Title=Policeå¿Action"Torn between two lovers
feelin' like a fool
Loving you both
is breaking all the rules"
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Video Time
There is a City by Hang on the Box
Shahrizoda: Three Uyghur Girls from Uzbekistan
Kill Your Belly by Hang on the Box
Double Life by Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her
Future or No Future by Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her
EXTRA --- Myanmar situation
Anonymous post on Saturday Sept 29 Slashdot by Mr Accountable
Like blaming Apple for the misdoings of Microsoft....
Someone had written a Slashdot article about deciding not to by a Lenovo computer.
Pictured: Niccolo Machiavelli
How dumb! It seems to me Lenovo would be loaded with computer nerds, insulting Lenovo in this situation would be like going after Dianne Feinstein for the wrongdoings of the Republican administration. One should stick up for one's friends. In the year 2007, Machiavellianism is supposed to be a bad joke, apparently some people haven't figured this out. Attacking Lenovo for the problems of the PLA, I think I saw something like this on The Brady Bunch a long time ago. Or was it Full House, when the twins were blamed for something that that neighbor kid did? Or maybe it was Urkel. Or was it on Little House, when Nellie Oleson breaks something in her parents' store and blames it on Laura Ingalls? Isn't that kind of plot structure on TV every night? Why do I, a Slashdot reader, have to put up with political philistinism from a bunch of people who can't stop showing off how smart they are in other areas? And why are we as a society producing all this electronic mediaware if people aren't learning anything from it? It's not like there is some shortage of sitcoms. And its not like this Myanmar situation isn't a real emergency that needs expert attention and thoughtful consideration instead of this long uninterrupted sociopolitical discussion group malpractice. Maybe some normal people in the Chinese government will decide to punish the liberal nerd community for this chronic malpractice by blaming Apple or Linux for the corporate deeds of Microsoft!
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How stupid can you be?
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Radley Metzger + Zombies of Boredom
Niceploitation
Therese and Isabelle and The Alley Cats are available at Netflix' Watch Now. I have 17 hours a month and I'm just not getting the job done. What do Carson Daly's parents really think about the structure of our society? The answer is here. I must say that these movies are slightly alarming in their nature. It is so difficult to say that because the film producers are really trying hard to create a better society. As The Clash said, "To cheat a stagger man - it is a wrong 'em boyo." The movies are kind of nice, a nice encyclopedia of California thought. And they are vaguely.......unintegrated. But here's a thought: What do you think all that extreme West Coast punk rock is rebelling against in the first place? Oh, it's a puzzle.
So you want to be creative
Hollywood television and movie directors spend a lot of time and energy making sure that no shot in a movie looks or resembles a Chinese word in its visual nature, even though the directors may be quite unfamiliar with the Chinese dictionary itself. How do I know this? I know this because Asian directors use the picture to show a word, and they do it all the time. It's part of the story and the audience expects to see it. When it comes to Western audiences, they try to be very nice about it so no one gets anxious. I worked on a few movie sets doing technical work, and it is so amazing to me how the director and the cameraman can spend so much time making sure that literate people won't double over laughing because they have inadvertently made some statement. It's like a special sense, an empty discipline, that marks the difference between who can be a movie director and who can't. They are the zombies of boredom. I go to the museum, I go to the record store and it's the same: painters and art directors are using regular Asian words to make their images memorable. From Newbury Comix to the Louvre, I haven't found one good picture yet that doesn't tap into the "subconscious" Asian dictionary. For me to understand this makes it more difficult to sort through the material we have here and it is definitely a serious discipline, and I think it all has something to do with Mona Lisa's smile. I have stated before on this blog that I don't watch a lot of Western movies, and I am not a jerk, the reason is that I know the difference. Sometimes it seems as though I am watching touch football on a Thanksgiving, I may as well watch the UEFA Futsal tournament on ESPN 360 for all the value that I know I am getting. SSD asks the hahd coah musical question: "How much art can you take?"
Sometimes, watching Adult Swim, I get the feeling that they know what they're doing. I like the results.
Geo Geo
In light of San Diego, San Francisco and Seattle's NFL success, I may as well continue. Because LAX gets a lot of immigrant traffic from Asia (like New York, Chicago, Miami, Toronto, Boston, etc), and because Cali is "Asia's neighbor", West coast people try to lord it over the rest of the US as to how they are the holders of some potential wisdom originating in Asia. Imagine that one is some kind of immigrant trying to open a medical lab or a manufacturing concern with this kind of attitude going on - it's like the East Coast was before the late 1800s.
Therese and Isabelle and The Alley Cats are available at Netflix' Watch Now. I have 17 hours a month and I'm just not getting the job done. What do Carson Daly's parents really think about the structure of our society? The answer is here. I must say that these movies are slightly alarming in their nature. It is so difficult to say that because the film producers are really trying hard to create a better society. As The Clash said, "To cheat a stagger man - it is a wrong 'em boyo." The movies are kind of nice, a nice encyclopedia of California thought. And they are vaguely.......unintegrated. But here's a thought: What do you think all that extreme West Coast punk rock is rebelling against in the first place? Oh, it's a puzzle.
