ok, same situation as yesterday, made more money, drive home, turn on fox news (the highly opinionated hot air doesn't really start cranking until afternoons in nyc so right now we have the morning people, less prone to blowing hot air)....
with this commodore, it runs on petrol and gas but it's slow to start in gas so it's better to start it in petrol mode then flip over to gas after hitting 50 kphour or so, kind of like back to the future with the delorian.....
you know what's a sick car? the lamborghini murcielago -- that's the word in spain for bat and it only means one kind of bat: the flying kind --- say it: mur-ci-e- lago go find someone that can speak spanish and they can show you how to say it
ok the cia guy's book, glenn carle.... this carle guy, the only person he reminds me of is bob macandrew the movie/screen acting teacher (http://www.bobmcandrew.com/) who has taught very many famous american screen/movie/tv stars like angelina jolie, etc, all kinds of oscar winners..... benji took a couple of classes with him in paris, met up with him once in nyc and stayed in touch with him over a few years via email......
carle and macandrew have a lot of similarities for benji, although one is a career cia/intelligence/national security guy, the other a movie acting teacher: both are yankee men, big tall guys - not fatties, old school white american guys with good diverse genes (as are the genes of 'colored' south africans, to be fair).......
benji can learn from carle's storytelling technique, and in fact, i want to strongly encourage him to write a book about his cia experiences in the 1980s or early 90s whenever it was, with the sandanistas in south america
here's how benji channels carle's storytelling technique:
tonite was driving one of last customers home, some half maltese/half anglo englander guy on a booty call.... ended up telling him the following story from benji's distant past, maybe from when benji was 17 or sthmg like that..... benji's older bro had a buddy who along with benji's older bro (who we have nicknamed joseph stalin in this blog), so joseph (benji's bro) and buddy dude were chilling at the alvarez crib one day..... the buddy dude has become a cop and has a tremendously fat and unattractive looking wife (and kids) - who aren't present but benji is just mentioning that anyway, buddy dude has also really put on some weight since his delinquent teenager days...... he is a serious, committed policeman, back in the day when he and joseph (english for jose) were benji's age at the time (17) - so some 8 years or so before this incident circa 1993 (ie., maybe 1985), the two friends were some kind of juvenile delinquents and got into trouble with the police for stealing parts from a train or some nonsense like that...... but that's all behind them, the police have forgiven buddy dude for that youthful malpaso and he is a fine upstanding policeman, he is happy to visit his old buddy, jose (spanish for joseph), and chew the fat with him, off duty
acto seguido, next act, jose and benji's sister raquel (now deceased) walks into room blurting about scoring some marijuana, cop dude is incensed, how dare she? what a conflict of interests! this is unacceptable! pissing and moaning follows...raquel couldn't give a flying crap, just wants to get stoned, police guy, old time buddy guy with fat wife can go bite her
tada, the carle technique
anyway, what's nice about the carle storytelling technique are some little details - hard to explain - probably benji isn't such a good storyteller in general, but this story above seemed interesting when explaining to the booty call guy
i like carle's descriptions of his little solo road trips in arab lands prior to moving his show to afghanistan...... the only experience i had that i can use to relate the things listed above, was a time in january 2006, shortly before spending a couple of weeks in sydney here, after 2 years away from australia spent in china and the u.s. (ny/mississippi/florida)..... one time i was chilling at my home crib in shenzhen, guangdong - china, some random chinese dude, i had decided to let him just sleep on my floor free to help him save a buck, it was all incredibly communal in that neighborhood, i have never seen anything like that neighborhood, just mind-blowing, then me and frank, the chinese roommate, he is a grown man, maybe married, can't recall, we are watching the tv and bob macandrew's chinese movie comes on the tv and the credits roll and his name flies up the screen...... that is some trippy shit right there, and how bob wrote some chinese movie beats the absolute shit out of me.......... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238588/plotsummary
during a meisner class with bob (one of 2) in paris, i was doing a typical meisner exercise for students studying screen acting, instead of just screaming and shouting: 'get away! get away!' to remove the excess emotional energy, i bounced like a kangaroo two or three bounces to the nearest wall and headbutted the wall mightily two or three times while bouncing..... the acting students present, mostly frenchies involved in french movies and tv, laughed.....
bob asked: 'how do you feel now?' after the headbutting, he was serious, he wasn't being condascending, bored, obnoxious, judgemental, this guy was for real!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYtGl1dX5qI
now do not think by any means that that wall headbutting in paris was by any means soft.... it was on a par, perhaps a little less brain-damaging than the mighty captain caveman style downward thrust blow received from the australian aborigine kid in redfern, sydney, one time trying to score some marijuana..... those two blows, the parisian one a staccato double or triple self-induced blow, the the 1999 captain cavemen yard long basto blow was a real killer blow that caused blood to spurt immediately.... both smashes most definitely caused brain damage and concussion and associated dull thudding pain that lasted days, benji always says: a little pre-frontal cortex brain damage never hurt anyone!....kind of
see this is what benji's talking about bitches!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD36ZhpHPpE
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