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Email to Brian
Brian
It was great to see you at my birthday. Then it was hard to see you or even focus after the second bottle! I have suffered dearly for my pleasures. I was bloody 'chemist' and totally 'mortal'. Thank God it is only once a year. (There are plenty of un-birthdays throughout the year I tend to celebrate too.) My wife has started speaking to me again and stopped leaving my luggage in the garden, which, I think is a good sign.
"I ought to have a video to show you when you are pissed" she sneered. I said that, such, would be pointless because I would not have remembered a thing and reminding me again would just defeat the object of the exercise, besides, what boring viewing. Who wants to watch me horizontal and motionless resting in a pool of vomit anyway? That is what Christmas is for!! I could not actually string a sentence together and had to keep moving to stop swaying on the spot. A technique I learned from an early age at violent family reunions. I was also talking a load of shit so I avoided being locked in dialogue with you on our usual journeys into soul-searching. You know, when you have drunk so much you look forward to a coma as an alibi for having to make conversation that will only sound like so much incoherent babble. I prefer to talk 'turkey' to you when I am not making too much of a dick of myself. Not when I am off my face and I discover that I cannot write cheques anymore with my brain that my mouth can cash!
Next time I want your undivided attention and we can plot world domination out of earshot!! Look on the bright side, I kept my clothes on and didn't piss on the VCR so it was a quiet night really!
How is your back? You looked in agony that night! Hope you get better soon. The old 'dogtrack' is the engine room of the body. Like Quasi Modo said when he borrowed a fiver off me "See you when I'm straight." This is the truth. I walked down Mill Road in Cambridge years ago and a man with very bad curvature of the spine walked towards me muttering something continuously. He got to the point of passing me by and I heard his ramblings clearly. He scowled and repeatedly said. "I want me own back, I just want to get me own back." It was the funniest thing I had heard in years, but to this day I do not know whether he was genuinely looking for revenge or simply taking the piss out of his own disability for my benefit. He maybe was driven to this 'spot of theatre' to be 'accepted' by 'straight' people. It's my hunch (oops, sorry, bad choice of word) that he had been teased all his life and 'attack' was better than 'defence'. A blanket-type model of behaviour to make people endeared to him so at least if they stared they could laugh at him at his invite. Interesting, eh? What do think?
'The American president'
What a great film to theorise and perform an autopsy on. It's my opinion that it is a very glossy form of sublime political propaganda to anaesthetise the American people. I mean, that, Hollywood made the film to portray the U.S government as sensitive and environmentally conscious coming up to the Bush unbelievably narrow vote. It smacks of typically gushing American sentimentalism to paint a picture of the most powerful man in the world as a competent yet, exposed and vulnerable leader just trying to be a 'regular guy' challenged from dawn to dusk, day to day, in this demanding role. Too busy to have personal feelings or a love life. Juggling a tough schedule in between bombing countries and getting votes.
I think the female species must want to vomit at the patronisation of their sex with the constant reference to this clumsy but fiery clown of a woman, simpering one minute, and then losing her rag the next. Portraying high powered women as dizzy tarts or stereotypical 'secretary' types who do obeisance to 'fruitsalad' marshals and jackbooted jerks. Women who walk out the wrong doors and embarrass your friends and colleagues. Then halfheartedly redeem themselves again and show real promise just because they can speak French at posh dinners. You know, the America machismo view that a woman is like a good carpet 'the more you beat 'em the better they are'. Poor cow ends up the President's girlfriend and lobbying the government to change the bill of rights, then seduces him as the usual Jezebel does in these Samson and Delihah widescreen scenarios. Then loses her credibility through 'the dumb things only Goddam broads can do' as she still gets lost in her car on the Dupont circle or cannot find a sable jumper in the drawer in the 'Roosevelt room'! Notice, that all the woman were cast as dogtooth twinsets with tightbuns and sensible shoes. Lets face it the daughter was kept in a room with a trombone and never allowed out. Patted like a curled up cat in the corner of the 'Lincoln room' she was content to perform like a seal and read the constitution until Daddy got home to offer three seconds of mock affection. All the woman were ugly and unknown actresses. Yet the male cast was studded with male stars who have played or been associated with tough male roles. The actress Ann Wotsit was short and frumpy who short floss her teeth more often. Her arse was shot and no tits. Far be it from me to be sexist but Sheen, Douglas and Fox have all been heartthrobs. Where was Sharon Stone or Michelle Pfeiffer or Meg Ryan in this film? The bumbling male statistician was a symbol of the 'runt of the testerone forum'. Every gang has them. A stoolpigeon or scapegoat for the gang members to be amused by like some latterday court jester. Dreyfuss was hardly fronting this film for the reason because he was merely a quiet distraction to the message of the film. If he was too much of a threat to Douglas' character the propaganda angle would not have had the same thrust. I did enjoy the oversimplifying it was good. I saw 'Castaway' with Tom Hanks. A revival of Robinson Crusoe. Hardly any dialogue. Hanks has some good scenes and there are some nice dramatic touches. Predictable but good emotional thread. If you get a chance to see it if you havn'e already I would like to read or hear your thoughts on it.
