Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Essay Comparing Male Pumas & Republican males

Male pumas and Republican males are both known for their love of food and guns. But what are the similarities and differences between these two groups of animals and men?

One similarity is that both male pumas and Republican males are typically seen as being solitary creatures. Pumas are often thought of as being lone hunters, and Republican males are often stereotyped as being rugged individualists. However, both groups are actually quite social. Pumas have been known to share food with other pumas, and Republican males often enjoy spending time with other men.

Another similarity is that both male pumas and Republican males are known for their strength and power. Pumas are apex predators, and Republican males often see themselves as being the top dogs in their social circles. However, both groups can also be quite vulnerable. Pumas are often preyed upon by other animals, and Republican males are often targets of discrimination and violence.

One difference between male pumas and Republican males is their relationship with food. Pumas are obligate carnivores, meaning that they must eat meat in order to survive. Republican males, on the other hand, are omnivores, meaning that they can eat both plants and animals. This difference in diet can lead to different attitudes towards food. Pumas are typically seen as being very efficient hunters, while Republican males are often seen as being wasteful eaters.

Another difference between male pumas and Republican males is their relationship with guns. Pumas use their claws and teeth to hunt, while Republican males use guns. This difference in weaponry can lead to different attitudes towards violence. Pumas are typically seen as being more peaceful creatures, while Republican males are often seen as being more aggressive.

In conclusion, there are both similarities and differences between male pumas and Republican males. Both groups are typically seen as being solitary creatures, but they are both actually quite social. Both groups are known for their strength and power, but they can also be quite vulnerable. Male pumas and Republican males have different relationships with food and guns, which can lead to different attitudes towards violence.

It is important to note that these are just generalizations, and there are always exceptions to the rule. There are some male pumas who are not very social, and there are some Republican males who are not very aggressive. However, these generalizations can help us to understand the differences between these two groups of animals and men.

Sunday, July 24, 2022

Bones (the final season)

#note.//These are all movies I watched at Ted & Melody's when I had a subscription to Netflix-DVD subscription. I would get the DVD and want them on their player, or my functional laptop at the time!

I watched finally, the final seaon in 201911.

All 12 episodes. I forget how it ends! HA! I'm sure she and Booth stay together tho. 
They stretched the romance for as long as possible.
The end was coming after they got married and had a child. There's only so much sexual tension and relationship drama that can interest after that. The fans would NOT have liked an "unhappy" ending where they split because of irreconcilable differences, which they had, but that's where the drama was!

 #actor.//

Rosewater

#note.//These are all movies I watched at Ted & Melody's when I had a subscription to Netflix-DVD subscription. I would get the DVD and want them on their player, or my functional laptop at the time!

I watched this in 20210407

This was John Stewarts directorial debut?

Recounts the ordeals of journalist... name? being detained and tortured in notorious Iranian prison for political dissidents. 

I liked. Shows how he coped, and then tricked the prison torturer. Luckily, he had people who advocated for his release. 

Nasrin Sotoudeh was there, but still in prison at Qarchak, after being released for a bit for COVID. She makes an appearance in Jafar's Taxi, which I've seen and should be documented here.  

#actor.//

Aquaman

#note.//These are all movies I watched at Ted & Melody's when I had a subscription to Netflix-DVD subscription. I would get the DVD and want them on their player, or my functional laptop at the time!

I watched it in 20200127

Half-bred doesn't want to reclaim his birthright but eventually does, sort of. Somewhere in there is an evil scientist I think. And Mantis. Is that right? the name? I can picture the character from Justice League Sunday morning cartoons.


#actor.// the big sexy dude who won't have any work when he gets older, just like most of the women so no sympathy here for him.

Boondock Staints

#note.//These are all movies I watched at Ted & Melody's when I had a subscription to Netflix-DVD subscription. I would get the DVD and want them on their player, or my functional laptop at the time!

I watched it in 20191126

I can't recall any details. Let me look it up to refresh.

Ah yes. The brothers become vigilantes and lots of killing of bad people with no collateral damage or deaths. It was OK even tho I can't remember the plot but if you forced me to watch it again, I will guess the action faster than if I hadn't watched it before! HA!



 #actor.//

Booksmart

#note.//These are all movies I watched at Ted & Melody's when I had a subscription to Netflix-DVD subscription. I would get the DVD and want them on their player, or my functional laptop at the time!

HA! Another coming-of-age girl movie for the lab!
I watched it on 20191218.

Characters were good. Mishaps were funny, unless you really thought about the situations they were putting themselves into.  I started to follow both the thin and full girl on Instagram. Can't remember their names. It's OK. The second brain does. see...

