Friday, July 02, 2004

Marlon Brando: More than a contender, now dead at 80

KPHO Phoenix - Marlon Brando Dies at Age 80

Rumsfeld on Fahrenheit 9/11


"Seeing the reports is one thing, but seeing the images makes it more real. Something like that."



Well, maybe that wasn't exactly what Rummy said. And I believe he was talking about Abu Graibh...but isn't it strange to actually see him making happy with the personification of evil?

Thursday, July 01, 2004

Cain Means Ownership

The Onerous Onus of Ownership

"Love's Body is a modern Thus Spake Zarathustra. Professor Brown is affiliating himself to a major line of nineteenth- and twentieth-century prophets, such as Nietzsche, Carlyle, D. H. Lawrence, oddest of all, Emerson. . . . Norman Brown has the same apocalyptic imagery, fire, resurrection, the judgment, the body, and a very similar apocalyptic message."
--Martin Green, Commonweal



The other day, I was talking to my bud, Woody, and he informed me that he would have to evacuate his domicile, since he could not come up with the money to pay the taxes on the house. Among his main concerns was this: What to do with all the stuff accumulated over the years. It was almost as if he were enslaved by the things that weighed him down...namely things, nouns.

While ruminating on the situation, a line from a book I had read long ago popped into mind.

"Cain means ownership."

It is from the book, "Love's Body", which was written just before the 60's began to take hold, in 1966 to be exact, by Norman O. Brown. I had read it in the '70s, and certain parts still inhabit portions of my not nearly so protean mind. This was one of them.

But then, I found myself seeing how this "Cain means ownership" thing, could also explain many of the troubles currently infecting the globe. Not just Woody...who is an innocent victim of its clutches.

Cain, as the story goes, killed his brother, Abel. There are, though, various iterations of what actually happened, and what is to be taken from the story. Laurence Gardner, for instance, talks about Cain's having been spawned from a different confluence of parentage than Abel, and that he had descended from the Annunaki, and was thus superior, by birth, to his entirely earthly half-brother, Abel. Things like that.

And if this is to be taken to be the meaning that Norman Brown meant to convey, well then one must surmise that ownership is a right of children of Annunaki. Or maybe that these good folks have an onus to maintain the nouns of the earth. Something like that.

But I don't think he was talking about esoteric understanding of the story of Cain and Abel. I think he is talking about the undergraduate view of the story, namely that Cain slew Abel, bla bla bla... And in this view, it seems well to explain how we, as contemporary Westerners treat property. We will kill our brother for it and over it.

We at Anonymoses think this is a misprioritization. God's Children should always take precedence over Man's Things.

That said, I still don't know what to tell Woody...

FOX Smells Its Own Hole

FOX Smells Its Own Hole

You've seen Fahrenheit 9/11. Now watch the documentary that exposes FOX "News" for the pussilanimous, flag-waving pom-pom boy apologists and liars they are...

"OUTFOXED", by director Robert Greenwald is available for house parties, via MoveOn.org.

Go!

Tuesday, June 29, 2004

"Turn Up the Heat" town meeting a massive success!



"Turn Up the Heat" town meeting a massive success! :
Michael Moore joined over 55,000 people in 4600 house parties stretching from Maine to Alaska. The result: MoveOn members committed to reaching out to hundreds of thousands of unregistered voters in key swing states on July 11. Michael Moore's new film Fahrenheit 9/11 is an incredibly powerful movie that lays bare the cynicism and greed behind Bush's war policy. And the astonishing and revealing footage in it has the power to change the course of the 2004 election.

Fahrenheit 911: Photographs from the Opening Weekend

Fahrenheit 911: Photographs from the Opening Weekend :

Fahrenheit 9/11: The 2nd viewing seals the deal

Fahrenheit 9/11: The 2nd viewing seals the deal

If you watch Moore's film twice, you will not be able to pull the lever for Bush...the images are too indelible.

As Bush falls, consumer confidence rises

As Bush falls, consumer confidence rises

Jack Mathews: Hide this, Bill O'Reilly

New York Daily News - Home - Jack Mathews: Hide this, Bill O'Reilly

More on the "Back-door draft"

CBS News | 'Back-Door Draft' Raises Questions | June 27, 2004?13:48:02

Save the FDR Dime and the JFK Half Dollar



Save the FDR Dime and the JFK Half Dollar from the fruitcakes who would replace the faces with those of Reagan and Tom Delay.

Monday, June 28, 2004

Fahrenheit 9/11 is already the highest grossing documentary of all time

Fahrenheit 9/11 is already the highest grossing documentary of all time

Fahrenheit is also the first documentary to land in the weekend top five, let alone be No. 1.

In terms of raw dollars, Fahrenheit is actually the biggest opening ever for a movie playing at less than 1,000 theaters, topping Rocky III's $12.4 million at 939 venues.