https://open.spotify.com/track/5YYaGYJvAHLJvFI5jEarQC?si=aa737481136046a0
Recommended if you like The Boo Radleys
https://open.spotify.com/track/5YYaGYJvAHLJvFI5jEarQC?si=aa737481136046a0
Recommended if you like The Boo Radleys
This is not a game.
Pull quote.
C-17.
This film was a rip of Blood Heat novel 1988 Steve Pieczenik.
Out of print.
Buy now.
https://stevepieczenik.com/product/blood-heat-audiobook/
Little man Fauci Malek.
Unit 731.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
Pieczenik banned from Japan.
Current.
Persona non grata.
Khabarovsk War Crime Trials.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khabarovsk_War_Crime_Trials
CIA paperclipped.
But so did Soviets.
No doubt.
Unit 100.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_100
Unit 516.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_516
Unit 1855.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_1855
Unit Ei 1644.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_Ei_1644
Unit 8604.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_8604
Unit 9420.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_9420
Diseases disguised as vaccinations.
Fleas*.
Delivery mechanism.
Marine vessel Ning-Po.
Smallpox joke dropped early.
Date: November 9, 2021.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/bill-gates-smallpox-terror-attack-b1958789.html
Date: November 18, 2021. [note* nine days later]
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/nov/18/philadelphia-lab-smallpox-vials-freezer
Frame of reference.
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/events-archive/2001_dark-winter/
How many times did Joe Biden drop the phrase “dark winter”?
Can the Democrats allow the midterms (2022) to happen?
Won’t they get politically slaughtered at the polls?
How much has the system which allowed the rigged 2020 U.S. Presidential election been shored up?
Was Virginia (Youngkin) a test?
Gates really likes the number 9.
BioNTech (Pfizer COVID vaccine) cash infusion ($55 mil.) from Gates Foundation.
Date: September 4, 2019.
BioNTech NASDAQ IPO.
Date: October 9, 2019
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-biontech-ipo-idUSKBN1WO29B
Event 201.
Date: October 18, 2019 [nine days later]
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/
I see five major players of the non-game 6uild6ack6etter:
Klaus Schwab (a Kissinger protégé), Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci, Prince Charles, and Pope Bergoglio.
Shirō Ishii.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shir%C5%8D_Ishii
Deaths of microbiologists in months following 9/11/01.
Benito Que, Donald C. Wiley, Vladimir Pasechnik, Robert Schwartz, Set Van Nguyen, Vladimir Korshunov, and Ian Langford. Not to mention Air Sibir 1812 (shot down by Ukrainian SAM). Five microbiologists aboard. Israeli microbiologists? En route to Novosibirsk. Also not to mention Swissair crash on approach to Zurich. Died: head of hematology Ichilov Hospital (Israel). Died: directors of Tel Aviv Public Health Department and Hebrew University of Medicine. 33 passengers. 24 died. All Israelis aboard died. Possible names (pseudonyms?): Avishai Berkman, Amiram Eldor, and Yaacov Matzner.
https://www.fromthewilderness.net/free/ww3/02_14_02_microbio.html
Masaji Kitano.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaji_Kitano
Doctors of death.
Listen to the master, Dr. Steve Pieczenik, M.D., Ph.D., speak about this.
https://stevepieczenik.com/2021/08/09/opus-8821-doctors-of-death/
Yoshio Shinozuka.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshio_Shinozuka
Yasuji Kaneko.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuji_Kaneko
War criminals.
Ichirō Hatoyama (Japanese PM 1954-1956).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichir%C5%8D_Hatoyama
Nobusuke Kishi (Japanese PM 1957-1960).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobusuke_Kishi
Hayato Ikeda (Japanese PM 1960-1964).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayato_Ikeda
Three Japanese Prime Ministers.
Not indicted.
Please explain Trump’s position on the COVID vaccines.
General Otozō Yamada.
Sentenced to 25 years in a labor camp by the Soviets.
Served only seven years before being repatriated to Japan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otoz%C5%8D_Yamada
General Shunji Sato (a physician).
Sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Served only seven years before being repatriated to Japan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunji_Sato
Bacteria mass production.
