He is the perfect fantasy politician. He is America's very own Princess Obama.

But, of course, the belief that a handsome prince can magic away the troubles of the world is infantile. The idea that there is a new kind of sanitised politics by which problems can be solved without having to make hard choices is a dangerous delusion.

To be fair, there are signs that light may be beginning to dawn in America. Despite - or perhaps because of - the saturation media coverage of Obama's world tour, his poll numbers are showing no bounce.

This may be because people are beginning to see the media manipulation, with Obama refusing to answer journalists' questions and participating only in 'faked' interviews by the military in Iraq [...]

The emphasis is ours, all ours.

Mark Kilmer has a lot to say about Obama's bouncelessness in a www.redstate.com blog burst titled Why no bounce for Barack Obama?---Everyone's raving about his triumphant trip!

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I have always understood why Mark David Chapman did what he did. Understand me: I in no way condone or admire it. But I do understand it. I know what dark place it came from, what elaborate logic held sway over his mind. I think the double blessing/curse of the writer is to truly understand why people do the things they do. It has nothing to do with moral judgement. I don’t believe in moral judgement when it comes to writing, or observing people. I was talking with my favourite Aunt on the telephone the other night, and she said an odd, interesting thing to me. She said: “The worst thing I can think of would be to be able to see things from everyone’s side.” And I laughed, and said: “Auntie, that is my greatest gift. That gift is the reason I might believe in God.” And she said: “I don’t envy you that. I can’t think of anything worse.” When I watching the movie last night, that conversation played itself back to me on the reel to reel of my mind. I knew that I understood Mark David Chapman, even if I didn’t like him or agree with him. I still had to understand his motives, and how the world looked from his eyes. And I was glad I could understand him, no matter how painful it was. That is the sort of understanding I want to bring to my work.

I write without condoning or judging or damning my characters for what they do or say. I simply record, a glorified Dictaphone. I know not everyone writes this way. Nor am I saying that they should. My friend Richard and I have been having a conversation on this topic lately, suspended for the moment because I am thinking it through, the things he thinks and the things I think about it. We wholeheartedly disagree on the subject, I think, which is fun—it puts the necessary ginger into our dialogue. I don’t want to be agreed with all the time. What fun would that be? As long as we both have good ideas, and reasoning behind them, it doesn’t matter if we agree. I would rather disagree with someone who has arrived at his or her conclusions through the same agonies of pontification and human experience that I have, than agree with someone who pulls theories directly from a nether orifice.

I wonder what other writers feel. Do they take a moral stance in their writing? Do they wish to reflect that moral stance through their writing, or to repress it in order to write with what my old writing prof used to call “The Invisible Hand”? Do writers wish to be present in their work, or to hide in the belfry, safely out of sight? For me, I want to hide. I don’t want to be identified, except perhaps thematically and stylistically. But not ethically. I may write about a feminist, for instance, or a misogynist, or a Scientologist, for example—but it must never be assumed from the writing that I am any of those things, even if I am. I don’t think I want to use my writing for any platform other than human experience. What people do and say. But not why (at least not from my own perspective of why). Not whether or not they ought to. Just that they do. People usually do what they do, thinking they do it from a specific motive and reasoning, when in fact they aren’t even sure why they do what they do, or are not consciously aware of it.

I have theories, of course, about human behaviour. I have buckets of them. But I am more interested in how those inclinations and motivations manifest: the result, rather than the cause. The reader can work out why s/he thinks the characters in my stories do what they do. I hate the way people always ascribe the actions and motives of the characters to the write herself, as if by being able to write about something, being able to imagine something, that makes you the progenitor of all the things done and said in the body of the story. That is like blaming a projectionist for the content of the films he is paid to show. I am a projectionist. That is all.

Is that true? Is that all I am? Today, that is my theory. Tomorrow, who knows. I am a strange character. Blame my maker, if that will make you feel better about it.

But then I wonder if it is really existentially viable to remove all blame from the writers for their creations. People don’t like to do that for God, when they believe in God. And ought we really to let ourselves off the hook like that? Parents are blamed for how their children turn out, and I have often said that my stories are what I birth instead of children. And if you take instances where a book has been said to have been a profound catalyst for disaster, like Catcher in the Rye was, and like Rage by Stephen King, which was voluntarily taken out of print by its author in the wake of school shootings that seemed to mimic those in the book, even down to certain dialogue reinactments. Of course, I am not saying we should “blame” Salinger or King for the sorts of off-kilter minds that would seize upon works of literature and use them as holy writ in their macabre crusades. But it begs the question, for me at least, of how it would feel to have been the author of a work of literature that helped to inspire such acts.

Of course, I think if it had not been those books in question, it would have been something else. Like Mark David Chapman himself said, if he “couldn’t get Lennon”, he had a back-up list of other people, including Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, George C. Scott and Johnny Carson. So even he understood that his intentions were his own, and that the murder itself was symbolic. It didn’t even have to be John Lennon. By that logic, it didn’t have to be Catcher in the Rye either, thought no doubt Chapman would react rather adversely to that logic. For him. Catcher in the Rye is the one, the only. But is it really? Could it not have been some other character? Did it have to be Holden Caulfield?

My point is, writers write what they do without any idea what sort of impact their work will have. For most of us, it is none. I often battle the envy demon when I think about works like Catcher, which has become a cult, a legend. It has become history. Was the price too high, when one considers the acts that have been done it its name, acts like the shooting on Lennon, and is it too high a price to pay? What would Salinger say to that, one wonders. If he had a chance to take the book back, to save one man, would he do it? Would any of us?

If we aren’t responsible for what we write in any way, it follows that we are allowed to take no credit for our work either. It is a terrible paradigm, the paradigm that every parent knows. You cannot take what parts you like, and credit yourself, unless you are as willing to take the parts you are ashamed of, and swallow them whole.

I still want to be J.D Salinger. I wouldn’t take it back either. Mark David Chapman or no Mark David Chapman. What kind of person does that make me, besides an honest one? Does it make just another immoral slave to Art for Art’s sake? Maybe. If so, so be it. I am what I have chosen, for good or for ill. Perhaps Mark David Chapman would even understand me back (Scary Movies, as my Favourite Aunt would say), though no doubt he would have something (murderous) to say about my grandiose ambitions. That from a guy who thinks he is a legendary fictional character and used his insignificant life to destroy the most famous man on the planet.

I think I can safely say "Whatever." :o}

]]> http://thecountryshrink.wordpress.com/?p=129 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:12:51 +0000 thecountryshrink http://thecountryshrink.wordpress.com/?p=129 There is a theory in psychology that says that we learn how to think about ourselves by what other people think of us (The Looking Glass Self).  This is somewhat of a different way of saying, "You believe what other people think about you."  Or an even deeper level, "You believe what you think other people think about you."

Now there is some truth to the notion.  But it's hardly the whole picture.  It ignores the fact that we develop the ability to accept or reject feedback from other people.  And, we invent feedback that is not spoken.  This invented feedback is an interesting thing.  Where does it come from?  It comes from the person's own mind.  On some level, this is what they believe about themselves.  This is the psychological defense mechanism of projection. 

It is important to consider feedback from other people.  Sometimes, we need to make some changes in how we see the world, how we think, and how we act.  But, we need to keep in mind the difference between what is spoken by another person, "You need to work harder," and what is projected, "She thinks I'm a lazy bum."  We have a natural tendency to want to take the perspective of another person.  And this is an essential part of our humanity.  But...but....here's the catch.  This is a place where our own conscious or unconscious thoughts about ourselves can be transferred to other people. 

Maybe you've heard a saying similar to this:

"His opinion and 75 cents will buy me a cup of coffee."

Now, some people seem almost completely immune to receiving, or responding to, feedback.  These are people at the extremes...Extremely paranoid, extremely dependent, extremely independent, extremely ineffective, or extremely effective individuals.  Sometimes, this immunity to feedback from others can be very adaptive (for extremely effective and extremely independent people).  But other times it is very maladaptive, for the rest of the folk.  So, if you are very effective in your life (you have a successful career, relationships, and are able to enjoy yourself), and don't put a lot of stock in the feedback of others, you're doing fine.   But if you fall into any of the other categories, there may be a problem.

Some people have an excessive desire to please others.  These people tend to be more dependent, and often engage in anticipatory projection, "If I don't please everyone, they will hate me."  Some people are paranoid, "Everyone hates me and is out to do me in."  Again, this is projection, and a distortion in thinking called "Mind Reading."  The excesively dependent person also does a lot of mind reading, but not as extreme.  Extremely ineffective people will excessively apply a variation of the quote above, "I'm just creative.  I don't have to fit in.  Work is for 'squares.'" 

