Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Keeping A Luminous Perspective
We are to always strive for this: to focus on the silver lining, see the cup half-full rather than half-empty, concentrate on the good rather than the bad... Keeping a luminous perspective means to have us, in any and all situations, retain that optimism, hope against all odds, no matter what happens - no matter what vile adversity we face.
''Always look on the bright side of life,'' as Monty Python sang, way back then... Seek the positive, while we ignore the negative? No, not ignore outright; for doing so would be incredibly naive - as well as risqué and extremely dangerous for our own selves... not to mention the safety of our loved and dear ones! Rather, it is to choose to channel all the positivism we can muster -not only ourselves, but the best elements of our entourage; and I do mean the very best elements- and inundate whatever situation it is that we find ourselves knee-deep into - until, indeed, ''everything is illuminated'' as a certain novel and movie adaptation that followed publicly declared to the whole world, almost twenty years ago already... Did the world heed such luminescence? Not particularly. Wars and rumors of war keep on coming - and that is only the tip of the iceberg.
The planet... is dying.
The world... grows ever chaotic.
Politics, economical concerns -short-term ambitions, in both cases- take precedence over the greater whole...
And over the soul, also.
Evil rears its unsightliest of all heads in so many surprising, unexpected places - at times no one could have predicted either.
And we are to... maintain this ''luminous perspective'' - are we not?
I declared, many times in the past, that it was my deepest conviction that man -overall, across the globe, no matter what creed/upbringing/race/status/profession/religion etc- is a creature made up of many shades of grey. Far more than fifty, too... Therefore, none can be declared "100% pure" just as none should be "100% evil" either... There should always be a flaw there, just as there should always be a redeeming quality. Unspeakable evil... should not be human. And yet... And yet... Haven't I also agreed with those who have estimated that "there is always an exception to the rule - EVERY RULE" - hmm? Humanity has made it a HABIT... to break every rule.
I have known various degrees of evil: met them, clashed with them... Up until now, I was still thinking there is a chance -a tiny glimmer, a spark in there, somewhere- a small hope for redemption. There must be repentance for there to be redemption - of course.
There doesn't appear to be any in the case of this felon who started off by telling the judge "let's be really clear on this: I will do whatever I want!"
There is no repentance there. No remorse. He is beyond salvation - and a case that reaffirms the need for capital punishment - if there ever was one...
Is there any hope for those Alberta brats that tortured and killed a fox, without the slightest scruple? They appear to know right from wrong - yet showed no empathy whatsoever, for what was basically their likeness in the wild; just a child, in the woods. They killed it, abruptly and brutally. And they are to be seen as children themselves - inherently good?
Is there any innocence left on this planet - the question begs to be asked. Are there any innocent little children around, still: in North America, especially - land of over-consumption, mass-production, desensitization at an early age via video games, movies, television shows... The entire ecosystem of this globe is destabilized; and what are the true priorities of the mighty USA?
Empathy is atrophied by too much exposure to make-believe violence and horror; nothing really matters, living creatures do not - heck, even the Earth doesn't. Those youngsters of today; some of them are truly clueless - totally unconcerned. And they see it so differently than we do...! A greater horror yet, is that many so-called adults will be just as clueless too. The priorities are all revolving around self-indulgence and material wealth. What does it matter if there is pain aplenty - across the globe, across the street? What does it matter if a poor little fox got away from its mother - and ended being butchered by desensitized clods, children of the age of mass-mediatisation and nothing on?
I always believed that even my vilest rivals had some slight redeeming quality about them; they were either family people or had a heart for certain others - not for me, not for the majority; but, perhaps, for one single special other... They could not be "all bad" - that could not be. For it was, then they would be the devil incarnate; and I knew, for darn sure, they were not that! But then... Years go by... And one sees no change. They remain vile and contemptible overall - maybe not towards everyone without exception (if they were, they'd have been thrown in jail already!) but certainly with a great many... Nothing too obvious, of course; nothing too overt. Fifty-hundred degrees of hypocrisy, verily!
And then there are those cases that come to the surface: all the mass-shootings, the serial and very unrepentant murderers, the animal cruelty offenders...
How can you hurt another without remorse? How can you hurt a fellow human being, an innocent animal, the planet itself - and not know you are hurting yourself THE MOST...
I do not know about those little bastards from Alberta, Canada... It is too soon to make a call there. Then again, in Ontario, Canada, there's the equally disturbing case of Stefanie Rengel - she was murdered by an ex-boyfriend at the bequest of the boy's new girlfriend, Melissa Todorovic. That took place ten years ago. Rengel was -and will forever be- only 14 years-old. Todorovic was sentenced as an adult for having masterminded this grisly act; in 2009, she was sentenced to life without parole for seven years. But today, Todorovic was granted day parole.
And what of this other one, free as a bird and living in the community, after time served...
Is there truly hope, for them...? A hint of genuine remorse - salvation still possible for those souls? Who can tell...?
It is not for us to judge... ever.
Hey; I have seen too many earthly judges pass on the most senseless -furthest from any possible definition of "justice" ever heard of- sentences as it is... I will not be adding to that myself now!
None of us here -left, on this globe hurtling through in outer space; spinning about on its head, actually- none of us have got the wisdom of Solomon; and even he, wisest of kings... was not GOD. (And for the out there, who may be keen on frowning upon the very mention of God, and yet stumbled upon this blog... You may doubt the Existence of The Creator but that is only because of your many limitations: see, you stick to only the visible, the palpable, the material. You are a prisoner of your senses and have become senseless in the process - not being able to sync in with what is irremediably linked to the very energy that animates you, which is but an iota of the Very Energy Which Is God! And of you fail to even sense that, be it in a most intuitive way - I have no time for you.)