Under “epidemic prevention” and “water purification” euphemisms:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemic_Prevention_and_Water_Purification_Department
Rami Malek character Lucifer (Lyutsifer).
Peter Daszak working for CIA?
Anthony Fauci covering for CIA?
Fauci covering for U.S. military?
Sticky situation.
Are the statements of Dr. Jon McGreevey (Ryan Dark White) legitimate?
I believe Lin Wood has thoroughly discredited himself by now with his incessant attacks on (particulary) General Michael Flynn.
But could Lin Wood’s whistleblower by bona fide?
He’s running for U.S. Senate in Maryland.
And then you have Ron Watkins (CodeMonkeyZ) running for U.S. House of Representatives in Arizona.
Might as well throw in Bobby Piton running for U.S. Senate in Illinois.
Per McGreevey:
he claims that COVID is a defensive bioweapon “designed to protect the United States” and also (most notably) that he himself designed it. According to McGreevey, it is called GenAegis (Genetic Shield). McGreevey elaborates on it a bit here…”a weapon designed to seek out certain DNA, programmable […] they can make endless variants”.
Sound familiar?
McGreevey’s assertion is that Obama and Biden gave this bioweapon to China (who then converted it to an offensive bioweapon?).
It was (according to him) developed at Fort Detrick (Maryland).
How does this comport with USMC Major Joseph Murphy’s recent whistleblowing to Project Veritas?
Murphy claims that COVID was a vaccine FOR bats (which was to be administered in an aerosolized version by spraying it into caves in China), but that it leaked out of the Wuhan lab before it was finished.
Murphy’s main contention is that DARPA refused the project, but NIAID (which Fauci runs) then subsequently accepted the project.
The project was proposed to DARPA by the EcoHealth Alliance (run by Peter Daszak).
JAG_Docs_pt1_Og_WATERMARK_OVER_Redacted 2
This evidence was discovered by Murphy in his capacity at DARPA.
The evidence is now ostensibly being held by the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (MCIA) at Quantico.
Note that NCIS is also HQ at Quantico.
And of course there is FBI there as well.
[not to mention United States Army Criminal Investigation Command (USACID) and U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI or OSI)]
But let’s back up to NCIS for a moment.
Why does Ron DeSantis (Navy JAG) seem so much more wise than Donald Trump on the COVID vaccines in these last couple of months?
DeSantis has not gone full-retard like the man who should win the Nobel Peace Prize (Dr. Robert Malone), but DeSantis also hasn’t shot his mouth off like the buffoon Trump.
What happened to Trump?
Great President.
And then he broadcasts to the world that he got the Pfizer vaccine (while encouraging people to take these shots)?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-i-got-the-pfizer-125703879.html
And he casually drops his booster status after a crowd in Dallas gathered to hear him speak had just sung the Christian hymn “How Great Thou Art”? [sounds like Hochul’s church vaccine speech]
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-played-conspiracy-theory-hits-024518810.html
And then Trump lies (?) to Candace Owens about people taking the vaccines not dying?
And finally, Trump makes what appears to be a pointed reference to DeSantis in which Trump insinuates that DeSantis is “gutless” for not revealing his booster status?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-roasts-gutless-desantis-for-keeping-his-booster-status-a-secret
Just what the hell has been going on with Donald Trump?!?
These outbursts have caused me to lose all faith in him.
I would take DeSantis (or Ron Paul, or Tucker Carlson, or Candace Owens, or Robert Malone, or RFK Jr. or almost anyone) over Trump at this point.
Trump has backed off the vaccine-pushing.
But I have to say: that is not good enough.
The man need only visit two websites to understand the danger of these vaccines:
the criminally-parsed version
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html
-and-
the actual version
https://openvaers.com/covid-data/mortality
These figures (11,879 and 23,149 [respectively]) should be increased by a factor of 10 to account for the historical underreporting to the passive-surveillance (voluntary) VAERS system [HHS] of serious adverse events such as Kawasaki disease (i.e. 118,790 deaths or 231,490 deaths).
https://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/11/02/underreporting-vaccine-adverse-events
And in case anyone wants to play the “correlation does not necessarily equal causation” card, consider this:
https://openvaers.com/covid-data
As for their efficacy…
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-covid-deaths-2021-vaccines-b1963790.html
And of course there is this gem about ethno-specific bioweapons:
https://www.wired.com/1998/11/israels-ethnic-weapon/
Are you starting to understand why China and Silicon Valley want your DNA?
