Memo: What's After TMR's (Tequila) Tea Party?

Yesterday morning, we picked up a copy of Ken Burns' Jazz for $2.00.

Spent the rest of the day mad with power.



Yesterday evening, we began with a viewing of Bronson (above) described by one critic as "watching a violent prisoner who lives for the day when he can get naked and fight prison guards six at a time." You know, with a description like that, time had to be made.

Over came a friend, out came the tequila.

Though we can argue some minor points, we both thought the picture was really great, with a flawless performance by Tom Hardy. My friend says there are people trying to get his character, the real-life British psychopath "Charlie Bronson", out of prison.

But, as much as we found ol' Charlie to be a charmer, we think those people are out of their fucking minds thankyouverymuch.



The evening concluded with tequila and beer, for a re-viewing of Requiem For A Dream, which also didn't disappoint (one critic said it made "Trainspotting look like Teletubbies") even after all these years.

The "dream" in question is our American one, suggested in the movie to now be fueled by television, drugs and bad choices - a message we really got, as we watched a DVD while proceeding to get drunk, and were by then seriously considering munchie options outside the home and walking distance.

It's a direction that's been ritually, and ruthlessly, enforced by a society that ought to know better. Oh - wait - by cultural and "spiritual" mandate, they couldn't know better:



Just as there's "No Parking On The Dancefloor" there's been no thinking outside the NewAge as well. As the French say, "this is not done." You will have to eventually bow to the friendly fascism of Charlie Manson, or you will be branded as some version of a Charlie Bronson.

You really can't win.

So you'd better be ready to fight. We think of ourselves as fighting - to get the American Dream back on track. We're Tea Partiers. Your branch may put the emphasis on some other subject than spirituality, like economics or something. Because, whatever it is, it's a fight worth having, right? But, remember, it's also a fight that's increasingly becoming easy to ridicule. Think about it:

By the time the DVDs were over and the news came on - and we saw this ad - we were drooling all over ourselves:



Which only reinforced why, at the forefront of our efforts going forward - for what probably may not seem like obvious reasons, to some, unless they too are willing to get really, really blasted with the rest of us one night soon - please let it be known we're strongly advising against anyone, and we mean anyone, on our side ever attempting to fight "for what you believe in" ever again.

We just don't have the time.