Jackson [Pollock] had tickets to a play.
Topic: Art.
Jackson [Pollock] had tickets to a play. "I've seen this play before, but it's so good I want you to see it. It's by a very important Irishman named Beckett. Waiting For Godot is the most important play I've seen. It's abstract."
We had dinner in a place close to the theater and found our seats about middle orchestra. The theater was not full... I didn't get the point of the play but Jackson did. Every line made him cringe, he got more and more into the play, and by the time Alvin Epstein came out as Lucky in the most thrilling performance, Jackson was beside himself. He started to cry.
People around us were shushing him, turning around. It was a quiet play, only two characters on stage, and every sound was noticed. He started to cry, really cry, and then the crying turned into sobs and then it went into heartbreaking moans. He was out of control. I grabbed his arms, pulled him up out of his seat. His eyes were closed. He was lost, not realizing we were in the theater. "Jackson, come, let's go home," I said. I somehow got him out of the theater and into a taxi, and as we walked out of the theater his crying was so loud it was as though his heart was breaking...
Nothing would make him stop. I tried to think about the play and what had set him off, the futility of no one coming. "I'm here. I'll be there when you need me. Don't be so sad please." "It's not that. It's something else. I can't explain."
- Love Affair, Ruth Kligman (68-69)

Grand Unified Theory of Everything In the Universe Including the Human Soul.
Topic: Evolution
"For those who worry that our ingenuity has upset nature's equilibrium, Bloom has a message that is both reassuring and sobering. 'We are nature incarnate,' he writes. 'We are tools of her probings and if, indeed, we suffer and we fail, from our lessons she will learn which way in the future not to turn.'" -- The New Yorker.

"I am speechless with admiration, overwhelmed by virtuosity." -- Walter J. Freeman, M.D. Walter J. Freeman Neurophysiology Lab, UC Berkeley, author How Brains Make Up Their Mind

In the coming weeks, months, and years, this website will present hors-d'ouevres, desserts, and solid meals for the mind, bits of brainfood harvested from author and mass-behavior expert Howard Bloom's Grand Unified Theory of Everything In the Universe Including the Human Soul.

Blastfurnace TV beta
Topic: media faction
Blastfurnace TV is assenbled and gearing up for it's grand opening. BTV will feature diverse audio/video art and independant journalism. In the meantime you can catch some craaaazy videos from the MC5, Timothy Leary, Michael Moore, Hunter Thompson and the Guerilla News Network... and more!

check it out:

http://www.notowar.com/tv-beta.htm

Please drop me an email if you'd like to get involved, or if you have any questions.

Thanks!

Thoughts on the media and the election.
Topic: by Lenny
A Corporation is a Virus.

TV news is a business and, like most business it's number one concern is it's own perpetuation. A Corporation is a Virus.

Blame the Middle Class.

Myself, I blame the Middle Class. The guys with the money are few and there is no doubt in my mind that we could take 'em, if we really wanted to. The poor are victims of violence and are kept down mostly by a Middle Class that thinks that one day, if they try hard enough, they will be very rich.

The Media Is The Muddle

With the Major Media existing as one arm of an obnoxious profit-making structure we naturally get distortions -- muddles -- that are dictated not by a supposed "objectivity" but blinkered "special interests" that are all the more insiduous because they are denied by those that are supposed to report the news.

Suggested reading includes: Jamie Whyte's Bad Thinking, Manufacturing Consent by Herman and Chomsky, and Robert Anton Wilson's Prometheus Rising.

A Country Divided

1. How do the election numbers really add up? Sick of that stupid graphic with a big red swath down the middle of the country?



(click here and here to see how things really added up.)

2. Michael Moore: The Kid's Are Alright: "If there was one group who really came through on Tuesday, it was the young people of America. Their turnout was historic and record-setting. And few in the media are willing to report this fact."

3. Over two thirds of the country didn't vote for Bush... they either wanted him out of office or were sharp enough to realize that politics is beneath them:

CANDIDATE / VOTES / percentage

Bush / 59,459,765 / 32.122%
Kerry / 55,949,407 / 30.225%
Nobody / 69,696,269 / 37.652%

(sources: CNN.com, Ameristat.org.)

4. Who really won the election, anyways?

Vote fraud evidence: here.
More vote fraud evidence: here.