So you want to be creative
Hollywood television and movie directors spend a lot of time and energy making sure that no shot in a movie looks or resembles a Chinese word in its visual nature, even though the directors may be quite unfamiliar with the Chinese dictionary itself. How do I know this? I know this because Asian directors use the picture to show a word, and they do it all the time. It's part of the story and the audience expects to see it. When it comes to Western audiences, they try to be very nice about it so no one gets anxious. I worked on a few movie sets doing technical work, and it is so amazing to me how the director and the cameraman can spend so much time making sure that literate people won't double over laughing because they have inadvertently made some statement. It's like a special sense, an empty discipline, that marks the difference between who can be a movie director and who can't. They are the zombies of boredom. I go to the museum, I go to the record store and it's the same: painters and art directors are using regular Asian words to make their images memorable. From Newbury Comix to the Louvre, I haven't found one good picture yet that doesn't tap into the "subconscious" Asian dictionary. For me to understand this makes it more difficult to sort through the material we have here and it is definitely a serious discipline, and I think it all has something to do with Mona Lisa's smile. I have stated before on this blog that I don't watch a lot of Western movies, and I am not a jerk, the reason is that I know the difference. Sometimes it seems as though I am watching touch football on a Thanksgiving, I may as well watch the UEFA Futsal tournament on ESPN 360 for all the value that I know I am getting. SSD asks the hahd coah musical question: "How much art can you take?"
Sometimes, watching Adult Swim, I get the feeling that they know what they're doing. I like the results.
Geo Geo
In light of San Diego, San Francisco and Seattle's NFL success, I may as well continue. Because LAX gets a lot of immigrant traffic from Asia (like New York, Chicago, Miami, Toronto, Boston, etc), and because Cali is "Asia's neighbor", West coast people try to lord it over the rest of the US as to how they are the holders of some potential wisdom originating in Asia. Imagine that one is some kind of immigrant trying to open a medical lab or a manufacturing concern with this kind of attitude going on - it's like the East Coast was before the late 1800s.
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Media Circus
I am sure I don't know what this has to do with baseball.
Entertainment is the opiate of the masses.
Joi Baba Felunath
- The Elephant God -
This Indian crime movie is pretty good, I am new at watching Indian movies, there are so many at Netflix and I am finding it difficult to keep searching past looking for Northeast Asian movies or Western movies. I even found myself asking someone at Dell or Verizon customer support "What's a good Indian movie?" There sure is a good selection at Netflix. This new trend goes well with another new trend of mine, that of looking for West Asian punk rock; I have got to budget money to buy The Kominas, out of Boston.
As far as I can tell, in Joi Baba Felunath, there is some kind of super religious artifact that a dacoit group needs to have. Dacoits are gangsters, more or less. A serious dacoit woman became the governor of a state of India during the 1980s and 90s, she was assassinated while her governorship was falling apart in the chaos of her regime. The dacoits in this movie are fascinated by getting some artifact while ignoring the drudgery that goes into actually managing an economy, or a company. To make matters worse, the man in charge of the big estate that the dacoit group has targeted seems to enjoy just sitting around the vacant estate, idylically, talking with his young son about philosophy and day-to-day poetic moments. It is a good backdrop for an icon pyramid scheme extortion scheme based on adherence to the ancient ways. It's not really a pyramid scheme as a criminal enterprise per se, it is a pyramid scheme in terms of the obsession with unusual artifacts and their empty appeal, presented to a 1978 audience that is mainly concerned with the new burgeoning high tech industrial future of India. This movie is directed by the great Satyajit Ray.
Perfect Blue
This is one of a group of Japanese movies that talks about the media in terms of media popstars and the various business dealings they have and the strange things they do. Dolls is another such movie that could be recommended. This one is an anime movie, the title might have something to do with the color blue as seen in NYPD Blue. Putting up very flashy popstars while being very intellectual and serious about them makes for pretty good movies that get a lot of attention from Western anime fans who are justifiably hooked on a certain blend of cheap appeal and metaphysical genius that they expect from Japan. Since this formula definitely seems to be working, this genre keeps expanding. The problems in this movie could also be seen as being part of a "sentiment pyramid scheme" in which a certain reliable percentage of the public pours their good will and attention into popstars, with disastrous results to follow. Entertainment is the opiate of the masses.
