Fellini at the Modern

Fillini Fellini Follini Fullini, how I love you. But the oportunity of seeing everything you did, is overwhelming. The Ft Worth Modern is hosting the grand retrospective: Tutto Fellini... show two weeks worth of all the films including commercials!!! So far I have seen Variety Lights, Nights of Cabiria, La Strada, La Dolce Vida, and 8 1/2. That is a heavy plate of delicious, wildly flavored pasta, especially seeing the last two back to back.... I had to miss Satyricon the next day, as much as I love that one.... will pick up on Amarcord on Friday I hope....

I have not seen them in a long long time. But Vida and 8 1/2 show no signs of becoming dated. As someone told me when I was in Italy in the early 60's, La Dolci Vida is still going on in Rome, with the same cast still partying, and they even told me who to contact to join in!! I was much too scared. But don't you know I wanted to! I thought I had a handle on the "meaning" of 8 1/2, and I may, but it fell short of my memory of it, but I got some more insights also. The scene with Saraghina and the taking of the waters, the beginning with what was a metaphor, I think, for the whole film, with Guido in his Mercedes in a grid-lock, and locked in, suffocating it seems, trying to get out with others looking on in helpless indifference, and finally breaking out, sailing away, arms outspread, flying like the flying crucifix being flown, dangling from a helicopter in Dolce Vida, and ending up tetherered high above the beach waves, having to be pulled down by his producers and other aids.... As it turns out not his producers, or his tallent, or his women, or his past, can save the current project. Ah, the shame, the waste, but at the end, the old magic is still there and all's well that ends well, it seems..... like an old artist dying, and seeing one last time, the parade of memory and desire dancing, marching, running, to the tamborine in time...

New Element Identified

Elvis and Nixonium

Nixonium

A lot like Bushcronium. Highly unstable, and given to superficial false annalytical results...dificult to pin down... Nixonium found in high places......celebrity status is the goal....

Bushcronium:

A major research institution has just announced the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element has been named "Bushcronium." Bushcronium has one neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 224 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an Atomic mass of 311. These 311 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.
The symbol for Bushcronium is "W".
Bushcronium's mass actually increases over time, since each reorganization causes more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes. This characteristic of moron-promotion leads some scientists to believe that Bushcronium is formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as "Critical Morass." When catalyzed with money, Bushcronium activates Foxnewsium, an element which radiates orders of magnitude, more energy, albeit as incoherent noise, since it has just as many peons but twice as many morons .

vote for the republican of your choice, but vote!!!!

Hehehe


What You Need to Believe To Be a Republican


1. Jesus loves you, and shares your hatred of homosexuals and Hillary
Clinton.

2. Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush's daddy
made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business with him, and a bad
guy when Bush needed a "we can't find Bin Laden" diversion.

3. Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is Communist, but trade
with China and Vietnam is vital to a spirit of international harmony

4. The United States should get out of the United Nations, and our highest
national priority is enforcing U.N. resolutions against Iraq.

5. A woman can't be trusted with decisions about her own body, but
multi-national corporations can make decisions affecting all mankind
without regulation.

6. The best way to improve military morale is to praise the troops in
speeches, while slashing veterans' benefits and combat pay.

7. If condoms are kept out of schools, adolescents won't have sex.

8. A good way to fight terrorism is to belittle our long-time allies, then
demand their cooperation and money

9. Providing health care to all Iraqis is sound policy, but providing
health care to all Americans is socialism. HMOs and insurance companies have
the best interests of the public at heart.

10. Global warming and tobacco's link to cancer are junk science, but
creationism should be taught in schools.

11. A president lying about an extramarital affair is a impeachable
offense, but the president lying to enlist support for a war in which
thousands die, is solid defense policy.

12. Government should limit itself to the powers named in the
Constitution, which include banning gay marriages and censoring the Internet.

13. The public has a right to know about Hillary's cattle trades, but
George Bush's drunk /stoned driving record is none of our business.

14. Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you're a
conservative radio host(Or President). Then it's an illness and you need
our prayers for your recovery.

