Bassoon Concerto in F major (Hummel)

#note.//
20190401.This bassoon concerto was for driving from/to work in the Winter 2018

#artist.//Johann Nepomuk Hummel
#album.//Concerto in F major
#movements.//
1. Allegro moderato
2. Romanza. Andantino e cantabile
3. Rondo. Vivace

Bassoon Concerto in E Minor (Vivaldi)

#note.//
20190401.This bassoon concerto was for driving from/to work in the Winter 2018

#artist.//Antonio Vivaldi
#album.//Concerto in E minor
I. Allegro poco
II. Andante
III. Allegro
#key.//E-minor
#catalog.//RV.484

Godzilla (Anime)

#note.//Watch on Netflix. Pretty good and touches on themes I.us thought about-- the concept of a Hero. His name sounds like hero, Haruo. It's like... what's that book? Snow Crash? Yes! Hiro the protagonist.

#trilogy:

1. Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters 
2. Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle 
3. Godzilla: The Planet Eater

#linked.data.//book
Snow Crash.//I've read, but can't remember most.
Diamond Age.//I've read. It's a girl with a fancy iBook connect to the Internet.

read.crumb(salvage,salcedo,logic,sower,gilbert)

#note.//20170927
In an effort to finish some of this non-work related reading, I've made and put this read breadcrumb on my thoughtStream so that:
1. the read objects don't get lost.
2. they get read.
3. this forms a node for linked data objects on my stream(s).

I've formed bundles of reads before, but some of the books didn't get read. Hopefully, this breadcrumb will be found again and again on my thoughtStream until all the books get read, and hopefully be interlaced with other thougthStream object. I've given myself till 2018, one year to finish. It should be plenty of time, no?

I've pinned this post until December 31, 2018 at 11:30PM.

#note.//20181025
I've only finished Parable of the Sower! I can't even find the book, Salvaged Pages. It's somewhere in my boxes, still not unpacked since moving back to LA from Boston.

 #linked.data.//
Salvaged Pages
Doris Salcedo - The Materiality of Mourning
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Parable of the Sower
Jack Gilbert - Collected Poems

Horn Concerto No. 3 (Mozart)

#note.//
20181025.I'm repeating past behaviors. I started to listen to piano sonatas and concertos in my youth (20s-30), and now re-listening the CDs I bought. I also listened to Mozart's horn concerto #1. With new technology, I can just grab the MP3 and play off the USB. Yes. Yes. Eventually we can stream everything for free. Trying #3 for first time

#artist.//Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#album.//Horn Concerto No. 3
#completed.//1784-1787 (Vienna Period)

#key.//E-flat major
#catalog.//K.447

#sound.//free.version

A Spell for Chameleon

#author.Piers Anthony

#published.1977

#note.//

This is a book I read in my youth, somewhere in the early 80s. It is the first in the Xanth series of I don't know how many books. I read a lot of them! They mostly involve quests! Young characters seeking their identity. Now at 49yr (2018), I hope to have found my magical powers already. And perhaps I am like Bink, a paradox. 

Spoiler alert!

Bink is main character. He is seeking answers to his identity. In a land of magic, he seems to have none. Are you like me, like he, like JoJoBrand3 in three?

No magical powers, yet we have in some higher order dimension, along some variance, magician level divergences! Some of us will be clustered together by the Harry Porter Sorting Hat algorithm into this identity, the identity of JoJoBrand3. 

 

(Black Steel in the) Hour of Chaos

#note.//
20170712.I linked the Hour of Chaos with Salvaged Pages.

#artist.//Public Enemy
#album.//It takes a nation of millions to hold us back
#released.//1988

#key.//<create>
#chord.//
loop.?
verse.
e-chords dot com /chords <create>

#sound.//one.version

Fire Upon the Deep

#note.//A book I read in graduate school, or was it earlier? One of my favorite within the Zones of Thought series. I highly recommend reading them. The books introduce the Tines. I don't want to ruin it for you, but Vernon uses this literary device to explore some pretty cool ideas about highly cooperative groups of interlaced individuals.

We should read it, if we want to be part of JoJoBrand3!

#author.//
Vernon Vinge

#published.//
1992

Salvaged Pages

#note.//
I got a chance to visit the Museum of Tolerance with Pete and Lil (2017). I listened to one survivor tell her story-- so much shouting and yelling and barking dogs; infants thrown out the second floor to a waiting dump truck; surviving, meeting her husband, moving to Minnesota-- moving to Los Angeles.

Every week she goes to the museum and repeats her story, and it is still emotionally exhausting, but she goes so we won't forget.

I stood in a simulated gas chamber and watched videos of how our Community kills itself.

When I returned to Boston, I got a chance to see in the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art, “Memory Unearthed”. I saw rare photos of life inside the Lodz Ghetto during its existence from 1940 to 1944. The photographs had been taken by Polish Jewish photojournalist Henryk Ross (1910–1991).

Juxtaposed next door were other pieces that show across time and culture, how we've always pitted us vs them, you vs. me. Self vs non-self. I saw a ancient Chinese vase painted over with a New Order Red inscription.

After the exhibit, I bought Salvaged Pages

linked.data.essay.//<create> JB3.you and me, us vs. them

#author.//Young writer's late 1930s to early 1940s

#editor.collector.//Alexandra Zapruder

#note.//
Each chapter has an introductions to each person's diary entries

Klaus/Jacob's entries:
born.19240412.linked.data.//the 12th.my number also. He changed his name upon arrival in Palestine.

father:Erich
mother:Rose
grandmother:Mina

place:Wiesbaden.linked.data.//They moved here when he was three. I've been to Wiesbaden. It's next to Mainz, where Becky did her postdoc.

start:193703.//Klaus starts his diary in German shortly after his bar mitzvah.

start:201705.//I start reading parts of his entries 80 years later.

The included entries start in April 1938, around when he turned 14. I'm a man in my later forties.2017 reflecting on a boy.me before the violence.trauma.chaos.killing happens. I feel alternatively like both Hanna and Michael in Der Vorleser.

introduction:
They were an assimilated family. We know what's going to come and can't help shouting at them to MOVE! Yet, they are like us, rooted. It's so difficult to become refugees, and most countries didn't want to take any Jew refugees, even the USA. I can only sympathize with my parents, uncles, aunts, and all their extended network of family and friends who moved. The fear was.is real.

In the Hour of Chaos, the future is full of fear.

Time Enough At Last

#note.//
One of the original Twilight Zone episodes that likes to pop up in my streams.
It came online in 1959, but I watched it in the 80s (probably) and therefore I labelled it as 1980s. All the dates are a reference to me and not we.

actors.//
Burgess Meredith.Batman.TV.<create.object, add.link>

You can watch (pay.to.view) at <add.link><interlace.free.link?>

linked.data.//
Manliness.redundancy.antifragility
This manly story connects redundancy, something I like since reading, Rama.Arthur.Clark<create.object, add.link> and being increasing antifragility, which I feel creeping up on us.201705.

Sorry

#note.//I used Beyonce's 'Lemonade' line "bomb pussy" in my poem.HP

#quote.//

So what are you gonna say at my funeral now that you've killed me?
Here lies the body of the love of my life, whose heart I broke without a
gun to my head. Here lies the mother of my children, both living and dead.
Rest in peace my true love, who I took for granted most bomb pussy. Who
because of me, sleep evaded. Her shroud is loneliness, her God was listening.
Her Heaven, will be a love without betrayal. Ashes to ashes. Dust to side chicks.

linked.data.//hellopoetry.sia inspired (and also Beyonce!)

