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Stand With Russia / Stand With Putin [2022)
Are you curious about what is going on with Ukraine?
[Stravinsky Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments, 2. Largo]
Well, you should be.
I am.
But I am going to attempt to explain what is going on.
First of all, NATO are a bunch of fucktards.
NATO was formed to defend against the Warsaw Pact (which no longer exists) countries and against the Soviet Union (which also no longer exists).
When did the USSR collapse?
December 26, 1991.
Thirty years ago.
Did NATO disband when this happened?
Did they dissolve?
Of course not.
Why?
Because they are warmongers in disguise.
Why do I say this?
Because NATO was not satisfied to keep the amount of members it had in 1991.
Nooooooo.
It ADDED members.
And it moved in a certain direction.
Which direction was that?
Eastwards.
Towards Russia.
And now they are right on Russia’s doorstep.
Imagine if China or Russia formed a mutual defense treaty with Mexico…or even Guatemala.
And China or Russia put troops and weapons there.
To “protect” those countries against the USA.
Do you think the USA would consider that a threat?
Of course we would.
And before you say the USA is no threat…
[Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8, 1. Largo]
to Mexico or Guatemala, let’s not forget the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) and/or the CIA coup in Guatemala (1954…aka Operation PBSuccess).
So let’s review what NATO has done for the past 30 years.
1999- former member of Warsaw Pact CZECHIA (Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic) joins NATO
1999- former member of Warsaw Pact POLAND joins NATO (borders RUSSIA, BELARUS, and UKRAINE)
2004- former member of Warsaw Pact BULGARIA joins NATO
2004- former region of Soviet Union ESTONIA joins NATO (borders RUSSIA)
2004- former member of Warsaw Pact HUNGARY joins NATO (borders UKRAINE)
2004- former region of Soviet Union LATVIA joins NATO (borders RUSSIA and BELARUS [the constituents of the Russian Federation])
2004- former region of Soviet Union LITHUANIA joins NATO (borders BELARUS and RUSSIA [the constituents of the Russian Federation])
2004- former member of Warsaw Pact ROMANIA joins NATO (borders UKRAINE)
2004- former member of Warsaw Pact SLOVAKIA (Czechoslovakia) joins NATO (borders UKRAINE)
2004- former region of communist state Yugoslavia SLOVENIA joins NATO
2009- former member of Warsaw Pact ALBANIA joins NATO
2009- former region of communist state Yugoslavia CROATIA joins NATO
2017- former region of communist state Yugoslavia MONTENEGRO joins NATO
2020- former region of communist state Yugoslavia NORTH MACEDONIA joins NATO
[Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2, II. Adagio sostenuto (performed by Sviatoslav Richter)]
[Borodin String Quartet No. 2, 3. Notturno]
[Stravinsky Rite of Spring: Harbingers of Spring (Dances of the Young Girls and Boys)]
Let’s not forget that NORWAY (a NATO member) borders RUSSIA.
[Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances, I. Non allegro]
So do you see why Russia is worried?
In addition to Norway, NATO began to further border Russia within eight years of the USSR’s collapse (with the accession of Poland).
That was 1999.
2004 was a major year of provocative, aggressive actions by NATO.
THREE MORE countries WHICH DIRECTLY BORDER RUSSIA were added to the mutual defense pact: Estonia, Latvia, and Lituania.
NATO by 2004 had added FOUR COUNTRIES to its membership which DIRECTLY BORDER RUSSIA.
The Soviet Union had ceased to exist for a mere 13 years by this point.
While it is true that NATO has not (yet) added ANY MORE states that border Russia, it has nevertheless continued to add members (mostly from the former Yugoslavia [but one former Warsaw Pact member]): Albania (Warsaw Pact), Croatia, Montenegro, and North Macedonia.
[for those keeping score, five (!) NATO countries border Russia]
Albania in 2009 was, in some ways, the most audacious (provocative) move.
[Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues for Piano Op. 87, Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C Major (performed by Keith Jarrett)]
Why?
Because Montenegro (a 2017 accession to NATO) is actually TO THE WEST!
NATO was playing checkers.
They skipped over Montenegro.
Only to gobble it up as well eight years later.
And what is east of Albania?
North Macedonia.
A mere two years ago (2020), NATO moved further east with the accession of North Macedonia.
What is east of Europe?
Russia.
For 30 years, in an almost-uninterrupted train, NATO has moved EASTWARDS in a provocative, slow-motion attack on Russia.
Again, remember my metaphor.
What if China or Russia put troops and installations and weapons in Canada?
Oh, they can’t: because Canada is in NATO.
So let’s choose a different metaphor.
Remember when Russia put nukes in Cuba?
It was a big deal, right?
Why?
Because Havana is a mere 228 miles from Miami.
The city of Russia most closely associated with Europe is St. Petersburg.
Warsaw, POLAND (in NATO since 1999) is 729 miles from St. Petersburg.
Vilnius, LITHUANIA (in NATO since 2004) is 448 miles from St. Petersburg.
Riga, LATVIA (in NATO since 2004) is 357 miles from St. Petersburg.
Tallinn, ESTONIA (in NATO since 2004) is 230 miles from St. Petersburg.
[Prokofiev Visions Fugitives, 1. Lentamente]
[Mieczysław Weinberg Piano Quintet, 1. Moderato con moto]
But to reiterate: there are FIVE NATO COUNTRIES that are ASS-TO-FUCKING-ASS with Russia:
Norway
Poland
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania.
I was in the middle of watching Convoy.
The Canadian Freedom Convoy had made Trudeau enact the Emergencies Act.
Truckers were (and are) headed to D.C. for the Peoples Convoy.
The COVID narrative was falling apart.
Omicron had brought the major risks of the pandemic to an end.
More damning information was emerging every day on Fauci, Moderna, Pfizer, CDC, FDA…
Here is but one example:
But now none of that matters, right?
Are you seeing any news about the truckers?
Remember they were THE ONLY FUCKING THING GOING ON IN THE WORLD just a week ago.
Every country had their own trucker protest.
[Prokofiev Symphony No. 1, I. Allegro]
Did all of that just stop?
We were up to 12,122 reports of death to the HHS VAERS system in relation to the administration of the COVID vaccines in the USA (according to the CDC’s criminally-parsed data).
Open VAERS had it at 23,615 reports of death.
And remember that these numbers should be multiplied by a factor of 10 because of the historical underreporting to the VAERS passive surveillance system.
Take a look at Kawasaki disease.
A perfect example of how, historically, LESS THAN ONE PERCENT of vaccine adverse reactions (including serious ones like Kawasaki disease) had made it into the VAERS system.
So we are talking about 121,220 deaths.
Or, probably, 236,150 deaths.
And that was as of a week ago.
But that doesn’t matter anymore.
Anyone who rammed through these #NeitherSafeNorEffective vaccines are going to pay no price for their crimes against humanity.
Why?
Because the situation in Ukraine has rendered everything else moot.
Why?
Because Russia has nukes.
And they will probably move nukes into Belarus (as that country ditched its status as nuclear-neutral today).
So the whole world is fixated on Ukraine…because if dumbass Biden and dumbass NATO somehow end up shooting at Russia, there could (pretty quickly) be a nuclear exchange.
The situation could devolve rapidly into all-out nuclear war.
What a way to make everyone forget about the past two years, right?
Why were the truckers even in Ottawa?
Because of the killer vaccines and the stupid fucking mandates.
But the threat of death and incineration by nuclear weapons has totally wiped the memory of citizens on planet Earth.
But there is something more insidious going on.
EVERY NEWS SOURCE ON THE PLANET IS MAKING ZELENSKY OUT TO BE A HERO.
AND MAKING UKRAINE OUT TO BE VICTIMS.
No mention of the backstory I gave you.
No mention that NATO has moved eastwards (for no good reason) for 30 years.
So I say, fuck Zelensky!
Fuck Ukraine!!!
I pray every night for the children and elderly of Ukraine.
But I gotta tell you something.
Ukraine fucked up.
They could have investigated Joe Biden and Hunter Biden.
But they didn’t.
And that’s a big reason why Biden is President today.
So congratulations, Ukraine!
You got the President you wanted.
Joe Motherfucking Biden.
[Kalinnikov Symphony No. 1, IV. Finale. Allegro moderato]
We are now at Defcon 2.
Some people think Defcon 5 is bad…like an F5 tornado.
Defcon 5 means the U.S. is at a state of readiness associated with peace.
Defcon 1 means the U.S. state of readiness is that of wartime or imminent nuclear threat.
A couple of days ago we were at Defcon 3.
Not great, but not horrible.
Yes, it has deteriorated.
We are now at Defcon 2.
According to public OSINT analysis.
The actual Defcon level is not made public.
[Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture]
Why did Russia invade Ukraine?