Back to 'The American President'
This is how blatantly stupid Americans are. The best line in the film was its giveaway. Fox scolds the president before his press speech and says the average American needs leadership and are so thirsty for it they will believe his leadership if it was only a mirage. That they would gladly drink sand instead of water to get strong leadership from the president they vote for. He turns to Fox and says "The trouble is the average American cannot tell the difference between sand or water." How true. Would the average American ride about in a ‘Sinclair C5’ if the president told them to cut down on emissions? It's not going to happen. The only way they would drop emissions 20% is if it meant a 20% cut in taxes too. Recession in the US is not going to welcome expensive fossil fuel reduction programmes.
The film was selling the good old American dream. You know, "sure, we want to save the planet but we need to tow the fishing boat with more than a 4x4 mudmonster, buddy." The country is too young to learn by its mistakes. The eradication of the Bison. The cold war. The Cuban crisis. Slavery. The civil war and the Gold rush. Pearl harbour . South Pacific testings. Nagasaki and Hiroshima. America has grown too fast too soon and its downfall is imminent. It's the playground bully that takes sweets instead of sharing them. They will destroy International relations under the Bush administration and incite the rest of the world to set up arbitrary sanctions towards them. They will be under siege by all the other World powers who will not tolerate its lawbreaking and world aggression will start within three to eight years. Well, the states are hardly going to roll over for any of us. Yes, they want to be loved and respected because they are insecure without any forward thinking except instant fix hedonism. This is how all empires have fallen and the Americas are without exception. Sorry to doom and gloom it again. But what is it the yanks have that they do not already have. That's it, you've guessed it world domination.
The film portrays a lovable president who makes sugar coated promises to his nation. Funny how this happens the moment he gets the girl. He is determined to be a real hero to his country men. The movie tells a story of what they think Americans will want . What they will get if they vote for him. Like any other rule of different countries. Except under the conditions that the people of America still get to go to Starbucks and watch the baseball game. God bless America, land of the free. As long as their President keeps gasoline under a dollar a litre and they can carry a gun rack, they just accept things the way they are. As long as President is not black or Mexican or for Uncle Sam's sake a WOMAN everything will be just fine and dandy! They are spoilt like a fat kid with too many Aunts who have too many servants who have too many shoes to shine. If they have everything they want then why should they give it up?
The average American does not give a shit as long as they get to the mall in their stationwagon and pickup beers and a TV dinner. Americans have their heads so far up their own arse that they are clueless as to how to 'make do 'or go without'. Why should they ? They are the most powerful and industrialised country in the world. They do not think about starving people or worry about the environment. They are the wealthiest people in the world. The US government and its media has fed them so many lies they would not know truth if it bit them on the dick. Look at the Bill & Monica cover-up.
What they love is happy snappy slogans. In other words if the papers told them what they did'nt want to hear they would never sell a copy. Their brains survive on junkfood. The media and government keep them in the dark but they too are quite happy to stay in the dark. The media sensationalise stories to be spoon fed on hot topis and a series of popular issues to keep them half in a state of panic and half guilt while selling them lies instead of reality. They laop it up because it keeps them in cheap entertainment. Cable TV and drive-in food. Remember an army marches on its stomach. The natural resources will have to be omnivorously consumed on the way to keep it that way. To create wealth you have to cause poverty. For world economic reasons you have to rob Peter to pay Paul. Except Paul gets to keep it all the time.