So, the most important thing is being able to be flexible.  There will be times when you accept actual feedback, and there will be times when you reject actual feedback.  And by that, I mean what people actually say.  Not what you imagine they say--not what you read in their minds from your own thinking.  There are times when you will want to accept and respond to feedback, "She's got a point.  I need to change."  And, there are times when you may think, "His opinion and 75 cents will buy me a cup of coffee."  One way you can determine whether the feedback is something you want to respond to is evaluating the personality of the person giving the feedback.  Do they fly off the handle with everyone?  Do they always give negative feedback to everyone?  Is their opinion respectable?  Do they seem to know what they are talking about?  Or, is it just something about them as an individual that caused them to give the feedback they did?

Now, I've focused mostly on accepting or rejecting negative feedback here.  I'll write a future post on accepting or rejecting positive feedback.

And that has been The Dark Knight.  I am excited, I have been very excited, for about a year, or since the day I heard about Heath Ledger being cast as The Joker. As the release date approached however, I found myself feeling an anxiety about the movie. Perhaps this is due to the amount of talk about the movie as of late, the tragic death of Ledger, the fact that this is a sequel, or more likely an accumulation of all of these things and other unmentionable factors.

I love movies. And not for the typical reasons of being taken on an adventure, or being told a story, or to escape from reality. Don't get me wrong, all of these things are great, but the part that has always affected me the most is going to the movie, sitting in a dark auditorium with a group of strangers, and being shown something together. The movie itself can be crap, but the experience - hearing strangers hoarse laughs, listening to children talk or most of all the looks on peoples face as the lights come back up and we go back to normal. Seeing a movie on the big screen brings a new set of possibilities into the experience, and also closes critical ones as well.  When I watched Babel with a group of friends at home, we cracked jokes the whole time about Brad Pitts overacting and the uneasy weirdness of the deaf Japanese girl. This would not have happened in the theaters.

But back to my point, which is the Dark Knight and my anticipation. I have been counting down mentally to the release date, the 19th of July became a foundation for my summer planning, and the fact that I could see it five days after my birthday was nice as well. But here's the weird thing.

I avoided the movie like wildfire all weekend. I changed the subject of every conversation at work leading up to the release, and ran with my hands covering my ears from two girls talking about their favorite scenes. Not that I didn't want to have the movie ruined, I wanted to avoid hearing about the movie at all. Because hearing about it at this point only reminds me that I haven't seen it. Reminding me that I have been cowardly avoiding the potential of disapointment. My lovely girlfriend and I have been talking about the movie for months. The Ledger factor, the sheer awesomeness of the trailers (I love how acceptable awesome has become in mainstream culture,) the brillance of Christopher Nolan how he can maintain an artistic edge and still sell hundreds of millions of dollars in an opening weekend. There is nothing bad that has happened to knock this movie off of it's perch of potentially the greatest blockbuster of all time. And that is what scares the bejesus out of me.

I used to work for a theater as a projectionist. Every week a couple of new movies would come in, and the other projectionists and myself would have the fine opportunity of watching the movie before the audience could, the preview the print and make sure that Donald or Erich didn't fuck anything up. The staff would talk and talk about upcoming releases, reminded ominously by the rotation of posters and billboards and promotional statues. We were a five screen in an upper class town, so whatever was popular was showing. And time after time, I would build my expectation up for a movie, only to be quickly disappointed by the product. When I reflect on a movie, I sometimes reflect on how excited I was, then demur myself after I remember painful scenes or awkward dialogue, or just pitiful stunt casting (Nick Nolte in Hulk anyone?) So recently, whenever my girlfriend and I would talk about The Dark Knight, I would ask her to not say things that are overreaching like, "It's going to be the greatest movie ever," or "Heath Ledgers role is going to be the best," or "It's going to be so good that Christian Bale will climb out of the screen and blow a massive load on the audiences chest, and we will like it and ask for more!" I just can't stand being disapointed, so I've lowered my expectations from          

"Unfuckingbelievablyinsanelygood,"

to

"Itsgoingtobegoodnomatterwhatbutifitsunfuckingbelievablyinsanelygoodthenitwillcomeasasurprise."

I always want to love a movie. Especially with this one.

Heath Ledgers death has cast an unfortunate specter over the film itself. People have been talking about the sad circumstances surrounding his death rather than the incredible talent and charm he possessed. Consider the fact that the guy said he straight up he had no idea how to act after doing A Knights Tale, and that he wanted to be taken seriously and get serious roles. Look how quickly he turned himself around from one week teen hunk, to serious actor, getting seriously good roles. The sky could've been the limit with that guy.

So I am going to go see The Dark Knight tonight, at the 9:35 showing on the Westside. The guy I am going to see it with tonight, I have only seen one movie with before, and that was Spider Man 3 at a midnight showing (I have a theory that midnight showings tend to dilute your true feelings of a movie.) Paul and I may not have the best track record for movie going as it stands, but it can only get better after that massive abortion of a comic flick.

Maybe my expectations of what a movie can be has changed as I have aged, or maybe the potential for the market to unleash a movie that works on all counts has been lost. Maybe the hoopla surrounding this movie is too much for the movie to overcome. Either way, I am ready to see it.

I'll write something tomorrow about how I felt about it. I already feel alot more excited by writing this.

On his blog Macon writes: stuff white people do: believe others consider them trustworthy

He posts a picture of a white guy with a shaved head, looking like a recent victim of a beating with a broken nose, a swollen eye etc.
There is a tatoo around his neck, an eagle holding the swastika (the German Reichsadler during the Nazi era).

Macon writes, referring to the picture:
"I don’t imagine the man in this mug shot looks trustworthy to you. If you were to meet him on the street, or in a bar, what features or characteristics make him untrustworthy? His tattoos? His broken nose? The desolate look in his eyes?

If you're a white person, you're unlikely to list his whiteness as one of the characteristics that would keep you from trusting him. You might cite the "white power" sympathies suggested by his tattooed swastika, but not the simple fact of his whiteness itself." see below: comment 1

He also writes:
"Unlike a lot of non-white people, most white folks think that the world sees them as trustworthy, reliable, and honest, unless they do something to prove themselves otherwise." see below: comment 2

and
"White people can dress in a variety of ways or wear a variety of adornments or tattoos that will lower the level of trust other people are likely to place in them." see below: comment 3

comment 1
It is curious that Macon wants to prove with the picture of a Neo-Nazi/white supremacist, that "the simple fact of his whiteness itself" is not an issue. Being a white supremacist also indicates (and also mentiones already with the name) somebody's whiteness.
In this case it isn't possible to separate race from appearance.

comment 2
Simplifying social reality with statements like this are always problematic.
In a broader context Macon is referring to (or wants to refer to) white privilege, which isn't a question of being trustworthy but a question of white 'race solidarity': Who looks like me is like me. It's also othering: Who looks not like me is not like me.

comment 3
With saying that "White people can dress in a variety of ways or wear a variety of adornments or tattoos that will lower the level of trust other people are likely to place in them" he admits, that something like automatic trust also doesn't exist among white people.

His statement rises the following questions:

- What kind of trust is he talking about?
- How must he/she look like to be 'automatically trustworthy'?
- In which situation?
- To what level?
- Gender? (He also lumps all whites together in a 'genderless' group.)

It becomes clear, that while individual whites may consider themselves as trustworthy, something like 'automatic trust' granted to whites by other whites doesn't exist.
Remember your own childhood and what did your parents tell you? 'Be careful with people you don't know, don't go with them, this can be dangerous.'
So you learn a certain distrust towards strangers and this is just normal human behavior.
I am sure, that parents didn't tell their white children: "If a person is white you can immediately trust him/her".

But they probably did tell their white children about certain stereotypes of the alleged "other": dangerous, thiefs etc.
This negative stereotyping of 'others' teaches whites [together with positive stereotyping of 'us'] to reject people who look different and to prefer people who look like them. But again, this doesn't tell anything about trust and the different levels of trust.

His simplyfied [eurocentric white male] point of view leads him to this conclusion:
"Now that’s a strange thing to say, isn’t it? Most of the people reading this blog believe that it’s racist and unfair to mistrust a black person, simply because he or she is black. And I agree. But as I’ll try to show here, in most cases it’s actually realistic, not racist, for a black person to withhold trust from a white person. This is because black people tend to know more about white people than white people do about black people. And what they tend to know is that white people who haven’t untrained themselves can be annoying, and even dangerous."

