Mind Journeys

A transparent well garbed fellow hovering near me was indeed Dr. Death, The Grim Reaper. His unique and most awesome looking tote-bag produced the most unusual, yet very nice looking photo album. The Reaper handed me the picture book.

"Cancer Survivors" was the title on the photo album. One particular picture caught my eye. In the photo I was looking at, a mother was laughing with her young child. The caption on the picture read;

'Thanks so much to all the blood, plasma, platelet and red cell donors,' because of you, my child is alive, healthy and happy.' Mother.

Unlike anything metal albums portray the Grim Reaper as looking like, this well suited man, tipped
his hat, looked me in the eye, smiled and said no one is happy all the time, than he vanished.

Maniac Mark

Summon the demons, even the devious and dangerous, an ominous change, anything different is welcoming at this point. Lunatic loners and solo souls want to document their vivid dreams and illustrated their imagination. To dwell in the lands of laughter and love, where art buries the bills and feeds the stomach.

The guilded cage of 40 hour weeks cut into creativity, and shroud serenity. Remember the waterfalls of Valhalla, the fabulous forest of Hindu heaven, the flowers of Allah and the luscious ladies of heaven while treading the hateful halls of slain laughter and mean faces.

Choose Life, "TI & T2" Movie Review.

"...Choose Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, a 1,000 other ways to spread your bile across others you've never met, hoping that somebody cares..."

"Human interaction is nothing more than data, choose watching history redirect itself, settle for less and keep a brave face on it, choose losing the ones you love as they fall from view, a piece of you dies with them and you can see that one day in the future, all will be gone, choose your future, choose life," Mark Renton said.

The movie character Renton, portrayed by Ewan McGregor is the focal character in the movies "Trainspotting," and "T2, Trainspotting."

The first movie, "Trainspotting" hit the masses in 1996. "T2," the sequel came to theaters in March of this year, and to DVD on June 27.  

"Trainspotting," the first movie is labeled a comedy, which in many ways is true, but it's also a very intense view of heroin addiction. "Trainspotting" in my opinion got its title because of track marks, (needle) bruises where the addict injects themselves. The above quote by Renton is from "T2," the sequel.

'Choose Life' was an anti drug use slogan from the 1980s, which novelist Irvine Welsh and screen writer John Hodge vastly embellished upon. In the first movie, Renton (McGregor) is a hard core heroin addict and his voice-overs for 'Choose Life' immediately seized my attention.

"Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family...Choose a big TV, cars, washing machine. Choose good health, dental insurance, a starter home, choose your friends...Choose rotting away at the end of it all...nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future, choose life. I chose not to choose life, and the reasons, there are no reasons, who needs reasons when you've got heroin?" Renton said.  

If you watch the movie "Trainspotting" and want to try heroin, there is something seriously wrong with you. "Trainspotting" is definitely an anti drug movie, especially when Renton is coming down from a long binge from the vicious drug.

As Neil Young wrote and sang, "I've seen the needle and the damage done..."

In the first movie, Renton, his two best friends and a woman awake from a heroin binge and the woman's infant badly daughter is dead from crib death. I still cry when the father of the child weeps profusely as he's looking down upon his dead infant daughter. The father is also in the second movie, both the character and actor.

If your still reading, you realize "Trainspotting" is not solely a comedy, yet the movie has its hilarious moments. Spud, one of Renton's friends, also in the sequel, has a job interview while under the influence of speed, (meth), and I still laugh out loud when I see that 1996 movie clip.

Both movies, 21 years apart feature the same four main charters, as well as the same actors portraying the roles. In the first movie, Renton, Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy; Simon (Jonny Lee Miller) and Begbie (Kevin McKidd) amass $16,000 English pounds via a drug deal, and one of the characters rips everyone else off and flees.

"T2," has some drug use in it, but it's much different from the first movie which pleasantly surprised me. In the sequel, the former friends who have not seen each other for 20 years end up meeting again, and one of them is plotting to kill the one who stole all the money from the drug deal 20 years prior.

Great writing, acting and awesome dialogue in both movies, and the main women in both movies are subtly gorgeous. (Kelly Macdonald & Anjela Nedyalkova) Kelly Macdonald was Renton's lover in the first movie, and she has a cameo in "T2."