What I have only a few minutes to devote to, is this: remain vigilant, always, but remain equally trusting in the Lord's Protection - and in the prevailing goodness overall. Remain convinced that there is that sparkle of goodness "the other" - no matter what the other is, represents or could ever come to be in your path! Believe and remain ever ready; expecting the best but fully prepared for the worst. You can be absolutely certain that GOD Will never allow for you to meet greater strife than you can endure. Of course, GOD Knows better than you what you are truly able to endure... We might become the tormentor too - unexpectedly and quite surprisingly, for darn sure - and we will never see it that way. For if it is true that we all have various shades of grey within our very selves -that it is part of our matrix, part of our being- that we are, in effect, born this way...
It is also true that there is a chance for redemption - for all. Yes, even those who appear irremediably lost, beyond salvation, gone to the extreme end from where there is no return... Even the most evil human being on the face of this earth was once... a newborn babe. Even though something went horribly wrong with him, over them growing pains, he remains that: human. And GOD Has shown mercy upon man - time and again. He only lost patience with humanity once - and promised never again to do so. The rainbow is the sign of that promise and, despite the many wretched changes brought upon the planet by our reckless ways - to its climate, to its weather patterns grown so erratic and unpredictable- we still see those rainbows; that has not changed. BELIEVE in that promise - if you are one of those on the brink of repentance; most especially then...
For you have come to see it. in your eyes, in your own ways: no matter what degree of wickedness you were on, it never satisfied you. Or if it did, it no longer does. The brightest among you will have even seen it coming, from the proverbial mile away - it was not meant to last. It could not continue that way. It was never meant to.
The Time Comes... To Walk Like Jesus! To take example upon Him; to be a Light in this world - not the opposite; not the instrument of obscurantism, obfuscation and outright horrid, atrocious ugliness. To those boys in Alberta: let your punishment teach you the lesson it should - and do not be tempted to revolt -on top of the heinous crime you committed- in the face of said justice. Earthly justice gets it wrong so many times; it is NOT the case with you here - you were MONSTROUS and your victim was a defenseless wild animal - you so do deserve the harshest punishment permitted in these times - end times, what else are they now?
To viciously assault the only creatures on this earth that are totally devoid of malicious intent - wild animals hunting, preying only to feed, not out of a sick, twisted pleasure to hurt others, like these gutless, clueless brats who were given everything on a silver platter obviously have developed over a few short years of overindulgence in desensitizing entertainment... it is simply abominable.
We can pray that these delinquents - and hordes of others just like them - will learn to live, commune with and love nature the way it was meant to be: because this is the Paradise that God Had Given us originally. Man has turned it into hell. Man - not the animal kingdom.
''Always look on the bright side of life,'' as Monty Python sang, way back then... Seek the positive, while we ignore the negative? No, not ignore outright; for doing so would be incredibly naive - as well as risqué and extremely dangerous for our own selves... not to mention the safety of our loved and dear ones! Rather, it is to choose to channel all the positivism we can muster -not only ourselves, but the best elements of our entourage; and I do mean the very best elements- and inundate whatever situation it is that we find ourselves knee-deep into - until, indeed, ''everything is illuminated'' as a certain novel and movie adaptation that followed publicly declared to the whole world, almost twenty years ago already... Did the world heed such luminescence? Not particularly. Wars and rumors of war keep on coming - and that is only the tip of the iceberg.
The planet... is dying.
The world... grows ever chaotic.
Politics, economical concerns -short-term ambitions, in both cases- take precedence over the greater whole...
And over the soul, also.
Evil rears its unsightliest of all heads in so many surprising, unexpected places - at times no one could have predicted either.
And we are to... maintain this ''luminous perspective'' - are we not?
I declared, many times in the past, that it was my deepest conviction that man -overall, across the globe, no matter what creed/upbringing/race/status/profession/religion etc- is a creature made up of many shades of grey. Far more than fifty, too... Therefore, none can be declared "100% pure" just as none should be "100% evil" either... There should always be a flaw there, just as there should always be a redeeming quality. Unspeakable evil... should not be human. And yet... And yet... Haven't I also agreed with those who have estimated that "there is always an exception to the rule - EVERY RULE" - hmm? Humanity has made it a HABIT... to break every rule.
I have known various degrees of evil: met them, clashed with them... Up until now, I was still thinking there is a chance -a tiny glimmer, a spark in there, somewhere- a small hope for redemption. There must be repentance for there to be redemption - of course.
There doesn't appear to be any in the case of this felon who started off by telling the judge "let's be really clear on this: I will do whatever I want!"
There is no repentance there. No remorse. He is beyond salvation - and a case that reaffirms the need for capital punishment - if there ever was one...
Is there any hope for those Alberta brats that tortured and killed a fox, without the slightest scruple? They appear to know right from wrong - yet showed no empathy whatsoever, for what was basically their likeness in the wild; just a child, in the woods. They killed it, abruptly and brutally. And they are to be seen as children themselves - inherently good?
Is there any innocence left on this planet - the question begs to be asked. Are there any innocent little children around, still: in North America, especially - land of over-consumption, mass-production, desensitization at an early age via video games, movies, television shows... The entire ecosystem of this globe is destabilized; and what are the true priorities of the mighty USA?
Empathy is atrophied by too much exposure to make-believe violence and horror; nothing really matters, living creatures do not - heck, even the Earth doesn't. Those youngsters of today; some of them are truly clueless - totally unconcerned. And they see it so differently than we do...! A greater horror yet, is that many so-called adults will be just as clueless too. The priorities are all revolving around self-indulgence and material wealth. What does it matter if there is pain aplenty - across the globe, across the street? What does it matter if a poor little fox got away from its mother - and ended being butchered by desensitized clods, children of the age of mass-mediatisation and nothing on?
