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In War We Trust.
Schtick and Blah....
America, God's shadow on Earth...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-AGCWPG6h0
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Me And The Boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tit2r9-2EI
Yemen is an exceptionally good spot to begin World War Three.
Steely Dan - Deacon Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck1N1I-LzWc
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Steely Dan – Deacon Blues Lyrics
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This is the day of the expanding man
That shape is my shade
There where I used to stand
It seems like only yesterday
I gazed through the glass
At ramblers, wild gamblers
That's all in the past
You call me a fool
You say it's a crazy scheme
This one's for real
I already bought the dream
So useless to ask me why
Throw a kiss and say goodbye
I'll make it this time
I'm ready to cross that fine line
[Chorus]
I'll learn to work the saxophone
I play just what I feel
Drink Scotch whiskey all night long
And die behind the wheel
They got a name for the winners in the world
And I want a name when I lose
They call Alabama the Crimson Tide
Call me Deacon Blues
My back to the wall
A victim of laughing chance
This is for me
The essence of true romance
Sharing the things we know and love
With those of my kind
Libations
Sensations
That stagger the mind
I crawl like a viper
Through these suburban streets
Make love to these women
Languid and bittersweet
I'll rise when the sun goes down
Cover every game in town
A world of my own
I'll make it my home sweet home
[Chorus]
This is the night of the expanding man
I take one last drag
As I approach the stand
I cried when I wrote this song
Sue me if I play too long
This brother is free
I'll be what I want to be.
chorus ....
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http://www.lyricsfreak.com/s/steely+dan/deacon+blues_20130079.html
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archdeacon (n.) Look up archdeacon at Dictionary.com
Old English arcediacon, from Church Latin archidiaconus, from Ecclesiastical Greek arkhidiakonon "chief deacon;" see arch- + deacon.
deacon (n.) Look up deacon at Dictionary.com
Old English deacon, diacon, from Late Latin diaconus, from Greek diakonos "servant of the church, religious official," literally "servant," from dia- "thoroughly" + PIE *kon-o-, from root *ken- (1) "to set oneself in motion."
conation (n.) Look up conation at Dictionary.com
in philosophical use from 1836, from Latin conationem (nominative conatio) "an endeavoring, effort," noun of action from past participle stem of conari "to endeavor, to try," from PIE *kona-, from root *ken- (1) "to set oneself in motion" (see deacon).
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=deacon+&se...
Donald Fagen said that he wrote this song referring to the Wake Forest University Demon Deacons College Football Team who was a perennial doormat to the University of Alabama's Crimson Tide College Football Team
When asked about the line, "They call Alabama the Crimson Tide, they call me Deacon Blues," Donald Fagen told Rolling Stone magazine: "Walter and I had been working on that song at a house in Malibu. I played him that line, and he said, 'You mean it's like, 'They call these cracker a--holes this grandiose name like the Crimson Tide, and I'm this loser, so they call me this other grandiose name, Deacon Blues?' and I said 'Yeah!' He said, 'Cool, let's finish it.'".
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=4042
Go ASU Sun Devils!!! (I do have some vices...)
chief servant, there the trick.
get it?
My Lai Revisited: 47 Years Later, Seymour Hersh Travels To Vietnam Site Of U.S. Massacre He Exposed
http://thenewsdoctors.com/?p=358118
Interview with Hersh, his latest article in The New Yorker and a photo essay. Thought provoking stuff. American Exceptionalism indeed.
Steely Dan - "Black Friday"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1ZV4Mx7tw8
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"Black Friday History
For millions of people Black Friday is the time to do some serious Christmas shopping --even before the last of the Thanksgiving leftovers are gone! Black Black is the Friday after Thanksgiving, and it's one of the major shopping days of the year in the United States -falling anywhere between November 23 and 29. While it's not recognized as an official US holiday, many employees have the day off -except those working in retail.
The term “Black Friday” was coined in the 1960s to mark the kickoff to the Christmas shopping season. “Black” refers to stores moving from the “red” to the “black,” back when accounting records were kept by hand, and red ink indicated a loss, and black a profit. Ever since the start of the modern Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1924, the Friday after Thanksgiving has been known as the unofficial start to a bustling holiday shopping season.
In the 1960's, police in Philadelphia griped about the congested streets, clogged with motorists and pedestrians, calling it “Black Friday.” In a non-retail sense, it also describes a financial crisis of 1869: a stock market catastrophe set off by gold spectators who tried and failed to corner the gold market, causing the market to collapse and stocks to plummet.
