begin to foam, and exploding into the kitchen. which splats all over the food. To which they continue to serve to the customers. as each customer takes a bite of nice juicy burger. they become infected with a lethal dose of ASS In Mouth Disease
posted Thursday, 26 January 2006

The Green Butchers


Review of The Green Butchers

The most disturbing and touching film I've seen in a long time, if not the best film I've seen all this year. Of course this is Early. this film is Danish with sub titles. i really can't say much because of the plot
Two men quite their jobs at the butcher shop because the owner is such an asshole, then go about to make seps to open their own. My favorite character is Eigle, who is believed to be brain dead due to a family car accident. then it gets even more bizzare from there.
Get this movie, i couldn't take my eyes from it and I didn't want it to end. I wanted to live with these people or movie to denmark where people are pleasantly strange.
get this movie and you will not regret yourself.

posted Sunday, 22 January 2006

Meeting George Bush

In an unnamed store, this tall black man came up to me smiing as if he knew me. he shakes my hand, and and says hey man,
"I'm going to see President Bush next week."
"Congratulations" Was the only thing I could say, because one I didn't want to embarass the guy if he made a mistake, and he did. Plus I have no poblems with shaking hands with strangers. at the end of our conversation he also Added,
"I'm in the CIA"

posted Sunday, 22 January 2006

Black Jesus Film: Son of Man

Okay I didn't like the last Jesus Film. I feel that Passion of the Christ felt more like Christian S&M Pornography. and I feel that critics backed off out of fear of a religious back lash or felt it would make the film even more popular.

in a way I wish I could sue because I thought of a modern film about Jesus about 20 years ago. the film would have been Dark and slightly futuristic. Perhaps in a Orwellian/ Huxely sort of way. But he wasn't Black, I guess this wasn't important to me. the Jesus I would have chose is the guy who could play him the best. all races would have beeen able to audition including a woman if that be the case. It looks like this is a film looking a for a specific demographic which is black people and white people who are looking for something to be mad about.

having said that. this movie maybe may be a critical and box office success but I don't care. because I'm tired of everyone trivializing Jesus. If he was real or not, black or white or whether or not he was married to mary magdalin. not even sure I spelled that right? All l these details seem to pervert or even down play probably an important person who transformed many peoples conciousness both spiritually and politcally. And everyone wants to argue the details. This is a shame.

Nobody ever debates buddha's existence or what color he was or whether if he was fat or skinny. and the reason why is that Buddhists except Buddha is all things to all buddhists. Buddhists don't kill other buddhists over details. It just isn't done. it just doesn't make sense.
In case your wondering if this is written from a Christian perspective? No It's not, niether Atheistic or sceptical.

It's coming from a perspective from a person who has given up any spiritual expression, Thats Any thing demands more of your time to proclaim yourself or to label yourself as something, to differentiate yourself from another person. I have given up a long time ago of what I should except just be myself, and if there is a god whatever It is? then perhaps this being which We can never know, perhaps can guide me in the right direction that is for me.
Another aspect where I feel this movie fails in concept alone is that Once we apply race and Gender to a higher power we reinforce the archaic notion of a white male dominated society, and any film that tries to counter attack with a new view on this tired old subject is destined to suffer from the same stale drab formula as the latter.

White Jesus was so five minutes ago, Black Jesus now, then ten years down the road. Chinese Jesus is Cool and Black Jesus is hung out to dry like yesterdays Boxer Shorts. Okay Boxer shorts is a bad description. but I couldn't think of anything else. sorry.
posted Friday, 20 January 2006

Indiana Jones part 4

I Posted this on Cinematical movie blog
I liked the series very much. I believe we should never wait 20 yearsfor a sequel. this insatallamant should have been made much earlier.not that I think harrison isn't up to the challenge. there are othercrucial characters who work with Indy. are they still alive? also isthis going heavily blue screened like movies today. remember the lastmovie the stunts and settings where real.I hope you don'tforget about that.

posted Friday, 20 January 2006

Top Phrase

Mea Culpa is the phrase I keep hearing the past couple of days.
We should use it everyday of our lives.
laughing out loud!!!! ooops I mean LOL

posted Thursday, 19 January 2006

Constant Gardner review



well I really felt for ralph fiens character and I really think Rachel Weis is one hot babe. I know this review sucks but thats ok I'm not gene siskel or roger ebert for that matter speaking of Ebert I hate his reviews he is such a coward. and his reviews is pretty predictable he doesn't cut people to ribbons like he used to, and they not as inciteful either.

oh yeah Rachel Weis is still a babe

posted Sunday, 15 January 2006 but rewritten because the orginal post somehow was lost

Oh yeah Rachel Weis is so hot.