It’s all about balance.

I was watching the Golf Channel when I realized I was watching the Golf Channel. A commercial came on for some new high tech golf club. I can't remember what the club was called. It doesn't matter. I just remember a voice-over boasting the technology that went into making the club over a Tron like image of the club with animated arrows pointing in all sorts of different directions.

While watching this commercial a thought occurred to me; "I bet our scientists spend more time making advancements in golf club technology so some wasp lawyer can hit a tiny white ball further then they do trying to cure disease.” I’m pretty sure most of you have thought the same thing while watching one of these commercials. I’m pretty sure we’re all correct too.

A Man in Disorder

The dialogue below is translated from an Italian film called Pasqualino Settebellezze (Seven Beauties). It is taken from a scene set in a concentration camp bunk, where three prisoners are laying down and conversing.

Socialist: In the year 1400 there were 500 million people on earth. By the year 1850 the amount had doubled to one billion. Now we’re all extremely indignant because of the death of 20 million men, but in 200 or 300 years there’ll be a lot more of us, 30 billion or more. Anywhere you go on earth will be worse than here. That’s when men are going to butcher each other and murder an entire family for a piece of bread or an apple. And the world will end. Too bad, because I believe in man. But soon, very soon, a new man, a new man will be born. He’ll have to be civilized, not this beast who’s been endowed with intelligence and obliterated the harmony in the world and brought about total destruction just by disturbing natures equilibrium. A new man…Able to rediscover the harmony that’s within.

Pasqualino: You mean, put things in order?

Socialist: Order? No, no, the orderly ones are the Germans. No, a new man in disorder is our only hope. A new man in disorder.

Let's Impeach the President

If you haven't heard the song yet visit http://www.hyfntrak.com/neilyoung2/AFF23130/ and give it a listen.

Yeah, I know he's not even American. He's just a dumb Canuck like me, but at least he has the balls to come out and speak the truth unlike 99.99% of American musicians.

Lyrics:

Let's impeach the president for lying
And leading our country into war
Abusing all the power that we gave him
And shipping all our money out the door

He's the man who hired all the criminals
The White House shadows who hide behind closed doors
And bend the facts to fit with their new stories
Of why we have to send our men to war

Let's impeach the president for spying
On citizens inside their own homes
Breaking every law in the country
By tapping our computers and telephones

What if Al Qaeda blew up the levees
Would New Orleans have been safer that way
Sheltered by our government's protection
Or was someone just not home that day?

Let's impeach the president
For hijacking our religion and using it to get elected
Dividing our country into colors
And still leaving black people neglected

Thank god he's racking down on steroids
Since he sold his old baseball team
There's lot of people looking at big trouble
But of course the president is clean

Thank God

It's disheartening that Neil Young, Kanye West, and The Dixie Chicks are the only musicians that to my knowledge have had the courage to attack George W. Post 9/11 America is the revolution that never happened and never will happen.

America is the land of fear and the home of the slaves.

BTW, yeah don’t even bother mentioning System of A Down to me. They’re full of shit.

When the comedic mind goes too far.

Awhile back I wrote an online spoof of the television show Growing Up Gotti. I held back on having the piece published online due to a fear of being misunderstood. I would now like to publish that piece here on my very own blog. Why now? Because I’m getting pretty damn used to being misunderstood.

Enjoy!

Growing Up Hitler

Just when you thought they were all dead or hiding, they got they’re own reality show.

Growing up Hitler takes viewers into the private lives of the remaining members of the infamous Hitler family, as single mother Eva Hitler struggle’s to hide her identity and the identity of her incorrigible (Hotti Hitler) sons.

Synopsis for each episode:

Episode One: “That’s not real Chinchilla.” Johnny Hitler borrows some of his mother’s Nazi gold and buys himself a Chinchilla fur coat. Once he arrives home with the coat his mother’s (transsexual) best friend Heinz points out that the coat is not real Chinchilla.

Episode Two: “No more smoking in the house!” Eva seriously considers firing her chain-smoking handyman Franz when he accidentally falls asleep in the study and his lit cigarette sets fire to a handwritten first draft of Mein Kampf.

Episode Three: “Thanks for giving.” In this Thanksgiving episode Eva and the boys literally give thanks and invite an unsuspecting Holocaust survivor to dinner. They all have a wonderful dinner and when he departs, Eva and the boys have a good laugh about it.

Episode Four: “These boys need a good influence.” Eva is not pleased with the quality of her son’s friends so she invites Prince Harry over to spend the day with them.

Episode Five: “They’re not Jewish rims okay!” Gunter Hitler finally gets his drivers licence and buys his first SUV. His brothers laugh it up when they notice his rims are in the shape of a Star of David.

Episode Six: A Very Hitler Christmas. Eva and the boys celebrate Christmas and also get a very special visit from Governor Arnold and Pope Benedict.

Episode Seven: "Who used up all my moustache wax?" Johnny throws a fit and beats up his brothers to find out who used up all his moustache wax. Eva is not pleased.

Episode Eight (Series Finale): “I swear I didn’t know it was Nazi gold.” After much investigating by our furious viewers, the Hitler family is tracked down, forced to give up everything they own and lynched. The only ones to escape are Heinz the transsexual and Franz the handyman.

This is to every pretentious jerk who thinks he understands Pasolini.

As I type this I am watching Salo for the very first time. This film is not just about fascism. There’s just way too much anger and hatred at work in this film for it to be solely an attack on fascism. This film had to have been an attack on or insult to certain people Pasolini must have known or met personally. Being a literature buff, a mind like Pasolini’s is always looking back to stories read and characters described in those stories that resemble the people and situations surrounding him in his own life. In Salo, Pasolini uses the Marquis De Sade's 120 Days of Sodom to serve sort of as his own little production of The Murder of Gonzago. This is why he was murdered. This film is about a lot more than facism.

You may now return to your film school classes, IMDB message boards and Eraserhead viewings.

For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, click and read the articles below. Very interesting stuff.

http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2005/05/pasolini_murder.html - Pasolini murder case re-opened.

http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2005/10/pasolini_murder.html - Pasolini murder case re-shelved.