worlds in collision means mind over matter

I'm getting lot's of cream out of life.The first time someone said to me " don't look a gift horse in the mouth" I said " why not?".I didn't know what a gift horse was and its my habit to question and try to understand.The idea of zero convinced me that math was just wrong .I remember thinking that when I was 5 and math never existed again until my paycheck depended on it.It was a little funny because the math was so critical and one would have to use a calculator to figure these various weights per unit,machine time costs etc and it was an OCD heaven.Needless to say I did nothing once.Lots of people who are successful in all kinds of jobs are good because of so called disabilities.There are several extreme conditions one can be subject to given a fairly recognizable So called learning disability or mental diagnosis.Last week my shrink was telling me and showing me how they are throwing a lot of the old diagnosis and she had this grey covered book with the new ones.That always makes me sick but at least they hit my nail right because its exactly correct and has never changed and I was told as a teenager by my psychiatrist at that time that I am incurable.I had the pleasure of getting this in one way or another from all of them so I can't relate it to nice or not nice true or false.Its always been hair raising and I am so fucking glad not to mind it as much even though its exactly as horrible or more than it ever was.All things can be said to be easy for me because of how I have managed living in my way.One gets constantly paid back with very gentle ,kind feelings about oneself and the world.All of which depends on letting it rip and being brutally honest with oneself.After many years of lying to myself about being looney toons me ,myself and I went through the uglyness of accepting the facts.Thats where someone else enters the story more or less.I can't say someone is wrong when they don't know better or are perhaps not capable at the moment.I do know what happens when someone does an egregious wrong to you and they assume that nothing will happen.What happens is that all by itself you get duked big time.If you allow yourself to get all pissed off you can miss it.But if u don't mind it doesn't matter and thats an easy "yoke" as jesus liked to say instead of "yoga"."My yolk is easy" seems like a very clear thing to say about ones teaching and I can never understand which part of that people don't understand.Being looney toons comes out in people when they go BERSERK.I go berserk and I'm just nuts.Completely gone.When I recognize it in others I c god.I can't help it.I like most of being looney toons and I believe I have it all licked now because I'm still surviving the worst of it and I am still on track to do so many things I've dreamed of.I'll have to report back here to let the world know but I c no reason why not.This is a gift I got in exchange for something I gave away or rather I allowed and allow to be taken from me.Its all because I learned to paradigm shift like a true time traveler.Due to odd boundary troubles I had to cycle through some really shitty paradigms.Like ......I would think things were real in my head that weren't real but acted as a safety mechanism from extreme trauma.Someone has inadvertently done for me what no psychiatrist ever could and also taught me what know teacher ever could.That was the trade off.... thats life....thats art.One has to be the real deal in ones heart meaning not altering ones thoughts as a way to avoid whats going on.I mean altering ones thoughts in ways no drug can or that you would want to take.If you spend a lot of time doing something you get good at it which is something hard core homeless people say among others.In this example , I got good at brainwashing myself. and that wasn't a good thing.I decided 17 years ago that no one existed but me and that I was dead and everything around me was being played out as a sort of after life for my benefit.Luckily after several months of this bliss I realized it wasn't bliss at all but some new kind of mental masturbation I discovered.I learned to use this in a very positive way which allowed me to do things I could never do but I could never enjoy playing music or dancing as a contest and I could never stop the horrors coming on which was made much worse by being in the habit of thinking I could make it go away or denying it.You only win when you embrace it and realize that part of life is continually letting go and continually healing.I go to no psychiatrist or therapist without first asking them if they are healing.All good healers are healing no?.If music and dancing were a contest in any way people would do it to get to the end of the song and that makes no sense.Everyone would play faster and faster.That would be weired to dance(assuming you can find an actual dance floor with actual house music) to get to the end.Kim light foot is gods dj to me and if its not that I can't use it. Every time I attended it was like church to me .Do I seem like I'm currying favor with someone? I don't require that you like me or love me for you to give me pleasure and generally be a joyful person I know of in the world.I do require that you be happy and joyful to the extent that I can reasonably.The best arrangement is always the one with the least trouble and a woman I know hipped me to the idea of using what you need and leaving the rest.In fact I'm better at it than her and she was doing it when I was in high school.This isn't that she isn't all the way there but she acts on the orders of fight or flight thinking too much and she throws the baby out with the bath water needlessly I think but its non of my business.She is very astute and I think she would agree with me that one ought to have the best possible feelings in the best possible way.I believe everything happens for a reason but not reasons to be known.I have to go through all that to get free.I have to make believe I believe if necessary to make sure I know the territory enough to feel confident I have arrived at the best response and attitude.That way I am satisfied because I know what I do not want.Certainly if I do not feel peaceful generally something is wrong and I do not consider money trouble to be real trouble because its not a problem if you can solve it with money and a terrible one if you can't with the exception of circumstances that are life threatening.The more preferences one has the weaker you will be and become.Since I am who I am and was raised by who and how I was I have an unusual sympathy in regards someone in that situation and I will not stop.I have to be unencumbered by any reason to live out this sympathy.If someone does something extraordinary in ANY way expect extraordinary things to happen around you and to those involved.I want to know why someone wouldn't be pleased with knowing how much they are appreciated for their destiny.Once one involves oneself or invests an amount of energy towards something it becomes part of their destiny by my reckoning.I had this notion once that someone was tweeting a message to me that said ........"I've had perfection and I have hated you for a year and I still can't stop...............". I recognized that someone was in deep trouble when they started referring to perfection that way because its very painful to be that judgmental and that offensive towards another even if as is the case here, I wasn't offended as much as informed that I wouldn't be understood.That was a good thing to accept don't you think?I realized whatever that person said to me would have little to do with me and a lot to do with them.One thing no man hears another man say is " oh , did she break your heart? I'll join you in getting her back".When I told Castrina this she said " really? they don't?" . She thought that was normal for men and woman both.No... men are cold that way and all we would do is go after her for ourselves generally.Besides who would do that to a woman they felt kind towards? What I know is that some issues people go through are sure to find resolution by the person themselves and that no one needs to be an idol of any kind for anyone in a relationship.One can share certainly and we all have our areas where we know more and where we know less.No authority whatsoever.No anger at all.Whats wrong with that? Graciousness is always best along with finding and living the good out of the bad? How about no anticipation? How about just plain natural and easy ......if it ain't, so what? and if it is then hopefully you take what you need and plant good seeds with those you come in contact with and through your actions because those seeds , although planted here and now will sprout in another place entirely and at another time .You can still be contrary without going berserk no?

