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11/28/09
Excerpt from THE AGE OF THE UNTHINKABLE by JOSHUA COOPER RAMO
page 134 of mini chapter "Where Can I Fail?"
Buddhist masters like to say that if you're trying to reach enlightenment, you must develop, in this order, "right view, right intention, and right action." If you're not seeing the world properly, you have no hope of this sort of breakthrough. The question I want to explore now is" what is the right view when it comes to life in a revolutionary age? When the defining trait of life in those sandpile developments that, by definition, are new in our experience, how should we look at the world? Do we have anything to learn from people who are particularly successful in places where fast change and surprise are daily facts of life? These are vitally important questions if you;re trying to train yourself to make sense of a world order that looks increasingly out of control...
Page 185
"Many of our problems today aren't the result of too little information. Instead, they come from the challenge of sorting through a huge (and growing) amount of data, all constantly changing, and much of it irrelevant or misleading....
C 2009 Joshua Cooper Ramo, the author. Little Brown and Company is the publisher
Buddhist masters like to say that if you're trying to reach enlightenment, you must develop, in this order, "right view, right intention, and right action." If you're not seeing the world properly, you have no hope of this sort of breakthrough. The question I want to explore now is" what is the right view when it comes to life in a revolutionary age? When the defining trait of life in those sandpile developments that, by definition, are new in our experience, how should we look at the world? Do we have anything to learn from people who are particularly successful in places where fast change and surprise are daily facts of life? These are vitally important questions if you;re trying to train yourself to make sense of a world order that looks increasingly out of control...
Page 185
"Many of our problems today aren't the result of too little information. Instead, they come from the challenge of sorting through a huge (and growing) amount of data, all constantly changing, and much of it irrelevant or misleading....
C 2009 Joshua Cooper Ramo, the author. Little Brown and Company is the publisher
11/23/09
CHRISTINE TRZYNA REVIEWS THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS ! "I didn't feel entertained. I felt HUMILIATED for Womankind."
I and a group of friends, many African American, and ranging in age from early twenties to sixties, watched the AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS last night.
My prime curiosity was Lady Gaga, who I expected to be over the top. She was on the edge of performance art and owns a voice with a range and power that surpasses Madonna, who has no doubt been an inspiration and, I hear, is a follower.
I also pride myself, whatever my musical tastes at the moment, to have a good idea of what's happening in pop culture music now, and fully expected the Micheal Jackson legacy to be continually enhanced, which it was.
I find it interesting that so many women singers are solo acts these days. My generation of women had a hard time infiltrating the music business, coming after the girl groups of the 1950's and the soulful strummers of the 1960's, and pretty much regulated to being the groupie- sidekicks of punk rockers and hair bands of the 70's and 80's. But exactly how it is that rauch got to be mainstream, I'm not sure.
Let's not forget that Micheal Jackson, now forgotten as highly inappropriate with children, and Madonna, now raising her children as Kaballists, started the crouch rub as a dance move craze years ago. As a matter of fact, at a dinner some of my friends attended recently there were kids running around dancing and doing the crouch rub. Five year olds. Which is where the dance probably originated.
Last nights show disappointed us all. The main reason was that the special effects and displays, the smoke, the fire, the costuming, the chronic sadio-masochistic posturing, imagery, and props, made us feel like we had taken a trip into something far further south than Dr. Suess' 9th floor dungeon. We are uncomfortable with the sickness, both spiritual and psychological, that came with it. No doubt some of the entertainers had amazing voices, but overall it was dark, very dark, and we wondered exactly why the competition had been about special effects and outrageousness. Adam Lambert, the American Idol star who is openly gay, featured a bare-chested-but-for-the-straps dancer who he pushed around. Pee Yew Adam!
Even Carrie Underwood, a country star, went prancing around with a bevy of demonic ladies in waiting! And this is a five time winner? Is this how desperate you are Carrie?
What the hell happened to country ?
Does anyone really want to listen to lyrics that are poison to the mind and heart over and over again? A lot of the words - sometimes entire sentences - to the lyrics were bleeped.
