JOURNAL: UncleMilo (Jonathan Osborne)

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  • In the presence of a god. 2002-09-11 08:36:10 Miyazaki.

    I was in a theatre and on the stage was Miyazaki, founder of Studio Ghibli.

    We had all sat and watched the movie Spirited Away (which had a top quality dub) and when the movie was over, Miyazaki came on the stage. Everyone rose and appaluded as was only right.

    All the people in that room acknowledged this man's greatness. Like all truly great people, Miyazaki showed no signs that he was great. He just talked and smiled and acted like anyone else... except that he was Miyazaki.

    I honestly "felt" his presence, like all those religious people keep saying when they talked about being in the presence of the lord... but this was no ambiguous, mythic figure... this was a man... a mortal man who had touched my life with his works. A man of such great talent and genius that I was honestly happy just to be able to see him... just to be in the same room with him.

    What made me happy was that other people had the same feeling... they may not voice it in so dramatic a style... but you could tell from the way they talked afterwood... the look in their eye... they also knew that they had been lucky enough to catch sight of... to be in the presence of such a great and talented man. One of my friends had these wide eyes and when I found him after the show, we actually hugged because we both knew that it was impossible to really express how happy we were that we had been given that opportunity to see the man and hear him.

    Why this was such a happy moment for me was because this WASN'T a god or some mythic deity... this was one of our own... one member of mankind who had scaled artistic heights... a man like Mozart, or John Lennon, or Terry Gilliam (and the list goes on)... one of the many who has been able to make our lives better with creations that lifted the heart and soul to new heights.

    I was so happy for the rest of the day that I was even able to keep my spirits up through my work day (which I had to rush to afterwords)

    I know some people won't understand and think this post is stupid... but they are the ones to be pittied... they don't know what it's like to have their souls soar... they don't know what it's like to feel the presence of genius and they will never have anything beyond a drab shallow existence.

    I am so happy today happened.

    - Sept. 10, 2002 - The US Premire of Spirited Away -

     
  • The empty-headed army 2002-08-13 05:52:06 Just read about this cloud that has formed in Asia.

    It sounds like it is straight out of science fiction novel... but it seems there is a cloud of chemicals that has formed, something like 80% of it is a result from human creation.

    It is damaging the weather, it is blotting out 15% of solar energy, it rains acid and can cause respitory problems.

    People are actually posting how the people of Asia deserve this as a punishment! People don't seem to understand that clouds float... and it could easily come over America...

    and with Bush in office, the US certainly hasn't been the most enviromentaly centered nation. Hell... he cut half a billion out of the EPA budget.

    I just can't handle all the stupid people out there.

    People who don't think.
    People who don't want to think.
    People who hate people who do think and assail them because they do think.

    Why are people so scared of using their brains?

    Is it because they have a set pattern of how life must be... and that pattern is so fragile that they don't dare have any ofg it shattered.

    I am very guilty of being a pattern person myself... and I certainly will defend my thoughts... but when I'm proven wrong, I will adjust to the new information... and form a new pattern.

    There is lots of information on how Bush is ruining our country, but no one seems to want to listen.

    People don't want to connect dots... or act like anything happened more than a year ago...

    People forget how we aided the Taliban back when we were using them to help fight the Russians in Afghanistan

    People forget how Clinton wanted to go after Bin Laden, but the Republicans accused him of "trumping up a nobody to cover up for the Monica 'scandal'"

    I just get sick of people sometimes.

     
  • And the hits just keep on comin' 2002-08-05 07:04:59 Well... after 7 months of planning

    Preparing my home for the big move

    I get a call... the guy who was funding us just lost his job

    So... after 7 moths of waiting and anticipating, my whole life just crashed in less than 10 minutes

    I don't have a clue what I'm going to do now.

    If there actually is a god, I want to bash his skull in with a nail-ladened bat!

    -Uncle Milo 
  • MORE HATE 2002-08-04 09:14:37 You know...

    I wonder why so many people find pleasure at the suffering of others. I wonder why people like to walk into a discussion room or forum on this web site or any other site and shout things like

    "You all suck"

    or

    "You're all stupid"

    or otherwise say things designed to piss people off and make their lives that much more unpleasant. Isn't there enough misery in the world? Isn't there enough problems for people to deal with without people trying to add MORE to the mix? I mean... is it just because people are stupid? I know there are a hell of a lot of stupid people out there...

    but sometimes, it just bothers me so much, I think how much I would like to whip out a shotgun and blow one of their heads off and scream "how funny was that? Did that make you laugh?"

    I often find these people to me more intolerable than the truly awful people... perhaps I just find stupidity more horrible than people who are doing horrinble things... but at least have a reason.

    I'm so stressed out right now that I find it very frustrating that I can't even go to the places I like to go to get a brief smile or a laugh or just a moment where I can relax a litte, only to find people who want to make things tense, upsetting and try to induce a little anger.

    Since I happen to be an emotional person... they don't want to see me angry. They wouldn't like me when I'm angry...

    OK... I had to throw that one out there.


    Anyway... I just don't know how to deal with people like that...

    I'd like to ignore them... but it's in my nature to argue and confront stupidity.

    It just drives me crazy... like today.

    I have such a pounding headache and all because of stupid, bored, useless people.

    -Uncle Milo 
  • There are days I just want to break things 2002-07-30 08:10:42 I can't stand it... for one month I have been trying to rerender my AMV... and each attempt has something wrong with it.

    I HATE COMPUTERS!

    I want to throw mine through the damn window and jump on it until my feet are bloody!

    On top of which, my job is trying to find new ways of pissing me off.
    I'm quitting at the end of August, but that is too damn far away.

    I can't seem to get in touch with any of my friends and I just have no way of defusing all my anger and frustration...

    making me want to throw my computer out all the more urgently!

    Just feeling that everything is doomed.

     
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