#artist.//Beyonce
#album.Lemonade
#release.20160423

#key. G
#chord.// G, D, A, F#minor


e-chord.link

#sound.//one.version

What goes around comes around

#note.//
20170119.heard in last weekend during my breakfast push/music stream.songinhead.thoughtStream

#artist.//Justin Timberlake
#album.FutureSex/LoveSounds
#released.//2006

#key.//<create>
#chord.//
loop.?
verse.
e-chords dot com /chords <create>

#sound.//one.version

The Undoing Project

#author.Michael Lewis

#note.//Do I need to follow the stream of these two men more? Dan Ariely is downstream.


linked.data.//Other books I've read on this stream:
other Lewis books?
A Random Walk Down Walkstreet <create>
Yes, you can time the market <create>
Ariely books<create>

Something in the way she moves

#note.//no idea how it got into my head this morning!

#artist.//James Taylor
#album.//James Ta7lor
#released.//1968

#key.//C
#verse.intro.//
A                     Em         A
Somthing in the way she moves,
Em              D           G         A9
or looks my way, or calls my name
Em                                G             C
that seems to leave this troubled world behind .

#chord.//e-chords dot com /chords
#sound.//one.version

Joyeux Noel (Merry Christmas) 2006

#note.//
20111113.This movie seeped into my stream again. I make the association because I've been think about the recent election and time of Chaos and it was recently Veterans day.

There is a reason why different military.state.brands don't allow their units to fraternize. It defeats the whole purpose of the game.war.

After WWI, the tribes and the brands still existed, and they still disagreed. Therefore, they had to play war games again. After WWII, the tribes and brands still existed; however, this time all tribes had exhausted themselves. Deep down, maybe they came to the realization that all the competition and fighting was to settle differences in policy.brand.ritual.traditions that are suppose to make the lives of not just their tribe, but of the one tribe, Homo sapien, better. The tribes and the brands all still exist today (Nazism still exist as a Brand, however disconnected it is from its 1920 roots).

Extant extremophile Achaea are not exactly the same as the primordial ones that gave rise to us, but they survive in small, restrictive niches. And they have the capability to repopulate the Earth Stack if a catastrophe resets the Stack to an earlier state that resembles their current niche.

As a cooperating, multi-unit organism, we have an innate perception fairness. Look at how the captive monkey rejects food because the other monkey is getting "better" more sugary food from the experimenter.

In the end, all the games and experiments are for the benefit of the People. The games are how different tribes of the Community make sure they are relevant and contributing and sharing properly within the entirety of humanity, an increasingly more complex multi-unit organism.


#actor.//
can't remember one.
me
you

All Star

#note.//don't know how it got in. not by ear. linked through breakfast to CH.Fb

#linked.data.//

#Smash Mouth

#artist.//Smash Mouth
#album.Astro Lounge
#released.//1999

#key.//F#
#chord.chorus//
2X F#5 B5 C5 B5
F#5 B5 C5
B5 F#5 E5 B
loop.
verse.
e-chords dot com /chords
#sound.//one.version

I Took A Pill In Ibiza

#note.//
20161021.probably because I listen last weekend. The electronica hook between the expository is what loops in my head. It's where the real dancing starts!

#artist.//Mike Posner
#album.At Night, Alone.
#released.//2016

#key.//Bb
#chord.//
loop.?.G, E, C9, G
verse.E,D,C9,E
e-chords dot com /chords

#sound.//one.version

I got 5 on it

#note.//
20161011.remembering to link the unremembered streams! For some reason, I've linked Sam Cooke's Chain Gang with Luniz' I got 5 on it.


#artist.//Luniz
#released.//1995

#linked.data.//

Chain Gang.Sam Cooke

Chain Gang

#note.//
20161010.remembering to link the unremembered streams!


#artist.//Sam Cooke
#released.//1960

#linked.data.//

I've got 5 on it.Luniz

I Keep Forgettin

#note.//
20161007.song in head in morning.it's happened before but documented here, now, in the past.


#artist.//Michael Mcdonald
#released.//1992

#lyrics.//
I keep forgettin' we're not in love anymore
I keep forgettin' things will never be the same again
I keep forgettin' how you made that so clear
I keep forgettin' it all

#key.//Em

#chord.//
Em, C, D,G
Em,C,G,F#m,Em
D,Em,C,Em
D,Em,C,Am

#linkeddata.//
sampled.
Warren G
Regulate

chord.play.along?!
key

Regulate

#note.//interlace with original song by McDonald

#artist.//Warren G
#released.//1994

#lyrics.//
It was a clear black night, a clear white moon
Warren G was on the streets, trying to consume
some skirts for the eve, so I can get some funk
just rollin in my ride, chillin all alone

#linked.data
sampled of.
I keep forgetting

#key.//

#note.//
20160906.in my head this morning and don't know why!

#artist.// Meghan Trainor
#released.//2016

#key.//A
#chord.//
chorus.A,G#7,C#m7, B, E, A,G#7,C#m7

http://www.e-chords.com/chords/meghan-trainor/no

Gold

#note.//
20160803.in my head probably because, it pop up I listen last weekend's playlist of ... electronic sound with girl-moody vocal group... girl with dragon tattoo?! no. The name has Dragon in it. Anywho, Chet Faker popup on the playlist with Solid Gold, and now it's this mornings song in my mead, I mean head.

#artist.//Chet Faker
#album: Built on Glass
#released.//2014

#key.//E
#chord.//
chorus.D5, C5, G5, B5
verse.Dm, C, G, B
http://www.e-chords.com/chords/chet-faker/gold

#sound.//https://youtu.be/hi4pzKvuEQM

I can't tell you why

#note.//
20168019.why in head?! Why the Eagles... somewhere. Maybe it's that Bm key again?

#artist.//Eagles
#album: The Long Run
#released.//1979

#key.//Bm7
#chord.//A,F#,D,E
http://www.e-chords.com/chords/eagles/i-cant-tell-you-why/keyboard
#lyrics.//

Dmaj7
Look at us baby, up all night
Gmaj7
Tearing our love apart
Dmaj7        
Aren't we the same two people who live
     Gmaj7
through years in the dark?
F#7/sus4 F#7

Bm               A/B
Every time I try to walk away
Gmaj7            F#7sus      F#7
Something makes me turn around and stay
    Bm                 A/B |G  F#m7
And I   can't tell you why  

#sound.//
https://youtu.be/Faik2GobaXw

Girl on Fire

#note.//
20165017.in my head cuz I listen to a playlist of Alicia Keys this weekend.

#artist.//Alicia Keys
#album: Girl on Fire
#released.//2012

#key.//A
#chord.//A,F#,D,E


http://www.e-chords.com/chords/alicia-keys/girl-on-fire

Back in baby's arms

#note.//
20165006. Don't know why this popped into my head. It's a fragment from a long time ago when I was roommates with Tom in Brent Wood. He use to listen to her and I began listening to here.
I will feed the loop by listen to her greatest hits (according to someone on youtube).

