Let It Bleed

[alice wellintown]

Lots just want to get home, get out, do something other than work, work,
work, no rest, no rest....work and more work...and the pay is shit, and
there, where the good guys and the bad guys ain't known no more...well...it
ain't, as you say, only rock and roll and they like it. Why so many out of
their minds, on the street, lost, if its only a game? There has always been
men who do the button pushing, pencil pushing...it comes with the theatre.

On Saturday, January 5, 2013, wrote:

> Yea, yea, don't give me any of that rock n' roll crap, what about the
> insignia? You know they love that shit almost as much as pushing the button
> on people 10,000 miles away from the safety of their bunker. They love the
> rank and respect. Oh they pretend to be all humble and business-like,
> patriotic rubbish and such, but deep down they crave the status and respect
> due to the coolest of the bleeding edge. They want to wear a symbol on
> their lapel- something understated yet distinctive- whatever passes for
> "bespoke" in military circles. Their just playing video games for Christ
> sake. They need something to keep the heebie jeebies at bay- the bad
> dreams, the sickening thoughts about maimed and mutilated children without
> ever risking their own necks, even the guilt about the special forces on
> the ground you alluded to, passing on the coordinates, sometimes not coming
> back.
>
> Speaking of which- I will not see "Zero Dark Thirty." I can't imagine a
> more stultifying experience. Well maybe, screening "The Dark Knight Rises"
> in Aurora, Co. There's probably a connection there somewhere, a long and
> tenuous one, something like blow back- like all the Afghani heroin seeping
> into the streets but less defined and proscribable, more insidious, but
> just as lethal for the collective psyche of America.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Sat, Jan 5, 2013 1:38 pm
> Subject: Re: Let It Bleed
>
>
> But...broken arrow....Did you see ...Razor Boy...all I got...is a razor
> love....
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=ss99f6omHLg<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss99f6omHLg>
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=uW_ND105WfE<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW_ND105WfE>
>
> Neil Young - Razor love <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD0PdfWV6yA>
>
> Richie Havens - Lives in the Balance<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pn4enGn4yg>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 11:44 AM,  <bandwraith at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> Yea, well, In was born in a Jewish hospital, so you can put your
>>
> razor away.
>
>> Only a little downpayment on a pound, I know, but my credit's pretty
>>
> good.,
>
>> and If there is a steady conversion rate between flesh and money,
>>
> what about
>
>> time? I've heard tell they're one and the same, yet somehow I think
>>
> some may
>
>> be getting shorted.
>>
>> As far as insignification goes, I was thinking along the lines of a
>>
> cloud
>
>> with an emergent finger.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
>> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Sat, Jan 5, 2013 9:12 am
>> Subject: Re: Let It Bleed
>>
>>
>> Here's a clue on that insignia: some have a chess piece and the
>> jeaopard sucking its own tail.  Springing over all those powerful
>> pieces, defending, from the center of the board, attacking with
>> parabolic precision, after couragous information gathering and
>> survailance; this takes more with intestinal fortitude than sitting on
>> one's ass calling them cowards. Ain't nothing cozy about it, son.
>> Yeah. most is just boyz. Sure they got good equipment. Sure they got
>> body armor.
>>
>> But as Shylock sez, all I got for you is a razor love.
>>
>>
>
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