THE DAILY NIETZSCHE: GREAT MEN + ADDENDA

GREAT MEN

Great men, like great ages, are explosives

in which a tremendous force is stored up;

their precondition is always, historically and physiologically,

is that for a long time much has been gathered,

stored up, saved up, and conserved in them-- and

there has been no explosion for a long time.

Once the tension in the mass has become too great,

then the most accidental stimulus suffices to summon

into the world the "genius," the "deed," the great destiny of them.

Great men are necessary, the age in which they appear

is accidental; that they almost always become masters

over their age is only because they are stronger, because

they are older, because for a longer time much was gathered

in them.

The relationship between a genius and his age is like that

between strong and weak, or between old and young:

the age is relatively always much younger, thinner, more

immature, less assured, more childish.

TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS
or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888



ADDENDA & EXTRA APROPO THOUGHTS


 

"We have nothing to discuss about la Gorda or anybody else," he said. 

"I told her that just to provoke her enormous self-importance.

And it worked. She is furious with us. If I know her, 
by now she will have talked to herself long enough 
to have built up her confidence, and her righteous indignation 
at having been refused and made to look like a fool. 
I wouldn't be surprised if she barges in on us here,

at the park bench."

Half-complaining, I told him that he had made me feel very

uncomfortable by refusing to talk to me for the past two days.

He looked at me and arched his eyebrows. A smile played on his 

lips and vanished.

I realized he was letting me know I was no better than la Gorda.

"I was provoking your self-importance," he said with a frown. 

"Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it --what

weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our

FELLOW MEN. 

Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives

offended by someone.

The new seers (pre-spanish conquistador toltecs of meso-america) 

recommended that every effort should be made to eradicate

self-importance from the lives of warriors. I have followed 

that recommendation, and much of my endeavors with 

you has been geared to show you that without 

self-importance we are invulnerable."

Carlos Castaneda
The Fire From Within




"I don't really think she wanted me back then,
but she want my now, she can play games
all she want, she cannot pretend,
she like my style..."

You want me? I want you...
I'm infinitely special girl
the Lord's gonna bless you if 
you do what I tell you to do.
You want me? I want you...
You should want me like you want success
Girl with us together we'll be better than the best
Why settle for less?

-Curtis James Jackson III 
I GOT SWAG: BEFORE I SELF DESTRUCT
My Ipod / Mixpod Playlist 12/09

DALLAS MAVERICKS (2) vs. PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS (7)

I am going to see Dallas Mavericks vs. Portland Trail Blazers at the American Airlines Center.
Anyone care to join me?

CIRCLE OF EIGHT (using MOVIELINK)

Circle of Eight, Paramount Digital Entertainment’s (PDE)

original supernatural thriller, produced in association with

Mountain Dew's Green Label Studios,

hence the glowing green color palette for the movie poster. 

I rented and watched Circle of Eight last night using

Movielink from Blockbuster On Demand.

Movielink is a web-based video on demand (VOD) and

electronic sell-through (EST) service offering movies,

TV shows and other videos for rental or purchase.

 

Synopsis:

Jessica, a newcomer to the City of Angels, has just moved into a loft

on the eighth floor of The Dante, a historic and eerie

downtown building filled with a friendly mix

of twenty-something neighbors:

Ed, the overly protective building manager;

Randall, a creepy peeping tom with a video camera;

sexy India; boy toy Damon; earthy Elaine;

childish Bale; and Evan, the hot, brooding artist with a terrible secret to reveal.

They're eager to welcome her into their bohemian world. Or are they?

As Jessica races to unravel the mystery behind a chain

of horrifying deaths that only she seems to see,

she'll come face-to-face with the chilling truth

behind her connection to The Dante.

The Real Plot:

Jessica is in Hell, and doesn't know it (like when I was in Oregon).

She is destined to relive a recurring waking "dream" of 

moving into the Dante until she makes a self-sacrificing choice; 

one that will save the lives of all who live there except Evan 

-the brother that she allowed to die in an act of 

self-preservation while still alive. 


