From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and the violent take it by force. ~ Matthew 11:12
Been a year or so since seeing much or any south park, can't remember. There's a quarterback statue that's 'the provider' for wayward kids. Timmy and Jimmy fight, that was splendid absolutely. But they put a counter on the screen to count all the times people say 'shit'. I didn't like it, too gratuitous and crude. The Xmas poop's daughter smeared a poop smile on a homeless guy (funny). That's going to be enough south park for another year or so. I definitely don't like the f bomb with the kids watching and all.
Law and order special victims unit. I only really watched this show in depth in the year 2000. It was a sad year for me. My sister died the year before. I got thrown out of university, my girlfriend left me shortly after my sister died, she never had much choice really. I was on bail a few months for assaulting a cop, that was kind of good as it got me out of the house a bit (three times a week, got me stepping, needed exercise). A really horrible year, just hell. At the end of it around end of July 2000 I flew to Thailand and walked down Kao San street after like a year of self imposed imprisonment, I mean it's not like the judge said I couldn't drive a taxi or get laid or anything. I actually went out on Xmas day 1999 with my father, we both went out to drive taxis. Like a 24 hour shift. He didn't want to work much in general and I only did a very small amount of shifts which was incredibly lame. Certainly it would be the only time I spent with my father just the two of us our entire lives so that went on for like ten months as it was rehab for me after smoking too much pot. Also my father wouldn't let me get drunk so I rarely drank or smoke and was probably just feeling incredibly lazy and like disengaging from society. That all ended one night after I flew to Bangkok and walked down Kao San street to find new buddies after hermit-dom. I found a group of Jews /Israelis kind of headed by a New Yorker called Hershi who had business in Bangkok and he became my next buddy in the universe as I asked him if I could stay at his place which he was happy to let me smoke his weed there, stay rent free and just get drunk which is what I did. One night him and his Israeli buddy wanted to screw whores I had to scram so I went to an island nearest Bangkok some local girl there gave me a double on her scooter moped. That was love, just sitting with her for the ride and the friendly smile on her face. Despite going without alcohol and marijuana with my father the previous ten months or so, most of the time, it was time to drink and smoke chronic for (the coming) months on end: medication time.
I don't remember seeing my brother around much while I was living with my father those ten months. My mom was in Spain and my brother was incredibly scarce. He didn't really seem upset about our sister's death but truth be told, it took a long time for it to set in for me and at first I didn't really seem to care that much either. A lot of things were happening I guess, but my brother wasn't around. He came for my court case and lived nearby but never offered me a ride to the police station for my three weekly bail check-ins. He was never one to offer me any help at all. Just brutality then an explanation that pardon was afforded by his born again Christian status and a conversion from marijuana and alcohol to anti psychotic drugs (I guess that helped???). A strange man he was, very strange. I think for the longest time he wanted love and appreciation from his father that he never felt he got and was incredibly, brutally sore about.... and never got that til he was around age 33 or something like that when he could finally live the dream of happy family life with mom and dad like he was a teen-ager or something. Some people are like that I guess.
ANYWAY, so that was my mindset when I watched Law and order special victims unit all the way back in 2000 (and shortly thereafter, also in the year 2000). I'd watch quite a bit and the typical two actors that carried the show, I was surprised to see them tonight on law and order special victims unit after all these years. I mean I feel like I've climbed the mountain top and achieved illumination or something since 20 years ago, at least avoiding tv has helped me with that. But seeing two old familiar faces from those days is nice, even if they're strangers. From what I could glean from the episode the guy hasn't been on the show much but they brought him back in so brought in backstory. He never realised his detective partner, the same actress lady after all these years/ same character had had a son since they'd parted. Bla bla bla, his wife Cathy got killed by a targeted bombing, the precinct has to hand case over to intelligence, unclear which and we don't know what the detective guy has been doing since it's all taskforce stuff based in Rome or something. Maybe bring cocaine and Columbia into the script storyline or something. Not sure I'll tune in again coz you know Buddha said desire is the root of all suffering and I'm trying to figure out how I can be happy without desiring to screw my wife. I like Law and order special victims unit actors, God bless their cotton picking hearts y'all!
One time in California I was talking to a guy in Los Angeles somewhere just after I arrived from Seoul and got my short lived car, he really looked like the guy from law and order special victims unit, the balding guy. It never occurred to me to ask him if it was actually him but they certainly looked similar in my memory. We had both stopped our respective vehicles, as I recall it, stopped by the coast and this guy was very nonchalant eating crackers or something by Santa Monica beach or somewhere like that and talking about women, since I'd probably raised the topic, he was all explanational (not really a word) 'oh with women, you have to go through an army of them, like a huge amount', or something like that. Wouldn't it be funny if it was the same guy? probably not. I was friends with Nick Nolte's current wife for a while in NYC and Arizona back in the day, so you never know!
You better cue the music y'all! Know what I'm sayin'? Crank it up
https://youtu.be/S0yUzV1IHm0
Matthew 7:14...
How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way
that leads to life! Few are those who find it
.
In the pursuit of knowledge:
everyday something is added.
in the pursuit of enlightenment:
everyday something is dropped.
Lao Tzu
Watch South Park less and you will be enlightened.
Benji
Round round get around I get around yeah.
The Beach Boys
https://youtu.be/KnPL5OXSBNE
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