LASTBEATYOUNGLION

GOP CANDIDATE CHOOSES RUNNING MATE

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:24:23 -0400

Late last week the Presidential candidate John MCcain choose a running mate in the sitting Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin. It is speculated that Senator MCcain chose her specifically for her pro stance of drilling offshore on Alaska to reduce The United States of Americas dependency of foreign oil. Governor Palin has vowed to overturn the landmark Supreme Court case legalizing abortions Roe v Wade. Governor Palin has been lauded by secularists and non-secularists alike for her pro-life stance though it is considerably harmed and muddied by her support of the war in Iraq. By denouncing abortion she voices her belief in the sanctity of life but in the same breath supports the war in Iraq which has claimed an estimated amount of hundred-thousand US Military personnel since the beginning of the conflict in 2003. Speaking objectively both institutions-war and abortion end life, some may argue that those military personnel know and accept the risks involved with going to war and that the unborn child does not know and therefore cannot accept the end result of abortion making it (abortion) morally wrong and war morally acceptable. Speaking subjectively I and many other Americans see abortion as the lesser of two evils because abortion only effects the mother who chose to abort the fetus whereas war’s effect is much more widespread. Do we as 21st century Americans who some of us fought for woman’s rights want the first woman to hold executive power in the nation’s history to be an ardent anti-feminism?—Come November please ask yourself the same.

ObamaTaxCut.com

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:04:08 -0400

ObamaTaxCut.com:

claytoncubitt:

“What’s your Obama Tax cut? Let’s find out!”

claytoncubitt: Son House - Death Letter Great guitar playing...

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:44:13 -0400

claytoncubitt:

Son House - Death Letter

Great guitar playing and very emotive song overall.

Previously: Oh Death - Ralph Stanley

Censorship is UGLY

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:27:42 -0400

Censorship is UGLY:

A copy of a document found in Charles Bukowski’s FBI file stating that he was under investigation for his writings.

Repudiation of Modernism

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:22:01 -0400

Repudiation of Modernism:

An article by Robert Pinsky—Evaluating the syntax of WEB DU BOIS and John Milton. Very interesting.

Can't stop here..it's bat country(1960's)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:52:33 -0400

The following quote is from HST’s masterpiece “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”-it is in reference to the nineteen sixty’s counterculture movement, it was written in the early seventies while the failed revolution was still fresh in the mind of the masses; back when the book was first published the reaction would be much more poignant, but for those who were alive during or cared to research it afterwards the poignancy is still as potent. ”So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look west. And with the right kind of eyes, you can almost see the high water mark, that place where the wave finally broke…and rolled back.”

TWENTY-NINE

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:36:59 -0400

Grandmother got lost for hours and I called the cops. Waited at her house with cigarettes and fast food.She came home and was shopping at the mall. Curb-side break down of sorts and now I’ve got grass stains on my knees—will wash later.— Stood outside waiting for the cab for over two hours, it never came called them 3 to 4 times. Kristen and I fight over my cowardice and I cry—Curb-side breakdown. Raised my voice to the volume of thunder and harangued her about responsibility and work ethics evolved with love.—Who am I to tell her about love? just a poor bastard having a curb-side break down with thoughts of past loneliness. Noah picked Kristen and I up then dropped us of at the diner. We ate and walked home—uphill battle. Here I am. GOODNIGHT.

An interview with the late Hunter S. Thompson—a brilliant...

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:16:49 -0400

An interview with the late Hunter S. Thompson—a brilliant writer and even bigger patriot( whatever that is).

Greatest explorer of the American dream.

reflection

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:15:43 -0400

prolific first night of posting. hope to gain a following—it’s nice to be listened too.

check out the first night of this. —post more poetry and other such things later on.

I’m never gonna know you now but I’m gonna love you...

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:09:34 -0400

I’m never gonna know you now but I’m gonna love you anyhow

A brilliant version of the song with additional behind the...

