re: #260 WindUpBird

You’re talking about political incest!

And you’re 100% right. And Picasso is right, and that’s basically what i’m doing. i’m no picasso, but I spent years doing portraits, still lifes, figures from life, checking out old masters, oil glazing techniques, the cubists, russian constructivism, 80’s fetish art, Bakshgi films, vermeer’s camera obscura bloom, old movies that had lighting I liked, anything that sorta was a thing that could go into the mix. Stuff I didn’t like per se but had bits I needed to see.

people isolate themselves from ideas, they become smaller-minded and fanatical.

Three point swish.

And you too are an outlier. And that is why you and sizzle are really here at LGF. And that’s why most of the lizards are here- we are outliers as well.

No matter how upset, angry, rigid, etc., anyone here might be at times- at those who are 180 degrees from where each of us might be politically or ideologically, we come here because we can learn something.

We might bash, kick or scream but at the end of the day we leave here just a bit smarter. We may not even admit that, but it’s true. If we wanted a choir, we’d be elsewhere.

I became much more centrist since I’ve been here. When the change here occurred, I stayed.

I suspect (whether you care to admit or not!) some people here have rung your bell a few times as well. That happens to me pretty often, i’m happy to say. I hope you can say the same.

And that’s a damn good thing.