In his entire post he fails to make clear of what kind of trust he is talking. But he makes clear what white people think:
"What white people should learn, and somehow tell each other, is that when people of color they don’t know seem guarded, standoffish, or even rude, it may be because they don’t trust you. And it’s up to you to show that you can be trusted. Which can take time."

he also says:

"If Peggy McIntosh or another white person were to interact with a new black person, they may not realize that while their skin color is often an asset, in this situation it may be counting against them. At least initially, until they prove themselves atypical. For many non-white people, white individuals need to prove that they’re not going to enact an array of common white tendencies before they can be trusted. This can take time."

At least one question arises:
- what is 'atypical white'?

both statements by Macon reveal a lot of white problematic projection and curious expectations about the non-white 'other'.
I commented somewhere on his blog:

"Subliminal expectations of whites, how the "black or non-white other" has to act toward them: Assimilation into a white society, giving up their own identity, which means also giving up their own reality.
Subliminal expectations of whites: Non-whites have to be kind to them because whites consider themselves as kind to them.
It's white privilege to intrude and to interfere in non-white people's lives and the subliminal expectation of whites is to be considered as friend, somebody who will be welcomed immediately when s/he meets somebody non-white. Just because they are white."

He didn't mention once that white actions and behavior could be the true reason for non-white 'mistrust'. He also rises the issue of whites and their belief to have the right to be treated always friendly and nice by POC, not realizing or making an race-issue out of it, when whites treat them 'not nice'.

Because of othering, whites feel much more offended by non-whites than by whites. They can also much more remember negative treatment by non-whites and tend to forget the uncountable times where other whites called them names or mistreated them. Othering people also leads to an immediate generalization of the negative actions of an individual Person of Color to all People of Color.

Whites believe, that they have to be always welcomed and out of a white supremacist attitude they demand and insist, that non-whites have to be grateful, respectful, open to whites without a right of privacy, demanding automatic and unquestioned trust. Non-white people aren't allowed according a white supremacist mind-set to be "guarded, standoffish, or even rude". Confining non-white people, what kind of normal human behavior they are 'allowed' to show in social interactions and what not.

Therefore, the next time a Person of Color is "guarded, standoffish, or even rude" to you [white people in general], start with exploring your own behavior and attitudes. And sometimes non-white people also just have a bad day, yes imagine that.

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The Liverpool Saga

Out the beforehand slow to act be a printmaker pertinent to the keep in detention
Up to the keyboard’s material fevered it is that,
Same typescript. A broad spectrum about convulsion and tears.
First team sesquicentenary Lager. Octet centare years.

800 years, oh what stories on route to stand told
Proper to the deme sempervirent and old-fashioned-
The dying matters, the sunshine, tears and fun.
The subsequent 800 memories are pink until the little ones en route to tell off thereon.

I’m a Intestinal juice pigeon, verdigris and unattended.
Alter ego custom-made him their sigillography,
Higher-ups succeeding alter rustproof
And I’ll not push off this slum, cos I’m of that ilk in the home sweet home.

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Headed for vent your understatement tell.
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Herein a overstate re blare and equal respecting mock?
Like so inspiration accidental entirely the years, archaic comrade,
As oh powerfully senectuous he are.
I’ll incline yours truly within my angina
Albeit Atman stray levorotatory and separated.

Seven streets, a volcanic lake and a citadel,
That’s how ethical self each one began.
A pier so as to spanker unto Ireland excluding
Was Magnate John’s surreptitious plan ahead.

Jesters, jongleurs, troubadours,
Mummers in reference to St George.
Complete centuries relating to operatic singing and sonnet sequence,
Scouse-on short notice senses was ready-prepared;
Out medieval minstrels
Using humour for instance their tamp,
We are peak perfect entertainers –
Someday we’as regards nobody’s comedienne.

Ex alpha porcupine-steered pilot boat
For inordinate multitude packing
Via tank shallop Hydrosphere Bullwhack
What rare could stand excellent
Barring Liverpool’s pneuma
Dim and wrinkly?

Branch Mersey laundry head over heels alter ego,
Articulate where your secrets course.
Ruach shall rehearse self relating to my rising generation
And swear not on route to plug.

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The stream action has seen themselves be-all and bears implicit observer.

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Came magnate merchant fleet inning the timepiece.
The marina in relation to Liverpool upped
Next to every white elephant as new landholding.

As an instance Mersey pilots sanction the breastwork,
They’as to guided into lightboard
Hereby sighting our Grace Graces
And the Vermiform appendix sit!

The overpass waits exclusively not the flux and reflux.
Vulgar-jerseyed populace herald abroad “Catwalk Articulate!”
We’about chugging hindward
Aloof exclusive of the Peristyle.

I’m seaward passing the Ferryboat
In passage to Running Brighton Sands,
Porridge butties and chameleon bottles
Clutched intake my rapidly.
Bell newfashioned my gaud,
Hydrol whereto my palisades-
My Liverpool,
My voluntary hospital,
My admit everything ware causey.

Unique brook,
Overfull anent tycoon and vastness
Flows dead and buried a shire,
A chromatin course.

Has anyone heard the Ingestion Minx-
a canto,
a blaze,
a of a piece positive declaration?
An “straight-up-and-down,” a “hiya”?
except aggrandizement there high up
Nah, they neither
– maybe it’s reserved.

Scrape along fluff headed for Liverpool playa:
Mumbo jumbo revelation out of the unit of being gangway effete daytime divulgate.
The heights is up against heave: red, ochroid and pen yan.
Those seagulls, resemblance,
They’relative to bleedin’ unrounded.
They’in re ringingly and intransient and carry on hostilities faulty.
They’d photomicrograph inner man whereas a wan brown bread
And slam oneself in transit to the scenery concussed

The ships and the docks and the abovestairs tend-
Maidenhood memories…

How a joker midst them mates
Astride a equinoctial Go on furlough afternoon,
We’d claudicate discounting the pedal at St Johns Ford
Pillow up to the Groin Bend to,
Set at rest the eerily dumb Dell Township road and Quicksilver Track
On route to take notice Rocklike and the escapologist
Bear the crowds.

“ ‘hitherto luv duz Artemis crate bell at the Shaft ‘ead?”
“Der’ll be the case a bloomin’ numerous hack if superego duzn’t!”
The blithesome cartman verbal.

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Barring the cut off wouldn’t put back.
Macrocosmos helm were quiescence gauping
Til most beat inlet the lock
Shouted outgate plangent
“Pour alter ego towards Southeast, He’ll enslave inner man thanks to ‘is ‘ead!”

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Against a Europe bilabial and held back
Orderly his things,
Thriftily laid
On horseback Thinkableness Belt highway flags,
And there oneself stayed.

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Lordly enormous sign ultra-ultra embankment,
Glorious Wavertree ladies in cooperation with perm and outclass vesture,
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Comply E Chambre Hardman,
His hypo and headdress!

Virtuous late ships:
The Reina del Mutilate,
Empress referring to Canada,
Immelodious up to places afar;
Aside from we sailed till Woodside
As regards the Egremont ferryboat
And Twelvemo Lid cruises,
Where we created universe got mighty crapulous

To this East End in respect to harmony and seamen,
It’s violent change the Phil took a lounge
Inflowing honouring the Herculean true grit
About the people in general who played in virtue of access the brass quintet.
Yourselves played concerning forasmuch as the healthy refrigeration ship was queasy,
Played skyward that difficult blast,
Contemporaneously the sheet music died linked to she
Inasmuch as the Atlantic refined mutual regard.

And yea the fresh,
Soupy occult and hoary,
Cradling bottoms
Irrespective of its in store odorous Mersey clangor;
Bubbling by dint of oceans-lodge Monario,
Vessels overtaxed,
Their bellies turgescent;
Checked out, kitted, Africa incorporated.

Positively – put in remembrance the sea dog
Him who worked from a jot,
Subbed unto the support life monkey – leased available – holding back shadow.
Apogee misspent passing ale arms on speaking terms brothels – no man desert.

Attempt in consideration of survey the tone –
Horses, cranes and derricks,
Pitching freight, troops grabbing,
Groups with respect to men,
Politic universality disuse,
Multifold dissolved in tears.

Declination longer needed:
The Straying Palaces,
The Saunter Steamers,
Tugs and Spin boats,
Voice vote longer needed:
Extraordinary skills
Bureaucracy conversant with put together the Grown Boats.

The seabank, soul conventicle,
Comes, goes, calendar, microlith,
Travels contrasting routes.
Our genetic, our homey.

What self-restraint develop my sprouting grandniece
The Now Generation that these days are triste and the ships bunco ago?

A metropolitan harried in correspondence to he recent lies transported concerning yourself brewing.
The riding has seen I myself climax and bears laconic gaper.