15. Supporting "Executive Privilege" for every Republican ever born, who
will be born or who might be born (in perpetuity.)

16. What Bill Clinton did is of vital national interest, but what Bush is
doing to this country is irrelevant.

17. Support for hunters who shoot their friends and blame them for wearing
orange vests similar to those worn by the quail.

18. When they wrote the Constitution, the founding fathers meant to say it was OK for the governement to spy on its citizens and track their bank
accounts.

* Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Republican *

e-mail with the enemy

Ronnie of yore.
The young and the wasted.


----- Original Message -----
From: Preston Faggart
To: Ronnie Selman
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 12:18 AM
Subject: gmail address

io.preston@gmail.com my other e-mail address.... yes, io.preston@gmail.com

My other e-mail address I will be using. My sbcglobal.net may not last that much longer since I am changing my account. No more dial-up!

thanks, Preston


On Aug 20, 2006, at 1:12 AM, Ronnie Selman wrote:

That's cool, I added it. I was just wondering though. Sense [sic] you were all ready use to using yahoo mail when you were on the road, why did you go with google? And what happened to prestoni?
When are you going to start using this new address?
As all ways, you were very vague.

Hugs,
Ronnie

Prestoni's response:

this is just a back up. I finally figured out how to get it to come in on Apple Mail, but box of choice. If and when they decide to take away the sbcglobal since I no longer have dial up.... or not supposed to, soon....



On Aug 20, 2006, at 1:24 AM, Ronnie Selman wrote:

You only answered one question. There were 2 others. They were the ones with a ? at the end.

I responded thusly and, I hope, finally:

Don't worry about it. Just keep sending to Prestoni@sbcglobal.net until the ugly 'mailer-daemon' comes back at you, and then start using io.preston@gmail.com. OK. I like the sound of io.preston because Io is one of the larger moons of planet Jupiter. Named for one of the God's girl friends:

1 Greek Mythology a priestess of Hera (Juno, Jupiter's wife) who was loved by Zeus (Jupiter). Trying to protect her from the jealousy of Hera, Zeus turned Io into a heifer. Hera sent a gadfly to torture the heifer, which then fled across the world and finally reached Egypt, where Zeus turned her back into human form.
2 Astronomy one of the Galilean moons of Jupiter, the fifth closest satellite to the planet. It is actively volcanic, colored red and yellow with sulfur compounds, and has a diameter of 2,526 miles (3,630 km).

Capiche?

Snakes on a Plane

Mr Rivas and captive 'conda

The internet is full of laughs about a much buzzed movie coming this Fall, called "Snakes on a Plane". !!!!. It stars Samuel Jackson, and will be a hit, if only a cult hit for a little while. The title is dada. "The Eggplant that ate Chicago" comes to mind, but
"The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes"
,(you can find in IMDB.) And still exists. Remember "Blair Witch", anyone?

Salon.com has some realated stuff today, and introduces us to a crazed snake lover
Jesus Rivas
. This intrepid biologist walks South American rivers barefoot and drags powerful anacondas up. Careful to avoid the vicious caimans and other fruminous bandersnatches. But Rivas actually recounts a "snakes on a plane" episode, when he actually took two pillowcases of baby anacondas up in the air, after convincing security and the pilot that it was safe and cool. (Yes, cool. They stay calm below 85 degrees, and the plane's cabin temp is well below that....)

What next? I want to see Jay and Silent Bob on a plane......

Shaffer Hotel, 1923

Starting from the end of the New Mexico trip, which included three nights in the Hyde State Park above Santa Fe, NM, operas and road trip to Taos, stopped in Madrid, we headed south and to the Manzanos Mountains, through little land grants in green valleys to Manzanos and the state park there. Jesuite Missionaries established outposts here to civilize the locals, after Coronado had no use for anthing but gold, and this was no el dorado. Later apple trees were around, maybe planted by the early settlers, and hence the name: Spanish for Apple Tree...

