Who knows?
Everything, I guess -- keeps evolving...
as if it were following a gnat's flight plan.
Mental Brownian -- errr, Tinkian motion.
Right now the only thing that "sticks" in the ole mental wiring
is my lifelong appreciation for a good science fiction story.
Gotta be printed word or some form of video, though ...
NOT comfortable in movie theaters anymore . . .
unless they have those reclining seats and built-in cupholders ...
and ARE NOT stacked!
I hate "stadium stacking" on those alp-like terraces that give you a nosebleed from the altitude.
After nearly a decade -- STILL playing with building up a vast "adventure" in science fiction of my own -- in the form of a cookie crumb trail of "journal snippets" scattered across time, space, dimension, virtual worlds, blogs, my website.
I'd like to meet:
Robin Williams
[on Michael Jackson] "Honey, you gotta pick a race first. All of a sudden you're a black man, then you're Diana Ross, now you're Audrey Hepburn. Then he's got the little beard going on. He's like Lord Of The Rings, the entire cast. Michael's about to jump species."
"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."
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Emo Phillips :
"I was pulled over in Massachusetts for reckless driving. When brought before the judge, I was asked if I knew what the punishment for drunk driving in that state was. I said, "I don't know... re-election to the Senate?"
"I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper."
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the Dalai Lama
"... in our daily life a certain way of thinking makes us happy, and a certain way of thinking makes us unhappy. In other words, there are certain states of mind which bring us problems, and they can be removed; we need to make an effort in that direction. Likewise, there are certain states of mind that bring us peace and happiness, and we need to cultivate and enhance them."
"Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-already-are.
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the minds that came up with these:
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Who will win control of the house -- warrior baby or Bumbo, the Pomeranian? BUMBO II
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Music:
Mostly old grooves ... and classical ... and good jazz ... or a bazillion other categories that pass my ears at any given time. Actually,I 'spose, anything that snags the old audial imagination.
Pink Floyd ...
"space rock" ...
The Moody Blues ...
"symphonic rock" ...
John Coltrane ...
Procol Harum ...
ELO ...
Alan Parsons Project ...
Smetana ...
Stevie Wonder ...
Prokofiev ...
Jefferson Airplane ...
Santana ...
JoJo Gunne ...
David Bowie ...
Dvorak ...
Fleetwood Mac ...
Emerson Lake & Palmer ...
Jim Croce ...
Booker T & the MGs ...
Tony Bennett ... Mel Torme ... Johnny Mathis ... Spike Jones & His Orchestra ... Wierd Al Yankovic ... Allman Brothers ... Frank Zappa ... Tchaikovsky ... Randy Newman ---(yes, Randy Newman -- whacha gunna do wid dat?)
Actually this eclectic mess of musical types are amongst a bazillion who run very strong groves in my past and present. THIS is my current "short" list.
There's lots more at any given moment -- I function of loose cannon chaos theory.
[a voice starts up in the near background] Bonnie Raitt ... War ...
Dang! Shut down, Tink! For just a sec, willya?
Movies:
I have rediscovered a marvelously stream of consciousness mentality from half a century ago!
Have you ever watched an old Marx Brothers movie from the thirties and forties -- and LISTENED to Groucho's non-stop comments on what he and others around him just said or did?
Stuff like:
"Ice Water? Get some Onions - that'll make your eyes water!"
or
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
or
"Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy."
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I'm an overt SCI FI/fantasy/CGI freak.
Current obsession?
HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE, a fabulous Japanese animé
Gotta see others by the same massively imaginationed dude
Current question:
When oh when will a DVD of TWICE UPON A TIME come out?
I have a need to revisit Ralph, the All-Purpose Animal and the non-farting Figmen of Imagination.
Meester Lucas, are ya listening? A nicely extra'd version, please please please?
And while I'm qvetching about a lack of a DVD version . . .
BIG MAN ON CAMPUS!
I gotta check on good ole Bob Maloogaloogaloogaloogalooga!
Who KNOWS what he's gotten into by now!
Oh! And WHEN will a sanctioned version of THE QUIET EARTH be issued?
Best STAR TREK movie?
Numbah 2 - THE WRATH OF KHAN
Yeah! Old mad-eyed Noonien spitting out "He tasks me" and thinking in 2D
Favorite dog?
BATTLEFIELD EARTH.
Doncha LOVE John Travolta and Forrest Whitaker on stilts?
Favorite Star Trek send up?
GALAXY QUEST -- especially Tony Shalhoub's version of "Scotty" and Alan Rickman's version of "Spock"
Also into "character" movies like MONSOON WEDDING ...
and a good ole shit kicker Western like ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST ...
I even enjoy the occasional formula movie, if it has eye candy that appeals to me for some reason, or an imaginative hook of some sort embedded somewhere.