Blockhead - The Music Scene

floating right along..I'm having fun.

Its pure fun to keep up with the new music coming out.Mostly I'm getting a positive feeling about it and the personalities are precious.For a long time i tried to vlog but as uesual i couldn't get all the equipment to act right.I worked hard this week with some psycho things with my doctor and it wasn't that I forgot who I was but that I didn't want to give up escaping in to my head.(a traditional way i used all my life to avoid important matters in a practical daily life and to avoid dealing with certain social anxiety.I hate writing about this.Its much harder and longer to qualify oneself when writing.I have to accept people for how they are so I can go on to do some valuable work externally.Not much point in explaining this cuz it sounds lazy and lame but I can't overstate how happy I am .There is a strong sense of loss though and a trepidation of what will fill the empty space.I remain as I have always been on this blog prior to an exact moment that I wonetonly gave myself up to trauma.that was real dumb because from then on I wasn't myself.But now I'm very glad to have some control over how I communicate in writing and I erase my assnine posts before I post um.I wanted to do something with this blog and I still will but I can't quite escape the expressions that wre never going to make sense or help matters or be valuable.On the other hand one would not want to know about this if one truely does not seek so called validation.I spent some time with my heart and couldn't deny what is true for me.I'm very fearful at times for no reason which stymies things.thats so very done now i can be stymied or not at this point.If I were angry I would rail. I would cut and paste everything all along that was causing anguish including what I did.Sadly i am unable to do that.I am notably unable to do that out of malice.I can't even old on to malice except it seems that way when I write.I have always held a different idea about blogging.it was not all about one person but somehow i allowed one person to be a catalyst that set a defensive sort of aggressive tone.No one is blamed but me here.I live that way in most things because its solvable.I must have blamed this person a lot somehow and it looks like i must have been endlessly insulting.It seems stupid and pointless to explain what I thought I was doing on my blog about 5 years ago.Its funny to think it morphed like that.Its stokholm syndrom .sometimes in an effort to please I do the thing they want me to do to prove them right and offer an excuse(subconciously).So many valid statements could be made that would explain all this but not 4 me to say.I will learn joy in what for me is a tragic misunderstanding that I brought on myself and has caused a very bad medical relapse.Oddly I needed that though.I feel much better now and I will stay exactly as I was with the same sentiments but now I can be honest and therefore more considerate.I don't do well bargaining with myself over what I think I'm supposed to say.All this personal shit and now we know i'm a bore.Life has ups and downs and I know this.What a wrong time in my life to present myself in any way but I learned that patience is its own reward and that its so wrong to want someone to like you and wrong to be mad at people who don't like me.I feel liberated by my inability to put anyone down in this situation.I found the golden mean.....I neither push for or close down against.It husts to feel two strong feelings in opposition but wanting harmony at any cost is obviously important to me.i had always known the types of behavior some people act out.i felt i understood it and still do and was gald to be mostly open to calm down and wlkin there shous.i had vever intimated these tings because true love would never seek to hurt you.I do not think you would want me morethan thehuncheback of notre dame but ifeel something deeply sacred that won't all oe me to plat double standard any moe with being easily and effortlessly droundes without thinking i'm better then them.i am learry of myself like that.i hope someday you wll beleive that ididnb't seek what you think i did.U know with the best that we all can let it out vile whenpushed to a pint.I carve these words in my hrat.Leaving yourlife to your osmologiacak workings......I feel the devine in you friend.I will one day be the way when I was making it with the better half of s.f.one of the intrnse areas i had to seiously change uo somethings to get others I wanted to stay the same.That made me a milk toast.Lots of stranfeextraneous things appe to couples etc.my plan was to leave for a 6 month break inaugust.Agoo healthy notion of hiding fom pressurixed ways of thinking.I love.my brain is brooken today obvious right!!!