Bob Montgomery<linked?> wrote the song! He died just recently (2014). RIP

#artist.//Patsy Cline
#writer.//Bob Montgomery
#album: Life After Death
#released.//1963

#key.//G
#chord.//G,D,D7,
G,Em,D,C,Am7

http://www.e-chords.com/chords/patsy-cline/back-in-babys-arms

Mo Money Mo Problems

#note.//

20164027. Been listen to the hip hop stream so of course this is in my head this morning.

#artist.//Notorious B.I.G.
#featuring: Sean Combs, Mase
#sample hook: Diana Ross.I'm coming ut
#album: Life After Death
#released.//1997

#yrics:

I don't know what, they want from me
It's like the more money we come across
The more problems we see…

#key.//Dm,
#chord.//Gm7, Dm7, Am7, Bb, F/A

http://www.songkeyfinder.com/
http://www.onchord.co.uk/
http://www.e-chords.com/chords/diana-ross/i-am-coming-out

I need a dollar

#note.//20160428. I know the infection point. The song was in a commercial I heard a few days ago, and now it pops up as a morning songinhead.


#artist.//Aloe Blacc
#album.//Good Things
#released.// 2010

#key.//G#m

#lyrics.chord.//

G#m       F#               C#m 
 I need a dollar dollar, a dollar is what I need, hey hey  
G#m            F#               C#m 
 Well I need a dollar dollar, a dollar is what I need, hey hey 
G#m                F#               C#m 
 And I said I need dollar dollar, a dollar is what I need 
          G#m               F#              C#m                        D#5 
 And if I share with you my story would you share your dollar with me 

Pump Up the Jam

#note.//

20164027. It's in my head again. It got in somehow a few weeks back.

#artist.//Technotronic
#album.//Pump Up the Jam: The Album
#released.//1989

#lyric.//

Make my day
I don't want a place to stay
Get your booty on the floor tonight
Make my day
Make my day
Make my day
Make my day
Make my day

#key.//Cm
http://www.songkeyfinder.com/
http://www.onchord.co.uk/

I Want It That Way

#note.//20160415
Helen's song was something else, but we thought it was BSB until Zak corrected us. Next morning, a real BSB song is in my head!  Coincidence?

#artist.//
Backstreet Boys

#release.data.//1999

#key.//link
F#min

#chord.//

F#m      D      A
You are, my fire,
F#m      D      A
The one, desire,
F#m      D      A
Believe, when I say,
F#m     E     A
I want it that way

Chocolate Chip Cookie (old Toll House)

Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe:

(Original NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Chocolate Chip Cookies)                         

Ingredients                                         

• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour (270 g)
• 1 teaspoon baking soda (5 g)
• 1 teaspoon salt (5 g)
• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened (240 g)
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar (200 g)
• 3/4 cup packed brown sugar (180g)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (5 ml)
• 2 large eggs
• 2 cups (12-oz. pkg.) (250 g)

NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels

• 1 cup chopped nuts (150 g)

Directions

Preheat oven to 375° F  (190° C).

Combine flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl. Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract in large mixer bowl until creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in morsels and nuts. Drop by rounded tablespoon onto baking sheets.

Bake for 9 to 11 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.

Ready or Not

#note.//

2016041-6.morning song. the loop of "ready or  not". Also push on JB3 mid-chorus

#artist.//The Fugees

#release.date.//1996

#lyric.//

Bm                                 F#
ready or not here i come you cant hide
               G                D     F#
im gonna find you and take it slowly

#key.//A#m

#chords.//
A#m Fm F# C# A#m Fm F# C#

http://www.onchord.co.uk/piano-chords/Ready+or+Not/Fugees/GkvX1QTdudN6e0pLLPAjd4Wa3xdAc9

Pancake

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon white sugar
1 1/4 cups milk
1 egg
3 tablespoons butter, melted

Mix dry in large bowl
Make well, add wet
Mix medium
Pour on hot non-stick pan

Dersu Uzala

#director.Akira Kurosawa

#note.//The sequence of when they are caught in the blizzard. I'll always remember to build a hut from straw on a frozen lake where there is no other shelter available.

A solitary man can't survive long in the forest/wilderness once he gets older.

Piadina bread

#ingredients.//
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
Kosher salt
4 ounces lard (1/2 cup), at room temperature
3/4 cup water
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for brushing.

#method.//
Combine the flour, baking soda and 2 teaspoons of salt.
Add the lard and cut into flour till evenly combined (like for pie dough).
Slowly add the water, mix until all the water has been added.
Mix dough with tips of finger until the dough sticks and forms a mass.
Form into a ball and knead until smooth.
Divide the dough into 6 pieces and roll each piece into a ball.
Wrap the balls in plastic and let rest at room temperature for 30 minutes.

Crazy

#note.//
20160225.morning song. the loop of "does that make me crazy." repeats in high and low...

#artist.//Gnarls Barkley

#release.date.//2006

#lyric.//

                  Cm 
Does that make me crazy?
                  Eb 
Does that make me crazy??
                  Ab 
Does that make me crazy???
         Gsus4     G 
Probably.

#key.//Cm
#chords.//Cm, Eb, Ab, Gsus4, G

Circles

#note.//
20160219.morning song. I know why it's in my head. Zach played it last night and then I remembered I used to listen to Soul Coughing and with my group of 90's friends. Hi Shane & Caroline & Scott and the whole North thing and their connections.

#artist.//Soul Coughing

#release.date.//1998

#lyric.//

Don't have to walk around in circle

#key.//?E
#chords.//?

Can't Feel My Face

#note.//
20160214.morning song. dance beat. he likes MJ for sure

#artist.//The Weeknd

#release.date.//2015

#lyric.//

I can't feel my face when I'm with you
But I luv it, but I love it, oh

#key.//G
#chords.//G, F, Am

The ecology of the microbiome: Networks, competition, and stability

#note.//A Science magazine report I found interesting, and is sticking in my head for some reason. It's probably the network analogy with other ecology-business networks. We frame companies, jobs, and the people working them in terms of ecology, even to the extent of calling it a business community, and market niche, and


#author.primary.//
Katherine Z. Coyte

#link.science.magazine

Total Eclipse of the Heart

#note.//
20160203.morning song. this song often pops into my head... Is it the Bbm key?

#artist.//Bonnie Tyler

#release.date.//1998

#lyric.//

Once upon a time I was falling in love
But now I'm only falling apart
And there's nothing I can do
A total eclipse of the heart
Once upon a time there was light in my life
But now there's only love in the dark
Nothing I can say
A total eclipse of the heart

#key.//Bbm
#chords.//Ab, Fm, C, Db, Bbm, Eb

The Daily Mirror

#note.//
20160202.I started reading from it in 2013... I think. Now it's 2016 and I'm trying to finish it!

#author.//David Lehman

#interlace.David Lehman.stream.//
#poem.April 6
quote.<linked.data>.poem.HP.jojo.#morning

She's a high-maintenance doll
at two in the morning she starts
talking...

poem.April 8
query.<who is John Ashberry>
quote.//

where I'll take out my
notebook to write,
"I haven't written
a poem in months."

Midsomers Murders

#note.//
20160132.An ITV series from the UK, which I've started to watch on Netflix. This series started in 1997 and is still going in 2016! This is from Jaimie's stream.

#actor.//
John Nettles as DCI Tom Barnaby
Daniel Casey as Sgt. Gavin Troy

#actor.12.s3.e3.//
Tobias Menzies  as Jack Dorset, the butcher's son and fellow thief to ...
Orlando Bloom  as Peter Drinkwater, the handsome and sexy thief.

