I just watched Game Of Thrones

 a condensed version: a richly-packed five-minute summary. 

No time 😂

+ this blog is fifteen years old.  See, May 2004 start.



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A movie about the very nosy Kinsey

Life story of Alfred Kinsey, a man driven to uncover the most private secrets of the nation, and a journey into the mystery of human behavior. In 1948 Kinsey irrevocably changed American culture and created a media sensation with his book "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male". Using the technique of his own famous sex interviews, story recounts the scientist's extraordinary journey from obscurity to global fame. Rebelling against the rigid piety of his home life, and drawn to the world of the senses, Kinsey becomes a Harvard-educated zoologist specializing in the study of gall wasps. After being hired to teach biology at Indiana University, Kinsey meets and marries a witty, freethinking female student, Clara McMillen. In the course of his teaching he discovers an astonishing dearth of scientific data on sexual behavior. When students seek him out for advice about sexual concerns and problems, he realizes that no one has done the clinical research that would yield reliable answers to their questions. Inspired to explore the emotionally charged subject of sex from a strictly scientific point of view, Kinsey recruits a team of researchers, including Clyde Martin, Wardell Pomeroy and Paul Gebhard. Over time they refine an interviewing technique, which helps people to break through shame, fear, and guilt and speak freely about their sexual histories. When Kinsey publishes his Male study in 1948, the press compares the impact to that of the atom bomb. But as the country enters the more paranoid Cold War era of the 1950s, Kinsey's follow-up study on women is seen as an attack on basic American values. The ensuing outrage and scorn causes Kinsey's benefactors to abandon him, just as his health begins to deteriorate. At the same time, the jealousies and acrimony caused by Kinsey's attempt to create a private sexual utopia threaten to tear apart the research team and expose them to unwelcome scrutiny.

It is worth watching. 

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Question: Where do you see yourself 500 years from now?

 Or 5000?

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16 personalities (Myers-Briggs)

I'm INTP today.

details of 'logician' personality

As you know, these things change.
However, about 5 years ago, I was scored INTP in 3 of 6 personality tests I took on the same day.
About 15 years ago, I was xNxP, with the x being a very mild extraversion over introversion and a very mild feeling over thinking bias i.e. ENFP.

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These videos are the most edutaining things, lol

If you enjoyed Newspaper Movie (2018) and White Savior (2019), see the late night comedy sketch that started it all: 
 Oscar Bait (2017), "a story of redemption, racial tension and latent homosexuality shamelessly timed for award season."  Featuring Seth Meyers and friends.

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Words and songs and words and songs of experience

 I want to listen to stupid people.  I want to listen to crazy people.  I want to listen to irrelevant people.
What I mean is that I want to bloody know something about something before I start to think I know anything.  Call it research.

My teachers promptly appeared, thank God:
Inscape, a short story by Yaa Gyasi, for Guernica
and
an essay by A. Igoni Barrett in The Guardian
while
I've built a bit of a reading list (my FOMO reading list) of contemporary literature mostly by Africans now in like their 30s, 40s.  Igoni's books, On Black Sisters' Street, and I haven't even read something called "White Teeth" that everybody has read.

I have good ears, yes, but I don't listen to my mother.  It's one minute, or ten minutes, or sometimes, rarely, an hour, and then I disappear to listen somewhere else - to The Guardian, to comedian Stephen Colbert's show, to musical artistes, and so on.

    If you like boring gist, this is me overanalyzing: oh, I see, what my mother is trying to say is that she's passionate about food preparation.
Ok.  I'll try to build on that knowledge next time instead of fleeing the scene when she starts to make small-talk with a complaint about some food or the other that she did not eat, not buy, not try because she suspects that it is bad or full of sugar or full of oil or full of overcooked oil or bad chemicals or fat or full of salt or dirty or not good or not well cooked or...

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The things we used to want (to do, to be, to have?)

I found an old list of the one hundred most popular 43things. 

Yes, I had at least one of those goals on my own list: "Be happy" 

 It seems that you can do similar goal-tracking things on the DayZeroProject site. 

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a hopeful song

الحق ما بيموت 

 
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obit for Erik

My darling blog friend @ Erik's Choice: eriklerouge.blogspot.com , also here and here

(very) good, better, best - my 2018 top music+video list

We'll start with the best:

Poverty Die (animated vid), by Olamide

and

Make Me Feel by Janelle Monae

The A**/A++ list:

It Runs Through Me by Tom Misch

and

Beyond by Leon Bridges

The A+ stuff:

Rocket by En Vogue

and

Your Father by M.I. and Dice Ailes

Previously:
2013 - my A++ list
- 2014 - my top-five experiences
 - 2015 - my top five music+videos 
  - 2016 - my top five music + videos
    - 2017 - my top five music videos  
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Bonus:
 

Enjoy.

