In the footsteps of Leonardo, Milan city

 

Wow

Magic Flute, queen of the night 

https://youtu.be/YuBeBjqKSGQ?is=URTETnD6_UwVT_L7

Was saying wow after visiting the Sforza castle. Not only there but many old buildings in downtown Milán nearby really harken all the way back to Leonardo's time. Walking around the moat at the castle and through there.

Taking the Nord train to lake Como you feel as if you have left Leonardo behind in the old city and somehow picking up the scent of Nietzsche as he circumnavigated Italy and Switzerland nearby. What a beautiful and attractive tourist destination (lake Como).

On the Nord train between Milan and lake Como I listened as two Italian girls barely 19 I suppose gossiped and laughed back and forth. What delightful language to listen to. 

Well definitively the next coveted Benji award, I think the 9th, will have an Italian flavour to it. A lot of Netflix stuff like Guy Ritchie's gangster shows. A Netflix documentary on the monster of Florence the serial killer and Amanda Knox. Certainly there's no room for Clooney and Dan Brown in the coveted Benji award nominations, we already have the Texan bumper sticker which trumps both easily.

What a delightful culture this Italian culture is. Maybe I should spend a year here. I've already ascertained rent in Milan in certain neighbourhoods is very affordable. Definitely something to consider for the coming years no doubt.

The Young Turks

 

Yes they're American, yes they're Turkish. Shut up and make me a kebab?

Bro I've been listening to these guys for an hour and they're continuously poo pooing the Israelis for being Nazis and war criminals. An hour. Non stop, Israel bashing. I tend to be easily persuaded by whatever news I listen to unless they're from Australia as Australians talk like retards so hard to believe. Then I started listening to the Young Turks talk about Iran and I never got a sense of them saying anything bad about Iran's regime. So I'm just going to check my last few blog posts because I remember walking around Bunnings (Home Depot) in Sydney about a week ago listening to a documentary about Iran's secret police....

Let me check.... Oh yeah here it is from the week before flying out from Sydney last....

DW - Irans innermost secret police

https://youtu.be/BidQjWzdR8U?si=CqbuyQzynzHNEQOa

Actually we'll have to put aside the difficult question of who are the bigger Nazis, the IDF or the Iranian secret police and military because yes, we have this thing called the war in Ukraine, it's a lot of calculus. Let's look at England's Sun newspaper war specialist discussing Ukraine's latest punch back after Russia lobbed more missiles at Kiev civilian targets....

https://youtu.be/JOySatnTq0I?si=qnfRx1_5WjVNDAkW

Same attacks, different view....

https://youtu.be/vT_nNnM_7ag?si=SllNtN4W2BLPlGWH

Milan Sunday fly in, Milan following Sunday flight out

 

Fresco.....

https://youtu.be/BOMUjX56xIk?is=z9Dt9ZuU3su4zxDK

Bro

Good to tell you about our host in Italy.

One, his name is Alex like my son and Alexander the great and a bunch of women too,.some of them fat

Two, he rides a motorcycle and currently has a busted leg probably from his bike, also has a big belly, even bigger than my own

Three, he hates southerners (from the south of Italy) I think he thinks they're dirty and uncivilized 

Four, he lives in Bulgaria 

Five, his home base is near Milan and the local rioters have been keeping everyone nice and warm there with firebombs or whatever, it's like firecracker night back in 1980s suburban Australia or something 

Six, he'll be hosting his Benjiness at the family estate or residence for seven days and seven night before Benji jets out back to Asia

Seven, he's a wild man and not a fag, went to college in America and runs his own business, think Peewee Herman's buddy Joe, watch:

https://youtu.be/o12blT1iMtE?is=qJ5tZDsPNhw_fumA

Eight, with AI he can easily pass for a warrior type, he's a similar age like late 40s or something, we're getting older here folks 

Pivoting away from the little people like moi and homeboi Alex aforementioned, back to heavyweight Russell Brand, British Lauren a PR specialist might be said to be somewhat aghast or slightly gobsmacked at Russell's decision to flog (no pun intended) his new book in Christianity in his and his Mrs' bath robes ( if Russell stays out of gaol probably even Lauren will be ordering his new book) 'how to become a (Roman Catholic?????) Christian in 7 days'. Russell and his Mrs certainly both sport flamboyant bath robes during said commercial push during a tricky trial for Russ (can we call him that?) Maybe Rapey Russ? Or misjudged Russ perhaps? Runaway Russ?