In Japanese movies, sexual exploitation is something that is near the top of the list of things that writers and producers grab by the horns, it is not easy to get away from this topic and audiences expect to see what is going on in this part of reality. It has a high priority and is a very non-negotiable part of the movie-going experience and the resulting product ranges from actual sexploitation to movie work that is on the Meryl Streep level. In American cinema (Woody Allen, Martin Scorcese, Clint Eastwood, et cetera), straight-up treatment of sexual exploitation is more of an option for the film makers and often takes a more subtextual role within the movie than it might in Japan, it is comparatively something that is talked about intstead of really seen. So be it. If one really wants to know, the idea of it is that one should sit, watch and struggle with it, and win, it's how one becomes a good Asian citizen. You are expected to be able to deal with it, sort of like how one is expected to explore the world that we live in. Sit watch and do nothing. It's difficult, and when one is successful one earns Buddhist merit, and one learns how to "be careful" in Asia.
If you feel the burn, it then really really pays to look very seriously into Buddhism as a kind of way to deal with all the very crappy emotions: link. I think the East-West media market gave up on trying to be ultrasincere about selling Buddhist books in the West and just decided to use difficult cinema tests to lead one along to being a good person, if one takes the time to figure out how to deal with them. Again, here is that link; Dharma Realm Buddhist Association. The bookstore is a good place to go. The Heart Sutra is concise and popular. The DRBA is based in California. It's authentic. Thoughtfulness is a quality that can be learned from a book. At least, everybody over there knows it that way. After watching Asian movies, Buddhism is like an aspirin. Don't feel bad. "What are the limits and parameters of successfully exploring the world while maintaining an open heart?" Ask a Buddhist expert.
It is possible to think of it this way: After seeing raw Western cinema product like The Excorcist, Shoah, Taxi Driver, heck, even The Eiger Sanction, Asian people definitely feed their need by going to church and buying and reading a bible.
Actually, here is the bookstore link: Buddhist Text Translation Society. The 10,000 Buddhas site is a little confusing. This group bought a very big, defunct, State of California mental asylum in the 70s and changed it to a Buddhist center; I think they may have moved again. IDK
The funny thing about Buddhism, is that in my contact with Asia I have learned that there is a difference between Buddhist fasting and Western fasting. These two Japanese guys, for example, went on a 2 month pilgrimmage in Thailand, totally sincere, absolutely faithful, quite a rugged experience, kind of gruelling actually, and the last scene in this 30 minute television documentary movie they made was them ending the pilgrimmage by sitting down at an outdoor restaurant cafe and drinking some beers, opening a pack of smokes and watching the Thai sunset. It's a great system. No worries, mate.
Another thing about Buddhism (and Daoism, Confucianism, et cetera) is that the knowlege is contained in the words.
Dead Leaves
Dead Leaves is a very crazy animated movie that provides a lagniappe to Perfect Blue.
The Hours
To continue, seeing a movie like the feminist The Hours, in which issues of sexual exploitation seem to make up 99% of the story, after seeing things in Buddhist perspective, one just isn't sure what to make of this. After two hours of the acclaimed film making, in which so many important ideas are exposited, one is very unsure at the end about the underlying reality of the film. Just what kind of world do the producers want people to live in? The Hours is a very powerful, efficacious drug for many women, and the film makers are of course, at this high level, very conscientious and deliberate, and have all the time in the world to try to say exactly what they think. At the Virginia Woolf level of things, it sure is a great movie but there are so many alarming things that happen in this movie, that are said in this movie, that it seems like a difficult thing to sell to someone who is watching the game. I found myself able to deal with this production, it produced a strong positively opiated feeling in me in spite of its incredible ambition and goals, some of which I would find it very difficult to sell as presented in this movie. I'm glad I saw it but it's a case of something being so thoughtfully presented as to gain merit in spite of how it might offend a sports fan. (Oops)
The Hours has something to do with Vassar College thought, which includes Meryl Streep and Phoebe Buffay on Friends.
Entertainment is the opiate of the masses.
Joi Baba Felunath
- The Elephant God -
This Indian crime movie is pretty good, I am new at watching Indian movies, there are so many at Netflix and I am finding it difficult to keep searching past looking for Northeast Asian movies or Western movies. I even found myself asking someone at Dell or Verizon customer support "What's a good Indian movie?" There sure is a good selection at Netflix. This new trend goes well with another new trend of mine, that of looking for West Asian punk rock; I have got to budget money to buy The Kominas, out of Boston.
As far as I can tell, in Joi Baba Felunath, there is some kind of super religious artifact that a dacoit group needs to have. Dacoits are gangsters, more or less. A serious dacoit woman became the governor of a state of India during the 1980s and 90s, she was assassinated while her governorship was falling apart in the chaos of her regime. The dacoits in this movie are fascinated by getting some artifact while ignoring the drudgery that goes into actually managing an economy, or a company. To make matters worse, the man in charge of the big estate that the dacoit group has targeted seems to enjoy just sitting around the vacant estate, idylically, talking with his young son about philosophy and day-to-day poetic moments. It is a good backdrop for an icon pyramid scheme extortion scheme based on adherence to the ancient ways. It's not really a pyramid scheme as a criminal enterprise per se, it is a pyramid scheme in terms of the obsession with unusual artifacts and their empty appeal, presented to a 1978 audience that is mainly concerned with the new burgeoning high tech industrial future of India. This movie is directed by the great Satyajit Ray.