Write Handed VI

Living where the sun doesn't shine, far away from media shrines. Realizing more and more the importance of creativity and imagination. Trekking unlit scenery, yearning for sheer serenity.
To soar naked to the Milky Way and beyond, exploring the vast regions throughout the cosmos with the bare foot beauty in her faded jeans.    Izzy Schurr, aka, me

Write Handed IV

Delightful demons in the dark enjoy my presence as I tread the night trails of sleeping suburbia. Too often demons are perceived as devious and dangerous; the reality, most of them represent truth and knowledge, or at the the quest for both. I harnessed various facts and speculations from ancient books dealing with demons to further my understanding of them.

Essentially, demons are a lot like humans, some of them are baleful, while other demons are loving and kind, eager to summon an endless quest for learning and understanding.

Disembodied souls hovering in the spheres of summer nights are unseen as they drift along side me while wisdom and wonder rush through my mind. Venomous snakes and spiders slither and crawl in the leafy lands next to the dirt trails under the moonlit sky which will soon dissolve into dawn. The distant dreams of peace and harmony reign in my slumber.                         Izzy Schurr, aka, me

Government III

9-year-old Vietnamese girl whose skin is burning from Napalm. 

Napalm screams and billionaire dreams. Diseased demons we call presidents, Prime Ministers, popes or world leaders. These savage people breed famine and genocide, they prey on the poor and pawn them into wars. Massive amounts of materials and money manipulate their malevolent minds as they seek to destroy all that is kind, peaceful and harmonious.

Izzy Schurr, aka, me  

Wars, Worse Than Hell

Rejoice, O young man in thy youth...(Ecclesiastes 11;9) More than 55,000 American soldiers, average age, 19-years-old were killed in the Vietnam War.

'I'm glad you have a one-day peace in Vietnam because of Christmas. I hope that you could have peace there all the time,' Larry Jacobs, 6-years-old wrote in 1972.

For the children of war, hunger, fear and death are as regular as the seasons. To see children of war, is to seek peace. The Vietnam War is not unique in its sacrifice of the young, think of all the children who died in World War I and World War II.

Think of all the children who died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Dachau and Bergen-Belsen during World War II, The Atomic Bomb that killed very young kids in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, yes, think. Betty Jean Lifton & Thomas C. Fox wrote in their 1972 book, "Children Of Vietnam."

On Aug, 5, 1945, the U.S. dropped the uranium A-bomb on Hiroshima. The U.S. dropped the same bomb on Nagasaki just four days later that same year.  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jul/24/secondworldwar.japan

The two bombings killed well over a 125,000 innocent people. The A-bomb raised the surface temperature to 4,000-degrees Celsius, and the intense and ferocious heat vaporized its victims, including children whose internal organs boiled and their bones were charred into brittle charcoal, yet the insanity of humanity allows wars to carry on.

"We do not ask to be rich. We ask only that our family gather together at night and sleep together in peace," a Vietnamese woman with a husband and children said. A quote from the the book, "Children of Vietnam."

In the 1960s and early 70s, it was common for Vietnamese children to lose their arms and legs to American bombings, to be shot in the cross-fire of brain washed soldiers, seen two or three to a hospital bed with burned skin from Napalm, while other children stepped on exploding land mines.

'If only the children could have had the stars, the flowers and the butterflies, instead of the war,' Phuong Trieu wrote in "The School On the Front Line."

Freaks and geeks, we futility fantasize about a world without wars, but the harsh reality of the very rich profiting endlessly from wars will never end, greed rules, sad to say.

"Humanity is mad! What a massacre...Hell cannot be so terrible, men are mad!" a French officer from World War I said.

The poor across the universe need to stop feeding into the lies our sadistic world leaders tell the media, and cease fighting in the trench laden battle fields, and end all bombings. My dreams are old, but I'll always prefer flowers and sunshine over war, and wish that every child in the world could be safe.

"It's utter craziness and so frustrating to watch our leaders operate with so little regard to human life," Jesse Ventura said in his 2010 book, "American Conspiracies."  

Write Handed III

Sour faces in too many places. Solitude solutions enhance 

creative resolutions. Clever creatures of the night scurry 

in the leaf laden woods adjacent to the suburbs. 

The dreamer treks the moon lit pebbled trails. 

Tonight's trees trounce the hate and summon joy. 

Izzy Schurr