#12.s3.e.3.Judgement Day//
<linked.normall.>

Why does the cook's son (Jack Dorset) reject his work? (Classic British youth rebellion of rigid social structure)

He doesn't want his work to define his identity, while We Others in the world, make work a large part of our identity. Maybe that's why the advice is to find work or a profession that we care about and are passionate about, because if our identity is based on a job that disappoints, we feel disppointed, and our whole self-identity is one of sadness and disappointment.

Unforgiven

#note.//
20160202.morning song, probably from a dream
never... something, never something, so I dube thee Unforgiven? by Metallica?

#artist.//Metallica

#release.date.//1998

#lyric.//

What I've felt,
What I've known
Never shined through in what I've shown.
Never free.
Never me.
So I dub thee unforgiven.

#key.//Am
#chords.//Am, C, G, Em

Twelfth of Never

#note.//
I never know who wrote it or that Johnny Mathis sang it and Donny Osmond. All "pop" stars, but it took the "pop" star power of Nina for me to hear it on my stream!

#singer.//
Nina Simone.

#lyric.songinhead.loop.//
Hold me close
Never let me go (#linked.data.book.//Never let me go
Hold me close
Melt my heart like April snow


#songwriter.//
Jerry Livingston
Paul Francis Webster.

Never Let Me Go

#note.//I always hear the Nina Simone song #linked.data.//The Twelfth of Never// when I think about this book. We keep the cow alive as we carve up her up and eat her sacred Brahman flesh.


#author.//Kazuo Ishiguro

Harvey.1950

#note.//
The quote of "oh so smart or oh so pleasant" comes up again and again in my head.


#quote.//

Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.

#actor.//
Jimmy Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd.

Landscape 1 - 10

#note.//

There are 10 pieces/works. All are the same size. They reminds me of the Google Street pictures at Artistic Google. Probably because both ARE representative landscape and there's only so many ways you can abstract and deconstruct the composition.

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Untitled (1967)

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It's a very small piece. Probably Gerhard was just messing around.

It's solvent on printed paper, probably a newspaper. The solvent dissolves the ink from the newspaper and he transforms it into two movement blocks. The top block is vertical streaks while bottom is
horizontal

#object.//
N/A

Target with Four Faces (1968)

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I took a long look at this picture. The one I saw is nothing like the one below, which I found online.

The work I saw was made with graphite, charcoal, pastel over screen on cream wove paper.

I saw from my Google search that there are many version of this subject.

In the work I saw, he has further hidden the meaning of the faces. Is he trying to make them ambiguous? The targets themselves are not the faces, and unlike the picture below, the work I saw only printed out the word FACE, but it's backwards. The four backward printed words say face: e c a f.

The screen has newspaper lettering but once we are in the target, there is only similar sized dots that remind us of letters. Have letters blurred into dots? Meaning into monotone Morse code?

The pastel give coloration and define vertical movement.

I think the stick of charcoal, on its side was gently scraped across the paper, and the natural bumps of the paper captured black dots in the same size as the printed font.

The circles of the target is only given in outline. A strong line defines the outer ring, while dashes -- the inner ones. But really the only thing that gives the "circle" identity is the highlighting scribble. Graphite scribbles provide volume and define the circles of the target. Indeed, if you look at the work from a sharp angle, the light will reflect off the graphite and give an uber highlight!

The color palette is much more muted than the picture shown below. In the work I saw, everything is darker, older, more the tone of old people's clothing, dirtied with living.


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Train Station (Hanover) 1967

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This is an offset photolithograph on off white wove paper.

Another offset work! The blur of the offset results in a ghostly image, hinting at a skull. Our ingrain brain wiring sees faces. You can't really see the skull and little ghost people in this Intersweb picture I found with Google. You have to go see the piece at the Harvard Museum! It's a small picture in real life.


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Pop Art Redefined (1971)

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I took a long look at this color screen print. It's one of Andy Warhol's classic Marilyn Monroe four color screen print on cartridge paper. I initial thought since it said "four color" screen that he used four colors. The four strong colors and the black "newspaper-like" print.

The closest picture I could find on the Intersweb is shown below, but it is nothing like the one I actually saw. Harvard has an "accident" offset print!

What I mean by this is that the blocks of each color do not sync perfectly with the black print. Unlike the picture below, the print a Harvard Museum shows blocks of pink and brown that don't line up exactly with the black print of Marilyn.

I initially thought there were four colors-- two pinks, a yellow, and a brown. These blocks of color obviously don't line up. The way the offsets occur suggests that this was done for a purpose. As with watercolor, the accidents delineate artist from amateur.

The brown hair is offset up relative to black, but the widows peak still matches. Strange, no? Or is it just me imagining things? (Don't look a the picture below. You have to go see this actual print)

The dark pink is the background. The hot pink are the lips and eyelid shadow, with the pink lips offset up from black reference. The eye-circle are in brown, unlike the picture below and are also offset up into the hot pink eyelid shadow to create a sleeping hot pink brown eye! Andy must have thought this funny.

The signature mole is also off set using the darker background pink.

There is probably four different pinks:
1. Background pink, which changes to a lighter shade
2. in a streak at the upper right.
3. Hot pink used for her lips and a collar of a nonexistent blouse? (the picture below has this)\
4. Finally the pink of the mole.

Oh. Hot pink is used for her ear rings!

You'll have to go and see a version of Marilyn and count the pinks! Enjoy.

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Albuquerque, New Mexico (1972)

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He was doing in 1972 what we are all doing now. Vertical lamp poles to segment, and half hidden living creatures. Everyone and their dystopic Mom are taking cityscape pictures like this, and even more complex ones in color.

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Indianapolis (1955-56)

#note.//
20151031.
I was at the Harvard Museum. It's free for me! I took a tour of the Pop Art exhibit. The main artist is Corita Kent but they put other works by contemporaries to show context.

Here's a Robert Frank's black/white photo called Indianapolis. It was dated 1955-56. This photo I found on the the Intersweb because I did NOT take a photo of a photo in the museum. That's usually a no, no, although I don't know why. The movement is perfect --from eyes to lips, while everything else suggest stasis.

#object.//

Hellboy

#note.//
Watched it again, this time with Lil on Netflix.

I couldn't even remember that there was a girl.love interest! It that bad?! The movie came out in 2004 and I must have watched it somewhere on Netflix?!? Did I rent it on DVD or watched it on one of my vacation movie binge?

#actor.//
Ron Perlman as Hellboy. He was also the Beast in the TV show Beauty and the Beast!

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

#note.//
Watched at the theater with Lil @Red Rock Casino/Theater - Las Vegas

This was a Guy Ritchie.director movie-- fun and stylish. I loved the split screen, multi-panel action sequences. It had the same feel as Lock, Stock and two smoking Barrel.<link> The required torture scene was uncomfortable for me because it was probably historically real, but the movie quickly adds some dark humor to bring us back into fantasy spy land again! Well done.
 
Pacing was excellent.
Dollops of semi-naked girl and well-dressed spies was vintage.
There was no ultra-violence and minimal blood.
Nothing complicated here, but enjoyable to watch.

A good wholesome, fairy-tale family movie about WWII and the Cold war!

I don't really have time to read reviews by the "critics" so here's my reaction to the short Google blurps of some reviews:

Though I strive to set aside all prejudices when the lights go down, I had a hunch that The Man From U.N.C.L.E. would be excruciating. Well, it turns out to be absolutely delightful.
David Edelstein·Vulture

CORRECT. It was enjoyable for JoJo Brand.