Perfect Blue
This is one of a group of Japanese movies that talks about the media in terms of media popstars and the various business dealings they have and the strange things they do. Dolls is another such movie that could be recommended. This one is an anime movie, the title might have something to do with the color blue as seen in NYPD Blue. Putting up very flashy popstars while being very intellectual and serious about them makes for pretty good movies that get a lot of attention from Western anime fans who are justifiably hooked on a certain blend of cheap appeal and metaphysical genius that they expect from Japan. Since this formula definitely seems to be working, this genre keeps expanding. The problems in this movie could also be seen as being part of a "sentiment pyramid scheme" in which a certain reliable percentage of the public pours their good will and attention into popstars, with disastrous results to follow. Entertainment is the opiate of the masses.
In Japanese movies, sexual exploitation is something that is near the top of the list of things that writers and producers grab by the horns, it is not easy to get away from this topic and audiences expect to see what is going on in this part of reality. It has a high priority and is a very non-negotiable part of the movie-going experience and the resulting product ranges from actual sexploitation to movie work that is on the Meryl Streep level. In American cinema (Woody Allen, Martin Scorcese, Clint Eastwood, et cetera), straight-up treatment of sexual exploitation is more of an option for the film makers and often takes a more subtextual role within the movie than it might in Japan, it is comparatively something that is talked about intstead of really seen. So be it. If one really wants to know, the idea of it is that one should sit, watch and struggle with it, and win, it's how one becomes a good Asian citizen. You are expected to be able to deal with it, sort of like how one is expected to explore the world that we live in. Sit watch and do nothing. It's difficult, and when one is successful one earns Buddhist merit, and one learns how to "be careful" in Asia.
If you feel the burn, it then really really pays to look very seriously into Buddhism as a kind of way to deal with all the very crappy emotions: link. I think the East-West media market gave up on trying to be ultrasincere about selling Buddhist books in the West and just decided to use difficult cinema tests to lead one along to being a good person, if one takes the time to figure out how to deal with them. Again, here is that link; Dharma Realm Buddhist Association. The bookstore is a good place to go. The Heart Sutra is concise and popular. The DRBA is based in California. It's authentic. Thoughtfulness is a quality that can be learned from a book. At least, everybody over there knows it that way. After watching Asian movies, Buddhism is like an aspirin. Don't feel bad. "What are the limits and parameters of successfully exploring the world while maintaining an open heart?" Ask a Buddhist expert.
It is possible to think of it this way: After seeing raw Western cinema product like The Excorcist, Shoah, Taxi Driver, heck, even The Eiger Sanction, Asian people definitely feed their need by going to church and buying and reading a bible.
Actually, here is the bookstore link: Buddhist Text Translation Society. The 10,000 Buddhas site is a little confusing. This group bought a very big, defunct, State of California mental asylum in the 70s and changed it to a Buddhist center; I think they may have moved again. IDK
The funny thing about Buddhism, is that in my contact with Asia I have learned that there is a difference between Buddhist fasting and Western fasting. These two Japanese guys, for example, went on a 2 month pilgrimmage in Thailand, totally sincere, absolutely faithful, quite a rugged experience, kind of gruelling actually, and the last scene in this 30 minute television documentary movie they made was them ending the pilgrimmage by sitting down at an outdoor restaurant cafe and drinking some beers, opening a pack of smokes and watching the Thai sunset. It's a great system. No worries, mate.
Another thing about Buddhism (and Daoism, Confucianism, et cetera) is that the knowlege is contained in the words.
Dead Leaves
Dead Leaves is a very crazy animated movie that provides a lagniappe to Perfect Blue.
The Hours
To continue, seeing a movie like the feminist The Hours, in which issues of sexual exploitation seem to make up 99% of the story, after seeing things in Buddhist perspective, one just isn't sure what to make of this. After two hours of the acclaimed film making, in which so many important ideas are exposited, one is very unsure at the end about the underlying reality of the film. Just what kind of world do the producers want people to live in? The Hours is a very powerful, efficacious drug for many women, and the film makers are of course, at this high level, very conscientious and deliberate, and have all the time in the world to try to say exactly what they think. At the Virginia Woolf level of things, it sure is a great movie but there are so many alarming things that happen in this movie, that are said in this movie, that it seems like a difficult thing to sell to someone who is watching the game. I found myself able to deal with this production, it produced a strong positively opiated feeling in me in spite of its incredible ambition and goals, some of which I would find it very difficult to sell as presented in this movie. I'm glad I saw it but it's a case of something being so thoughtfully presented as to gain merit in spite of how it might offend a sports fan. (Oops)
The Hours has something to do with Vassar College thought, which includes Meryl Streep and Phoebe Buffay on Friends.
