Bieberverse Diner: thoughts/music

[Strange Shadows]

thoughts accompanied by music

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"I don't care if it hurts/just so long as it's real."

what i enjoyed about NYC -- among other stuff -- was this feeling of sleeplessness. you could leave your rat hole, venture into the streets at night, and undoubtedly there would be something going on. what i enjoyed about arizona were the comforts of family. and when i think of oxford, places up-north, too, i have nothing inside. the people you meet in this industry [academia] are rather trite when things become real, but maybe like kurtz . . . there's a conflict in my heart, and it wouldn't have mattered.

also, i don't know the point of this thread. i just want to see the pairing of music and thoughts of people who frequent this forum (which, incidentally, is about 10 people). serious, or light, it doesn't matter.

 

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"I have my freedom/but I don't have much time. . ."

i was thinking about creating a thread in the war room here, in response to the BLM hysteria, with research, pondering, and a point (when defining a terrorist, the word in itself doesn't castrate their being), but upon reading some of the threads, and remembering the division, i gave up.

here are some clippings though:

“de Quervain et al. (2004) showed that individuals punish social transgressors even when it is quite costly to the punisher, and they reported evidence that this altruistic behavior was driven by deep subcortical brain activity that may have overruled the more rational cortex”

moreover:

“Post, Sprinzak, and Denny (2003) conducted semistructured interviews with thirty-five incarcerated Mid-dle Eastern extremists, including twenty-one Islamic religious terrorists from Hamas and its armed wing, Izz a-Din al-Qassam, Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah, as well as fourteen secular terrorists from Fatah. Most had a high school education; some had additional schooling. (However, the subgroup of suicide bombers among the Palestinians was described as ages seventeen to twenty-two, "uneducated, unemployed, unmarried.") Most came from respected families that supported their activism, with 30 percent of the families of religious terrorists and 15 percent of the families of secular terrorists reporting their own radical involvement. Peer influence was cited as the major reason for joining a terrorist group, and joining increased social standing. Membership was described as being associated with a fusion of the young adult's individual identity with the group's collective identity and goals."

 

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going through the day: moving between iraq, and then pakistan, our love becomes the shade of white wine. the passion -- missing. and it becomes an itch under the skin.

on a lighter note, i prefer white bread over wheat. wheat bread looks funny after you shit it out; there is not enough chemicals. @Which Doctor

 

[Which Doctor]

going through the day: moving between iraq, and then pakistan, our love becomes the shade of white wine. the passion -- missing. and it becomes an itch under the skin.

on a lighter note, i prefer white bread over wheat. wheat bread looks funny after you shit it out; there is not enough chemicals. @Which Doctor

 

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kaiser rolls are better for throwing

 

[Which Doctor]

kaiser rolls are better for throwing

Tell that to Brett Favre or John Elway (& Jonah Lomu?). Also, Ninjas are pretty slick w/ toasted slices.

 

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Tell that to Brett Favre or John Elway (& Jonah Lomu?). Also, Ninjas are pretty slick w/ toasted slices.

okay, here's a legit question: what is the best food for throwing (with the intention to hurt someone)?

 

[Which Doctor]

okay, here's a legit question: what is the best food for throwing (with the intention to hurt someone)?

Depends on the eater. If we are talking standard food...

...maybe mexican corn ftw?

 

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Depends on the eater. If we are talking standard food...

...maybe mexican corn ftw?

mexican corn is deathly hollows

 

[Which Doctor]

mexican corn is deathly hollows

That's me on Saturday mornings. They even got the moobs perfect.

 

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"I drove you home/then you moved away. . ."

recently, like a couple hours ago, i watched a documentary i had been meaning to watch for some time: going clear (HBO). the film, although an accurate portrayal of scientology, is more a re-hashing/less comprehensive documentary than i would have expected. their big drawing point was their celeb testimonies, of which they had two, and so it doesn't get a great review from me. @Dragonlordxxxxx

6/10.

during a bout of ineptitude, just before UFC 200 -- the final stinky turd of ZUFFA, i wrote out this long message to my ex GF who resides in france. clarity persisted though. the message was deleted. two hours later, however, she sent me four texts. i, of course, told her it's best we don't speak.

the heart is a swamp. we are always wading through something, anything, but it's endless [until our end]. that is what makes life a conquest...a campaign of ambivalence.

sometimes i want to go into the forest with a glock 18, so that i am able to kill big foot and shortly thereafter receive worldwide fame and fortune.

 

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our world increased, and such an increase lead to progress for all, but it it, too, made it so that everyone can be touched by hatred, discomfiture, and absolute loserdom. . . the past became ammunition, and the present turned into a firing pin, as such we -- the world -- are faced with some tough days ahead, some tough decisions.

i still have hope though.

today, however, we think of the 84 who had their lives cut short. . . they will never have to know the grief they've left behind -- the pain induced by love.

life can be so random. i am at a crossroads. six months ago i was staying in france, thinking about living there, and today is unknown.

 

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"I am never the first to know/following this stream up-north. . ."