I always believed that even my vilest rivals had some slight redeeming quality about them; they were either family people or had a heart for certain others - not for me, not for the majority; but, perhaps, for one single special other... They could not be "all bad" - that could not be. For it was, then they would be the devil incarnate; and I knew, for darn sure, they were not that! But then... Years go by... And one sees no change. They remain vile and contemptible overall - maybe not towards everyone without exception (if they were, they'd have been thrown in jail already!) but certainly with a great many... Nothing too obvious, of course; nothing too overt. Fifty-hundred degrees of hypocrisy, verily!
And then there are those cases that come to the surface: all the mass-shootings, the serial and very unrepentant murderers, the animal cruelty offenders...
How can you hurt another without remorse? How can you hurt a fellow human being, an innocent animal, the planet itself - and not know you are hurting yourself THE MOST...
I do not know about those little bastards from Alberta, Canada... It is too soon to make a call there. Then again, in Ontario, Canada, there's the equally disturbing case of Stefanie Rengel - she was murdered by an ex-boyfriend at the bequest of the boy's new girlfriend, Melissa Todorovic. That took place ten years ago. Rengel was -and will forever be- only 14 years-old. Todorovic was sentenced as an adult for having masterminded this grisly act; in 2009, she was sentenced to life without parole for seven years. But today, Todorovic was granted day parole.
And what of this other one, free as a bird and living in the community, after time served...
Is there truly hope, for them...? A hint of genuine remorse - salvation still possible for those souls? Who can tell...?
ONLY GOD...
Hey; I have seen too many earthly judges pass on the most senseless -furthest from any possible definition of "justice" ever heard of- sentences as it is... I will not be adding to that myself now!
None of us here -left, on this globe hurtling through in outer space; spinning about on its head, actually- none of us have got the wisdom of Solomon; and even he, wisest of kings... was not GOD. (And for the out there, who may be keen on frowning upon the very mention of God, and yet stumbled upon this blog... You may doubt the Existence of The Creator but that is only because of your many limitations: see, you stick to only the visible, the palpable, the material. You are a prisoner of your senses and have become senseless in the process - not being able to sync in with what is irremediably linked to the very energy that animates you, which is but an iota of the Very Energy Which Is God! And of you fail to even sense that, be it in a most intuitive way - I have no time for you.)
What I have only a few minutes to devote to, is this: remain vigilant, always, but remain equally trusting in the Lord's Protection - and in the prevailing goodness overall. Remain convinced that there is that sparkle of goodness "the other" - no matter what the other is, represents or could ever come to be in your path! Believe and remain ever ready; expecting the best but fully prepared for the worst. You can be absolutely certain that GOD Will never allow for you to meet greater strife than you can endure. Of course, GOD Knows better than you what you are truly able to endure... We might become the tormentor too - unexpectedly and quite surprisingly, for darn sure - and we will never see it that way. For if it is true that we all have various shades of grey within our very selves -that it is part of our matrix, part of our being- that we are, in effect, born this way...
It is also true that there is a chance for redemption - for all. Yes, even those who appear irremediably lost, beyond salvation, gone to the extreme end from where there is no return... Even the most evil human being on the face of this earth was once... a newborn babe. Even though something went horribly wrong with him, over them growing pains, he remains that: human. And GOD Has shown mercy upon man - time and again. He only lost patience with humanity once - and promised never again to do so. The rainbow is the sign of that promise and, despite the many wretched changes brought upon the planet by our reckless ways - to its climate, to its weather patterns grown so erratic and unpredictable- we still see those rainbows; that has not changed. BELIEVE in that promise - if you are one of those on the brink of repentance; most especially then...
For you have come to see it. in your eyes, in your own ways: no matter what degree of wickedness you were on, it never satisfied you. Or if it did, it no longer does. The brightest among you will have even seen it coming, from the proverbial mile away - it was not meant to last. It could not continue that way. It was never meant to.
The Time Comes... To Walk Like Jesus! To take example upon Him; to be a Light in this world - not the opposite; not the instrument of obscurantism, obfuscation and outright horrid, atrocious ugliness. To those boys in Alberta: let your punishment teach you the lesson it should - and do not be tempted to revolt -on top of the heinous crime you committed- in the face of said justice. Earthly justice gets it wrong so many times; it is NOT the case with you here - you were MONSTROUS and your victim was a defenseless wild animal - you so do deserve the harshest punishment permitted in these times - end times, what else are they now?
To viciously assault the only creatures on this earth that are totally devoid of malicious intent - wild animals hunting, preying only to feed, not out of a sick, twisted pleasure to hurt others, like these gutless, clueless brats who were given everything on a silver platter obviously have developed over a few short years of overindulgence in desensitizing entertainment... it is simply abominable.
We can pray that these delinquents - and hordes of others just like them - will learn to live, commune with and love nature the way it was meant to be: because this is the Paradise that God Had Given us originally. Man has turned it into hell. Man - not the animal kingdom.
Why can we not strive to do GOOD - and only that, always? Why does the human mind ever have that penchant towards the forbidden, the wrongful, the fiendish, the malicious, the reprehensible...? Is it "more fun" - IS IT? Will it be "more fun" when you face the consequences of those despicable acts, now? Will it be "more fun" once your conscience finally awakens - and gnaws at you, eating you from the inside, for the rest of your DAYS...? That is, if you ever do prove to have one - granted. In the opposite case, felons and assorted unscrupulous lost causes out there, READ THIS: no conscience? No problem! And NO MERCY either: you will be shown none whatsoever -just like you did your victims- not in a court of law, not before the Ultimate Judge - DIVINE JUSTICE. You may want to seek comfort, then, in this: the very few moments of serenity that you ever had in your wretched existences - will have been when you slept. Or ate. And both instances - you never deserved a single thing: not a bite, not even a gasp of air.
But did the heinous, wretched monsters that you are deserve to EXIST...? Absolutely.