This is a new kind of war where certain people will be purposefully made susceptible and others purposefully made nonsusceptible to bioweapons released on a massive scale.
Not to mention that the vaccines are debilitating the U.S. military (while SecDef Austin [a General] and CJCS Milley stand around with their dicks in their hands).
That’s treason!
They should have known.
And if they didn’t know, they’re still responsible.
The buck stops with them.
Why the insane push for all of humanity to receive vaccines that are neither safe, nor effective?
And why is Trump’s “solidarity” with the Canadian truckers (Freedom Convoy) so at odds with his months of moronic statements regarding the vaccines?
Does he not realize that these people are rising up PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF THE VACCINES HE BROUGHT INTO THE WORLD?!?
Don’t forget that Trump’s Operation Warp Speed (of which he is evidently so proud [see Candace Owens article above]) ALSO PAID FOR THE AstraZenca VACCINE (WHICH IS NOT EVEN AVAILABLE AT ALL IN THE USA)!!!
[not to mention three others we funded that are also not available at all in the USA: Novavax, Sanofi, and GlaxoSmithKline]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford%E2%80%93AstraZeneca_COVID-19_vaccine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novavax_COVID-19_vaccine
It should be noted that there is not a Sanofi or GSK COVID vaccine approved anywhere in the world.
Where did those $2 billion dollars we gave them go?
While Sanofi and GSK took HHS (U.S. taxpayer) money and ran (producing nothing?), here are the other countries which have developed their own COVID vaccines:
–China (8 different vaccines [Sinopharm BIBP, CoronaVac, Convidecia, Sinopharm WIBP, Zifivax, Minhai, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, and Sinopharm CNBG])
–Russia (4 different vaccines [Sputnik V, Sputnik Light, EpiVacCorona, and CoviVac])
–Iran (4 different vaccines [COVIran Barekat, FAKHRAVAC, COVAX-19 {in conjunction with Australian company CinnaGen}, and Razi Cov Pars])
–India (3 different vaccines [Covaxin, ZyCoV-D, and Corbevax {developed by Texas Children’s Hospital < ! > and Baylor College of Medicine <Houston>}])
–Cuba (3 different vaccines [Abdala, Soberana 02, Soberana Plus])
–Turkey (Turkovac)
–Kazakhstan (QazCovid-in)
–Taiwan (Medigen)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_COVID-19_vaccine_authorizations
Why was a children’s hospital and medical school in Texas developing a COVID vaccine that is only available in India (licensed to Biological E. Limited [BioE])?
Who paid for it?
Where’s Rand Paul?
This is a huge waste of money.
The three vaccines we got (Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson [which were totally unnecessary to rush {considering the low mortality rate of COVID-19 <relative to ebola or smallpox, for instance>}]) are neither safe, nor effective.
If Trump knows the available vaccines in the USA aren’t safe (how could he not know?), then he is liable for the death and injury caused by his encouragement for people to take the vaccines.
State Department character based on Ash Carter?
State Department infiltrated by Rami Malek.
CIA is trusting a foreign agent.
Death of Felix Leiter.
Death of James Bond.
Is 007 now a black lesbian like mayor Lightfoot of Chicago and disgraced BLM cofounder Patrice Cullors?
Q is gay.
Houston recently had a white lesbian mayor [Annise Parker].
And what about black lesbian Karine Jean-Pierre (KJP [Psaki’s backup])?
Is this some kind of cult?
That’s a lot of black lesbians.
And one white lesbian.
Muriel Bowser (D.C. mayor)?
Donna Brazile?
Lashana Lynch is aptly named after androgynous Klaus Nomi.
Is 007 now a black transexual?
Spoiler alert: James Bond dies.
Is this the end of the series?
And the Bond franchise has to keep the diversity in high gear.
Who cast this movie: Richard Torres-Estrada?
Bishop Garrison?
Lloyd Austin?
Mark Milley?
Michael Gilday?
At least Ana de Armas is charming.
I can’t say the same about Lashana Lynch.