They breakup, and mend and become older by the end. 


#actor.// Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein.

Junmanji: Welcome to the Jungle

#note.//These are all movies I watched at Ted & Melody's when I had a subscription to Netflix-DVD subscription. I would get the DVD and want them on their player, or my functional laptop at the time!

I watched it for Karen Gillan really. I was enjoyable. I got to know the Rock and tiny Kevin. They (the movie industry) have really monetized that chemistry! 

They went back into the reality. Karen's character is actually a man. She tries to man-it-up. It sorta works. She's just too much Karen to be a man. And Rock is reversed stereo also. Kinda all works, sort of. 



I watched it in 20200106

#actor.//

Knives Out

#note.//These are all movies I watched at Ted & Melody's when I had a subscription to Netflix-DVD subscription. I would get the DVD and want them on their player, or my functional laptop at the time!

This has the James Bond guy, I can't remember his name right now. It'll come to me.

It's pretty good. I liked the nurse character. The mystery was good-- giving enough clues for even me to keep guessing. Daniel Craig! His wife is in one of my icon images.

I watched this movie in 20200212

#actor.//Daniel Craig as Foghorn Leghorn.

Ladybird

#note.//These are all movies I watched at Ted & Melody's when I had a subscription to Netflix-DVD subscription. I would get the DVD and want them on their player, or my functional laptop at the time! 

Another coming-of-age story. I probably brought it to work and watched with the lab? 

I don't remember much. She comes to term with her mother at the airport? Is that right? She finally sees the love and not the conflict of wills.

I watched this in 20200115

#actor.//I don't remember any of the characters name, much less the actors.


Lalaland

#note.//These are all movies I watched at Ted & Melody's when I had a subscription to Netflix-DVD subscription. I would get the DVD and want them on their player, or my functional laptop at the time!

It won an oscar, which is why I wanted it. Musical.

It was entertaining. I watched it in 20200905

 #actor.//
Emma Stone is the girl.
One of the Ryan's is the guy. Osling, don't remember any movies he is in. The Ryan with the Rock is a different Ryan. 

Prometheus

#note.//These are all movies I watched at Ted & Melody's when I had a subscription to Netflix-DVD subscription. I would get the DVD and want them on their player, or my functional laptop at the time!

This one is forgettable. Something with the Aliens franchise?

I watched it 20191207

 #actor.//

Sunday, September 19, 2021

The Handmaid's Tale

#author=Margaret Atwood
#published=1985

#note.// 
They've obviously made a TV show out of this book. I will try to remember to add the TV Show link here. 
>interlace.//
 #actor.//Yvonne Strahovski
She plays Serena Joy

She was also in the 
#TV.//Chuck.link_needed 
show that I bing watched probably in 2014. 

Because of Chuck, JoJoBrand3 started following her eventually on Instagram.

I should make a Late Late show object.link_needed
of her appearance on the show. It was for Chuck. Handmaid's tale was not up yet. 

Now regarding the book!
20210919.//I'm a third thru. The premise was evident fairly quickly. Maybe in 1985 it was slightly novel, but reading it in 2021, the future, it hasn't happened. The near future dystopia is different.
I've read past the first pseudo-climax. We'll just quickly exit and quietly close the door to that chapter.

 #finished.//202201 or before Xmas?

Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Stole the Show

#note.//Trying to remember the song... the line At least we stole show.
I just listen to Halsey <Heaven in Hidden> and the pulsing lyrics reminded me of this song, and she says something about the show.

#artist=Kygo


Saturday, October 12, 2019

Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

#note.//I'm seven years behind. My sister probably watched this when it came out! So tight, but that is Wes. All the shots are beautiful. The performances are fable like. Magical.

 #actor.//
So many A-list older actors:
Bruce Willis
Ed Norton
Frances McDormand
Bill Murray
Tilda Swinton

Time to follow: Jared Gilman (Sam) and Kara Hayward (Suzy), if they are on any streams.

Sunday, October 6, 2019

Jafar Panahi's Taxi (2015)

#note.//It is shot in Tehran. Nasrin Sotoudeh makes an appearance.
He probes executions. I just heard sermon on Justice or is it Revenge and James Bond killing the villain. We want the bad guys not only to pay, but suffer for their crimes. That is revenge.

His niece is in it. With her typical hand gestures of that area! So cute.

Sotoudeh is radiant. The movie was released in 2015. In 2018 she was arrested again, and sentenced back to prison on 12-March-2019. She is 56 years old



#actor.//
Jafar Panahi is the driver.