Good Vittles Cafe

These photos show the Shaffer Hotel in little Mountainaire, New Mexico!!! some 50 miles south of Albuquerque, in the foothills of a very green little valley above the familiar desert plains and below the high forests of the Manzano mountains.




Story: Shaffer, a yankee, came there for health reasons and built and hand detailed this place in the 20's. The place has been kept up ever since, and I guess kept secret too. The Albuquerque couple that took over the dining room, called the Good Vittles Cafe, makes great New Mex-Mex food, judging from the huevos rancheros I enjoyed, and Nancy's veggie omelet, with lots of good yummy tortillas, salsa verde etc. (my mouth waters as I write: the simple beans were divine. I am tasting them now!!) We had breakfast there, following a tip from our Manzano State Park Ranger, our last morning leaving New Mexico, and were amazed.

Concrete fence and gate!!!

The cook and owner of the restaurant said he thought old Shaffer must have had a lot of time on his hands because of the extensive detailing. He sure brought together that folk-Mex look of old pottery and blankets, and "moderne" art deco for the ceiling panels, the fire places and the lights in the restaurant: the chandeliers with the stylized coyotes holding lamps with hand painted shades!!! It is startling to see the broken cross, the reverse Swastika, used extensively, but this was before the rise of the Nazis and dates way back to local Indian design.


/The cast concrete fence for the garden beside the place shows a big sense of design and some humor, with the face of devil himself on the gate. I have never seen work like this before!!!

In the lobby, the radiators are placed up high, in hopes to help heat the rooms upstairs in the cold of winter. They remind you of organ pipes in that context..... The art work, paintings etc. are original, now faded and in need of some restoration, perhaps, done in that era when a lot Yankee artists "discovered" New Mexico, with the writers like D. H. Lawrence and painters like Georgia O'Keefe, in Taos and Albiqu working here.. Just what artist love: cheep living and colorful landscapes and Indio/Spanish culture dating from way back. Santa Fe is, after all, the oldest state capitol in the country, if not the oldest town. It had been a thriving city for a century or three before Washington was even designed!!!




Stuffed with breakfast, we head out east on hightway 60. Straight ahead is Clovis and Lubbock:

Straight as an Arrow

More from the Beach

On the couch...

Natty, Gigi, Sarah

Pawley's Island, SC. The house is old. It is the beach cottage of the Cogshalls and Williams of Darlington, etc. South Carolina, the fabulous, century old Sandycott.....

Back when I first went there, Marian and Tony get a month each year, time-share style, and family and friends enjoy care-free lazy life of surf sand games fishing road trips great food fests.. is this the life?

Beach Life 2005


At first, Marian and Tony, there boys Tony and David, Tony's sister Sister (Alice Carol) and Price Caldwell, their kids Delia and Michael, usually Derek and Erika Knox, with their girls Kathleen and Jenifer. Later NC artist Doug Houchens and wife Maggie would be there.

The roster now includes Tony and Shawn's twins, Adam and Sarah, David and Kelly's kids: Natalie and Gillian, Michael's boys: Thomas and Pierce. Keeping the gender's even in this generation.

Thomas celebrated birthday 10, being the oldest among them. Before he and Pierce arrived, Adam, the only boy so far, had to contend with the ever-active and creative girls, who set up a restaurant, The Tea Cup, in the under-space below. They served food prepared in the kitchen and brought it to the table with great aplomb and efficiancy. I wish that restaurants in that area had such service. Before that, Edward, long time friend of Tony II, entertained the twins and girls with music. He brought sax and tought them some body sounds!!

Alice who likes to go there too, and provides us both transport from Texas could not come this time, (her truck needed work this year), but flew me to Charlotte, and i bussed to Georgetown. Later she flew me back from Raleigh. I guess that represented Texas this year. Doug and Maggie could not come, but I saw them in Davidson waiting to see about Alice, whose last minute delay and ultimate cancelation, caused a bit of uncertainty, but it all ended well. Alice was much missed.....
The Front Porch. Beyond, the Oceana Atlantica