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1. Opening Scene: The Bill Mahler
The film begins with Bill Maher being interviewed by a prominent journalist at the peak of his career as a talk show host. In this scene, Maher discusses his approach to political satire, stating
“The only thing that matters is what happens when the cameras start rolling sweetheart. You may have noticed that snowflakes have a tendency to melt on my show.”
This dialogue establishes Maher as a sharp, witty figure, fully aware of his influence and the power of his platform.
2. Real Time Turns Into Space
A crucial moment occurs during the taping of Maher’s TV show Real Time . Maher causes a scene when a guest expresses discomfort with discussing certain sensitive topics. Maher challenges the guest, arguing
“You can’t tiptoe around the truth just because it’s uncomfortable. When I did a little show called Politically Incorrect I guarantee you I wasn’t making people comfortable. People hated me.”
Maher has an uncompromising belief in free speech, giving him a license for showcasing his confrontational and sometimes misinformed opinions.
3. The Crystal Bernard Incident
The unraveling of Maher’s career begins with the Crystal Bernard subplot. Bernard, an actress known for her role on Wings and a former guest on Maher’s show, sends him a series of emails, pleading for his support after being ostracized by Hollywood.
When Bernard tragically fails to secure another network role before the Fall season, Maher follows through with his threats to find a new chick.
“I’m too old for losers”
This event casts a dark cloud over him, with a later conversation between Maher and his assistant revealing his cold detachment:
“I honestly didn’t blacklist her; she dug her own grave.”
4. Confrontation with Máron
Maher’s long-time producer and friend, Maron confronts him about the swirling rumors and allegations.
“Hey pal… it’s Máron. What the fuck. Do you know what people are saying about you, do you? People are saying The Things about your old NBC fuck buddy. What are going to do about that?”
This scene is filled with tension and concern and marks a pivotal moment in Maher’s personal and professional life, as Maron begins to distance himself, leaving Maher increasingly isolated.
“I never promised anyone anything, the only person I ever promised anything to was myself”
5. The Collapse of Live TV
During a live stream of his current podcast, Club Random, Maher’s composure begins to break down. He becomes erratic, losing control of the drinking and alienating his audience. The precision and wit that once defined his on-air persona crumbles under the influence of warm vodka and pre-show one-hitters. The dialogue here is aggressive, with the camera focusing on Maher’s growing frustration and flights into the bizarre, symbolizing his loss of control over his comedy and his live steam.
6. The Final Scene: Good Friends
In the final scene, Maher is in a hot tub on the panel of Good Friends, a podcast recorded in an apartment studio. The hosts of Good Friends stopped drinking years ago and Maher’s hitter box is almost dry. He sees how far removed from the influential media circles he once dominated and takes a careful sip. The last significant piece of dialogue is his instruction to the crew:
“Open a window for Christ’s sake, please…
Ok, let’s start from the top.”
Written by www.openaichatgpt
Image by https://paranoidamerican.com/
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-Do you have strong feelings about Nighttown?
-Yeah, I do. It's terrible.
-You think Nighttown is terrible?
-I think it's become terrible.
- I agree with that, but I can't quite articulate why.
-Well, it's lazy.
-Nighttown’s lazy?
-When people stumble through late at night, it's like, I understand it, but there's other places to go that are real, that have actual history. You could teach your kids about history. You could teach them about anything. You could teach them about things that have actually happened. I don't think Nighttown is a terrible place to go, but you shouldn't be doing it every day.
-There's people that go every day?
-There's this whole group of adults, Nighttown people, that really enjoy Nighttown. They meet their friends in Nighttown. They have affairs in Nighttown and somehow then not procreate. And they love it, and they say they remain intoxicated forever, which I don't think is the goal of life. And yeah, I just think it's upsetting when I see it.
-So it's like an emotional retardation that gets you?
-Yeah. You're looking at people that are stunted. They're unable, for whatever reason, to access other... There's a lot of art in America. There's a lot of literature. There's a lot of film. It's not all cartoons. Not all Disney. Not to take anything away from a lot of the classics, but it's supposed to be the beginning of your journey and not the whole thing. You know what I mean? The Odyssey is supposed to start you off, but then you go and find other things. What's terribly depressing to me or disturbing, or both, is that you have people that are still as into it as they were when they were 23, except they're 42. I think that's a big problem.
-It's not cheap. I've never been.
