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Friday, January 19, 2007

Zooming in

The daily life and the lingering body discharges- a parallel approach

The body discharge as the great interval, or life itself. Life IS and goes on, constantly secreating; and so, does the body: Saliva, earwax, vaginal nose & intestinal mucus, drool, oil around the saliencies of your nose- the nostrils, sweat, falling tears, and gushing intravenous blood. The outward salivation of the body and the lethargic lubrification of the days that slide forward, gliding into weeks, months and into a whole boring living. Us! Silently secreting the shit out of a sudoriparous existence. And thus, life is quiet. It smoothly flows and goes, flexing along the invisible muscle of the quotidian. life sure is boring, save for the times when you fall in love..or fall out of love; Or when you know that ahead it's time for a new turn.And as life, the subliminal reactions in the body represent the inevitable and necessary spurs gushing bursting or sudden discountinuities within life's continium within a lifetime. The glorifying periods of ejaculation- when the unusual supplants the trivial; when the spew, the ejection of saliva, the pus gushing out from a bursting zit betray the morose and unseen unloading of body shit. Orgasms, and what's abrupt are the best parts in life, jetting out from your body, disturbing and thrusting a whole new meaning into an obvious, conspicuously boring ass life.

in “cracking down Universe’s encryption”.

Friday, November 17, 2006

Did you know?




Josephine Baker, born Freda Josephine McDonald, was an American-French dancer, actress and singer. She was given the nicknames "Black Venus," "Black Pearl" and "Creole Goddess." Although born American, she became a French citizen in 1937.
she was the most successful American entertainer working in France—whereas in the U.S., she would have suffered from the racial prejudices common to the era. Ernest Hemingway called her "the most sensational woman anyone ever saw." She was so well-known and popular that even the Nazis, who occupied France during World War II were hesitant to cause her harm. In turn, this allowed Baker to show her loyalty to her adopted country by participating in the Underground. After the war, Baker was awarded the Croix de Guerre for her underground activity.

Yet despite her popularity in France, she was never really able to obtain the same reputation at home. Upon a visit to the United States in 1936.
she was allegedly at a dinner party and began to speak in French as well as English with a French accent. An African-American maid was reputed to tell her, "Honey, you is full of shit. Speak the way yo' mouth was born". She had the woman fired.

In 1973, Josephine Baker opened at Carnegie Hall to a standing ovation. She wept openly onstage in response to the warm welcome.

Though based in France, she supported the American Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s, and protested racism in her own unique way, adopting twelve multi-ethnic orphans, whom she called her "Rainbow Tribe."
In 1963, she spoke at the March on Washington at the side of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Wearing her Free French uniform with her Legion of Honor decoration, she was the only woman to speak at the rally.

On tours of the United States, she refused to perform in segregated nightclubs, and her insistence on mixed audiences helped to integrate shows in Las Vegas, Nevada. Nevertheless, her career was on a downturn and she was near bankruptcy until she was bailed out and given an apartment by her close friend, Princess Grace of Monaco, another expatriate American living in Europe.

During her life, she was also a great figure of the French freemasonry, fighting for freedom, civil rights, equality and against racism in France and other countries.