Sugarfoot

Things to do while unemployed in the summer:
1) Take up biking
2) Find animal guide
3) Ask for a bus pass in place of internship and receive background check
4) Telling friends we're going for sure hiking tomorrow every day
5) Diversifying music collection and wikipediaing everything. I recently acquired Santana's Abraxas; after reading up on the Gnostic deity, Wikipedia took yours truly to the page of Jung's "Seven Sermons to the Dead." The thought of a brilliant, renowned psychologist turning his intellect towards the understanding of mysticism, the soul and spirituality kills me. I refuse to believe he was simply losing grip with reality. His writing suggests he was still lucid--the material is concise and accessible considering it is dealing with an esoteric subject:

"Sermo VII

Yet when night was come the dead again approached with lamentable mien and said: There is yet one matter we forgot to mention. Teach us about man.

Man is a gateway, through which from the outer world of gods, daemons, and souls ye pass into the inner world; out of the greater into the smaller world. Small and transitory is man. Already is he behind you, and once again ye find yourselves in endless space, in the smaller or innermost infinity. At immeasurable distance standeth one single Star in the zenith.

This is the one god of this one man. This is his world, his pleroma, his divinity."

  

It is clear that Jung's bright mind was experiencing the extraordinary. The question remains: was he describing his loss of sanity or a divine input when he wrote The Red Book and the Seven Sermons to the Dead? "[T]here are things in the psyche which I do not produce, but which produce themselves and have their own life."

6) Read
7) Basketball every day
8) Break computer;
9) Learn how to use coffee machine
10) Run on treadmill, watch COPS 

altered states

Descent 

Ascent 

 

Dissent

ʎʇıɔ ןɐuoıʇɐuɹǝʇuı ǝɥʇ

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¡Sufre... mamón!

Hearing this song on the radio nostalgia bombed me right to the eponymous debut album from the popular 1980's band Hombres G. Those already was already familiar with Devuelveme a mi chica will be pleased with the rest of the album.  The cool, lighthearted lyrics of David Summers coupled with the occasional rock n' roll sound and 80's feel present throughout rest of the album make it an enjoyable listen.

I got that and Los Prisioneros' Corazones (of Tren al Sur fame.)

Communism, violent camerawork and surreal landscapes.

I am Cuba
"The movie's acrobatic tracking shots and idiosyncratic mise en scene prompted Hollywood directors like Martin Scorsese to begin a campaign to restore the movie in the early 1990s."

It's a shame that the Soviets didn't save a copy of the film in its original language. It might be the unfamiliarity with the Russian language, but contrasted with the overdubbed romantic sounds of my native tongue the unenthusiastic voice acting done by no more than two actors sounded harsh and only appropriate when the characters were angry. The film had a constant sense of visual surreality--most memorably in the apocalyptic scene featuring a recently disenfranchised farmer of Don Quixote quality burning his plantation and belongings in defiance towards the businessmen destroying his Cuba. The film explores the different levels of Cuban life which the film-makers perceived were being tainted through the proto-globalization of the time: morality, education, business... There were a few occasions in which native characters were depicted as a more civilized variation of the noble savage, but for the most part the film stayed away from caricaturing either side of the struggle of the valiant proletariat against the bloated bourgeoisie. 
Like many of their great works (I'm looking at you Upton Sinclair,) the film contains a pretty heavy anti-capitalist message.

That's not a knife

Flight of the Conchords. Great great stuff.
Suddenly New Zealand's "fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo" is a little more/less underground.

Here's a joke:
Q. How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

A.  It's an obscure number you've probably never heard of. POW BITCH

my sweet old etcetera

 CURATE'S EGG

 Bishop: "I'm afraid you've got a bad egg, Mr Jones"; 
Curate: "Oh, no, my Lord, I assure you that parts of it are excellent!"
"True Humility" by George du Maurier, originally published in Punch, 1895.

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"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you've got anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway." --Mother Teresa

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Friday was weird
I got 15 tickets to the Jose Luis Sin Censura show.
Went to the Huntington Library Gardens...
swaying back and forth in the breeze helps plants grow sturdier stems

  Then I cut my hair