-No, it's hot. It's very hot, and it's not cheap. They have all these meal plans now that they offer people, which is like these terrible gross food that they'll give you throughout the day. If you pay an all-inclusive fee, someone will go and put a fried liver in your mouth every half hour. Then there's a lot of Nighttown people out there talking about how to do the parks. There are these people, plus-size people that are now trying to review rides to see if they fit in them. There are people that have YouTube videos dedicated to the type of shoes you have to wear in Nighttown because there's a lot of walking. There's people that go, I love Nighttown, but I refuse to pay. Is there a way? Can I get? It's become very big with the maybe voluntarily a mentally ill community where you have...
-Is anyone chemically disabled? It seems to be.
-We have a few people. I mean, I'm not an Olympic swimmer. I'm not going out there and shitting on people. But I'm saying there are people that seem more excited about the scooters and the wheelchairs and everything like that, and a lot of them love it.
-What's the connection? Just societal collapse?
-Well, societal collapse is, I think, the connection. But there's something about being a child forever and a place that tells you you should be a child forever, and that it is good to have the qualities of a child forever. It was like a diaper fetish. It's a diaper fetish. It's like there was a woman who in Dublin wanted to open a diaper spa where adults would wear diapers because they have some type of fetish where they like to be in diapers. And this woman was trying to open it in this tiny Irish town, and many people in the town got mad at her. It's very hard to open a small business. Nobody really wanted that. It was a diaper spa. I was for it because I said, If you make the migrants that are coming into this country, work at the diaper spa, they'll just go to Europe. I said, We don't need a wall. We just need to get everyone over to the Diaper Spa. But I put the modern, a lot of the modern Nighttown cultural stuff just above the Diaper Spa, where you have people that are going to this place where they feel like children.
-I don't know what it is. I think you should go for your children It's an experience for them. When it becomes about you in any way, I think it's sick.
-But it also seems important, like this is a measure of something.
-Yes, I do. I think that this is a weird There's a weird obsession with this idea that you're like, This is me. I have no shame. There should be things I think that people are ashamed of or they like quietly. Maybe if you love Nighttown and you're an adult, you shouldn't announce it to the world. I don't need sweatshirts and T-shirts and tank tops and Mickey hats. Because they're certainly not ideal. The idea that this is not your best self that you're putting out there. I understand as a comedian, there's a lot of things that we do where we don't put out our best self. But we always try to make it funny. We make it funny and we make a joke out of it. But there are a lot of people out there now, I feel like, that are forcing the world to accept them in their worst iteration, if that makes any sense.
-Without admitting that that iteration sucks.
-Yeah, or without admitting that that iteration, at the very least, needs some work. I think there's a lot of people out there that are just like, Hey, this is me. This is it.
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Ice cream
Or Beverage
Subtle shifts in perfection and perception galvanizes memory palaces made of memes
If you have no interest in history beyond the year of your birth Grandpa and Auntie are a feel good choice but Grandpa and Auntie are currently incompetent.
1,000 Kerouacs on-line
Waiting to be called drunk
And fabulous
THE NINE OF CUPS - Happiness - Moon - Taurus - Company
Keywords: Jupiter in Pisces, happiness, passionate love, deep joy, blessing
Advice: This moment is filled with harmony and inner happiness, fully open before it! Don't miss it!
Question: Where do you look for true happiness and where do you find it?
Suggestion: Breathe and Feel! If you are alone, enjoy the solitude. When you are with others, enjoy their presence. If you have something to do, do it with quiet devotion.
Revelation: Happiness is my natural state.
Analogies:
Ji-Ching: None (?)
Mythology: The Societies (Roundtable)
Keywords: social life, pleasures, ridicule, greed; marriage?
The structure we build on stolen emotions is vulnerable (sexless catholic psychonaut then and now)
I can zoom in from above
And land in any closed system
With fluency and rhetoric
Burroughs tricked them into reading 90 pages prior to the interview
The interview began with a discussion led by Burroughs on the first 30 pages followed by an admission of only having read the first 45 pages himself so that he could have the last 45 pages explained to himself sight unseen through the wire
“The DNA is a hard drive of information blah blah blah
There are files that can be accessed blah blah blah
Hyper dimensional echos of blah…”
Why does the ground change?
Why does it prevent me from enjoying the figure?
Insert Hexagram Here
We can’t justify anymore blah blah blah
Give it a blah
This tour is a memory palace
Of a once critical mass that has gotten caught up inside it and
Has become architecture now
When it gets down and sober,
If it gets to running around
He can take something back from on high
So listen to it again
I can’t or can’t begin with that or end with that with that
They owe us a 1950’s twist on the black iron prison where impossible numbers and letters and impossible symbols derail your Sphere
A Brohemian Groove in Gravity’s Rainbow Room where winos exist outside of the entropy of human relationships and main characters twist out of trouble in time for two plus two plus two