GOD Allowed it - if only so that you could help along -yes, help- others achieve their redemption... by the very atrocities that you committed.
The boys in Alberta will inspire a few rotten apples to do likewise - but they will also inspire noble, beautiful souls to love animals even more. Those fiendish persons that perpetrated the most horrifying things on their fellow man -woman, child, soul- have in fact been the hurdle that was necessary in order for many others to stop themselves from succumbing to similar temptations. And the victims became greater than ever, in their suffering - certainly eons above their assailants. Had this not happened - they might have turned out so differently; maybe even just like their tormentors.
Souls are gems in the rough, shaped into diamonds by the harshness that they encounter - are they not?
That is the Luminous Perspective, in its essence: everything is part of a pre-ordained cosmic balance; nothing is random, nothing is without sense. We are all connected - even that way. We so often fail to see the sense in things: and that is because we focus upon only the carnal, material aspects of it. We forget that we are spirits living a material experience; astral energy temporarily animating bodies made of atoms themselves. But when that time is up - the energy moves on, to where it truly belongs.
And animals... they do have souls, too.
Yes they most certainly do.
I believe that little fox -its life energy, where it is roaming now- has nothing against those wayward boys who ended its earthly existence.
It has reached the zenith of Life - it is in God's Domain.
It is those boys that have yet so much to learn in order to attain that level - so very much indeed.
They - and about three quarters of the living humanity present on this planet right now.
Labels: Be The Light - not got a light, Jesus, Luminescence, Luminous Advice, luminous choices, Luminous Connections, March For Jesus, music, Pundit Blogger Me, simulpost
Saturday, December 24, 2016
Christmas Past, Present, Future
There are always THREE...
''Tryptic Theory'' - as an old mentor of mine would say...
And, now, more than ever before...
I feel the need to look at it from all three angles indeed.
Yes, it's Christmas Time - again.
And what have we done... really?
Have we changed the world - lately?
Do we feed the world?
Does the whole world feel ''Christmassy'' - whatever that may really be?
Is it our duty to help them feel that way?
Is it incumbent upon each and every one of us to make them feel it - let them know it?
And how many of us will want that to be the case...?
Most of us feel Scrooged - all year through.
Most of us are Scroogey - and not in a ducky way.
In today's world, it is all fast... individualistic... and furiously shallow.
But then it is not all that new:
my great-grandfather used to say, and with good reason to,
''do none any harm - but don't do them any good either''
For he was repaid with evil when he did do some good.
Maybe one such dire experience should not stigmatize for all time to come.
Then again... Fooled me once, shame on you.
Fooled me twice... you know the rest.
Band Aid, USA F.A. and all other such efforts
probably had the most appropriate idea on this, from the get-go:
HELP YOUR FELLOW MAN, YES...
But let it be from as far away as possible.
If the fellow is on another continent, even better!
Beware of those pyramidal scams, ponzi schemes and the works though!
But you already do - all year through,
I am certain none of you will let their guard down
just because it's ''Christmas Time'' once again...
And so...
Ahem... Thing is... The war? It hasn't even really started yet!
(You cannot count this cold war pastiche as the real deal)
But it will... Maybe really, really soon too... In 2017, maybe...?
But that's another story...
In the meantime, let's keep on hoping ''it's a good one'' - yes...
Yes we are - 7.4 BILLION ''STRONG'' now...
''Tryptic Theory'' - as an old mentor of mine would say...
And, now, more than ever before...
I feel the need to look at it from all three angles indeed.
Yes, it's Christmas Time - again.
And what have we done... really?
Have we changed the world - lately?
Do we feed the world?
Does the whole world feel ''Christmassy'' - whatever that may really be?
Is it our duty to help them feel that way?
Is it incumbent upon each and every one of us to make them feel it - let them know it?
And how many of us will want that to be the case...?
Most of us feel Scrooged - all year through.
Most of us are Scroogey - and not in a ducky way.
In today's world, it is all fast... individualistic... and furiously shallow.
But then it is not all that new:
my great-grandfather used to say, and with good reason to,
''do none any harm - but don't do them any good either''
For he was repaid with evil when he did do some good.
Maybe one such dire experience should not stigmatize for all time to come.
Then again... Fooled me once, shame on you.
Fooled me twice... you know the rest.
Band Aid, USA F.A. and all other such efforts
probably had the most appropriate idea on this, from the get-go:
HELP YOUR FELLOW MAN, YES...
But let it be from as far away as possible.
If the fellow is on another continent, even better!
Beware of those pyramidal scams, ponzi schemes and the works though!
But you already do - all year through,
I am certain none of you will let their guard down
just because it's ''Christmas Time'' once again...
And so...
Ahem... Thing is... The war? It hasn't even really started yet!
(You cannot count this cold war pastiche as the real deal)
But it will... Maybe really, really soon too... In 2017, maybe...?
But that's another story...
In the meantime, let's keep on hoping ''it's a good one'' - yes...
Yes we are - 7.4 BILLION ''STRONG'' now...
I gather they still do not.
It is nice to dream...
Ah... These two are reunited to sing this now - on a stage in the Great Beyond.
... with these guys, maybe?
Absolutely...
The Bells are ringing out... or are they tolling for...?
Oh - let's call the whole thing off - just LET IT SNOW.
Labels: Christ-mas, Luminous Advice, Pundit Blogger Me
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Thursday, August 13, 2015
Luminous DEBs
Time to dress up in WHITE...!
LUMINOUS WHITE
is excellent for absolutely ALL occasions - you know it
Oh, yeah... and then there's this thing called...
Diner en Blanc...!
Totally what
Luminous (\ô/) Luciano
is aaaaaall
about!
Wooooo!