Here's British PR SPECIALIST Lauren....

https://youtu.be/JnnPweiLJ4E?is=uzCmbAWr42GjbH-Q

While Lauren's PR specialist mind cannot 'fathom' Russell's sell the steak knives for only $9.99 quid not dollars sorry, this English blook (did I spell that right Leonardo?) knows he can't bear Russ' brand of Roman/Anglican Catholicism for a second, watch:

https://youtu.be/b_jz4G9PFxc?is=f2G0XLWmQlI6Wy53

That was English Kevvo by the way. We don't know which Mary Russo is talking about, there's generally two to choose from. The vlogging mid rape trial is the eyebrow raising issue, doesn't seem like the judge has prohibited it.

Dreams - malasaña

 

Howdy,

So here in madrid Spain, walking down the Gran Vía only like yesterday morning, around eighteen hours ago after coming from a hotel nearby the airport flying in late from UAE.... as I stepped off Gran Vía, after eating a Whopper at Burger King, into malasaña, that's when it hit me: remembrance of a dream I had approximately one or two years ago (ie., no idea when but approximately last two years).... The dream was really set in malasaña and I never really realized until I started walking in there yesterday after like 20 years. I mean it's kind of like being a time traveler too with those jumps in time, like 20, 30 years even 34 years. The dream had a spacial feel I can still remember that embodies the spirit of malasaña well.

Another dream in 2005 was spending what would be 7 months at a holiday resort in Guangzhou China and in that dream someone asked me if I was going to Dubai. I guess on Tuesday I got close, 21 years later, in Abu Dhabi. Same country different nearby city. Byt anyway the interesting thing would be returning to that hotel resort for a little one week layover on the way back to Sydney. I'll check my flight options. 

Recent movies review: Back rooms (2026)...

 Wikipedia:

Backrooms is a 2026 American psychological horror film[7] directed and co-scored by Kane Parsons (in his feature directorial debut), and written by Will Soodik.[8] It is based on Parsons's web series[9] which was inspired by the "Backrooms" creepypasta. In the film, furniture store owner Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and his therapist Mary (Renate Reinsve) discover a dimension of seemingly endless liminal spaces accessed through the store's basement. Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, and Lukita Maxwell also star.

Mild brainwashing incorporating AI, low budget California shlock horror. Secret rooms.

A private life - Jodie Foster 

The renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner mounts a private investigation into the death of one of her patients, whom she is convinced has been murdered.

Foster speaks French throughout the movie which is set in northern France all in French. Missed the ending as the flight was touching down so one for another day. 

Russell Brand show and Gurdjieff

  

I remember when I was sharing an apartment in Newcastle in 1994 with my buddy Winston Churchill, not his real name so just using a code name like person C. My buddy and I were around 18 years old and full time students. I was a much more voracious reader than he and suggested he tried reading my paperback copy of In Search of the Miraculous by Gurdjieff. This book is absolutely fascinating and probably the only book I have ever read that talks about mental centers, emotional centers and sexual centers in the body. I know if you ask a woman or talk about women a lot of people would think their emotional centre and sexual centre is the same thing but that's not how Gurdjieff put it in his book. What he says is that each centre, sexual or mental, can pilfer sexual energy from the sexual centers. So when people like Hitler and other demigogues start ranting and moving people with their voice, orators, this is an example of sexual centre being pilfered by the emotional centers. Likewise people like me as teenagers who were just constantly reading books one after the other and extremely cerebral to an extreme, their mental center is pilfering energy from the sexual centre. This might have explained my extremely low interest in sex and general asexuality as a teenager most of the time, according to Gurdjieff's theory. I don't know if he said there's a spiritual center. Definitely when I went to California my libido disappeared so that wasn't a mental emotional centre but maybe a spiritual centre. It's a little like Kundalini with the Hindus except I never heard the Hindus talking about mental and emotional centers.

