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Anthems #06

Jay Yeo — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:44:12 +0000

Sometimes you just gotta let the music do the talking. Because I can, because I can.

{snippit}
You said your hands are pretty,
everything about you is cool.
You’re swinging round in the evening,
humming someone else’s tune.
And I ask why would you lead on,
and you reply.
Because I can,
because I can.

*Two Hours Traffic - “Sure Can Start” Listen Here!

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Life is a series of images that change as they repeat themselves - A. Warhol

Jay Yeo — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:59:46 +0000

Kid is reeling.

Three things that have torn my mind apart within the last twenty-four hours:

A stroke of brilliance caught by my ears while running to some tunes.

“When you worry about the future or the third world war. And you feel like you’re going where you’ve been before”

The ill informed Facebook status of a friend who commented:

“If history is a cycle, then let’s embrace it”

Lastly, the recollection of a clever axiom from Albert Einstein.

“Stupidity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result”

Although I certainly wasn’t around seventy years ago, that doesn’t mean I didn’t flip through that history book and witness firsthand the manipulation of hate that manifested during that era. How about fear mongering communists a few pages later? Get the picture? Quit being ignorant and don’t blame the United States anymore, shits weak. Help Canada to stop playing into the ideals of our southern friends first, and then we can point all the fingers we like.

Wake up!

Wake the FUCK up!

life.mobi - Revenge

Jay Yeo — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 06:36:35 +0000

Misc photos captured on mobile phones I’ve owned and the stories behind those collections

Circa 2006 - My sister was refinishing the walls in her room at the time and during the process of peeling the tacky rainbow wallpaper off the wall, she sent the clock that rested on my wall crashing down on my dresser and incidentally my eyeglasses. As revenge of some sorts, I proceeded to draw a 6 ft x 6 ft rendition of an ugly mean dog taking a shit. Perhaps the axiom, “You’re meaner than a dog shitting tacks” was the motivation.

Mumblings Dal Vino

Jay Yeo — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 06:08:21 +0000

Because Post-Its in your journal are too clumsy to stick forever.

There are nineteen floors beneath me. Fortresses were once constructed on high hills to allow their inhabitants the foresight to see an enemy’s oncoming attack. The vicissitude of predicting the future with an elevated perspective. I’m no expert, but I should be.

From this perch I watch the traffic tumble down Yonge from day to night. When I was younger I enjoyed watching the fish curl around the corral in a fish tank to soothe my mind to sleep. Nowadays I count headlights. Midnight is the time. When the quiet of the day creeps up on just how damaging your selfish existence really is. Room for one more?

The universe is full of constants and absolutes, yet modern life consistently begs to differ.

Let’s get in a cab, I’ll buy you kabab. Post-party schwarma.

This week I saw lightning and heard thunder rumble in a blizzard. Weird.

There is a high-rise crane across the way that blows freely in the wind. The scary part of this story being that it blows and rotates within mere feet of my building which must freak the shit out of the people on the floors below. True story, my friend and I once climbed a crane like the aforementioned in a daring act of inebriated bastardism. The idea of not being able to walk a straight line down the rails of a suspended boom never crossed our minds?

Douche bag emails are awesome. On a recent flight down to the states, just before take-off, I overhead the man in the seat behind me book a hotel room and gave the email kennyg52@somedomain.com. Excuse me? Kenny G? His name was Charles – douche! Maybe that’s only funny to me?

I prefer European paper sizing and formats.

I recently purchased an iPhone and have it working in Canada. Fuck, yeh! I still will never trade in my Blackberry, but I certainly love the stylish functionality. I have found it is the perfect subway companion. We all carry a phone, so the bundled iPod part just allows for greater convenience.

Ask about our great rates?

A funny: How do you know when it’s time for bed at Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch? When the big hand touches the little hand…

Remember that book I told you I was writing? Writing books is hard stuff if you can’t do it everyday That’s not be giving up tho, more or less the sound of building more insanity into an overly convoluted tale with drastic personal ramifications.

I fully support the invention of invisible fabrics.

In the month of January I flew 20,000+ KMs.

According to recent financial estimates, the US Dollar is worth $0.04 cents today when compared to healthier American economies of yesteryear. Buy gold.

The latest craze is indie bands selling their music to corporations for use in commercials. Failing music industry? Heck no, these guys are just innovative enough to work beyond the traditional model. Maybe those big ailing labels should think outside the box? Download -> Phanton, Pt II - Justice. Name the commercial it’s from.

Failure is a box of chocolates with no legend for flavour guidance.

When people walk down the sidewalks below I wonder how high they look up. Perhaps they can see me rocking out from the windows upon high? I’m drinking vino and pretty fucking elated at the fact.

If I don’t know everything, then I would say that you know absolutely nothing. Maybe that’s the wine talking?