*lol*
And this is what you need, afterwards:
+++
Labels: Luminous, luminous simulpost, Pundit Blogger Me
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
For The Luminous Cat Person (And Dog Dude Too!)
Is it a holiday, today?
Never mind if it is or if it is not - the fact of the matter is that we have finally noticed, after nearly seven years here, that the song with a most fitting title (HOLIDAY) for this blog has *never* been featured on TLB PRIME - aka The Luminous Blog! We cannot be sure about the rest of the TLB Prime Network (too much bandwidth to cover, you know...) but we can safely say that we have indeed skipped this one here, despite the fact that it is a natural for this site in many and mostly certain aspects...!
Let us remedy to this situation right here and right now, then: and with style, on top of that! For Mad-Onna has a rightful successor, a heir apparent that has fans going *gaga* over her - and there's this latest hit playing all the time these days, everywhere -the latest hit on an impressive string of consecutive hits for the budding "star"; although we may have mentioned before our reserve in mentioning "stars" and "superstars" for anything that is not indeed a celestial object- but that is digression right there...
Hence, that hit song -Alejandro- which could, conceivably, be about the name of some saint out there - was recently amalgamated with the previously mentioned Holiday by the Mad One; and the result amalgamation (aye, amalgamation, we said; not abomination!) is titled "Holiandro"...!
Enjoy the meeting of the minds - and of two eras - that follows:
That was something else, was it not!
:p
Many thanks, for the discovery of this remix, to the new addition to the blogroll bunch of brilliant blogs, linked here, somewhere, on the long -and luminous- sidebar. Upon finding it (or simply clicking here) you will discover the brilliant blogger in question, all the latest news on these so-called "stars" (that are not, for they are but mere flesh -flawed flesh; oh-so-very-flawed...!- and bone -bored bone; oh-so-very-boring...!) and much, much more! It is an exciting blog to visit often, for it is up-to-date and fresh; all that and funny as well! Thus, look up the kitty kitty person - soon!
(Just keep on scrolling down and looking on the right end of the screen, if you are using Internet Explorer -whatever version- or look on the left if you are using Mozilla Firefox! They're diametrically opposed, those two - you know...)
I would be remiss if I didn't add my own two cents of entertainment news - the sort of thing I usually reserve for a plethora of other blogs, part of the TLB Prime Network - but exceptions can always be made, quite obviously...!
Last week-end, there was this event called "Heavy Mtl" - with the clear implication that the two vowels missing there are "e" and "a"... It made us think, here, at the TLB Prime Network, if there could be one such thing as "luminous metal" too...? We pondered the question some more and came up with a list of... suggestions. Or subject-cases. Submitted for your approval...
Corny thing, if there ever was one - Korn, a band that was present and one of the headliners to boot, at this Heavy Mtl thing, was not to be found anywhere on playlist.com... Too bad. Another fascinating subject-case, P.O.D. I think they are called, was nowhere to be found either. There were only a single song-per-case to be added there, in any case...
"Heavy Mtl" wasn't a rowdy thing - by the way, surprisingly... Only one lone ambulance was required to be on the scene, rumor has it... Heavy Metallists can behave themselves - so there is hope for the zealots and radicals out there, yet! But that is another story...
I would be remiss, once more, if I ended on that note, without leaving you a chance to listen to the original "Alejandro" - other stuff to go "gaga" over - AND plenty others, from this latest crop of "new talent" that could never hope nor dream to ever replace the singing and artistic talent of yesteryear...
But they keep on trying - kudos for that, kiddos!
;)
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Never mind if it is or if it is not - the fact of the matter is that we have finally noticed, after nearly seven years here, that the song with a most fitting title (HOLIDAY) for this blog has *never* been featured on TLB PRIME - aka The Luminous Blog! We cannot be sure about the rest of the TLB Prime Network (too much bandwidth to cover, you know...) but we can safely say that we have indeed skipped this one here, despite the fact that it is a natural for this site in many and mostly certain aspects...!
Let us remedy to this situation right here and right now, then: and with style, on top of that! For Mad-Onna has a rightful successor, a heir apparent that has fans going *gaga* over her - and there's this latest hit playing all the time these days, everywhere -the latest hit on an impressive string of consecutive hits for the budding "star"; although we may have mentioned before our reserve in mentioning "stars" and "superstars" for anything that is not indeed a celestial object- but that is digression right there...
Hence, that hit song -Alejandro- which could, conceivably, be about the name of some saint out there - was recently amalgamated with the previously mentioned Holiday by the Mad One; and the result amalgamation (aye, amalgamation, we said; not abomination!) is titled "Holiandro"...!
Enjoy the meeting of the minds - and of two eras - that follows:
That was something else, was it not!
:p
Many thanks, for the discovery of this remix, to the new addition to the blogroll bunch of brilliant blogs, linked here, somewhere, on the long -and luminous- sidebar. Upon finding it (or simply clicking here) you will discover the brilliant blogger in question, all the latest news on these so-called "stars" (that are not, for they are but mere flesh -flawed flesh; oh-so-very-flawed...!- and bone -bored bone; oh-so-very-boring...!) and much, much more! It is an exciting blog to visit often, for it is up-to-date and fresh; all that and funny as well! Thus, look up the kitty kitty person - soon!
(Just keep on scrolling down and looking on the right end of the screen, if you are using Internet Explorer -whatever version- or look on the left if you are using Mozilla Firefox! They're diametrically opposed, those two - you know...)
I would be remiss if I didn't add my own two cents of entertainment news - the sort of thing I usually reserve for a plethora of other blogs, part of the TLB Prime Network - but exceptions can always be made, quite obviously...!
Last week-end, there was this event called "Heavy Mtl" - with the clear implication that the two vowels missing there are "e" and "a"... It made us think, here, at the TLB Prime Network, if there could be one such thing as "luminous metal" too...? We pondered the question some more and came up with a list of... suggestions. Or subject-cases. Submitted for your approval...
