Batting zero, am I?
Steven Tyler Messes Up National Anthem Steven Tyler messes up national Anthem at Ravens Patriots game 1/22/2012
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooLOEYgGvcwSpeaking of bats....
What have we here?
If I'm not mistaken, it's a rather unflattering depiction of "the divine femiNINE",
appearing a bit pathetic, perhaps, but carrying a BIG stick!
And what is she doing here... when this picture was taken?
Leading a crazed, degenerate MAN kind, up the stairs. That's what!
Have a look for yourselves!
Give me the bat!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_ftpGpgY8E ...<--- High Priestess tarot poseOh, I know it's not as pleasant a depiction of the divine feminine's efforts as - say -
a song about ladders to the sky or something, but Kubrick may have been
feeling a bit disappointed at how "well" we were doing as a species back in the late seventies.
Still, she 'won' in the end, you might say. But it's not a 'success'.
Bear in mind who the characters represent.
Mr. Ullman bears some resemblance to JFK. He has an eagle on his window sill,
and mentions that the Overlook may have been built on an Indian burial ground.
Wendy wears red, white, and blue in many of the scenes.
Danny wears the sweater featuring an Apollo 11 depiction. The Apollo 11 mission
("the first moon landing") in particular, was a source of pride for the USA.
These characters represent the innocent faith Americans had in their country in the
post WW2 era, imo. Even Jack wasn't such a bad guy when we first see him.
The devious things that were hidden away behind the scenes, like CIA operations, and
phoney moon landings didn't become apparent 'til later, and Kubrick apparently
knew this would happen, which, I think, is why he portrayed Horace Derwent with a
George Bush Sr. look-alike. (Perhaps a representation of the coming "fall of the USSR" with
a bear 'servicing' the CIA's top guy at the time, George Bush Sr.)
Jack unwittingly sells his soul to the devil, but even he finds the situation
puzzling as things move deeper and deeper into craziness.
At a wild party in
the GOLD room, he tries to buy a drink,
only told to be told, "
Your money is no good here".
The Shining - Jack and Lloyd www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp_OSDj_2JcGot it?
2012 may be more about that than any WW3.
Sound of Moviegoers"And in a final stroke of brilliance, Kubrick physically melds the movie audience
leaving his film with the ghostly revelers in the photograph.
As the credits roll, the soundtrack ends, and we hear the 1920s audience applaud,
and then the gabble of that audience talking among themselves - the same sound
the crowd of moviegoers itself is probably making as it leaves the theater.
It is the sound of people moving out of one stage of consciousness into another.
The moviegoers are largely unaware of this soundtrack, and this reflects their unawareness
that
they've just seen a movie about themselves,
about what people like them have done to the American Indian and to others.
Thus to its very last foot, this film is trying to break through the complacency
of its audience, to tell it, "You were, are, the people at the Overlook Ball."
The opening music, over the traveling aerial shots of a tiny yellow Volkswagon
penetrating the magnificent American wilderness, is the "Dies Irae" ("Day of Wrath"),
part of the major funeral mass of the European Roman Catholic Church.
This movie is a funeral, among other things. And it was Hitler's Germany, another
genocidal culture, that first produced the Volkswagen. At the end of the movie,
in the climactic chase in the Overlook Maze, the moral maze of America
and of all mankind in which we are chased by the sins of our fathers ("Danny, I'm coming. You can't get away.
I'm right behind you"), the little boy Danny escapes by retracing his own steps
(an old Indian trick) and letting his father blunder past."
"All is not lost, however, and iameye appears to think the nation's birthday may be cause
for celebration this year. We'll see.
Sing along, if you wish:
America - This is for all the Lonely People www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq6BMBxyKngAMERICAThis is for
all the lonely people Thinking that life has passed them by
Don't give up until you drink from
the silver cup And ride that
highway in the sky
This is for all the single people
Thinking that love has left them dry
Don't give up until you drink from the silver cup
You never know until you try
Well, I'm on my way
Yes, I'm back to stay
Well, I'm on my way
back home (Hit it)