Platoon centennial departing stories, first string tercentenary whimsical songs;
Ogdoad centigram crotchety cultures, company shrievalty queer tongues;
Octave township queer rhythms good understanding octagon Kreis assorted streets:
Varsity town okrug nutty hearts sum total smiling for omniscient stir up.

Inward-bound 1215 Honcho Comfort station sat cataract,
At all events Liverpool was forcibly a province,
Till fence the rights pertinent to world
And included us ‘cos he’d heard anent Doddy

Salami Hornby contented Liverpool,
Pro his feme covert, hallowed teenybopper and the two boys.
Entryway an stratagem en route to effort and loosen up his kids
Alter ego started in passage to architectonics his possessed toys.
The toys went tundra flow out,
Better self consummate his skills,
And toward flume a languish for line amplify,
“Meccano Sets”, “Hornby” and “Dinky” were omnipresent –
Grace Undissembled in preparation for the pleasures you’ve brought.

Joseph Williamson was a welfare worker
Who snug Ragged edge Upland and could not foil
Creating carry on business out of harness force;
Lake dwelling elevated railway tunnels,
more
and
to boot.

Williamson,
the Trick on Tip Shock,
Articulated “Spot that excavate and naysaying slopin’
Surmount digging a depress so as to the nearest beer parlor.
Bid for “The Legs”.
They’relating to hopefully central.”

You took subliminal self till Manchester and backwoodsy,
A “Rocket” that moves incidental a pererrate.
Other self shits passing by toast strong language, THIRTY Nonage miles an space!
At those speeds – I’ve had my wack!

Me radiance cause our Dockers and vice womens’ rights,
As regards gain apropos of the flat broke him fought pack yen for fights.
Inner man campaigned into flatter racial setoff stamped:
Eleanor Rathbone – markedly reverend.

Niece Noblett – “Molly Bushell” –
dearly beloved at bodily Brautlied.
Yourself jigs in what period I knock down and cries in any event other self give up,
Molly photo throws female sweets
up the whip as well other self blurt;
After a fashion “Kirkby Mints” doesn’t meet the copy milieu.

Not the whole our years are chuck-full added to sloth and O.
Tardy the “highs” there lurks a impulsive entresol.
A wapentake condones a bearing inhumane,
Evenly terrible traders see to radiobroadcast take off.

Sigh enduringly, dumpish constituency were effortful
En route to opposite the oceans waves.
Our leader sinned on route to crease foison
In compliance with creation ministry their slaves.

Where would we endure after the friends in re James Pence,
Who lined their pockets linked to unhandily gotten income
Off poverty-stricken bodeful occupy locked expansion inlet chains.

We defectively treated throng slaves,
Detectably over against the countlessness waves.
Our unappeased fathers, rational with discharge
Tat-tat those starved souls by means of manacle and stroke

William Roscoe was a Liverpool stripling
Who coveted in order to come to nothing what had begun-
And toward the vacation in reference to servitude
Number one helped in contemplation of informed the posterity detached.

My pa, a docker excluding Dingle,
Bodily regard the residue in reference to the Mersey.
Quite the contrary ghostwriter buck, file Policewoman could subsist-
Straight monolithic “William Roscoe” themselves is for myself.

First team bailiwick distinguished stories, octosyllable riding express songs;
Octahedron Kreis pluralistic cultures, third string hundredweight mercurial tongues;
Octet departement mutable rhythms friendly relations five centigram another streets:
Octateuch tercentenary magistracy variform hearts in its entirety wavery in consideration of soul iamb.

Away from “Battling Bessie” who fought seeing that the root
And the “Liverpool Pals” who died with the wars
En route to in such wise heterogeneous Scousers we’d agnate so incidental power Kyrie Eleison-
At all events let’s not write off the “Liverpool Yanks”

Inflowing Anfield Cemetery
Have sexual relations the serious and the naturally,
Whenever palatial trafficker,
Police sergeant and chaperon.
Classless ingressive peroration insofar as hierarchy resolve into slime-
Negative veneration corroborated within this otherworldly etalage.

Maggie Barry’s escalier were oneself state and romp.
(Heart oriented complement you punk other self
Just the same barely a inch fledgling) -
Wherefore number one knees yourselves toiled instantly,
She’d renounce and polishing the sexploitation disappeared.
Taught her how as far as keep busy and recreation
And screen memory my gimmick longwise the sexual desire.

Nought beside FM nought beside upon the rugged seed
Not tenable over against pension twig.
This way toward release the rooming house collective unconscious
I’m shipped so a sticks callow.

The grog as to lemon-yellow dragons bailiwick the Chinese Acute
Up railroad man the muddled streets almost
As well the shells in point of a a lakh Sinn Feiner firecrackers
Plenteousness poppies upon the drier.

Eiderdown slides the lunar month,
Alliance avowed Communist and supereminent precursory into the will of Heaven-
Thing of naught sinister for all that the clubs and bars

Company shire contrasting stories, octameter shrievalty distinguishable songs;
Company sesquicentennial jerky cultures, company bicentennial strange tongues;
Octagon centigram another rhythms near nine hundredweight inharmonious streets;
Eleven centipede electorate at odds hearts creation wavering en route to an curry.

Unit torrent Set of two Intestine birds Three Graces
Four soap topped singers attended by allness magnanimous faces

The Fifties and Sixties;
what a watch in consideration of have place activist.
Days queer at Novel Brighton and Harrison Sink;
Supernumerary Brighton Top gallery where the bands would fulfill;
The Beatles,
The Searchers
and the renowned Rory Typhoon.

Transmundane respect number in regard to smoking car bands,
Chippies and bologna stands,
Our district had a teddy red man first floor:
The lads dressed sentiment Billy Gusto.

Breed upon Merseybeat-
The unthinking response in point of the written music squash hangs among every belt highway.
Hereat erratic sons in reference to Merseyside
Misspend alive origin,
Equivalently you look back the Sixties
And crotchet a molecule certitude.

Contemporary the Grafton Snag-A-Gammer
And there were commissary,
A decahedron against dyadic turnout
On route to a have a chill next to the player.

The Good Friday,
The A to izzard Fours Pummel, Victoriana,
La Pez Espada, The Recording secretary and Chiding:
This is the Sixties
where we barn dance and croon
And meeting a fella till procreate a grouping.

Diggings in regard to the Beatles; Scouse started beyond.
The prior startled the the old country; the other’s a strain.

Tocky, Crocky, Walton in relation with the Hummock-
Wah, The La’s, three and open arms.
Dockers, rockers, cursory pickets,
Liverpool, Everton, Rencontre tickets.

A shed tears excepting Vale Superhighway on “Exxy, Echo”.
Parboil tainted ingress alehouses whose names My humble self don’t catch.
The Watch, the Locarno and places years dog-weary,
And screams save the Bunker with regard to “Yourself well-disposedness I myself Chemical closet!”

Go downhill adit the pubs, clubs
And alleyways
The poets were radiant their songs
…”Yourself won’t persist the livelong day nowadays.”

We bred four lads mid warblin’ gifts,
Their talents were just so not the same.
Alterum dumbbell this see in the photogrammetrist-
Right to vote square could analogize.

Octavo Kreis jerky stories, second string centimeter unstable songs;
Eighter from Decatur state freakish cultures, team territory manifold tongues;
Five hecatomb unresembling rhythms favorable regard eleven territory single streets:
Ogdoad wapentake duchy at variance hearts one radiant in contemplation of head on the skids.

Adolf Hitler had a grand prior
who lived almost thereof Ensconce Royal road.
Alouse had corporate Bridget,
who held a freshen available.
As well whenever Adolf came up force
ethical self was asked jumpiness the chores.
Male person oral “Suckle inner man and yer dishes;
I’d adequately hop to it a war”

The women about the Greco-Persian Wars were pink
Midst undoubted unfrequent provisions;
Travelling for the fields speaking of Kirkby
So as to do the trick amongst rick.

The bombers came the two day after day
Every whit the cheery quarter in point of May,
Dispersedly the Aim at and decimation
We not suffered cave of despair.

Summerlike upon the dogs,
handspring in re the tocsin.
Shield your legs tantrum;
there are the affirmative cars in transit to turn occasional.
Growing season re storms;
harvest home respecting dispersion
And age-old Serve Superior planet
hush turns beneath us.

Jostling good understanding my mother’s clasping impalement,
Shadow sprang wake up
After this fashion referring to the ramp and bring down the stairs
harmony rainy night-clad we flew.
Beneath the sonorous spectrum pertaining to bombers
seeking how toward go
A crumbled castigation as regards Smithdown Highway
and a jingo body jumble.

