| KHftCEA 1999-07.3 July |
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KHftCEA 1999-07.3 July
Six wise, blind elephants were discussing what humans were like. Failing to agree, they decided to determine what humans were like by direct experience. The first wise, blind elephant felt the human, and declared, "Humans are flat." The other wise, blind elephants, after similarly feeling the human, agreed. --- "What's it all about? After the last line, *what*?" --Henry Miller --- "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." --Alan Dean Foster --- For the record I unlocked all the Smash Bros. characters. The trick was using Samus from Metroid. Lena was impressed by my realization of novelty being such a motivator in my life- claimed she was jealous, even. At this rate, I may be into my fourth KHftCEA entry at the end of this month, a new record. Not that I should type just to fill up memory. 99-7-14 --- "Ohhho, your inner child pretty much runs the place, huh?" --Tracy "Aww Kate, nothing's corny if it gets you some" --Drew (The Drew Carey Show) --- Rereading Unbearable Lightness of Being (After I told Lena I had a personal philosophical revelation, she asked if it was from this book, ha ha.) Realized the copy I picked up is the one I gave to Mo, with an inscription dated 12-18-97. It talks about Nietzsche's "eternal recurrence": that's either the stupidest thing I've ever heard, or it's not supposed to be literal, or I just don't get it. Where does free choice enter in? Entropy? Is this the first time around? Could we tell? 99-7-15 --- Lately I've noticed people walk down the street and pull leaves off of bushes and trees as they walk past. Almost like some kind of instinct. Seems rather mean, however. 99-7-15 --- "We never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come." --Milan Kundera, Unbearable Lightness of Being --- Whoa- I just noticed this to be "Kirk's Home for the *Clinically* Easily Amused" - for a long time I've been thinking of it "Chronically" easily amused. Oh well, humans can handle contradiction. 99-7-15 --- Necessity knows no magic formulae-- they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders. --Milan Kundera, Unbearable Lightness of Being --- Neosa Youth Band's Trip to Mexico -the bustle of Mexico City --Plaza of the Angel -"Milk, Please" working much better than miming milking a cow at the Hotel -Tubaing with little kids -The poverty/luxury split of Acapulco, with a dead horse by the road -Cute Leslie -Officer getting mad that no youth band member wanted to come forward -"Makin' it look easy/making my competitors feel a little queasy" rhyming with Cornell Jordan -brush with death on Mexican 2 lane highway 99-7-16 --- While people are fairly young and the musical composition of their lives is still in its opening bars, they can go about writing it together and exchange motifs [...], but if they meet when they are older [...] their musical compositions are more or less complete, and every motif, every object, every word means something different to each of them. - She would have liked to tell them that behind Communism, Facism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting identical syllables in unison. --Milan Kundera, Unbearable Lightness of Being --- As reported, the American version of [the orgy] sequence has had digital figures introduced during a 65-second shot in order to obscure the copulating bodies that caused the MPAA board to threaten the film with an NC-17. Apparently, it wasn't the nudity that bugged the board -- it was the movement of the couples. I'm perfectly willing to believe that the MPAA ratings board are the only people left in America who don't move when they fuck, but do they have to ruin the fun for the rest of us? --Salon's Charles Taylor on Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut" |