Why did it become so popular?" ....
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https://blackfriday.com/pages/black-friday-history
Black Thursday was also the day that Ferguson protesters got discounted pre Christmas goodies at stores that were broken into before they were set on fire.
The clowns & media are keeping significant facts & crimes concealed and important questions & charges from being tabled.
War Is Peace
Freedom Is Slavery
Debt Is Money
Bill is driving the truck, Hillary is running the winch.
Long time since I was actually in D.C. Is that the fed or the supreme court william? The fed would not use such crude weapons, or worry about defense for that matter.
Its the Fed
As a professional Art critic, I must say that your work is less than exceptional, I'm being honest Billy. You can improve if you focus more on diverse themes, visual balance and structure.
Harbanger, maybe you should post some of your own art and submit it for public evaluation.
I bet that unlike Banzai's, your art is "more than exceptional", incorporates diverse themes, and has great visual balance and structure.
I bet that unlike Banzai's, your art is boring and pretentious.
I also bet your art doesn't have that visceral, smash-mouth message that forces you to look and think about the subject matter.
What? No art?
Oh, yeah, that's right, you are just an art critic.
That is quite a quote. Thanks for sharing.
Banzai, your work is always stimulating, and it is I who am overdue to thank you for creating and sharing it.
Keep at it, critics be damned...
You know I am saving that elaboration you posted above and will put it to good use in an introduction that is being arranged for me by an old friend.
It is always nice to see that others recognize there is a whole lot more going on here than cutting and pasting faces just to make people laugh, not that there is anything wrong with that ;-)
Tnx for that.
Absolutely; use it any way you want.
I kinda went off on a rant there, but it just bothered me that a (professional?) art critic could not see one inch beyond the obvious.
There are certain things about WB7 that would annoy certain elements of the art establishment and I recognise that. ;-)
That's an excellent quotation. I had to search to see who said it (and it surprised me).
Don't be too harsh in judgment. Everyone needs to make a living (I suppose).
Personally, I enjoy WB's work precicely because he doesn't appear to be 'artsy-fartsy'. I liked 'thE scrEAm' (however it's punctuated) a couple of days back. I wish that the subject he picked wasn't so real. It scares the shit out of lots of people.
Yeah, ol' Teddy said that; Sorbonne, 1910. I see the truth in it, and try to keep it in the back of my mind; it keeps me honest and gives me perspective occasionally.
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"I enjoy WB's work precisely because he doesn't appear to be 'artsy-fartsy'"
Exactly; you absolutely nailed it. Art can be anything the creator wants it to be, compositional orthodoxy (and fucking critics) be damned.
Banzai is influenced by the Dada movement which flat-out rejected all art orthodoxies and heaped scorn on "isms" and social/political/aesthetic conventions. You do not have to take my word for it on this; he has said so himself.
Dadaists channeled their disgust with the Great War and many other things using obscenities, scatological humor, vulgarity, visual puns and everyday objects (readymades), creating "art" and thrusting it into the public's face. There was no predominant medium in Dadaist art. Everything from geometric tapestries to glass to plaster and wooden reliefs were fair game. It is important to note that assemblage, collage, photo-montage (such as the ones Banzai creates!) and the use of ready made objects all gained wide acceptance due to their use in Dada art.
Although perhaps difficult to understand, Dada was a real movement with exceptional and talented proponents, such as Duchamp, whose phenomenal (in my uneducated opinion) and somewhat cubist works, served as a catalyst for that movement's development. Dada was also a direct precursor to my personal favorite art movement: Surrealism.
It does not take an art critic to realize that Banzai's art is confrontational and is meant to have a direct impact. He seeks to provoke a response in the viewer. His method involves creating collages or montages of iconic figures and symbols loaded with meaning, twisting them, or assembling (or disassembling) them to shape his message and expose absurdities, contradictions, evil, greed, or whatever the hell he wants to do with it. His aesthetic sense is his own, and perhaps subordinate to the utility function. There is no requirement to apply "artsy fartsy" artistic conventions to what is essentially non-objective (or abstract) art; he can either do it or not. The value of the work does not rely upon it.
Much more can be said, but I have already written more than I intended to. The point of it is this:
Harbanger knows all this, because he is a professional art critic, yet he chooses to spout this nonsense-
Mother of the fuck says what???
Somewhere off in the after-world, there is a dreaming soul of a dead and forgotten artist who is deriding all this, drunk with delight, dancing in a fire lake while laughing maniacally and defiantly screaming "white to play and win!"
Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da-Da
(because Dada)
“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”
– Claude Monet
Truth.
Geddy Lee / My Favourite Headache / WORKING AT PERFEKT / 2000
"Draw a line strong and clear..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vt0eol9wq8
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wE knOw - Michelle Jarraud.
Let's be strong.
And clear.
Paris here we go...
Although I have heard the entirety of Rush's released work, I have never heard Geddy's solo stuff. Hmmm...I see the entire album is there too.
It's about time I checked it out.
Thanx!
Thank you for your input.
As you are implying that at this stage of my life I am not eneavoring to intensely study or emulate what art critics expect you are correct. I emulate what appeals to me and for the most part the artists who appeal to me disdained convention. Conversely, I am smart enough to realise that the main stream "art complex" has little use for the messages that I convey nor my methods.
That is fine with me, my viewers as well as the supporters who have my printed images. The people who get it recognise that my chief objective has never been to impress the art establishment and its benefactors.
Regarding the critical notion of exceptional, I went to Art Basel HK last week, and I am sorry to report that there are plenty of very big, expensive and pretentious fish to fry when it comes to the unexceptional.
I'm pretty damn sure you can forget about the FED commissioning a centerpiece for their lobby.
In fact, I think you can pretty much rule out most of DC as a fertile hunting ground.
You might be stuck with us wee people cast adrift on a sea of absurdity.
No one in DC has acquired a print from me.
But I know there are plenty of eyeballs there looking at my stuff ;-)
I guess that the late 19th Century Impressionism, and the consequential early to mid 20th Century Cubism does not appeal to your taste?
Personally I enjoy that "cacaphony of IMAGE" (onomatopia) which mirrors my own internal emotional chaos. So it talks to me. Perhaps you are too ordered and rigid to enjoy the violation of set boundaries and perspective. Then, again, I also enjoy the eccentric and eclectic.
Perhaps you need widen your appreciation. That will yield a greater joy in life. That is to YOUR BENEFIT.
Now I do understand that the Modern Era produces a lot of junk. I will agree with that wholeheartedly. But there are gems out there.
WB7 is one of them with his wall art style.
Perhaps it is not to your desires but it serves its purpose and demonstrates the insanity of the shredding economic, political landscape, the current order, into the blatant chaos into which it is declining.
The message is loud and clear. So sorry that it is not appealing. Perhaps it is not intended to be.
Putting aside my activist motivations, it would not surprise you to learn that what drives me is the messages of encouragement I receive publicly and privately from many such as yourself as well as those in this thread who are kind enough to hang my work on their walls.
I appreciate it very much and I do not take it lightly.
The building is Marriner Eccles. See the projec-eccles?
"Skim milk masquerades as cream" ~ Gilbert & Sullivan.
Praise the stupid,call them exceptional. Exceptionals come from our Special Education and Affirmative Action schools.
The exceptional serve their exceptional leaders, Obama and Bush. The exceptional let Janet at the Fed steal a trillion dollars a year of their money. The gods and governments praise those whom they will destroy.
I always thought the Gods drove those they would destroy mad first, but you're still right either way.
Teacher; Johnny, your in Remedial English, Remedial Math and Remedial Science. What do you plan to do with your life?
Johnny; I plan on being a Remedial Doctor!
you're. In a joke about Remedial subjects, maybe the grammar should be correct. Just saying without trying to cross into the grammar nazi camp. :-)
An apostrophe in a contraction takes the place of a letter (or letters).
The contraction "you're" would be the two words "YOU ARE".
It's YOUR life, not 'you are life', Johnny (unless you are giving high praise to a deity).
Hitler, out.
@..." The gods and governments praise those whom they will destroy."
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they know not what they do.
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brilliant comment, imho.
who is the artist that painted the WH?
Upside-down American flag/nation-in-distress? Indeed...
I very much like the first, so ironic.
The second pic!!!! Out of the Ball park...too funny
"Fire all of your guns at once and explode into space..."
we've now had two Bush presidents and maybe three. (despite comparisons to the countrary, that the Kennedy's were the Liberal political dynasty, they only ever offered one man for President; Bobby was killed during the primary, and Ted never got to the convention) so what i want to see is who is the guy pulling the chain?
I have come to believe that "exceptionalism" refers to the fact that the rules apply to everyone "EXCEPT" us, and YOU ain't one of US.
Are you not entertained? THEY'RE GETTING AWAY!