#dirctor.//
Jafar Panahi is also the director!

Sunday, August 4, 2019

Mike Wallace is Here (2019)

#note.//A free showing for Matt's movies with #2.

 #actor.//archival footage use to tell his story. Was this true investigative journalism, or journal-sensationalism

LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS (2019)

#note.// Bum introduced me to it. I binged it that weekend! (Ted's birthday, of T+Melody)
I've put it on my queue. It has been renewed for another season June 2019


#actor.//

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee

#note.//I think I started to binge watch it in 2018.
2019 saw recent season with Eddie Murphy.

#actor.//Jerry Seinfeld.
Went do the rabbit hole and found out Jerry's network is almost 1 billion dollars!

Toy Story 4 (2019)

#note.//
Saw it over Chu Anh funeral weekend with #1nP, #2.
Lost toys are like Island of Misfit toys! Both are where kids don't want or need them anymore.
Are they toys like our parents? We grow up and then we leave them behind?

Bo Peep has shortness of breath when Woody finally decides to stay with her.

#Published.//2019

#voice.//
Woody=Tom Hanks
Bo Peep=Annie Potts

Monday, July 8, 2019

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

#note.//
Saw it over the long 4th of July weekend. Even in a cartoon, Stan Lee makes a cameo. The answer=42. It also shows up in Sherlock Holmes, Blind Banker, season=2, episode=1. These easter eggs have not been published on Wiki yet, although they are mentions on other blogs.


#Published.//2019

#voice.//Miles=Shameik Moore

Monday, June 10, 2019

Always be my maybe (2019)

#note.//it's an Asian romantic comedy

 #actor.//Ali Wong is Vietnamese in the movie and in real life!

I am Mother

#note.//robot raises girl.
upper layer of stack can understand more of the protocol of interactions between the stacks.

 #actor.//

Monday, April 1, 2019

Bassoon Concerto in B-flat Major (Mozart)

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

#artist.//Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart#album.//Concerto in B-flat major
#movements.//
I. Allegro
II. Andante ma Adagio 
III. Rondo: tempo di menuetto



Bassoon Concerto in F major (Gatti)

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

#artist.//Luigi Gatti
#album.//Concerto in F major
#movements.//
I. Allegro spiritoso
II. Romance - Adagio sostenuto 
III. Allegro assai

Bassoon Concerto in E-flat major (Bach)

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

#artist.//Johann Christian Bach
#album.//Concerto in E-flat major
#movements.//
1. Allegro spiritoso
2. Largo ma non Tanto
3. Tempo di Menuetto più tosto Allegro

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


Tuesday, February 5, 2019

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.

Monday, December 31, 2018

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


Thursday, October 25, 2018

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

Thursday, June 21, 2018

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. 

 

Wednesday, July 12, 2017

(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

Tuesday, July 11, 2017

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

Sunday, July 2, 2017

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.


Sunday, May 28, 2017

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.



Thursday, January 19, 2017

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>

Monday, December 5, 2016

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

Sunday, November 13, 2016

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

Monday, October 31, 2016

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

Friday, October 21, 2016

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

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

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

Monday, October 10, 2016

Chain Gang

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


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

#linked.data.//

Friday, October 7, 2016

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.//

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

#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

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

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

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

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

Friday, May 6, 2016

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

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

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

Thursday, April 28, 2016

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

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

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/

Saturday, April 16, 2016

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

Sunday, April 10, 2016

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.


Saturday, April 9, 2016

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

Sunday, March 27, 2016

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.

Saturday, March 5, 2016

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.

Thursday, February 25, 2016

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

Friday, February 19, 2016

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.//?

Sunday, February 14, 2016

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

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

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

Thursday, February 4, 2016

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

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

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."

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

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


Sunday, January 31, 2016

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

Saturday, January 16, 2016

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.

Sunday, November 1, 2015

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.


 #object.//

Untitled (1967)

#note.//

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)

#note.//
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.


#object.//

Train Station (Hanover) 1967

#note.//
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.


#object.//

Pop Art Redefined (1971)

#note.//
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.

#object.//




Albuquerque, New Mexico (1972)

#note.//

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.

#object.//

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.//

Monday, August 17, 2015

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?!?

Saturday, August 1, 2015

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.


 #actor.//

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

Saturday, July 25, 2015

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


Saturday, July 18, 2015

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>


Friday, July 17, 2015

We Others: New and Selected Stories

#author.Steven Millhauser
bought thru Kindle.20140517
FINISHED.current

#note.//

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.