Note to millennials: No one stops to text or take a selfie. You've been warned.
Peter Travers·Rolling Stone

INCORRECT. Blurp is too hip for me to understand. Rolling Stone is quickly becoming irrelevantly hip.

Though the pic is solidly made, its elegant vintage flavor simply doesn't feel modern enough to cut through the tough summer competition.
Peter Debruge·Variety

INCORRECT. It's near perfect combination of vintage feel, beautiful people, innocent flirtatious sexual tension, well-done basic action sequences, and mainstream stylized violence will cut through the typical summer competition.

CONCLUSION: If I were to generalize base on a very small sample size, I would say the the older magazine reviews are out of touch with JoJo Brand.

#actor.//
I didn't recognize any of the stars, but that is typical these days when I try not to remember unless they pop up in another context.

Who are: Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander?!?

I Robot

#note.//
The only thing of note is that the movie takes a radically different view on future robots. Asimov always viewed them differently<link>. We've changed them into killers.

 #actor.//
Will Smith as ...oh I don't remember, the usual action character he plays. Now he gets to fight and destroy cool looking robots from Terminator... no, more like the liquid robots from Terminator 2<link>

Terminator

#note.//
A classic where Arnold is still bad but good.  How many times have we watched this movie?

#actor.//
Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator.
Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connors

Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)

#note.//
Tongue-in-cheek fun flick. Very good stylized violence on top of classic movie memes.
The super-spy.
Killing the dog, relative, or twin brother to pass the test.


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Legally Blond

#note.//
For want it is, it does an excellent job. I liked it, and just as Joe T. would say Billy Madison<link> is a classic movie, I would say Legally Blond is a classic movie

#actor.//
Reese Witherspoon as Elle Woods a smart, SoCal blond going to Harvard to get her man, but finds a career and the-other-man instead. She hopes to eventually marry that man, and have the quintessential modern woman's life.

Ex Machina

#note.//
Not much really new Sci-Fi, but has a beautiful killer robot. It's basically a killer robot movie with some nice acting, sets, special effects, and wanting to explore the many possible outcomes of Turing's thoughts on AI, but we end up with basically a killer robot movie.

It reminds me of how we've changed Asimov's benevolent robots<link> into a Will Smith killer ones in-- I, Robot<link>.

 #actor.//

Tig

#note.//
A Netflix documentary on the still ongoing life of Tig Notaro. She lost a Mom a freak accident, got cancer, did "legendary" standup routine just after losing her Mom and being diagnosed with cancer, fought and so far beat cancer, and has now a hot red-headed girlfriend who reminds me of her Mom.

Lucy

#note.//
Faulty science and neuroscience but OK movie. We actually use 100% of our brain. It makes no sense to say we only use 10% of our brain. What does the rest of the brain do then?!

If only drugs or artificial hormones could turn you into a demigod. What was stopping her from destroying the world on a whim?

The same problem as, The Survivors.Star Trek: The Next Generation.e3.<link>
Kevin is an immortal Douwd.

The movie had no tense once she became demi-god Lucy. A superwoman with no fault, no kryptonite.


#actor.//
Scarlett Johansson as Lucy.

Mad Max: Fury Road

#note.//
I watched it at movie theater with C. One of the most action dense movie I've seen in a long time. The magic is it is so well paced. I didn't get bored, and I didn't get overloaded. Just enough narrative to understand and motivate, but not too much to slow down the movie.



#actor.//
Charlize Theron as hero

The Princess Bride

#note.//
A classic! Mike F. would be watching this in our house at UCLA.

How many times did Tom R. and I watch it at our house in Brentwood?

So many meme quotes:

Have fun storming the castle!
You think it'll work?
It'd take a miracle.

No more rhymes, I mean it.
Anybody want a peanut.

Inconceivable!

My name is Inigo Montoya, prepare to die!

Marwage.

Every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out, "Dear God! What is that thing," will echo in your perfect ears.

#actor.//
oh you know them all by now.

30 Rock

#note.//
The classic TV series which I've watched mostly. I'm sure I've watched the first 3-4 seasons in their entirety and the finale. C. and J. would have this playing as background noise on their laptoptv. There's a wealth of short meme quotes there!

I would watch this rather than Friends.

#actor.//
Tina Fey as Liz Lemon
Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

#note.//
Mentioned in The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver. I'm pretty sure I've read it, but I've read several of the random is king book and they use many of the same examples so I can't remember if I've specifically read this book.

I guess I'll have to go reread it!

Other books I've probably  read!
A Random Walk Down Walkstreet <create>
Yes, you can time the market <create>

Utraviolet

#note.//
Another dystopic future. I watched it because it promised Milla in tight outfits and stylized violence, both of which was delivered. I can't really remember the plot now, and I get it confused with old MTV.Liquid Television Aeon Flux animation shorts. I'm not sure if I've seen Aeon Flux.movie with Charlize Theron.

OK. Just pulled up a trailer and yes, I've seen the movie. As you can tell it wasn't that memorable, but I chose to use up some of my life space.time.force watching it along with Ultraviolet.

#actor.//
Milla Jovovich as Violet Song

Underworld - Evolution

#note.//
Kate Beckinsale is still Selene. This one wasn't as interesting as the first, even though it has sex scene with Selene.

Underworld

#note.//
Dark and stylized, which is why I watched it. That, and Kate with her tight outfits.

#actor.//
Kate Beckinsale as Selene a vampire deathdealer. She is the clan's killer of werewolves.

MUD

#note.//

I would consider this a coming of age.boy story.

Doesn't it immediately bring to mind the movie, Stand by Me (1986)<create>
Rural Arkansas vs rural Oregon and just teen boys discovering something dangerous in the woods.


#actor.//
Matthew McConaughey as MUD in troubled waters, or maybe just MUDdy waters.

Tye Sheridan as Ellis the boy coming of girls, girls, girls. I don't think he'll have any problems with women when he.character gets older.

Jacob Lofland as Neckbone the sidekick.

Der Vorleser - The Reader

#note.//
Hanna is the protagonist. I feel like her sometimes--caught up in the events, economy, and political structures that moves us along history. Eventually, society puts me on trial for crimes we did.

This is different than the Hannah.movie who is given powers to break the course of events. Powers mostly to kill people.

My niece use to watch a lot of Hanna Montana.TV. Now they're both so different people.

Unbreakable

#Published.2000

#note.//
I think I've seen this movie before. I must have!!! It came out in 2000, involves comic books, a vigilante, and super powers!

I wonder what the director, M. Night Shyamalan has been doing? I definitely saw The Six Sense (1999)<create>
Since then he's directed a bunch of movies you'd think I would have seen!  But NO:
no.Signs (2002)
no.The Village (2004)
no.Lady in the Water (2006)
no.The Happening (2008)
yes.unforutnately.The Last Airbender (2010) <create>
no.After Earth (2013).

#actor.//
Bruce Willis as hero
Samuel Jackson as villain

Hanna

Published.2011

#note.//20150724
It also makes me try to find a connection in the noise:
Hanna was also the women for Der Vorleser.
Interlacing.movie with book.

#note.//20150724
Typical Hollywood-ish, young boy fantasy, comic book girl assassin movie.

These super assassin-soldier character obviously can't exist in real life. What is the mechanism of control after creation? Historical ninja and extant Special Forces all exist within a Military Brand. This Brand is usually tightly linked with the Government Brand. Both are hierarchical and fairly rigid. They have systematic methods of indoctrination. We must become an acolyte in the believe system in order to be taught the special methods.rituals practice by the Brand!

