Have you ever read about a place or time and thought " holy shit what teeny tiny, over rated, under appreciated life I have made for myself"? This happens a lot to me while reading or seeing old images on televsion or in books. I always think what little experience, culture or understanding of what actually went on to get to this time and this place. I think about how people in this day and age live in war zones, under dictators in poverty and I am here with my heated house and car, $1 Whopper,my over priced Red Sox tickets and my inner debate if I need a 42" TV with an HDDVR . I pretty much don't know shit.
I know I don't have a Deloreon or a phone booth with George Carlin and will not have the opportunity to time travel. But I may be able to summon in my dreams the ghost of reality past. I am not talking about Eric Nies, Pedro Zamura, Rufus, Richard Hatch, I mean actual reality. Maybe the ghost summons me, I am not sure how it works.
I just want to peak in on what was really going down during segregation, slavery, war, drug culture. I wonder if people in the deep south really would kill Jack Nicholson for hanging out with hippies jut cause they looked different. How strange was the Haight-Ashbury scene in the late 60's? What was going on in Nazi Germany. Did the Germans really not know what was going on or are they just really good at keeping a secret? How did the slave trade work? Was it like a flea market but with people. I wonder if one of the slave traders was trying to catch a prospect and thought to himself "he would a great tailback if the SEC ever de-segrated; and we can get him on that boat". Books only tell you so much, you know.
Maybe I could peak on my parents when they were younger I know my dad was getting into some shit, but I don't think I would be that interested in my mom's doing, for Marty McFly reasons. Wouldn't you like to watch George Bush get destroyed in a debate at Yale? I bet his professor said "son, you better be agile because I am going to throw something at you soon if you don't get to your point." and how that was the only thing he learned at Yale that he used in his presidency.
Anyways this was supposed to be serious, but this is the stuff that pops in my head when I am reading or watching TV. I think that why it takes me forever to read anything. This sure seems to have gone in a different direction. I guess I am going to have remain ignorant. But it's 3:30 Am now and I going to bed maybe I will have visitor
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
These Go to Eleven
Sorry I have been otherwise occupied with my time, but since I have to work in a few hours and can't sleep, I am going to try an impromptu 11
1. My favorite part of The Hamas/ Israel thing is when there is a picture of some "random guy" throwing small rocks at people launching rockets. It is truly a sign of sophistication. ( I am aware there is no actually good from it but hey at least we only get one attack every fifty years or so over here. How would I know what it's like to live with an RPG up my ass? )
2. Laura Bush called the "shoe throwing incident" an assault. If throwing a shoe at a guy is an assault, what is invading a country on falsified intelligence?
3. Kurt Russel's eye make-up in "Big Trouble in Little China" is unmatched. Plus, surprisingly I didn't notice an ounce of racism in that movie when I re-watched it last weekend.
4. Robert Downey Jr. deserves some sort of honor for his role in "Tropic Thunder". I think they ( whoever they are is, I don't know) should start a whole new awards show based around giving him an award every year for being extremely under-rated. It could be retroactive to "Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang"
5. Two other people and I have had dreams about our old paper routes, often. Is that weird? Is it because that we three did them together at some point or is it a coincidence or does this happen to all ex-paper boys and girls.
6. Rock Band is better than Guitar Hero. I suck at both so my opinion is irrelevant.
7. I hate Brett Farce but I hope he doesn't retire because the Jets will be that much worse next December. However, I hope he does not string it out in typical Brett Farce fashion. In NY he is an average size fish in a really big pond; unlike stupid Green Bay where he is a big fish in a pint glass of Miller High Life. SUCK IT FAAAAvra nobody cares about you OLd News.
