Vassago

noreply@blogger.com (Vassago) — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:19:00 +0000

who is he that can offend the spirit?

Shall the nightingale offend the stillness of the night,

or the firefly the stars?

noreply@blogger.com (Vassago) — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:18:11 +0000

If it were not for our conception of weights and measures we would stand in awe of the firefly as we do before the sun

Go West

noreply@blogger.com (Vassago) — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:38:00 +0000

In 1854 Horace Greeley, a New York newspaper editor, gave Josiah B. Grinnell a famous piece of advice. "Go West, young man, and grow up with the country," said Greeley. Grinnell took Greeley's advice, moved west, and later founded Grinnell, Iowa.

Widely held rhetoric of the nineteenth century suggested to Americans that it was their divine right and responsibility to settle the West with Protestant democratic values. Newspaper editor Horace Greely, who coined the phrase “Go west, young man,” encouraged Americans to fulfill this dream.

The song's title is attributed to the 19th-century quote "Go West, young man" commonly attributed to the American newspaper editor Horace Greeley, a rallying cry for the settlement and colonization of the American West, but also an invitation to pursue one's own dreams and individuality.

political in nature, cold war era song originally by the Village People (the YMCA group), borrowing sounds from the Soviet National Anthem and reforming them into a piece about how great and easy life could be if you abandon restricting and cruel communism

"Go west" is an idiom primarily meaning to die, or for an object to be lost, broken, or ruined. Frequently used in British English as a humorous or euphemistic phrase, it originates from the sun setting in the west and has been used to describe death since the 14th century, particularly during WWI.

Tony Franciosa

noreply@blogger.com (Vassago) — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:34:00 +0000

Anthony George Franciosa October 25, 1928 – January 19, 2006) was an American actor most often billed as Tony Franciosa at the height of his career. He began his career on stage and made a breakthrough portraying the brother of the drug addict in the play A Hatful of Rain

After relocating to Hollywood he made numerous feature films, including A Face in the Crowd (1957), The Long, Hot Summer (1958), and Career (1959), for which he won the Golden Globe for Best Actor. In television, he played lead roles in five television series: the sitcom Valentine's Day (1964–65), drama The Name of the Game (1968–71), Search (1972–73), Matt Helm (1975), and Finder of Lost Loves (1984). Later in his career, he acted primarily in Europe, starring in the erotic drama The Cricket (1980) and Dario Argento's giallo Tenebrae (1982).

Goin’ Out West - Song by Tom Waits ‧ 1992

noreply@blogger.com (Vassago) — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:32:00 +0000

I'm goin' out west where the wind blows tall'Cause Tony Franciosa used to date my maThey got some money out there, they're giving it awayI'm gonna do what I want and I'm gonna get paidDo what I want and I'm gonna get paid

Little brown sausages lying in the sandI ain't no extra, baby, I'm a leading manWell, my parole officer will be proud of meWith my Olds 88 and the devil on a leashWith my Olds 88 and the devil on a leash

I know karate, voodoo tooI'm gonna make myself available to youI don't need no makeup, I got real scarsI got hair on my chest, I look good without a shirt

Well, I won't lose my composure in a high-speed chaseWell, my friends think I'm ugly, I got a masculine faceI got some dragstrip courage, I can really drive a bedI'm gonna change my name to Hannibal or maybe just RexChange my name to Hannibal or maybe just Rex

I know karate, voodoo tooI'm gonna make myself available to youI don't need no makeup, I got real scarsI got hair on my chest, I look good without a shirt

I'm gonna drive all night, get some speedI'm gonna wait for the sun to shine down on meI cut a hole in my roof, the shape of a heartAnd I'm goin' out west where they appreciate meI'm goin' out west where they'll appreciate meGoin' out west where they'll appreciate meGoin' out west where they'll appreciate me

Goin' out westGoin' out westGoin' out westGoin' out westGoin' out westGoin' out westGoin' out westGoin' out west

Heading West - Song by Cyndi Lauper ‧ 1989

noreply@blogger.com (Vassago) — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:30:27 +0000

I drop my hatTo a restless windThis time I'm not gonna chase it againIn a jigsaw dream with soft spoken words

I woke up crying and no one heardYou're looking through me like I never was realYou say you love me but you won't let me feelSo I'm gonna take a chance this time

I'm gonna find myself some place where I can healAnd I'm heading westWithout a sad goodbyeAnd I'm heading west

I'm like a letter with no addressJust like a book I readI'm heading westI said my name

Under my breathHe turned down a twisted roadI won't forgetI'm gonna fly my kite and let out all the string

Hold on to hope, let go everythingI can't stop laughing and it's nothing you saidThe altitude of freedom seems to go to my headAnd if I fall down on my knees I'm gonna get back up

I'm gonna get back up againAnd I'm heading westWithout a sad goodbyeAnd I'm heading west

I'm like a letter with no addressJust like a book I readI'm heading westAnd I'm heading west...Just like a book I read...