As a woman who has long been a feminist, and who is not shy about erotica in the right place, or lyrics that challenge us, I never the less almost felt a shame that what top women singers do now is disguise their voices with all this calamity around them. I'd rather they leave the stripping to strippers in clubs one chooses as a destination and the pornography to the porn stars and the private bedrooms.
I didn't feel entertained. I felt humiliated for womankind.
C Christine Trzyna 2009 All rights reserved including International and Internet Rights. Contact author for permissions.
My prime curiosity was Lady Gaga, who I expected to be over the top. She was on the edge of performance art and owns a voice with a range and power that surpasses Madonna, who has no doubt been an inspiration and, I hear, is a follower.
I also pride myself, whatever my musical tastes at the moment, to have a good idea of what's happening in pop culture music now, and fully expected the Micheal Jackson legacy to be continually enhanced, which it was.
I find it interesting that so many women singers are solo acts these days. My generation of women had a hard time infiltrating the music business, coming after the girl groups of the 1950's and the soulful strummers of the 1960's, and pretty much regulated to being the groupie- sidekicks of punk rockers and hair bands of the 70's and 80's. But exactly how it is that rauch got to be mainstream, I'm not sure.
Let's not forget that Micheal Jackson, now forgotten as highly inappropriate with children, and Madonna, now raising her children as Kaballists, started the crouch rub as a dance move craze years ago. As a matter of fact, at a dinner some of my friends attended recently there were kids running around dancing and doing the crouch rub. Five year olds. Which is where the dance probably originated.
Last nights show disappointed us all. The main reason was that the special effects and displays, the smoke, the fire, the costuming, the chronic sadio-masochistic posturing, imagery, and props, made us feel like we had taken a trip into something far further south than Dr. Suess' 9th floor dungeon. We are uncomfortable with the sickness, both spiritual and psychological, that came with it. No doubt some of the entertainers had amazing voices, but overall it was dark, very dark, and we wondered exactly why the competition had been about special effects and outrageousness. Adam Lambert, the American Idol star who is openly gay, featured a bare-chested-but-for-the-straps dancer who he pushed around. Pee Yew Adam!
Even Carrie Underwood, a country star, went prancing around with a bevy of demonic ladies in waiting! And this is a five time winner? Is this how desperate you are Carrie?
What the hell happened to country ?
Does anyone really want to listen to lyrics that are poison to the mind and heart over and over again? A lot of the words - sometimes entire sentences - to the lyrics were bleeped.
As a woman who has long been a feminist, and who is not shy about erotica in the right place, or lyrics that challenge us, I never the less almost felt a shame that what top women singers do now is disguise their voices with all this calamity around them. I'd rather they leave the stripping to strippers in clubs one chooses as a destination and the pornography to the porn stars and the private bedrooms.
I didn't feel entertained. I felt humiliated for womankind.
C Christine Trzyna 2009 All rights reserved including International and Internet Rights. Contact author for permissions.
11/17/09
STOP COMPLAINING START BOASTING!
Have your friends ever complained that you complain too much? Much bemused with last nights conversation with a 180. Try this! Use every occasion to gloat, brag, air positive thoughts about yourself... just how long can your friends stand it ? There is something in our society - most- that deplores the person who dares have too much self confidence and self esteem. Maybe we're all afraid to tempt bad luck or seeming competitive!
I will soon be submitting my first Vanity Fair inspired Proustean questionairre since I began this blog...
I will soon be submitting my first Vanity Fair inspired Proustean questionairre since I began this blog...
11/12/09
11/7/09
THOMAS ALVA EDISON Quote
"I was always afraid of things that worked the first time." Thomas Alva Edison
Edison was the inventor of the first recording machine - the tinfoil phonograph, and in 1877, the wax cylinder recording machine.
Edison was the inventor of the first recording machine - the tinfoil phonograph, and in 1877, the wax cylinder recording machine.
11/2/09
ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE REPORTS on THINGS THAT HAVEN'T HAPPENED YET
Looking through the November 27th 2009 edition of Rolling Stone magazine. There is reportage on a concert that has not happened yet...