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Week 2
For Week 1 Arts and Crafts see below. Week 2 Matchups include
Indianapolis at Tennessee
NY Jets at Baltimore
San Diego at New England
There are 32 teams and 16 games per week not including bye weeks.
Indianapolis at Tennessee
NY Jets at Baltimore
San Diego at New England
There are 32 teams and 16 games per week not including bye weeks.
Atlantic Coast Conference - ACC
ATLANTIC DIVISION
Boston College 1-0
Maryland 0-0
Clemson 0-0
Florida State 0-0
NC State 0-0
Wake Forest 0-1
COASTAL DIVISION
Georgia Tech 0-0
Miami 0-0
North Carolina 0-0
Virginia Tech 0-0
Duke 0-0
Virginia 0-0
Boston College 1-0
Maryland 0-0
Clemson 0-0
Florida State 0-0
NC State 0-0
Wake Forest 0-1
COASTAL DIVISION
Georgia Tech 0-0
Miami 0-0
North Carolina 0-0
Virginia Tech 0-0
Duke 0-0
Virginia 0-0
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Thursday, August 30, 2007
WEEK 1
Week One matchups include
New Orleans at Indianapolis
IND: Crawfish.
NWO: Insect.
"Black Gold" and a white town --- "black gold" is a central issue in Taiwan, it's the term used for "drug and sex related urban unrest". Block parties are great, but there is nothing quite like opening a new factory to make the people happy. The New Orleans District Attorney went to my school, I have been reading about the city in my alumni magazine, it says that "monunental changes are taking place". Laissez bon temps roulez. 2007's New Orleans is a young team in terms of its current incarnation.
Result: Indy 41 NWO 10
New England at New York Jets
NYJ: Mao money, mao money!
NWE: Calm down.
NYJ: Okay, Plankton, what is up?
NWE: I've just washed these blankets.
NYJ: Blankets? Of what?
NWE: Never mind. Mets suck.
NYJ: Right. Pats suck too.
NWE: How about we...
NYJ: We what?
NWE: Meet on Sunday.
NYJ: That's nice, Plankton.
NWE: You jerk
Sometimes, being a successful Manhattanite involves loading up a lot of attitude into one's ego, dumping it into one's psyche and then unloading all day the most interesting talk soup all the while taking each turn in the conversation to redefine oneself as being more and more beyond the shadow of suspicion of political incorrectness than one was a moment before. It's a process. Of course, "being politically correct" is a shallow term compared to the actual task of sorting through the thoughtful junk and debris that occupy our political talkspace. Let's be careful out there!
NYC sucks up so much attention and bandwidth, especially due to its position as home of the communications industry, that it seems ridiculous sometimes to even try to define oneself as a worth-it person if one is from a different town or area. Or country. The bigggest issue by far facing us in the Western world is the aftermath of the Holocaust and World War 2, meaning a lot of grief and angst that it sometimes pays to nap through. Napping is not a New York method in the first place, and avoiding lots of LA-NY prime time tv is a healthy, sane way to organize one's thoughts. This line of reasoning may not make sense to a yuppie. So be it. The point is that New York needs assistance with its deeply caffeinated witty life, and now you've got the Jets at a disadvantage, because according to The Art of War and Machiavelli, once one decides to provide fake assistance to the enemy, in this case the Jets, the psychological battle is won. Since everybody in America watches TV, this concept is in play not only against New York but against any team that eats a lot of food at the media buffet.
Staleness and cliche are a huge problem for media gluttons on both sides of the camera, so it pays to say things that aren't interesting, like "That's great" and "You got it". To city people and media people who are up to their necks in sorting through mountains of valid viewpoints and empty rhetoric, it works like an aspirin, and at that point one is not only cleverly trying to fake-rescue people from a media migraine, one is also getting the job done by actually feeding them some pain relief. It may seem like I have spent a lot of time thinking about this, but this philosophy is drastically underdeveloped as presented here. It sounds ridiculous to boot.
Tennessee at Jacksonville
Chicago at San Diego
SDG: That's a big bag of rice.
CHI: ty
SDG: How about some chicken w/that rice?
CHI: Comin' at you.
SDG: Mm delicious. What kind of chicken is this?
CHI: Dis chicken?
SDG: Yeah, dis chicken.
CHI: You talking about dis chicken?
SDG: Screw you.
CHI: LOL
With the exception of the free-standing simplified gold radical in the NWO crayfish, "Mao Money" on the Jets side and the partial "6 soap" on the NWE side, all words used in these plates are actual words. As far as dialog is concerned, I don't have an 11 year old son, but if I did, that's what he would write.
New Orleans at Indianapolis
IND: Crawfish.
NWO: Insect.
"Black Gold" and a white town --- "black gold" is a central issue in Taiwan, it's the term used for "drug and sex related urban unrest". Block parties are great, but there is nothing quite like opening a new factory to make the people happy. The New Orleans District Attorney went to my school, I have been reading about the city in my alumni magazine, it says that "monunental changes are taking place". Laissez bon temps roulez. 2007's New Orleans is a young team in terms of its current incarnation.
