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Trippy Ginger Rogers Pig Latin

stephen69@gmail.com (Lex10) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:33:00 +0000

Download now or watch on posterous

oneymay1.mpg (17259 KB)

Posting through posterous so if it doesn't work screw it. If it does, expect more annoying solipsistic shit. If it works and if it is still somehow wrong (like reposting a million times) lemme know.

First time I really got into these types of movies was when I was just out of high school and discovering herb (not Edelman, him I was already familiar with). While watching them my old man who had finally been forced to buy a 25" color portable TV (his conditions/reasons for putting it off) would come in and yell, "What the hell are you watching THIS for?!?!?! We finally got a COLOR TV and THIS is what you watch?!!?" I was watching color *wink. Either way it was quite an overwhelming spectacle for the newly stoned Lex10, what with the shopping mall sized sets, the Busby Berkeley imagery, and whatnot. These particular few seconds are well and truly classic.

A couple of observations of these few seconds: The focus pulling going in and out bespeaks (?!) a time before cinematic technological perfection - there's humans at work, and it's poetically beautiful to me. Secondly, that Ginger Rogers is a real sexual response producer and at the time, I was in love with her . Third, trippy, innit?

Enjoy.

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The New Background

stephen69@gmail.com (Lex10) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:54:00 +0000

....it's based on the booths at Morimoto in Philadelphia. When sitting in them they change color very gradually, so slowly it's almost difficult to notice, especially after a coupla junmai sake or MC2, his Midori, lime and Champagne cocktail. I went way more pastel for better readability, but the same effect hopefully. 1px x 1px animated .gif

Christer Themptander

stephen69@gmail.com (Lex10) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:34:00 +0000

I'm really digging his stuff after seeing it at Martin Klasch.
Rummage - it's worth it, have a look. Also blah blah, printing methods of technologies past, blah blah evident political message, etc.....

When The Dog Bites, When The Bee Stings.....

stephen69@gmail.com (Lex10) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:54:00 +0000

.......it must be one of my favorite things: Squidbillies!

LOL

stephen69@gmail.com (Lex10) — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:02:00 +0000

Pee-wee Gets An iPad! from Pee-wee Herman

A 1/4 Cover My Favorite Martian Comic,

stephen69@gmail.com (Lex10) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:48:00 +0000

1/4 covers were from when unsold comics (or magazines) had to be returned and the ditributor didn't want to lug a bunch of pulp. The top 1/4 of the cover was submitted for the unsold credit. Needless to say they got sold and/or given away anyway.

Link to comic at pic, Nephews and Mrs. Browns!!

Real-Life Horror

stephen69@gmail.com (Lex10) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:51:00 +0000

Lex11 has written a spectacular post about the visceral effect crime scene cleanup can have on a person capable of normal human emotion. Read it - it's a horrific mind-blower, from a talented auteur.

Must be his DNA.

Review: A Far Cry From Kensington

stephen69@gmail.com (Lex10) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:32:00 +0000

A Far Cry from Kensington New Directions (2000), Paperback, 192 pages

I was handed this fictional memoir, by someone I trust to provide quality literary experiences- he assured me of its solid storytelling, and richness of content.

For me, prior to being handed this book, Muriel Spark really brought two things to mind: lighting cigars, (get it?) and books like Please Don't Eat the Daisies , which in reality share nothing with her.
I had no idea.

In his book, Rotten: No Irish No Blacks No Dogs, one finds out just how literary minded John Lydon is and how he was a fan of lots of great literature (Graham Greene's work springs to mind)... I was shocked when preparing to write this that Muriel Spark's Book The Public Image was where Lydon got the name for PiL. Had I not read his book I never would've guessed it but my suspicions were piqued when reviewing Spark's body of work.

In A Far Cry From Kensington, one gets an accurate portrait of post-war London life, with cramped and damp, recession and thrift, and during the progression of the book it's subsequent awakening from its 6 year nightmare.

Being an Anglophile I might've been satisfied with that and would have been polite about it, but disappointed with its lack of plot arrow.

The plot arrow is large and sharp and accurate: An overweight widow in a boarding house and works at a publisher, insults a literary world hanger-on, which in subsequent years, leads to adverse circumstances over and over again for her, all the while reaffirming her belief that the pisseur de copie "pisser or copy" is just what he is, an opportunistic second banana with no moral compunction about exploitation of personal relationships, and it being a small world, capable of infecting more than just the working world of Spark's protagonist, Mrs. Hawkins.

As A Far Cry From Kensington progresses, Mrs. Hawkins loses the insulation she grew during the war; both emotionally and physically- it falls away in the form of weight loss, the loss as allegory for her maturation, as evidenced by her questioning her faith, learning to stand firm when challenged about her interpersonal convictions and rising to the occasion when called upon by her neighbors who have revealed formerly private crises, that stemmed from character flaws that Mrs Hawkins shows us without a word of avarice, only predictive empathy, from someone who by virtue of being a war-widow, feels it necessary to conduct oneself with more maturity than others of her age.

