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10 Ice Breakers for the Conversationally Challenged + 10 Exclusive Pics + 3 New Poems
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 05:35 AM
READ MAT'S DAILY TWEETS HERE @MATDEVINESLIFE and @RACCOON_SOCIETY
DRINKING: Chartreuse liquor, Mint Green tea, Liquid Hydrocodone, Pinot, Stellas and peanut butter shakes
EATING: Scallop carpaccio with uni and vanilla, kumamotos and burgers
LISTENING TO: NPR, Peter Gabriel, Cursive, SIlverchair Diorama
READING: Playboy Interview with Frank Gehry, Articles about mining asteroids, the Suicides of Theresa Duncan & Jeremy Blake, and secret dining clubs: Zodiac Club (NYC) and Aronia de Takazawa (Tokyo). J.D. Salinger; Franny and Zooey (geeked to discover that it inspired one of my favorite songs: Polar Bear by RIDE) William Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell: "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom; The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.”
WATCHING: Archer, The Nature of Existence, The Cruise, Less Than Zero, Dogtooth, Riding Giants, The Darjeeling Limited, Sin Nombre, The Brothers Bloom,The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and Like Dandelion Dust (Barry Pepper superfan) A Man for All Seasons (weed might have made this bearable) Waste Land (Best Moby score since Heat) and Interiors (Woody Allens 1st drama. Made me want to carpet bomb the entire Upper East Side)
Dear Raccoons.
I hope you all are doing well, eating your vegetables and avoiding the trappings of gangs, prisons, abusive relationships and organized religion. I’m still in the process of reading ALL of the new questions. (THANK YOU again for sharing and trusting in me and the community. Please continue posting and responding to one another HERE) –In the meantime, an update on life in NYC:
The weather at night is beautiful, though sadly too warm for capes. Perfect for shorts I'm told, though I refuse to own any. Just got back from my friend's speakeasy on Hudson St, where we were chewing on rose petals and crocus stems, drinking Red Chai Vermouth, and talking about aquatic apes. It’s a Monday.
Opened my mail to find an Architectural Digest feature on a SOHO penthouse by Nouvel - with a note from my Mom that reads, "some decorating ideas for your new place". Funny. She knows that, like most New Yorkers, I have the square footage of a pint of blueberries— that I could literally be in the bathroom taking a shit and reach over to the oven and bake a cake at the same time.
Meanwhile my spot in Chicago has been left untouched like a sarcophagus since August. Just got this text message from the owner: “Made the mistake of looking in your bathroom. It looks like you've shorn a hound.” I mean, he’s right, but c’mon “shorn”? Who even says that.
In the news this week the main themes are the passing of the gay marriage bill in the NY Senate (FINALLY) and warnings about a new strain of flesh-eating cocaine (HOLY SHEEN). The Pride Parade passed by my doorstep and the atmosphere was electric.
Contrary to the concerns of my family, I actually have been getting plenty of nature here in NYC. I have a tiny mouse that eats holes through my Heirloom tomatoes, and just yesterday I watched two doves fucking on my fire escape for ten minutes.
Speaking of courtship, one light-hearted question I received was from LUMIERE1979 (Bradley) asking: Do you have any tips on finding the courage to approach strangers at a party?
Bradley,
I’ve been to a series of parties lately, where I’ve begun introducing myself as the heir to the SteakUms fortune- just to entertain myself. (I've also been making it a habit to saddle up to the oldest, most banged-up person in the room, or anyone with a limp, thereby making me look younger and healthier by comparison.)
I suspect that your social anxiety may be based not on a lack of self-esteem but on a lack of material. Ergo, vis-a-vis, concordantly, I've quickly jotted ten talking points guaranteed to prompt a friendly exchange, while at the same time showing that you are a man of potential depth and originality.
Now where did I put my fucking sunglasses? DAMN THESE MINT JULIPS!
10 PROVOCATIVE ICE-BREAKERS:
1. Katzenjammer is a German word literally meaning "cat's wail" and hence "discordant sound", used to indicate a general state of depression, bewilderment or in reference to a hangover. Discuss.
2. What would you do with a billion dollars? I'd have my dentist give me Jon Bon Jovi's veneers. The exact ones. Taken out of his mouth and put into mine.
3. Many people in NYC seem to be doing a lot of heavy drugs AND a lot of yoga. Paradox? Discuss.
4. The famous wedding march “Here Comes the Bride” is actually a refrain from the symphony Lohengrin composed by Wagner, an alleged Nazi. Discuss.
5. Why, in England, does it take 20 rich white dudes on horses and 30 attack dogs to catch one fox? Discuss.
6. Is semen considered meat or fish? How does this affect the sex life of vegans? Are you a vegan?
7. 5.4 million species of animals worldwide remain unnamed. Well? What’s everyone standing around for?
8. I just thought of a perfect name for a metal band: The Cuban Missile Crisis. Conversely, you know what’s a bad name, for a band or a person? Herman. Discuss.
9. Magellan was killed by a bamboo arrow to the face by one of Lapu-Lapu’s militia. Can we joke about that or is it too soon?