Go West - Song by Pet Shop Boys ‧ 1993 : Village People - 1979

noreply@blogger.com (Vassago) — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:22:00 +0000

Come on, come on, come on, come on(Together) we will go our way(Together) we will leave someday(Together) your hand in my hands(Together) we will make our plans(Together) we will fly so high(Together) tell all our friends goodbye(Together) we will start life new(Together) this is what we'll do

life is peaceful there(Go west) in the open air(Go west) where the skies are blue(Go west) this is what we're gonna do(Go west, this is what we're gonna do, go west)

we will love the beach(Together) we will learn and teach(Together) change our pace of life(Together) we will work and strive

I know you love me(I want you) how could I disagree?(So that's why) I make no protest(When you say) you will do the rest

life is peaceful there(Go west) in the open air(Go west) baby you and me(Go west) this is our destiny (aah)(Go west) sun in wintertime(Go west) we will do just fine(Go west) where the skies are blue(Go west, this is what we're gonna do)

There where the air is freeWe'll be (we'll be) what we want to be (ah, ah, ah, ah)Now if we make a stand (ah)We'll find (we'll find) our promised land (ah)

there are many ways(To live there) in the sun or shade(Together) we will find a place(To settle) where there's so much space(Without rush) and the pace back east(The hustling) rustling just to feed(I know I'm) ready to leave too(So that's what) we are gonna do(What we're gonna do is)

life is peaceful there(Go west) there in the open air(Go west) where the skies are blue(Go west) this is what we're gonna do(Life is peaceful there)Go west (in the open air)Go west (baby, you and me)Go west (this is our destiny)Come on, come on, come on, come on(Go west) sun in wintertime(Go west) we will feel just fine(Go west) where the skies are blue(Go west) this is what we're gonna do

S.O.S. Song by Go West ‧ 1985

noreply@blogger.com (Vassago) — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:18:17 +0000

Watching your window

Across the street we shareEyes on your shadowYou are unaware, unaware

Picture a strangerFootsteps in gabardineYou sense the dangerSomething unforeseenBurning fires on your shoreNever opened any door

I’m wasting my timeYou don’t hear my S.O.S.The perfect crimeTo answer your S.O.S.

Leave you in silenceChange my identitySecond appearanceI will set you freeBurning fires on your shoreNever opened any door

Watching your windowAcross the street we shareEyes on your shadowYou are unawareBurning fires on your shoreNever opened any door

noreply@blogger.com (Vassago) — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:30:00 +0000

Should you sit upon a cloud you would not see the boundary line between one country and another,

nor the boundary stone between a farm and a farm.

It is a pity you cannot sit upon a cloud

noreply@blogger.com (Vassago) — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:30:00 +0000

What shall i say of these save that they too stand in the sunlight,

but with their backs to the sun?

They see only their shadows,

and their shadows are their laws

noreply@blogger.com (Vassago) — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:30:00 +0000

You can't avoid pain,

but you can choose to overcome it

noreply@blogger.com (Vassago) — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:56:00 +0000

You would know the secret of death.

But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?

The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day

cannot unveil the mystery of light.

If you would indeed behold the spirit of death,

open your heart wide unto the body of life.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond;

And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.

Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.

Is the sheered not joyful beneath his trembling,

that he shall wear the mark of the king?

Yet is he not more mindful of his trembling?

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?

And what is to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.

And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

noreply@blogger.com (Vassago) — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:53:23 +0000

For what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear you may need them to morrow?

noreply@blogger.com (Vassago) — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:47:09 +0000

Man will be on the path to perfection

when he feels that he is one with space that knows no bounds and with the ocean that has no shores;

when he becomes that undying fire,

that ever-gleaming light,

that still air or that violent storm,

those clouds charged with lightning, thunder and rain,

those rivers merry or sad,

those trees in bloom or shedding their leaves,

those lands that rise up into mountains or slope down into valleys,

those fields under seed or lying fallow.

noreply@blogger.com (Vassago) — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:44:34 +0000

Yesterday is but today's memory,

and tomorrow is but today's dream.

noreply@blogger.com (Vassago) — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 05:30:00 +0000

If we were all to sit in a circle and confess our sins,

we would laugh at each other for lack of originality

noreply@blogger.com (Vassago) — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:30:10 +0000

a human being does not die at once, but in a way, we die in pieces;

whenever a friend departs, a piece dies,

and whenever a lover leaves, a piece dies,

and whenever a dream of our dreams is killed, a piece dies,

then finally, the greater death arrives,

only to see all our pieces long dead,

so he picks them up and departs.

noreply@blogger.com (Vassago) — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:28:00 +0000

Said a philosopher to a street sweeper,

"I pity you. Yours is a hard and dirty task."