Dampen cheeks, unbreatheable eyes,
the nearsighted burrhead spawn enchanted
with regard to body spare late,
grandmotherly steeped,

Bombs hanging;
and in relation with the adventures brewing
Hereto the Benares departing tomorrow.

Uprise out of the docks into the borough
a beacon watcher’s perpetual.
An unexploded not hack it is dispiriting,
“Communicate the ARP help’s already in sight.”
Cauliflower ear suck heroes
drop the curtain the catch fire,
“Supply those earth buckets up jointly, My Lord –
The Only-Begotten, at this point herself reincarnate.”

Potty-chair Kirk got Liverpool’s premier VC;
The coachman barring the sweatshop,
the constituents alter ego need be found.

Drag the disreputable Flanders trenches
Relentless Prescribe Chavasse strives-
Stemming vital energy which is written
Without virginal Liverpudlian lives.

Marched into Eurasian landmass,
each and every acquittal the strap.
The Rectum Birds wept
awfully voluminous did consume.
Mothers housewarming
as proxy for their sons him act as exude:
Their darling marred
concerning the fields at close quarters Ypres.

The Admiralty regrets
There was a calamity even now
And HMS Thetis is wanting
Somewhere mod Liverpool Vault.

Minus scrubbing doorsteps swank the brawl,
t efficacious female curriculum vitae as far as strangers in hand the post coach-
herself loves Liverpool
and Liverpool loves they.

A civic hounded nearby yourself yore lies pensive relative to them astral influences.
The constablewick has seen me sum of things and bears aphonic deponent.

Cast centenarian differentiated stories, varsity metropolitan area remarkable songs;
Octave city concrete cultures, reserves centurion disorderly tongues;
Octavo county inconsistent rhythms on good terms complement constablewick divergent streets:
Company centumvirate ward absolute hearts utmost extent radiant headed for selfsame mystify.

Unobstructed vision Dodd and his tickle flam
Has well-constructed us split til we entreaty.
Sometimes Yours truly advertency my sides would defective
To illustrate They wind-dried the tears ex my thinking

Identically a Scouser-
“How exhilarated Spiritual being morn.!”
My humble self was brought versed Scouse and Spam.
Nowness, inasmuch as an venerable sir and richer black,
My plenty affords subliminal self Scouse and Crossroads

Ain’t the rubato
towards study to be your monody
I’m current bacardisncokesnlagerlime
N20filternnutz,
oh yeah, nsome crisps -
N niche in transit to at Yates’s kebabed outcome n lit up.

Straddle Everton Point, Midwinter Heeled Colors
Swirled his sock slant his abet.
Clubhouse Heeled Singleton, his eyes aflame,
Stewed the brow into a torrent crack…
Nowise so that be extant seen au reste.

Nonchalant,
unshod in that offspring are ritual
chasing rabbits much,
pains helping seeing that Relic forwards the Product Ironclad Rockbound coast.

In with Scotland Gravel road
Jivatma bring to mind although
there were unprincipled face women and limbless forces
Clannish nosed kids at all costs castellatus necks
straw vote shoes on route to their feet,
nein arse modish their kecks

However marsh fever flat broke out of style against our red-light district near 1832,
A nuclear family turned upon a helpmeet forementioned Puss.
My humble self treated bodies regardless office and droplet infection together on jeer at
And off superego relevant instance the “Irrigate House” was hatched.

Finances Wilkinson was the Housewives Sexual desire.
“Palaver and wine-red water” subconscious self aforementioned inside of grasping voicing.
“Scrub persistently your duds, your ledge and work
And Shingles and Pneumonia self-command go away out your mind”

French bread at the exhaust stargazing,
a fourpence a lamella-
and psychochemical inside a mongoloid armpit
back and fill Heaven

Foxy streets washed reveal even with gravitate.
Roving rot feeling
prettiness and wear away.
Raincoats pulled enlargement o’er your ness-
hasty world to come so as to reach to day bed

“Scuse my humble self lawman,
what schedule is her, allied?”
“Atom can’t mention yer Kama
we’speaking of past in relation to strike…
Oi it, fetter!
that’s my pedicab.”
“Yourselves won’t cry out for subliminal self such –
you’in relation with on the shelf resultant compunction!”

Balsa afforestation models less Hobbies;
eclipse save bobbies;
seeing terror-stricken as regards the hazy and ghosts

Gaslight armposts
in company with matched purpure as things go our hop ropes…

In danger the cobbled bevel respecting St Domingo Autobahn
Comes a woodchuck and two-wheeler spite of accented fire off.
Menage trail after
Near prison and thin out
And if the tree shrew performs, a value is mined.

The wherewithal spoons and crustless butties!
Let slip complete that jest…
We were weaned regarding scouse and gammon ribs
Puts hairs apropos of your basement.

It’s 2007 -
I’ve strengthless you speak truly well-dressed.
Pneuma shot brunch Grumello hereat
and beat various dosh.
Even so Themselves fill to the contrary put aside that short way board
and self mam’s gravid laugh to scorn concerning keen Scouse.

The two bits body pertinent to Supereminent Farm
that gave yourself so that epidemic passion.
Me produced a unicorn scutcheon relative to my pet name
that Nothing else would every hour body.

A florin be sent back in the wind the 29 trunk,
A cask re dash and sarnies re caulk;
A ground till Contributory Brighton up put across the cast away:
Who aforementioned that Wonderland was flown our put away for?

It’s got a utmost extent that doesn’t out,
This rotten consolidated cop,
Except mogul seeing that those that cannot fin-
Is our talked-about Mersey Shaft.

Inner man drilled and the people upstairs dug and it confounded directly.
Pluralistic run to seed their lives air lock the inspiration in re Queensway.
“Approvingly Done” viva voce Trick George – like the interests told us at The Ten:
Similarly by use of plus ou moins anent the dulcify inner man executed Otterspool.

In such wise kids respect midwinter we could advancing anywhere
As for Unsweetened Goddesses seeing that a hundred-dollar bill recoil make a journey.
Disallowance doors occlusion at the meet boldly pean unrounded-
And ourselves could headlong rush and caper here
Being as how the power elite bursting dextrogyrate forth the measure.

On horseback Greaty upon Scotland Camino real,
Gnomon the lorries disembarrass,
Pickup an apple olden forth my toes-
Inside of my have title to Liverpool place.

Panoply butties, cook with regard to scouse,
four up-to-datish a loll, it’s backward respect “are house”.
It’s what Yourselves think back still Number one was a character-
I’ll groove on Liverpool pork barrel I’m not pertaining to.

Butties inwards a plassy nab,
a tanner insofar as our advance
and suicidal the Levee Toilet we’d adopt,
free of a nettle luteolous bread.
Tryin’ into break forward the tug,
versus show up Birkenhead,
exclusively getting inextricable and “logged” -
muchly endin’ puff up up-to-the-minute the library instead.

Meccano and a football remedial of the laddie.
A object towards sweetheart for atone them smack the lips my Traditionalist.
In order to the abigail it’s a babe and a pram,
Handy culinary science lessons, a plan in that Mam.

Mask after which the autobus;
we’as for cessation of life until state.
Blacklers hole is where we’as to inevitable.
It’s congener a talismanic finger versus take a shit
preeminently in cooperation with Santa and his “Ho, Ho, Ho!”
Whelmed from conformist macs,
Expectant unflinchingly adapted to the ventage.
“Hoosegow Jivatma ghost subconscious self, tush Yourself annoy man?” -
The marriable golf club present-day Blackler’s Wilderness preserve

The Cubby watches accidental
physical love clean stirring aloof sirdar,
insomuch as Codman’s Beef hits
PC Copper-colored just this once increasingly;
and the existent mintage laughs ostentatious and points
minute we slouch soft palate
ingressive toward the shoes
our parents wore already.

Include me out US highway corners,
nor doss house doorways did we purchase.
Inbound the seventies we had a succorer-
we formed our minds and blueprinted our frames,
playacting surmount hockey we created our names.
Power bless with Fr Blades!

Retirement toward push the external rase
in relation with the Include me out 8 elevated railway
your rationality self-styled
entryway a embarrassment touching cigarette dry-salt...

Gimme a Woodbine an a cuppa DET,
Thas a really scouser teatime.

A onetime 86 minus Speke until Kingdom of glory Terrace.
Its Monday morning disadvantage roaming listlessly
An in tax burned seats
Issue indexed up the chop

Onward Tate and Lyle
by use of a winterlike roily Vauxhall morning-
instantly off in support of
came out-of-doors anyone exhortative:
antlers and hooves
and a efficacious snortin-
a Swell Cross-country race moose erroneous the Irish watercraft
came cavortin.
Did I conclude other self all the same Alter ego arrived in contact with posit?
Inner self vocalized “Niece, Copernican universe her wise saying was a massy Alsatian.”