5. Don't mourn, organize!

Says David Grenier: "It's time too ask yourself why you wanted to see Kerry win. Was it an end in itself, or merely a means to an end? Did you want to see Kerry win just because you like him as a person, or because you want better health care, better jobs, or an end to the war in Iraq ... If it's the latter, then you need to simply keep fighting." (more here.)

Posted by mediafaction at 12:01 AM EST

Updated: Monday, 29 November 2004 10:09 AM EST

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I Must Take Issue With The Wikipedia Entry For 'Weird Al' Yankovic
Topic: music
"...To start: Your entry for "Weird Al" is laughably brief, and fails to account for the grand impact and scope of his career. How can you justify a "Weird Al" biography of only a paltry 850 words?

"Particularly galling to this author is the fact that Madonna and U2 were given articles two and three times the length of the Weird One's. Yes, those artists may have sold more records than "Weird Al," but surely the Wikipedia community is not one to confuse net profits with artistic merit. Nevertheless, while we are on the loathsome subject of money, I might point out that nowhere in the article is it mentioned that Yankovic has earned no less than four gold and four platinum records."

(read more here.)

The rest of your post is nothing but blasphemy. It angers the Lord greatly, and you will be punished.
Topic: gawd!
I don't know what's funnier... this site or the fact that this kid didn't get the joke!

Landover Baptist Community Forums: We Caught Ourselves A Wiccan!

QUOTE(Pastor Wilkins @ Aug 5 2004, 05:46 PM)

My boy and I caught ourselves a Wiccan and we have him down in the basement chained up to the furnace. I estimate his weight at roughly 300 lbs, he's a plunker, with pale skin, and he's down there just cryin' for his momma right now!

We're shouting scripture verses down the stairwell as I am typing this. Sister Vera, you and your husband outta come by the place later tonight and have a look at this. I just called the Sheriff, and he says he will be by in about three hours, so make haste! You've gotta see this one before the law takes him out!

Unlike you I will never doing dsomething as HOrrible as you.. I am WICCAN and I speak for all wiccans when I say your day will come. I do NOT kill cats or anything else... you should read up on white wiccan kitchen witches you'll see that I work in the kitchen making cakes and what not .. not killing things... our rule is "harm none do what ye will" and boy I wish I could curse you and what not cause it make a lot of people I know happy... (read more here.)

The new Oasis album.
Topic: music
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FROM: Bill Machon
DATE: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 00:03:34 -0500
TO: Lenny Flatley
SUBJECT: dude... new Oasis album...

http://tinyurl.com/3vcue
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A "God" Gene?
Topic: Evolution
"...Why is spirituality such a universal force? Why do people from all walks of life, regardless of their religious backgrounds, value spirituality as much as, or more than, pleasure, power and wealth?

"The answer is, at least in part, hard-wired into our genes. Spirituality is one of our basic human inheritances. It is, in short, an instinct -- rooted in a "God gene" folded deep in the intricate strands of our DNA.

"This may sound like a controversial assertion, but it reflects the startling advances of modern biology. The question of "Is there a God?" may be beyond science, but a deeper understanding of why we believe in God may be within our grasp."

(Charlotte Observer article here.)

Days Of Future... Future
Topic: Religious Nuts
Rev. Jack van Impe presents:


Overview of Major Future Events Chart

(a beautiful new prophecy chart depicting a concise overview of future history.)

Eminem: Mosh
Topic: music


Imagine it pouring, it's raining down on us
Mosh pits outside the oval office
Someone's tryina tell us something,
Maybe this is god just sayin' we're responsible
For this monster, this coward,
That we have empowered
This is Bin Laden, look at his head noddin'
How could we allow something like this
without pumping our fists
Now this is our final hour

...Let the president answer a higher anarchy
Strap him with an Ak-47, let him go, fight his own war
Let him impress daddy that way
No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our own soil
No more psychological warfare, to trick us to thinking that we ain't loyal
If we don't serve our own country, we're patronizing a hero
Look in his eyes its all lies
The stars and stripes, they've been swiped, washed out and wiped
And replaced with his own face, Mosh now or die
If I get sniped tonight you know why,
Cause I told you to fight.

(complete lyrics here. review / video here)