10. Enough idle chatter, let’s get down to the BIG issues: 'Who are we?' 'Why are we here?' and 'Will Antonio Banderas EVER make a movie that makes me say, "Hey, I actually have a vague desire to see that"? Discuss.
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TEN pics from my phone:
THREE POEMS
POEM: A Map of Poets’ Graves
By M.D. 2k11
Let's move to Vietnem
Rescue dogs from restaurants
Submarine to Kathmandu
Catch a rare and deadly flu
Slip aboard the Express Danube
From Great Britain to Istanbul
Drink colognes and rich perfumes
Get caught stealing crystal doorknobs
Earn scars in Peruvian duels
Hide in the ruins of Machu Picchu
Let’s buy a map of poets’ graves
Swim in underwater caves
Eat raw honey with killer bees
Puke from Ayahuasca tea
Postcards drip with India ink
Stacked beside the broken pocketwatch
Lets run our hands through arctic sands
Through purple crabs and army ants
Let’s die behind an orchid patch
Barefoot on volcanic ash
POEM: Verbatim; The Dumbest Text I Ever Sent
by: M.D. 2k11
Sent Sunday 3:15AM Thank u for an amzing party!!!! Wow. Hot tog! Chicken, beer! Wine! Weed! Everythinktthank u both
POEM: You’re a Drawer
by: M.D.
You're a drawer
That means you only gotta do 2 things for me, ok
Slide out and then... what
Slide back in again, good
That's it. That's all
Eso es todo. Nada más
So why. the fuck. are you. giving. me. a headache
Why why why
You're gonna get a kick
Is that what you want
Fine
Here you go
You like that
Oh see, now you want to work
("Hey, who are you shouting at in here")
No one.
("Really? Why are you all sweaty? I could swear I just heard you shouting.")
Hmm. Nope.
("Ok then. See you later at the meeting.")
Ok bye
See what you just did
You almost got me in trouble
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Yard Sale
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:51 AM
Moving from Chicago to NYC, so my friends are auctioning 80 random things from my home and donating a share to one of my favorite charities, TWLOHA, To Write Love on Her Arms, dedicated to suicide prevention.
CLICK HERE and you could own my clothes, my books, my music.. even my old school IDs. :)
(AUCTION ENDS THURSDAY JUNE 30 AT 2PM EST)
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@ Molly-Rose. @Hitch Fan. @ Raccoon Society,
Hey Hitch Fan & Raccoon Society, Hey Molly-Rose :)
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I perused a quote about reason and faith, here, so just wanted to leave a quick insight. Times still ticking. So, get ready, like the countdown goes, remember get your dose of Caffeine and ample supply ready, time is here and now, handy keys to the DeLorean, ready, count it down .... 4,3... is seven,2,1... twenty-one go!
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Bringing in “reason” as a debatable perspective is an arbitrary moot inception of hanging on over a cliff after getting caught in suspended animation. In earnest, I’d rather crony up with a like-minded anarchist that befuddles the imposition-ers of faith is somehow equatable to ever be torn asunder by absence of reason as a supposed and dull exploitive of why not to have faith or presumes faith constraints reason. How tired and bored is that perspective, faith is sans reason, etcetera, as how tired and uninspired the word medley of “how tired and uninspired” is in a sentence. Truly, think, open-mindedly, if you are going to stand to incept reason into the mixture.
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Faith is not constraint of reason. Human expectations are the constraint of reason. When you expect an outcome, expecting defies the natural progression of reason and the possibilities of reason, cause and natural common-sense by reason. Esp if an expectation is only geared or rendered for a specific outcome that is meant to propagate a furnished idea – that is what constraints reason and undermines reason. Faith itself is not a constraint in and of itself.
Faith scrutinizes reason in the same manner that reason scrutinizes faith. Even if you are construing my comments in a sense of Biblical faith, (my own affections on Faith is, faith is faith, regardless of own individual’s personal sentiments) it should be applied to bare it as a pertinent truth of your conscience, if it is in tune with your own accordance of Faith. The insight is similar of a notion and passage Mat Devine shared in a previous entry, from the Bible in 1 Thessalonians “"Test all things and cling to that which is good." 1 Thes. 5:2
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The insight is, by mere contemplative states of the least of reality that is truly, utterly, ever known or knowable is dependent upon the realization those that follow the limited intelligence of humanity are no different or variable than those who believe in an infinite power or being. Except, that, the latter ones are not contained w/ limits of other people’s interpretations as to what the individual(s) believe or have faith in believing. In other words, of course, there is an open defiance of censorship. As the effect of censorship in many formulations is non-productive or progressive, plus attempts to suppress individuality and environmental compatibility and functionality. Individuals have an innate right and will, to believe / have faith in what sets their own life in accord with how they truly feel and be able to live according to a sound in-tact own conscience. The utopic is it ought to be a morally/ethically approach that is not projecting undue negative renderances into another person’s life. Give and take , choose battles, our world is further everyday from a utopia considering the majority has shunned itself to ignoring the dystopic qualties that are here right now and that media at large has veiled in elaborate dunce cap shrouding that dystopic societies are in the future although the dystopic future written about as Fiction is actually happening now. If you need hot lead dead giveaway tell-tale, read the Hunger Games. Reality shows and a corresponding match like Survivor and the way our governments handle it citizens and slowly revolve into revolutions is starkly illuminating in contrast to what science and governments would sooner have you believing recently. Citric awakening happens, just like heads up 7-up, goes round by round like kisses on the forehead of what you’re willing to fight for and go to battle.