Because in September Ukraine’s new publicly-released National Security Strategy included their express desire and intent to join NATO.
Russia has had enough.
Russia was patient for 30 years.
Why else did Russia invade Ukraine?
Because “hero” Zelensky publicly announced approximately one year ago that his goal was to MILITARILY take back Crimea from Russia. And how was he gonna do that? By joining NATO, of course.
So Zelensky is certainly, while not in the traditional sense, a comedian.
And his joke is his foreign policy.
Which has now led to the deaths of many of his countrymen.
What a punch line!
Let me explain one further thing.
Russia is fighting NOW so that they don’t have to fight a bigger, deadlier war LATER.
Ukrainians are stupid fucking idiots that don’t realize (or care?) that their corrupt country had a major role in looking the other way so that Joe Biden could be elected/installed.
Those dying for Russia are heroes.
Those dying for Ukraine are morons…in service to a moron government.
Russia is not communist.
Are they a little heavy-handed?
Yes.
Why?
Because pricks like George Soros try to overthrow all the countries (Georgia, for instance) in their region.
And don’t forget the recent overthrow of the Kazakh government.
Aside from Ukraine (which was the “bread basket” of the former Soviet Union [as Zbigniew Brzezinski described it]), Kazakhstan was the most important Soviet Republic.
Don’t forget that Russia went into Kazakhstan on a “peacekeeping” mission.
And they were very successful.
So Russia is heavy-handed.
Putin is heavy-handed.
Because, otherwise, Russia will cease to exist.
Putin is doing his job.
I perceive that he loves his country.
His first responsibility is TO HIS PEOPLE.
He is the leader of RUSSIA.
He is not trying to win a popularity contest.
So to all the Russians who wanna protest, get the fuck out of Russia.
Go to the paradise of the European Union.
Claim refugee status.
Whine and complain that Putin is so bad.
But Putin is protecting your culture and your people.
Let me reiterate.
RUSSIA IS NOT A COMMUNIST STATE.
China is.
Fuck China.
And Russia is far from perfect, but NATO needs to BACK THE FUCK OFF!
As an American, I suggest this:
the USA needs to immediately leave NATO.
The USA needs to also immediately expel the United Nations from New York City.
And the USA needs to exit the United Nations.
If Europe wants their own military, fine.
Call it NATO without the USA.
Donbas and Luhansk asked for Russia’s help.
Putin said yes.
Has Putin gone further than helping these two regions?
Yes.
Why?
Here is one possible reason:
Putin has a responsibility to help those of Russian extraction if he can.
He could.
So he did.
Would you expect Israel to help Jews in some place in the world if they were in trouble?
Yes, you would.
What if those Jews were in a country bordering Israel?
Would you expect Israel to intercede?
Yes, you would.
Being Russian is no less special than being Jewish.
And that is why I have made this playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6m9ArhvB67gGDRosUFD78b?si=987de9a823154d80
You must get to know the works of Dostoyevsky.
Karamazov.
You must get to know the composers.
I have put them on a silver platter for you.
Like beluga caviar.
Have some egg.
Some onion.
On a cracker.
Have some champagne.
But, by all means, have some vodka while you are reading Karamazov.
[Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Variation 18]
You must get to know the films of Eisenstein.
They transcend communism.
It is art.
Potemkin is one of the best films ever made.
And Shostakovich made brilliant, tortured music…IN SPITE OF COMMUNISM!
Gaze upon the paintings of Chagall.
Born in Belarus.
[Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker (Suite), IIb. Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy]
It is no less special to be Russian than it is to be Jewish.
And, believe it or not, one can be both.
https://tass.com/russia/1405599
[Stravinsky The Firebird Suite, Finale]
Who really started the attack?
Was it really Russia?
What about this vaunted “false-flag” that the USA government gushed about?
Did Ukraine actually start this conflict?
2/22/22
Was Ukraine going to irradiate the region by using Chernobyl as an asymmetric weapon (a giant dirty bomb)?
Why was Russia so insistent about taking it over?
Russia has nukes.
Russia has uranium, plutonium, etc.
Russia doesn’t need nuclear material to terrorize a region.
It already has nuclear material.
I suspect something was awry at Chernobyl.
Do you think the FSB and GRU are able to decrypt Ukrainian communications?
I do.
What are the new accessions to NATO saying?
Czechia was very enlightened to drop their vaccine mandate a few weeks ago.
But who was on the front lines of the “get Russia” parade?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/czech-president-russia-cut-off-102059014.html
For NATO, and its former Soviet/Warsaw-Pact members, it is not enough that the USSR fell apart in 1991.
THESE PSYCHOPATHS WANT THE TOTAL DESTRUCTION AND ANNIHILATION OF RUSSIA.
That is not peace.
That is not a peaceful mutual-defense organization.
NATO is the aggressor.
Russia has (finally!) acted in self-defense.
This is the last opportunity Russia has to act without the repercussions being GUARANTEED nuclear war.
Putin made the right choice.
[Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 1, 1. Grave – Allegro ma non troppo]
China was right to side with Russia.
And I fucking hate China.
And Russia was right to side with China.
Why?
Because NATO and the moronic foreign policy of Biden forced them into it.
https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/china/ukraine-crisis-china-russia-war-us-b2022237.html
Remember when Biden was barely in office and he called Putin “a killer”?
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/joe-biden-calls-vladimir-putin-killer.html
What kind of diplomacy is that?!?
Did he go to the Rex Tillerson school of foreign policy???
But let’s get one other thing straight.
[Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, The Story of the Kalender Prince]
There are only two mRNA vaccines approved anywhere in the world.
Ever.
In world history.
And both of them are COVID vaccines.
We are talking about the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
Are they approved in China?
No.
Not at all. Not even for emergency use.
Are they approved in Russia?
No.
Not at all. Not even for emergency use.
Why?
Because Russia and China developed their own COVID vaccines (many of them the traditional inactivated-virus vaccines).
Russia has four COVID vaccines:
–https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_V_COVID-19_vaccine
–https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_Light
–https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EpiVacCorona
–https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoviVac_(Russia_COVID-19_vaccine)
[the final one is an inactivated-virus vaccine]
As I have proven in many articles, the COVID vaccines available in the USA are neither safe, nor effective.
Same for those of the U.K., Australia, etc.
What do the vaccines have to do with Russia invading Ukraine?
Use your brains.
Why would Russia and China not approve the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines AT ALL in their countries?
Isn’t it interesting how they (China and Russia) have also aligned themselves in regard to foreign policy?
What do the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have to do with their shared foreign policy (if they do at all)?
So Russia has one inactivated-virus vaccine for COVID and ZERO mRNA vaccines.
You can see what China does and doesn’t have here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_COVID-19_vaccine_authorizations
But let’s get back on topic.
Have you seen Biden brag about getting Viktor Shokin (a Ukrainian prosecutor) fired while Biden was Obama’s Vice President?
Now why would Biden be so interested in a Ukrainian prosecutor?
Why would he execute a quid pro quo using American taxpayer-funded loan guarantees to extort Ukraine into firing Shokin?
Listen for yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=UXA–dj2-CY
[Pauly Deathwish “Россия”]
Why, indeed?
What was Hunter Biden doing over in Ukraine?
Was he on the board of directors for Ukrainian gas company Burisma?
Was Burisma under investigation by Shokin?
Did the New York Post break this story during the 2020 U.S. election cycle?
Did Twitter lock the New York Post (third-highest circulation in the USA) out of its Twitter account for publishing and sharing the story on Twitter?
https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/
What story did the New York Post publish the next day?
https://nypost.com/2020/10/15/emails-reveal-how-hunter-biden-tried-to-cash-in-big-with-chinese-firm/
Yes, Joe and Hunter Biden are even more corrupt in specific relation to China than they are to Ukraine (if that is even possible). But, of course, China did nothing about this. Because they wanted a President they could control. So they could take Taiwan (which they will shortly do).
So Ukraine had the goods on Joe Biden and Hunter Biden.
But they swept it under the rug.
Because they wanted Joe Biden to win.
So that they could join NATO.
And retake Crimea by military force.
[Prokoviev Alexander Nevsky, VII. Alexander’s Entry into Pskov]
[Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition, The Great Gate of Kiev]
So, I hate to say it, dear Ukrainians, but you should have been more involved in the politics of your country.
You, in effect, “voted” for Joe Biden.
Congratulations.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ukraine-prosecutor-biden-burisma-back-off-state-department-files
Are you wishing now that you had exposed Joe Biden for the corrupt piece of shit that he is?
It’s a little late, maybe, to be researching this.
But you know who else knows about this?
The U.S. military.
Where is the bravery of the U.S. military?
Are you just gonna zip your lips and go fight another pointless war so that Joe Biden can cover his ass for all the mistakes he has made during his first year in office?