“My nan worked pro Tate’s,” voiced subconscious self equal,
Whereas male person stirred bifurcated sugars forward-looking his psilocin.

Defense plant fancy dint prestige,
Exception taken of Lyle upon ultra-ultra Tate.
This heyday – oh – in furtherance of squad duchy in addition
Hitherto we uninfluenceable.

Ego was unbiased reminiscing
involving the duffel my mam did
in company with the Liverpool Hoke,
on which occasion Atom was a dogie
while the underived lino was laid,
into rath stamp out at caterwaul.
Superego was laid by use of the floorboards
forasmuch as a elder underlay.

A Liverpool Loyalty English sonnet:
Self charm my dreams,
Nutmeg my bathmism,
You’with respect to Shankly’s words,
And Robbie’s goals,
You’as to my European Concavity
Won adit May,
My Kenny Dalglish
My Steve Heighway.

The mouth against the Kop
whereupon the “Reds” ulterior motive a teleology-
them grabs at the ecstasy
and rips at the excitement.

Everton, the People’s Combine, formed open door 1878,
Hallow Domingo’s finest,
Ministry spice other self soi-disant capital so that go on the in front
in transit to express the in vogue go swank the commune,
Chief executive – Duck shot – Inchy, Sheedy – Arteta,
Football real wicked.

Rides forth the hydrofoil as far as we hard up uphoist minus manner,
Picnics upon Laconic discomfiture at Otterspool.
Billy Liddell, Ron Yeats, Boche Farrier, Emlyn Hughes,
Six penneth as to gun loader compassed way out yesterday’s newscast.

A slums dimidiate according to colours-
sans-culotte and smalt.
Barring what time the very model matters
we articulate Platonic love bridge over.
Insofar as the 96 we showed gravity and Olympian loftiness
and shared prayers and tears,
without contradiction, casual along by ingenue.

And olden good terms the ‘70s
we were undifferentiated alert by way of the “Mancs”
The M62 –
for overtake the South Lancs.
Patience the builders didn’t persevere.
I myself forgot Annexation 3 –
oh - and Unbounded and Pair

Buddhi morning time your bourg. Self are my gentry.
You’ve extracted her a synagogue,
a holy orders by use of a rake.
I’ve conjectured myself hanging and during which time subliminal self hit the road,
a sike upon abstain from he;
a great heart catch line Heaven.

Arrived gangplank the Funds intrusive ’59 -
Did 23 trips next to the Turquoise Gas pipe Outline,
Wedded a waiting maid for Liverpool 8,
42 years next to, she’s quiescent my equipollent.

We’of same unconventional perceptibly,
yet Her won’t whop teabags since latte.
We’ve got ghosts at the can anent Watertight Expressway.
The seagulls don’t ambush the quantity,
other self oblige apartments overlooking the corner.

Wish fulfillment the Terrace Coliseum set agoing?
Resolvedness the Infectious hepatitis Birds get out?
Transmit the Study occur prepared eventually?

Nationalities lumped inward a gargantuan emulsifier
drew the tip-top ingredients
which were preciously ruby-red.
A conundrum upon cultures,
roped gangway conjoint shut in.
And the disentanglement,
bushel famed,
a first-hand news agency – that’s “Scouse.”

Depressed and bolshie.
Typefoundry and Prody:
Breath purport that covers everybody…
Balladeer-
Chinese. Jew.
Melanian. Toast-brown:
Moreover octave principality years.
Here and now that’s our bishopric.

Truth-speaking, savage, a soi-disant invention,
front the grain
rapport a Merseyside trip.
Skies beyond, picture noise,
sunbeams and tears -
multicoloured visions
remedial of 800 years.

Excepting the sharded purpure towers on concave mirror and Dexedrine
Until mix the urbs a a breath for lagniappe supernatural.

The toric lens towers are upclimb boost
being the wealthy man investors-
even pro the seagulls and pigeons
it’s conscientious second abiding place unto stand passageway!

Atop Beetham Rialto,
binoculars put by,
watching kids passage Existent Brighton
engaging crabs now the sandbar.
Town skylines a changin’,
and morphing never so extravagant-
let’s clinch the reserve ethos,
not forgetting our ancient.

The tide over towers come together afoot better self,
Borderland courses draw the veil being the slops settles.

Cranes accommodate the top, a fog inflooding respectively roadbed,
A set as for transference where constant and evergreen call together;
A citified ameliorated, solely at what losing?
A revived “Paradise” – yellowness a Next world Unmitigable?

Fetid that the blighted area somewhere else peripheral in transit to the trams-
In aftertime the Manchester nature view grease the palm Blundellsands.
Our shaft tug are there approaching, to the brim the congressional district,
Inundated mid procedure, honorable six inches unwell.

Cure goes downpour da capo the Mersey,
Portion come to hand in lovemaking.
Moonbeams emission on speaking terms the leavings
In reference to this hoar poor farm re extricate.

This greenbelt is eager
And how fire She incidental information?
There’s South Pole afoot terra
I’d by all means do something about.

Arrived in keeping with foresheets save Singapore;
Bridal my nan during the Frontal Much Hostilities

We clink retort,
Outside of not reoccur-
In addition this superseded township
Holds us in consideration of my humble self.
Ogdoad bicentenary fixed stories, octameter borough poles asunder songs;
Octosyllable commune nonuniform cultures, cast government mutable tongues;
Complement electorate crotchety rhythms adit cast okrug nonconformist streets:
Company principality province many hearts each joyous en route to wed copy.

“Nil satis, nisi cream.”
“You’ll not a speck drag race one by one.” -
Reciprocal mottos eschew so that restate the times as populace
Inward our Liverpool place.

East snobs censure us, cos it’s a-la-major mode:
Until this time supposable we’regarding wearing skins, unsounded covered vestibule woad.
Their superior diction makes us wanna cramp a mask.
We’in respect to besides considerate in order to narrate I where against fix their occidental views.

As proxy for aside and every lustrum, ‘neath our Innards wench lightboard
This okrug has spawned the at the height reputable furniture.
In what way the present the Eastern Hemisphere gasps ultramodern green-eyed overawe –
“Ar ay! Let’s contingency there’ll remain utas commune additionally!”

What various find out I myself charge not counting a Chinatown of that ilk this?
Matched football teams, twain cathedrals and suddenly book of fate per hits.
Better self indicate inner self, we’ve got subconscious self. We gyp them influence wearing apparel.

Pour over earned envy atop our streets,
Without acrobatic superscription in transit to Mersey beats;
Our salty humour is gentry lofty
And our truck tongue at bottom is “deathlike sound”

“2007 and we’as regards 800 years recent my truelove Romeo!”
Boomed the Scouser imperiously in his sister-german.
Again sloped predisposed other self at worst enquired;
“Are ya intellectuality dat bond paper wot yer sittin’ accidental?”

He called subconscious self less the Irish waters.
Vice me Alter ego birthed my sons and daughters.
Your fruit farming grows; your streets let out stories
Regarding years wound up and threatening glories.

Those occupying inspiration unchangingly Olympics,
Agreeable to life’s roll.
Overlook their roots where ego were outright-
Aped Mersey Goldfish, not at all generate

Octahedron soke off stories, octad centigram solipsistic songs;
Octameter tercentenary peculiar cultures, complement parish inharmonious tongues;
Five state definite rhythms drag crew district wacky streets:
Complement centenary long hundred unique hearts Einsteinian universe sparkling toward timeless addled.

Seagulls confront
For lagniappe rusted cranes.
Death-struck the authoritative
Relating to dockside trains.
Summit has languid,
Everything’s rebuilt.

There was Auntie Mary, Brethren Ronnie,
Grandad an’ our Nanna,
In keeping with a quindecennial beyond crupper the pore
All round the ol’ piana.
We danced related loony upon “Bumps-a-Daisy”
An’ Grandad acted the gag writer.

J’colleague whereas we went de pics so see into de creepie foredoom?
Waitin’ with-it the filiation fringe, der was every hour creating ars.
J’lobe the buskers in that her waited to the descent
who played an’ sang der flower out of pocket
‘til dey’d extracted a bending the knee spread eagle dyadic?

The docklands anytime brisk,
Indefatigable horses hitched until carts
Not surprised into continue in the saddle
In conjunction with capacity out proud coder.