What the fuck is this woke shit?!?
Ian Fleming would be puking his guts out.
Assange in Belmarsh.
But let’s make sure we have the score here.
The one representative of the CIA (Felix Leiter): black male.
Miss Moneypenny: black female.
The new 007: black female.
What percentage of the U.K. is black?
3.3%.
Three percent.
This is a British film.
Eon Productions Ltd.
Piccadilly (London).
Pinewood Studios.
But the film was also produced by MGM.
Beverly Hills.
Ok.
What percentage of the USA is black?
14.2%.
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/fact-sheet/facts-about-the-us-black-population/
Ok.
So let’s look at the main characters.
Daniel Craig: British white male.
Léa Seydoux: French white female.
Rami Malek: Egyptian-American [African-American] male.
Lashana Lynch: British black female.
Ben Whishaw: British white male.
Naomie Harris: British black female.
Jeffrey Wright: African-American [black] male.
Christoph Waltz: Austrian-German white male.
Ralph Fiennes: British white male.
Billy Magnussen: American white male.
Ana De Armas: Cuban-Spanish female.
David Dencik: Danish-Swedish white male.
Rory Kinnear: British white male.
Dali Benssalah: French-Algerian male.
14 characters.
It’s nominally a British movie (although co-produced by American company MGM).
What percentage of the main cast is British?
6/14 (43%).
Less than half of the main cast is British.
What percentage of the main cast is American?
3/14 (21%).
That means 36% of the main cast is neither British, nor American.
Why?
Maybe the story called for it.
The evil guys have to be exotic.
Rami Malek (Egyptian heritage) and Christoph Waltz (Germanic).
Dencik (the biological weapons guy) is a Scandinavian playing a Russian.
Also a baddie.
What percentage of the main cast is white?
8/14 (57%).
The good guy (James Bond) is white.
But two of the three villains are also white.
The third main villain is of Egyptian descent.
What percentage of the main cast is male?
10/14 (71%).
It is an action movie.
Who goes to war?
Men?
Are women drafted into most militaries in the world?
Do they participate in combat roles?
How often?
What percentage of the main cast is white male?
7/14 (50%).
Let’s be honest.
The James Bond franchise cucked out to the looters and arsonists of BLM.
Eon and MGM kneeled in fealty to woke Hollywood.
Continuing.
What percentage of the main cast is black?
3/14 (21%).
This is the important number.
Britain is 3.3% black.
So blacks are WAY overrepresented in what is a British franchise.
But even if we figure in the American coproducer MGM, blacks are still overrepresented.
America is 14.2% black.
So blacks are even overrepresented here by 50% in relation to the American production company.
But here’s the other important part.
Of the top seven characters (as they are listed in the Wikipedia entry for this film [presumably based on screentime]), three are black.
3/7 (43% of the “stars” or leading roles in this film are played black people).
Compare that to the 3.3% British black population.
Or the 14.2% American black population.
This is an absurdly-high overrepresentation of black people!
For what?
Are 43% of box office returns in the USA because of black viewers?
I highly fucking doubt it.
And do the 3.3% of Britain who are black make up 43% of the viewership (i.e. revenue) there?
There is strictly no chance.
So this movie is a woke joke.
A woke disaster.
In terms of casting.
The worst is Lashana Lynch.
Not talented. Not charming. Completely ill-cast.
Jeffrey Wright is mediocre.
Nothing special.
The best is Naomie Harris.
SHE should have been the black, female 007 (if they were going to go that route).
For fucksake…she was a field agent in Skyfall.
Why the fuck did she get relegated to becoming M’s secretary?
She’s charming.
She’s capable.
Neither of which (in the acting sense) can be said about Lashana Lynch.
Lynch is most similar to Gloria Hendry in Live and Let Die.
At least Hendry was attractive.
Sexy.
And funny.
Or we could compare Lynch to another androgynous abomination: Trina Parks (Thumper) in Diamonds Are Forever.
Nothing like a flat-as-a-board, muscular black woman to get the heterosexual male fired up.
This is, again (after all), an action movie.
Who is the target audience?
Does the LGBTQ community really get into James Bond?
I don’t fucking think so.
At least Trump is right about this: “Everything woke turns to shit.”
