A VERY HAPPY NEWYEAR TO Y´ALL.
MAY 2008 BE A-RAMBLING JOYFULL YEAR FOR DEMOCRACY.
December 28, 2007
December 25, 2007
RIP
Oscar Peterson
1925 - 2007
Oscar Peterson passed away on christmas night. Besides bizarre childrens music and deviant muzak, the wider spectrum of Petersons influential jazz was the first tunes and genre to have a deep impact with me. Encourage by my dad, the JazzFreak, I listened to jazz for years before even discovering that the musical world outside had been punked.
Dispite his somewhat traditional approach to jazz Oscar Peterson was a great and important influence to the younger jazz-generation, that arose in the early 60ties, among hese for example Herbie Hancock and Miles Davis.
My dad died in 2006, and had made it clear to us that he had always wanted Oscar Petersons "Hymn To Freedom" to be played at his funeral, which it was, and it filled the church with exactly that, a feeling of freedom, the less troublesome transision from live to death.
Goodspeed Mr. Peterson, if you see my Dad wherever you end up, I know he would wish one thing: A jam-session.
the man
http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Peterson
his music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OLB6mowad0 ("Sushi")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpadet-cTw8&feature=related ("Hymn to freedom"/ random link)
December 24, 2007
HUMANOID WISHES FOR A NEARBY FUTURE, 24:
I wish: instead of fleeing from stuff I dread and fear, I could be someone who seeks out more of what he loves.
Let it all hang out, Hombres!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PuWP0a4tT0&feature=related
or:
"Its is time for the destruction of error; The chairs are being brought in from the garden, the summer talk stopped on the savage coast. Before the storms."
(W.H Auden, again)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._H._Auden
Happy seasons greeting to all.
December 23, 2007
HUMANOID WISHES FOR A NEARBY FUTURE, 23:
A wish for life of more persistency, less double standards, more light sleeping, wider arms and less dubiousity.
rememeber these guys?
Disposable Heroes of HipHoprisy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgOWTM5R2DA
December 22, 2007
HUMANOID WISHES FOR A NEARBY FUTURE, 22:
I once had a wish to help implement this, The Progressive Utilization Theory. I meditated for 4 months, I was 22:
http://www.prout.org/
But I soon learned that succes is a random factor fraternizing the religious ghost
December 21, 2007
December 20, 2007
HUMANOID WISHES FOR A NEARBY FUTURE, 20:
"There is no such thing as a the State. And no one exits alone; Hunger allows no choice, to the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die."
W.H Auden, september 1st 1939.
I wish I unconditional could choose love. I find it there, hard and commodified.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._H._Auden
December 19, 2007
HUMANOID WISHES FOR A NEARBY FUTURE, 19:
I wish I understood the structural mechanisms that keeps the rich getting richer while the demand on restrain is primarely on the poor. I wish I understood it when superliberalists claim that there is no new underclass, and that Das Neue Ûberclass is merely a result of breaking the negative social heritage.
December 18, 2007
HUMANOID WISHES FOR A NEARBY FUTURE, 18:
I wish I loved the human race
I wish I loved its silly face
I wish I liked the way it walks
I wish I liked the way it talks
And when I`m introduced to one
I wish I thought what jolly fun
from "Laughter from a cloud" - Wishes of an elderly man.
Sir Walter A. Raleigh (1861-1922)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Raleigh_(professor)
December 17, 2007
HUMANOID WISHES FOR A NEARBY FUTURE, 17:
I sometimes wish demands were fewer.
Bristish company http://www.pissup.com/ now has a danish sub-division, offering sex and andrenalin seeking tours to former Eastern Europe.
Though stating, as he does today in Nyhedsavisen, danish manager Carsten Dyring, emphasizes the "only lookie no feelie" policy when dealing with east-european sexworkers, among others thing performing "lesbian strip in a Hummer limousine with two bottles of champagne in Budapest..."
I`ll leave the idea open for contemplation.