Ah, let's face it, movies are often a focus for my constantly morphing imagination.
Other than despising marathon gut-splashers, 'bout any kind of movie can -- and has -- snagged my wiring long enough to watch and enjoy it -- at least for a little while.
What Colored Lightsaber Would You Have?
You've made a yellow Lightsaber.
Yellow is the color of Honor and Loyalty.
It symbolizes caution and foreboding in either direction of the blade . . .
Meaning not only that the owner is relatively cautious...
but also to be cautious of them.
Since Yellow stands for both Honor and Cowardice
One should always think twice
before attacking someone with a Yellow Saber.
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Television:
AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER
Aang done struck a chord within the Mental Mob. He had me from the split second -- as he was getting ready to hear some Water Tribe wisdom from his two new friends, Katara and Sokka -- he suddenly lateraled, with shocking speed, to the sight of something on the horizon . . .
"PENGUIN!" . . .
and with the same imagined effect of STAR TREK's Enterprise doing a dragstrip zero to warp ten . . .
the only hint that he had once stood with the others . . .
was a rapidly expanding contrail of airy cloud puffs targeting said horizon.
Aang is my latest compulsive "gotta learn more 'bout this show -- see mnore episodes" on TV.
Yeah, I know . . .
you guys have been there and done that already . . .
but, like I told the dude from whom I bought an old DVD with the first four episodes, "my maverick habits cause me to discover stuff a bazillion years before -- or a bazillion years after -- everybody else does."
I look forward to experiencing Aang's adventure and growth. It truly surprised me to learn that this anime was NOT Japanese, but North American in origin. But then, with the comments and expressions of voice which intitially caused me to start watching the first episode, "The Boy in the Iceberg", it shouldn't have.
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Hmmm -- re: my movie-watchin' philosophy above -- same process:
FARSCAPE reruns -- ditto STARGATES and FIREFLYs,
Eddie Izzard and old Howie Mandel stand-up,
well-done science/history documentaries,
Stomp,
loopiness like that bizarre Jon-Stewart-Show-dude on the Good Wrench commercials,
and that freaky generic Asian broad on MAD TV
Monty Python in any form,
Gilbert Gottfried in a "mood",
and Judge Judy havin' a fit over some new flavor of pond scum.
Stuff outta left field ...
like recognizing a celebrity voiceover in something . . .
or like looking for old 'Cudas in background traffic . . .
or spotting bright red horses with blond manes and tails in a good ole s**t-kicker.
Books:
Currently?
Reading the novelized version of an ole PC/Nintendo 64 game, STAR WARS: SHADOWS OF THE EMPIRE. It's set in the interval between Episode 5: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK and Episode 6: RETURN OF THE JEDI. Finding out about Xizor -- wish HE'd been in one of the first three episodes somehow.
STAR WARS: THE NEW ESSENTIAL CHRONOLOGY from Del-Rey is STILL leaning up against the side of my computer tower to be finished -- and it's been joined by a goody I found on eBay, a "Great Illustrated Classics" version of A JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH by Jules Verne.
So far I'm doing fairly well on resisting the urge to buy more books till the ones I've already got keeping bookends apart have been read.
I've managed to liberate some of the ones I've completed --slowly thinning the ungodly amount of printed clutter built up on every flat surface. More willlikely be set free, maybe to the local Boys-Girls Club.
Heroes:
"hero" -- that term is extremely subjective.
The 14th Dalai Lama -- Buddhism's latest main mind, is heroic to me.
DaKeeyid goes ballistic about it, but I admire people like Ronald Reagan and George Bush. I might fervidly disagree with many of their delegated associates, but they themselves stand up for some facet of a personal sense of honor.
That's something near extinction in today's spoiled-brat ...
greed-driven ...
"instant gratification"-rooted ...
self-centered ...
shallow ...
business/behavior/politics/sports models.
In addition, everything seems to be driven by faceless advertising suits, targeting sheepeople with predatory Sopranos/Godfather tactics. Not to mention that I suspect Al Gore and Sen. Ted Kennedy each might possibly think of himself as the anti-Christ. However, Steve Jobs, the one that bullies everyone threatening his idea of Apple Computer's divine rights, just might be some sort of demon seed bearing watch.
Who's a "hero" to me is all those anonymous souls who can recognize the bullies -- and not be beaten down by them.
The more DaKeeyid matures and takes on wisdom, the more of a "hero" he becomes to me.
It ALWAYS boils down to personal integrity permanently fused with the Golden Rule . . .
which is why ANYONE could be a "hero", if they've learned to keep personal behavior properly channeled away from lack of impulse control and the animalish behaviors associated with brainstem de-evolution.
