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Hello everyone, it's been a while but I hope to be more active on LJ in the near future.
Check out my new illustration and fine art website:



Thanks to Kain Productions for helping me develop and code my site.
Take care everyone and thanks for your support.
-Cloxboy

RENT is cool, dang it. :)
And now some lyrics to one of the better songs....

La Vie Boheme
from RENT

ANGEL
Who died?

BENNY
Our Akita

ANGEL, ROGER & COLLINS
Evita

BENNY
You make fun - yet I'm the one
Attempting to do some good
Or do you really want a neighborhood
Where people piss on your
Stoop every night?
Bohemia, Bohemia's
A fallacy in your head
This is Calcutta,
Bohemia is dead

MARK
Dearly beloved we gather here to say our goodbyes

COLLINS & ROGER
Dies irae - dies illa, Kyrie eleison
Yitgadal v'yitkadash

MARK
Here she lies, no one knew her worth
The late great daughter of Mother Earth
On these nights when we
Celebrate the birth
In that little town of Bethlehem
We raise our glass - you bet your ass to -
La vie Boheme

ALL
La vie Boheme
La vie Boheme
La vie Boheme
La vie Boheme

MARK
To days of inspiration
Playing hookey, making
Something out of nothing
The need to express-
To communicate,
To going against the grain,
Going insane, going mad
To loving tension, no pension
To more than one dimension,
To starving for attention,
Hating convention, hating pretension
Not to mention of course,
Hatind dear old Mom and Dad
To riding your bike,
Midday past the three-piece suits
To fruits - to no absolutes-
To Absolut - to choice-
To the Village Voice-
To any passing fad
To being an us for once ... instead of a them!!

ALL
La vie Boheme, La vie Boheme

MR. GREY
Ahhemm

MAUREEN
Hey Mister - she's my sister

WAITER
So that's five miso soup, four seaweed salad
Three soy burger dinner, two tofu dog platter
And one pasta with meatless balls

ROGER
Eww

COLLINS
It tastes the same

MIMI
If you close your eyes

WAITER
And thirteen orders of fries
Is that it here?

ALL
Wine and beer!

MIMI & ANGEL
To hand-crafted beers
Made in local breweries
To yoga, to yogurt, to rice and beans and cheese
To leather, to dildoes, to curry vindaloo
To huevos rancheros and Maya Angelou

MAUREEN & COLLINS
Emotion, devotion, to causing a commotion
Creation, vacation

MARK
Mucho masturbation

MAUREEN & COLLINS
Compassion, to fashion, to passion when it's new

COLLINS
To Sontag

ANGEL
To Sondheim

FOUR GIRLS
To anything taboo

COLLINS & ROGER
Ginsberg, Dylan Cunnigham and Cage,

COLLINS
Lenny Bruse

ROGER
Langston Hughes

MAUREEN
To the stage

BOHEMIANS
To Uta. To Buddha. Pablo Neruda, too.

MARK & MIMI
Why Dorothy and Toto went over the rainbow
To blow off Auntie Em

ALL
La vie Boheme

MR. GREY
Sisters?

MAUREEN & JOANNE
We're close

ANGELS & COLLINS
Brothers!

MARK, ANGEL & MIMI
Bisexuals, trisexuals, homo sapiens,
Carcinogens, hallucinogens, men,
Pee Wee Herman
German wine, turpetine, Gertrude Stein
Antoniotti, Bertolucci, Kurosawa
Carmina Burana

ALL
To apathy, to entropy, to empathy, ecstacy
Vaclav Havel - The Sex Pistols, 8BC
To no shame - never playing the Fame Game

COLLINS
To marijuana

ALL
To sodomy, it's between God and me
To S & M

BENNY
Waiter ... Waiter ... Waiter ....... Waiter!

ALL
La vie Boheme

COLLINS
In honor of the death of Bohemia an impromptu salon
will commence immediately following dinner ...
Maureen Johnson, just
back from her spectacular one-night engagement at the eleventh street lot,
will perform Native American tribal chants
backwards through her vocoder, while accompanying herself on the electric cello -
which she ain't never studied.

ROGER
And Mark Cohen will preview his new documentary about his inability
to hold an erection on the high holy days.

MARK
And Mimi Marquez, clad only in bubble wrap,
will perform her famous lawn chair-handcuff dance to the sounds of iced tea
being stirred.
And Roger will attempt to write a bittersweet, evocative song.
That doesn't remind us of "Musetta's Waltz!"

COLLINS
Angel Dumott Schunard will model the latest fall fashions
from Paris while accompanying herself on the 10 gallon plastic pickle tub.

ANGEL
And Collins will recount his exploits as anarchist -
including the tale of the successful reprogramming of the M.I.T.
virtual reality equipment to self-destruct, as it broadcasts the words

ALL
"Actual reality - Act Up - Fight AIDS"

Current Mood: amused

We need more Hicks in this world, no..not those kinds of hicks.
If you don't know who he is, it's time you found out.
Go to this site: http://www.billhicks.com/

Current Mood: calm

I watched the 1968 film 'The Producers' today, good film. It was really funny and I was surprised at how insane it was, especially for 1968. It stars Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder. The funniest part of the movie for me was when this character Lorenzo St. DuBois (aka LSD) sang the song "Love Power", it's so messed up.