December 16, 2007
HUMANOID WISHES FOR A NEARBY FUTURE, 16:
She considered whether it could be seen, writing it, that she - before she looked it up in the dictionary, wanting to write it, because she liked the way it she had heard it pronounced and then remembered it - didn`t have any idea as to what the word really meant.
But she was sure it would impress him, that she appearently knew the word. That, and the fact that maybe he didn`t know it, so he would have to ask her, or look it up himself, or at least do something about his problem.
She then wrote it on the postcard she was writing him. That he should beware it. That she was serious about it. And worried.
She wrote: Beware of somnambulism.
I wish there was way less of it.
http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somnambulisme
December 14, 2007
December 13, 2007
HUMANOID WISHES FOR A NEARBY FUTURE, 13:
Advent Christian, Anglican, Apolistic, Assemblies of God, Assemblies of God (cont`d), Assemblies of God (Independent), Ba-ha`i, Baptist, Baptist (cont`d), Baptist American, Baptist Conservative, Baptist Independent Fundamental, Baptist Missionary, Baptist Southern, Bible, Bible (cont`d), Buddhist, Calvary Chapel, Calvary Chapel (cont`d), Catholic Roman, Catholic Roman (cont`d), Charismatic, Charismatic (cont`d), Christian, Christian (cont`d), Christian Evangelistic, Christian & Missionary Alliance, Christian Science, Christian Science (cont`d),Church of Christ, Church of God, Church of God In Christ, Church of God In Christ (cont`d), Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Community, Community of Christ, Congretional, Covenant Community, Episcopal, Episcopal (cont`d), Evangelical, Evangelical & Reformed, Free Methodist, Greek Orthodox, Interdenominational, Jehovas Witnesses, Lutheran, Non Denominational, Eastern Orthodox, Pagan, Pentecostal, Pentecostal Church of God, Pentecostal United, Presbyterian Korean, Presbyterian American, Presbyterian American (cont`d), Religious Science Church, Rescue Mission, Salvation Army, Scientology, Seventh-Day Adventist, Unitarian Universalist, United Church of Christ, Unites Methodist, Unity.
I wish we would agree on more.
(outtake from american telephone-book, categori: churches)
December 12, 2007
HUMANOID WISHES FOR A NEARBY FUTURE, 12:
I still wish primeminister Anders Fogh Rasmussen would be haul-assed into The Highcourt for the violent and abusive mis-interpretation of the Danish Constitution paraphrase 19, 2, by involving Denmark in a full frontal war, taking the aggresors role.
The good people of www.gk2003.dk needs your support. So far the only danish political initiative trying to hold the goverment responsible.
19, 2:
http://www.grundloven.dk/
December 11, 2007
December 10, 2007
December 09, 2007
HUMANOID WISHES FOR A NEARBY FUTURE, 9:
"We have maintained a silence closely resembling stupidity."
(Revolutionary Proclamation of the Junta Tuitiva, La Paz, July 16, 1809.)
Though stated more than a hundred years ago, I still wish we hadn`t.
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-216X(199805)30%3A2%3C417%3ALMCHDL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6
December 08, 2007
HUMANOID WISHES FOR A NEARBY FUTURE, 8:
Like every christmas is basically a rerun of emotions, rituals, consumerism and urban tales, I join the corps of howling wolfs with a 2004 tale of poverty, which I intend to do every chritsmas for as long as I blog: Through repetition to create a plausible cultural narrative.
In the first days of december I was poor, and that in it self is a very good reason not to be head over heels in love with Big Business. I was poor and poverty is embarrassing and paralyzing. I was poor and I was out of cigarettes. Two things that is not a sociological surprise in The States; being poor and a passionate smoker, but nonetheless: I needed my smokes, and I’ll be damned not to get them.
I had about 3 dollar and 75 cents in coins, that’s about 140 coins because I was down to counting one-cent and five-cent pieces, and 2 dollar 16 cent, sitting on my debit-card. I took the car down to the local Seven Eleven Foodstore(!), on the mercy of big business reluctant to shop there, but that was as far as the car would take me, running really low on fuel. When you are poor, it’s hard to uphold your principles.
