Having thus excluded conversation and desisted from study, he had neither business nor amusement. His ideas, therefore, being neither renovated by discourse nor increased by reading, wore gradually away, till at last his anger congealed into madness.
Monday, June 07, 2010
Saturday, June 05, 2010
Watch doctor who 2005 5x10 vincent and the doctor
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Bomba Estereo – Aguasala
lovely new video by the Colombian Bomba Estereo
Aguasala is taken from their 2009 album Blow Up
as FADER said ‘Wicked Game for bassheads’
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Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Stewart – Queen Elizabeth II Made It Sir
Earlier this year it was announced that Patrick Stewart was on this year’s list to receive a knighthood, and the ceremony making him Sir happened today at Buckingham Palace.
Stewart, knighted for his services to drama, gave credit to an English teacher, Cecil Dormand, who encouraged Stewart to act. “Although many people in my life have had great influence on me, without this man none of it would have happened,” he said.
Growing up, some of Stewart’s heroes were actors who had been knighted. “But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theatre and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier [and] Sir John Gielgud,” he said. “The knights of the theatre represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held.
“To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.
Congratulations to Sir Patrick Stewart!
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Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Quote: From Former Czech President Vaclav Havel
"If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation."
-Vaclav Havel
Peter Orlovsky, Poet and Partner of Allen Ginsberg, Dies
Peter Orlovsky has died, the L.A. Times reports:
"Peter Orlovsky, longtime partner of Allen Ginsberg and a poet in his own right, died May 30 in Vermont of lung cancer. He was 76.
Orlovsky met Ginsberg in San Francisco in 1954, before Ginsberg wrote his seminal poem, 'Howl.' Published in 1956, 'Howl' was the subject of a 1957 obscenity trial that became a landmark free-expression case. Afterward, Ginsberg and Orlovsky moved to Paris, where they stayed with Gregory Corso, William Burroughs and others in a boarding house that would become known as the Beat Hotel...Although they spent time apart, Ginsberg and Orlovsky's relationship endured for more than 30 years. Orlovsky's poetry was collected by City Lights Books in 1977; three of those poems are online. His papers are at the Harry Ransom Center in Texas."
Below, James Franco as Ginsberg and Aaron Tveit as Orlovsky in the forthcoming Ginsberg biopic, Howl.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
Thursday, May 27, 2010
House Passes 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal Amendment 234-194
The House of Representatives voted 234-194 to approve an amendment repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell". The amendment will be attached to the 2011 Department of Defense Authorization Bill.
Said Aaron Belkin Director of the Palm Center:
"It was never going to be easy to dismantle the gay ban, but the White House and Congressional leadership have launched a process that will do just that. For seventeen years, taxpayer money has gone to fire Arabic linguists, doctors and mission critical specialists in every field and every service because they are gay, lesbian or bisexual. Today, the House of Representatives and the Senate Armed Services Committee have said that prejudice cannot be more important than national security. Keeping good troops is good policy.”
Said Executive Director fo the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Rea Carey:
"Today’s vote marks a critical step toward closing a shameful chapter in our nation’s history, and toward creating a path that could end in men and women being able to serve openly, honestly, and to great benefit of our country. Seventy-eight percent of Americans say they want ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ repealed, and for good reason: It is discriminatory, outdated and costly. The vast majority of people know that it is wrong to discriminate against patriotic men and women willing to risk their lives by serving in the military. Thousands of qualified service members have already been drummed out of the military for nothing other than bias and prejudice, and thousands more live in fear of losing their military careers.
“While this is an important step toward ending an unjust law, we continue to call for clear assurances of protection, a specific timeline for repeal implementation, and an immediate halt to the discharges. The lives and livelihoods of dedicated service members hang in the balance.”
Monday, May 24, 2010
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
For Thy Meat (after Marlowe)
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Live, come on me, and as for love,
We’ve only clinic tests to prove
Our innocence. Then, young and free,
We’ll romp through concrete Arcady.
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What hearts have felt, and tongues have caught,
And vice-versa, imports not.
Past lusts burnt sweetly, will incense
Paved gardens of inconsequence.
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Come, cling with me, and roll, and spoon,
Through gentrifying ethnic ruin.
Whites pearlier than moon shall rise
To dazzle hateful foreign eyes.
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We’ll trouble places, in the dark
No ruraler than public park.
For pollened air, and well-scaped land
Are all the nature we can stand.
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Our nymphs,with wigs and busts ersatz,
Will susurrate their surly thoughts
That bearded shepherd swains, asleep,
Are amply wooly without sheep.
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Come build with me. We’ll nest together.
Gingham, plaid, tattoos, and leather
To outift us urbanely, and
Apparel us, American.
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Come, lay with me, and we shall prove,
That Whitman’s praised adhesive love
Is not so binding in its power
When one takes care to quickly shower.
Saturday, May 08, 2010
Friday, May 07, 2010
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Monday, May 03, 2010
His Holy Visage
For FSM so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Meatball, that whosoever believeth in it should not perish, but have everlasting noodles.
