{"id":421,"date":"2007-02-16T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=421"},"modified":"2007-02-16T12:29:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T18:29:00","slug":"0009-matinee-soup-why-tails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/0009-matinee-soup-why-tails\/","title":{"rendered":"0009 Matinee Soup &#8216;Why tails?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/392165069\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/86\/392165069_ca7004098b.jpg?w=605\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/392165069\/\">0009 Matinee Soup &#8216;Why tails?&#8217;<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/royblumenthal\/\">royblumenthal<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\tIt&#8217;s been a pretty cool week. Valentine&#8217;s day was intentionally quiet for me. No dates. Made up for that with J last night. Hehehehe.<\/p>\n<p>The film role fell through. My agent called me to say, &#8216;The production company phoned to say they have to lower the agreed fee from R8000 per call to R3000 per call. I told them I&#8217;d discuss it with you, but that it&#8217;s unlikely. I mean, it&#8217;s partial nudity, and a violent role. What do you feel?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Walk away from it,&#8217; I told Shane. &#8216;If it were a more substantial role, and not just a bit part, I MIGHT have considered it. But the fact that they&#8217;re changing things at the last minute indicates that they might be in some kinda trouble.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>I think the production company needs a tail. Or maybe they already know their asses from their elbows?<\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday I screened <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesecret.tv\/\">THE SECRET<\/a> for a bunch of my buddies. And on Sunday I&#8217;m screening it again for the people in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alanon.org.za\/Adult_Children_of_Alcoholics.htm\">AACA<\/a> group. (AACA stands for &#8216;Al Anon Adult Children of Alcoholics, and I attend the regular Monday meeting.) <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pretty potent film. Well worth seeing. <\/p>\n<p>And AACA&#8217;s pretty potent too. Have you seen my list of &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/schmucknews.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/2006-08-13-how-many-of-these.html\">Characteristics of Adult Children of Alcoholics<\/a>&#8216;?<\/p>\n<p>People who&#8217;ve seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatthebleep.com\/\">WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW!?<\/a> probably know the premise of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesecret.tv\/\">THE SECRET<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Under &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/law-of-attraction-info.com\/\">The Law of Attraction<\/a>&#8216;, what we ask for, the universe provides. It&#8217;s just that we often don&#8217;t realise that we&#8217;re asking for things we DON&#8217;T want. So, people focussing on &#8216;getting out of debt&#8217; or &#8216;losing weight&#8217; are actually giving energy and focus to the debt and the weight, and so, they &#8216;get what they ask for&#8217;&#8230; more debt, more weight.<\/p>\n<p>They should, instead, ask for what they WANT&#8230; abundance, not debt, healthy slimness, not weight loss.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t rate WHAT THE BLEEP at all. It&#8217;s a crap film, with highly faulty quasi-science. And a pretty syrrupy storyline to deliver the message. However, THE SECRET seems to have pared out all the pseudo-science, and delivers a coherent framework with which to change your life for the better. I&#8217;m pretty certain that it&#8217;s not saying stuff you haven&#8217;t heard before. But it certainly packages it in a compelling and life-changing way.<\/p>\n<p>For a while now, I&#8217;ve been affirming that I&#8217;ll finally &#8216;have my degree&#8217;. And that&#8217;s manifesting pretty beautifully. On Wednesday I attended the first seminar of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wits.ac.za\/artworks\/postgrad\/digital_arts_2005.htm\"><br \/>Masters in Digital Arts<\/a>. The course was created by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/christopics\/\">Prof Christo Doherty<\/a>. And it cooks. <\/p>\n<p>Part of our Wednesday morning was devoted to watching the avant-garde groundbreaking piece of cinema&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Man_with_the_Movie_Camera\">THE MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA<\/a>, made by Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov in 1929. It&#8217;s pretty much the best film I&#8217;ve ever seen. Bar none. It&#8217;s literally as good as a film can possibly be, plus some. Wow.<\/p>\n<p>Because I haven&#8217;t completed my two undergrad degrees &#8212; I have half an Electrical Engineering degree through Wits, and 8 out of 10 credits of my Literary Theory degree through Unisa &#8212; I&#8217;m being allowed to register for this Masters in stages. Right now, I&#8217;m an &#8216;occasional student&#8217;. If I do well in this course, I&#8217;ll be able to go for the full masters, utilising &#8216;recognition of prior learning&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m feeling pretty damned stoked about it. Very stimulating indeed. Wow.<\/p>\n<p>On the babe front, J is doing surprise things for my birthday tomorrow. (J is the gal who went with me to the American Consulate General&#8217;s home for the poetry reading at which I called for the American public to impeach his holiness, George &#8216;I caused World War III&#8217; Bush. That was our first date. And I think it can be counted a success. hehehehe.)<\/p>\n<p>Also on the babe-front, J is open to my being polyamorous. Which is cool. Cos I&#8217;m really wanting to explore it more. I&#8217;ve been attending the monthly <a href=\"http:\/\/zapoly.wuzzle.org\/\">South African polyamory<\/a> film evenings. And I&#8217;ve been following the adventures of a poly family in America. Their blog &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/theheronclan.blogspot.com\/\">THE HERON CLAN<\/a> &#8212; is a candid account of what polyamory can be in what&#8217;s known as a &#8216;V&#8217; triad. That&#8217;s where one person has two committed love partners. The two partners are committed to that person, who forms the point of the &#8216;V&#8217;. This is the formation I&#8217;ve been in, and it really worked for me.<\/p>\n<p>On the <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/royprickieflick\">button shop<\/a> front, my buttons are causing a few ripples on Prickie.com. I&#8217;ll know at the end of this month how many I&#8217;ve sold. I know that the shopfront has been getting hundreds of hits from my links. Which means it MIGHT be getting lots of hits from other sources that I can&#8217;t measure.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t REALLY care too much whether or not the buttons sell. I care that the politics they espouse creates ripple effects.<\/p>\n<p>Right. Time for me to swallow my last mouthful of JB Rivers bran muffin and head off home for an early night. J told me to have a swimming costume with me when she picks me up at 7:45am tomorrow. (It&#8217;s mid summer in South Africa, if you&#8217;re wondering. And my car&#8217;s roof is most definitely down. And my hair is in a bun, held by one of those gigantic hair clamps that looks like a radioactive crab. Cos the back of my neck is getting overheated these days.)<\/p>\n<p>Oh. One last thing. I&#8217;ve done test prints of some of my pics at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvertone.co.za\/\">Silvertone<\/a>. They&#8217;re on 100% cotton rag, 100% acid free, using 100-year archive quality inks. And they look unbelievably awesome (to me, at any rate; but I&#8217;m biased, being their &#8216;father&#8217;). Look out for &#8216;for sale&#8217; buttons next to my prints. I&#8217;m currently setting up the e-commerce backend to be able to send them around the world. Yay!!!<\/p>\n<p><i>This strip was made on my Toshiba Tecra M4 tablet pc, using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambientdesign.com\/artrage.html\">ArtRage 2.2<\/a>, in JB Rivers, Hyde Park. See all of the cartoons in the series on my Flickr set: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/sets\/72157594432870140\/\">Matinee Soup &#8212; a weekly cartoon strip<\/a>. I do not receive ANY form of compensation for any of the software, hardware, or eateries I mention in these entries. The babe count in Hyde Park more than makes up for any money I spend here. Tonight it&#8217;s a full five stars out of five. Oh yeah.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0009 Matinee Soup &#8216;Why tails?&#8217;, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. 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