Once in the shop not wanting to disclose my poverty to the afro-American woman at the register, I asked for a pack of American Spirit Lights, and ran my card through the slit.And no surprise to me: the display says: “Declined”.“Let me just try again” I told her, and I did, and it did. The card was declined again.
“I don’t understand. I’m awaiting a transfer from Europe, and it should have gone through…like…days ago” I lie in total self-denial.
I’m ordering the transfer tomorrow, and only threw in the Europe fact to deroute the focus of my situation.
“You know what, let me just run to the ATM-machine on the other side of the street to see if it looks different.”
I actually did it, and I almost believed that it would look different, but I knew very well that it wouldn`t, I was in other word HOPING that it did, knowing that it WOULDN`T and it didn’t. The three dollars and seventy-five cents I meticulously had counted before leaving and left in the car in a plastic bag, were just waiting to picked up and spend. And so it goes: I picked up the coins in the car, which I wouldn’t even call money, and went back into the shop.“Well, the money hadn’t come, but if you would be very patient with me, I’ve got my parkometer coins here, and I think if I count them, it’ll pay a pack of smokes..”
“No problem” said the clerk, and I emptied the bag on the counter, just as about a group of people entered the shop, and lined up behind me. I had counted as long as 2 dollar 80 cents, and piled the coins up, when the sweat started to drip. I looked at the price tags under different pack of smokes and saw the cheapest, a pack of Gold Coast: 2,79.
“Allright, give me a pack of those” I said and pointed to the Gold Coasts.
“Which?” says the clerk, and brings out a pack of Chesterfield, 3,89 dollars, from the rack next to the Gold Coasts.
“No, no, the ones left…”
“Oh, the cheep ones…-of course…sorry” she says.
“No problem” I reply, as I get the pack and scrape the rest of the coins into the bag. I leave the shop stumbling, pushes the door instead of pulling, though it says PULL on a big sticker. Once outside I rip the pack open, not having smoked for hours. The smoke is good, but loose, and disappears in 6 drags. A one-minute fag to ease the long pain of being poor.
A week later when the money had finally come through I went back to the same shop to buy more smokes and in that sense expecting to prove my credibility to the same clerk: I`m not poor. It was a freak situation. But she wasn`t working.Instead it was this incredibly fat, toothless woman, who almost took my craving for a glassy donut and a cup of coffee away. On the counter lay a laminated pricelist stating the many prices of different donuts, which I by accident push of the counter with my coffeecup.
The woman then picks it up places it on the counter again and with a smile saying.“Oh you guys! All you wanna do is to see me bend over….”
I havn`t shopped there since.
I wish that poverty was less visuable.
December 07, 2007
December 06, 2007
December 05, 2007
I wish physic BORDERWALL projects would be banned. I think I thought they were, but alas... Its pissing against the wind. I really wish...
Met a mexican visiting-proffesor at Conchas birthday party tonight, who passionately told about the many flipsides of the ongoing borderwall project at the Mexican-US border.
details.
http://jesusismajik.blogspot.com/2006/04/government-that-sees-our-people-as.html
HUMANOID WISHES FOR A NEARBY FUTURE, 4:
Smile at a migrant.
Meine Damen und Herren: LAIBACH (Yes its a LAID BACK cover)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3SvjSu4R-8&feature=related
http://www.laibach.nsk.si/
December 04, 2007
December 03, 2007
December 02, 2007
I have decided to leave the porn and poetry sequel for a later period.
In good old conservative style, the christmas-spirit, I will go ahead with my "Humanoid Wishes for a nearby future", which in it self do not rule out the possiblity for eroticas.
HUMANOID WISHES FOR A NEARBY FUTURE, 1:
A wellfed nation for every of the celebrated religious days in the protestant, muslim, catholic, jewish, hindu, buddhist and what-not calendar-year.