Monday, February 24, 2014
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Martin Scorsese Causes Cancer
The "nigger" thing isn't Scorsese's only problem, but it's a good place to target with the first round of chemotherapy. They say chemotherapy destroys unintended, collateral areas in its process. Here, that may actually be beneficial to the cultural health of the crowd.
Scorsese feeds that part of us that should be starved. To death. No, that part should be drawn and quartered and fed through a hamburger shredder with fake blood splashing all over a team of exploited and fat Italian-Americans as they again push the word, "nigger" further into accepted vernacular.
And, by the way, the darker dogs of my nature absolutely loved Goodfellas, though the draw of the film was heavily influenced on the use of a musical score, which was so good it would have made a Ted Nuget documentary damn near worth watching, or, more to the point, listening to.
How many quarts of fake blood you think Marty goes through in a single week of filming. "More blood, goddammit! We're killing Stacks Edwards, for God's sake!" Since Stacks black as molasses Scorsese splashes blood everywhere else.
Nobody's insisting that Scorsese should be blacklisted. The point here is that a MFA dropout with enough money, fake blood, "authenticity" and borrowed collection of albums can make a good gangster film. Gene Simmons and his band, Kiss is a fitting parallel with Scorsese; the lack of talent is absorbed in the flashy coxcombs, which divert attention away from what's tonally lacking. At least you can listen to Kiss without looking at it, if that's how you choose to spend your time.
The Godfather is the gold standard for gangster films, with its brilliant musical score, which wasn't knocked off from somebody's CD collection. Scorsese hasn't come close to Francis Ford-Coppola's masterpiece, which, though artfully presented, unfortunately glorifies the continuation Italian-American thievery, extortion and serial murder as top-drawer human entertainment.
We're screwed.
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Monday, February 17, 2014
Hackensaw Boys - Restaurant Girl
The dictionary says that if you pine for someone you desperately want to see them, be with them, or perhaps smother them with kisses.
In the evenings I've started playing this song while I pine about our mother.
"The hardest thing is leaving her behind."
"I wanna call you, I wanna call you, yes I do."
Saturday, February 15, 2014
Friday, February 14, 2014
Oxytocin, Pheramones, Seratonin, Dopamine, Value, Urination, etc.
Oxytocin: A neurotransmitter known as "the bonding hormone."
Pheraamones: Olfactory signals that are exchanged between people.
Seratonin: A neurotransmitter that contributes to well-being and happiness.
Dopamine: Motor control, motivation, reward neurotransmitter.
While I was watching a quasi-documentary, I saw a computer pose the following question to a programmer: "What is the highest value?" Dude typed in "infinity," first. Then "love," and then "life." About then I had to pee, and on the way to the bathroom I came up with the answer: The highest value is the next highest value plus one. In my world then value is relative.
Pheraamones: Olfactory signals that are exchanged between people.
Seratonin: A neurotransmitter that contributes to well-being and happiness.
Dopamine: Motor control, motivation, reward neurotransmitter.
While I was watching a quasi-documentary, I saw a computer pose the following question to a programmer: "What is the highest value?" Dude typed in "infinity," first. Then "love," and then "life." About then I had to pee, and on the way to the bathroom I came up with the answer: The highest value is the next highest value plus one. In my world then value is relative.
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