There has to be a differentiation process, changing the pluripotent citizen into the highly specialized unit within efficient Brand belief system.

Oh. The movie. It start interestingly with a standard snowy, isolated training site, but after she comes back to our Community, which happens to be a seedy looking Berlin. The movies tries to make the city a little darker, but it really doesn't work. Berlin is too clean these days.

#actor.//
Saoirse Ronanas Hannah the girl assassin.

Cate Blanchett as Marissa Wiegler the nemesis. I didn't even noticed it was her, the elf queen, but those eyes did look familiar.

#backpropagate.//assassin with good heart narrative
Jason Bourne.Bourne Identity.Supremcy<create>.Ultimatum<create>.Legacy
Ah Jong.The Killer
Gon.No Tears for the Dead
Léon.The Professional

What Happened, Miss Simone

#note.//
An excellent documentary!  I've enjoyed her music since my twenties ~!1995ish?!

She was bipolar.
Drug for treating her conditions were/are such crude instruments! We really don't know what they do to the brain long-term

Work Song <link>
Strange Fruit <link>

We Others: New and Selected Stories

#author.Steven Millhauser

bought thru Kindle.20140517

FINISHED.current

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I compared the short story, The Invasion from Outer Space with the bamboo concept presented in Soft Apocalypse.20150717

The short story, The Visit has a memorable quote. When asked why he hadn't contacted our protagonist in nine years, the answer was that he didn't have anything to show our protagonist until now -- a delapidated house out in nowhere, living with a frog wife.

The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction

#author.Nate Silver
checkout local library thru Kindle.
FINISHED.20150715

#note.//Thanks Kindle!

We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very good at it.
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Note: 1297 highlights as of 20150625. It's not something I would quote.

...suppose instead that there is some common factor that ties the fate of these homeowners together. For instance: there is a massive housing bubble that has caused home prices to rise by 80 percent without any tangible improvement in the fundamentals. Now you’ve got trouble: if one borrower defaults, the rest might succumb to the same problems.
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Note: the common factor is a global recession or depression  

passage attributed to the Greek poet Archilochus: “The fox knows many little things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”
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Note: fox clan. 1285 highlights as of 2015.06.30  

Foxes, Tetlock found, are considerably better at forecasting than hedgehogs.
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“They look at this probabilistic information and they’ve got to translate that into a decision. A go, no-go. A yes-or-no decision.
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Note: But in an emergency, you need an alpha leader to make go, no-go decision for the group. It's a trade off. Leaders are usually hedgehog and make poor predictions but in a crisis they don't get confused analyzing. They make executive decisions. GO LEFT!

What happens in systems with noisy data and underdeveloped theory—like earthquake prediction and parts of economics and political science—is a two-step process. First, people start to mistake the noise for a signal. Second, this noise pollutes journals, blogs, and news accounts with false alarms, undermining good science and setting back our ability to understand how the system really works.
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I give you three locks to practice on—a red one, a black one, and a blue one.
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Note: This is an example of Overfittng that I should remember. I wrote a poem about it.
http://hellopoetry.com/poem/1266402/mangoman/


To borrow the title of another book, they play into our tendency to be fooled by randomness.
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Note: I've read it. Is it on my stream?  

the theory suggests that very simple things can behave in strange and mysterious ways when they interact with one another.
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Note: I'm fairly simple and so is JoJoBrand3! How we three simpleton interact might be very complex. Theory of complexity with Per Bak.  

Bak’s favorite example was that of a sandpile on a beach.
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The more fundamental problem is that we have a demand for experts in our society but we don’t actually have that much of a demand for accurate forecasts.”
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Note: Robin Hansen at George Mason Univ.  

crucial to develop a better understanding of ourselves, and the way we distort and interpret the signals we receive, if we want to make better predictions.
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Scottish philosopher David Hume, who argued that since we could not be certain that the sun would rise again, a prediction that it would was inherently no more rational than one that it wouldn’t.26 The Bayesian viewpoint, instead, regards rationality as a probabilistic matter.
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Healthy skepticism needs to proceed from this basis. It needs to weigh the strength of new evidence against the overall strength of the theory, rather than rummaging through fact and theory alike for argumentative and ideological convenience,
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Armstrong and Green critique of model complexity thus looks pretty good here. But the success of the more basic forecasting methods suggests that Armstrong’s critique may have won the battle but not the war.
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since the simple methods correctly predicted a temperature increase in line with the rise in CO2, they are also evidence in favor of the greenhouse-effect hypothesis.
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we’re wasting our time debating a proposition that is very much accepted within the scientific community, when we could be having a good-faith discussion about the uncertainties that do exist.”Read more at location 6667    
Note: Michael Mann at Penn State Univ.  

But at least this flawed type of thinking would have involved some thinking. If we had gone through the thought process, perhaps we could have recognized how loose our assumptions were.
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When a possibility is unfamiliar to us, we do not even think about it. Instead we develop a sort of mind-blindness to it. In medicine this is called anosognosia:
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Aaron Clauset, a professor at the University of Colorado with a background in physics and computer science, has published papers on the mathematics of everything from the evolution of whales42 to the network dynamics of multiplayer role-playing games.
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Clauset’s insight, however, is actually quite simple—or at least it seems that way with the benefit of hindsight. What his work found is that the mathematics of terrorism resemble those of another domain discussed in this book: earthquakes.
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Clauset’s method gives us reason to believe that attacks that might kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people are a possibility to contemplate as well. The mechanism for such an attack is unpleasant but easy enough to identify. It would most likely involve weapons of mass destruction, particularly nuclear weapons.
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world in which there are dangerous terrorist groups, vulnerable nuclear materials at many places around the world, and a lack of focus on the problem from U.S. policy makers.
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Note: Obama team again has correct policy, esp with recent diplomacy with Iran~20150714  

Allison’s concern stems primarily from two nuclear states: Russia and Pakistan.
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We must always accept a certain amount of risk from terrorism when we want to live in a free society, whether or not we want to admit it.
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In many walks of life, expressions of uncertainty are mistaken for admissions of weakness.
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Soft Apocalypse

#author.Will McIntosh
#publication-date.20110401
#setting.near-future-date.2023

checkout local library thru Kindle.
FINISHED.20150716


#note.//
The interesting SciFi is Doctor Happy virus and enforced homogeneity!

The bamboo is interesting, but biologically improbably, like The Invasion from Outer Space from We Others by Steven Millhauser


Homogeneity of a community probably correlates with and is causation for less member-on-member violence within the community circle.

It makes me think along this line of thought.

The Military's goal is to eliminate people outside the circle (outside our tribe). We want to engage, escalate, and then use our superior force and mobility to neutralize (kill) people outside the circle.

The Police's goal is to protect members from other members within the community circle. Therefore, when we engage, we should deescalate the situation by using our superior force and mobility so that we don't have to neutralize people within our circle, who are by definition, us.

Just two memorable quotes (thanks Kindle):

I missed them to my bones. I had no proof now, that I had a past, that I’d once been a child. I never would have guessed it would hurt so much to lose them.
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when the world was running down, make the best of what’s still around.
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The last quote I couldn't remember where I heard it before. Eventually, I found the memory with Google. It's a Police song.