Result: Indy 41 NWO 10
New England at New York Jets
NYJ: Mao money, mao money!
NWE: Calm down.
NYJ: Okay, Plankton, what is up?
NWE: I've just washed these blankets.
NYJ: Blankets? Of what?
NWE: Never mind. Mets suck.
NYJ: Right. Pats suck too.
NWE: How about we...
NYJ: We what?
NWE: Meet on Sunday.
NYJ: That's nice, Plankton.
NWE: You jerk
Sometimes, being a successful Manhattanite involves loading up a lot of attitude into one's ego, dumping it into one's psyche and then unloading all day the most interesting talk soup all the while taking each turn in the conversation to redefine oneself as being more and more beyond the shadow of suspicion of political incorrectness than one was a moment before. It's a process. Of course, "being politically correct" is a shallow term compared to the actual task of sorting through the thoughtful junk and debris that occupy our political talkspace. Let's be careful out there!
NYC sucks up so much attention and bandwidth, especially due to its position as home of the communications industry, that it seems ridiculous sometimes to even try to define oneself as a worth-it person if one is from a different town or area. Or country. The bigggest issue by far facing us in the Western world is the aftermath of the Holocaust and World War 2, meaning a lot of grief and angst that it sometimes pays to nap through. Napping is not a New York method in the first place, and avoiding lots of LA-NY prime time tv is a healthy, sane way to organize one's thoughts. This line of reasoning may not make sense to a yuppie. So be it. The point is that New York needs assistance with its deeply caffeinated witty life, and now you've got the Jets at a disadvantage, because according to The Art of War and Machiavelli, once one decides to provide fake assistance to the enemy, in this case the Jets, the psychological battle is won. Since everybody in America watches TV, this concept is in play not only against New York but against any team that eats a lot of food at the media buffet.
Staleness and cliche are a huge problem for media gluttons on both sides of the camera, so it pays to say things that aren't interesting, like "That's great" and "You got it". To city people and media people who are up to their necks in sorting through mountains of valid viewpoints and empty rhetoric, it works like an aspirin, and at that point one is not only cleverly trying to fake-rescue people from a media migraine, one is also getting the job done by actually feeding them some pain relief. It may seem like I have spent a lot of time thinking about this, but this philosophy is drastically underdeveloped as presented here. It sounds ridiculous to boot.
Tennessee at Jacksonville
Chicago at San Diego
SDG: That's a big bag of rice.
CHI: ty
SDG: How about some chicken w/that rice?
CHI: Comin' at you.
SDG: Mm delicious. What kind of chicken is this?
CHI: Dis chicken?
SDG: Yeah, dis chicken.
CHI: You talking about dis chicken?
SDG: Screw you.
CHI: LOL
With the exception of the free-standing simplified gold radical in the NWO crayfish, "Mao Money" on the Jets side and the partial "6 soap" on the NWE side, all words used in these plates are actual words. As far as dialog is concerned, I don't have an 11 year old son, but if I did, that's what he would write.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Video Break
Sun by John Lydon
The Indian dance - to be danced..
The Indian dance - to be danced..
The Indian dance - to be danced..
The Indian dance - to be danced..
No Diggity by Blackstreet
Cappucino by MC Lyte
YouTube link Pony Ride by Bumblebeez (no embed available)
Thursday, August 23, 2007
NFC EAST
Dallas Cowboys - The men symbolize the mirrors of a solar tower. The yellow thing is the sun. The funny thing about Australian/American solar tower technology is that the unit on the top of the tower gets as hot as the sun. Please see picture on right.
Philadelphia Eagles - Sort of a simplified form of the word "Eagle". There is a paired element in the actual word for eagle which has been removed, reflecting Phila management's 2007 quarterback decisioning.>
New York Giants - In trying to think about how high Gothamites are, in general, it doesn't really pay to spend time wondering about it. It will suffice to merely note that they are high on life, and to then move on. And by Gothamites I mean Superman, Batman, Blue Man Group, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John and Suzyn at WCBS, et cetera. The thing about this one is that the major right-hand element is the "NAI" in "Nigeria", which resembles "NYG" phonetically. And, one could picture it as a very happy person riding a bicycle with both legs out to the side, meaning a kind of happiness that might be de rigeur in both Gotham and in Lagos. SW Nigeria is a very Yoruba place, and one can sense the tension between Yoruba happiness and Yoruba grittiness in the career of Wanda Sykes, to name one person. Unfortunately this is as far as my African Studies scholarship can currently take me. This word looks like a normal Chinese word.