Here is a link to the actual song 'Love Power', take a listen, it's funny: http://www.moviequotequiz.com/othersounds/LovePower.wav


Dick Shawn who played LSD

Here is part of the song "Love Power" sang in the movie:

Love, Love Power
I'm talking about, Love Power
The power of a, little flower

You don't think about the little flowers
On no, all you think about is guns
If everybody in the world today had a flower instead of a gun
There would be no wars
There would be one big smell-in.

Other strange movies I just saw were Psych Out and The Trip, also from 1968, two very interesting films. Jack Nicholson wrote The Trip and stars in Psych Out, he plays a character called "Stoney" haha, he's such a hippie. They're funny if not informative.


Jack Nicholson as Stoney in Psych Out

Current Mood: happy

It's creative and it's silly, listen:
http://pattonoswalt.com/spew2005/121505/ChipmunksMash-Up.mp3

I'm sure some of you know this already, but I really want to rant right now:

Capitalism is good for poverty according to capitalism.org. I don't agree with that theory, do you agree with it? You can read about it here: http://www.capitalism.org/faq/poverty.htm

What do you think is more important, profit or people? I think this quote from capitalist.org answers which is more important to capitalists:

"Is the fact that one is poor, a justification to rob the rich? That a man does not have riches and another does, is no excuse for the first to rob the latter -- neither is it a moral justification for the state to rob the first for the benefit of the latter."

Capitalism can't survive without poverty (and you don't need to take an economics course to figure this out, you can easily find this information on the Internet). As I've come to know it, capitalism sustains poverty because without a poor population, you have a confident and healthy working class population. A healthy working class population will demand higher wages, which means less profits for the business class, so capitalists can't let that happen, at least not for long.

This may lead you to ask "..wouldn't a healthy working class be good for economic growth?"

Sure, but not if you're at the top of the business class ladder, you wouldn't be stinking rich anymore. When there is a lot of economic growth in a capitalist government, the middle class gets bigger and wages go up, which means profits go down for the business class, as I've said. The capitalists won't let this happen for long. So to get the capitalist agenda back on track and keep the poverty level up, a big economic downfall is needed, be it a stock market crash via high interest rates OR a big ol' expensive WAR!! That's right, a war. The weapons and defense needed for a war cost America a lot of money, also, people dying cost money, aid cost money, war is expensive and people go broke because of it. Guess who suffers most from this war debt? The working class of course, which leads to a poverty increase. There is no better way to make the working class poorer than getting involved in a war. The working class majority will agree with and pay for a war out of fear of terrorism or military threat....hmm, this sounds familiar.

Why am I telling you all this? Because I think you should all know that our capitalist US government is keeping the rich people rich (if not making them richer) and the poor people poor. Capitalism isn't about survival of the fittest, it's about sustaining corporate idealism. We're being forced to play out someone else's plan, someone else's idea of what's right and many people are blind to how it's hurting our freedoms. It's pretty messed up that this is going on, but anyway, so goes my FYI.

Current Mood: curious

I'm reverting back to my teenage ways and posting song lyrics that I just can't get out of my head, it reminds me so much of someone special to me. Even if you're not a fan of Staind, you might consider giving this song a shot. You actually have to hear the song, it supports the lyrics very well. ;)

Artist : Staind
Song : Right Here

I know I've been mistaken
But just give me a break and see the changes that I've made
I've got some imperfections
But how can you collect them all and throw them in my face

But you always find a way to keep me right here waiting
You always find the words to say to keep me right here waiting
And if you chose to walk away I'd still be right here waiting
Searching for the things to say to keep you right here waiting

I hope you're not intending
To be so condescending it's as much as i can take
and you're so independent
you just refuse to bend so I keep bending till I break

But you always find a way to keep me right here waiting
You always find the words to say to keep me right here waiting
And if you chose to walk away I'd still be right here waiting
Searching for the things to say to keep you right here waiting

I've made a commitment
I'm willing to bleed for you
I needed fulfillment
I found what I need in you

Why can't you just forgive me
I don't want to relive all the mistakes I've made along the way
But I always find a way to keep you right here waiting
I always find the words to say to keep you right here waiting

But you always find a way
To keep me right here waiting
You always find the words to say to keep me right here waiting
And if I chose to walk away would you be right here waiting
Searching for the things to say to keep me right here waiting

Current Mood: weird
Current Music: Staind - Right Here

This is my first entry, let me be honest with you..
I am neurotic, intuitive, introverted, indecisive, insecure, emotional, passive-aggressive, artsy, liberal, crazy, romantic...let's end the list there for now. Tomorrow is Halloween, isn't that swell?

Current Mood: creative
Current Music: opera - various artists