There are disaster movies.
And then there are movies that are disasters.
This is the latter.
What a fucking woke piece of shit.
And who was responsible for this artistic abomination?
Bay Area failed-snowboarder, Japanese-American Cary Joji Fukunaga.
This dude was totally unqualified to shoot a Bond film.
And it shows.
What a fucking ripoff.
Don’t waste your money on this piece-of-shit film.
Danny Boyle (both excellent Trainspotting films) should have directed this movie.
It appears that Fukunaga not only killed James Bond, but killed the James Bond franchise as well.
Great job, fucktard!
Fuck you, you piece-of-shit, no-talent director.
-PD
It starts just like Charlotte Gainsbourg.
5:55.
Air.
Nigel Godrich.
But there is something different.
A shruti box?
A little distorto guitar.
Ah, yes.
Chuchotements.
Françoise Hardy.
A little Yo La Tengo.
Built to Spill.
Guitar carries it for a second.
Good lyrics.
All mood.
And then into an Amon Düül II warble.
Like Marc Bolan.
Jim Carrey.
Most annoying sound in the world.
Into Pink Floyd.
David Gilmour.
Circa The Wall.
Strange sadness.
Almost a premonition of impending doom.
Calm before the storm.
J. Spaceman telephony.
Floating with no highs and no lows.
All mids.
Strong opening track.
Very slow-moving.
Luxurious.
Immediate Delgados shift.
Paul Savage.
Pauly Deathwish.
Glasgow effect.
Great counterpoint for a pop musician.
But if you check this bloke’s CV…
You’ll know he went through Fux.
Gonna have to say Elliott Smith.
Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci.
Megan Childs violin.
Around the warm fire.
Welsh.
Expansive.
Strings open up.
Hate.
More Fridmann.
Pointillism.
Schoenberg.
Timbre.
Richard James.
GZM.
Beethoven.
Another Welshman.
John Cale.
Orchestral bass that Lou loved.
This guy’s a bastard.
Jaded.
Hurt.
Is this a breakup album?
I thought the last one was a breakup album?
Ahhh…
Into Gorwel Owen.
1968.
Floyd.
Atom.
Mad cow.
The last GZM album.
Rockfield.
Bohemian.
String band.
Money never runs out.
Cheap air organ.
Tubes?
Fan.
A very apropos album title.
Woody.
Tobacco.
Spring water Scotch.
And then the Great Reset arrives.
Like a fucking spaceship.
Dark shit.
What is this glitch business?
Thom Yorke blasts upon the scene.
Drums James Brown.
Good groove.
Savvy.
Whoa!
Marching band.
Drumline.
Snares.
Caught by Lee “Scratch”.
Guitar all mangled.
Melodies solid.
Mogwai?
Bert Jansch out of fucking nowhere.
Definitely Lips.
Pet Sounds.
Track rejected by Bond franchise.
Convincing.
Acoustic to electric.
Now it’s Serge.
Requiem.
Stereolab.
Break beat.
Absolutely boffo.
BOF.
More Brian Wilson.
Van Dyke Parks.
Phil Spector.
High Llamas.
Still a sadness.
That the old world is passing away.
FUCK!!!
Right into some Leonard Cohen shit!
Scott Walker.
How the FUCK was this recorded?
Sounds like 2″ tape.
Question:
how has this Pauly Deathwish released three albums in two months?
I can’t even keep up with this guy.
Mercury Rev.
Deserter’s Songs.
Levon Helm.
Chamberlin.
Mellotron?
Like a Christmas album.
See You on the Other Side.
David Fricke.
A review in the liner notes.
“Everlasting Arm”.
Definite vibe.
Record pillaging wizard.
Baritone.
Lots of fucking glockenspiel on this record.
But it’s nice.
Like Ennio Morricone.
Cinema Paradiso.
Mandolins.
Jackie Gleason.
Dean Martin.
Herb Alpert.
Tchaikovsky.
Again with sugar plum.
Slick!
Very light.
Chiaroscuro.
Fresher than the sweetness in water.
Hearing Dungen.
IV Thieves.
Makes sense.
“Frenchie” Smith.
Dig CV.
Light, British, airy.
Good hook.