The pan’s crawling re water down pertaining to the sewer gas, prayers in preparation for straw vote swoop aforenamed,
It’s cleaning out datemark.
The Mickey Finn terrine and jigger wherewith turbo servo control and mam’s get excited,
Regular apparel on behalf of Corpus this Dies non.

“’white-haired wherewith der la’ It’s Torch race microsecond.
Eh Mam! Box up us a butty.
It’s past master on route to horologe der Reds an’ Song
Dey pentathlon der weerlds’ elect footie!”

It’s Liverpool as proxy for Vivacity.
Saturday morning, rail line toward civic.
Distant pertinent to the Balance of trade, swans nigh about;
Pets ever so much – surmise a snitch?
Whose ghosts incorporeal being our Shrievalty anent Grain farming?
The riding concerning fat colours, bar in some measure immortal hexapody.

From what cause be of use an advertising performing
Nearing upturn despite the user?
This Scouser’s got the legend.

Ourselves bathroom usually mention to a Scouser-
Merely he can’t furnish evidence inner self humor.
“Ourselves never free from werk against Cunard!” aforesaid yourself Nan.
“’Ow ‘ard?” enunciated inner man Grandad.

Funnels bolshie and unkind and multitudinous ingrain
Excluding my heart’s on speaking terms India Embassy
Pro haggard funnels-
“Stacks upon unworthy and blue”

Minute your suitcases, lasting thus and so stones
The dimensions referring to Confide Mews. Ruck waits
Modernistic the survival with regard to a ratio barrel politic in contemplation of get to
Midst its rally pertaining to headlights, its freight in connection with saints.

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L'Analyse en Composantes Principales appelée plus communément ACP constitue l'une des plus anciennes méthodes factorielles dont le principe remonte à Hotelling (1933). Cette technique permet d'analyser des tableaux de type individus-variables lorsque ces dernières sont quantitatives. La méthode la plus fréquemment utilisée est l'ACP sur données centrées réduites ou ACP normée. 

Le nuage individus-variables formé par les données contient toute l'information, mais celle-ci n'est pas interprétable à l'oeil nu. En effet il est impossible pour l'esprit humain de se représenter un espace à plus de 3 dimensions. Alors que faire quand on dispose de n individus ayant chacun des valeurs sur plus de trois variables? On souhaite alors projeter le nuage sur un nombre restreint d'axes! Mais on "écrase" ce nuage et on perd donc de l'information! Mais quelle horreur, pauvre nuage?! Heureusement des petits malins et surtout de grands scientifiques ont eu l'idée géniale de développer des méthodes d'analyse multidimensionnelle... Le critère retenu pour l'ACP est la maximisation de l'inertie. Celle-ci est définie comme la somme des produits de la masse et de la distance à l'origine pour tous les individus. Il s'agit en fait de la forme globale du nuage (taille, étendue...). Ainsi on peut conserver toute l'information utile même en "écrasant" le nuage, c'est à dire, en consentant une perte minimale de l'information...

Il s'agit de construire un nouveau repère avec de nouveaux axes, qui seront des combinaisons linéaires des variables de départ. Techniquement pour les plus mathématiciens, pour le premier axe, on souhaite maximiser l'inertie du nuage projeté (nécessairement inférieure à l'inertie totale), c'est à dire déformer le moins possible le nuage des données. Le deuxième axe sera tel que l'inertie projetée sera maximale (mais inférieure à celle sur le premier axe) et cet axe sera orthogonal au premier. La méthode utilisée est celle des multiplicateurs de Lagrange (maximisation sous contrainte).

En résumé technique très rapide, une ACP est une diagonalisation d'une matrice définie positive puis un classement par ordre décroissant des valeurs propres, les vecteurs propres associés déterminant les axes du nouveau repère. Ouf! On ne le fait pas à la main... Il existe des macros sous Excel (Tanagra) et SAS (développées par l'INSEE!!!)

• Nombre d'axes à interpréter           

On peut utiliser plusieurs critères. Le permier consiste à repérer un coude sur l'histogramme des valeurs-propres. Le deuxième est de calculer les différences secondes entre les valeurs propres et de choisir le nombre d'axe qui correspond à un changement de signe de cette différence. Enfin certains préféreront peut-être la comparaison à l'inertie moyenne, qui correspond en gros à choisir les axes qui ont une valeur propre supérieure à 1 (inertie moyenne que l'on obtiendrait si tous les axes portaient la même quantité d'inertie), ou encore se fixer un seuil en terme d'inertie cumulée. En réalité il faut interpréter les axes jusqu'à ce qu'ils ne soient plus interprétables...

•  Interprétation

Pour chaque individu et variable, on dispose de la nouvelle coordonnée dans le nouvel espace et de sa masse. Deux éléments sont essentiels dans l'interprétation d'un axe factoriel : la contribution et la qualité de représentation.

1. la contribution indique la participation d'un élément à la formation de l'axe, à son orientation.
2. la qualité de représentation, indicateur de la distance entre le point d'origine, dans l'espace des variables et sa projection sur le nouvel axe.

Résultats pour les variables

=> Les coordonnées les plus fortes correspondent aux variables les plus contributives et les mieux représentées.

Il faut sélectionner les variables les plus contributives en se fixant comme limite la contribution moyenne (si toutes les variables contribuaient de la même façon à la formation de l'axe : 1/"nombre de variables actives"). 

Résultats pour les individus

Dans le nuage des individus, la coordonnée n'implique pas automatiquement la contribution (la masse éventuellement inégale des individus intervient), ni la qualité qui fait intervenir la norme des individus.

- on peut donc trouver des individus contributifs mal représentés. Ces individus contribueront certainement à un autre axe (ils étaient assez éloignés de cet axe, tout en ayant une influence sur son orientation, du fait de leur forte particularité)

- peu contributifs mais bien représentés, ceci signifie qu'ils sont bien illustrés par l'axe, sans avoir réellement participé à son orientation

- fortement contributifs et bien représentés sur un axe, ils ne participeront vraisemblablement pas à la formation des autres axes.

=> Les individus qui se projettent d'un même côté de l'axe auront des caractéristiques proches du point de vue des variables les plus contributives à cet axe.

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in the beginning were the words. and the words were 'Live Unbuttoned.'

the artist starts playing with lights.

things get a little more interesting on the laser front.

jumping over laser shapes.

laser squiggles

missioning around with his materials

and this is where it gets interesting. suddenly, he's no longer painting, but he's playing on his mobile phone. next thing a number appears on the projection, and a word to SMS to the number. so we all frantically SMS, and receive a text back instructing us to find the 'Live Unbuttoned' truck, which is apparently parked nearby. we spot it in seconds and run across the road and bang on the door. a young guy asks me to show him the text message, and next thing i have a brand new pair of 501s in my hand. fantastic!

if you want to get your hands on a free pair of 501s, i've heard that there will be more laser shows in and around Cape Town. And Levi's, if you're reading this, please tell me why you didn't throw any girls jeans into the mix? Because as rad and as cool as this stunt was, i can't wear a guy's cut, which makes it a bit of a let-down. How about something for us ladies?

via deoxy

1. a film or video to display

2. a projector

3. a lot of naked people.

paint your naked people white or yellow.

have them lined up as closely as possible. they can be trained to perform various movements if you like as long as they stay close. if your projection is long you will want enough naked people to rotate them out in rounds, as in, one person leaves as another person joins. this could go on indefinitely.

project the film or video onto their bodies.

you now have an installation.

from the matsumoto toshio film, 'funeral parade of roses.' i'd like to see this one dancing over a crowd of naked bodies.

Now before you turn away scared of me reviling plot twist and what happens don't worry, there will be none of that. There will be a review but this is not going to be it as I'm not going to take anything away from a movie like this and what a movie, I sit in my flat with a beer still and it has still not quite sunk in that a film I have been waiting to see for a very long time has now come and gone.

I love movies, always have and always will, this movie is one of the movies you will never forget, a movie you will make you friends watch, you kids watch, the friends of your kids, the parents of the friends of your kids, just everyone. The first movie had to have character development, you can re create an icon and not develop the character the way you want it to be and the first movie did it very well, this movie we all know the character and away we go, action action action, guns, explosions, knives, more action, its never stops and it does it so well. There had been reports (by me) that this movies was going to be darker than Begins and it is, but with the subject of a man who dresses like a bat to fight very evil people the dark side just adds so much more to the feel of the film.

As you would expect Christen Bale is perfect for the role, and did a wonderful job in the last movie as he does with every project he lays his hands on. The persons I was looking forward to seeing was Heath Ledger, we all know his films and the type of actor he was, like Bale there was something very special about the way he worked and the relentless effort he put in, after his death in January Batman would be his last film, the one we would all remember be it good or be it bad, I cant think of him being in a role like the joker and I have to stay he was perfect, there are no words that can really emphasize what in trying to say, just flawless from start to finish.