And the street sweeper said,

"Thank you, sir. But tell me what is your task?"

And the philosopher answered saying,

"I study man's mind, his deeds and his desires."

Then the street sweeper went on with his sweeping and said with a smile,

"I pity you too.”

noreply@blogger.com (Vassago) — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:21:00 +0000

measure time according to the movement of countless suns;

measure time by little machines in their little pockets

noreply@blogger.com (Vassago) — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 06:30:00 +0000

The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light.

But it is night that raises them to the stars.

noreply@blogger.com (Vassago) — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:47:26 +0000

Our world is so complex that we take for granted engineering processes that would dwarf any of the ancient Seven Wonders of the World;

we ride railroad tracks that do not follow faithfully the curvature of the earth, for the train would jump the tracks if they were level.

We pass skyscrapers whose stress and strain are figured to the millionth of an inch, yet take for granted that the Empire State Building actually sways constantly many feet.

noreply@blogger.com (Vassago) — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:30:00 +0000

We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist

and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes

noreply@blogger.com (Vassago) — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 05:30:00 +0000

Faith is not Desire.

Faith is Will.

Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force.

Will changes the space around us,

Hannibal Lector

noreply@blogger.com (Vassago) — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:30:00 +0000

He doesn't feel sorry as he has no empathy or sympathy or any other recognisable emotion as we understand them

He wanted Cordell to push Mason in and this is how he got him to do it, by persuasion

"Hey", a friendly call

"Cordell" addresses him by his first name

"Why don't you push him in" , suggestion

- triggers what Cordell actually wants to do

"you can always say it was me"

- removes all fear of consequence

while the script ending has been changed from the book, the writers here share Mr Harris' masterful understanding of the human mind and how Hannibal is able to manipulate people this way

Remember he talked to Miggs in the cells and persuaded Miggs to kill himself - that's how powerful he is

As Jack warns Clarice

"you don't want Hannibal Lector inside your head"

When we first meet him in Silence - the second book but the first film in Mr Hopkins trilogy, he had been down that dark dungeon for several years

If someone wasn't mad before they would be totally insane after that much time, faced with the prospect of never leaving alive, never seeing the real world again

A cross between a tarantula and a crocodile, as he is described

When we see him as Dr Fell in the third film, we see through the mask, as does Patsi, as we know who he is

The TV version of Hannibal is before his capture when, like Dexter, he knows how to appear human and blend in

It it is a different way of playing the younger version, and more opportunity to explore and develop the character

Like Clark Kent in Smallville, a depth not been used before for the character's pre Superman years

Just as Anthony Hopkins was the best actor to play his version, Mads is the best actor to play this one

I couldn't think of anyone better for the film trilogy or the series than the two men who played him .

The pigs smell Hannibal and pass him by

Simplest explanation - they can smell fear, as they do on the screaming men they attack, and Hannibal has no fear

Scary explanation - they are trained to attack humans - they smell Hannibal and they realise he is not human .

noreply@blogger.com (Vassago) — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:16:00 +0000

Rock stars rack up high numbers when they do tours

Each town they are at the are girls from the show who want to go back to the trailer or hotel with them

That means new women, several at a time, on each stop

Jon Bon Jovi on the first tour talks about having all these girls back at the trailer "you first, you second, you third"

David Lee Roth would have girls selected from the audience and taken back by his roadies

VInce Neil at a Motley Crue concert would "fuck ten girls before the show and ten after"

Tom Jones estimates he fucked 250 women a year during his "heyday" of touring and partying

Keep in mind when these guys got experienced it would be orgy style - they would get hard, move from girl to girl and not cum until the end of the "event"

when you consider planned orgies as well, these guys would be fucking maybe ten girls at each event - even one party a month you would fuck over 100 a year easily

- a thousand in ten years

- so when there is more than one party a month, or even a week, in different locations, you can see how 2000, 3000 in ten years, 6000 in 20 years, etc becomes achievable

Gene Simmons famously claimed 6500 women, and that was when he was older and the band tours had stopped - which does sound possible

The problem beyond a certain points is the repeats - end up with someone you have been with before but don't remember - which messes up the count

If Rock stars do this on tour, it is likely wrestlers and other athletes, football, etc all do as well .