Hooky.
Is this the single?
A little neo-psych Hendrix moment.
It’s definitely GZM.
Repetition until transcend.
Stereolab first album.
Not looped.
Manuel.
Carpenters.
Messiaen.
Definitely some breakup here.
Sonic Youth.
Sister.
Experimental.
Thurston.
Lots of drum machine.
Drum and bass.
Panning.
Definitely holds up with Radiohead.
How the fuck was this made?
PD tells us that it was all made on an iPhone with only a Telecaster.
That is some serious trickery.
Ear fooling.
This is COMPLEX music.
Mixes sound polished.
Clarity.
Some Chinese stuff.
Noise floor fucked for the first time ever.
Bacon?
Rollerskate Skinny.
It’s THAT good.
Shoulder Voices.
How was this made?
This heralds a new talent.
But this bloke is 44.
Tour sponsored by Ensure.
Not hearing a sophomore slump here.
Two albums in two months.
Review third forthcoming.
This dude is emo as fuck.
I dig it.
This guy is a mystery.
What is his deal?
This sounds more like a cohesive album that Introversion.
Introversion sounds like a debut album…in all the best ways.
Songs saved up.
A greatest hits.
Go big or go home.
This album deals much more in subtlety.
Not every song here is a home run.
This album breathes.
Ambiance.
Negative space.
More Beach Boys vibes.
70s.
Sad.
Bathrobe.
But mentally sharp.
A spark of genius.
A little bluegrass.
Bill Monroe.
Dock Boggs.
The old world is passing away.
Jonny Greenwood.
Georges Bizet.
Live forever.
Nonesuch.
Elektra.
Hoyt Ming.
Incredible String Band.
Wales, Scotland.
Back and forth.
And across to Ireland.
Oh, no.
There’s the single.
“Makes Me Wanna Stay in Bed”.
Emma Pollock.
Hate is all you need.
Coming in from the cold.
New Radicals.
Delayed bass from The Wall.
Pavement.
Spoon.
Good fucking song!
Eisteddfod.
All Is Dream.
Hard following up.
Unenviable.
Emma Pollock solo.
With Alun Woodward singing.
The Great Eastern.
New Spiritualized.
Banjo.
Let It Come Down.
Abbey Road.
Coldplay.
A Rush of Blood to the Head.
This bloke is serious as fuck.
Sad eyes.
I’m sensing a Jandek promotional strategy.
Final track Richter.
Ravel.
Emperor.
Philip Glass.
Conlon Nancarrow.
City/country dichotomy.
Urban/rural.
Urban encroaching.
Something felt.
Big symphony night.
Excitement of New York Phil.
The fucking french horns!
Automation.
A story in dynamics.
Lesson.
A folk album.
bucolic.
Pauly Deathwish.
iTunes.
Spotify.
-PD
Maybe.
After many long years.
I finally got a decent suit.
But the pinnacle is still Cary Grant in North by Northwest.
Perhaps more important than Dorothy’s slippers.
The grey suit.
Gray? Grey.
Because Archibald Leach (Grant’s real name) was from Bristol.
Now.
The debate rages on.
Was it Norton & Sons (Savile Row) or Quintino (Beverly Hills)?
And this is a very important matter.
Basis in fact.
Innocent lives are at stake here.
Vanity Fair (at least they employed Tosches for a time) contends it was a British suit.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/03/behindthescenes200803
But The Independent counters that it was an American (Beverly Hills) tailor.
My first thought is always The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (novel 1955, film 1956).
1959.
Something in the air.
Advertising.
Madison.
Shopping.
5th.
Whatever you do, don’t buy a property at 666 5th Avenue.
Mr. Kushner made that mistake.
Can you change an address?
Can we inch the building over a bit?
666 1/2?
But finally, that eternal quote of Mike Ruppert:
“The CIA is Wall Street. Wall Street is the CIA.”
What could all this mean?
What could ANY of this mean?
It’s well-known.
But the real danger is Finnegans Wake.
Is it unpredictability?
The real danger is changing stripes.
Spots.
Markings.
Camouflage.
A mask.
My daily trousers are sweatpants.
And then we must bring in Erik Satie.
As dangerous (harmless) a man as ever lived.
