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Spin

John Barents used to have a chair in his appartment on Orkney road. It was many years ago. The chair would allow someone in it to spin. And so a friend of ours, KT, the very awesome blond girl from Hingham (who had been to LA and maybe was the subject of an Aerosmith song) used to sit in the chair and spin in it saying "spin spin spin". I think you could even ahve two people in the chair and do it. I would sit there and do it too. John would be like " Cut this nonsense out." but more truculent than that. He would sometimes flip out because all kinds of different people would come over and drink all his beers, etc, play music that he didn't want to hear, and take over his life for hours on end. He was on the first floor and you could just bang on the wall and wake him up if he feel asleep.

John is an artist. He has let me use his art work on this site. He would like to sell the pictures. Here is the Barent's Carousel, which features his work. It is a page that is not final, so it does change. Hopefully you see it spining around in your browser if you go to it.

The special effects that I have going on on this site now are very experimental. People like it but they aren't trying to buy anything here. It would be annoying to have these kinds of effects, say, on Ebay. When you try to click to bid the screen would seem to shake.

 Geesh, I've flown far and away today,
       haven't I?

ON CINEMA

I know someone who downloads movies that he shouldn't. I told him that the cable companies are going to be doing a new thing where they send out warning letters. I told him he was making a lot of money: why doesn't he just get Netflicks and get the movies legally? He says that the movies aren't out yet. He does have NetFlick.

I have said for years that movies should have a way to allow for people who watch them in a way that is questionable (a torrent is illegal for that.) to pay for the viewing. For example if I go over there and get to see Argo before it available on NetFlick then ought I not be able to pay for it in some way to appease my tortured conscious? I might feel tortored sitting through the whole movie and by the end of it be so upset at it that I won't want to pay for it or maybe I will really like it. It ought not to matter if I liked it or not: If I agreed to sit down and watch a copy of it, even if I don't like it, shouldn't I pay for it?

It is stealing, it really is, to download a movie and watch it before it should be available. But it happens. And anyone who is there incidentally, when others do this, and watch 'illegal' copies of movies, all of those who have a conscious are given no way to pay for the privledge of watching a fine movie, perhaps Argo. (I have not seen Argo though I do like Aflek and loved him in Chasing Amy, and love Kevin Smith and think Kevin is beautiful and always have).But there isn't een a way to pay for it. They don't give a paypal account that I could email funds to. There is no address in Burbanki where I could send a posstal money order for the privledge of watching some illegal movie.

I kind of do want to see Argo. I could have hung out and watched it the other night but I didn't. I left because I thought it was wrong to watch it without paying. Actually I just needed to leave.

Take me
   take me out
  take me out of the
   out of the 
  out of the way of
       ferryman
    who is coming
      to get me.

  Give me please,
     so please
     for me
  just one more season
 to sing your praise
   all day
  and on
      and on
          and on
    into the evening.

 Take me home
  to my shore house.
   Take me down
      below the waves of the bay
  where the water is colder than heartbreak
     and the weather is volitile
   just wait
     not even a little while
   those storms
     those ever coming storms
   march along the sea
      and sky.
       

I got nothing more

January 27th, 2013

some day
      this guitar will play
   oh yay! 
   some day.
   hey hey hey hey.
    some day.

I'm working on it in my mind, thinking about how to make the music play and the strings to twang along.

Praise the Lord for his unfailing love.

    Praise the Lord just because you love Him!

Praise the Lord!

You know Favorite movie lines? If I took all of the nonsense out of my sights I'd probably have to delete half of them.

here is something from 2009? or so

   I was blind to red.
 I couldn't see the blood
      they caused
  with Agrression
       pretending to be
          passive --
       smashes on the highway --
      Royal heads rolling
        on a gravel lot --

  And so I stood by
   afraid to speak
        against
             the tyrannts --

  "See me see me
       I raise no fist."

  they say while
       they burn down 
       an orchard.                                                         

a little bit dark.