Archive for the 'raison d'etre' Category

i’m king of the world!

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

a james cameron movie is in it’s essence a porno: nothing but a fantastic look, unrealistic action and the thinnest of plots to get to the money shot.

whatever happened to baby jane?

Friday, October 16th, 2009

finally it has been said aloud was has been apparent for years by an authority of the body no less, one of chicago’s finest, roger ebert:
” i am happy to say it brings back an element sadly missing in recent movies, gratuitous nudity. sexy women would ‘happen’ to be topless in the 1970s movies for [...]

mom met dad in the back of a rock and roll car…

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

after all is said and done, a final request remains to be completed, a task to finish off what has been started, the coupe de grace to the day and a simple entreaty to make it all worthwhile:

“put your fingers up my ass, are you deaf?”

i’ve got the cure you’re thinkin’ of…

Monday, August 31st, 2009

while novel in it’s label, the notion of a “death panel” is hardly the concept du jour the extreme would have you believe. for years now the american medical industrial complex has operated quite successfully a variety of death panels offering a multitude of denied claims and final solutions under the palatable moniker “health maintenance [...]

chopper, sic balls!

Friday, August 31st, 2007

of the fields of human mastery, martial prowess, sexual prowess, political acumen, superior intelligence, unrivaled beauty, exists the farce of human artistry known as being a hipster. me as art is as vacant as what is considered art, a histronic endeavor to aggrandize what is not noteworthy. there is no irony, creation or stimulation, just [...]

no thanks hollywood, i ain’t in to that…

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

is not the term “movie” an antiquated and witless relic of a less kinetic time? what of substance can be said of the annual gladiatorial game of motion picture performance colloquially known as the oscars? nothing, for that which lacks substance cannot be accounted for with substance any more than art can compete. nonetheless why [...]

my country, ’tis of thee…

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

what were the pilgrims if not a rag-tag group of disobedient religious do-it-yourselfers? were the participants of the boston tea party anything more than unruly tax dodgers? can more be said about the so-called founding fathers than they were bourgeois burgermeisters seizing the opportunity as american fools to steal the king’s thorny crown of [...]

ceci n’est pas une pipe

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

man and himself expressed for himself, about himself and made into an artifact for his pleasure rightly is called art. a paleolithic frank scrawling a record of experience on a cave wall so as to stop time and space for himself is genuinely artistic whereas the claptrap of the historically defined artist is nothing more [...]

the blackness would hit me and the void would be calling…

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

what a friendly lot this group is! kudos to mom for refraining from profanity while expressing herself, alas it seems that her offspring didn’t quite retain any maternal family values but rather takes after dear old dad. evidently vulgarity starts at home and though great the temptation is to needlessly devolve to expressing profanities, so [...]

i don’t see any method at all, sir…

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

let it no longer be said that the united states is part of the western world for a society’s criminal justice system reflects its weltanschauung and the good ol’ u.s of a. is obviously more culturally attuned to african and asian penal practices than the old world’s. minor aberrations of dogma aside such as the [...]