Washington Redskins - A commentary on Hollywood's strange effect on US politics, including elections. The weakest offering on this page so far. This word is from the dictionary, unlike most of the words on this blog, which have the status of words like "Panasonic", "Dischord", "Dorito", "Aqua Velva", "Blackalicious", "Krunk" and the like. Actually, "Krunk" is now in the dictionary. At any rate, the word here is "Woman", and I am specifically thinking of Washington's lack of involvement in the ongoing affairs of the country of Myanmar, which involvement should be a priority as Britain has had a very difficult time speaking sanguinely to this nation, of which it is the primary agent to the West, especially in regards to the career of Aung San Kyuu Kyi, a Londoner/Myanmarese who has not benefited from Britain's inability to bring Myanmar into the modern diplomatic world. Phew. For the fast track on what this word "really means" picture the horizontal element as a tabletop, think of a man's lap on the left and a woman's arm on the right and think of Jethro Tull's immortal line from "Locomotive Breath": "...and the all-time winner's..got him by the balls...". Can you see it? Can you? Chinese is so amazing. I suppose if this team was going somewhere it would behoove me to talk more about the onfield talent, but as it is, one shouldn't miss an opportunity to move the Chinese Curriculum along. My original concept for WAS was "OLD MAN TAKE A LOOK AT MY LIFE".
NFC NORTH
Found it hard to get inspired about this division, each one is similar.
Each has the Standing Hand Radical on the left. And on the right:
Chicago Bears: Talent. Rex Grossman reminds me of Fat Mike from NOFX; he is a talented singer songwriter.
Minnesota Vikings: Color. The color purple.
Green Bay Packers: Something about "Little old me", in reference to Favre and the franchise's history.
Detroit Lions: Work, as in "Now it is time for the Detroit Lions to get to work." If one refers back to Washington Redskins, one can see the woman radical at work in Canada's mappitological relationship to the city of Detroit.
NFC SOUTH
New Orleans Saints: "Talent" on the top, and "inch" on the bottom, as though the word is saying "This Shorty's definitely on the rise in this league". "Three Drops of Water" radical is on the left.
Carolina Panthers: I didn't really know what I was doing when I was writing this, I started thinking of the band Caroliner, whose album titles always remind me of airports and airlines. The Chinese word has something to do with blobs of blue ice landing somewhere in the woods.
Atlanta Falcons: In the history of the American South, how difficult was it for African Americans to organize and form a beaurocracy? The current Michael Vick story is all about how dog fighting has served as a vehicle for society in the South. It is a harsh vehicle, and there of course are reasons for it to be there, and for it to be the way that it is.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers: The giant plastic ship and the dozens of rusted servo motors that are supposed to raise the Tampa flag when the team scores a touchdown were inspirations for this word.
NFC WEST
Seattle Seahawks: A nice word that is something like "Marching Plastic Men". It includes a trident visual element.
San Francisco 49ers: When I visited San Fran, I ate a lot of Mexican food; hence, the red and yellow color. This is a pretty good word that helps resolve a lot of San Francisco issues for me.
St Louis Rams: After thinking of this word, it struck me that it looked like the last play of St Louis' Super Bowl victory, as time ran out, which was supposedly the most exciting Super Bowl - before the New England era began. The right hand element looks like the goal line, the left hand element looks like the 2 or 3 yard line and the middle element, "short tailed bird", looks like the laces of a football or a hand reaching forward to put the ball past the goal line. The word "short tailed bird" is used in the word "Cardinals" and the word "chicken", like the word "Gai" in "Moo Goo Gai Pan".
Arizona Cardinals: The Big Host of the Super Bowl. As far as information about China is concerned, two West Coast cities with ethnic Chinese pluralities are Victoria, Canada and Calexico, which is near the Southwest corner of Arizona. The colors were chosen from the Arizona Cardinals' website.
AFC EAST
New England Patriots and New York Jets - Originally this was to be "Company 1" and "Company 2" but I got inspired. The two numbers used as the left hand elements correspond not to one and two but to the Grecoroman numbers used in words like pentagon, hexagram, September, octane, November, Dewey Decimal, dodecahedron, sesquicentennial, et cetera.
Buffalo Bills - Toronto is just across the lake, and Rush's "Invisible Airwaves" gets a lot of play on the radio.
Miami Dolphins - A literal translation of the actual word for Dolphin and a Chinese word that has to do with "Thailand of the West", maybe.
AFC NORTH
Baltimore Ravens - Ravens look great. Ravens and crows emit a "lively, deathly sound", to be an idiot poet about it.
Cincinnati Bengals - I haven't been to Cincy lateley, but an amateur's diagnosis would point to lack of integration of rap and metal. Too much Metallica? No such thing. Not enough Metallica? Hardly likely.
Pittsburgh Steelers - Ben seems to be an old player at this time.
Cleveland Browns - It's not too difficult to be funny about this team's name.
