morningambassador’s posthaven

The cats who live with me
Know when it's Furmination time.

Suspicious at first,
They've found it to be a helpful and
Pleasant experience.

Social Bonding.

Supposedly a cat has the highest
Number of facial muscles of
Any animal on earth.

I don't know whether that's true,
But I'm reading something there.
Certainly... ;)

Here are two scenes from the movie,
"Basquiat"

There are a number of good performances,
But this is one of my favorite
Benecio del Toro moveeeees.

Friendship is touching.

Friendship is a continuum.

It's a wide flat land brimming w/crystals
One works out the navigation
Of their life in that space
With charts.

On a raft in the middle of the sea.

I don't want to overexplain
I've been riffing this one
For a long time.

Here's what oliversupreme has to say about the clip he posted:
" Basquiat is a 1996 film directed by Julian Schnabel which is based on the life of American postmodernist/neo expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Basquiat, born in Brooklyn, used his graffiti roots as a foundation to create collage-style paintings on canvas.

Jeffrey Wright portrays Basquiat, and David Bowie plays Basquiat's friend and mentor Andy Warhol. Additional cast include Gary Oldman as a thinly disguised Schnabel, Michael Wincott as the poet and art critic Rene Ricard; Dennis Hopper as Bruno Bischofberger; Claire Forlani, Courtney Love and Benicio del Toro in supporting roles as "composite characters".

The film was written by Schnabel while Lech J. Majewski and John F. Bowe each receives a story credit and Michael Thomas Holman receives a story development credit.

As director, Schnabel is often found painting himself into the film by adding the fictional stand-in character, Albert Milo (Gary Oldman), based on Schnabel. Schnabel also leaves a bit more of himself in the film by adding cameo appearances by his own mother, father, and daughter (as Milo's family.) Schnabel himself is an extra as a waiter.

Basquiat died in 1988, of mixed-drug toxicity (he had been combining cocaine and heroin, known as "speedballing"). Basquiat's estate would not grant permission for his work to be used in the film. Schnabel himself did the accurate reproductions of Basquiat's work .

Jeffrey Wright as Jean-Michel Basquiat
David Bowie as Andy Warhol
Gary Oldman as Albert Milo
Michael Wincott as Rene Ricard
Benicio del Toro as Benny Dalmau
(del Toro's character, Benny, is partially based on Jaco Pastorius who was living on and off at the West 4th St. basketball courts in NYC at the time; as well as friend/former bandmate Vincent Gallo).
Claire Forlani as Gina Cardinale
Dennis Hopper as Bruno Bischofberger
Tatum O'Neal as Cynthia Kruger
Courtney Love as Big Pink
Christopher Walken as The Interviewer
Willem Dafoe as the Electrician
Parker Posey as Mary Boone
Rene Rivera as Juan
Sam Rockwell as Thug
Vincent Gallo as Himself / Party Guest"

... and friendship comes back after
Many missteps.
It can. Partly your choice.
Partly your self.
Either way...

The quixotic theme is this for me....

'Capricious and unpredictable' says

Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

Or 'foolish and overly romanticized;'

I don't think these merged authorities

Approve of such qualities

Or the blending of opposites you feel,

But what?!

Now there is a monopoloy as well

On what words are allowed to MEAN?

What one can glean?

The video and the music too:

Two sides
That go well together,
I think. Seems to be a theme:

Sad eyes glancing round

Slowed down; dancing to other sounds

Here is the best line in it all:

"The two best friends I never had..."

Mom and Dad were sky and ground.

Ends as it begins.
As it ends.

One more time around?

"Man Walking Down Dirt Road as Sky Fills with Dark Clouds From a Carbon Black Plant"
by Alfred Eisenstaedt

Carbon is one of the major components
Of Life - and nonliving matter
Composed from what was once alive.

Odd that it should also be the element,
That when burned to excess
Is one of the main components
Likely to snuff Life out... in its current form.

Maybe we actually can do something about it
Before stating about how so and so
Isn't doing things correctly.

What's your piece of the pie
When it's all ate up?
Or hers?
Or his?
Or mine?

I wish I could embed the
Following website in this post,
But I haven't figured out how
Thus, the link:

http://www.carbonfund.org/

For true due diligence -
I haven't done anything with this
Though I heard about these type
Of initiates for nearly a decade.

Though there are relatively
Few resources in my income
I am now going to see what I can do,
As even a little is better than none.

I'll keep monitoring it
Keep some awareness about it.

One person cannot be
The only icon responsible
For such a large footprint
As we have managed to make.

So many people are out there
Trying to do something
Now,
Because they feel a shift in
The wind.

I want to be one of them.

Feeling crass and lowly
For 'preaching' with hypocrisy;
At least it feels that way...

But I want to come clean,
Be honest,
And maybe turn two people's
Heads at least... including mine.

Used to go out fishing
With dear friend, P.S.

Amazing experiences
Rocking in a boat
Watching waters
Calm or tense
Always changing

I watched a newly hatched
Dragonfly emerge and
Iridescently pump its wings

I used my rod to save
Many a struggling, drowning
Bee. Gratitude in the clinging...

I have no memory of whether
I ever caught a fish.

I do recall fishing questions
On the house's new roommate
Interview questionnaire.

And lots of perch, bluefish, and
bass surgically addressed on the
Kitchen table.

Water meditation... just like today.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. --
Albert Einstein

I say this to myself.

Glittering journey. Learn and grow. I'm trying.

I love these, but I didn't know
They have them in other countries.
What fun to discover it. ;)

" This is an edited version of the popular commercial that shows two actors representing "Mac" and "PC" using the US, UK and Japanese versions. " by MacScotland

At one time, I was
Firmly a Macintonsh user
If asked, I would've touted
Them skyward.

But two grants later,
Then a school district's decision
Made it an easy moral switch
Even if not clearly a preferable one

I honestly don't know any more
Which way I would choose now
Without those other historic variables.

One thing, though...
Apple has a clever promotion going
And spends a bucket of bucks
On Research & Development too.

Alice in Wonderland

Can't wait:
Dream team
And color
In so many ways...
 
 
http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2009/06/22/johnny-depp-as-the-mad-hatter-...

It has been a long time
Since I used to sway my head
In my dark bedroom to the radio
Along with songs of Donovan.

He was there in the public eye
And apparently after on a private
Journey of his own.

Each private journey, evolution,
Development affects the whole,
I think... oh so gradually,
Bringing up the most
Important understandings.

I hope...

Though it seems that some few
Special understanders,
Genuises in their fields
Pop up here and there in time....
Rather than
A mass movement that lasts,

Perhaps enough energy will build
Through those beings over the millennium
To tip us into a different perspective

While there's time
In this form.

If not, other forms will arise,
I think....

<The first clip is Donovan on the
Smothers Brothers Concert Hour in the '60's
("Donovan performs Atlantis helped out by The Smothers Brothers, Peter Paul & Mary, Jennifer Warnes, and Mort Sahl(?) PLEASE NOTE: This is posted only as a tribute to the artists. If there is a copyright issue, please notify me and it will be promptly deleted."

The second on a reemergence in 2007
("This incredible performance DVD was recorded in front of a packed house of adoring fans at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California on January 21, 2007. On this, his first Music DVD, Donovan performed all his legendary hits and cult classics. Master filmmaker David Lynch introduced the concert held to benefit the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace; a program which funds in-school Transcendental Meditation programs for at-risk youth. Mike Love of the Beach Boys made a surprise appearance, and Donovan's daughter Astrella Celeste performed alongside her father. It was truly a magical night!