Corny thing, if there ever was one - Korn, a band that was present and one of the headliners to boot, at this Heavy Mtl thing, was not to be found anywhere on playlist.com... Too bad. Another fascinating subject-case, P.O.D. I think they are called, was nowhere to be found either. There were only a single song-per-case to be added there, in any case...
"Heavy Mtl" wasn't a rowdy thing - by the way, surprisingly... Only one lone ambulance was required to be on the scene, rumor has it... Heavy Metallists can behave themselves - so there is hope for the zealots and radicals out there, yet! But that is another story...
I would be remiss, once more, if I ended on that note, without leaving you a chance to listen to the original "Alejandro" - other stuff to go "gaga" over - AND plenty others, from this latest crop of "new talent" that could never hope nor dream to ever replace the singing and artistic talent of yesteryear...
But they keep on trying - kudos for that, kiddos!
;)
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* UPDATED *
That's... the only "Holiandro" to be found, alas -
fifteen (15) years later!!!
Aw... no! FOUND IT:
See what you did, YouTube?
You created that FAME MONSTER there
(and the Mad Veronica Electronica Onna before her)
((in collaboration with MTV, sure))
and, NOW, after taking away
SO MANY VIDEOS
through the years
you've made me
into a hoarder
of embedded vids!
HAPPY???
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Thursday, July 01, 2010
C'est Ça, La Canada!
LA (not 'le') CANADA!
This year, I will tell you what LA CANADA really is, folks!
An historical mistake, a geographical anomaly, brought forth by France's stubbornness at trying to be as good as the British were abroad and in general...!
But, of course, they were not - as plainly evident on those Plains of Abraham, where the sheepish Montcalm fell prey to Wolfe and company...!
Louis-Joseph, malgré tout son calme, fut le premier a s'essoufler avec un "James!" - bien avant quelconque Bond Girl...!
Waterloo allait bientot confirmer tout ça... right, Nap?
The Act of Quebec, upon the arrival and taking over by the victorious British, was an unnatural act if there ever was one in all of HISTORY...!
The Brits were just too civilized, that is what the problem was (initially, anyhow - because the problem soon grew, and grew, so disproportionally that, from mere annoying tiny wee-bit French presence on the continent where they never belonged in the first place, to a major pain you know where...! But I am digressing right here and now...)
The Brits should have simply kicked back all those ruffians and Filles du Roy back where they came from - that's right, they should have simply deported the whole lot of them and started anew with fresh new rabble; the bowery-dwelling unwanted from London instead of the miserable French rejects from Paris!
Alas, that is not what they did - the British Commonwealth soon was born with, in its midst, a bastard mish-mash of French, Métis and assorted rebels as its very obvious -painfully obvious- balck sheep of the family...
Some of these rebels were deemed LOYALISTS rather than anything else - because they fled the recently freedom-intoxicated (and newly-created) "United States" and were simply relocated themselves - to the newly-acquired colony nearby... la Canada!
They just came, en masse, to add to the burgeoning problem there; in Nova Scotia but, most of all, in Quebec!
In fact, the Canadian Mistake is in so many ways an offshoot of the insurrection and creation of the USA, that it isn't even funny!
LA CANADA - IS A SIDE-EFFECT!!!
As mentioned before, on this and other blogs from my network, the very name "CANADA" has at least five different possible origins - all intertwined too! What most likely happened is that they all chain-produced the other: the Portuguese said "nem cana dà aqui" and then the Spaniards inspired themselves of it to coin their cute little designation for a channel and then the Natives borrowed, liking the sound of it, and christened their primitive village like that! The other likely origins of the word come from a five month-old brat circa 1536 and a dead drunk aborigène named Poked-Eye Skunk...
Due to the monumental mess in Europe during the Napoleonic Wars, on one hand, and the similarly humongous madness going on the American side (with natives like Tecumseh involved) LA CANADA was left to... flourish, actually! As much as any wasteland ready to give away up to a thousand acres to any so-called "loyalist" (be he German, British, Native or even French!) willing to take up residence there and start populating it WILL...!
And they say the USA is a melting pot - LA CANADA was at it CENTURIES before them, dudes...! But I am digressing again - eh.
And this new country that wasn't one had ONE crucial foundation for its financial stability - no, it wasn't gold, as had hoped the foolish king of France and his emissary Jacques Cartier, and no it wasn't the riches of 1001 spices, as other foolish ones, still dreaming of the famed passage to the Indies, were dreaming of... No, it was FUR - to be more specific, BEAVER FUR. Gross, EH. How long could that last! Not long at all, of course, and, as the "NorWesters" and Hudson Bay company started noticing that decline, some new arrivals began to, timidly, try and make this infertile land produce more than CANA - and more than a measly four months per year or so too!!! 1835 was a horrible year - but they would get a hang of handling four seasons... eventually! All they had to do was hang in long enough for their more enterprising and far more resourceful neighbours, the Americans, to find a way to export to them all of their produce and know-how: and there wouldn't be a famine for all twenty-five of the settlers and their cows, just yet! (Okay, I jest - there were more than 25 by then...! And if anyone thinks of slamming my anti-canada tone here, I shall direct you to feu TCH, wittiest soul of Nova Scotia and father to one Sam Slick...! Irrefutable evidence, once again, that even among abysmal masses, a sharp intellect can arise - once in a blue moon!)
Then it was insurrection time for la Canada as well: of course, it was rather pitiful if you compare it with the Terrible Thirteen that fought back the British Empire and became the United States of America! La Canada's insurrection was, first, in 1837 - some folks voiced their preferences towards a more British-style of life, others were impressed of the newly-created American way and still others just wanted to go back to the woods and commune with the raccoons and the beavers - that still lived, that is!