Throne of the Crescent Moon

#author.Saladin Ahmed
checkout local library thru Kindle.
FINISHED.20150615

#note.//
It started off good. The big, bad guy seemed interesting, but the ending kinda fizzled. I'm not sure you could do more unless the writer wrote a longer story and fleshed out the villain more.


Thanks Kindle for saving my 4 highlighted passages, and 2 notes:

Adoulla and his friends had dispatched enough fiendish creatures over the decades to make him suspect that the old threats were starting to regain a foothold on God’s great earth.
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Note: evil.dark lord returns to the Land.


Instead of a blissful marriage, he had monstrosities on his mind and a pile of “should haves” pressing down upon his soul.
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Note: And what if you forsake blissful marriage to fight monsters to find none. Would you be great or fiendish enough to create your own ghuls?

I've got a good twenty years left in this world if God wills it. Thousands of days, thousands of nights. I'm not going to spend them all alone. I’m not.
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“O believer! When you meet a man on the road, know that God, who makes broken things whole, has cobbled your kindest fates together,”
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Jurassic World

#note.//
Watched at the theater with Nick & Le.
I suspended my scientific belief-system for the creation of the creatures, but just because they're herbivores doesn't mean they're not dangerous!

The big, hybrid velociraptor would have killed the little rapter. As Chris Pratt pointed out. The creature had been raised in isolation. It was just a killing machine with no recognition of sibling (which it ate).


 #actor.//
Chris Pratt as Owen, the lovable former Navy-man turned dinosaur trainer, and all-around Hero.

link.Peter Quill.Guardian of the Galaxy
link.Emmet Brickowski.The Lego Movie
link.Andy Dwyer.Parks and Recreation

Blue Ruin

#note.//
I watched last night on NetFlix.Anhtuan.
Very dark movie.  Recontextualizing a family feud into a modern movie way. It's a very old narrative. Lover's and their fighting families.
I haven't seen any other movies with Macon, or produced or written by him.


 #actor.//
Macon Blair as the lovable vagabond, Dwight.

Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises

#author.Timothy Geithner
checkout local library thru Kindle.
FINISHED.20150608


#note.//
I haven't been reading enough. This is my non-fiction read. I do love these market, policy, monetary, economic, business cycle books!

Let's see what an insider see's and the do's and don'ts.

Now I'm finished!

Fascinating insights into policy making.

Here are my notes from Kindle. Thanks Amazon for keeping them!

We weren’t rich by American standards, but we were very privileged.
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Note: that's how i feel!

My mother is from a New England family dating back to the Mayflower,
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Note: she is White brand.main

His father was a German immigrant who settled in north Philadelphia and ran a small business as a cabinetmaker. My father went to a public high school, mostly African American,
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Note: he is White.brand.marginal

she sent him a Valentine from her dorm room. Nine months later, they were married. And they stayed married.
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Note: father was marginal but still white brand so had access to main.brand unlike all the hard working black youth from the same Philie public school. Black.brand.main is changing.

Somehow, I got elected president of my junior and senior classes; my main memory of that initial experience in leadership was how much I loathed public speaking.
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Note: he doesn't like public speaking, but he is definitely NOT introvert.

My father and several other relatives had gone to Dartmouth, and I initially resisted the idea of going there—partly because I wanted to carve out my own path, partly because I felt guilty about the advantages I had applying as a legacy. I decided those were weak reasons not to go to a good school.
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Note: he had access to White.brand.marginal.right-tail, that part of the brand the actively reinforces the main.brand.

I would join three housemates, all of them women. One of them was Carole Sonnenfeld.
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Note: tradition male.brand. integrating with proximal female.brand. How else to nucleate a long-term, stable relationship except by physical proximity. Is there now a NEW electronic proximity? What good is it without sex?

Carole was pregnant again.
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Note: biology of female.brand but empathy and good listener are not restrict traits of fe.brand. Many ma.brand have this trait. Does nucleation require complementary brand (probably no)? Or is it just required for long-term stability (probably yes).

I put too much of a burden on Carole, and too much of their lives happened without me.
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Note: once nucleated into family.brand fe.or.ma must make sacrifice.

September 2005. We invited their regulators, too, including British and German authorities. Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs dubbed the group “the Fourteen Families,”
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Note: who are the 14?

How could the Fed justify invoking emergency powers to help a nonbank that wouldn’t even help itself?
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Note: is it similar to Iraq? how can we send in US troops when the Iraq people don't want to fight

Citi didn't expect funding for these off-balance sheet vehicles to dry up, because of the same delusions that made risky securities seem safe to investors and rating agencies.
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Note: no capital example.citi group.

And Carole didn't just have reservations; she was opposed.
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Note: again. sacrifices by fe.brand

They didn’t have better solutions; they just didn't like ours. We were often vulnerable to that kind of attack, because we rarely had good options.
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AIG bonus scandal would take the media frenzy and the public anger to new levels, and I knew it would be another devastating blow to confidence in our crisis response. The next day, I called Ed Liddy, the new CEO of AIG, to say, essentially: What the fuck?
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I got into the habit of walking into crowded meetings in Larry’s office and joking: “Is this a real meeting or a fake meeting?” In other words, are we talking about a policy that requires a decision, or just talking?
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Note: aren't science meeting like this too? Or any open style meeting.

Eventually, Congress will have to make some tough choices about the mortgage market—not just how to reduce the government’s dominant role, but how to balance the trade-off between safety and accessibility.
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CEOs of the troubled institutions that required a majority government stake (Fannie, Freddie, AIG) or a merger with a stronger partner (Bear, WaMu, Countrywide, Merrill, Wachovia) all lost their jobs.
Read more at location 7681   •
Note: where are they.CEO now?

the central paradox of financial crises: What feels just and fair is often the opposite of what’s required for a just and fair outcome. It’s why policymakers generally tend to make crises worse, and why the politics of crisis management are always untenable.
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Note: Can brands nucleate crisis group who can manage policy.action? what are the movement.rituals to train in preperation? can the brand.tribe be laterall and not classically hierarchtical.

a sustained rise in private borrowing relative to GDP,
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Note: signs of a developing financial crisis

a sustained rise in uninsured short-term liabilities issued by the financial sector, the kind of money that can quickly run
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Note: signs of a developing financial crisis.

safeguards are the constraints on risk-taking that I’ve described as “shock absorbers,” starting with strict capital requirements that restrict leverage and ensure that institutions can absorb losses in a downturn. Other shock absorbers include liquidity requirements that limit financial institutions’ reliance on runnable short-term financing, deposit insurance and discount window access for depository institutions, margin requirements for derivatives and other financial instruments, and mortgage down-payment requirements that restrict leverage for ordinary borrowers.
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Note: measures to reduce risk.

playbook for monetary and fiscal policy is fairly simple.
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After a major shock that depresses demand and creates a risk of deflation, central bankers should ease monetary policy, aggressively lowering interest rates. Once the overnight rate approaches zero, they should find new ways to stay on the accelerator,
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fiscal side, the government should do as much as it can to reduce taxes and increase spending in order to offset the loss of wealth, the tightening of credit, and the collapse in private demand.
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The composition of fiscal stimulus is important, too, and should ideally combine speed and power. Tax cuts tend to be fast but weak; infrastructure investments tend to be powerful but slow; aid to low-income families is fast as well as powerful.
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financial rescue protocol is more complex. You want to conduct a form of triage that distinguishes between the insolvent and the merely illiquid, between firms that will never be viable and firms that just need protection from being caught in the stampede.
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Grace & Frankie

#note.//Another Netflix special series. I watched a few with my sisters. C enjoys them, not sure about N. I'll probably watch on/off until I finish the first season.