Neil Young - Dance Dance Dance

I understand why you right that and feel that.I accept it and I will never be a sneeze of a thought to you.Remember, the only practical thing thats intersting about me is why i am so angry.This is what you c and know.It is true for you and I accept it although I wished for something else.I remember exactly when I started to act oddly to myself and I am sur the errant mouthy comments sealed it 4 you.I accept what I did and move on.that man is long gone in part but i have learned a lot about people.I could paste a diagnosis of severe add and it would be obvious as to why I think some hings.I never did because I don't want to perpetuate that in myself of others any more.I cared enough not to ever mention lots of things its better for people at other points in there lives not to hear.I feel guilty that I don't feel bad that as you said " the only thing interesting about you is why your so angry".Well its not because I was rapped when I was young I guess.I hate excuses but they can explain trauma.Hate me for this whover reads this.I feel love and a little agitation but i am experienced so badly by some.I think soon you'll get over it.I will not exist to you unless something makes it different ITS NOT WHAT I THINK IT IS AND ITS NOT WHAT YOU THINK.I speak for me....I made a scarry mistake and the worst accessory to that is that I write in an odd tone that most people find offensively unlike me.I don't think you beleive me or that you care but I would be a hateful freightened person to determine what someone thinks about me negatively all in the service of a self righteous sense of being right..As I became very shocked as things transpired in communicating with a host of annonymous peole I was confused by what I felt and the little experience I had with on line culture.Thats my regret.... that I shut down rather than think of an effective way to adapt.Proud people say that other people hate them for often more so I am inconsequential to them.I am speeking for what I did not at all regarding someone elde.I think you are well suited to not ever concern yourself with anything like this in human affairs.I never wanted to say much for fear of causing someone to losete chance to find out for themselves.I have a horrible photographic memory.Anything ever in the news about people at one time in my life stays there.Its a waste because its so meaningless.I won't judge except when I'm in pain over a communication with someone.Its very bad then and I sound angry.If I had some bread I would pay for a DICK to go all up in to my personal life just to prove that whomever wrote that does not know me.I still feel good about them 4 reasons that defy logic.How could I know who rights this or that?Here's how I love........I can love myself and take your vociferous rejection of me.I couldn't go to a club where they don't want jews and I couldn'tbe such a drag knowingly when all someone finds interesting is why I'm mad for whatever reason".I can live with that.I have to love your very special humanity.....you in fucking particular......the whole loss has been a fine learning experience and as you c..... and as I am sure you would want.....I am impervious to times when your mean........All this i do because i find you to be very special for a lot of reasons.I could never overcome the mistrust.As I am not wholly sure who wrote this..... did you not have the dick do his homework.Insist your right , rationalize and through it away.What bothers me is not being known by you and also being as militant as I will always be about being independant.Imagine.....the world we live in dictates that people date who make the same money.That called abject slavery but not more than a whisper. I had to say I realize the disdain you feel .I feel as good as any human but I am not mixing up with every motive for me but the real one and that is embodied in my voice,my eyes,my walk, my breath etc.I don't slam doors and I am in love with my patiance which has nothing to do with waiting or wanting.I will never have less than respect and understanding towards you. P>S I freak out a lil but that should now decrease. I can't keep writing wontonely mean and arrogant though because it makes sense for at least one reader its worth it.I could write so much I have thought and observed but my good heartedness in repaid with something unworthy of my feelings. I have planned to keep on writing minding my bussiness and if its good for someone to read great.thats fine.are you sure I desrve to be shut off like that.Did I ever indicate avaritiosness????????you don't accuse them of gold digging.Someday I will understand but I havn'ta clue about you.I think few men could have less to offer you.I also feel that that is the case in this situation and i would have preffered a human connection due to highly personal mental issue but I know how many great people are in the world.I will always count you as one.You have original brilliance ......take care of it.

nature won't let me hate.just a feww minutes every now and again.So... I decided to never say anything unecessary or cruel to you ever for your best well being.You are so very free.I cqan't be cold enough so I leave you a luxurious place in my heart....like a rare garden ... if ever you wish or feel you easily can claim it.

