Marcus Garvey And The Long Haul To Ethiopia
Though I’ve been on the computer to surf the news and the ‘Japan Times’ and to henpeck here and there at a few scripts I have lying around, I’ve more or less avoided doing anything with my live journal mostly because of the fact that so few of you seem to be posting lately due to breaks from school, work and ect.
Even tonight I found myself almost speechless. I picked up the sixth season of ‘Xena Warrior Princess’ from Fred Meyer today after being told be three people (one of which is a friend who works in the electronics section) that they sold all the copies they had received. However, I have to wait for Nyssa to go on spring break before finishing up the seasons and then buying the seventh (and possible final?) season of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’. Nyssa is a big one, and has plowed her way through the rest of the series in a fairly short amount of time. I myself made it only through the first before getting side tracked by other such shows as ‘Mr. Show’, ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ and ‘Seinfeld’. And while I enjoyed Buffy quite a lot, I found myself more drawn to the profane sense of humor of Larry David, over the almost hokey-pokey humor of Joss Whedon. (Don’t get me wrong, I’m all about campy stuff, but I, like most other Americans seem to be drawn to filth and perversion above all other things’.
Also I have begun re-reading the ‘Preacher’ series by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillion, along with another book written in much the same fashion as Patrick Smith’s ‘Japan: A Reinterpretation’ titled: ‘Dogs and Demons’, written by Alex Kerr. It’s another book chronicling the economic the Japanese government from the feudal era to today. It covers a lot of ground on subjects I (like a few others I know) would like to pretend they can spend their whole lives never learning about: economics and sociobiology. After the consuming a myriad host of books on the political and cultural history of Japan (written in many cases from the horses’ mouth) I think I can finally say that I sort of have a grasp on what it might be like to be a Japanese, and I think maybe, just finally, I can throw that part of me that has dwelled in the moral hovels of orientalism.
Also I’m nearing completion on Barrett’s classic social study, ‘The Rastafarians’ and if nothing else I think I’ve walked away with a few myths dispelled, one of which being that the Rastafarians are a Christian sect. NOT TRUE. I guess while they were born out of a cultism that borrowed heavily from Judeo-Christian ideology (and even genealogy and other such spiritual scripts) they re-main at their core anti-Christian hailing King Haile Selassie as the Christ returned and as the living God. Jesus was a prophet, as was Japheth the son of Noah. The Catholic Church is the old dragon and the pope a bastard. Thinks this is blasphemous? Jah the mighty king of kings will say otherwise when he returns yet again on his cloud of air and opens up Ethiopia and he proclaims with a tongue that resonates the ideology of Marcus Garvey, ‘Africa For The Africans, Europe For The Europeans and Asia for the Asiatics. Fuck that.
While Marcus Garvey played down cross-bed blacks and whites, and made his peace as a Blackman who shared similar ideology with the KKK, a much wiser and greater man named Woody Wilson Guthrie wrote that mankind ought to keep havin’ babies and makin’ all kinds of new colors and spitting in the face of the ‘bloodline’ mentality.
I can say without a doubt, I’ve gotten too far off subject and I give up.
Even tonight I found myself almost speechless. I picked up the sixth season of ‘Xena Warrior Princess’ from Fred Meyer today after being told be three people (one of which is a friend who works in the electronics section) that they sold all the copies they had received. However, I have to wait for Nyssa to go on spring break before finishing up the seasons and then buying the seventh (and possible final?) season of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’. Nyssa is a big one, and has plowed her way through the rest of the series in a fairly short amount of time. I myself made it only through the first before getting side tracked by other such shows as ‘Mr. Show’, ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ and ‘Seinfeld’. And while I enjoyed Buffy quite a lot, I found myself more drawn to the profane sense of humor of Larry David, over the almost hokey-pokey humor of Joss Whedon. (Don’t get me wrong, I’m all about campy stuff, but I, like most other Americans seem to be drawn to filth and perversion above all other things’.
Also I have begun re-reading the ‘Preacher’ series by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillion, along with another book written in much the same fashion as Patrick Smith’s ‘Japan: A Reinterpretation’ titled: ‘Dogs and Demons’, written by Alex Kerr. It’s another book chronicling the economic the Japanese government from the feudal era to today. It covers a lot of ground on subjects I (like a few others I know) would like to pretend they can spend their whole lives never learning about: economics and sociobiology. After the consuming a myriad host of books on the political and cultural history of Japan (written in many cases from the horses’ mouth) I think I can finally say that I sort of have a grasp on what it might be like to be a Japanese, and I think maybe, just finally, I can throw that part of me that has dwelled in the moral hovels of orientalism.
Also I’m nearing completion on Barrett’s classic social study, ‘The Rastafarians’ and if nothing else I think I’ve walked away with a few myths dispelled, one of which being that the Rastafarians are a Christian sect. NOT TRUE. I guess while they were born out of a cultism that borrowed heavily from Judeo-Christian ideology (and even genealogy and other such spiritual scripts) they re-main at their core anti-Christian hailing King Haile Selassie as the Christ returned and as the living God. Jesus was a prophet, as was Japheth the son of Noah. The Catholic Church is the old dragon and the pope a bastard. Thinks this is blasphemous? Jah the mighty king of kings will say otherwise when he returns yet again on his cloud of air and opens up Ethiopia and he proclaims with a tongue that resonates the ideology of Marcus Garvey, ‘Africa For The Africans, Europe For The Europeans and Asia for the Asiatics. Fuck that.
While Marcus Garvey played down cross-bed blacks and whites, and made his peace as a Blackman who shared similar ideology with the KKK, a much wiser and greater man named Woody Wilson Guthrie wrote that mankind ought to keep havin’ babies and makin’ all kinds of new colors and spitting in the face of the ‘bloodline’ mentality.
I can say without a doubt, I’ve gotten too far off subject and I give up.