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Girl Who Silenced the UN For 5 Minutes
I didn’t realize that this speech was made in 1992. Holy shit have we blown it! Suzuki’s speech is even more relevant now.
Filed under: corruption, politics | Tags: environment, economy, global depression, conspiracy, Rockefellers, capitalism, 99 cent store, student loans
well crap. everybody’s getting their teeth kicked in. Jobs in every echelon of society are slipping through the porous underbelly of a capitalism that has fulfilled its own destiny. I’m pissed at the executives who took our money to pad their pockets on the way out. I think they should be hung up on a one tree hill and stoned within an inch of their lives. But Capitalism taught them to steal, survival of the fittest, be smarter than the average bear, use and abuse the system to your advantage. Have I paid off all my student loans? Hell no!! Will I ever? Not If I can help it. That attitudes not good if I expect future students to attend college with loans from the government. I’m ruining it for everyone else, because I was raised to think that I want to win, I want to separate myself from the crowd, I do not want to go down with the ship. In that sense the behavior of said slimy executives who used fed bail out money to pad their coffers one last time was in the spirit of Darwin. Wouldn’t you do the same thing if you could figure out how? Of course you would, any good capitalist would. When a new 99 cent store opens, they sell ipod nano’s for 99 cents. People line up around the block. They camp to get a twelve pack of frito’s products for 99 cents. Do people actually need these items? No. But who in their right mind would say no to a 99 cent ipod? That’s Value people. And in capitalism a good deal is god.
We’re in a depression. Is this new era a conspiracy crafted by the old money families of the gilded age? I don’t think so. Have you heard about the Amero? The devaluation of the dollar? Two of my friends, coming from diametrically opposite walks of life, both believe that this world depression is a super conspiracy engineered by the oldest money on the planet. If you can crash all the world markets to the point where the current currency (i.e. the dollar, the euro) is worth absolutely nothing, you can introduce a new currency that’s backed with water, oil, oranges, any commodity that is not gold and never was. If you, a person more private than the federal government, are in charge of distributing and determining the value of this new currency, what’s to stop you from controlling the world? AHAHAHAHA! AHAHAHAHAH! AHAHAHAHAHAH! I will make these humans my minions!!!! One of the people who buys into this theory is an entrepreneur worth millions, the other is a yoga instructor who is currently out of the country. I don’t believe the global economic crisis is a conspiracy. I believe it is the result of three decades of boom, three decades of people reluctant to take responsibilty for their consumption. The greatest tragedy will happen when people forget the environment as they continue to bitch about where the money’s gone. The truth is that the global economy and the global environment are forever connected and dependent on eachother. It is no wonder that they slip and slide together. We must consider one as we attempt to fix the other. This young lady puts it a lot better than I possibly can at the ripe old age of 33.
Filed under: Battle Star Galactica, David Milch, Knicks, Mets, Red Sox, Yankees, drinking
I’m a New York Mets fan. I’m a New York Knicks fan. Yea me. Doomed to root for the underdogs. I lived in New York for six years, when Alllen Houston got the bounce against the Miami Heat in ‘99 before they got stomped by the David Robinson Tim Duncan San Antonio Spurs. I was born in Colorado, my football team is the Denver Broncos. I never loved a baseball team until the New York Mets. Iwatched the Subway Series in Soho. A year later I watched the New York Yankees play the Arizona diamondbacks from a bar on west broadway, about thirteen blocks from ground zero. Only time I ever rooted for the Yankees. I think all of us were rooting for the Yankees. The diamondbacks won, with the unit, Randy Johnson, and I will forever hate that team, even more than I hate the dreaded Atlanta Braves. Since I rooted for the Yankees, they haven’t won a pennant, much less a World Series. The only time I rooted for the Boston Red Sox was against the New York Yankees. I listened to that comeback on the radio, while I was painting the house of an obsessive compulsive. The Red sox won, after coming back from 3 down and a 15 run loss. They went onto win the World Series in a sweep, breaking the curse of the Bambino, winning the Series for the first time since 1918. I can’t root for Boston in 2007. They’re too good. I’m rooting for the Cubs, who will certainly lose to the Arizona Fuckbacks. I can’t root for Colorado, even though I was born there, because I haven’t been with them the whole time. I was dying for Yankees Red Sox, but the Yankees can’t hold up their end of the bargain. So who do I root for? The Mighty Ducks? Pushing Up Daisies on ABC? I rooted for Deadwood for three seasons, and HBO pulled the plug on that, it was too expensive. Do you know David Milch wrote on Hill Street Blues? Do you know he created NYPD Blue? I’m rooting for the fourth and final season of Battle Star Galactica. To win the World Series in six.