In fact, ever since the pathetic Constitutional Act of 1791, that was meant to prevent another USA happening in La Canada, all the battles had petty bickering between religious factions and budding political clans...! No wonder that all it begat, some 150 years later, was an idiotic oxymoronic QUIET REVOLUTION...!
Montréal began its lamentable tradition of rioting that leads nowhere fast right there and then, in 1837 - the PATRIOTES were the cause that time, not the paradoxically-named (for a town that heads a province that wants to SECEDE from la CANADA) Montreal CANADIENS...!!!
Places where nothing happens like EVER (like St-Eustache) were the primary battlegrounds between the doomed-to-lose-from-the-very-beginning Patriotes and the regime in place... And to think that all this was NOT kick-started at all by a French dude (as it should have been - right?) but by an "IMPETUOUS IRISHMAN" instead, one Edmund Bailey O'CALLAGHAN!!! Makes complete sense... Next, South American guerillas will come and train the FLQ how to get things done...!
Pathetic - La Canada!
I could go on with the history lesson - like, forget the Colbert Report, read the Durham Report - and weep! (Maybe due to laughter - but still!)
Think Dubya sucked eggs - watch the likes of W. Laurier and Mackenzie King administer a messy nation!
La Canada's inflated ego, and the way it is de facto perceived by all the other nations worldwide, betrays the truth of its origins as, indeed, but an off-shot of the US of A...
Amidst the G8 or the G20, La Canada is but a lackey to either its former colonial power or its super-power neighbor...
Any so-called nation that treats its people the way La Canada treated Louis Riel and André Mathieu doesn't deserve much respect, anyway...!
That is exactly what the artistic community does for it - as their funding diminishes and dwindles to next-to-nothingness with each year that goes by, the nation without an identity becomes one without arts too. It finally becomes one without class with this crude new "dance" called... La Canada! Local by-product André-Philippe Gagnon created his masterpiece with this one, while he mainly impersonates Julio Iglesias, quite paradoxically... (I mean, Iglesias has absolutely NOTHING... NADA... to do with NEM CANA DÀ!)
Still, the video linked here, still found on YouTube after all these years, remains the truest tune about this country that there ever was - and the gem in Gagnon's entire career (sort of like his Amish Paradise - rejoice, A-P, I compared thee with an American - albeit Weird Al!)
Enjoy, most especially, Gagnon's impersonation of http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Chrétien (playing the tambourine!) and those of Montreal local celebrities such as the former Montreal Canadien, then New Jersey Devil player Stéphane Richer, then-Prime Minister Pathetic Brian Mulroney and some gay gossiper who used to be on French television a lot... All that and the presence of two actual Montreal Canadiens players who do not seem to understand what this song is really saying, otherwise, one would think, they wouldn't have been a part of it, right? Right!
LA CANADA -
THE COUNTRY THAT TAKES THREE STEPS FORWARD
AND TWENTY-FOUR STEPS BACK!
(Anytime of the year -
twice more often when they're being the USA's patsy!)
It is EXACTLY as the song says...!
With all that,
Happy Canada Day... EH
:p
And this has been - quite coincidentally, eh - a preview
of yet another forthcoming blog, here,
on the fabled TLB Prime Network
(coming to you via Blogger, of course)
as can be confirmed by the nice doggie here:
say *WARF* to confirm it, Canadiana...!!!
(*WARF* reverberates throughout the blogosphere)
((Yes - Canadiana is the lady doggie's name!))
(((The USofA can have their bitch called Columbia; EH?)))
((((Canada can have their own!!!))))
...wrong canada...
This... is more like it!
...dans un tout autre registre, par contre:
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Monday, June 21, 2010
The Longest Yawn
Today was the longest day of the year!
The Longest Day Of The Year 2010!
The longest day in the northern hemisphere, which automatically means that June 21st is, de facto, the day of the year 2010!
The best day of all, for it is the one with the most sunlight!
The day with the most light may not necessarily mean the day with the most enlightenment, but then that dubious honor could be given to just about any other day of the year in which multiple monumental goofs are inanely committed worldwide, so there...!
The longest day of the year simply means one thing, above all: the longest stretch of uninterrupted daytime we can ever possibly hope for around these parts - barring any intervention from dark clouds and a stormy weather forecast, that is!
The Longest Day 2010 is also the Summer Solstice 2010 – aye, the longest day of the year is a benchmark of the seasons too; a watermark that helps us set apart the meaningful days of the year from the bogus holidays such as, say, June 24th in Quebec or July the 1st in both Quebec but mostly Canada - just to give a couple of examples, eh... We call them summer solstices (or the longest days of our years) when days are, quite magically enough, longer than nights - and not just in appearance either! Of course, deep down, we all wish our nights to be longer, especially when we have to rise early the next day... The only ones who have ever wished for the opposite are either sado-masochists or the cast of From Dusk 'Til Dawn - but that is another story...!
Solstices are practical thingies too - being a barometer that regulates the time between Spring planting and Autumn harvesting; or harvesting and planting anew, as the cycle continues! Trees are still growing (amazingly enough, with all the abuse humanoids put mother nature through...!) and so is (practically) everything else (a miracle in itself - one that confirms the Existence of God, by itself! Aye - tis another story too...) thus we can carry on yawning as if nothing important has ever occurred in the course of the Days Of Our Lives...!
(Nothing ever did either - not since season 12, I think...!)
(It is another story, yes - again.)
The Longest Day of the Year, hence...
And what have you done with it... eh?
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The Longest Day Of The Year 2010!
The longest day in the northern hemisphere, which automatically means that June 21st is, de facto, the day of the year 2010!
The best day of all, for it is the one with the most sunlight!
The day with the most light may not necessarily mean the day with the most enlightenment, but then that dubious honor could be given to just about any other day of the year in which multiple monumental goofs are inanely committed worldwide, so there...!
