Morning Audibles 9.9.10 - Are you READY?

The BREAD & CIRCUSES start tonight my friends...


My apologies, in advance, for any kind of random journey this thread may take, but publishing "original material" often means the author enters a sort of dreamlike state... You know how it happens in your dreams at night... These thoughts and clips kind of assemble themselves in some way that one could NEVER predict if they happened to be awake and/or conscious... The OUTPUT thereof, may end up being "Stanley Kubrick-ish", but that's the world I live in...


I suppose the CONTRARY to that would be a state of mind where NO ORIGINAL THOUGHTS existed... That "being-ness" happened to manifest itself as an OUTPUT of the random creative ideas of OTHERS... Those widgets were then "intercepted" and "programmed" into some kind of networked database by foolish & mindless drones (kinda like a blog, I suppose)... The final product ends up woven into something that only machines or sub-humans could understand... (those foolish mindless drones are CUTE & CUDDLY tho, aren't they?)...


That's the world that CV doesn't live in... (or DOES, but rebels against)...


BACK TO THE CIRCUSES... 

The "Modern Day Version" = THE NFL

Tonight is the "kickoff" spectacular... WORLD CHAMPION SAINTS vs. MINNESOTA VIKINGS (kind of a "WAAAAAAHHHHnabee" team [emphasis on "WAAAAAAAHHHHH"], that can never seem to get it totally together because of their propensity to COMPROMISE)... I'm leaving my GAME ANALYSIS out of the thread topic... It'll be found in the comment section... Instead, I'm going to focus on the peripherals...

SOCIO-ECONOMICS

Since "bread & circuses" alone no longer satiate the masses, the networks have taken to airing a PRE-GAME concert to add to the hype... One can think what they will about these PRE-GAME antics, but I assure you that they're NO DIFFERENT from the types of things that were presented II MILLENIA [or, MM] ago, in Rome, in the Colosseum... I know... I was there (as sure as "Lucius Aurelius Commodus" was emperor)...

OK... So about these PRE-GAME concerts... Let's just imagine for a minute that they ARE actually cool... I can go there with you if you want... Not TOTALLY... But I'll try... This year, I've heard, it's going to feature THE DAVE MATTHEWS BAND & TAYLOR SWIFT (more on that in a minute)... Last year, it featured THE BLACK EYED PEAS (who, CV has kind of a personal war against)... Actually - I'll admit that some of their songs are kind of "catchy", but I don't like the "message" they bring (in aggregate)... Witness for yourself the 2009 SOCIOECONOMIC version of BREAD & CIRCUSES...

Various Black Eyed Peas Lyrics: 

(sound familiar on Wall St., or in the ghettos, or in the voting booths across America)?

"We got five minutes for us to disconnect, from all intellect collect the rhythm effect..."

"Tonight’s the night night

Let’s live it up

I got my money

Let’s spend it up"

"Lets paint the town (paint the town)

We’ll shut it down (shut it down)

Lets burn the roof

and then we’ll do it again"

"Easy come

easy go

now we on top 

top top top top"

"we keep keep keep keep going up

we know what we say say

party everyday 

p-p-p-party everyday"

OK fine, thanks for telling me that (consider me informed)... It's obviously really helped me become a better person (thank you for that)... You've really given me HOPE... & CHANGED the world with that message...


Now we get to 2010... THE DAVE MATTHEWS BAND... First, TAYLOR SWIFT... I have to admit that CV has never heard of Taylor Swift, but here's a foto of her... 

All I can say is that I immediately approve simply due to the fact that she doesn't appear to be driving that car with a cell phone wrapped around her ear... At least it's a START!

DAVE MATTHEWS

Actually (damn I've lived a weird life)... CV has never met Dave Matthews, but my sister dated him in a clandestine way back in the beginning of time... She started up, and owned a travel agency in Charlottesville, VA back in the day, and they met just about the time the band got going, and had to start making travel plans for gigs... Of course it was just "one of those things", so it let loose shortly thereafter... My sister is somewhat of a Sheryl Crow "lookalike", so some of that might make sense to a random reader...

Anyway... Me (CV), thinking of Dave Matthews, and thinking of SOCIO-ECONOMICS, made me think of this... Last year, the misplaced "optimism", that was abundant in America, produced the performance of "Let's Get It Started" & "I Got a Feeling" by the BEP's... Fast Forward 2010... What will Dave Matthews play?

Could it be?

CRASH

(He actually penned this song when he & my sister were, you know... So who knows? Strange...)

Oops, Cv doesn't want to be NEGATIVE "market wise"... I'll be my best American citizen here, and suggest that everyone invest in equities, you know, FOR THE LONG RUN... Maybe things won't quite be so bad (due to all that lever pulling and button pushing that the GENIUSES who have 100% control over tend to do in the PRE-ELECTION period [in order to assuage wannabe blog authors into focusing on parades, dog grooming festivals, bathroom remodeling projects, & vacation itineraries]... Anything... PLEASE... Just save me from the effort involved in coming up with original thoughts... If successful, the mammoth efforts by TPTB, largely due to the GULLIBLE nature of the Romans at large, if they're lucky, may have the net effect of producing...

THE SPACE BETWEEN

(Meaning: a long period of NOTHINGNESS)

"The space between the tears we cry

Is the laughter keeps us coming back for more

The space between the wicked lies we tell

And hope to keep safe from the pain"

"Look at us spinning out in the madness of a roller coaster

You know you went off like the Devil in a church

In the middle of a crowded room

All we can do, my love is hope we don't take this ship down"

"The space between what's wrong and right

Is where you'll find me hiding, waiting for you

The space between your heart and mine

Is the space we'll fill with time"

Don't come to me for any answers... I just work here (and try to dredge up original thoughts from time to time)...


I don't have much else to say here... The markets are confused... The ECONOMY isn't all that confused, but that's beside the point in a STAR TREK gladiator world, right?

All I can say is... "Enjoy your profits & losses"... "Enjoy your bread & circuses"... AND... Otherwise... Since CV needs his own personal BREAD & CIRCUSES too...

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL!