so i was listening to prof. Kai investigate the philosophy of money...and i recognized some striking similarities to other man made mental constructs...around the world there are people who label themselves shamans and witchdoctors and such...and they convince people that they have the Mojo or the Gris Gris to make things happen...well in this country there are people who will tell you that they can make the economics far and wide begin to falter...by simply saying that the government is broke...can not pay its debts...BUT! they can mint a platinum coin in the denomination of ONE TRILLION DOLLARS and then there will be money aplenty...and people who believe the witchdoctors and the treasury might just die...but not me...pay attention to those 37 words in the coinage act...
i need to make some adjustments to my movie criticism of "Lost Highway"...I listened to Mr. T. Hanks in an interview a few days ago and realized that my criticism failed to acknowledge that the movie is worth seeing but in my opinion was not too entertaining...also i listened to the ebullient Ms. Ayesha Rascoe mention the "needle drop" aspect of a movie...and the music in "Lost Highway" was very good and wrote down the credits but failed to list them...and i'll be damned if i know where that list is now...but having been on several "shoots" i must say that even a bad movie is hard to make...and as the director pointed out to Mr. Hanks..."We may be sowing the seeds of our own destruction"...i do not agree with mr. Hanks on the time factor...usually as time passes movies become less relevant...but i do have a movie which i watched a while back that i really liked even though it had a sad ending and that is "The Hot Spot" with Don Johnson...it haunts you...
"Don't you see (said he) the impropriety of it? To MAKE money is to coin it: you should say GET money." Samuel Johnson to James Boswell (Life of Johnson)
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