If Looks Could Kill - Graphic Art & Design

I have such high hopes for this movie. Reviews so far are as follows:

4 out of 5 Bloody Meat Cleavers at Dread Central
4.3 out of 10 (or 26% Rotten) at Rotten Tomatoes (Whatever this means, I do not get their rating system at all.)

Otherwise, it would appear the movie was not released for screening, not uncommon for the horror genre that critics love to poop on!

I like that this prequel focuses on the making of the monster, for they all have their own story and motivations. Details on the plot and a pretty picture here.

Not only is this a bad-ass AC/DC song, but also a compelling question raised in this article, “Who Made Who?” Does God exist outside of our minds, meaning he created us, or did we create God?

Spirituality and belief don’t have to equate to religious faith, Newberg said. The feelings of enlightenment and well-being some derive from religion can come to others through from artistic expression, nonreligious meditation, watching a beautiful sunset or listening to stirring music.

Scientists studied the areas of the brain stimulated by the activity of prayer, meditation and speaking in tongues (glossolalia) with interesting results:

1. Both prayer and meditation showed “decreased activity in the parts of the brain that have to do with sense of self and spatial orientation — which suggests the description of oneness with God, of transcendence sometimes experienced in meditation or prayer.”
2. Those speaking in tongues were shown not to have control over their own speech, but they were unable to locate another area of the brain as responsible for it, you can imagine the implications here.

The Center for Spirituality and the Mind is “bringing together some 20 experts from fields including medicine, pastoral care, religious studies, social work and bioethics” to explore the relationship they have demonstrated and proven via brain scanner images, and how to integrate this with treatment to complement medicinal treatments.

P.S. If you like the icon shown above, you can nab it here.

This story amuses me because it reminds me of my own little fierce creature. A 15lb tabby cat treed a scared black bear, who was stuck until owners called the hissing feline fiend from hell to come inside.

It’s like little yappy dogs that bark their asses off at Pit Bulls, they just have no idea of their place in the grand scheme of things. Gotta admire the spunk though, or the balls-out craziness of it. Reminds me of my own mental patient cat who has her very own room because she is compelled to seriously and ferociously attack 200lb+ 6′-ish lugs. Talk about fight-or-flight responses gone awry.

Below is a picture of my little hellcat, the sphynx cat from the bowels of hell, Aeon.

Click here to read about some of the joys we’ve had with this beautiful, innocent looking cat, both in the realistic and sarcastic sense of the word.

It would seem that there was something more driving Freud’s theories on repression and sexual desire, it is alleged that he signed into a hotel as Sigmund Freud and Frau on a trip with his wife’s sister, that they shared the room and a torrid affair by accounts of CG Jung.

Shown in the photograph are Freud’s wife, Martha Bernays at left, and her sister, Minna, who lived with them and was the “frau” sharing a room with him on the documented trip.

Of further fascination to me, was the fact that even back in 1918, Freud was progressive and well-versed enough to know that homosexuality was not to be confused with a mental illness or disease. This is documented in his comforting handwritten letter to a mother who was concerned for her gay son ( Page 1 | Page 2).

If you buy into graphology, his handwriting says interesting things about him - the way it is scarcely legible, upward slanted and the dots race ahead of the i’s they’re intended to top.

Sources: IHT, NYT, Wiki & LOC

This article details a woman going through the effort of un-adopting a boy.

I’m not getting on her for wanting to be rid of him. He had molested other children in the neighborhood, as he had been, himself. It was withheld from her that the child had a horde of mental afflications resulting from parents that abused drugs, alcohol and him.

My point in posting this is to harrangue the pro-life extremists. This kid has had and will continue to have a miserable life - past, present and future. What does he have to look forward to now? Some people ought not have pups.

Where are the people with all the free time to march and protest birth control and abortions, who think that no life should be thrown away? Does that only apply to cute and unspoiled fetuses, who haven’t been damaged by life?

One of my favorite artists. I’d forgotten how profoundly trauma inspired his paintings. At the age of 14, he saw his mother’s body retreived from the nearby river, a suicide, her nightgown pulled over her head, obscuring her face.

Additionally, every nude female form in his work was based specifically on his own wife, never anyone else. This is obvious when you see pictures of Georgette Magritte in comparison. I only wish I had a full body shot of her, better demonstrating this.

It seems limiting, to only portray a single female form, but speaks volumes of his love for her, now immortal.

On a sidenote, if you see the movie Dellamorte Dellamore / Cemetary Man, there is a steamy scene based on “The Lovers” painting shown at top. I highly recommend it on many levels: Gnaghi (I love him!), absurdism, sensuality, surrealism, gore and humor.