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Morning tune ready for the day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSkb0kDacjs
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Personally, I think, plus, prefer, to be limitless w/ willingly choosing to have faith in an infinite that harkens possibilities that exuberate all realities and endless potential for the greater good and bless those who are willing with talents that incorporate into their environments rather than something that devoids humanity of its own existence and destroying itself within by the contraptions of limiting itself like is so often seen and has already been duly established by the acts of science and people having a follow mentality to the state of science and scientists own propulsions of ideas and constructed basis’s that are feasibly assembled for mass production to the herd mentality that those of lower I.Q’s or sheer follow mentality will gobble up without having to test and proof it and prove that the theory itself or basis of scientific belief is sketchy. Esp taking into vantage perspective, equal opportunity intelligent licensures that can compute the information readily on-hand and disseminated to be shredded apart by the citizens sans academic luxury degrees handling inspecting statistics, quantities and exacts, in other words, the scientific misnomers blatantly compiled as derivations alleged to be fact sans exact intricate intra-acted ways of actually testing and provable.
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Thus this ///.... “"Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals. It's our need to believe, and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me." ~ Christopher Hitchen ...////
The quoted sentiment is also a mentality that ought be evenly distributed and thus applied to science in the same rigor of scrutiny; otherwise, science in a whole would be an easily reasonable standing on reason sham completely. People whom fully put their faith (be earnest and real, that that’s what is happening) into science, as a bunch of atheists often do blindly, are, again, as I wrote briefly to “Fellow Heathen” no different than the people they claim they are different from whom have faith including certain atheists that are attempting to devalue those individuals whom believe faith in God or deity/deities, et al. So, let’s prevent the ostracization by some ethos that eludes incorporating the fragility of the argument done towards only shunning the hypocrisy of its actions in statement, as is clear with the ///....“Of all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated.”...//// bit of the quote. Anyone with a brain embedded permeating reason plus own foresight is able to tear it tinker tape red, pulling apart the fallibility of the application of exclusion. So, well, let’s say it for what it is, for those who may get a bit riled or bewildered by the notion that that Hitchens quote has to be able to stand soundly to its own accord and then some to win over anything in such a debatable topic of query. Which whoever posted it aka the person behind “Hitch Fan” left it to, what is surmised as an attempted permissive gainer for something it isn’t rather than be seen for what it is. It is what it is; so let it stand to be, and let it be what it is.
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So, what to do, what to do…carry a smile, just smile at all times, esp. smitten. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKrbAUjBbvU&ob=av2e
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Charles Kingsley, said, ///....“And we shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand—the habit of mind which theologians call—and rightly—faith in God.”...////
If you consider the application of – ///....“we shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand”...//// – you would sooner or later come to deriving the conclusion, if you apply it to theologians that it would then need fairly be dispersed to be applied to scientists and science’s schematics, as well.
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Since, yes, a bunch did catch the flip-syde subtleties and am no longer so-so much M.I.A on-the-grid stats as prior (except at a backwards C//S, let those bones right ;) and sticking true and loyal to odes n’ codes Patrick Henry stylistic lovers “Give me Liberty or Give me death” stance of a prose writer and a bit of an unconventionalist, by art and its unconfined nature, I’d rather par up with movers and doers and standers, with the following quotes. As, this vantage scope of the playing field is where and why art comes into play and tests the grounds. Art endures. Art offers the companionship of the formidable connections of now, urgency and longevity. Legacy – such a regale atoning attenuation intonation inflection to the word while delivering an infliction to naysayers. Cruxly, appropos, regardless, if all there is, is this, every day, every time, I’d rather know within all is aligned in my soul anytime death knocks. Just, must gotta have something to share and faith upon for all those marvelous and wonder-filled death feats after-all. Nil sin Numine.
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Maybe humanities’ expectations need to be readjusted? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO1OV5B_JDw
“Skepticism Is The Beginning Of Faith.” ~ Oscar Wilde
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///....“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.”...//// ~ Blaise Pascal
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///....“I heard once of an American who so defined faith, "that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue." For one, I follow that man. He meant that WE SHALL HAVE AN OPEN MIND, AND NOT LET A LITTLE BIT OF TRUTH CHECK THE RUSH OF THE BIG TRUTH, like a small rock does a railway truck. WE GET THE SMALL TRUTH first. Good! We keep him, and we value him, BUT ALL THE SAME WE MUST NOT LET HIM THINK HIMSELF ALL THE TRUTH IN THE UNIVERSE.”...//// ~ Bram Stoker, Dracula
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///....“We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other...except through faith.”...////~ Stephen King
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///....“That in such righteousness /// To them by faith imputed they may find ///
Justification towards God, and peace /// Of conscience.”...//// ~ John Milton
Ciao.
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