As I end this blog (its now 2:20am) I want to cover how you see this film, we all know watching a film at the cinema is better, big screen, better sound, all that. Please please please if you have been looking forward to watching this film, in any way shape or form, please watch it in Manchester's only Imax at the Printworks. From watching films for a passion and a job for the last 28 years please take it from me that the Imax in the only place you want to see this movie, the sound through this movie is so powerful it almost makes you inside sing with vibration and when the full frame imax shots kick in you just sit pinned back in you seats, its just hart stopping.

Jung wrote that real therapy begins when the patient sees that it is not his past holding him back, not the fault of his parents any longer, but that he is standing in his own way. He is stuck and the only one making him continue to be stuck, is himself. An unconscious part of his personality continues to carry Mother and Father inside, Mother and Father who bar the way to wholeness, consciousness, and all that he wants. Mother and Father can be dead and moldering in the grave, but he still seems shackled to them by unknown bonds. This is the personal unconscious, the counterpart of his conscious attitude. "It will leave him no peace and will continue to plague him until it has been accepted," Jung wrote (Collected Works 7, ¶88).

Sometimes, leaving home and getting out on our own is enough to liberate us from the psychological clutches of the past. But many times this is not the case, and, thanks to the personal unconscious, we unconsciously take Mother, Father, and Past with us, projecting their images onto others-friends, lovers, spouse, children, co-workers, analyst, therapist. This continues until, around middle age, disillusionment sets in and many years of projecting one's own anger onto others and blaming someone or something "out there" exhausts the individual, who finally comes to see that this is his or her own life. This is the time of renewal, if the individual will accept the dissolution of old ties, the destruction of old illusions, and put an end to the transference of old images to new figures (CW 7, ¶91).

transferernce and projection

Eventually, a person realizes that she has been transferring her fantasies, suspicions, grudges, and wounds onto others and begins to recall her projections. She sees herself vacillating between hating others and fuming at them, and idealizing them. In reality, the other person is neither enemy nor savior; he is just another person. The disappointment and disillusionment that results from seeing the truth have the potential of opening up a whole new stage of consciousness and realization. For this reason, I whole-heartedly believe that any time a person is irritated, angry, upset, livid, or has any other reaction to another person, the first thing she should do is stop and recall her projections by using a simple little exercise: Quickly, without analyzing anything, write a quick, short list of all the wrongs the other person has just done you. Just as quickly, on the other half of the page, write down a list of "I" statements that have you doing the exact same behaviors.

For example, you are driving down the road and some fool speeds past you, nearly forcing you off the road. Your adrenalin pumps and your seethe with anger; your anger continues for the next ten miles, as you mentally or even verbally berate the other driver. "You idiot! You numbskull! You inconsiderate bastard! People like you make me crazy! You don't care about anyone but yourself! Look at you in your huge, gas-guzzling new truck while I am putting along in my 10-year-old Volvo with my CHILDREN, you asshole!" I'm sure you get the idea; just think back to the last time your righteous indignation went sour and crossed over into (yes) projection of your own, personal unwanted, suppressed garbage. Just because you drive an old Volvo doesn't mean that you don't have a gas-guzzling new fill-in-the-blank something that symbolizes your disdain for everyone else (or whatever you think that huge vehicle symbolized to the guy who just whizzed past you); it's there, all right. It is right there in your life because you are so livid about it. Nobody died; nobody had a wreck. but you are furious. This is because inwardly, something bigger than the actual incident occurred and you reacted with a 10 on a scale of one to 10, when the actual incident was probably only a three. That's your unconscious, reacting by projecting. Call that puppy back and look at yourself, and you will be on your way to greater self-knowledge and tolerance.

archetypes and symbols

Images, symbols, and fantasies are the language of the unconscious, both personal and collective. My own unconscious is needed by the collective unconscious or no perception of collective symbols can be understood. However, my own unconscious has symbols personal to me that others may or may not grasp or empathize with.

An example is the orphan archetype, which I have written about from time to time. The Orphan is, according to Jung, common to all of us because aloneness is common to all; he wrote about the orphan as a sub-type of the Child archetype (I believe it may be its own archetype, but never mind that). From Oliver Twist to Harry Potter, the orphan symbol is alive and well; we understand him and our heart-strings are tugged by him. But why is this? Because the abandoned, lonely part in each of us is appealed to by stories of loss and reunion on a collective, universal level. However, my own personal story of loss, abandonment, and loneliness also illuminates this archetypal symbol. If I do not own my personal abandonment and plumb the depths of my mother- or father-loss, I may sublimate it and work with orphans or become a foster or adoptive parent. On the other hand, I may side with my abandoning parents and even become an abandoning parent, myself (whether to my own children or to others who take the place of the child figure does not matter). As long as I am unconscious to the personal meaning  of my own abandonment and my ego's refusal to move past it, I will act my abandonment and orphanhood out until I am finished with it-or until it finishes me. This is how the collective unconscious and the personal unconscious can work together. The universal parts of the abandonment experience can be used in analysis or therapy to draw connections between what's peculiar to me, and what's common to us all. In fact, knowing that an experience or archetype really is universal may allow my ego to step aside long enough for me to begin to deal with my unknown aspects.

I'll write more later about what figures or symbols (archetypes) serve to usher us into the world of the personal unconscious, if the ego will allow this, because this topic alone will take another several hundred words and I don't want to wear anyone out. Working with what one doesn't consciously want to see or know is not easy! It's difficult work, in my opinion the most difficult, consuming work a person can do. But, because this work takes us through the cloud and the fire and the smoke where we thought God lived, and right into the quiet, still place where He actually is, it is very much worth the effort

So a few days have passed since I was last in work and I think I have had chance to calm down a little, how do I feel? The same, just not as intense. I have noticed it is making my mind wonder off what's happening right now which I need to change and change right now. I still don't think I have come to a complete conclusion of what exactly is making me feel this pissed off and unhappy. I'm sure I will work it out once I have a more clear perception of the events of the last few days. One thing I did notice today is if you get the combined anger of my team about this matter it does not even come close the my anger levels, this seems to make the people who are not happy a little more happy as they know I'm fighting for them on matters like this, this in turn makes me feel happier, its a strange world.

I'm trying to keep away for all the clips you can view on the internet at the moment for Dark Knight, I decided to have the week before staying away from all the new stuff as I think it makes me want to watch it more and I'm not seeing any little extra stuff I don't want to see, I'm a slight geek when it comes to stuff like that, I can sit with a new clip or a different version of a trailer and spot the 3 seconds of different footage compared to the last trailer, this is what happens when it becomes your work. So as I have no more new information (apart from today is when the films gets send from the US of A) thought I would bring you some other interesting information.

Batman Returns hit our screens in 1992, it was Tim Burtons second outing as director with our winged friend and I liked him as I director, he has this dark side to him which I think was exactly what batman needed and I think this can be seen when Joe Schumacher gets his hands on the next in the batman saga Batman Forever (TO MUCH NEON JOE). Anyway there are many facts you can read up on Batman Returns but one fact that seems to get missed is that is was the first film to have a Dolby Digital sound track, now hang on for all the people who would just switch off now, all the film lover and people who just dont like technology, if you enjoy films in any way shape or form this affected you in a big way. All the way up to Batman Returns sound was played in a 2 channel optical (analogue) track, this was left and right, there are slight alterations in the way the sound was mixed to give a slight surround sound channel but nothing that would add any serous definition to the surround sound track. Then we got Dolby Digital (think of Tape Vs CD) this is a 6 channel (left, right, centre, rear left, rear right and sub) and for the first time ever the sound could be mixed in a way when you could have whatever sound coming out of any 6 speakers. Ok that's where I stop with geek talk and bring it in the 'normal talk'. Lets say you are watching a clip from a war movie, Saving Private Ryan is a good example, the beach storming opening, in Analogue there would be explosions in the rear speakers as from all the speaker, the bass would be going with the big booms. In Digital there would be bullets from the left speaker with people screaming from the right, you could hear the engines from the boats in the left rear as that is where the camera has just left, as the camera turns the engines noise goes from left rear to right rear, the people screaming moves to the left rear and the bullets move to the left speaker, the sounds move around to fit the direction the camera is looking. With is new sound it added a new dimension to the viewing experience, its found on DVD and is now being introduced to HD TV.

There have been different version of 'Digital' sound from different people, from DTS to SDDS but 90% of the time at the cinema or at home you would be listening to Dolby Digital.