I don't imagine you will but while I will be happy and free I will not close a door to myself for anyone because I would like others to treat me that way.So.......make fun of me when I am being comfortable and kind......I feel solid within.I beg of you as you go far from me that you recall that I have nothing negative to say to you and certainly no violant thoughts.Some people must kick those who are down as they require evtraordinart help in feeling deserving in a balanced way.I don't ever have to say I love anyone for I thimk I will devise a free flowing way to choose it!! you make me happy............I leave my door or phone open to you if over the long years of life you require extra insight to carry on.Karms Yeshe Dorje

The Snow Man

The Snow Man a wallace stevens poem http://books.google.com/books?id=X_dj_dvqxXsC&lpg=PP1&dq=wallace%20stevens%20the%20snowman&pg=PA132#v=onepage&q&f=false

It would explode

I was delighted when the sign up page completed and I saw what I saw.I gigled a lot because it was just individuality coming through in a suprising way.A very good idea.My computor would explode before it would let me do that but these ones can.Last night I passed beyond the event horizon.I don't really like camille but my compagnon asked me which one I would pick out of that bunch.This was followed by me being harangued for liking the "#@#$$#$#@%" one.I need to get better head phones.Very soon the computor and television will be one thing combined.We've been waiting ten years and its getting late.I keep finding telivision adds on stuff I visit and thats an obvious start.I can see why the legal problems slow this process down................................................................................

WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE--------------------------=========-----====-=-=-=-----==---=---=-=-=--==-=----=-=-------------============

http://www.skepdic.com/velikov.html A good example of bamboozlement in the guise of truth but " Worlds in Collision" is an interesting read anyway.

GIT R DUNN

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I'm paper trained and bad habbits leave by themselves 4 those inclined towards well being

wow..........what a difference! It deefinetly improves ones mental outlook to remove fowl teeth.It wasn't as bad as we thought as only six teeth teeth had to go but I underestimated what a fucking drag they were and how much better I would feel removing them.I'm too happy today.I can't imagine that someone would feel other than very flattered at such a perfect homage.Anything less than " I'm flattered " seems less than gracious.I can only surmise and consider how I would feel and its very obvious to me that this is the case.On a deeper level I find it gratifying to hear different peoples musicality or the process of musical thinking myself and others go through in composing melodies.I think that is very well available re: what it is i'm talking about and is an original that is clear about its inspiration.This makes it real as compared with anything else that gets singaled out in that way.One has to consider the genre and some given's about what works and doesn't.Just a beautiful homage it seems to me because it is also a singular and personal expression which makes it original.I would go so far to say that a homage like that is very correct.Most people in that position do not get something like that that clearly was made with care,attention, creativity and love not to mention time and money.I'm in the midst of doing huh!!!!!what....groove shark turns itself on????? I can't find out much about computor things lately because this one's almost defunct which is how it will stay as long as people think its funny to send worms and trojans in to it.I like to write but even that is a stretch with this computor let alone much else.I don't think about it much because it has saved my ass not being free to write more arrogant and condescending thoughtless nonesense for no reason and only I think is funny.The homor is more than lost in writing um.I'm training myself to endure things that horra-fy me....namely,reality telivision.I've written before how enthusiastic I was to have my compagnon torture me with fox news and television in general.I used to be very militant against the t.v almost as much as I was against the use of the n word or people being abusive.Thankfully one has to work hard to maintain one's outlook and hold to ideas and thoughts as a be all and end all carved in stone.Its all because of biggy because I like to play one of his songs on the accoustic guitar which alwayse seems to go over big.I alwayse ask ahead if they want me to leave the n word in or out and I have found that people under a certain age want it in while many over a certain age want me to drop it.Things start to change when you live on a block where you are constanly being called or yelled at ...." hey you....that white (blank)over there).Or......"hey! how are you (blank) boy".I never saw that coming.After a lifetime of campaigning against that kind of communication I get blasted with "that's cause you're a (blank),(blank) boy."Or "Hey (blank.)...your a (blank)you (blank),why, your the last angry (blank) left in new york city you (blank). I sense that this seems exagerated.Unbelievably it is not.Since I didn't use the word it is very rare that I would no matter what people accepted or did not.Reffereing to anyone by using slang that reffers to ones physical character or whatever sucks.If I was a female pop singer I ( ME) would make a cd that was an ode to sex and call t something that was deadpan obvious.In ways its been done,but not called " Hot XXX hard core porn".It could be a visual cd kinda like "ready to Die" with vignettes in btween songs with each song being about various types of hot sex from leather,group,bondage,women,men bla bla bla(anyway no one owns the idea) or rather Blue ,blue, blue, which is how garmento's say it.They don't speak french but they alwayse say "blue" three times in a row with the pitch going up on the third.... Blue blue, blue ....B-L-U-E.