8. I love how Harvard educated. grown-up in politics, charity working ( by choice), author, all around swell Caroline Kennedy -S...berg is not qualified to be a US Senator according to people with far more education and polish and class. Oooops I meant unqualified to clean a monkey's shit pit, arse-holes who are too full of themselves to actually shut up for two seconds and maybe listen to what all these dumb Ivy League grads have to say. Not to mention it is very temporary and she would have to "earn it" by running in a year or two anyway. What are they supposed to do auction the seat off? Maybe they could just give it to a republican; they have always had great support in the Red state that is New York. I hope Gov. Patterson sees it my way.
9. Eddie House has no business taking a game tieing three ice cold off the bench when PP is red hot and Ray is Ray....
This had nothing to do with the out come of the game but there is just no way the refs should allow a team 6 guys on the court . It is the simplest part of their job (other than when they let Kobe, LeBron and Jordan get away with anything). They should be fined at the very least for that utter ridiculous error (plus how do 3 of them miss that?). If only Tommy still did road games.
10. ( I am cheating now ) LOOKING FOR PHISH IN HAMPTON TICKETS I WILL TAKE ANYTHING AT THIS POINT!!!!!
11. I got a book from bree-ji-na on how to use comas and other punctuation. so, maybe, in the future, I will, be able to use; proper grammatical type things...!!!!
1. My favorite part of The Hamas/ Israel thing is when there is a picture of some "random guy" throwing small rocks at people launching rockets. It is truly a sign of sophistication. ( I am aware there is no actually good from it but hey at least we only get one attack every fifty years or so over here. How would I know what it's like to live with an RPG up my ass? )
2. Laura Bush called the "shoe throwing incident" an assault. If throwing a shoe at a guy is an assault, what is invading a country on falsified intelligence?
3. Kurt Russel's eye make-up in "Big Trouble in Little China" is unmatched. Plus, surprisingly I didn't notice an ounce of racism in that movie when I re-watched it last weekend.
4. Robert Downey Jr. deserves some sort of honor for his role in "Tropic Thunder". I think they ( whoever they are is, I don't know) should start a whole new awards show based around giving him an award every year for being extremely under-rated. It could be retroactive to "Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang"
5. Two other people and I have had dreams about our old paper routes, often. Is that weird? Is it because that we three did them together at some point or is it a coincidence or does this happen to all ex-paper boys and girls.
6. Rock Band is better than Guitar Hero. I suck at both so my opinion is irrelevant.
7. I hate Brett Farce but I hope he doesn't retire because the Jets will be that much worse next December. However, I hope he does not string it out in typical Brett Farce fashion. In NY he is an average size fish in a really big pond; unlike stupid Green Bay where he is a big fish in a pint glass of Miller High Life. SUCK IT FAAAAvra nobody cares about you OLd News.
8. I love how Harvard educated. grown-up in politics, charity working ( by choice), author, all around swell Caroline Kennedy -S...berg is not qualified to be a US Senator according to people with far more education and polish and class. Oooops I meant unqualified to clean a monkey's shit pit, arse-holes who are too full of themselves to actually shut up for two seconds and maybe listen to what all these dumb Ivy League grads have to say. Not to mention it is very temporary and she would have to "earn it" by running in a year or two anyway. What are they supposed to do auction the seat off? Maybe they could just give it to a republican; they have always had great support in the Red state that is New York. I hope Gov. Patterson sees it my way.
9. Eddie House has no business taking a game tieing three ice cold off the bench when PP is red hot and Ray is Ray....
This had nothing to do with the out come of the game but there is just no way the refs should allow a team 6 guys on the court . It is the simplest part of their job (other than when they let Kobe, LeBron and Jordan get away with anything). They should be fined at the very least for that utter ridiculous error (plus how do 3 of them miss that?). If only Tommy still did road games.
10. ( I am cheating now ) LOOKING FOR PHISH IN HAMPTON TICKETS I WILL TAKE ANYTHING AT THIS POINT!!!!!
11. I got a book from bree-ji-na on how to use comas and other punctuation. so, maybe, in the future, I will, be able to use; proper grammatical type things...!!!!
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