I mean this is the only book by Gurdjieff I read but this book is amazing. I had a girlfriend that year that was a two timer and couldn't make her mind just to be with one guy and also cheating on her boyfriend by misleading him (not me) that saw me reading my Gurdjieff book and she began to cotton on I was an intellectual type. Later I showed her my ID and explained I wasn't 20 but only 18 and that I'd lied to her because I didn't think she'd agree to screwing an 18 year old being 22. She agreed to that. Whatever.

Russell Brand as an accused sexual assaulter looks a lot better to me than Rolf Harris and that Jimmy Savile guy. Not sure the statute of limitations with the law in England as per sexual assault cases. No idea how exactly Brand is instructing his lawyers apart from saying everything was consensual. I think legally the first witness in the bed sitting case scores maybe four out of ten for the prosecution. The defense really just have to paint her as wishy washy woman not sure what she wants. The MTV case is barely even a crime really, soliciting sex. Like women are doing that everyday with slutty outfits, why not just let women vote on which man to lynch and get an algorithm to help them select candidates? I don't know. It's common in that industry for sex to be bartered around. I'm not saying this is malicious prosecution and empty prosecution I'm just saying legally it's hard to make this mud stick and Brand's lawyers seem to be doing well so far from what I can deduce as a non lawyer kind of pundit.

Brand's brand, I've never been a fan of this guy's brand however as I say he does not seek anywhere near as nasty as Harris and certainly Savile looks really evil. When I say Russell's brand I mean everything, the comedy, books, YouTube channel, movies, everything, never been interested much. Definitely a case of live and let live. 

The bedsit witness did seem weighty and challenging to the defendants legal team no doubt, as per her version of events. Still good lawyers will create doubt as to her credibility.

The English are odd. Nietzsche judged them as guilty of moral tartuffery. Why do they have members of the House of Lords openly advocating for legalizing paedophilia and God only knows how many aristocrats and wealthy and judicial officers engaged in paedophilia rings and now all of a sudden we have to be terribly concerned for victims of Russell Brand as this big predator. I don't know, I have reservations. 

Sorry, In Search of the Miraculous is not written by Gurdjieff but one of his followers, PD Ouspensky, a Russian mathematician. But this book is an absolute must read. I'll post an AI blurb on it here:

Definitely with the bed sitting witness the defence should question her deeply about her perception of Brand as gay and subsequent idea on the matter. 

Ok here's 60.minutes Australia on Russell Brand, they definitely think he's scum of the earth as my father used to say. 

https://youtu.be/KAVr4unjjgs?si=rozK9dXYlKiub5a5

They're not worried about Gurdjieff's physical centres pilfering sex energy from the sex centres it's all believe women there and there are more damning denunciations against Brand there. I mean to be fair I don't see Cher just grabbing guys private parts in the Turn Back Time video clip even if she is dressed like a lothario. Also Britney Spears did a crotch grab on a guy on the 2007 MTV VMAs but it's not like that's a big crime. Can't hear all the angry feminists complaining about that (crotch grab). 

Random pop culture

 

Ghost Rider in the sky....

https://youtu.be/NvBHDRsFAmo?si=PyhXAdY8eUS3sReJ

Gladys Knight....

https://youtu.be/rhnRyQCeqXI?si=4eI8OZhW4kTKhPW-

Don't phunk with my  ❤️ 

https://youtu.be/P4Bda6_usuc?si=OH5-LhhMiUf-BZF0

Russell Brand trial... 1999 2009 England 

https://youtu.be/a3mA-Yinlv0?si=7EeXHWcUXsiSn-xw

In the 5th... PF

https://youtu.be/Av3R6GmzqC8?si=A57BUJQuEM2SdQaN

BEETHOVEN'S 5th...

https://youtu.be/_4IRMYuE1hI?si=0FPNTynv0Mjk2FgH

DW - Irans innermost secret police

https://youtu.be/BidQjWzdR8U?si=CqbuyQzynzHNEQOa