Whats this.....Iranians getting Fiesty now? algeria? yemen? Semms like this happens whenever the dollar is drained such as its been.I often want to prognosticate on line but I'm affraid of accidentally being right too much which turns out sucking much more than guessing wrong.Political upheaval makes Great Tee vee though! Meanwhile I'm so beaten down from being tortured by Housewives shows that my compagnon watches all of......ALL ALL do you understand what that does? I even like two particular housewives more than the others which is just plain browbeaten.I enjoy watching people I care about enjoying themselves as much as possible.It is typical that these shows would be on when we're more than apt to stay home and I plan to find a local bar to hang out in when things blow over.I don't know if someone can guess which two I like best or why anyone would care or want to so I have sweetend the idea by offering one million dollars to the person who even bothers to guess( my God will pay your God who will hold it for you).Its a good idea when one has enough in a similar style as myself, to let God worry about your finances as far as being busy with getting more. I'm legally unmarried and have no children with just myself to take care of bassically but things are different for people in other circumstances.I once had a baby until she had a miscarriage.Prior to that,I told my old dad just in case something happened to me.He was born in 1922 or three and is emblematic of a conservative style person of that era so you can imagine how well he took it when I said " I have a baby on the way with my Haitian Creole girlfriend so in case I die I want you to know that if a creole person comes up to you and says they are your grand child its true".That was a long time ago.I like Nee Nee and Camille far and away.I make quick friends with the Nee'z Nee'z of this world but they are a tough bunch and easy to fall out with eventually.No matter how bad though they alwayse come back around and I wish I had stayed in touch with a bunch of um cuz I miss um.

After the Lard and pigs knuckles comes...........IPSUM LOREM

I appreciate that sentiment which has been highlighted to me via some very creative means.I agree that in many cases that is what comes across...something like filler.I don't know who sent that to me, neither a link to a site called, your not as smart as you think you are, and a link to a movie (re:validation).I thought about these things as they came to me anonymously it was interesting to consider the validation of someone reading what I was writing.This is good criticism in my book.Its clean and without emotional sentiment while visceral, profound and honest.I know its good criticism because of my personal response to it on the inside and the outside.Defensiveness usually indicates there is truth in the cause, to a large degree .I wish I could do better and I'm still trying, but formerly I kind of made a choice to just spew along with anything that might be better than ipsum lorem or whatever on my blog.I have come up with some interesting notions about the person who sent these links but more important are the facts that these were smart and interesting ways to communicate.I haven't seen anything at YOUR NOT AS SMART AS YOU THINK YOU ARE that I am not aware of but I know there are things there that I don't.In my mind I could describe the person who sent these links but that's just personal conjecture.Why, is a pointless question because its indeterminate, so I remember to trust that people learn how they will according to what is appropriate in there own way.I feel happy to leave defensive responses and disputes alone rather than rationalize them excessively.I also do not care to win a point over someone in that manner or any other ultimately; And, it reminds me that one ought to treat others as they would be treated which I apply to myself in this case re: How and what I write..............................

Nuance, Feel and Mood

Playing a musical instrument that produces a digital signal with digital equipment and digital production seems to have decreased Nuance and ' feel ' in the professional musician.There is a decreased need for professional musicians in general in the digital age when it comes to music production.I have noticed very good players seeming to have to bang it out at a kind of set intensity.I have noticed the settings available to me as a guitar player on my new digital equipment does more in creating different sound characters then previously.I grew up with a grand piano in the house and while I could not be taught how to learn the piano nothing stoped me from playing it with touch and varying degreeeeez of intensity.If less of this is the case it should show up in other art forms, some with or without music,as a decrease in overall nuance,mood and feel.I am not sure it matters or how but its different when you can play a crumby electric guitar through a crumby amp and set the effects on Les Paul sound with martial stacks or fender twin effects..........

