Stare That Down, for a Minute...
I paid How Much for that ?
Welcome to Canada. from Halifax
from England.
I walked away from Television and cable
21 years ago
Television,
Tracy Ullmann - the simpsons
Miami Vice
Julia Louis Dreyfus - b4 Seinfeld
CNN
Pat Robertson
Bill Clinton
Ronald Reagan
Brian Mulrooney, right, loooony. right, oh, no, mulrony., not right either...whatever.
Spending my time. contemplating ?
How many people are there ?
Have ever been?
there are now more than 320,000,000 Americans, alone.
A popular record sells 40 million copies
Box Office $’s. How many tickets ?
with a basic number like that,
what is really popular ?
Anything ever seen on screen,
Is a DVD now.
Or a U-Tube
i pod
Fashion, always has been
Style , is new
Greed, Remains
God, has changed clothes
The availability of anything
Got Cash ?
Willing to spend it ?
Live it ?
You can have it
Plug in.
What do You want ?
Do You even know ?
Anything you want.
Its there.
So
The biggest in our money machine,
Never had a dime.
They’re all gone now, money and numbers untold.
Bailed out and gone.
Gone.
Those that remain
Sucked it all in, and then needed more.
A Lot more.
Governments had some, at least that’s how it worked.
See.
Government,
Mortgages Population.
How many they got ?
How many pay up ?
A social government number,
Is all anyone needs.
Some think a SIN is a ticket to ride…
It serves no such purpose.
Conspiracy, you say ?
be honest.
What’s the alternative ?
Peace ? peace sign here
Impossible.
We have been witness
And have remained calm.
Shrug.
What are you gonna do ?
We will all pay for it.
A lot more are just starting to.
Some have no idea of what’s coming.
You wont see it on Television
Music
ipod
300 pounds of music format
Cool.
Decades of bought capacity
Three kinds of containers.
And now ? one.
i indeed.
Stealing music ?
The whole thing has changed.
There are no more musical messiahs.
The grip on the airwaves,
Is gone.
Real Talent
Is being given an opportunity
Brief as it all is.
Will any of them carpe diem ?
Ranting and raving
On paper even.
No backspace
No lit screen
No eye strain
One thought
Complete
As it comes.
Awareness of History
Written by those who had power,
- nobody reads about it -
It’s on TV
Why can’t it be understood ?
The basic premise of television
Wey back when…
Don’t believe anything you are seeing.
Unless its eyewitness, its plagiarism.
And then there’s Music
Familiar, or no
We are all affected, somehow.
A toe, a nod, a bop…
All of us
Rock of Ages.
Montagues and Capulets
-Prokofiev
Imagination is Rare
Inspired Imagination is Genius.
Musical Imagination is chaos,
Forged into Steel,
Embossed and remembered
Unlike anything else on earth
Where were you when you heard ?
-may not have been the first time you did.
A Rock,
Rolls. when pushed.
maybe
the ones that roll the furthest
were not pushed.
They created their own inertia
and rolled right along.
Some found the Cliffs
- a little late.
Stop!
Look Around !
Here comes the Sun,
Its on its way down
No. we’re just spinning around
The Sun stays put.
sort of.
Drove around a busy corner today.
Been around it too many times.
Had to stop today.
At a pedestrian light.
Looked at the middle lane divider
It’s Spring !
Blackberries grow there in the Summer
They’re growing right now.
The flowers are coming out.
No Bees yet.
There is another ‘pest’
Ants.
Doing their thing
Up to the ends of the strands
Waiting for the flowers
Eating aphids.
All hanging between traffic.
The road divider is it’s protector
The roadway is death
And the place is flourishing.
Do they feel marooned ?
What is their take on the scene ?
Do they find it precarious ?
A weed eater is devastating.
Does it take care of the whole farm ?
I’m of the opinion its like pruning
There is a lot of insect death when weed wacking.
but no outright genocide.
Anyway.
The microcosm made me say Hmmm.
Is it anything like my world ?
The median is alive
And here come the snacks.
Think of the tailpipe…
That can’t be good for them.
Yet, there they are.
Plants, insects and bees to come.
Doing what they do.
60000 + cars a day go around the corner.
everyday
and the ecosystem keeps right up…
don’t mow the lawn for a year
see how it thrives,
see what moves in,
hope you like rats.
Stop!
Look around.
My house is like theirs
I live in a concrete box
Above the ground
Glass and steel too.
60000 vehicles move within my view
over a period of time.
Gotten much busier.
And here comes the World, again.
At least via pictures.
London calls Vancouver the City of Glass.
Suits it.
Reflects where this is.
And Look at it.
Stop!
I mentioned ‘precarious’
It’s a good word
Instability.
Isn’t that when you have to ask,
“what is normal”?
Mine’s not the same as Your’s.
And yet,
Here we are now.
Entertain us.
The march of the auto
Initially, practical and rare.
- there’s your gauge of Mass appeal -
and the N. America ones are T U
yet, allowed to survive.
If a person goes bankrupt -
And because it should be not a mutually exclusive concept
- they should get a bailout too !
Excuse Me?
Did I hear something ?
anything ?
So, now.
If You are still there
This has been an Episode of -
D.C.Rockit’s, ‘DownTown Patio’
Passing an hour,
or two.
Stop !
Look Around.
Where are We ?
Join Us Periodically
for Updates and
More, normal thought patterns.
On paper first.
Unedited and true to the script.
Where are We Going ?
