Say cheese.
1 I'm not sure what the guy who lives behind me does each morning, but he sounds like Goofy receiving a spanking every five seconds, usually between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m.
2 It is weird. It goes on every day for over an hour. He screeches this high-pitched incessant HOOOOOOO! Really loud every ten seconds.
3 I'm not sure if it is a 21st century pop form of Janov or what. I tell you one thing: I want to go over to his house with a bass amp and do a primal scream that blows out his windows.
4 Nah. I ain't that guy.
5 I drown the guy out each morning by blasting music through my headphones. I cranked REM's Losing My Religion two days ago, along with an entire Guns N' Roses live mix.
6 If music be the food of love, shred on.
7 Was that a <groan> I just heard? Anybody lookin'?
8 <crickets>
9 Here is an academic blurb about primal therapy from the number-one-lousy-source-that-everyone-uses-anyway Wiki:
Primal therapy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Primal therapy is a trauma-based psychotherapy created by Arthur Janov, who argues that neurosis is caused by the repressed
pain of childhood trauma. Janov argues that repressed pain can be
sequentially brought to conscious awareness and resolved through
re-experiencing the incident and fully expressing the resulting pain
during therapy. Primal therapy was developed as a means of eliciting the
repressed pain; the term Pain is capitalized in discussions of
primal therapy when referring to any repressed emotional distress and
its purported long-lasting psychological effects. Janov criticizes the talking therapies as they deal primarily with the cerebral cortex and higher-reasoning areas and do not access the source of Pain within the more basic parts of the central nervous system.
Primal therapy is used to re-experience childhood pain - i.e., felt rather than conceptual memories - in an attempt to resolve the pain through complete processing and integration, becoming "real". An intended objective of the therapy is to lessen or eliminate the hold early trauma exerts on adult life.
Primal therapy became very influential during a brief period in the early 1970s, after the publication of Janov's first book, The Primal Scream. It inspired hundreds of spin-off clinics worldwide and served as an inspiration for many popular cultural icons. John Lennon, actor James Earl Jones and pianist Roger Williams were prominent advocates of primal therapy.[1] Primal therapy has since declined in popularity, partly because Janov has not produced the outcomes necessary to convince research-oriented psychotherapists of its effectiveness. Janov and others continue to advocate and practice the therapy or various developments of it.
11 Darth Vader needs primal therapy.
12 Fancy that.
Primal therapy is used to re-experience childhood pain - i.e., felt rather than conceptual memories - in an attempt to resolve the pain through complete processing and integration, becoming "real". An intended objective of the therapy is to lessen or eliminate the hold early trauma exerts on adult life.
Primal therapy became very influential during a brief period in the early 1970s, after the publication of Janov's first book, The Primal Scream. It inspired hundreds of spin-off clinics worldwide and served as an inspiration for many popular cultural icons. John Lennon, actor James Earl Jones and pianist Roger Williams were prominent advocates of primal therapy.[1] Primal therapy has since declined in popularity, partly because Janov has not produced the outcomes necessary to convince research-oriented psychotherapists of its effectiveness. Janov and others continue to advocate and practice the therapy or various developments of it.
11 Darth Vader needs primal therapy.
12 Fancy that.
14 Anybody lookin'?
15 <continuance of crickets>
16 Moving on, Part One: I've noticed that TCM has been playing French movies that last three hours these days.
16 Not a trend I want to see.
17 French movies from the thirties are pretty much the same as American movies from the thirties, only the French say dirty words and feature odd bears.
18 I won't post. Odd bears are the stuff of bad dreams.
19 Costumed bears.
20 And French guys in alpine clothing dancing in funny hats.
21 The one I watched last night had this scene with a group of frightened people standing over a player piano that is playing haunting riffs.
22 It cut to a stage with three ghosts and one skeleton, all jumping up and down like stringed puppets.
23 You can see how similar French films were to American movies back-in-the-day. Three history teachers just keeled over.
24 It was the French who proclaimed Jerry Lewis a genius, never forget.
25
26 At least the Vader boys kept it on the page.
27 <crickets start packing>
28 Is there a back door outta this place?
29 Moving on, Part Two: My, there is a whole bunch of stupid out there, wouldn't you agree?
30 < >
31 Last night was one of those nights.
32 Got done with things late for around the fifth straight night reading students' magazine articles.
33 A LOT of interesting reading, believe it or not.
34 Many didn't hold back.
35 I'll get on that some other time; right now I'm treading water.
36 Our grades are due today at 4. This is always fun for teachers, because we know that in one second a hole can open up in the technical world, swallow all of our grades, and disappear with an inaudible pop.
37 It's a small nightmare every six weeks.
38 Fortunately we can now get pics of our webpages and save things on our own.
39 The only thing is, nobody thinks to do that.
40 I always THINK to do it, but get too busy.
41 Almost wrote "to busy."
42 Zounds.
43 I got through all the madness of yesterday. Any time a large project is due, insanity stirs from its slumber, on cue.
44 I countered with throwing a Mozart mix through the halls, blessing our entire building with sweet music.
45 Good ol' Mozart.
46 Well, looks like the crickets are gone; the French have turned things back to normal, and my eyelids are shutting down.
47 You have a GREAT day.
48 I will at a minute past four, when hopefully my most stressful week of the year will be tucked away.
49 And then I could enjoy the quiet.
50 Whoa, it's lonely at the top <fade Randy Newman tune up slowly; vamp through finis.>
51 At some point, do a little dance today.
52 It'll be worth it.
53 See you again.
54 Peace.
~H~
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