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About Me


I was BORN-- I'm just assuming cuz I'm here--I lived in many different places speaking several different lingos--then I DIED. And it's been said that, apparently-- "Life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medly of extemporanea
Love is a thing that can never go wrong--
And I am Marie of Roumania" [Dorothy Parker]
But how would we know? Who can you trust? Everybody is just giving you THEIR version of events--based on their prior experiences, and their [often] 4th or 5th hand information...
HoHo--so that was MY history--as it would have been 7 years ago--but since then I have watched my beloved husband suddenly just DROP DEAD, after he stood vigil for nearly 2 years by my comatose bedside, playing music and movies and stupid baseball games on a transistor radio--which I had bought to hear Phil Spector songs as they SHOULD have been heard--and I loved the warmth of their welcoming crackles--anyhoo, and so THAT is just the PAST.
PRESENTLY: I now have a non-photographic memory but perfect vision--take that as you will. And, like it or not, I yam witless witness to this brave new world.
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My Interests

Is it TRAGEDY? Or is it COMEDY? "There are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dream't of in yer philosophy, Horatio." And trust me, it only gets curiouser and curiouser when you die [Yet "only your hairdresser knows FOR SURE]Though I have an interest in the success ratio of pleasant people compared to the MEAN, thoughtless ones, and it's looking kinda stinky for NICENESS, I realise, 'ploo sa shawnge...' [I GUESS...] Gotta just keep slogging it out in this darn glass timekeeper til someone turns it upside down again--and I'm still here a-waiting...! [O yeah, I forgot to mention that I am MUTE--the price, I guess for my life]

I'd like to meet:

WHAT a SILLY section! Much like asking, "What do you FORGET?"
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Music:

O. Dear. Are there any sounds that cannot be translated into music? OK OK--I love Ledbelly, John Lee Hooker, Jimi, J.G. Thirwell, Nick Cave...and of course Elvis & Chuck, Iggy & Mozart--basically--ELEGANT dissonance, human passions expressed without just WORDS--yeeg--sorry, BUT--castrati voices--YES! I've heard a REAL one--the last in Western culture I'm sure of it--chillingly beautiful--okok--but then there's also the big booming dastardly drums coupled with metallic clashes and clangs, whirrs and grindings...OMIGAWD--FLIP! There is NOTHING that cannot be translated into MUSIC...

Movies:

"Paris, Texas"--the ONLY movie I have CRIED at--that FACE, that contained, destroyed FACE--whew! devastates me totally every time. "Apocalypse, NOW" ['78 Toronto version]--"Mean Streets", "Lawrence of Arabia", "The Cruel Sea", & "Born Yesterday" can be watched eternally--and you can't say that for many~~O yeah! ANYTHING with Peter O'Toole or Jimmy Stewart in it~~I guess you've noticed by now how unCOOL I am [haha]~~but herein comes the only TRUTH I have heard spoken in a movie~~"To be successful in this life, you either have to be smart, or pleasant--well, for years I chose SMART...I recommend PLEASANT"~~Elwood P. Dowds, "Harvey"

Television:

O, good GRIEF:


I have NO idea why people confuse t.v. with reality...

Books:

Par Lagerkvist's "The Dwarf"--and I'm a sucker for short stories, especially Russian--the writers I've loved ALWAYS get me hooked with their "mini-me's"--Flannery O'Connor, Capote, Shirley Jackson, Dorothy Parker, Saki, Sam Beckett, Vonnegut,Faulkner, Steinbeck, Jim Thompson, Harry Crewes, even particularly BAD sci-fi and and porn and horror, along with the great; ~~the early Michael Ondaatje's~~T.S. Eliot, ee cummings, Dante [ol'Gary], and of course...YIKES! oboy oboy oboy--the list would be shorter of things I HAVEN'T loved~~for one reason or another... there's just too many[!]~~I can find a delicious sense of poetry in almost ANYTHING~~try me. .. .. .. ..

Heroes:

'Antonin Artaud'----yep! I just always wanted to hang out in a Gauloise Looney bin...
'Buster Keaton'--the person I can watch forever---he can evoke the broadest reactions--while nary an expression seems to cross his face [!] [his godfather was Harry Houdini---can you beat that, BUSTER?]...
uhhh--hate to say it BUT--Jesus was pretty mindboggling--2000 yrs later and they're fighting over His every mis-speech and the Word becomes MYTHOS....Mahatma Ghandi...and there was a man ["Mr. Campbell"] who saved me from a scorpion on my leg when I was little--he's my real-life super-hero. Kurt Vonnegut. Mother Theresa. And my husband. And [hehe, there's more!] both of my grandmothers--remarkable ladies each. ['Billie" is one of my grandmother to a T--she was SO smart, and played the great imbecile, to her complete delight.]O yeah--Dick van Dyke in "Mary Poppins"--cuz there's just nothing as cool as a nice one-man band.
And of course, the inimitable Jimmy Stewart...



My Blog

Vow to Yourself to be actively KIND---always

Vow to be KIND: "WE the undersigned: promise to never turn our backs on a true cry for help; promise not to plead ignorance when we have hurt some other living being, and promise to act as quickly...
Posted by ecumsecumjanet on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:17:00 PST

The Hollow Men~~T.S. Eliot

The Hollow Men [T.S Eliot] Mistah Kurtz -- he dead. A penny for the Old Guy I We are the hollow menWe are the stuffed menLeaning togetherHeadpiece filled with straw. Alas!Our dried voices, whenWe w...
Posted by ecumsecumjanet on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:34:00 PST

Energy and Human Evolution~~David Price [[1995]

Energy and Human Evolutionby David Price Please address correspondence to Dr. Price, 254 Carpenter Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853.From Population and Environment: A Journal of Interdiscip...
Posted by ecumsecumjanet on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 04:27:00 PST

good & evil--the short version

What I'm finding difficulties with, these days, are the many shades of grey between the black and white of good and evil. [And yes, I have read Frederic Nietzsche--though I'm still frequently uns...
Posted by ecumsecumjanet on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:08:00 PST

OMIGAWD! were NOT the Chosen Ones!!!

I just wanted to say this before everyone sees that CNN special on fundamentalist/radicals--just for the record: "Almost conspicuous in its absence is Buddhism". Now, seriously, a religion that has a...
Posted by ecumsecumjanet on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 05:03:00 PST

The MODERN Hippocratic Oath [!]

Written by Doctor Louis Lasagna--[I kid you NOT!]--in 1964, and the oath most often pldeged upon graduation from Medical school: Hippocratic OathModern VersionI swear to fulfill, to the best of my ab...
Posted by ecumsecumjanet on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:23:00 PST

The Hippocratic Oath

This is interesting, because this is what doctors purportedly take when they receive their MD's--have we been sold out by liars and thieves in every faction, or, more accurately, how much has our igno...
Posted by ecumsecumjanet on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:25:00 PST

Ego, thy force is LEGION...

I believe the present misfortune is our great difficulty, in the face of whatever event, in distinguishing the victims from the oppressors. No matter what transpires our intellectual response is to ...
Posted by ecumsecumjanet on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:30:00 PST

Bush is a member of a Secret Society?!?

I dunno about anyone else, but my desire to belong to an elite Secret Society has just plummeted. Don't they have to pass an I.Q. test or something? Gadzooks! Think about it! Apparently, he's living p...
Posted by ecumsecumjanet on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:41:00 PST

Check out this video: Healing Heart of Humanity

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Posted by ecumsecumjanet on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:37:00 PST