SOME MISCELANEOUS LARD

Isolation is the culprit! Americans spend 13 hours less per week socializing with each other in person then Mexicans do.If its true it makes sense;I heard it in some news somewhere.I think its increasingly important to realize the changes in the way people communicate will create a change in perception of values,relationships,responsibility in communicating and a lot of other words and phrases that would fit here.4 sure our culture is in a seemingly interminable midst of inevitable change.There was an op ed in the NY Times by Joe Scarborough this past week about this, which I didn't read, but I bet its all cautionary and what not.I once wrote about the diminution in some qualities the word " friend " in daily life, as a result of on line communication; But, I do not think its helpful to hold today up against yesterday when it comes to generational change and change that affects the majority and represent the completely unknown qualities of unfamiliar destinations.It seems to me that there must be a difference between growing up having to wait on a corner for 45 minutes for a friend or date etc vrs having cell phones and canceling plans 10 minutes before you meet.It used to be a drag waiting it out when people were late and it was easy to get stood up with a good excuse " there was no way to reach you".My reality tells me younger people would have insight that would be considered by more of the population.The results of Joe Scarborough's generation and up (in age) on our society probably looks less than stellar to those under 40.......... DON"T you agree?.I would rather read an op ed on civil discourse in the United States in the digital age by Hilton Perez than Joe Scarborough but Joe is around my age and a little predictable to me.Anyway, until....... Lard will be continued with Pigs Knuckles smothered in gelatin.

The flash card section

Its interesting that when I feel sharply of two minds about someone there is often true salvation.This situation seems like it can't be created so when it happens I try to remember that that feeling makes it possible to change the way one feels in a solid reliable way.If I feel just anger then I conclude the subject in my mind while and in my actions.If I feel all involved and overtly loving I suspect I may be angry etc and am covering it up out of a sense of survival.Some learn well from getting bruised a bit from being playfull and free but that is often a good way to learn about oneself on ones own terms.I do not think better or worse has much to do with this but "feeling better " often does.Take writing this blog for example.I have learned so much about people and myself from learning to get past the emmiediate gratification of writing whatever without much consideration of how it comes accross to others.Same goes for speeking.It kinda sorta never dawned on me that I could express ideas when I am feeling out of sorts and have the feelings I would like to escape by writing turn out screaming in the communication.For the most part these words are for someone going through life somewhat similarly to the experiences I have.Thats what matters to me as well as a curiousity about people and all I do not understand about them to a reasonable extent.Its a good thing to care enough to recognize the value of just being oneself and feeling content without the expense of putting someone else down...........its lunchtime.......

............from the previous post re:notes about Lost in Translation

The previous bit about all this was my attempt to get to a place to say this ............I beleive that film is a litterary art form but what I like about film is what is conveyed without words, whether lines are being spoken or not.I recently did what I had planned and like to do in the cold and crumby whether which is watch movies and watch a select few to study and think about.In the case of " Lost in Translation " I had seen parts of it and the end a few times but saved watching it for a later day and then watched it three or four times recently.It is a film with a lot of dimmensions one of which is human intimacy , on a transpersonal psychological level.This film is very correct regarding itself.It takes place in Japan and it embodies the notion of seeing the miraculous in the mundane that informs far eastern culture and art particularly in japan where there is a rich and old tradition of film making that was informed by this idea.It is also Traditional in Italian film as well, for example the film Umberto D, made in 1953 which is somehow related to Ikyru in my mind as they are both bold with the mundane.I thought the Sophia Coppola film was very daring.The directors ability to make the content and subject work shows in their ability to keep the audience interested.There is no medium gimicks and the medium is played like a musical instrument apart from the message all together.A Multi cultural America would make films in Japan so the film starts to bend in some interesting ways.I found a very life like portrayal of anxiety in intimacy between people as well as an individual and personal portrayal of self doubt was well done.The wardrob looked like it was both a carefully conceived and executed plan and just clothes the actors like to wear.The Cameron Diaz like role and the bill murray character's similarity to his real life reminded me of " The player " to some degree in that there is a connection to reality in the actions and scenes the director has the actors play.In the player people playing themselves pop up throughout the film which creates a very interesting feeling.In some ways the feeling that the actors evoke are a mirror of a domestic sense of doubt.It might be said that this film portrays ambivalence in a daring and realistic way.I have to look up some film criticism about this film. The title of the previous post is one more like what I would like to read than write.I thought of save the tiger after seeing this movie but Save the tigar is not a film story but a filmed one.Still, both captivate with tools at hand in above average ways in portraying at first glance,difficult subject matter.While the main characters seem somewhat uncomfortable in their ideas of what they like and dislike as far as feeling satisfied with their lives, we the audience can relate to the actors not because we like them or are sympathetic to them but that what they seem to feel is familliar to us.I thought this was part of a nuanced tension in the film that seemed voyearistic.Almost like the film and the actors and story were different things that came together but did so by a well crafted coincidence.A lot is left to the viewer which I suppose is evident by the enigmatic ending.I am no lover of paintings by george tucker with some exceptions but I like art that tackles the subject of human intimacy and alienation in life.