In case YouTube (owned by Alphabet Inc. [the owners of Google]) decide to take down the video link I posted above.
Here it is, once again: Joe Biden BRAGGING that he got a Ukrainian prosecutor fired by dangling billions of dollars in loan guarantees over their heads.
https://rumble.com/v7u8sd-joe-biden-admits-to-getting-prosecutor-fired.html
This is not a conspiracy theory.
It is a conspiracy.
It is a factual conspiracy.
Conspiracy fact.
Joe Biden conspired to get a Ukrainian prosecutor fired.
Why?
Was that prosecutor investigating Burisma gas company–a Ukrainian company on whose board his son Hunter Biden sat?
Yes.
Shokin was investigating that.
Until he was fired.
At Vice President Joe Biden’s behest.
The counterargument will be that Burisma was under investigation BEFORE Hunter Biden joined the board.
So there is nothing wrong with Joe Biden getting the prosecutor fired.
In fact, Joe Biden was actually trying to PREVENT corruption in Ukraine.
Give me a fucking break!
Joe Biden was the “point man” for Ukraine AND China during the Obama years.
Does his son, Hunter, taking a job on the board of a Ukrainian gas company that was under investigation for corruption sound like an above-board thing to do?
Never mind whether they were under investigation or not.
Why the fuck did his son join the board of Burisma while his dad was the “point man” for Ukraine?
And look at the second New York Post link I posted above.
Who was “the big guy”?
10% set aside for “the big guy”?
Hunter Biden did a big deal for a hedge fund after he and his father flew on Air Force 2 to China.
So who is “the big guy”?
Who was getting 10% of the “finder’s fee” for this deal?
Was it Vice President Joe Biden?
I think it fucking was.
That’s called SELLING THE OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
Joe Biden was never fit to be President.
These are disqualifying CRIMES that he committed.
And Ukraine could have done the right thing and exposed it.
But they didn’t.
Great job, Ukrainians.
Thanks a lot.
Every news service in the world covered for Joe Biden.
Those same news services that are calling Zelensky a “hero” and vilifying Putin.
That same ugly chorus.
Viktor Shokin has spoken up.
There was an assassination attempt made on him.
Three shots from a sniper’s rifle.
Bulletproof glass on his office window saved his life.
Giuliani told you all this.
But you didn’t believe him.
You wanted to believe that Trump is a bad guy.
And maybe he is.
But Biden is far worse.
I am no longer in support of Trump.
Because Trump has supported these moronic vaccines.
Wake me up when Trump calls the neither-safe-nor-effective vaccines bullshit:
https://open.spotify.com/track/3VXsCvRbs1B6BmsVoeAvrQ?si=d8b08ba45df4415a
By the way, this wasn’t just any prosecutor that Joe Biden got fired.
It was essentially the Ukrainian Attorney General.
That’s a pretty fucking big deal, right?
Did Joe Biden, whose son saw fit to cash in on his dad being Obama’s Ukraine “point man” by joining the board of Burisma, really have the moral “high ground” to tell Ukraine who should or shouldn’t be their top prosecutor?
https://www.westernjournal.com/joe-biden-probe-ukraine-top-prosecutors-firing-report/
Does the U.S. military leadership love their country (our country) as much as Putin loves his?
We should just vote Joe Biden out, right?
Three years from now.
Biden hasn’t done that bad during his first year, has he?
I mean, WWIII being imminent is no big deal, right?
I mean…we can make it to the mid-terms, right?
And then Joe Biden’s power will be lessened, right?
So we can make it basically another year with an imminent WWIII hanging over our head.
No problem.
I’m sure Biden will handle this with the same finesse that he handled the Afghanistan withdrawal.
Speaking of which…General Lloyd Austin (who forced our troops to take neither-safe-nor-effective vaccines) and Mark Milley (who did nothing to stop Secretary Austin’s treasonous actions) did such a great fucking job getting us out of Afghanistan.
I’m sure Putin is shaking in his boots.
But here’s an interesting thought.
Putin is a man of ACTION.
His country was/is threatened.
He acted.
What has our U.S. military done to protect OUR country?
They just take orders, right?
Just following orders.
I have a bad feeling that they will be following Joe Biden into oblivion…and dragging us all down with them.
The U.S. military can’t take action.
Because there’s never been a military coup in the USA.
And we wouldn’t wanna ruin that record.
If we’re gonna be nuked, might as well go out with a pristine record of civilian control of the military.
Is Joe Biden fit to be President?
Is he a criminal?
Did he sell the office of the Vice President to Ukraine and China?
How about his mental fitness?
Is he cognitively fit to be Commander-in-Chief?
I’m sure if he weren’t, people like Pete Buttigieg and his husband Chasten (and their two newborns [their dads’ vaginas must be aching!]) will make the right decision and take one month of paternity leave (two fathers!) rather than two…to make sure the supply chain is functioning properly and ports are working well and there aren’t any cargo ships anchored off the coast of, oh, I don’t know, Galveston, or something…and Mayor Pete (who is a WEF Young Global Leader) will invoke the 25th Amendment because Biden is cognitively not fit to lead.
And then we would have dumbass Kamala Harris as President for the next three years.
Pretty rosy picture, eh?
If Biden was removed via the 25th Amendment and Kamala was impeached (just give her time), then our President would be Nancy Pelosi.
That is the outlook for the next year.
Anyone wondering if Joe Biden really got the most votes in the history of the USA?
81 million votes.
More votes than Obama.
Because he was THAT popular!
He was extraordinarily popular in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Detroit, but didn’t do all that well with the black populations in other major U.S. cities.
Anyone find that a bit odd?
He did REALLY, REALLY WELL in those four cities.
Like, abnormally-well.
He was probably carried by Kamala.
Who left the Democratic Primaries due to her popularity with voters.
She was polling at less that 1% when she dropped out.
So you got the President you wanted, Ukraine!
You made a pretend effort to rectify things.
Let’s not forget about Jan. 6 (which was worse than 9/11 or Pearl Harbor).
Do you Ukrainians think you are experiencing terror and carnage?
You have no idea what AOC went through on January 6.
https://republicbrief.com/russia-threatens-military-consequences-for-2-more-countries/
Let’s just make one thing clear.
Russia is not fucking around.
Is Sweden gonna join NATO?
Not if Russia has anything to say about it.
Is Finland going to join NATO?
Over Russia’s dead body.
Russia has had enough.
They have let NATO expand–right up to their very doorstep–for 30 years.
Ukraine is the line in the sand.
“Hero” Zelensky said he wanted (and intended) to take back Crimea by military force.
He said that 11 months ago.
Then, in September, Ukraine released their national security strategy: a stated desire and intention to join NATO.
Putin gave Biden and the West (Macron, et al.) a chance to call off the dogs.
Biden and NATO would concede nothing.
So Putin attacked.
And Zelensky is the “hero”.
And Putin is the bad guy.
And we just got out of a 20-year war in Afghanistan, so I guess it’s time for us to go fight in Eastern Europe.
In Ukraine.
How’s that Mexican border looking?
Wall finished?
Oh, we’re just gonna let immigrants walk across the border forever, right?
Because we only have 10% inflation.
So we can, obviously, afford to just take in and house the world.
Fuck it!
And Joe Biden NEEDS these voters.
These are DEMOCRAT voters.
They want socialism.
They NEED socialism.
They are poor as fuck.
And the socialism in their countries (like Mexico) was not working so well.
So they came here…to upgrade to a better socialism.
Except for the fact that we didn’t become a wealthy country because of socialism.
Quite the opposite, actually.
But anyway…send our military to Ukraine.
Make sure Ukraine’s sovereignty is protected.
And fuck American soverignty, right, U.S. military?
But how about the biolabs?
Were there biological (and chemical?) weapons in Ukraine?
Did Putin just bomb the sites?
Was the real “false-flag” gonna be a bioterror release by NATO to take over (close) the Bosporus and occupy Ukraine?
Was NATO going to release a bioweapon in Ukraine?
Were United Nations “peacekeeping” forces going to occupy Ukraine?
Did Putin preempt this plan by blowing up their biolabs?
If Fauci (and Daszak and Baric) was involved in the creation of COVID-19, then it wasn’t solely China’s fault.
China stood to gain.
Always ask, “Cui bono?”
But who were the American players?
If DARPA did indeed refuse the EcoHealth Alliance (Daszak) proposal to develop a “bat vaccine” (which was to be sprayed into caves in China), did NIAID (under Fauci) accept the proposal?
Was EcoHealth Alliance a front for the CIA?
What about the Defense Threat Reduction Agency at Fort Belvoir?
Why do they still have an ongoing contract with EcoHealth Alliance to study bat-borne disease in “Western” Asia?
Hm.
Western Asia, eh?
Like Ukraine???
Turkey is key.
Dividing line between Europe and Asia, right?