Americans are a waste of skin. I am not anti-American just anti-ignorance. They use a dinnerfork like a spoon, have crap spellcheckers and hold the attention span of a friutfly. They speak too long and loud in quiet restaurants. They invented the fiddly faddly button fly. They have no appreciation of the arts unless it involves buying fake grandfather clocks. They buy everthing including knighthoods and british scholarships and think that because they can get on Amwerican Express means they are entitled to it. They try to be polite and charming in company for the first three minutes then before long you are patently aware of how onesided the conversation is. They invented line dancing which entails a string of hideously dressed people in overtight trousers and silly shoes to synchronise a dance routine. A modern day barn dance with a discobeat and clapping hands under your thighs in an attempt to prove that if you had a date before you lost it because such ridiculous behaviour shows if you had an original thought it would die of loneliness. Their diet consists of fast food in slow metabolisms, with stupid names for food like. Weenies, hogies, sloppy joes, dogs and Big Mac. Last time I asked for a 'Big Mac' for my birthday I got a pocketsize vinyl raincoat!! They never say please to shopkeepers or barman. "Gimme a beer." What is that, a clue? Stephen Fry said that Americans have ears to keep their wire spectacles on until evolution dictates that they be phased out for them all together!! They are part of their governments conspiracy to make them dull and artificially produce twenty second happiness. If they had a shred of personality they would park a sedan in it. The greatest Americans who ever lived was Elvis and the Sioux brave that killed Custer. They put a man on the moon which was as helpful to our planet as bringing the American sailor into port who contracted the first known case of the HIV in 1957. Thought to have been infected by now known cause of having sex with the African green monkey. You see the whole nation acts like a Yankees cheerleader. It screams and shouts, jumping up and down waving its arms around for attention and if that doesn't work it gets laid by half the team! Show me an American who can talk about anything else without saying 'back home we got water melons this size' after two minute and I will buy the yank a root beer. The U.S has produced too much 'corn' and more than enough 'nuts' for too long. The whole country should be filled with people who will shut the fuck up!
After reading this I am glad I was not born an American because I would probably get all this shit down to a fine art!!!
The Government?
Any government is not interested in the people that elected them. They are only interested in keeping control and power over those that elected them. To convince those people that they are better off or that they are being cared for is all the government want to achieve. Not actually have to 'go all the way' and have to actually do that. They need lots of money to do this. This is where tax comes from. In order to maintain the same amount of tax return they must invent something to keep their money. It's called the 'Ratrace'. If we were all financially independent the whole government would fall and be crushed. No income tax = No government. Remember the 1989 housing boom? I do, I was working in the building trade. Northerners invaded us to find work in the South East to buy houses that had doubled in value to their previous properties within a year.
The new buyers soon realised that they could sell their properties down here and make 100% taxfree profit overnight. They then went back to the North and bought their houses back and kept the spoils.
What did the government do? Raised interest levels five times over in a matter of a few months to force people to work harder or lose their house and give it back to them to re-sell. (That's what happened to me and many others.) The government control us by keeping us poor or struggling so we have to keep our noses to the grindstone by adjusting interest rates and then making the millions of those poor bastards in negative equity working harder and paying them more tax. They fleece us every way they can. If you fart you have to pay tax on it. They don't teach the 'conspiracy theory in schools' I wonder why? No, I haven't been watching too much of the X-files but it is kind of spooky to think that we are paying with sweat to keep these jackals in power when they lie to us all, to keep us 'beavering' away to pay them tax. Freedom of speech? Bunkum! Rights? Bollox! This conspiracy makes the film JFK seem like kids shoplifting 'Snickers' from a corner shop.
It is vital for this global system to work in order for us to keep paying taxes. Why do successful and wealthy people become tax exiles? It's obvious. Wealthy people threaten the system.
Life is too precious to be a wage slave. That is why I would love to become incredibly wealthy with you doing something that will not mean working for the 'gangsters who run this country and others. From an early age we are brainwashed to believe in the 'work ethic'. Not to work is frowned upon. That somehow it is more meaningful to do any shit job as long as its 'work for works sake'. All, to make others wealthy. I wrote earlier that the government do not want everybody to be wealthy and the reverse is true they do not want layabouts either. Unemployment to an extent is also lucrative for governments and if carefully controlled is good business and keeps the economy ticking along. Why is all this the case? They feed us an illusion. How many bosses tell you they are doing well? Nothing like a good threat of redundancies to keep sales figures up! The 'work ethic' is a deliberate ploy to steal our lives and stop us from being what we deserve to be …….FREE. I know you believe in good honest hard work Brian. I do too! As long as it does not line other people's pockets.
We are all sheep being fed tiny morsels by a more ambiguous H.G Wells scenario. Powerful people in ivory towers co-ercing us to slave for them.
You know what frightens me is that 99% are happy to bury their heads in the sand and soldier on from month to month and overdraft to overdraft for the rest of their lives. They do not want to be woken up.
Millions hopelessly do the lottery each week and without believing too much that they may win as they are more likely to have their house bombed by terrorists that get the jackpot.
But if I told you the numbers of the rollover next week. Would you listen to me?
Well, that is nothing to what I am just about to share with you. Must talk soon.
I really look forward to talking to you real soon. What I have to say will blow you away. A business that will make the New York guardian angels or neighbourhood watch scheme look like a tortoise shell cat burying its own pooh!!
Let me know what you think about all this. How about meeting a drink somewhere next week before I go on me hols? Don't worry I will keep it down to double figures this time!!!
Speak soon
Perry.
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