654660 a zombie movie in which there's only one zombie in the world, and it's you

[lostcosmonaut]

      Thought experiment: suppose you support slave labour. You're th captain of a trireme. Below deck, 170 oarsmen row yr boat to war. Never mind -- Wikipedia says that, contrary to popular belief, triremes' crews were composed of free men. Suppose you're th pharaoh's niece walking in th shade of a palm frond held by a nervous Israelite girl

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[tdaschel]

Now I want you to pay attention.

yes, the *white guy voice*. i employ it almost exclusively when quoting the Rock Star Who Vanished With My Wife. in fact, when i read interviews with him in Cool Rock Magazine, that's the voice i hear:

(see last paragraph)

.. an', f.w.i.w., your writing has become - if anything - charper / you are become King Essay, sure !

boredoms on a major label

[lostcosmonaut]

hey I remember Pelt -- have we already talked about this? I had a Richmond comp called Dixie Flatline that had them on it, along w/ HOse Got Cable, Damn Near REd, LabraDford ...... There was a brief moment back den when it seemed like anyone could make th leap to being a TV Rock Star -- I mean, weren't Butthole Surfers on MTV ?

Thank you for th kind words, C.S. Mebbe practicing writing every day will make me more prolific; I have seen an improvement in my clarity but a decline in speed over th last few years

--mza.

[tdaschel]

yes! i didn't get round to Dixie Flatline till the past 5 years. in those times, deep in the heart of Early 90's - see also Brown Cyclopedia - Pelt was like Sonic Youth *minus* the pretty songs (which SY can be unwitting masters of ..). what does a "transitional" look like? Max Meadows is as good a candidate as any.

question i keep asking is .. why don't i totally hate/despise Music @ this point?
10 yrs ago or more i was busy trying to revive the Minister's Daughter's music career / i thought if i came through, she'd fall out of love with that Rafael dyood in Central VA. i thought we did good work over a two year period / she was, after all, beginning from "scratch," her one and a half hit singles long forgotten. then she went back to school ("Art History" - is that WASP enough for ya?) and "retired" (again). foolishly(?), my heart was there.

.. nothing would prepare me, though, for my Disaster of marriage. when we met, Becky Stavros (not her real pseudonym) was all about John Denver / i mean, even more.so than th'

pain syllabus

[lostcosmonaut]

hell of a set of circumstances, C.S., I'd wish that on an enemy. You try dating since den? That's th best road back from Heartbreak

You can totally despise th rock stardom while totally loving th rock. One's about social status, and one's about transcending it; but th sanest choice is not to hate any aspect of reality. Tyrants can be good teachers

--mza.

[maria_sputnik]

There are a lot of ideas here; lemme summarize what I understood you to say

[maria_sputnik]

p.s. have you read "guns, germs and steel"?
p.p.s. or "globalization and its discontents"?
p.p.p.s. because if you have i would be interested in seeing how you feel those arguments interface w/ your own

[maria_sputnik]

p.p.p.p.s. can it really be true that i am the most vociferous disagreer in this whole thread? english-language livejournal sleeps with the fishes!

blacks are not better at crime

[lostcosmonaut]

you are th most vociferous one here only because people who would be more vociferous against my post either didn't read it or have performed a cost-benefit analysis of engaging me on this matter and decided that th cost would be too high ... You are also th only one here who appears to have seriously misread my argument, which ordinarily would cause me to blame myself for being unclear; but in this case could be attributed @ least in part to th sensitive & incendiary nature of th topic itself, and th bluntness of my speech on it

I'll address yr six-point summary of my post separately

--mza.