Jesus Christ!

Today I was in a discussion with someone over whether or not this tends a valid statement and message or whether it's just looking to offend. I think all too often people think a bastardization of an icon (specifically Jesus and Mary) is a desecration of it. I think people need to desecrate ma balls.

It's free speech. Sorry dude.

Besides, it gives a whole new dimensionality to the saying "He is risen."

Even in Skokie, Illinois in the 70's, the ACLU fought to maintain a Nazi's group right to march. Yeah sure they never marched, but hey, ACLU was doin they thang.


We got to talking about crudeness and overexposure in and by the media... blah blah blase.

I was thinking about Lenny Bruce, and whether he did more harm than good. A funny little link here: Lenny Bruce gave to Martin Garbus, his main man for defense in his court trials, a small illustration on a napkin of Jesus on the Cross with him saying the words "Hey! Where's my ACLU?" Talk about the holy trinity. (Jesus>ACLU>Lenny Bruce= Jesus talking about the ACLU.) Anyway, Lenny Bruce's whole thing (as I've come to understand it), wasn't about the use of "obscene words" but that the content of his comedy/social- commentary necessitated the form of "talking dirty." His autobiography is a short read, and there's some good pictures of him in the middle; before he started the morphine habit and got all Jim-Morrison'd out on weight gain and beard growth, he was pretty attractive. For the record, I never thought Jim Morrison was hot.
Another little crucifixion reference:




















Jim Morrison jived for our sins!


Alright, so maybe Lenny doesn't stock up against Jesus Morrison, but he has the body language of a very attractive man. I had to repeal my statement, because upon looking at his pictures for the first time in a while, I realized he looks like a combination of 3 people I know plus my dog. But my dog is suave shit. Dude wipes his ass on the carpet after poopin anywhere he like. Don't even play.
There you have it, three oft- mentioned martyrs who died young, just trying to do thay thing.
One thing (plus a few others): I think what happened was that the shock value of Lenny Bruce 'prurient language' superceded the power of his message. Nowadays, people (in comedy) have watered down the content and jacked up the form so everything becomes obscene with no reason. It's a lot like fashion in that way. Clothes to signify a certain lifestyle, or coming out of a result of a certain lifestyle, and people adopting the aesthetics without the personal backstory or experience.
Also, I recently watched the first portion of a film called 'Zeitgeist' concerning the Jesus Christ virgin birth/resurrection story.
Other than the fact that the film plays out like an insightful music video, and makes you want to kick someone's ass to all the war montages backed by drums (is this the tightest thing you've ever seen or do they need to be naked to make it better?)- the film is informative/illuminating (a lot of sun talk.) It's about how a lot of stories from world religions about a messiah who rises from the dead after three days, born of a virgin, etc, are all really similar because they're based around the movement of the stars and the 12 zodiac symbols revolving around the sun.
Watch the movie : HERE
It makes a lot of sense that the mythology that accompanied the observations of astrological movements ended up taking precedence over the science of it and what the stories were symbolizing. In the end, the Jesus story/other stories are a result of a preoccupation with the narrative. People kept developing the story into more intricate narratives to the point that it had no relevance to the roots of it all. Oops! Should have remembered that people like to simplify things and forget the metaphors. Just like how comedy has become all surface and no depth. Like a slip n' slide.



























It's a slippery slope my friends. Oh well. But remember to take everything (the documentary, resurrection stories) with a grain of salt, especially if you have a goiter.
Today this guy was telling me about how 1+1=3, but I didn't believe him so I knocked him out before he could explain. When he finally woke up and coughed up his tooth, he told me that 1 is one, the other 1 is one, but 1 and 1 together is a third entity, so therefore.... big smile, yak yak yak!
But hey, we all know what 3 matters most. And now I'll bring this self-referential blog to a clothes.