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too much teevee...
23:59 Dec 29 2010
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Sitting in watching too much teevee over Christmas one can still learn things to surprise you, at the age of fifty-one.



As a child I adored the films of Charlie Chaplin; as a film buff, I lied and appreciated the creative genius of Larry Adler, who did the music for ‘The Third Man.’



And, I liked the rich voice of Paul Robeson, the fellow who sang “’ole Man River’, in ‘Showboat’ and appeared in a film about the Welsh miner.



All of these men had Senator Joe MacCarthy try to destroy their careers.



And yet, this was the very same fellow who defended Nazi’s. He lobbied for the commutation of the death sentence given to a group of Waffen-SS soldiers, for carrying out the 1944 Malmedy massacre of American prisoners of war, at the beginning of The Battle Of The Bulge.



It seems he was critical of the convictions, because of allegations of torture that led to the soldier’s confessions, maintaining that the U.S. army was culpable of judicial misconduct, though he presented no evidence to back up his story.

"I remember everything..."
19:59 Dec 28 2010
Times Read: 970

From Resident Evil Extinction and the song that was mutilated during the end credits ~





WHITE RABBIT -- Jefferson Airplane [Grace Slick]-- 1967





One pill makes you larger

And one pill makes you small

And the ones that mother gives you

Don't do anything at all

Go ask Alice

When she's ten feet tall



And if you go chasing rabbits

And you know you're going to fall

Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar

Has given you the call

Call Alice

When she was just small



When men on the chessboard

Get up and tell you where to go

And you've just had some kind of mushroom

And your mind is moving low

Go ask Alice

I think she'll know



When logic and proportion

Have fallen sloppy dead

And the White Knight is talking backwards

And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"

Remember what the dormouse said:

"Feed your head

Feed your head

Feed your head"







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“White Rabbit” was written by Grace Slick while she was still with The Great Society. When that band broke up in 1966, Slick was invited to join Jefferson Airplane to replace their departed female singer Signe Toly Anderson who left the band with the birth of her child. The first album she recorded with Jefferson Airplane was Surrealistic Pillow, and Slick provided two songs from her previous group; her own “White Rabbit” and “Somebody to Love” , written by Darby Slick and recorded under the title "Someone to Love" by the Great Society. Both songs became breakout successes for Jefferson Airplane and have since been associated with that band.

One of Grace Slick's earliest songs, written during either late 1965 or early 1966, it includes comparisons of the hallucinatory effects of psychedelic drugs, such as LSD and psilocybin mushrooms, with the imagery found in the fantasy works of Lewis Carroll: 1865's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its 1871 sequel Through the Looking-Glass. Events in these books, such as changing size after eating mushrooms or drinking an unknown liquid, are referenced in the song. Characters referenced include Alice, the hookah-smoking caterpillar, the White Knight, the Red Queen, and the Dormouse.

For Grace and others in the '60s, drugs were a part of mind-expanding and social experimentation. With its enigmatic lyrics, "White Rabbit" became one of the first songs to sneak drug references past censors on the radio. Even Marty Balin, Grace's eventual rival in the Airplane, regarded the song as a "masterpiece". In interviews, Grace has related that "Alice in Wonderland" was often read to her as a child and remained a vivid memory into her adult years.

Set to a rising crescendo similar to that of Ravel's famous Boléro, and having a strong Spanish influence to it, the music combined with the song's lyrics strongly suggest the sensory distortions experienced with hallucinogens, and the song was later utilized in pop culture to imply or accompany just such a state.

While the Red Queen and the White Knight are both mentioned in the song, the references are incorrect in detail. In Lewis Carroll's original text, the White Knight does not talk backward and it is the Queen of Hearts, not the Red Queen, who says "Off with her head!". The movie Alice In Wonderland (1951) often refers to the Queen of Hearts as the Red Queen.

The last lines of the song are "Remember what the Dormouse said. Feed your head. Feed your head." and do not explicitly quote the Dormouse as is often assumed. "Remembering what the Dormouse said" probably refers to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", Chapter XI 'Who Stole the Tarts', wherein a very nervous Mad Hatter is called to testify:

"'But what did the Dormouse say?' one of the jury asked."

"'That I can't remember', said the Hatter."

It is therefore better to say that the lyrics were inspired by the book, rather than referencing them directly.

“Oh yeah…?”
19:13 Dec 28 2010
Times Read: 982

She had been one of the few admin I’d admired for her honesty and respectful manner, then came a second profile, with which she became plain quarrelsome, treating me with distain in a forum thread that caused me great offence.



So blocking me should have been sufficient, but it wasn’t: with the aid of ‘her mates’ she censured me, for speaking a truth, as I had perceived it, then sought to justify that, by saying, it’s not me, it was her. Well, my retort rhymes: “Oh yeah…?”