I love movies. I love film: two very different entities. Ironic that my first blog about movies comes after seeing one I never planned on seeing. I love A Dog Day Afternoon. I love Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I love The Blues Brothers. These I consider films. Throw in a Taxi Driver, an Annie Hall, a Harold and Maude. These films I consider to be classics, because they capture the spirit of the times in which they were made, the methods of film making employed when producing them are stellar, timely, and they are completely relevent when viewed today. Then there are movies: Animal House, Star Wars, Fargo, Dead Poets Society; all classic movies. What’s the difference? I think films are craft, and movies are entertainment. I say all this to qualify my comments about the Da Vinci code. It’s like taking a girl home and going through your records on the floor; you want her to know where your coming from; you want to show her how cool you are. The Da vinci Code was the Harry Potter of crime thrillers. People ate that shit for breakfast when the book came out, it ruled the best seller lists and the collective mind-state. Three out of five people on the subway going into Manhattan were reading the Da Vinci Code. I did not read it for this reason: mass hysteria terrifies me, I’m ”cooler than that” I can’t read the same book the world is reading if I want to keep up my iconoclastic airs. It took me years to finally dig Vonnegut and Bukowski because my whole college was up on that shit like a wild pony stuck on a forlorn fence. I didn’t listen to Kid A for two years after it dropped because folks were brushing their teeth and flossing with Radio Head. I did read Davinci’s predecessor Angles and Demons quite accidentally in my first L.A. appartment because roomate number four left it next to his bong on the coffee table. I thought it thoroughly entertaining.
So I went and watched The Da Vinci Code; it came in the mail, so I watched it. The book was a hit; the movie was panned beyond belief, right up there with Water World and Ghost Dad. Why? It’s a little long, but when you throw it up against the other studio pictures of it’s genre, other movies as it were, it’s fine. It’s good. I love Tom Hanks, Ian McKellen is always lovely, I’ve still got a crush on Audrey Tautou from Amelie and her pretty war movie. It’s a mystery, they run around, people die and they figure it out. Why was it panned? Were the expectaions too high after the book? I finished up the last two Lord of the Rings books before I saw those movies and I was a bit disappointed, but that’s fucking Tolkien. How could you make a “Tolkien movie” without disappointing someone? I think The Davinci Code was panned because it openly questions the fact that Jesus is the son of god. The religious right control the media. Do they worry about books? Do they really worry about books? I don’t think so. There was a small evangelical christian uprising about Harry Potter, about the witches and witchcraft, but they didn’t crush the book. Movies in today’s society reach millions upon millions of people. TDC suggest that Jesus was mortal, he was decreed the son of god by the church; they needed a figurehead, so three hundred years after he died they decided he would be big j Jesus. If I was Rupert Murdoch, I’d have a problem this movie. The entire Western world, our system of beliefs is based on god being Jesus’ dad. It’s how Rupert sells papers, the fear of god. It’s the basis of our moral code, our laws. The constitution afforded us separation of church and state, but come on! it’s on our money! In God We Trust. The United States of America is based on big G God.
Reading this it’s clear that I went after too many ideas. It would take me writing a book to explain all of this…maybe I should write a book! So I post this knowing that my arguments are incomplete, but I assert that I will continue to study this matter. The End.