"Most published psychological theories explain terrorism as the product of group psychology within idiosyncratic subcultures that coalesce in reaction to circumstances they perceive as intolerable (Taylor and Ryan 1988; Friedland 1992; Hoffman 1998; Merari 1998; Levine 1999; Post 2004; Sageman 2004)." @Mike90 @Kafir-kun

i like this sub-forum. it's nice and quiet.


last night i watched a spike lee film: inside man. i would say from start to finish it was probably lee's best film. it has a great cast, and a decent story, with curious shots that you wouldn't expect to see in a film. there is a scene where denzel's character is seen moving forward without moving his legs, as though he were transcending, before he starts raging at the bank robbers. very odd. @Dragonlordxxxxx

7/10.

i also saw the final cut. In the film they develop this technology, which probably took decades to perfect and reach the masses, only to use it for 'rememory' -- the end of life movie edited by cutters. It's like using Vereshchagin paintings as clip-art...the world they've created on screen is boring, and not what anyone wants to see, so it's hard to care about any story thread within the film.

Spoiler: break

The Red Green breakdown of the film: the corporation which installs these memory capturing devices in the heads of people has a phile on their team. When their phile lawyer dies, a group of anti-memory-recording-device people, who tattoo their faces in order to block the device from recording (I don't know. . .I just don't know) somehow know he was a phile and want the video in order to expose them. Allan Hakman (Robin Williams) has been given the job, though, and wont be convinced to hand it over, especially after he sees someone from his past while editing the phile's rememory: a man he met when he was a kid visiting a small town (the kid gets injured in a barn and Hakman leaves him to die).

Overall, Robin isn't all that bad; he plays the lowly, isolated worker well, not unlike his role in One Hour Photo (a much better film), so watch if you enjoy his movies. The rest of the actors leave something to be desired for; the film is one layer away from being a made-for-TV film on UPN, and without Robin would've been a giant turd. Final verdict: skip or turn on when your girlfriend wants to watch a film because you'll end up having sex out of boredom. @BeardotheWeirdo @Bullitt68

4/10

sitting at my desk. i need some spice. @Which Doctor



doesn't that look like older sting without makeup

 

[Which Doctor]

"I am never the first to know/following this stream up-north. . ."

"Most published psychological theories explain terrorism as the product of group psychology within idiosyncratic subcultures that coalesce in reaction to circumstances they perceive as intolerable (Taylor and Ryan 1988; Friedland 1992; Hoffman 1998; Merari 1998; Levine 1999; Post 2004; Sageman 2004)." @Mike90 @Kafir-kun

i like this sub-forum. it's nice and quiet.


last night i watched a spike lee film: inside man. i would say from start to finish it was probably lee's best film. it has a great cast, and a decent story, with curious shots that you wouldn't expect to see in a film. there is a scene where denzel's character is seen moving forward without moving his legs, as though he were transcending, before he starts raging at the bank robbers. very odd. @Dragonlordxxxxx

7/10.

i also saw the final cut. In the film they develop this technology, which probably took decades to perfect and reach the masses, only to use it for 'rememory' -- the end of life movie edited by cutters. It's like using Vereshchagin paintings as clip-art...the world they've created on screen is boring, and not what anyone wants to see, so it's hard to care about any story thread within the film.

Spoiler: break

The Red Green breakdown of the film: the corporation which installs these memory capturing devices in the heads of people has a phile on their team. When their phile lawyer dies, a group of anti-memory-recording-device people, who tattoo their faces in order to block the device from recording (I don't know. . .I just don't know) somehow know he was a phile and want the video in order to expose them. Allan Hakman (Robin Williams) has been given the job, though, and wont be convinced to hand it over, especially after he sees someone from his past while editing the phile's rememory: a man he met when he was a kid visiting a small town (the kid gets injured in a barn and Hakman leaves him to die).

Overall, Robin isn't all that bad; he plays the lowly, isolated worker well, not unlike his role in One Hour Photo (a much better film), so watch if you enjoy his movies. The rest of the actors leave something to be desired for; the film is one layer away from being a made-for-TV film on UPN, and without Robin would've been a giant turd. Final verdict: skip or turn on when your girlfriend wants to watch a film because you'll end up having sex out of boredom. @BeardotheWeirdo @Bullitt68

4/10

sitting at my desk. i need some spice. @Which Doctor



doesn't that look like older sting without makeup

Toronto, in all it's cultural glory.

 

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Toronto, in all it's cultural glory.

 

[Which Doctor]

 

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frank thomas

and gary chef

my two fav. swings of all-time

 

[Which Doctor]

frank thomas

and gary chef

my two fav. swings of all-time

I liked Tony Fernandez and Ernie Whitt's swings...

 

[BeardotheWeirdo]

Toronto, in all it's cultural glory.

I don't know why I got mentioned in this thread... but here's a painted moose, the height of culture in Toronto

 

[Which Doctor]

I don't know why I got mentioned in this thread... but here's a painted moose, the height of culture in Toronto