Tron Grit

-tonights choice:

Woody

or

Buzz?

we went with Woody.

still visiting. . .

EXCERPT

A Visit From the Goon Squad

By JENNIFER EGAN

Published: June 20, 2010

"Found Objects"

good people

sin

The darkness you fear is yourself. Don't externalize your demons, they are you. Open up! Let's be guilty together. Let's make this comedy of errors a passion play. If you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to be embarrassed [I'm bare assed] about!

"You were sick, but now you are well again. And there's work to be done."~Kilgore Trout

Soup's on. . .

thinking about the f word. . .

~Guerrilla Girls

Move Forward

"Venus of course rules the feminine and Jupiter rules personal growth and politics." ~Dana's Blog: Nov. 18

Shamanic Woolf

Bring MoM & PoP back together. . .

lacuna |ləˈk(y)oōnə|noun ( pl. -nae |-nī; -nē| or -nas )an unfilled space or interval; a gap• a missing portion in a book or manuscript.• Anatomy a cavity or depression, esp. in bone.

this is almost as fascinating as pop music:

URL: http://www.TreeIncarnation.com/sphere_eversion.htm

THE UNIVERSE GENERATOR The sphere which shapes our world Extended animation of Bill Thurston's "Outside In" If humanity is indeed the measure of the cosmos, whatever primal structure which creates the universe should echo the key attributes of cosmos nature and our bodies. We are powered by vital functions such as the human lungs, heart and sex organs. Scroll at right to see: The contraction of the heart. Ribs over a membrane which expands and contracts. A phallic penetration --the reverse of which is the drawing apart which powers cell division. And much more.

where did they turn a church into a mosque?

I think I just fell in a black whole. . .

Edith Piaf Non je ne regrette rien

www.youtube.com

Edith Piaf's last and greatest song...

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    The Sync Whole

    ‎"The song Non, je ne regrette is performed by Edith Piaf. Marion Coutard who plays Mal in Inception won the oscar for Best Actress playing Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose. She beat out Ellen Page, who was nominated with her that same year (2007) for Juno. Ellen Page plays Ariadne in Inception."
    
    -and those are syncs baby!
    
    my gaze upon "France" "Trains" and "Mother". . .

    August 2 at 4:13pm · ·
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    Ehrlen xxxxxx
    

    No, nothing at all, I regret nothing at all
    Not the good, nor the bad. It is all the same.
    No, nothing at all, I have no regrets about anything.
    It is paid, wiped away, forgotten.
    I am not concerned with the past, with my memories.
    I set fire to my pains and pleasures,
    I don't need them anymore.
    I have wiped away my loves, and my troubles.
    Swept them all away.
    I am starting again from zero.
    
    No, nothing at all, I have no regrets
    Because from today, my life, my happiness, everything,
    Starts with you!
    
    English translation shows an inception at the end of the song.

    August 3 at 7:59am · · ·

    
    

Remov‎"Non, je ne regrette rien"(No, I regret nothing)

DEATH AND ITS AFTERLIVES IN THE TAROT

Rachel Pollack

Does this emphasis on awareness move us away from the idea of a literal life after death? I would argue no, for it seems that the duality of literal vs. metaphoric, experience vs. philosophy, is one of the traps the Devil uses to hold us back from knowledge of our true selves—whether before death, or after. The whole movement of these last cards is to carry us beyond duality.

If the Sun was the light of revelation, Judgment is the sound. Together, they raise the dead. We then face a choice, an act of free will. Liberation or a conscious return to the physical realm of the senses. The choice is free. Instead of return the soul may separate from the Wheel and enter a wider World, reunion with our divine origins.

I'm reminded of the documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis today (by the other ghost light).

Both The Power of Nightmares, and The Century of the Self are something you should see to understand the age we are NOW leaving.

a quick look at some influential art movements. . .

Romanticism or Romantic Era is a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution.^[1] In part, it was a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature,^[2] and was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature, but had a major impact on historiography^[3], education^[4] and natural history.^[5]

The movement validated strong emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as trepidation, horror and terror and awe—especially that which is experienced in confronting the sublimity of untamed nature and its picturesque qualities, both new aesthetic categories. It elevated folk art and ancient custom to something noble, made of spontaneity a desirable character (as in the musical impromptu), and argued for a "natural"epistemology of human activities as conditioned by nature in the form of language and customary usage.

Romanticism reached beyond the rational and Classicist ideal models to elevate a revived medievalism. . .in an attempt to escape the confines of population growth, urban sprawl, and industrialism, and it also attempted to embrace the exotic, unfamiliar, and distant in modes more authentic than Rococo chinoiserie, harnessing the power of the imagination to envision and to escape.

