Straight into the song today, so utterly & uniquely cool:
SHE KEEPS BEES, by Jessica Larrabeeand partner LaPlant. Like coming out from the 90s rock scene, while being inspired by the 70s rock legends and then working through the 00s Jack White rock heritage.
The following things come into mind while watching & listening Larrabee singing :
1. Jim Morrison
The best justice anyone has ever given to a pair of leather pants... Jim made his leather pants from glove leather at a little leather shop on Little Santa Monica Boulevard, kept by an old tailor from Germany.
Nobody may look more ravishing than Jim Morrison and nobody can be more poetic than the man who was once inspired to write these words:
...A Vast Radiant Beach In A Cool Jeweled Moon
Couples Naked Race Down By It's Quiet Side
And We Laugh Like Soft, Mad Children
Smug In The Wooly Cotton Brains Of Infancy
The Music And Voices Are All Around Us...
His association to Larrabee is in making me feel like she is wearing leather pants while singing this, even though they are plain black jeans. If one can sing "gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme... work me like my back aint got no bones..." in this voice, is internally wearing Jim-ie leather pants.
2. Lou Doillon
Solely due to the appearance resemblance. Doillon is super cute, sure, but in no way as deep in confidence as Larrabee. Yes, she would wear an old t-shirt and black jeans, and yes, even leather trousers, but would only do that to waste it to yet another fashion statement for the suspicion, and suspicion only, of a free spirit...
Shame it is... That fashion has evolved so as to replacea personality.
And it is doing it painfully good, innit?
3. Maya & Willie
Adorable honey bees... Vague memory of my early childhood, but so sure they had their part in my growing up...
Storyline:
The premise of the anime was that Maya was tasked to collect pollen for her hive, but she ended up doing such a good job that she gathered all of the pollen around her hive, and there was none left. The queen bee then sent Maya further away from the hive in search of more pollen!
Moral lesson :
1. It only comes as natural to do "such a good job".
2. It only comes as natural to go "further away" in search of m o r e !!!
4. alcohol
Oh, how satisfactory right Jack Daniels is in this ad.... It makes you wanna pour one, doesn't it? Some C2H5OH as we would call it if we were Chemistry students, or ALCOHOL if we were all other things anyone can be.
In today's blog, listening to Larrabee's sound, this is whiskey.
My favorite is a Lagavulin
but since we're standing (we're at the SHE KEEPS BEES concert, aren't we?) a Dewars suits my taste much better!
And it does appear to suit many people's taste & creativity throughout the years, as Hemingway and Churchil among so many people would agree. Churchil might also support a confrontation like he once did to Braddock:
"Mr Churchill, you are drunk!" Braddock said harshly.
Churchill paused and said, "And Bessie, you are ugly. You are very ugly. I'll be sober in the morning."
5. marlon brando
2 reasons:
#1 His leather outfit in "the fugitive kind"
#2 For everything else about him. And I'm laying out a very small example of his predominant character, through the words of Sidney Lumet:
"Marlon Brando is a suspicious fellow. I don’t know if he bothers anymore, but Brando tests the director on the first or second day of shooting. What he does is to give you two apparently identical takes. Except that on one, he is really working from the inside; on the other, he’s just giving you an indication of what the emotion was like. Then he watches which one you decide to print. If the director prints the wrong one, the “indicated” one, he’s had it. Marlon will either walk through the rest of the performance or make the director’s life hell, or both. Nobody has the right to test people like that, but I can understand why he does that. He doesn’t want to pour out his inner life to someone who can’t see what he’s doing."
Today, December 10th is the 63rd time we are r e m i n d e d of the Human Rights we are all born with and live with. Sad it is, that "Human Rights" exist, as human rights are something nobody should ever need a reference for, but plainly taken for given.
All 30 articles of the 1948 Universal declaration of Human Rights are common sense, but since we apparently need to be reminded of them, the least I can do is lay them out here for yet another reference:
Article 1.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Article 2.
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
Article 3.
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
Article 4.
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
Article 5.
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Article 6.
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
Article 7.
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.
Article 8.
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.
Article 9.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
Article 10.
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
Article 11.
(1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
(2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.
Article 12.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
Article 13.
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
Article 14.
(1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
(2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Article 15.
(1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.
Article 16.
(1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
(3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
Article 17.
(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
Article 18.
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
Article 19.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Article 20.
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
(2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
Article 21.
(1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
(2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.
(3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.
Article 22.
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.
Article 23.
(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
Article 24.
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
Article 25.
(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
Article 26.
(1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
(2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
(3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
Article 27.
(1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
(2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
Article 28.
Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.
Article 29.
(1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
(2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
(3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Article 30.
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.
In Odyssey IX, when Odysseus and his men were blown off as Cape Malea, the southernmost tip of the Pelepennesus, they were given lotus to eat, which was so delicious that those who ate of it left off caring about home, and did not even want to go back and say what had happened to them, but were for staying and munching lotus with the lotophaguses (λωτοφάγοι ~lotus-eaters) without thinking further of their return…
Was lotus an actual fruit, or was it a mind fruit? A perspective of life, that once you become aware of, you willingly don’t want to go back to wherever it is you came from, that being a place or a situation.
Lotus is my awakening fruit then, which I would so love to generously offer to everyone who crossed my path! I would even plant it in my garden to eat it every morning along with my cheerios and kick start a rather fruitful day ;)
And to add more extreme actions to support my stance, I would even change my name to Susan!
Lotus is in a Susan?
