March 10, 2006
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The Daily News
Fair is foul and
foul is fair;
hover through the
fog and filthy air.
–The Three Witches, Macbeth
1 Adamant.
2 The other day, I wrote the DN and misspelled the word “adamant”.
3 I had corrected that on one of my two versions of yesterday’s DN, but that entire effort, and the next one, both went down in flames.
4 We took inventory on the musical yesterday and I realized that we have worked on over 30 songs, and know at least 20. Our goal originally was 20! That’s a show on a successful tour.
5 Not bad, not bad.
6 We’ve had a remarkable drop-off in interest on the musical, but that was because we had other activities jump in and steal our people. But we’re having a blast; every day is fun! So here’s hoping all goes right!
7 Moving on: Yes, that was me you saw the other day in a Class of ’06 Senior Panorama shirt. I got a lot of strange looks, I tellya. The irony was that I couldn’t find it all day, until well AFTER they took the picture. I wasn’t going to be in the picture, just offering support.
8 I was showing the Seniors the love is all. Only Seniors understand. I have always known what goes through their heads, or at least I THOUGHT I always knew.
9 It’s just an amazing ride from here Seniors. And it gets insane near the end. Enjoy every second, and hold on to what you have. These memories take on tremendous meaning after this all disappears.
10 So keep it real. Hold fast to these times; once you lose hold of them, life can turn upside down rather quickly. Fair can become foul. Foul can become fair. Hover through the fog and filthy air. It can become very tricky knowing who is who is who and what is what. Lost becomes found and found becomes lost. And any blind decision can come at quite a cost.
11 I love their shirts, by the way. They have a large Queen of Hearts dominating the front.
12 It reminds me a LOT of a great old film called The Manchurian Candidate, a film about a brainwashed soldier who has been controlled by the Commies to assassinate a political leader in America. The Queen of Hearts is used to trigger a hypnotic command that a phone call giving him orders will happen in a few seconds. Each time Sgt. Raymond Shaw sees the Queen of Hearts, a phone rings. A command then will tell him to murder, say, the person next to him. Eventually, they program him to assassinate the Vice-Presidential candidate, placing their own candidate into the White House. Unnerving, and it’s REALLY unnerving how easily people can become brainwashed.
13 Amazing film. There are actually two of them, one from 1962, and one made in 2004. Either way, the entire concept is scary, and VERY on the money.
14 What’s unnerving is that Sgt. Raymond Shaw is respected as a soldier, a leader, and an intelligent man of fortune.
14 Brainwashing. Yeesh.
13 So the Seniors’ shirts have that, and it’s awesome.
14 It’s also awesome that it’s the Queen, and not the King, who is in charge.
15 Interesting.
16 Have a lovely weekend, man.
17 Peace.
Scenes from the chilling 1962 version of The
Manchurian Candidate, one of the greatest films
in history.
~H~