And St. Petersburg is a European city.
But what is really the dividing line of Europe and Asia in respect to Russian territory?
Where does Europe end and Asia begin?
What about the World Military Games?
Do you trust China?
I don’t.
But is there something to this story that COVID-19 started WAY BEFORE December 2019 (January 2020 in the USA)?
Are a bunch of people just trying to cover their asses?
Who planned the plandemic?
If it were a murder investigation (and it should literally be), the three prime suspects should be: Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, and Anthony Fauci.
Beyond them, I would throw in Pope Bergoglio and Prince Charles as very strong suspects.
But of those three–Schwab, Gates, and Fauci–they had the trifecta: means, motive, and opportunity.
They were, to extend the metaphor, caught red-handed at the scene of the crime.
Throw in Peter Daszak.
Throw in Stephane Bancel of Moderna.
What about Ralph Baric?
And don’t forget the Chinese in Wuhan.
“Bat lady”.
The only relevant thing Trump has done recently was to “praise Putin”, but then he turned around and called Zelensky a hero.
https://www.infowars.com/posts/trump-praises-putin/
Trump has made himself completely irrelevant with his stance on the COVID vaccines available in the USA.
But, hey: if you’re French, I have good news for you:
There’s only one problem:
is Putin controlled by Klaus Schwab?
Schwab brags in a video (in the above article) that Putin was a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum (WEF [Davos]).
Who are the other big feathers in Schwab’s cap?
Merkel, Trudeau, Macron, Ardern, De Croo, Sanna Marin…
It is possible (as of last week) to verify Macron, Ardern, De Croo, and Sanna Marin (as well as Buttigieg, Tulsi Gabbard, and Maria Bartiromo) here:
https://www.younggloballeaders.org/community
My gut tells me that former-Stasi (KGB) operative Vladimir Putin went to YGL to COLLECT INFORMATION.
Same with Maria Bartiromo.
As for the rest?
Fuck ’em!
Gabbard?
A fucking fake.
-PD
disassemble [2021)
Way behind on Pauly Deathwish.
Right off with XTRMNTR.
Shoot speed.
Kill light.
Spirit of rock and roll.
His most popular track at this time.
Straight rock.
Bad boy.
Drugs flowing through the veins.
Overdose of light.
God is the ultimate drug.
Coming back from depression.
Girlfriend goes on a date with another bloke.
Big depression.
Drugs consume.
Always creative.
From London to Paris.
Vintage keys like French band Air.
Every touch from two tracks imbued with Radiohead experimentation.
Pink Floyd bass.
Waters lives.
Here come the warm jets.
Camera clicking photos.
Virgin suicides.
Tomita.
Amazing groove.
Levon and Robbie Robertson.
Rhythm of the saints.
This bloke has nothing to live for.
His girlfriend is a total fucking bitch.
Alone in the world.
Short circuit.
Trying to overcome.
She don’t give a fuck.
Melancholy.
Info op birthed.
Suicide Girls.
Anti-Antifa.
Bloke has sophistication in attack.
Philosophy.
Wars back started BLM.
Kept powder dry.
Amazing hip hop.
Stevie Wonder.
Shaft.
The Sea and Cake.
Jazzy Jeff.
Fresh Prince.
Young MC.
Stereolab as always.
Trump supporter smart.
Assessment of coup against Deep State.
Progress report.
Situationism.
Velvet Underground.
The balls to review his own albums.
Balls?
Toxic relationship.
Electronic music.
Chemical Brothers.
Dark side of the moon.
Fever dream.
Of the wall.
Oasis.
Noel feeding back.
Liam blowing harp.
Ringo’s son on drums.
Don’t believe the truth.
Soundtrack music.
Hanna.
How she lives now.
Soylent green…2022.
Beastie Boys.
Nigel Godrich as always.
Big Star Third.
Kanga Roo.
As important as the Velvets.
Drug withdrawal.
Big Star early albums.
Chiming.
Like The Byrds.
Phil Spector lives in the glockenspiel.
Lester Bangs lives here.
Lavage.
Many disappointed patriots.
Lamenting the shitty U.S. military.
While honoring the 13.
And Colonel Scheller.
A handful of gems in a culture of shit.
Astrology.
Drag balls.
Berlin.
I love faggots as much as anyone.
David, Lou, Iggy.
Heroes.
God is the only hope.
So I prayed tonight.
Twin peaks.
Nobody loves me.
Keeping real.
Mercury Rev.
See you on the other side.
Rolling the dice.
So long, Charlie.
I’m guessing you got the vaccine.
Poor bastard.
BBC.
AstraZeneca.
Elvis.
Gene Vincent.
Eddie Cochran.
Happy Hairy (?) Hardon Q.
QAnon Christian Slater.
The first of a long succession.
The Verve.
Anthemic melodies befitting Handel.
Air.
Matrix done right.
First song to mention Event 201?
“Follow the White Rabbit”.
Shhh/peaceful.
Very Jefferson Airplane.
Psychedelic march.
Woodstock.
Altamont.
Power to the people.
Pro-Trump psych rock.
Fucking awesome!
AMERICA!!!
Be a rebel.
Kanye poser.
No vaccines, asshole!
Good job.
Adapt.
Drozd.
Great snare work.
Verging on adrenochrome.
Hefner and Monroe.
Sexy dead bodies.
Pay to grind for eternity.
Absolute Flaming Lips.
Transmissions from the satellite heart.
Keith Cleverley.
What is God gonna do for America?
What is America gonna do for God?
Nation falling apart.
Amnesiac.
Hail to the creep.
Rollerskate Skinny.
Darth Vader.
Lloyd Austin.
Scorsese Glass Kundun soundtrack.
Well-done!
Carl Stalling project!
Helmut Lachenmann.
Deserter’s Songs.
Underture.
This is a SOPHISTICATED FUCKING RECORD.
Violent Femmes.
Tom Waits.
Bobby McFerrin.
AUSTRALIA, WAKE UP YOU CUNTS!!!
Invading Sydney!
Give me ANZAC!!
Let’s go!!!
ACK-ACK!!
Fucking awesome return to Bobby Gillespie.
Great fucking song!
“Australia, Here I Come!”
Even uses the comma correctly 🙂
Riot city blues.
“Nitty Gritty”
MC5.
Baby won’t ya?
PERTH!!!
BON SCOTT!!!!
Love and Rockets.
Bitch who dumped me.
How?
By not giving a fuck.
By proxy.
By not participating.
By being a selfish cunt.
Q Team, come in!
How many years?
Second American Revolution.
Miles Davis.
There’s a Riot Goin’ On.
Late-Godard.
Second Pauly Deathwish song to mention Jean-Luc.
Who the fuck is this nigger?!?
Def Leppard.
She’s a fucking black hole.
I take it all back.
A pathetic bleeding vagina.
Money soothes all pains.
Paul Simon.
She’s a loser.
Jack Nitzsche all the way.
Rips your heart out.
Fucking hell.
I will die lonely.
Having given it all away.
Hear the typewriter click.
Are there two people?
Or one?
QAnon stylometric analysis.
Switzerland.
Obvious split in styles.
Who?
Final track.
Primal Scream.
Manchester.
Manchester City.
Gimme the rain, the rain, the rain, the glorious rain!!!!
Luton.
I got close.
Freezing your tits off.
Seeing your breath.
We coming for the sexy bitches.
With stellar boob jobs.
Jazz funk.
Acid.
Trip hop.
Acid house.
World party.
Factory Records above all.
Baggy as fuck.
Gimme them saggy titties.
Real better than fake any day.
Ain’t returning my messages.
Would love that bitch like Cleopatra.
Suck her toes.
Conspiracy theory king and queen.
Blew it several times.
Because heartless bitch usurper.
Same birthday as Lester Bangs and Nostradamus.
Ends with Pocket Symphony.
Everybody hertz.
Ya feel me?
iTunes.
Spotify.
-PD
Bronson [2008)
Three hospitals.
Three towers.
Alan Franey running Broadmoor on recommendation of Jimmy Savile.
From 1968 onwards, Jimmy Savile had his own room at Broadmoor for his “charity” work.
Savile had a personal set of keys to Broadmoor from 1968 till 2004.
Or 2009.
Unsupervised access to some wards.
Mad max.
Black hawk down.
Tom Clancy.
I got close to Luton.
In the rain.
Wandsworth.
Gary Glitter.
James Earl Ray.
Julian Assange.
Oscar Wilde.
Pete Doherty.
Broadmoor 1982.
With that fucker Jimmy Savile on the loose.
Who’s the real criminal?
Wormwood Scrubs.
Babyshambles.
True romance.
She’s marrying Brian.
Brixton.
Mick Jagger.
Glenn Danzig.
New Jersey.
Bristol.
Rock and roll part II.
Belmarsh.
GITMO as a verb.
WikiLeaks.
Tommy Robinson.
Budgie.
Motorboating.
Nicolas Winding Refn.
Christina Hendricks.
Lively and Reynolds in New Orleans.
Honoré soon gun-grabbing again like in Katrina.
Most certainly masterpiece.
Birds.
Pajaros.
Magritte.
Un Chien andalou.
Bronson Salvador.
Jung death wish.
Verdi.
Refn Jewish Dane.
Wagner.
Little-known Attila.
It was my destiny like Rachmaninoff.
Ring cycle.
Stolen.
Richard Strauss.
Bruckner 4.
Delibes.
Deliberate.
Puccini.
Watch for Bregenz.
Q ear piece.
Lapel.
-PD
zenith [2021)
Jesus and Mary Chain.
Black tar.
Caramelized sugar.
A dangerous confection.
Hit to Death in the Future Head.
Summer is here.
I hear.
Vacuum cleaner solo.
Theremin.
Race cars.
Boys peel out.
High-speed boats.
And again with the UPC scan.
Breaking up on reentry.
Serious audio fuckery.
And from this right into kung fu. Peter Sellers on Bowie’s Low. Trance. But really what we have here is excellent counterpoint. Lunatic Harness. Polyrhythms. Album breaks down soon. Fast. Abruptly. Mental block regarding Wuhan origin. Harmonic outline you would never find in China. Terry Riley. A Rainbow in Curved Air. Eno. Visconti. And the others involved. A beauty that inspired Philip Glass. This is what we have. Low and heroes. Symphonies. Glass. Riley. Minimalism. Album called zenith. Track two already hits “Nadir”. What’s the arc here? Arc-en-ciel? Arkansas? Immediately pensive. Very unnerving. Pop rock track. Into existential oblivion. Abrupt modulation. Uncomfortable. Eccentric. Was there a thought process behind this? Commerce ruins everything. Imperfect masterpieces. The rules of the game. Radiohead. Joseph Arthur? Sparklehorse. The Magnetic Fields. Gay baritone. Sad sack confessional poetry in the world of Berryman’s Dream Songs. Brian Jonestown Massacre. The Verve. Strung out in heaven. J. Spaceman shooting up while praying. Don’t knock it… Drug addiction is real. Mental problems are real. Here we are. 2020 fucked us up. And now we wait for the next shoe to drop. Smashing Pumpkins. “Silver Fuck”? Into Sonny Rollins? Epstein. Gene Ammons. Hard to tell it’s (not) real. Which parts? Yes. No. Fooling the ear with Dave Fridmann. A totally schizophrenic record so far. Here we go! “Belgian Lace, Pale Black Mascara…” This is more like it. Rollerskate Skinny. Martin Rev. Lots of counterpoint here. Fux me up. Disney xylophones. Internal rhyme-sanity. Dylan puking up brilliance. Always Roger Waters with the bass. Always The Wall. Pompeii. Hail to the Thief. Again and again. Trying to break new ground. And it does. Yerself is Steam. Album starts to make sense after five tracks. 1 & 5. This is not bullshit. I don’t know about the jazz. I don’t know about the monotonous instrumentals. Absolutely “Car Wash Hair”. Suzanne Thorpe would be proud. Seems to be talking about tits. A good ride. Drum machine chugging away. Can still have a good groove. Wild Acoustic Chamber Orchestra. W.A.C.O. Woodwinds and glockenspiel. Boces. What the fuck is this shit? O.K. computer. Sounds like some QAnon stuff. I feel Carlos Santana coming on. This is what Assange jams out to. Lots of plays at Fort Meade. Salsa. James Brown. Puerto Rican funk. As AOC goes to jail. Serious national security issues for lyrics. Fictional charges? Tracers everywhere. This theory involves an actual conspiracy. Criminal conspiracy outlined. By players. Event 201. Short circuit. Johnny 5 is alive. Legalistic funk. QAnon wet dream. FISAgate. “Spy Gate”. Somebody send this to Sean Hannity. Obamagate. Where is John Durham? Ryan Dark White knows the truth about Rosenstein. How many coup attempts by the Left? Back to Billy Corgan. Ok, so we have an Alex Jones connection. Early-’90s goodness. Butch Vig. Dream pop. James Iha. Bet this guy knows the real story about the Standard Hotel(s). Great lyrics! Must be some inside jokes here. But HOLY FUCK! He nailed the “Holes” trumpet solo. Deserter’s Songs. God damn it. How did they do this? The liner notes say Pauly Deathwish has also produced all four of these albums. Kind of a Jimmy Page thing going on. Great drum sound. Yo La Tengo. “Mayonnaise”. Siamese Dream. Benjamin Britten reference? Slick! So this guy basically had a music education on par with Jack Nitzsche. And then went for scumbag rockroll like Phil Spector. Gotta respect this weird marriage. This fascination with grunge. Dinge. And the facility to clean it up like a chandelier. Very fucking impressive. No record label. Kinda sounds like no funding. No budget. The Delgados. Hate. The Great Eastern. More Spiritualized telephony. The Wall. Which is to say, Bob Erzin. And as dark as Berlin. Which is to say, Bob Ezrin. Neil Young vibe. Tonight’s the Night. Some dark-ass shit. Nick Kent, where y@t? IV Thieves. Coulda done this. What if Chris “Frenchie” Smith had produced this? This kid like a protege. I hear the moniker (stage name) was bestowed by Frenchie Smith. Strings good. Eastern European orchestra. Must have cost a small fortune. Arcade Fire. French cinema. Romantic-era harmony. But pierced. Sophisticated. Absolutely Floyd. “In The Flesh”. Last track on Harvest. Words between the lines. The promise of the ’60s went to shit in the ’70s. Where’s QAnon? Where’s Nakasone? Where’s CYBERCOM? Keith Alexander on Amazon board. Velvet Underground feeding back. Les Rallizes Denudes. Primal Scream. “Swastika Eyes”. ADAT. DAT machine. Sampling. Stereolab. Back to another standout track. “Chaconne”. Will Smith in the summertime. Some slick shit. Messiaen. Jonny Greenwood. Lyrics world-class. All those sand paintings. Write and destroy. Suicide girls. Thom Yorke’s brain doesn’t have this facility. He’s a great stylist. Definitely an homage. And to Godard. Snow white and psycho. Heavy shit for Laetitia Sadier and Tim Gane to check out. Not far from Faust IV. So sweet. John Paul Jones. Ramble on. Charlotte Gainsbourg. Keren Ann. Last track noisy as fuck. Lo-fi. Tom Waits. Sticks together. Some sad shit. Music from Big Pink. Mournful trombone(s). John Simon. “Bird on a Wire”. They don’t make records like this anymore. David Bowie not dead. Great phrasing. Sinatra. Mark Linkous. It’s a Wonderful Life. Believable bass. Upright citizen. Bayou curious. Noise floor drops out. Some perverse humor here. An “album”. It is. Ten songs. Ten different directions. Some tracks stick together. Like a deck of cards shuffled. Lots of variety. Circus peanuts. The orange ones. Pure sugar. Chewy. Strange texture. Lots of melancholy here. What’s this bloke so sad about? Tell Thurston Moore. You gotta hear this shit. Pauly Deathwish’s 4th album (this summer!). Is this guy trying to set a Guinness record or something? And he already has a 5th one out. Christ!
-PD
MZFPK [2021)
Breakfast cereal video game.
Pauly Deathwish’s 3rd album.
I am behind.
I can’t keep up with this guy.
Out of the gates like Flaming Lips.
30,000 feel of despair.
The gash.
Right into Isao Tomita.
Doing Debussy.
Marching.
Martial.
Fantastic noises.
Like first Stereolab album.
Here Come the Warm Jets.
Cheyenne Mountain jams.
I can no longer see what I’m typing.
- What if I type in white? Ahh, yes. That does the trick. But it ruins my style. Louis-Ferdinand would not be happy. Totally Air. Pocket Symphony. Who is Kevin? Shields? Ayers? Fairlight. Synth clouds. Rich chords. Very sophisticated harmonies and arrangements. Cornelius from Japan. This sounds very modern. OH FUCK! Groove is in the motherfucking heart. Vogue! So on track two, we are straight up on a catwalk. But it could be Alan Vega or Martin Rev. Kinda Sun City Girls. Zoviet France. Fridmann never gets this crazy with bass. Wayne is driving it weirder. This was, from what I hear, done with ZERO budget. Is this a dance album? First you have poetry. Then you are prose. Amateurs. Into Odelay. That was a good drum break. The Strokes. Fuzzy vocals. Paliament/Funkadelic. Sly Stone! Later Stereolab. Tim Gane processing. Counter melody! For fuck’s sake. Somebody listen to this bloke. Whoa. What is up with this chorus? Roland Kirk? Like in Switzerland? Definitely hitting some Os Mutantes twee. Lo-fi as fuck. Great Godard tongue in cheek. Apparently about Neil Young and Rick James being in a band together when they were young and still in Canada. Yonge Street? Beats. Drake needs to hear this. Bit crusher lisp. Spiritualized at the grocery store. Swipe barcode. Song peaks at end. Masterful mix. A true climax. Savage mastering on every album. Whole mix jumps. It works. Needle skipping. American Supreme. Claustrophobic. COVID. Sad. Scared. Apocalyptic. The concept of the gaze in cinema. Bass drops in. Feel it in your sex organs. A sexy song. “Cobra Strike”. This is unequivocally a dance album. EDM all up in here. Lots of panning. Spliff it. Micro gestures. Pandemic planning. How long will it last? Soul-crushing. Zombie metaphor. Shaun of the Dead. Masterpiece. Beatle drums. First Velvets album. Rat trails. “Black Angel’s Death Song”. “The New Pollution”. Dr. No. Walther PPK. What does this kid know? He can’t possibly know, can he? Pure phase. Visconti. Lanois. Acid jazz. Nick Cave. Montage, mon beau souci. Flaming Lips. Jeff Tweedy drawl. Jesus and Mary Chain team up with The Cure. Disintegration. Heartbreak here. Who broke his heart? Bleeps and bloops. Robot noises. Heartbeeps. Jazz funk ’70s experimental upright. Great lyrics. Superimposition. Steenbeck! Fucking great lyrics on “Snip Snip”. Oh, damn. Glockenspiel at just the right time! Icy. Air. Virgin suicides. Dazed and confused. Blonde. Braids. Like glazed bread. German. Texas. Floating world. Old world. No one to smoke a doobie with and stare up at green trees. No tits. What is wrong with this world? Rambo. Fort Bragg. Delta. Boykin. Intelligence Support Activity. Send me. George Crumb. Black angels. Jungle echoes. 4thPOG. Ghosts. PSYWAR op. Make it loud. Romeo foxtrot. Shall we dance? Charlie don’t surf. Death on the dance floor. Public Image Ltd. Modes of limited transposition. Messiaen. Primal Scream. Standing with Johnny Rotten. #Trump2021 . But this is more about big tits. Giant opals. Garth Hudson. Telegraph. Total loss. Persona non grata. Window still missing. Swastika eyes. Paul Weller. XTRMNTR. Shoot speed. Kill light. Eyes owned 2020. The ugly had a chance. Masks work…if you’re ugly and need to get laid. Back with another block rocking’ beat. Private psychedelic reel. War metaphor. Is this about election? No. Too early. Look at liner notes. Living in COVID times was like a world war. War just beginning? Got my pina colada. Fuck it! Arizona. Living boldly. Masks have lost. Two weeks. Could have been a contender. Circuit bending. Talking about big titty schizophrenic. All footwork ruined. Toys. Falling apart gremlin workmanship. Awkward line about Thora Birch. Explicit warnings a little lazy. Getting a bit Lenny Bruce up in here. Russ Meyer. Second line. Double time. Crazy drums. Smooth as Sade. Tambourine is the star. One organic element. Wrote a song. She didn’t care. Wrote her 200 songs. She didn’t care. One has zero plays globally. She never bothered listening to it. Some things not meant to be. Liberals and conservatives. Go and create. Lobster. Work wasn’t. Bought her every flower imaginable. Thousands of dollars on flowers. Yoshimi laser warfare. A piano not standard. Some Tori Amos bullshit. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. Only the finest pianos. Internationally famous. Neither deserve it. Pulled the plug at the wrong time. Would he have still kept the same track listing? Maybe so. Heartbreak to rehash. Goes by quick. Good drum programming. James Bond future theme. Brian Wilson. Phil Spector. Absolute Nigel Godrich. Cinematic. The album that never was. But this one is worldwide, motherfuckers. Third this summer. And a fourth already out. I can hardly keep up. I need to review movies. Doesn’t Pauly Deathwish know I don’t have time for Galaga? Falling apart. Short-circuit. Charlotte Gainsbourg. Flashback to Bucolic.
- -PD
Histoire(s) du cinéma {Chapter 2(a): Seul le cinéma} [1989]
So here we go again.
They told Beethoven it was a horrible way to begin his 5th Symphony.
With a rest.
It’s unheard.
Of.
Unheard.
Only the players see it.
Only the conductor pays it much mind.
So the first “note” (beat) is silent.
The conductor must give it.
But there are at least two schools of thought on how this is to be done.
First, a conductor might do as they always do and swiftly move their baton downwards to indicate visually that the first (silent) beat is occurring.
The only problem with this is that the symphony players must then abruptly jump onto the very next beat (which is an “upbeat”).
They happen in very quick succession.
Nothing/Everything.
The whole orchestra.
Tutti.
And they get one shot.
To come in together.
Like an attack.
[rest] da da da daaaaaaaaaa
[rest] da da da daaaaaaaaaa
The second school of thought is more practical.
It advises that, in this particular situation, a conductor giving a downbeat is not particularly helpful to the orchestra (because no sounds occur on that downbeat).
Therefore, the conductor motions the orchestra that the UPBEAT is happening.
When the baton (or hand(s)) come down, that is the precise time to make noise.
It is not hard to see why this might lead to a more successful outcome.
For the goal is to have the orchestra stick together.
An orchestra of individuals who are a mere microsecond off from one another creates a sound which is generally not highly-valued in Western music (at least not in the performance of Beethoven).
But this STILL leaves a problem.
The conductor of this second school, whose job it is to try and lead his orchestra to a faithful rendition of this masterwork, is thereby IGNORING what Beethoven wrote (or, more precisely, HOW Beethoven wrote it).
The beginning.
Godard comes back more fit and trim in this episode of his greatest work.
1a is probably the nuke.
1b is a psychological warfare manual (perhaps)
2a returns us to kinetic warfare.
More or less.
With some lulls.
But there is genuine artistry within these 26 minutes.
Like a symphony by Beethoven or Bruckner.
The beginning is weighted heavily.
1a = 51 mins. (the longest of all eight parts)
1b = 42 mins. (the second longest “movement” of the bunch)
The entire first section is, therefore (carry the zero), 1 hour and 33 minutes.
That’s the first quarter of this “ring cycle”.
And it is truly operatic.
So now we are into a bit of a scherzo.
26 minutes.
Now you can see the influence of television.
The “producers” of this film.
Canal+ (French TV channel)
CNC (part of the French Ministry of Culture [and Godard is Swiss!])
France 3 (a French TV channel)
Gaumont (a French film studio)
La Sept (a defunct French TV channel)
Télévision Suisse Romande (a defunct, French-language Swiss TV network)
Vega Films (Godard’s production company at the time)
26 minutes.
Enough time for eight 30-second commercials.
Arriving precisely at a sum total of 30 minutes’ programming.
It’s generous (no doubt owing to the fact that this was educational programming).
If you look at the true running time of an American half-hour sitcom these days, it is roughly 21 minutes of what you want to see.
The other 9 minutes are reserved for at least 18 30-second commercials.
In the tradition of James Joyce.
The pun.
Which Hitchcock so admired.
…and the Oscar goes to.
Oscar Wilde.
Irishmen in France.
The recurring scene from Salò…
Julius Kelp.
Literary history vs. cinematic history.
Godard has a curious frame which reads, “Your breasts are the only shells I love.”
It is a line from the poet Apollinaire.
[tes seins sont les seuls obus que j’aime]
But I must say, the exciting parts here are the “booms”!
The fighter jet exploding in midair.
Bernard Herrmann’s music from Psycho juxtaposed with scenes from Disney’s Snow White…(1937).
The agitation of Stravinsky.
Cluster chords on the piano.
Godard’s voice fed through an Echoplex.
And, just as in 1a, world-class editing!
Let me be clear.
EDITING is what makes Histoire(s) du cinéma the greatest film ever made.
It’s what makes F for Fake the second-greatest film ever made.
And what makes Dog Star Man the third-greatest film ever made.
It is more pronounced in Histoire(s) and Dog Star Man.
Orson Welles’ “editing” (montage) in F for Fake is done more at the story level.
It is a juxtaposition of content.
The Kuleshov effect with ideas rather than images.
[more or less]
Godard’s camera-pen makes some of its boldest strokes in this episode.
It rivals the 1a excerpt involving Irving Thalberg.
Which brings us to a very important point.
Godard CHOSE to use the concept of “double exposure” (two images–one on top of the other–but both seen to a greater or lesser extent) to ILLUSTRATE the subject and title of his greatest film.
Though it runs 266 minutes, that amount of time STILL wasn’t enough in which to lay out the history of cinema.
So images needed to be doubled up.
Tripled up.