"I was told..."
00:44 Dec 28 2010
Times Read: 1,001

****** Edit: The whole forum is moderated. And if you have an issue with a member(s) then you can freely message an admin and they can assist you. Don't use the forum to air your displeasure.



"I was told..."



Eh, it must be good to be one of the admin here, moderating the general forum and, able to censor the one who criticised a point of view, particularly when you’re slated off by her other profile.



Heck, that way the person you censor, has little or no recourse, when they’re slated off by her… using whichever profile she chooses to use.



[[And both of them already have you blocked.]]



Just luvvit.. one way free-speech.

Subject: Selfish and moral attitudes Part 2
23:44 Dec 24 2010
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I had taken part in a thread, 'Subject: Selfish and moral attitudes': and as I tried to sleep last night, I wondered how Glinda Lyn could deprecate volunteers, as she had. Was she disparaging all volunteers, or was it a personal aside toward an individual? If not, as someone who lives on an island, I cannot imagine where we would be without our Life-Boat-Service, with each boat being manned by volunteers, who save many, many lives every year.

‘Dracula 3D’ … ???
23:42 Dec 23 2010
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Whoa, what did I just read on… http://www.joblo.com/arrow/



Dario Argento’s ‘Dracula 3D’ starts shooting in February…??? Oh yeah… !

[ Members Who Have Blocked You ]
14:42 Dec 23 2010
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chrysanthemia [I understand, wants attention]



darktree {{who??}}



GlindaLynn [[don't ever correct her]]



Jia {{arrogant little twerp]]



XspiritofbeautyX [[A profile thief]]



LadyKrystalynDarkstar [[well.. FUCK knows what I did to her.. to my knowledge I was always polite to her.. but then again, some of 'them' are a law unto themselves!]]

Just posted... **Smiles**
23:23 Dec 21 2010
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Subject: Selfish and moral attitudes





Post:



I went out yesterday, on a mission, to deliver presents under the most arduous of circumstances: my mission was successful, tho two were out.



Did it matter, No.



Selfishly, I had a plan and it was sucesful.



**



Last week, at a soup kitchen, I took great joy, from seeing over thirty fed and moderately content, in part through my efforts and people said 'thank you'...





Man, I felt selfish then...

Jai... or whatever
10:50 Dec 21 2010
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So … in the early hours… [[‘twas a Full Moon]] I was reading journal after journal, as you do: and I came to Grimmy’s and, so nasty comments left for her after a poem on her Satanist belief’s, by some sanctimonious prigs.



Christians... as that is what these three called themselves… they talk of tolerance and, some even talk of free-speech, that is, until they disagree with what they see, or read… and before anyone says anything to the contrary… it’s what I saw there… Jia, Jai... or whatever and, two others… hells teeth, with liberal minded individuals like them on VR, there’s nowt down for any of us… after, it is a Goth website… so erm, “What the frig are they doin here?”

Aren’t people strange?
23:31 Dec 17 2010
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Aren’t people strange?





A thousand years ago, I was doing advocacy work: and while helping someone, I’d leant to hem curtains, to show them how, when they got their flat together.



Unfortunately, I never got to show her how to hem curtains, as just before she went into rehab, she had her ‘last hit’, which in this event, had been her last indeed.



Now when someone blocks me, I think of events like that.



A connection was made, used and abused.



One person blocked me, ‘coz she’s a Pisces and wanted more attention, as shown from her journals.



One blocked me, after stealing another’s profile.



One… I forget. So, they’re not important.



One blocked me, after I defended a friend, when they attacked them.



And…



One blocked me recently, after finding reflection in my words.



Aren’t people strange?

Glinda.. the good/bad fairy.
16:30 Dec 17 2010
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Glinda.. the good/bad fairy, picked up a spark

relected in her eyes, from the fire lit by another,

then onece burnt, she turned to the fires maker

and blamed them for her burns; forgetting that

it was she who picked up that spark, that had

ignited in her hand, to give the burn that hurt

her so ... what a low blow, from her.

Re: policing - a vision of tomorrow
22:17 Dec 14 2010
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So let’s get this right: Kenneth Clarke says ‘Prison isn’t working’, so lets’ not jail ‘em.



And, they’re building less jail places.



There’s social unrest, so they’re cutting back on the police.



Soon, there’ll be no government run forensics in England: it costs too much, they say.



All of these statements lead one, to a very simple, irrevocable decision: societal breakdown, on a massive scale.

... and mac begat the pc, eventually.
00:38 Dec 01 2010
Times Read: 1,051

I’ve been working with computers, since the old Amstrad green screen and, have even had a few IBM first-run PC’s in my hands [[big MOFO’s]] And then, we got Microsoft, 95 [[which I liked]] begat 98, begat 2000, which begat XP, which gave rise to vista, which nearly gottit right 'cept for it's draining power.. so begat seven, which is nearly as good as a mac was, which is what it's originator, [[not creator]], Gates intended...