2014-11-26

2014-11-26         

               

                'If I could just say a few words' Homer J. Simpson says it better during one of / his episodes on one of / the episodes of The Simpsons , 'I'd be a better / public speaker.'  Though far be it from Cin to cinterpret what comes out of your man Homer's mouth, the two do share more than a few / characteristics - not least of which the is the tendency towards / episodes - and what Cin thinks that Homer might mean is that less / is more, aka if he could say fewer but choicer words, he'd be a better public / speaker, saying fewer but choicer words to be a better public / speaker is all / we gots.

                Yes people it's a Cin within / the Cubicles episode / edition of this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore (f) / (b) / (s? (c) log, and though it was over a speakerphone at the tail end of a too-long meeting, Cin went on and on and on today about work-related Things to his colleagues and co-workers across / the land.  Though he didn't pull the old 'make eye contact with your audience one-by-one' trick, innit Mo as you demonstrated it done over breakfast one morning at Club Midd with the assembled Rugby Club, looking us all...in...the...eye in sequence as you did so - it was very funny, as though any tricks having to do with humans up on out on up on out on this Dog and Pony Show could ever be taught at MBA school, and not known and practiced cinstinctually - Cin did have three brief points to make within his allotted time, and he made them, or so / he thinks, having three brief points to make within the allotted time, and making them, or so / he thinks is all / we gots.

                Point One : never bother a dog when / it's eating.  This fundamental rule was learnt by ever kid who ever did so, and came away with the scars / to prove it, among the many scars on Cin's own noggin are at least two jags from the time that he was bit by dogs, the first series from a german shephard called appropriately enough 'Sneaky', and the second from another German Shephard - or so he likes / to tell it - who had a go at Cin during his time in elementary school (Cin's, not / the dog's), this one probably / deserved, as were the rest of the scars / to follow, his noggin filled now with more staples, glue and stitches than / a baseball, 'a heart that's full up like a landscape / a job that slowly kills you' Thom Yorke and Radiohead sing it better in their great tune No Alarms and No Surprises, 'bruises that won't heal'.             

                Point Two : a job that slowly kills you / bruises that won't heal.  There's not much for this one other than to grin / and bear it, we all know what happened to the kid who told the emperor that he had no new clothes in the fairy tale of the same name, no one / listened, very few of us humans up on out on up on out on up on out on this Dog and Pony Show listen, and far far fewer / hear.

                Point Three : every well-known work / of literature does not necessarily translate well to the screen.  George Orwell's '1984' foresaw among other Things the modern surveillance state, so insecure and uncertain that it sees fit to spy on all of its citizens as well as all of its enemies all / of the time.  However this version playing on Cin's Toshiba the TV set does not as they say do Orwell's story / justice, 'die' the talking head in the movie shouts it better to your man the protagonist, played gamely by actor John Hurt, in the movie bedding a hot colleague played by Suzannah Hamilton.

                'While we're on the subject / here's a candle to light up your bed' another talking head says it better from within the TV screen in the lovers' apparently illicit love-nest in the movie, 'here's a chopper to chop off / your head' as a helicopter hovers outside the room and SWAT Team eight comes through / the door.  It is of course Orwell's idea of 'sexcrime' in the novel - believe it or not Cin used to read novels, and more / than one, though '1984' and its sexcrimes would not have been taught in highschool, cinstead it was Orwell's 'Animal Farm' which jibes more nicely with Cin's own understanding of this Dog and Pony Show up on out on up on out on up out here as just / that - of which these two lovebirds are guilty.

                Your man Richard Burton plays the heavy in the film in what would turn out to be his last movie performance before he married Liz Taylor for the umpteenth (only 2nd ! -id.) time and then took / a final bow up on out on up on off on out from this Dog and Pony Show, but not before dropping some bons mots,  among them 'I am for the first time ever looking forward to seeing a film in which / I play' - a view not uncommon among artists, cincluding this one, who was able to upload several editions of this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs and (s) / (f) / © / (b) log from early 2014 this after, following some cursory / editing, though they weren't half / bad to be honest - this in reference to Burton's role as the protagonist in Lindsay Anderson's take on David Storey's book 'This Sporting Life', the film about a Rugby-playing Welshman, one of the very few / of the genre.     

                This cinceit of course - a Dear Diary of a Rugby Player and Rugby Club - was 'assupposed to be the original premise of this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs and (f) / (s) / (b) / (c) log, well before Out Come the Cuffs and Regime Zero and all that turned it into something / much darker and more cinister.  Course he throws in an occasional Twin Elm / or In Mobile edition into the pages and pixels of this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs and (f) / (s) / (b) / (c) log  from time to time, and has every cintention of eventually morphing the latter into / the former, innit perfesser.

                Good times, Point Three of this unholy trinity of an edition of this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs and (s) / (b) / (f) / (c) log is of course Beckett's slogan 'try.  fail.  try again, fail / better', mangled punctuation / is Cin's, hopefully you get / the idea.  'Do or do not' your man Yoda said it better to his kohei Luke Sywalker during one of George Lucas' Star Wars movies, using  a variation (cintradiction ? -id.) of Beckett's theme, 'there is / no try.' 

                Haha Cin's running out / of juice of this WTFednesday evening, his last few nights spent in Luskvegas on the Quebec side having tired him out more than he would have thought, 'he was asleep' Cin said it better to his Ma this after - of the time that Cin spent as of late with her full-time and his part-time housemate, your man their Da - 'most of the time', asleep most of the time is all / we gots. 

                Thanks for reading this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs and (s) / (f) / © / (b) log.