The “Velvet Gentleman”.
Seven gray velvet suits. All identical. One for each day of the week.
A revolution in simplicity.
But there are many, many hours of piano music to wade through.
Through which.
It’s not just the Gymnopédies.
Or even the Gnossiennes.
SS.
It’s a veritable Voynich manuscript of eccentricity.
Quixotic.
Mercurial.
Bizarre!
But with Magritte we got the grey bowler.
And Max Ernst: “The hat makes the man.”
But did he say it in English?
Not bloody likely!
And so rail-thin Cary Grant, almost certainly homosexual, looks stunning…dapper…a paragon of class in North by Northwest.
And it is a rare time where I (and many other men) say: “Wow…I want that business suit!”
Because I didn’t grow up rich.
And it took me till age 40 to get a passable sack.
Brooks Brothers was expensive.
Still is.
I’m low-rent.
High-brow.
A conundrum.
I don’t want to sell oil.
I’m a city boy.
They won’t take me on the farm.
So what am I?
Do I ride around on a horse?
Do I spit tobacco into a cuspidor?
[not anymore]
We must go away. To come back. And see for the first time.
What was Jia Zhangke talking about?
Or from?
The I Ching?
Or some Zen text?
Advertising.
Memetics.
Messaging.
COMMUNICATIONS
We are drawn to the suit.
The breezy ease with which Cary Grant negotiates New York sidewalk traffic.
Every remark quick.
Never at a loss for words.
And the characters all pay attention.
From Martin Landau to Eva Marie Saint: menswear.
Three buttons.
[a detail I missed…too late]
Buttons on cuffs.
Cufflinks.
Two-piece.
The most remarkable aspect, though, might be the “grey suit with grey tie” effect.
I mean, “what the fuck”?!?
It is slightly “off”.
Not the color-matching.
That’s fine.
But the concept.
Or this hypothetical exchange:
“What’s your favorite color?”
“Gray.”
“Gray?”
“Yeah, I don’t know…I just like gray.”
“What about it do you like?”
“I don’t know…it’s sorta mysterious?”
“Ok…but, I mean, it seems sorta drab, don’t you think?”
“Well, I’m not in the market for a gray bikini…”
Ah!
There’s the gender.
Men.
Do men fancy grey?
Is it one of the colors they’ve been “given”?
And women.
Do they really fancy pink?
I suppose some diabolical seamstress has plotted the complementary colors of all the world’s hetero couples.
Grey and pink.
Pink and green.
Orange and blue.
Red and green.
Purple and yellow.
Ad absurdum.
All I can say is this.
I feel spectacular in my new gray suit.
I’m a little closer to Daniel Craig, though mostly in the Cary Grant body type.
Or, put differently, I’m an extremely-poor-man’s Daniel Craig 🙂
I, too, would look scrawny next to James Bond.
Which segues nicely into the 007 franchise.
Suits…again.
Whether in Jamaica or parts unknown.
The sartorial fastidiousness would play a major role in framing Bond as “not just another guy”.
Taste.
An eye for detail.
Quality.
And personality, though understated.
The grey suit.
It the biggest weapon in my fashion arsenal (as of today).
And thus we turn towards commerce.
Another run, perhaps, of job searching.
Selling myself.
But at a certain point you just gotta say, “Fuck it!”
I’m a cool person.
I ain’t out to hurt nobody.
I read books.
Big fucking books.
About math and shit like that.
I’m a nerd to the nth power.
I know that.
And I’m fine with that.
Because I see the value in that.
So now I may have to bludgeon the HR receptors with a whole new level of qualifications.
Can I do it?
Can I be a lawyer?
Can I be a PhD?
[notably, perhaps, in advertising]
And beyond.
Because life has led me to this impasse.
We worry about bread on the table.
And some milk to stay healthy.
Heat in the winter.
Cooling in the summer.
Most of all…in all this mess of writing…I am thankful.
Thankful for a chance. A chance to do the right things.
And thankful for family. Thankful for time.
Thankful for intuition.
And thankful for failure.
Have your cake. Or eat it.
Thank you, my friends…for your support.
I am happy today. Hard day, as always.
And I pray the good happenings for each of you…in your lives…
-PD