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:58:50 -0400

A brilliant version of the song with additional behind the scenes footage and a dylan monoglue

Excerpt from Tristessa-Jack Kerouac-analysis

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:16:47 -0400

Bull gets up and helps her clean things- To me he says, “Them artists and writers, they don’t like to work—Don’t believe in work (as the year before, as Tristessa amd Cruz and I chatted gagly with the gaiety I had last year, in the room, he’s banging with a Mayan stone statue about the size of a big fist trying to fix the door he’d broken down the night before because he took too many goofballs and went out of his room and locked-clicked the padlock, key in the room and him in his pajamas One A M)—Wow, I do gossipy—(So he’d yelled at me “Come help me fix this door, I can’t do it all by myself”—“Oh yes you can, I’m talking”—” You artists are all lazy bums”)

The first part of a short dialogue exchange with Old Bull Gaines in Mexico City reveals that the sentiment expressed on the part of Gaines is certainly wrong. Though Kerouac purported his use of “spontaneous prose” there is no doubt in my mind that a hell of alot of work went into all of these projects.

Also advice on reading Kerouac and his close contemporaries one must get the rhythm of the prose—not classicist meter or rhyme but pick up the writers syntax and the like.

Self-obsession is the way toward genius.

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:35:49 -0400

Self-obsession is the way toward genius.

"We are as forlorn as children lost in the woods. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what..."

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:32:00 -0400

“We are as forlorn as children lost in the woods. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours? And if I were to cast myself down before you and tell you, what more would you know about me than you know about hell when someone tells you it is hot and dreadful? For that reason alone, we human beings ought to stand before one another as reverently, as reflectively, as lovingly, as we would before the entrance to hell. For me, you were, along with much else, also like a window through which I could see the streets. I could not do that by myself, for tall though I am, I do not yet reach to the windowsill.”

- Franz Kafka, Letter to Oskar Pollak

Kafka was brilliant and very sensitive to the selves of others which is made apparent here.

(via joshuatuscan)

45 years today;dead dream

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:18:37 -0400

On today’s date 45 years ago at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his infamous “I have a dream speech” and five years later he was shot dead. It seems apparent that it is dangerous to have dreams-I’ll go back to sleep now.

Why is God Love, Jack? (Poetry

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:52:58 -0400

Why is God Love, Jack?

They said you went into the hospital
and never came back from the
white hallways and sterile rooms
of St. Anthony’s hospital almost
forty years gone now.
Jack, why is God love?
you never came back.
Jack, why is God love?
The machinery pumped
life into your body then
failing from drink and loneliness
Jack, Why is God love?
Your stomach bled from
within your belly and
you never came back,
Jack, Why is God love?
Neal died a year before you did Jack.
Your superman collapsed
on the railroad track in Mexico
in a flight of frenzy like
in New York and in Paterson with Neal
stealing cars and running
and running and never stopping
never stopping but his heart did
stop. Jack, why is God love?
Lonely old courage teacher
why is God love?

Written By: Zach King-Smith

Brian's Song-Irony (poetry)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:50:44 -0400

We use to watch
television together
you sat in your chair
close to it, blurry-eyed
viewing of the news
and drool pooled
beneath your chin
in shame of detiorating
body—No shame in my
eyes for you no shame
in my heart of you.
We use to watch
television together
and I was always
proud of you.

Written by: Young Lion—Zach King-Smith

Being a flower(poetry)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:49:09 -0400

Too damn self-conscience
to be zen—I’ve spent
too many nights
awake staring at
the ceiling naked
cursing the belly-fat
and hair positioned
on my torso and
too many late night
conversations with
myself to attempt
to love a flower
for being a flower
and not for it’s looks
or its smell but for
being a flower.
I’m too damn
self-conscience
to be zen—I can
never love a
flower for being
a flower.

Written By: Young Lion—Zach King-Smith

"But I’ll tell you what they don’t want. They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical..."

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:43:30 -0400

“But I’ll tell you what they don’t want. They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. You know what they want? Obedient workers – people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork but just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And, now, they’re coming for your Social Security. They want your fucking retirement money. They want it back, so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all, sooner or later, because they own this fucking place. It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club.”

- George Carlin (via azspot) (via marco) (via madsuburbandad)

Firehouse Jane by Charles “Hank” Bukowski

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:20:31 -0400

Firehouse Jane by Charles “Hank” Bukowski