LOST IN TRANSLATION-:Some notes about the Sofia Coppolla film,the United States and Film Making

I think I am in the minority in my opinion that the best film did not win the Best Film Award in 2003.
WINNER
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh
NOMINEES
Lost in Translation: Ross Katz, Sofia Coppola
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World: Samuel Goldwyn Jr., Peter Weir, Duncan Henderson
Mystic River: Robert Lorenz, Judie Hoyt, Clint Eastwood
Seabiscuit: Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Gary Ross
This film did win "best Director",as some film enthusiasts may recall.I understand that The Lord of The Rings is a more consumable film accessable to many while Lost in Translation by its subject matter could be considered less so.Considering how much the "Fellowship ......" cost to make I think most would say that maximising profit had to be a very important consideration in this film endeavor.Save the Tigar is a pretty depressing film but an important American film in its subject matter and the generation it seems to concern itself with. It was both depressing and captivating and I suppose that people who saw it in 1973 remembered it( like " Lost..", Save the Tigar won an important award but not best picture, in 1973).As for winning ' best picture ' in 1973, looking back and considering where film making has come since then, clearly American Graffitti was the freshest most Innovative film making amongst the nominees that year.It also holds up to time best out of the group in the running.I find it interesting that both of these films were produced by, directed and written by, a Coppola and both are notably higher quality then their compitition.George Hill Directed many well known films Quite well but my whole point here is............ that I hold that F. F. Coppolla will be remembered as a more influential and creative film maker by those who deem these things so;And,that S. Coppolla and F.F Coppola or lets just say S Coppolla et al present films where the Directing is unique and loud enough in its production design and editing that the flavor of the directing becomes more elaborated in using the medium as a pallatte.Editing,Film composition and angle,as well as whatever can be manipulated in a new and daring way in the entire film making process are actually noticable brush strokes of a particular artist,and quite accessable to the general viewer.Thats what many accute lovers of film seem to do.They favor some directors over others.Clearly it is rare to find someone who declares that George Roy Hill is their favorite director or Peter Jackson for that matter.Both are fine directors but I doubt they will be remembered for much daring other than daring to work well with their banking freinds who want a long and conservative bet (and delivering!).When F.F Coppola produces a film it has a quality about it that says its good enough for him to put his name on.American Graffitti, directed by George Lucas , was made very much by him as was Lost in translation by Sophia Coppola.It seems to me most notable films are written and directed by the same person.Thats a perception but most great directors write and lost in translation comes accross through a very well tweaked script.It wouldn't suprise me to hear that it took many years to write but I wouldn't be suprised if the opposite was the case.I gathereed along the way that one of the characters in the movie was actually based on Cameron Diaz.In the film there is a funny reference to Yale, considering Cameron Diaz went there.I wonder what thats about.It seemed like someone is a little insecure about the insipid as far as that character seemed important to me but there is more to what the director conveys.A mood of ambivalence and conflict is well played by the actors and well perpetrated by surprising and fine editing of bold camera angles and sequences.The scene sequence when the male character is shooting the film and photography reminds me of the close up on the scampi looking shrimp close to the beginning of Appocalypse Now.It seems like a logical idea to shoot an American film with so much Japanese influence while the theme of being alienated and standing out in a world that has changed and is out of control, benifits from the location. more on this by 4 now.