I'm ambivalent like I am about these shows which I've started:
American Horror Story
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt




 #actor.//
Jane Fonda as Grace
Lily Tomlin as Frankie
Sam Waterston as Sol
Martin Sheen as Robert

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

#note.//
Started watching cuz someone said it's humor was like 30 Rock.<link> . One producer is Tina Fey.

It does have the song, Pinot Noir that C and I think is funny!


 #actor.//
Ellie Kemper as Kimmy Schmidt
Tituss Burgess as  Titus Andromedon
Carol Kane as Lillian Kaushtupper

<link>.The Princess Bride

The Imitation Game

#note.//
Alan Turing was gay. So was Walt Whitman, who looked like James Randi, of An Honest Liar.
This 2014 movie dramatizing parts of his life-- Alan's.

Is it ironic that I watched it during Memorial Weekend? How many soldiers saved? All soldiers, British, Germans, Russians, and Americans?


 #actor.//
Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing.

Leon: The Professional

#note.//
It came out in 1994, so I must have seen it in the 90s? I didn't realize for the longest time that the little girl was Natalie Portman, later of Star Wars fame. Which reminds me, I saw La Femme Nikita, both foreign and American version!



#actor.//
Natalie Portman as Mathilda, little girl taken in my Leon
Jean Reno as Léon, the hitman with a heart.

#forwardpropagate.//assassin with good heart narrative
Jason Bourne.Bourne Identity.2002
Gon.No Tears for the Dead.2014

#forwardpropagate.//assassin with good heart narrative

Ah Jong.The Killer.1989

Bourne Legacy

#note.//
Watched with Paul at dad's house.20150510.Sun
It's template made and paced well. Super soldier, girlie helper, and a chase sequence. Fight with another super soldier, win, escape on fishing boat...

#actor.//
Jeremy Renner as Aaron Cross, super soldier from program: Outcome

Rachel Weisz as Dr. Marta Shearing, eye-candy and girlie helper

Glen Scott makes short appearance as Ezra Kramer

linked.Stick.Daredevil (Netflick series)

#backpropagate.//assassin with good heart narrative
Jason Bourne.Bourne Identity
Ah Jong.The Killer
Gon.No Tears for the Dead

Adventure - Atari 2600

#note.//
I can never remember the name of the game, so I put it here.

My breakfast pictures reminds me of the dragons in this game, and I used the red dragon as my Facebook profile picture for awhile.

No Tears for the Dead

#note.//
Another action movie with an assassin/hitman that has a good heart.
He accidently kills little girl, and must atone by saving the mother from other hitmans.


 #actor.//
Dong-gun Jang as Gon the killer with a heart.



#backpropagate.//assassin with good heart narrative
Jason Bourne.Bourne Identity
Ah Jong.The Killer
Aaron Cross.Bourne Legacy

The Killer

#note.//
A classic John Woo movie complete with doves, blind women, and lots of guns.




 #actor.//
Chow Yun-Fat as Ah Jong the assassin/hitman with a heart.





#forwardpropagate.//assassin with good heart narrative
Jason Bourne.Bourne Identity
Gon.No Tears for the Dead
Aaron Cross.Bourne Legacy

Bourne Identity

#note.//
American assassin/hitman with a good heart that he finally remembers, ironically because of (self-induced?) amnesia.



#actor.//
Matt Damon as Jason Bourne the government trained assassin.



#forwardpropagate.//assassin with good heart narrative
Gon.No Tears for the Dead.
Aaron Cross.Bourne Legacy

Good Eats

#.note.//
Started.20150427 watching at Dad's. I used his AT&T U-verse to record

20150427.//waffles.pomegranate.popcorn.
Myth buster! Shearing doesn't really keep the moisture in, but it probably adds flavor but browning the meat first.

From Time to Time

#note.//
A british fantasy... looks good so far.

Daredevil

#notes.//
20150411.Started watching the first few episodes. Has the right feel of darkness and violence.
20150419.Recommended on Fb.JoJo Nguyen.push.ABJ
20150421.Finished first and only season right now.

Karen Page.love interest.eye-candy
Vanessa Marianna.love interest.soon to be cripple
Claire Temple.faithful doctor
Marlene Fisk.now cripple
Doris Urich.now cripple

lots of women in hospital beds, and guys fighting.

#actors.//
Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page, early victim of Kingpin and perfect eye-candy. I think I have a crush on her, Karen not Deborah. Who ever costumes her for the show knows how to make her look gooDD!

Glen Scott as Stick.
linked.Ezra Kramer.Bourne Legacy

The November Man

#note.//
I love action.spy movies, but even for me, this movie is BAD.

Dawn of the Planets of the Apes

#note.//
It's a good 2014 remake.
I still don't think smart apes can take over.
Human's are still pluripotent. We have evolve lots of ways to abstract.

U2 - The Definitive Biography

#author.John Jobling

#notes.//
The story starts with Larry, who was looking to start a band. Then Adam came, but I got confused when they started talking about David and Paul. I was trying to read kinda fast and lots of people were being introduced. Eventually, I figured out that David played the part of the Edge and Paul played the part of Bono.

What immediate hit was how they are like every other Act that made it big. Luck. Randomness. Hard-work. Determination.

They were not really that good. Then some random event made them popular locally and they had gigs, the 10000 hours of practice that they needed, more random luck, lots of people who believed in them and worked hard to make them bigger.


#link.//10,000-Hour Rule
Outlier - The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell.

Eon

#author.Greg Bear

#notes.//
FINISHED.20150318
PUBLISHED.1985

SPOILER ALERT!

The corridor is also named the Way, an east.asian mysticism connection to The Way/Tao/Dao.

The story has an inner-space narrative like the Matrix, with the Way being both the Matrix Space and the Hyperspace connection to other.alternative Universes.

In several realities, there is a nuclear apocalypse.

#forwardpropagate.//inner-space narrative
City Memory is like.The Matrix.movie.1999


#forwardpropagate.//copy-of-self narrative
Making copies of person.personality is like clay people.Kiln People.book.2002

Kiln People

#author.David Brin
One of my favorite sci-fi author.

#notes.//
FINISHED.2011.

I was in Germany! Probably both of us hiding in a books.Marlene

Basically, the book is a detective novel of sorts with the added twist of making copies of yourself and putting them into physical avatars: clay people -- the title, kiln people, hardening of clay to stone.


#backpropagate.//copy-of-self narrative
The idea here is basically the same as in Eon.Greg Bear

Doctor Who

#notes.//
Binged in 2014 and watched Series 1-7.
So good!
20150314.rewatching some of Series 6, and can't remember outcome! How fun! I can keep watching it again and again without knowing the ending!

Once Upon a Time

#notes.//
First season was in 2011
20150312.Today, I started watching the first few episodes. Emma wishes on her birthday. Ironic?
<interlace.space or normall> Looking for signs.

#actors.//
Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan, another savoir of a Community; another orphan.

Jamie Dornan as Sheriff Graham.

link.Paul Spector.The Fall

#forwardpropagate.//messiah narrative

Chris Pratt.Guardian of the Galaxy

#backpropagate.//messiah narrative

Chandler Jarrell.The Golden Child

Neo.The Matrix

.//orphan characterization

Sarah.Chuck