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THE VILLAGE TEA COMPANY ...Brought to me by Becca

The Village Tea Company is located in

the Preston Forrest Shopping Center,

directly across the street from Becca's second workplace.

Knowing my passion for tea, she brought the place

to my knowledge and we went there last Tuesday.

She explained that she's never known anyone who

drinks tea like I do; it being such an 'English' thing (Lol).

And then I explained to her that tea, is a Chinese thing;

the English got it from the Orient.

-And in Asia, ...it's a part of life.

Below are pics taken with

my iPhone from that visit:

214-377-0054
11661 Preston Road, Suite 210, Dallas TX, 75230
http://www.villageteaco.com/home/

The equivalent in Portland is the Tao of Tea Teahouse
at 3430 SE Belmont Street est. 1997

ARTIST DATE: THE EMPEROR & THE ASSASSIN

-The stories of HERO, and CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER combined:

In the 3rd Century BC, Ying Zheng, heir to the Kingdom of Qin, seeks to dominate the remaining six Chinese kingdoms. Ying sends his concubine Zhao (Gong Li) to the Kingdom of Yan as a spy, to enlist a Yan assassin to attempt to kill Ying. The assassination attempt is to be used as a basis to start war with the Yan. Zhao persuades Yan assassin Jing Ke, to perform the assassination. However, Zhao falls in love with Jing Ke, and after witnessing the aftermath of Ying's bloody massacre of the children in her home state, the Kingdom of Zhao, takes allegiance with the Yan and helps them try to kill Ying. The assassination attempt fails, but Ying is disgraced as none of his associates attempt to stop the assassin and he is forced to kill Jing himself. Ying's disgrace is completed when Zhao, Ying's former love, comes back to Qin only to take the dead body of Jing Ke back with her to Yan so as to give him a proper burial.

The Emperor and the Assassin won the Technical Grand Prize at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival and was in competition for the Palme d'Or. Zhao Fei was awarded the 1999 Golden Rooster Award for Best Cinematography.

Release date(s):
October 8, 1998
December 17, 1999
July 21, 2000

MY IPOD / MIXPOD PLAYLIST 12/09 (FOR RADIO.1)

Create a MySpace Music Playlist at MixPod.com

I. HARD (instrumental)  4:13  - Rihanna

II. DO YOU THINK ABOUT ME (instrumental)  3:26  - 50 Cent

III. SAY SOMETHING (instrumental)  4:03  - Timbaland feat. Drake

IV. ITS FOR YOU (album version)  4:08 - Shanice Wilson

*V. Tiger Voice mail (explicit)  0:53

VI. EYE FOR AN EYE (explicit)  4:28  - RBL Posse

VII. I GOT SWAG (explicit)  3:35  - 50 Cent

VIII. CLASSIC INTRODUCTION (mixtape) 3:09  - Diggy Simmons

IX. POINT TO PROVE (mixtape)  2:57  - Diggy Simmons +

X. FIRST FLIGHT (mixtape) 1:38  - Diggy Simmons

XI. FLY AWAY (mixtape) 3:41  - Diggy Simmons

XII. LA GUERRE (french vocals)  7:35 - Les Nubians

XIII. TWIZZALA (album version)  3:42  - Houston

COMPILED AND SEQUENCED BY HERO MECHALITH 
for MECHALITH MILLENNIUM MUSIC LIBRARY &
MECHALITH MILENNIUM'S RADIO.1:

www.myspace.com/mechalithmillenniumradio1

Point to Prove by Diggy Simmons was

Re-Recorded & Remastered by H. Mechalith using the M-Audio

Digital Dj Mixer Controller

I. HARD (instrumental)  4:13  - Rihanna

Robyn Rihanna Fenty (born February 20, 1988),

known as Rihanna, is a Barbadian recording artist and model.

II. DO YOU THINK ABOUT ME (instrumental)  3:26  - 50 Cent
VII. I GOT SWAG (explicit)  3:35  - 50 Cent

Curtis James Jackson III (born July 6, 1976) better known by his stage name 50 Cent, is an American rapper. He rose to fame with the release of his albums Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003) and The Massacre (2005). Both albums achieved multi-platinum success, selling more than twenty-one million copies combined.