Signs and Symbols of A Primordial Neo-Federalist

I present the following content I rounded up on the subject of recent studies of human sexuality that presents new information to the experts studying it.There is quite a bit on it but this is from Science Daily.............................ienceDaily (June 13, 2003) — EVANSTON, Ill. --- Three decades of research on men's sexual arousal show patterns that clearly track sexual orientation -- gay men overwhelmingly become sexually aroused by images of men and heterosexual men by images of women. In other words, men's sexual arousal patterns seem obvious.
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But a new Northwestern University study boosts the relatively limited research on women's sexuality with a surprisingly different finding regarding women's sexual arousal.
In contrast to men, both heterosexual and lesbian women tend to become sexually aroused by both male and female erotica, and, thus, have a bisexual arousal pattern.
"These findings likely represent a fundamental difference between men's and women's brains and have important implications for understanding how sexual orientation development differs between men and women," said J. Michael Bailey, professor and chair of psychology at Northwestern and senior researcher of the study "A Sex Difference in the Specificity of Sexual Arousal." The study is forthcoming in the journal Psychological Science.
Bailey's main research focus has been on the genetics and environment of sexual orientation, and he is one of the principal investigators of a widely cited study that concludes that genes influence male homosexuality.
As in many areas of sexuality, research on women's sexual arousal patterns has lagged far behind men's, but the scant research on the subject does hint that, compared with men, women's sexual arousal patterns may be less tightly connected to their sexual orientation.
The Northwestern study strongly suggests this is true. The Northwestern researchers measured the psychological and physiological sexual arousal in homosexual and heterosexual men and women as they watched erotic films. There were three types of erotic films: those featuring only men, those featuring only women and those featuring male and female couples. As with previous research, the researchers found that men responded consistent with their sexual orientations. In contrast, both homosexual and heterosexual women showed a bisexual pattern of psychological as well as genital arousal. That is, heterosexual women were just as sexually aroused by watching female stimuli as by watching male stimuli, even though they prefer having sex with men rather than women.
"In fact, the large majority of women in contemporary Western societies have sex exclusively with men," said Meredith Chivers, a Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology at Northwestern University, a psychology intern at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and the study's first author. "But I have long suspected that women's sexuality is very different from men's, and this study scientifically demonstrates one way this is so."
The study's results mesh with current research showing that women's sexuality demonstrates increased flexibility relative to men in other areas besides sexual orientation, according to Chivers.
"Taken together, these results suggest that women's sexuality differs from men and emphasize the need for researchers to develop a model of the development and organization of female sexuality independent from models of male sexuality," she said.
The study's four authors include Bailey and three graduate students in Northwestern's psychology department, Chivers, Gerulf Rieger and Elizabeth Latty.
"Since most women seem capable of sexual arousal to both sexes, why do they choose one or the other?" Bailey asked. "Probably for reasons other than sexual arousal."
Sexual arousal is the emotional and physical response to sexual stimuli, including erotica or actual people. It has been known since the early 1960s that homosexual and heterosexual men respond in specific but opposite ways to sexual stimuli depicting men and women. Films provoke the greatest sexual response, and films of men having sex with men or of women having sex with women provoke the largest differences between homosexual and heterosexual men. That is because the same-sex films offer clear-cut results, whereas watching heterosexual sex could be exciting to both homosexual and heterosexual men, but for different reasons.
Typically, men experience genital arousal and psychological sexual arousal when they watch films depicting their preferred sex, but not when they watch films depicting the other sex. Men's specific pattern of sexual arousal is such a reliable fact that genital arousal can be used to assess men's sexual preferences. Even gay men who deny their own homosexuality will become more sexually aroused by male sexual stimuli than by female stimuli.
"The fact that women's sexual arousal patterns are not all predicted by their sexual orientations suggests that men's and women's minds and brains are very different," Bailey said.
To rule out the possibility that the differences between men's and women's genital sexual arousal patterns might be due to the different ways that genital arousal is measured in men and women, the Northwestern researchers identified a subset of subjects: postoperative transsexuals who began life as men but had surgery to construct artificial vaginas.
In a sense, those transsexuals have the brains of men but the genitals of women. Their psychological and genital arousal patterns matched those of men -- those who like men were more aroused by male stimuli and those who like women were more aroused by the female stimuli -- even though their genital arousal was measured in the same way women's was.
"This shows that the sex difference that we found is real and almost certainly due to a sex difference in the brain," said Bailey.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17636559 This is the address of a site with all the professional jargon one could want regarding this subject.......Brain response to visual sexual stimuli in heterosexual and homosexual males.
Paul T, Schiffer B, Zwarg T, Krüger TH, Karama S, Schedlowski M, Forsting M, Gizewski ER.

Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Hospital Essen, Germany.
Abstract
Although heterosexual and homosexual individuals clearly show differences in subjective response to heterosexual and homosexual sexual stimuli, the neurobiological processes underlying sexual orientation are largely unknown. We addressed the question whether the expected differences in subjective response to visual heterosexual and homosexual stimuli may be reflected in differences in brain activation pattern. Twenty-four healthy male volunteers, 12 heterosexuals and 12 homosexuals, were included in the study. BOLD signal was measured while subjects were viewing erotic videos of heterosexual and homosexual content. SPM02 was used for data analysis. Individual sexual arousal was assessed by subjective rating. As compared to viewing sexually neutral videos, viewing erotic videos led to a brain activation pattern characteristic for sexual arousal in both groups only when subjects were viewing videos of their respective sexual orientation. Particularly, activation in the hypothalamus, a key brain area in sexual function, was correlated with sexual arousal. Conversely, when viewing videos opposite to their sexual orientation both groups showed absent hypothalamic activation. Moreover, the activation pattern found in both groups suggests that stimuli of opposite sexual orientation triggered intense autonomic response and may be perceived, at least to some extent, as aversive.

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So I guess theoretically there could be a ma...................I think I'ill just leave it there 4 now.