AFC SOUTH
Indianapolis Colts - As a New England supporter, sitting through 8 or 9 Sundays getting "hoosed" just by being in contact with the Indianapolis team, thinking about farming, RCA, Letterman, Quayle; it's a dim experience. I have visited many American cities, Indianapolis isn't one of them. The thing on the left is "farm" and it looks like a farmer who is stepping out in an awkward manner. I really have to think about what I write about this team, they are pretty good, it's not a good idea to write something dumb. The thing on the right is a giant pair of grandma panties. This is not actually a Chinese word as far as I know.
Jacksonville Jaguars - It always seems to me that one is always in attendance at a nice KOA evening celebration here in Jacksonville. I like cheesy Jax, the Chinese word is like "plastic food". KOA stands for "Campgrounds of America", like AOL stands for "America Online". The thing on the right is like plastic and is part of the word "Clinton". "Clinton" is a word that appeared everyday in the Chinese newspaper for years, this is a word element that is very familiar to the reading public. It looks kind of smarmy and excited. Getting back to real life for a moment, plastic is so important to Taiwan's economy and the toy industry. All that stuff at Walmart is made of plastic originating in Taiwan venture capital, in Fujian, Taiwan and the Hong Kong area. If one thinks that the development of industry in Taiwan was some kind of easy task, think again. I will have to find the story of the big petroleum ---> methyl alcohol plant in the 60s in Taiwan that had to be located on an island because no one would have it in their backyard. I should stop telling this story now, I believe in generating confidence in the economy, no sense in comparing Taiwan to America or Europe here. There are so many paychecks to print, there is so much tuition to pay, there is so much physics to do. Suffice it to say that some of the plastic in my computer, some of the plastic in your computer, no doubt comes from this facility.
Tennessee Titans : In writing about football here, I learned something about the coming season, mainly, that Tennessee and Baltimore seem strong. That is my impression. In South and Southwest Africa there is an escarpment, like Old Rockytop, that bars inland trade via most of the rivers. At places it is over 800 meters high. That's half a mile. In South Africa there is a water project that involves lifting water from the Milk River and the Sunday River up the escarpment for the Gauteng Province water supply, which includes Pretoria and Johannesburg. One can read about this infrastructure project at the Wikipedia. The word I wrote for this means "Work your balls off getting to the top." The light blue element (the Heart Radical) would represent one's balls.
Houston Texans: Two agricultural products that use a lot of water are beef and alfalfa sprouts. I thought the word "sprouts" (in white) looked kind of like the franchise logo. The red thing is an actual escarpment with a person standing at the top (see Tennessee). The blue thing in this case is "clear blue vison". Nothing like going up to the heights and looking out over the valley and clearing one's mind before returning home down to the house. I believe there is a post-conversion Bob Dylan song about this.
AFC WEST
San Diego Chargers - Boat plus 2 stones. Thing about San Diego, Norv Turner's pretty good.
Denver Broncos - Some kind of play on the word west and the word sweet and the word prarie wind. And the non-word "Dingin in the Wind". Ok, I am getting a little wiped, let's say that Jack Kerouac was up to it the same in Lowell Mass as he was in Denver and points west - hittin' the wind and keeping an eye on the bohemian nickels and dimes. Good luck in the new Cutler era, Denver.
Kansas City Chiefs - Something to do with this city's role in food production, maybe translated as "I noticed you were hungry."
Oakland Raiders - This one came out scary looking, like 7th graders "writing" on a the ceiling of a school lavatory with a Bic lighter. The two little words at the top are "hearts" and the two little words at the bottom are "little". "Little heart" is "danger" in the Chinese dictionary. Abunai desyo! The big thing is history. Picture that thing under the cliff as like one of those babes on the mudflaps of an 18 wheeler, except this time on her hands and knees, and you've got the word "history". That's right, it's Motley Crue's Girls, Girls Girls. Apparently babes with nothing to do but to crawl around on their hands and knees have a lot to do with major historical developments. Raiders are one of the most storied teams, with John Madden keeping a close watch over the big game every week. Will JaMarcus be on top of San Diego and Denver in 3 years? One doesn't know.
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What do I think?
New Orleans and Carolina should eat Atlanta and Jeff Garcia, giving them 4-0's in division. Same for New England/New York and Buffalo/Miami. What really sucks for the competition is that Chicago Bears guy who moved to the Jets.
If one watches South Park and South Park-produced movies, the gestalt in the West is Utah vs the Coast. San Fran is there, DeBartolo's family is there. Oik. If Seattle is owned by Microsoft, who represents Red Hat/Linux (St Louis?) and who represents Mozilla Firefox? (Arizona?) Hmm.
And maybe Philly beats Dallas anyway. We'll see.
Seattle
Chicago
Dallas
New Orleans
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Philadelphia
Carolina
San Francisco
NFC Game = New Orleans
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New England
Baltimore
San Diego
Indianapolis
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New York
Tennessee
AFC Game = New England and New York
Be sure to find an online sports site and bet on New York Jets to win more than 8 games this season. Payout is ~ 1.20 won for every 1.00 spent.
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