The longest day of the year simply means one thing, above all: the longest stretch of uninterrupted daytime we can ever possibly hope for around these parts - barring any intervention from dark clouds and a stormy weather forecast, that is!
The Longest Day 2010 is also the Summer Solstice 2010 – aye, the longest day of the year is a benchmark of the seasons too; a watermark that helps us set apart the meaningful days of the year from the bogus holidays such as, say, June 24th in Quebec or July the 1st in both Quebec but mostly Canada - just to give a couple of examples, eh... We call them summer solstices (or the longest days of our years) when days are, quite magically enough, longer than nights - and not just in appearance either! Of course, deep down, we all wish our nights to be longer, especially when we have to rise early the next day... The only ones who have ever wished for the opposite are either sado-masochists or the cast of From Dusk 'Til Dawn - but that is another story...!
Solstices are practical thingies too - being a barometer that regulates the time between Spring planting and Autumn harvesting; or harvesting and planting anew, as the cycle continues! Trees are still growing (amazingly enough, with all the abuse humanoids put mother nature through...!) and so is (practically) everything else (a miracle in itself - one that confirms the Existence of God, by itself! Aye - tis another story too...) thus we can carry on yawning as if nothing important has ever occurred in the course of the Days Of Our Lives...!
(Nothing ever did either - not since season 12, I think...!)
(It is another story, yes - again.)
The Longest Day of the Year, hence...
And what have you done with it... eh?
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The D-Day Darlings
may not include Rhonda Fleming, Carole Lombard,
Donna Reed, Diana Rigg or Honor Blackman
among their ranks --- but they are still sweethearts
who sing like canaries, on top of that!
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Friday, February 26, 2010
Luminous Lumiere 2010
I can finally be truly proud of being stuck in the dead of winter - with the dead of winters past, the dead (in spiriti - no typo) of winter present and the soon-to-be-dead of winters future...!
For, this year, there shall be light indeed!
Aye, there shall be light on the dreary streets of Montreal - streets that remain covered in slush (that disgusting mixture of snow, rain and car emissions! NOT for the weak of stomach!) and other detritus...
But I find myself digressing yet again - deviating from the core subject here, so soon, and it must not be, because the core subject is... LIGHT!
Hence the fact that it gets to be spotlighted here - on the Luminous Blog!
(Duh.)
Every year since... well, not all that long ago really... there is a festival that comes along, way ahead of the season of festivals, that truly stands out from the rest of the pack for me - and that is, of course, the MONTREAL HIGH LIGHTS FESTIVAL - better known as (truly better known as) the MONTREAL EN LUMIERE festival! Because, indeed, for once, the French appellation is infinitely better than the English one - merely due to the fact that it evokes much greater incandescent things than mere "highlights" (which could be, ultimately, no more than a scoreboard, a recap of the events and unevents of the week and some sordid blow-by-blow report as well... see what I mean?!?)
LUMIERE alone is a word that evokes so much more - and it is unquestionably the key word here!
The expression "mettre en lumiere", which is heavily implied here, also evokes much more than a mere succession of spectacles and showmanship - for me, at any rate, it does and so should it *for thee*...!
For there is so much to shed light upon in and around Montreal - as much as there are so many to enlighten out there...! Digression, I know...!
Mind you the same applies to any other town, village, township or whatever - but that is a given... I just focus on this particular sleazy city for the specific reason that it is where the festival is at; that is all!
This year, though, the festival is honoring a portion of its mosaic that deserves the spotLIGHT indeed - Montreal High LIGHTS its Portuguese community in 2010 (and I am not sure why! Is it the original immigration wave"s anniversary, again...? Or a subsequent wave"s? I have no clue! And it matters not anyhow!)
The evidence is here:
Further more, every Montrealer is invited to refine their taste buds as well - put away the damn beer and drink some fine WINE, at last! Not just any wine either but the fine wines of Portugal:
And, on top of all that, this year, they have invited everyone "that matters" in relation to the theme bestowed upon the festival - and that means every Portuguese stalwart there can be (by the flavor of the moment standards) in various fields of expertise too...
Guests of honor include, thus, the likes of gastronomic chefs such as Rita Chagas, Rui Paula and Leonel Pereira as well as singers of all styles (still mostly fado though) from Misia and Ana Moura to the multi-talented thespian Maria de Medeiros (pictured below) who can indeed also SING...! I had no idea, until this festival revealed this tidbit of trivia to me! Thanks, Montreal En Lumiere! Thank you very much (I guess...!)
Just what we needed - a Portuguese version of Carla Bruni.
Viva Portugal!
Viva Portugal!
Just kidding, of course ~ Maria is THE BEST
Maria a tous les talents!
Of course Montreal En Lumiere tries to tack on some artists, chefs and others that have no business being remotely associated with Portugal - such types as Yann Perreau, Matt Herskowitz and (yikes) Zachary Richard...! The only thing these guys have in common with Portugal is their envy of its climate, fine wine and fine weather, and liking to travel there in order to escape the dreariness of the Montreal winter...!
That is nothing though compared to the affront of seemingly pairing up this "tribute" to Portugal with the "mid-life crisis of Dionysus" - in all its orgiac excesses... Shame on you, festival organizers, for lumping all that crap in with the "honor" to Portugal...! (Although I am sure that the star of "Henry and June" on the silver screen and star of "Sextet" on stage, Medeiros, does not mind this convergence at all - but that is her prerogative and hers only... It is her forte and niche as well - but this is yet another digression, I am afraid...!)
Oh - and was the presence of Tony Gouveia truly necessary, tell me?
Or rather - do not!
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e agora... mais da Maria!
Uma DIVA
"une femme libre" dans le cinéma, dit-elle...
Todo isso - e
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