Random Thoughts from the Asylum

This week I trampled. Thinking I'm not liking that. It surely isn't in tune with the bi-line for the new and improved Jack. It is really hard because I tend to get tunnel vision when it comes to politics and leave a lot of bodies in my wake when I least expect it. Here I espouse a message of tolerance and humane behavior but don't even live by my own rules. Got to work on that one...

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Overall, this week has been great. It is interesting listening to people and what they think. Some leave me shrugging of how you can make these kinds of jump in logic while others have you hanging there in the moment breathing in words of wisdom from a place least expected. Surprisingly my one vestige of finding these people seems to be in public transit. There is an incredible amount of street prophets and wisened individuals all too keen on sharing their outlook and all you have to do is look beyond an unshaved face and the smell of too long with a shower. It is in their eyes which then flows out through their words. Glad I'm in a place I can slow down enough to take in and enjoy these fractions of my day.

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Finally saw Crazy Heart this week and can see why Jeff Bridges won the Oscar though one has to wonder: why hasn't this happened before? The man has quite the resume. The Fisher King, The Big Lebowski, Men Who Stare At Goats, and Tucker were all outstanding films. But I guess it is okay to be happy in the "better late then never". He certainly deserves every award he gets. The man is an icon of an actor.

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Being a music man it always surprises people what I haven't heard. This week I added The Arcade Fire to that and have been pleasantly surprised. It reminds of the time I was introduced to My Morning Jacket. Suddenly my mind was awakened to some of the most incredible sounds. It seems like with each new band I take in and like I'm seeing music I've listened to for ages in a whole new way. Classics like Pink Floyd are awakened alive again with a new appreciation I can only see by listening to many bands they have influenced. Current faves and retreads include: EPMD, Pink Floyd, The Arcade Fire, U.N.K.L.E, Chemical Brothers, The Mars Volta.

...this has all been rather random today...maybe that is all I have to say...much love all...

j...