Simultaneous to that, words needed to be spoken.
And furthermore, DIFFERENT words than those being spoken NEEDED TO BE WRITTEN ON THE SCREEN.
If you are not a native French speaker, you will probably need to have the subtitles on when viewing this film.
Which gives you A-N-O-T-H-E-R visual stimulus which must be taken into account.
Yes.
This film should be mandatory viewing for fighter pilots.
Practice your OODA loop here.
Observe.
Orient.
Decide.
Act.
Constantly looping.
If you want to survive in this jungle of meaning.
Night of the hunter…
Klimt.
Fred Astaire.
James Dean.
Burt Lancaster.
It’s all true.
That weary look.
From Hollywood.
It’s all true.
Which brings us to value (that thing which capitalism so gloriously creates…far more efficiently and in much greater abundance than with any other economic system).
“What is the value of knowing how to read this film,” you ask?
Just this.
It allows you to know how to read the complexity of the world.
It is a brain teaser.
With an infinite layering of meaning.
Like Finnegans Wake.
Joyce’s masterpiece should be the only required reading for a codebreaker.
Or a codemaker.
Take heed, National Security Agency.
Your curriculum needs adjusting.
Assign only Finnegan.
And reap your gains.
And what of Histoire(s)?
Its most direct application would be for analysts.
Whether they be Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency, or INSCOM.
Know how to read the image.
Know how to analyze the video.
You must think outside the box.
Sudoku the fuck out of your employees.
And thereby fight crime and keep hostile actors in check.
Which is where we musicians come in.
To analyze the phone call.
To make sense of the audio…from the video.
It cannot be taught in a bootcamp.
It has to be loved.
Nurtured.
If you had one analyst like Godard, you would have a super-soldier equal to an entire special forces unit.
The trial of Joan of Arc.
Not to be confused with her passion.
Laurel and Hardy.
Gustave Courbet.
Marcel Duchamp.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Which brings us to a very delicate situation.
What is the President planning this weekend?
And with whom is he planning it?
If Ronald Reagan was an actor (and he was), then how much more talented is Donald Trump in getting a reaction with his lines…and his gestures?
HIS lines.
HIS gestures.
Accordion music.
Munch’s vampire.
A President who has been attacked from ALL sides UNRELENTINGLY for nearly four years.
And now finds himself in the midst of the hottest biological/psychological/economic war in recorded history.
Where complexity reigns.
As globalization magnifies each twitch of activity.
And this same President STILL finds himself under attack from the same “bad actors” who have unremittingly assailed him.
As in peacetime, so in war.
These enemies of the state.
Masquerading as journalists.
And their masters above them.
Straight from the latest conclave.
“…two if by sea.”
-PD
Till det som är vackert [2009)
This is a perfect, imperfect film.
Like Russell’s paradox.
And I hope director Lisa Langseth won’t go all Frege on me and jump out a window.
Ah!
You know…
I have spoiled nothing.
And my words are almost completely inconsequential.
But similar things have been said about La Règle du jeu.
And I disagree with that.
In 1939, Jean Renoir made an unqualified (perfect) masterpiece with that film.
I qualified it only to distinguish from my initial example.
And so Pure (the title of this Swedish film which is currently on Netflix in the U.S.) is much like Asia Argento’s almost-masterpiece Incompresa.
I will be quite blunt.
Lisa Langseth stretches in almost the exact same dimension that Argento did with her fine film.
But the real similarity is acting perfection.
For a young child, Giulia Salerno was magnificent (really!) in Argento’s film.
And so Ms. Argento had the secret weapon.
A (very young) actress capable of cine-magic.
Ms. Langseth was blessed with more-or-less the same thing.
But even better.
[perhaps because the actress was a little older and more experienced]
Alicia Vikander makes Till det som är vackert go.
I mean, really…this is an acting performance unlike any other.
And so my only gripe with Ms. Langseth, the director, is that she stretched the story TOO FAR.
But that’s ok.
Because, you know what? Maybe I’m wrong.
Langseth and Argento both seem to be trying to tell every story they’ve ever lived…IN ONE FILM.
Argento is the guiltier party.
For most of Pure, Langseth sticks to a taut plot.
Buttressed by Vikander’s exquisite acting, the sum total is ecstasy.
And so, I find myself reacting against the Hitchcock tendency in two films.
Some directors NEED a good dose of Hitchcock.
Wes Anderson, for example.
That guy is so saccharine…that when the fingers come off in Grand Budapest, we finally have a filmmaker.
But Langseth and Argento are telling GRUELING stories throughout (in Pure and Misunderstood, respectively).
And so the heavy bass note…the one which when slammed births the 9th harmonic…it doesn’t work here.
Because the tritone.
To progress through the harmonic series.
And resolve on a tritone.
It takes a special auteur to do such.
And these two ladies are not the dodecaphonists to do so.
They have not worked out a coherent system to justify their heart-ripping atonality.
But fear not.
Pure is so, so, so worth watching!
This is as close as a film can get to masterpiece while still being flawed.
And it’s so very close, I’m wondering whether the flawed one is me.
[no doubt]
Let me correct the record (ouch…David “Scumbag” Brock)…
We get noodles with ketchup.
I mean, this film is Gummo real.
So I want to give some BIG compliments.
Till det som är vackert is the best Swedish film ever made by anyone not named Ingmar Bergman.
In fact, it’s BETTER than several of Bergman’s films.
Shall I name names?
Pure is worlds (WORLDS) better than Fanny and Alexander.
Bergman was in poseur mode.
That flick is so overrated.
And Lisa Langseth totally smokes (eats the lunch of) Bergman.
Further, Till det som är vackert is (in my humble, masculine opinion) the greatest feminist film since 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days…and in some ways EVEN BETTER than that timeless masterpiece.
And so, in general, I bow down in worship to Pure.
We have homelessness.
We have mental illness.
We have resilience.
Naturalism. Grit. The bird-soul of music…
The only thing we needed was an editor.
To say.
Cut.
About 20 minutes before the end.
Because Ms. Langseth wants to give us redemption.
She just seems to have her Raskolnikov in the wrong pocket.
It’s ok.
I’m the daftest son of a bitch on the planet.
One last thing…
This movie moved me so much.
The bulk of this film.
Did something to me.
Therapeutic.
And sublimely enlightening.
And so I thank God for Lisa Langseth and Alicia Vikander.
God bless you.
Thank you for making this kind of art.
As Nick Cave sang,
“It’s beauty that’s gonna save the world now”.
-PD
Seymour: An Introduction [2014)
Big gigantic balls.
It took Ethan Hawke.
Whom I formerly mistook for a hack.
To not even dabble in détournement.
But rather.
Straight-up.
Call it.
Seymour: An Introduction
After Salinger.
But let me dispel all uncertainly early on.
This film, directed by Ethan Hawke, is a masterpiece.
The premise seemed interesting.
On Netflix.
“This should,” I thought, “be an easy one to jettison after a few painful minutes of shabby mise-en-scène…[after ignoring it on my ‘list’ for quite some time]”
And though there is no Liszt (ha!), Ethan Hawke tells one of the most touching stories I’ve ever seen.
Yes, that is the correct verbiage.
In the synesthesia of cinema.
It is the story of Seymour Bernstein (and not, as the title might lead one to believe, that of Seymour Glass).
Seymour did not become the supernova which his fellow Bernstein (Leonard) became.
No, Seymour Bernstein stepped away from the stage early.
As in, curtailed his career.
As a performer.
A pianist.
[but always a son–a man]
And so what makes Ethan Hawke’s film particularly special for me is the synergy created from two colliding ideas of great power: music and anxiety.
Ah, to perform…
It’s hard (really, very fucking hard) for me to recall the good times which make me sad.
Those would be my four short years as a professional music performer.
[three of which coincided with a parallel mini-career as a studio (recording) musician]
Why did I step away?
To paraphrase Bogart in The Big Sleep, I must rank pretty high on insubordination.
I’m a rebel.
And though I pray that I never follow in the darker footsteps of Phil Spector, I was very much in what one would term popular or pop music.
But it wasn’t from a lack of training.
My bachelor’s degree, from an esteemed institution, is almost exclusively due to courses in Western classical music.
Though I am but an amateur pianist compared to Mr. Bernstein, I have a deep appreciation for what he is doing all throughout this film.
As a trained music theorist (my specialization).
And a trained composer (the activity to which I dedicated the bulk of my undergraduate hours).
But there is something more.
Seymour: An Introduction is very much about hard work.
About craft.
What I’m doing right now.
What you are reading.
It is my craft.
Now.
Music has flown…like a fleeting bird.
And I have had to transpose my urge to create from “EveryGoodBoyDoesFine” by way of copious vicissitudes to “PleaseExcuseMyDearAuntSally” and other far-afield mnemonic devices.
Yes, dear friends…I identify with Ethan Hawke’s struggle.
And it is painful to watch him.
But he has redeemed himself with this film.
Through great doubt we travel…
What the fuck am I doing in business school?
Does my acting mean anything whatsoever to ME anymore?
To weave it, my problems were/are different than those of Mr. Hawke.
He is standing on the stage…[places, everyone]…on the X where I wish I was.
Directing a film.
You need a producer.
An “executive” producer.
You need a law firm.
Legal counsel.
[for all those archival clips you want to interpolate]
Yes…there is a long list of credited individuals at the culmination of Seymour: An Introduction.
It doesn’t just say “Ethan Hawke”.
Those are the realities of film.
Godard has illustrated it as a process of check-writing.
$50 here. [more like] $3,000 here.
And again. And again.
But it is obvious this was a project of love for Ethan Hawke.
And it worked.
Mr. Bernstein is 89 and still (apparently) teaches at NYU.
And what a gifted soul!
Ah…
This documentary reminded me of so many beautiful, important things!
It all moves too fast…
The pictures with Nadia Boulanger…
But Korea sticks.
At the front lines.
As jaw-dropping as Messiaen in his prison camp.
But let me speak to the choir now…
Friends of Deutsche Grammophon et al..
It’s important.
That extra dot.
To point out.
No pun intended.
A service.
PRACTICE in front of your audience (Warhol advised).
Dear Messrs,
[and scholarly, epicurean (?) womenfolk]
We have, in these minutes, footage of the great Glenn Gould.
We learn the chair.
How low.
Carry out folded.
Like a shabby parcel of manuscripts.
But Mr. Bernstein gives us the cinderblocks.
And while it is scary (Glenn Gould) in its proficiency.
The ear of God.
We get an even greater surprise.
Yes, most startling.
Clifford Curzon.
And the passion of a boy from Islington.
Precision.
Snap!
Unfurling arpeggios effortlessly.
While the baritone fingers surface the melody.
Just breathing above the water’s surface.
Curzon.
Those glasses.
We fall in love.
1977.
Year after I was born.
By 17 days.
Seymour Bernstein’s eight-year career was over.
As a public performer.
Debuting with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (!) a Brazilian piano concerto in world premiere (the 2nd by Villa-Lobos).
1969-1977
Double my career 🙂
[in more ways than one, I’m sure]
But as an astute student in the film observes, it was many thousands of hours (of practice and other dedicatory acts) to get to that point.
Mr. Bernstein didn’t sit down with the CSO and sightread the Villa-Lobos concerto.
It wasn’t his first time playing.
And so it comes back to work.
And anxiety.
& music.
Seymour Bernstein: God bless you for knowing the quadrivium.
That MUSIC was one of the four higher liberal arts.
For the ancient Greeks.
Along with arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy.
What isn’t mentioned is that in which I am currently dabbling.
[dabbling my ass off]
The trivium.
Those “lower” three of the liberal arts.
Grammar, logic, and rhetoric.
And the liberal arts…in opposition to the practical arts.
[the latter being such as medicine…or architecture]
{Footnotes to be provided when hell freezes over}
And so I heartily recommend you watch this documentary.
Appreciate the importance of music.
See Abraham ready to sacrifice Isaac.
[he will laugh!]
Because God gives back.
Even though Mr. Bernstein doesn’t believe.
It makes no difference to me.
I am but human.
And I have a right.
To believe.
In God.
In music.
He just disappeared.
One last concert.
At the YMCA.
Knowing when to end.
When the notes fade.
And if on a good piano,
they almost seem to swell first.
As if by magic…
-PD
Amadeus [1984)
In these waning hours of Christmas, I give you…
a fucking masterpiece.
Indeed, I regret that I cannot express myself at this time without resort to expletive, but this film by Miloš Forman is truly bone-chilling.
And it is especially so for me: a former composer.
Oh, there is always still time.
To set pencil to paper (or pen, if [like Mozart], you make no mistakes).
And so we shall take under consideration the director’s cut of Amadeus as our subject.
This later, R-rated version is from 2002 and adds 20 minutes to this magnum opus.
Yes, dear friends…we shall consider many things.
The uncanny embodiment of Tom Hulce.
The deft, dastardly thespian skills of F. Murray Abraham.
And even the indispensably aghast facial expressions of Richard Frank.
You might wonder why I have chosen this film to honor God on this day rather than a movie like Ernest Saves Christmas.
I will let you ponder that one for a moment.
But in the meanwhile, we shall press onwards with the young Salieri.
Please remember the pious of Western classical music.
J.S. Bach.
Antonio Vivaldi.
Haydn. Handel.
Ok, perhaps not so much the latter.
Because he too, like Mozart, was a man of the world.
Of the earth.
A joyful sinner.
A composer with a dirty mouth.
Yes, there are miracles in this film.
Too many to count.
Salieri’s father choking on a fishbone.
For starters.
But let us consider the whole city of Vienna a miracle on assumption.
Wien.
A city in which one could dial the number 1507 and receive an A (435 Hz) with which to tune an instrument.
We have long appreciated this bit of trivia from scholar Norman Lloyd.
It has always endeared Vienna to our hearts.
A place where [it must] music flows through every pipe and connects the city in divine harmony.
But that time period for which we yearn…that “common practice” period is just the era in which Mozart is plopped down with his hilarious little giggle.
Jeffrey Jones is magnificent as the judicious statesman the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II.
Which brings us back to Christmas.
A child was born. To a woman by the Holy Spirit.
Yet the child had an earthly father: Joseph II (not to be confused with the Old Testament Joseph).
Mozart was a child.
Childish.
A hellion.
Yet I would choose him over Shakespeare and Einstein when it comes to true genius.
I had heard it.
With my own ears.
In my days of getting my bachelor’s of music in music theory and composition.
I had heard that Symphony #39. I played it.
I was inside the music.
And it is like none other.
I had discovered the ingenious counterpoint in Mozart’s Symphony #41.
What lightness! What architecture!
What a vision of the beyond…
It takes memory to succeed.
And we guard our memories.
But it takes observation to create memories.
An eye. An ear (in the case of Mozart).
Yes, Mozart’s prowess for hearing something once and then playing it back or either writing out all the parts (if a mixed ensemble) is legendary.
His fame grew with these stunts.
His novelty tours with father Leopold and sister Nannerl (not pictured).
I had at least one Harvard/Stanford-trained Dr. of music warn me about the historical inaccuracies in this film.
But this is Hollywood.
Of course there will be changes.
And yet, it is an incredibly moving picture.
To borrow a programmatic description from Richard Strauss, this film becomes (for much of it) a symphonia domestica.
Which, let me just say, happens to grace us with the presence of genius beauty: Elizabeth Berridge.
But always in life (even into the bubble of music) creeps in business.
Economics.
Finances.
Debt.
Mozart was gifted with a once-in-humanity talent, yet he did not have the self-marketing skills to always position his talent at the best place in the market.
Meanwhile, Signor Salieri activates a little psychological warfare (captured by Forman’s camera lit by little gaslights all around…).
And so it is machinations versus manifestations of God’s glory.
The story is rich.
That a composer might write his own Requiem mass…and that the writing of that mass might just kill him.
We know how cursed the 9th symphony became after Beethoven (Bruckner, Dvořák, Mahler, Schubert…).
Musicians are subject to powerful forces which attack their necessary imaginations.
Superstitions.
Salieri’s character proves that those closest to us are not necessarily to be trusted. His disingenuous psyop has Mozart working himself to death.
And that is a scary thing.
To push and push and push.
And yet, who will be remembered?
The expert in psychological warfare?
Or the symphonist?
Times have changed, but it is still the creator who has the benefit of creating goods.
Super-warriors aren’t even creating bads. They are creating nothing.
But, it might be argued, that they are doing the most good in this world which no longer appreciates the music of its heritage.
Yes, European classical music is on life-support.
But we return to Mozart, who is in not-much-better condition.
Part of me longs for the treatment of Ingmar Bergman in his underappreciated film version of Trollflöjten (The Magic Flute in Swedish).
But Miloš Forman does everything else right.
The scene in which Mozart and Salieri are working on the Requiem is masterful!
And still…Mozart doesn’t realize that his greatest enemy is posing as a friend to help him compose his own death from exhaustion.
It’s only when they’re throwing the lime on you that you get real perspective.
But by that point, you’re wrapped up.
It is thus a fitting Christmas story…that hatred and jealously are futile.
And that a naive genius had the keys to the musical kingdom.
For his 35 short years on Earth.
Perhaps Mozart was not a pious man, but Salieri (who burned his own crucifix in the fireplace) consistently recognized the voice of God in Mozart’s music.
I hope you are all having a wonderful holiday season and that your hearts will be filled with melodies which could make the heavens weep.
-PD
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