I've hit the spoiler wall; let me just say within all the wool and teacups and rugs and wallpaper there's crazies, death, fist-fighting, insults, medical emergencies, injustice, karma, foreigners, revenge, hoodoo and more. A perfect mix of atmosphere and activity for anyone looking to read outside of genre.

It was also surprising for me, because I thought she was a 1940's & 50's writer (like I said I didn't know anything about her - just the name) - her style in this book doesn't give away that it was written 1988. Her arc runs from Prime of Miss Jean Brodie in 1961 to 2004's The Finishing School.

I suppose that since I'm a PiL fan I'll read The Public Image next and see what more she has to offer.

Final words: read A Far Cry From Kensington, already.

1st ed cover

Quote O' The Day

stephen69@gmail.com (Lex10) — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 06:07:00 +0000

Mother Earth…
my life support system…
as a soldier…
I must drink your blue water…
live inside your red clay and eat your green skin.

I pray…
my boots will always kiss your face and my footsteps match your heartbeat.

Carry my body through space and time…
you are my connection to the Universe…
and all that comes after.

I am yours and you are mine.
I salute you.

-The Men Who Stare at Goats

OCD MAE

stephen69@gmail.com (Lex10) — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:29:00 +0000

I guess it was meant to be "saucy" but it's more weird..... she was OCD, dug boxers and was pretty generous.From Confidential November 1955.

Link @ pic

Light My Fart

stephen69@gmail.com (Lex10) — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:32:00 +0000

Some say Jim Morrison never really died.......
Here's what it can be like on the road - trapped in a hotel bar/restaurant on karaoke night. But then a guy steps up to the mic and does Light My Fire with hand farts.
AND plays the whole Manzarek solo.
Brilliant.
Now, yes, I'm aware the picture and sound sucks, but that's what happens when you shoot phonecam in a pitch dark room full of yelling drunks. It's just a selection, to allow you into my brain a bit.
Enjoy....

Blocked Ferret?

stephen69@gmail.com (Lex10) — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:18:00 +0000

"After using point ferret away from face"

Moblog: Best. Company Name. Ever.

stephen69@gmail.com (Lex10) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:38:00 +0000

I think I worked for him or her - several times in my life in fact....

Quote O' The Day: Barry Gifford

stephen69@gmail.com (Lex10) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:27:00 +0000

"Sister Mary Margaret wore a classic black habit, wire-rimmed spectacles , and her facial skin was a pale as one of Dracula's wives. I had recently seen the Tod Browning film Dracula, featuring Bela Lugosi, and I remember thinking that it was interesting that both God and Dracula had similar taste in women."
-Barry Gifford, Memories From a Sinking Ship

Moblog: Boston Giant Necco Wafers

stephen69@gmail.com (Lex10) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:35:00 +0000

tasted TERRIBLE!!

Buy Yours Today!

stephen69@gmail.com (Lex10) — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:16:00 +0000

not really

here's why:

•Text HAITI to 25383 to donate $5 to International Rescue Committee
•Text YELE to 501501 to donation $5 to Yele
•Text HAITI to 864833 to donate $5 to The United Way
•Text CERF to 90999 to donate $5 to The United Nations Foundation
•Text DISASTER to 90999 to donate $10 to Compassion International

A Movie 4 U

stephen69@gmail.com (Lex10) — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:54:00 +0000

Phoned-in atonement for being occasionally tone deaf, according to my detractors....

Hiney!

Alert the Authorities

stephen69@gmail.com (Lex10) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:16:00 +0000

Not blocked, and yet I opposed toxic chemicals in children's toys and jewelry, foods and cosmetics, forced prison labor, child labor, and censorship.

Meals on Wheels

stephen69@gmail.com (Lex10) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:46:00 +0000

This fershlugginer YouTube's got everything!

Herzog/Reptiles

stephen69@gmail.com (Lex10) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:30:00 +0000

Loved this last night.

enjoy crazy singing and dancing parties

stephen69@gmail.com (Lex10) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:36:00 +0000

Want:

The Aiptek Mobile Cinema D10 (Not to be confused with the Pocket Cinema D10 - also want)
The child me would have killed to get this, plus it looks like a Kenner Give-a-Show and a Viewmaster had a kid...

1 11 10 Binary Anniversary

stephen69@gmail.com (Lex10) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:40:00 +0000

My wife once read "Johnny and Claire - still goin' strong" on a Two Guys
bathroom wall and then came back various visits and noticed "Claire" had regularly updated the wall with the relationship status. Other significant love graffitti has been "Latif luvin' Latifa" on a wall across and down from our first apartment.

I got the spraypaint & markers baby! Let's go!

I Got A Touchdown!

stephen69@gmail.com (Lex10) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:33:00 +0000

Dock Ellis and the LSD No No. Back in '09 PCL contributor Desuko posted something about Dock - this animation tells the story of his no hitter on LSD.

RIP Art Clokey

stephen69@gmail.com (Lex10) — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:00:00 +0000

NYT Obit Here
He got ripped off by protestants, doing Davey and Goliath.
He had a daughter with keyhole irises who committed suicide.
He became an acid taking hippie who left his wife and started palling around with Essalen type luminaries
Amazing work that never becomes tiresome.