The modern sense of a romantic character may be expressed in Byronic ideals of a gifted, perhaps misunderstood loner, creatively following the dictates of his inspiration rather than the mores of contemporary society.

Although the movement is rooted in the German Sturm und Drang movement, which prized intuition and emotion over Enlightenment rationalism, the ideologies and events of the French Revolution laid the background from which both Romanticism and the Counter-Enlightenment emerged. The confines of the Industrial Revolution also had their influence on Romanticism, which was in part an escape from modern realities; indeed, in the second half of the 19th century, "Realism" was offered as a polarized opposite to Romanticism.^[6]Romanticism elevated the achievements of what it perceived as heroic individualists and artists, whose pioneering examples would elevate society. It also legitimized the individual imagination as a critical authority, which permitted freedom from classical notions of form in art. ~Wikipedia

Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It was largely an Italian phenomenon, though there were parallel movements in Russia, England and elsewhere. The Futurists practiced in every medium of art. . .

The founder of Futurism and its most influential personality was the Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Marinetti launched the movement in his Futurist Manifesto, which he published for the first time on 5 February 1909. . . He was soon joined by the painters Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini and the composer Luigi Russolo.

Marinetti expressed a passionate loathing of everything old, especially political and artistic tradition. "We want no part of it, the past", he wrote, "we the young and strong Futurists!" The Futurists admired speed, technology, youth and violence, the car, the airplane and the industrial city, all that represented the technological triumph of humanity over nature, and they were passionate nationalists. They repudiated the cult of the past and all imitation, praised originality, "however daring, however violent", bore proudly "the smear of madness", dismissed art critics as useless, rebelled against harmony and good taste, swept away all the themes and subjects of all previous art, and gloried in science.~Wikipedia

Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland, during World War Iand peaked from 1916 to 1922.^[1] The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry,art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works. Its purpose was to ridicule what its participants considered to be the meaninglessness of the modern world. In addition to being anti-war, dada was also anti-bourgeois and anarchistic in nature.

Dada activities included public gatherings, demonstrations, and publication of art/literary journals; passionate coverage of art, politics, and culture were topics often discussed in a variety of media. The movement influenced later styles like the avant-garde and downtown music movements, and groups including surrealism, Nouveau réalisme, pop art, Fluxus and punk rock. ~Wikipedia

Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes both a set of cultural tendencies and an array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The term encompasses the activities and output of those who felt the "traditional" forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, social organization and daily life were becoming outdated in the new economic, social and political conditions of an emerging fully industrialized world.

Modernism rejected the lingering certainty of Enlightenment thinking, and also that of the existence of a compassionate, all-powerful Creator.^[2][3] This is not to say that all modernists or modernist movements rejected either religion or all aspects of Enlightenment thought, rather that modernism can be viewed as a questioning of the axioms of the previous age.

These oppositions are inherent to modernism: it is in its broadest cultural sense the assessment of the past as different to the modern age, the recognition that the world was becoming more complex, and that the old "final authorities" (God, government, science, and reason) were subject to intense critical scrutiny.

Current interpretations of modernism vary. Some divide 20th century reaction into modernism and postmodernism, whereas others see them as two aspects of the same movement.~Wikipedia

Garbage. . .

"Garbage And Gravitas"

by Corey Robin

Unlike Kant, the emblematic modern who claimed that the rightness of our deeds is determined solely by reason, unsullied by need, desire or interest, Aristotle rooted his ethics in human nature, in the habits and practices, the dispositions and tendencies, that make us happy and enable our flourishing. And where Kant believed that morality consists of austere rules, imposing unconditional duties upon us and requiring our most strenuous sacrifice, Aristotle located the ethical life in the virtues. These are qualities or states, somewhere between reason and emotion but combining elements of both, that carry and convey us, by the gentlest and subtlest of means, to the outer hills of good conduct. Once there, we are inspired and equipped to scale these lower heights, whence we move onto the higher reaches. A person who acts virtuously develops a nature that wants and is able to act virtuously and that finds happiness in virtue. That coincidence of thought and feeling, reason and desire, is achieved over a lifetime of virtuous deeds. Virtue, in other words, is less a codex of rules, which must be observed in the face of the self's most violent opposition, than it is the food and fiber, the grease and gasoline, of a properly functioning soul.

But by the time we reach them, those green fields are always in decline. The spell never lasts. King Arthur is always dying, and the Elves are always shuffling off toward Valinor, where mortals cannot follow. Narnia falls into chaos, then drowns and freezes, and the survivors retreat into Aslan’s Land. We think of fantasy and modernism as worlds apart, but somehow they always end up in the same place. They are perfectly symmetrical. Fantasy is a prelude to the apocalypse. Modernism is the epilogue.

The Believer - The Death of a Civil Servant

www.believermag.com

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