I had to check the magazine twice to be sure it didn't say October 27, 2009.
A magazine subscription used to come about a week before the news-stand. This was the advantage of a subscription. Now some are coming a good month before they hit the stands and seem to be PREDICTING THE FUTURE rather than reporting JUST BREAKING NEWS.
I had to check the magazine twice to be sure it didn't say October 27, 2009.
A magazine subscription used to come about a week before the news-stand. This was the advantage of a subscription. Now some are coming a good month before they hit the stands and seem to be PREDICTING THE FUTURE rather than reporting JUST BREAKING NEWS.
10/23/09
CHRISTINE TRZYNA REVIEWS THE LOST SYMBOL by DAN BROWN
THE LOST SYMBOL is C 2009 DAN BROWN REVIEW BY CHRISTINE TRZYNA C 2009
So many reviews have already been made of this book, dare I add to the chaos?
Having seen ANGELS and DEMONS on the big screen, for my entire read I kept seeing the actor TOM HANKS in my mind's eye when I encountered the character Langdon.
Is it possible to read a Dan Brown book and not be completely fascinated by cutting edge technology and science clashing and meshing with ancient occult wisdom and spiritual controversy? It's his forte and the long wait for this book was worth it.
Would it be going too far to suggest that this book may be the ANTIDOTE for 9/11 because ultimately it is patriotic? Will the Masons have a resurgence of interest in their organization? If so, what about the Anti-Catholicism of the Masons?
What does it mean when you take notes because you want to look up Noetic Science? Like the aftermath of his other books, I fully expect that Dan Brown has created interest enough in his research for the book for others to go after him for accuracy.
For some reason I felt the story was a bit slow until it got really good. Life intruded and I had to put it down many times but about three forths of the way through I didn't want to.
So many reviews have already been made of this book, dare I add to the chaos?
Having seen ANGELS and DEMONS on the big screen, for my entire read I kept seeing the actor TOM HANKS in my mind's eye when I encountered the character Langdon.
Is it possible to read a Dan Brown book and not be completely fascinated by cutting edge technology and science clashing and meshing with ancient occult wisdom and spiritual controversy? It's his forte and the long wait for this book was worth it.
Would it be going too far to suggest that this book may be the ANTIDOTE for 9/11 because ultimately it is patriotic? Will the Masons have a resurgence of interest in their organization? If so, what about the Anti-Catholicism of the Masons?
What does it mean when you take notes because you want to look up Noetic Science? Like the aftermath of his other books, I fully expect that Dan Brown has created interest enough in his research for the book for others to go after him for accuracy.
For some reason I felt the story was a bit slow until it got really good. Life intruded and I had to put it down many times but about three forths of the way through I didn't want to.
10/20/09
EXCERPT from IN HEAVEN EVERYTHING IS FINE
IN HEAVEN EVERYTHING IS FINE
The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theatre
C Josh Frank 2008 By Josh Frank with Charlie Buckholtz
Free Press a division of Simon and Shuster publishers
page 171
"Peter had always been the one to discover, throw himself into, and turn his friends on to the coolest, most interesting music scenes. In the two years since Animal House had prompted a mass migration of unruly New York comics to LA, a new scene had begun to bubble up for the LA music underground. The early stages of punk rock, which in the early to mid - '70's had stormed New York and London, had in large part passed Hollywood by. While bands like the Germs, the Weirdos, Black Flag, the Circle Jerks, and X sparked varying degrees of cult devotion in Southern CA, the sound as a whole, and the attitude and aesthetic that came with it, did not really begin to catch on until the later '70's , when the tectonic rumblings of two of punk's most potent second-wave manifestations began to crack the town's placid facade..."
The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theatre
C Josh Frank 2008 By Josh Frank with Charlie Buckholtz
Free Press a division of Simon and Shuster publishers
page 171
"Peter had always been the one to discover, throw himself into, and turn his friends on to the coolest, most interesting music scenes. In the two years since Animal House had prompted a mass migration of unruly New York comics to LA, a new scene had begun to bubble up for the LA music underground. The early stages of punk rock, which in the early to mid - '70's had stormed New York and London, had in large part passed Hollywood by. While bands like the Germs, the Weirdos, Black Flag, the Circle Jerks, and X sparked varying degrees of cult devotion in Southern CA, the sound as a whole, and the attitude and aesthetic that came with it, did not really begin to catch on until the later '70's , when the tectonic rumblings of two of punk's most potent second-wave manifestations began to crack the town's placid facade..."