Make the Call

Jay Yeo — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:18:21 +0000

In the midst of this global mess I can’t help but think that we’ve been here before? Back then the black sheep was called a “communist”

Humanity, the scapegoats of hidden agendas.

Popped: The Hollywood Mental Manifesto

Jay Yeo — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:34:51 +0000

The interesting thing about Britney Spears isn’t the fact that she’s having a complete mental breakdown. It’s the public’s own dumb amazement that Hollywood isn’t the pacified perfection it consistently tries to perpetuate. Given the right conditions, we’re all wired for the same faults. That should be no surprise at all.

The real comedy is the amount of money people shell out to hear stories that are abundantly “human” and could easily reflect the personal struggles of individuals directly related to themselves, not some hyped up celebrity.

Britney Spears, well, her actions might not necessarily be as erratic as you’d think. Just the implications of good corporate practice done the American way; sweep it all under the rug until someone comes looking for the ugly.The real tragedy is the societal mental sickness and its attachment to gossip at the hand of the unfortunate, not those of a ruffled pop star alone.

Comic(al) #4: Yellow Rain

Jay Yeo — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:09:11 +0000

Sure, everything can be taken out of context, but some things are so glaringly funny you can’t help but laugh. If anything, frames like this are the result of illustrators that posses too much obscene humour to keep bottled up. Believe me, I know many ha!

The Million Iraqi Tragedy, And Counting

Jay Yeo — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:09:04 +0000

A British polling group has announced that over one million Iraqi civilians have died since the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. Using figures based on the country’s last census and interviews with a sampling of 2,414 Iraqis, the agency found that nearly 20% of households had at least one death occur that was directly related to the conflict. Read more in the NY Times.

A single death, be it civilian or soldier, friend or foe, should be enough to constitute the senselessness of the war. Tragically, the astronomical figure of one million innocent deaths still won’t be enough to tip the opinion or policy on this gross misappropriation of national defense and foreign policy.

Wal-Mart Censor King?

Jay Yeo — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:29:46 +0000

Make no mistake about it, American based Wal-Mart is the worlds largest retailer. With nearly 4000 stores and operations in several foreign nations, the mighty retail chain is also the largest private employer in the world and the fourth largest utility or commercial employer, trailing the People’s Liberation Army of China. Imagine that? The entire military might of a robust nation such as China, dwarfed by a legion of blue smocks and peppy promotional buttons.
Wal-Mart is the bees knees of Western retail and all those moving parts in between. With such a firm market presence Wal-Mart certainly has North American consumers by the throat. For one reason or another, we all love that plucky smiley faced bastard and the chiseled prices he promotes.
The chain’s might in the marketplace has also afforded itself a reputation for almost legendary audacity when dealing with the suppliers that stock their shelves. Of course, why wouldn’t they? From a business perspective the numbers don’t lie, if you get your product on the shelves of Wal-Mart you’re going to sell a ton of it. This purchasing ability can and does make or break companies. These are the types of games that brown the undergarments of CEOs when they find out Beijing Coffee Co. in China just undercut your bid by fifteen cents per kilo and you’ve lost your enormous contract with the price conscious retailer.
This happens all the time and the latest victim happens to be the publishing industry as Wal-Mart announced they will remove nearly 1000 publication titles from its newsstands. Although I’m sure we won’t exactly miss titles like Boar Hunter Magazine, however, when one company is responsible for nearly 20 percent of all US retail magazine sales, it poses the question of censorship and manipulation to its consumers.
Certainly there is no concrete evidence to substantiate any claim of censorship, but given the right conditions this sort of buying power combined with a slanted perspective could be catastrophic in delivering a balanced media palate to the American public.
For instance, let’s say the CEO of Wal-Mart is a huge supporter of one political party and their ideologies. Perhaps a few elected officials have pulled some strings for the company and therefore likes having this party in power in hopes of satisfying their own agenda. Does this mean that the only newspapers and magazines allowed on shelves are those that are party friendly? With choice completely removed, your world is now one perspective and the constant battering of media that occurs on a daily basis has been synchronized to support one idea. A choice you wouldn’t even have known you lost otherwise.
I’m not saying this will ever happen, but being consciously aware of these situations and their seemingly harmless activity can reveal a more sinister side of the corporate empire. This happens all the time with Wal-mart and I doubt anyone really gets bent out of shape when a certain brand of coffee gets dropped, but when it comes to the hearts and minds of people already manipulated enough by rags bent on winning those hearts and minds, that’s where I see an issue.

Canada places U.S., Israel on torture watch list

Jay Yeo — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:11:32 +0000

Certainly this has been a long time coming. I have feared for quite some time that Canadian policy-makers lacked sufficient jacobs to audaciously put these two torturous states in their place. Nobody can consciously testify that the practices at Gauntanamo Bay do not breach the many statutes of common anti-torture legislation. We’ve all known what’s gone on there for a few years and many nations, like us, have failed to call the Americans on their bullshit.

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