Susan in Egyptian (sšn) means lotus flower! To top it off, we have the Hebrew meaning of Susan (Sasson) of “joyful, bright, and cheerful”.
Can the lotus wisdom be so clearly passed on through a common name we all come across? Well, let’s see the Susans here & there:
#1. Leoneard Cohen’s Susanne
After hearing this song, any girl wants to be a Susanne & any boy wants to find a Susanne. After all, who would think of feeding you tea & oranges if not Susanne?
#2. Susan Boyle
Who doesn’t question the value of judging against others after seeing this:
and as Lisa Schwarzbaum (Entertainment Weekly) so clearly puts it:
“Boyle let me feel ... the meaning of human grace.... She reordered the measure of beauty. And I had no idea until the tears sprang how desperately I need that corrective".
#3. Susan Sarandon
The living proof that you keep the spirit of lotus alive & sensual for 40 years and counting.
Hattie, Louise, Jane, Margaret, Lavinia….
#4. Sue Sylvester
Anyone who has uttered the following, needs to be in the list:
“I don't trust a man with curly hair. I can't help but picturing birds laying sulfurous eggs in there, and I find it disgusting.”
#5. Suddenly Susan
It is not the NBC sitcom that made me put this in my list, but it is that the Susan character brought Brooke Shields back to where she belongs. She was the youngest guest to appear in the Muppet Show after all...
#6. Nina Simone
Not a Susan, but definitely knows how to eat a lotus. She is also here because of a perfect Susanne cover with her Ninaism!
A Wilhelm voice is that of James Black, humming "The Wilhelm Scream", his beautiful beautiful song…
- There is no screaming though in the song !
- Oh, but there is my love…..
Black's internalWhilhelm scream is so deep it gave a rainy smell to my winter morning. Have a cup of rich black chai & dissolve your emotions hearing this:
Query #1 - When is a scream, wilhelm?
It all started (or actually, continued…) when a soldier named Private Wilhelm in The Charge at Feather River film screamed when struck by an arrow.
When it r e a l l y started was 2 years earlier in the 1951 movie Distant Drums when an unnamed soldier was attacked and dragged underwater by an alligator in the Everglades offering a startled scream !
Both men would have been forgotten for their bit parts in B-movies if it wasn't for Warner Bros, who archived the recording after Distant Drums, into the studio's sound effects library, and was re-used and re-used and re-used in a-whole-lotta Warner Bros. productions! Get a taste, it's super cute:
Query #2 - When is a scream, not wilhelm?
s c r e a m
So cathartic, yes it is... As much a part of our living day as is smiling and dancing! Try combining those 3 and you get a forever-light chest feeling after!
What is it?
s c r e a m
s h o u t
s h r i e k
h o o t
h o l l e r
v o c i f e r a t i o n
y e l l
o u t c r y
b e l l o w
as in,
a loud vocalization in which air is passed through the vocal folds with greater force than is used in regular vocalization.
You may scream deliberately or as a reaction! The core motive, in essentially all situations, is indeed....
c o m m u n i c a t i o n
!
You want & you need to communicate your
f e a r
s u r p r i s e
h a p p i n e s s
d i s p l e a s u r e
o u t r a g e
p a i n
and yes, even b o r e d o m
indeed...
Communication is magic, and so is the amazing effect a scream can have.
Superbly rich, one can produce so many different screams, that words are even dispensable.
Query #3 - When is a scream, a poem ?
When Robert Lowell writes "The Scream",
a poem so internally but also so externally loud...
Is it really that simple? To tell the truth? To hear the truth? To feel the truth?
Let's reveal #1, the l i t e r a l truth:
Anglosaxon version:
Truth: ~noun, [trooth]; “the state of being in accord with fact or reality".
Greek version:
Aletheia: ~noun, [αλήθεια]; “the state of not being hidden; the state of being evident”.
what about #2, the l i v i n g truth ?
...Pinocchio of course...
One personality I’d l o v e to hear chat about it, here on my couch, over a bottle of Riesling (to pay respect to Pinocchio's German roots of course...). Poor baby, he s t r u g g l e s with the effects of truth (or shall I say, its lack of!) from day 1, in 1883.
Isn’t is p r a c t i c a l for him? That he has his cute nose watching over his not lying?
Not more than it is for everyone. Pinocchio has a nose to verify a non-truth, we simply have our conscious.
#3, the w i s e truth?
I do not have Pinocchio’s thought on the truth, but I do have some other interesting personalities’ sayings about it! Read with me:
“Truth is such a rare thing, it is delighted to tell it”
heroic Emily Dickinson
“Art is a Lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the Truth that is given to us to understand”
pioneer Picasso
“There are only 2 mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting”
beloved Buddha
“Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth”
exemplary Ghandi
…dear Ghandi… how refreshingly simple, the way you always put things.
one cannot ignore #4, the e r o t i c truth . . .
SO LAME.....
I apologize to the you who find this "simple truth" cute, but for me this is just lame.
It is another way to pretend men & women are different species, so as to support the biggest marketing fraud of "men are from mars, women are from venus" brand, and to provide an alibi for lazy people not wanting to deal with their partners' truth. So un-true, honestly...
and #5 ! All those people constantlys e e k i n g truth !
Seeking truth, as a lifelong spirituality & goal. Is it really something that needs or can be searched? So intensely? Isn’t it really here? Like… right h e r e ?
Right now, I can say something or think something or feel something and k n o w if it’s the truth.
Is it as easy?
Yes.
When you are True to the way you let your mind pave the path of its thoughts :)