10/15/09
ROLLO MAY Quote
"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity."
- Rollo May
10/8/09
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY TRUST SITE
Marion Zimmer Bradley, the author of fiction based on the Arthurian legends from a woman's point of view, has a site helpful to writers that includes advice to writers about taxes and so much more. While more books by Bradley emerge from publishers, I recall reading THE MISTS OF AVALON many years ago and being intrigued by the notion of the land of fairy, which is a place one can slip into without realizing it, and years pass by. Whenever her character actually thinks it is time to go, she is incited to join another party, and when finally she does, going back the way she came, she discovers the bones of the horse she rode in on. Many years have gone by, but she gets back on her path... only to discover that people have aged and things have changed...
It happens to all of us. One day I was in West Hollywood and looked into the windows of a restaurant I used to go to a lot, and there were the same group of men playing chess that had been sitting there seven years before.
It happens to all of us. One day I was in West Hollywood and looked into the windows of a restaurant I used to go to a lot, and there were the same group of men playing chess that had been sitting there seven years before.
10/7/09
Re MARIANNE MOORE - POET - WESTWAYS MAGAZINE JUNE 2009
In the June 2009 edition of Westways Magazine (the AAA Auto Club publication) there is this...
"In 1955, Ford Motor Company hired the poet Marianne Moore to suggest names for anew car still on the drawing board. The car maker had big plans for the vehicle, and it asked Moore for words that would convey speed, sophistication, and state-of-the-art design to prospective buyers. Proving perhaps that poets think years ahead of their time, Moore came up with the names Civique and Diamante, among others..."
"In 1955, Ford Motor Company hired the poet Marianne Moore to suggest names for anew car still on the drawing board. The car maker had big plans for the vehicle, and it asked Moore for words that would convey speed, sophistication, and state-of-the-art design to prospective buyers. Proving perhaps that poets think years ahead of their time, Moore came up with the names Civique and Diamante, among others..."
10/5/09
HELEN GURLEY BROWN Quote
"Living dangerously lengthens and strengthens your life." -Helen Gurley Brown
10/3/09
10/2/09
ON DOMINICK DUNNE by GRAYDEN CARTER
One of my favorite writers, Dominick Dunne, died in New York City, age 83, after 30 years of writing books and magazine articles, mining society for stories, and focusing on criminal justice and crimes of the century. Although I never read his creative fiction, what I liked about Dunne's writing is the simple clarity of it. It was as if he had taken the advice of the classic book WRITING WELL. His turn of the phrase was never dependent on fanciness.
This is what Grayden Carter, editor of Vanity Fair magazine, had to say about him in the November 2009 Editors Letter:
"Dominick died in his penthouse apartment in Manhattan on August 26, at the age of 83, just having completed his last novel, Too Much Money, which will be published in December. A failed, divorced, alcoholic Hollywood producer at 50, he famously recaptured his life and produced an astonishing body of work in the years left to him. Through his hundreds of articles and diary entries for Vanity Fair, his six novels, and his presence at countless dinner parties and social events in this country and abroad, he became one of the most loved and recognizable writers in the world..."
This is what Grayden Carter, editor of Vanity Fair magazine, had to say about him in the November 2009 Editors Letter:
"Dominick died in his penthouse apartment in Manhattan on August 26, at the age of 83, just having completed his last novel, Too Much Money, which will be published in December. A failed, divorced, alcoholic Hollywood producer at 50, he famously recaptured his life and produced an astonishing body of work in the years left to him. Through his hundreds of articles and diary entries for Vanity Fair, his six novels, and his presence at countless dinner parties and social events in this country and abroad, he became one of the most loved and recognizable writers in the world..."
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