{"id":89,"date":"2004-08-01T19:27:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-02T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-08-01T19:27:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-02T00:27:00","slug":"72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/72","title":{"rendered":"Chemistry gone awry."},"content":{"rendered":"

I am in one supremely fucked up mood today.  Can’t explain it, let’s just call it a bad batch of poorly mixed brain chemistry.  I’m agitated, mildly hostile and a little on the sad side \u2014 and on that note, I will leave you with two very moving quotes (for me) from the two movies I watched today.  They nearly threw themselves off of the shelf at me so that I might watch them.<\/p>\n

The first one is from Conan The Barbarian<\/b><\/a>.  Conan stands in an ancient burial place, about to do battle with an outrageous number of foes.  He offers a short prayer:<\/p>\n

"Crom, I have never prayed to you before \u2014 I have no tongue for it.  No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad, why we fought, and why we died.  All that matters is that today, two stood against many.  Valor pleases you, so grant me this one request.  Grant me revenge!  And if you do not listen, to HELL with you!"<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The second is from Hair<\/b><\/a>.  Burger has swapped places at the Army base with Claude so that Claude might go and spend time with the Sheila before he has to go off to war.  While Burger is still on the base, the call to move out has been given and Burger, a pacifist and un-trained civilian is hustled in his guise as Claude onto a troop transport.  While marching to their fate, the soldiers in formation begin to sing about their fear and disquiet about what faces them.  The song is called The Flesh Failures<\/b>:<\/p>\n

We starve, look at one another short of breath
\nWalking proudly in our winter coats
\nWearing smells from laboratories
\nFacing a dying nation of moving paper fantasy
\nListening for the new-told lies
\nWith supreme visions of lonely tunes<\/p>\n

Somewhere, inside something, there is a rush of greatness
\nWho knows what stands in front of our lives
\nI fashion my future on films in space
\nSilence tells me secretly everything, everything<\/p>\n

Eyes look your last
\nArms take your last embrace
\nAnd lips oh you the doors of breath
\nSeal with a righteous kiss
\nThe rest is silence<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am in one supremely fucked up mood today.  Can’t explain it, let’s just call it a bad batch of poorly mixed brain chemistry.  I’m agitated, mildly hostile and a little on the sad side \u2014 and on that note, I will leave you with two very moving quotes (for me) from the two movies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}