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~ teach

 #TeachersMatter

 #of course

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Nourish with musicbooks

Today, I've 'hung out' a lot with Martha Wainwright's youtube items like a grown woman (which I am).  Martha is Rufus's little sister.

Now I'm listening to a fantastic 2015 musicbook by Kelly Clarkson.  It's titled Piece by Piece, and right now she's singing "I'm A Whole Lotta Woman" with all that blackish sassish vocalwork oooh yeah. 

A few days ago, I was rocking with Craig David especially his 2010 collection of Motown-music covers he calls Signed, Sealed, Delivered.

Wholesome good food, Taurus-style 
 - all three are Taurean musical artistes, 
 and incidentally I have eight albums for each of them, I just counted. 

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DOOR test

You have to try this!

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Freshly Vibely

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I'm a definite homebuddy all day, and week, and season long
but I go out for my SDC - Show Dem Camp and supergood live music. 

It's soooo good for the heart. 
I end up falling in love with, like, everybody, or at least with how beautiful everybody is, so happy and so kind.  For example, this spectacular lady that wrote a review.  This handsome knight I met at the food place nearby.  The superfans that hugged - all the hugs. 

The clips above are from Friday night, there's another mini-show tonight and a big show planned for 29th December - all 'Palm-Wine Music' theme and so supercool. 

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You make sexytime?

They make sexytime:  

HUMAN SEXUALITY AROUND THE WORLD  

Unpublished manuscript by Dennis WERNER, University of Santa. Caterina, Florianopolis, Brazil, 1986.

They no make sexytime:  

THE SEX RECESSION: WHY ARE YOUNG PEOPLE HAVING SO LITTLE SEX?

Culture article by Kate JULIAN, in The Atlantic December 2018 issue. 

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You've just got to be patient

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1.
How to write a hit song?  

2.
My next poetry collection is called Go-go, the now-and-changing counterpart to last year's collection of more enduring anthropology that is titled Caveman.  Yaaay.

I do not consider this new one my best; Big Girl and Big Boy from many years ago had similar theme and style, so what's new here?  Then again, that's just like pop - I mean it's just like today, effing 2018, a year ruled by stupid; a time to not do your best.  Maybe Go-go will be my first big-seller as a reward for its excellence in half-assing mediocrity hahaha.  Without the hyphen: Gogo.

You'll see the new book on amazon say in November.  I have been not-working on it all year, need to get on that; to re-arrange, re-edit, re-read, re-fix, re-view, all of that, then do up the cover - in a style counterpoint to the Caveman cover of course, and I have the photo I want to build that around...

3.
I've been so lazy that I think I experimented and learned why you should probably not sleep as much and as hard as you can - it results in hormonal changes, I think, and they cascade and you may end up a little ill.
I'll try again someday.
On the personal level, woah, sleep is GREAT for you, great for the mind, great for the body, repair, ... but what I really suspect is that sleep is even more amazing if it becomes popular, like it's what the world needs now, you know?  Sleep is the future.  You should sleep.

4.
You know I like astrology.  It's Moon-Uranus in Taurus now - full moon - so a perfect time to be comfortable about being weird.  You didn't know this, but I've become a student of another ancient science: Palmistry.   And on the opposite end, I'm learning about the whole Ethereum-blockchain thing.

I found it!

I finally found the 'takin' one step at a time' song, yes, but also the whole album.  Haven't heard this stuff in like 25 years.
Woah, I feel joy.

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plan bee

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If I were King of the Forest 

Not queen, not duke, not prince 

My regal robes of the forest 

Would be satin, not cotton, not chintz 

 I'd command each thing, be it fish or fowl 

With a ruff and a ruff and a royal growl - woof 

As I'd click my heel, all the trees would kneel! 

And the mountains bow and the bulls kowtow! 

And the sparrow would take wing - 

If I - If I - were King! 

Each rabbit would show respect to me  

The chipmunks genuflect to me 

Though my tail would lash, I would show compash 

For every underling! 

If I - If I - were King! Just King!

Source: The Wizard Of Oz // Lyrics: Genius.com

Beyond

by Leon Bridges

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Alternatives to facebook

I just read 8 Best alternatives (Fossbytes)  , and  7 Smaller Social Networks (PopSci) and now have a few actions to take.  Maybe Not add Vero (it's for photo-sharing and I barely share on the popular instagram), but maybe I'll try Tumblr and Ello.

I've used facebook for more than ten years and it has been almost perfect for my needs, especially for autosharing my blog posts.  But now it is changing in ways that make it less convenient to autopost and reach my peeps.



You can help:
Add any of my blogs to your facebook, twitter, instagram, whatsapp groups, and so on.
We're on twitter:  bloggity-blog @REALbubbler or self-y @tosinbird
In case you were wondering, yes I was on myspace , no I never tried snapchat, and true, I share on google+

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