III. SAY SOMETHING (instrumental)  4:03 - Timbaland feat. Drake

Timothy Zachery Mosley (March 10, 1971), better known by his stage name Timbaland, is an American Grammy Award-winning record producer, singer and rapper.

IV. ITS FOR YOU (album version)  4:08 - Shanice Wilson

Shanice Lorraine Wilson (born May 14, 1973), better known as Shanice, is an American singer-songwriter. At the age of eight, she starred in a KFC commercial with jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald. In 1984, she appeared as a regular on Kids Incorporated, and performed on Star Search. Shortly after her appearance on Star Search, she was signed to A&M Records..

VI. EYE FOR AN EYE (explicit)  4:28  - RBL Posse

RBL Posse (short for Ruthless by Law) Bay Area rap group from Hunters Point in San Francisco, California. Comprised of Black C, Mr. Cee, and Hittman. Their impressive sales for regional indie releases attracted interest from Atlantic Records subsidiary Big Beat, who signed the group. Before they could deliver an album, Mr. Cee was shot nine times and killed near his home on New Year's Day in 1996, on Harbor Road. This murder would set off a wave of retaliation killings in this section of the city.

2001's Hostile Takeover would prove to be the group's last album when, on February 3, 2003, Hitman was shot and killed while driving in the Hunters Point section of San Francisco. 

 

VIII. CLASSIC INTRODUCTION (mixtape) 3:09  - Diggy Simmons

IX. POINT TO PROVE (mixtape)  2:57  - Diggy Simmons +

X. FIRST FLIGHT (mixtape) 1:38  - Diggy Simmons

XI. FLY AWAY (mixtape) 3:41  - Diggy Simmons

Daniel "Diggy" Simmons, III born March 21, 1995 is the second son of Joseph "RUN" Simmons from Run-DMC and the nephew of Russell Simmons. He is currently working on his fashion line, along with his mentor Pharrel Williams, which was oringally titled "Space Age", then changed to "Space Cadet", but Diggy has stated (via his blog) that the line is going to be called "something that means so much more". On December 2, exactly at midnight, he released his highly anticipated and first mixtape "The First Flight". You can download it from his blog, www.digslifeofthejetsetter.blogspot.com

XII. LA GUERRE (french vocals)  7:35 - Les Nubians

Les Nubians is an Afro-pean R&B Grammy-nominated duo composed of sisters Hélène and Célia Faussart from Paris, France. Their mother is from Africa and their father is French. They have become one of the most successful French-language musical groups in the U.S.

 
XIII. TWIZZALA (album version)  3:42  - Houston

Houston (born Houston Edward Summers IV, October 26, 1983, Los Angeles, California) is an American R&B singer, best known for the hit single, "I Like That". Houston grew up in Los Angeles and performed on the streets with his friends, who were fellow rappers; his niche was rapping freestyle, for which he had a talent. He's best known for gouging his left eyeball out and it ended his career.

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BOOK / ITEM ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK

THIS BUSINESS OF ARTIST MANAGEMENT

The streamlined, reorganized, and updated Second Edition of This Business of Music Marketing and Promotion is informed by the transformation of the music industry in recent years. Online music has provided much of the fuel, with down-loadable songs and file-sharing programs opening up new avenues of distribution and promotion to some 60 million consumers.

The new edition of this book accounts for this transformation. Its focus is the full integration of online sales and promotion into the standard marketing mix. To emphasize the Internet's integration into the marketing process, Internet chapters are now spread out to relevant locations throughout the narrative. In addition, the first edition's chapter on promotion, "Promoting the Product," has been broken into several chapters to differentiate activities that come under this heading, including publicity; radio, video, and television promotion; sales promotion and miscellaneous activities; and online promotion.

In addition, a new chapter entitled "Twenty Profile-Building Ideas to Use Right Now" has been added to the new edition, as have new interviews representing the spectrum of music marketing activity: a successful self-marketing musician, a record label marketer, and an Internet specialist. Also included is expanded coverage of new marketing tactics, from innovative uses of e-mail to more intelligent approaches to generating sales on a Web site.