Steven Seagal energy drinks in hand!

Update 3: Another bad-a$$ed fan tribute! Man, these get me pumped!



Update 2: Steven Seagal parody with Lightning Bolt! It's awesome, the people you meet online.



Update 1: Lightning Bolt commercial! Damn, it feels GOOD to be a part of pop culture history!


 It's a lotta great things goin' on in the kitchen!


Still Life a l' Celebetaire (Bachelor Still Life), by Cagey.  Every
item in this composition has profound meaning.  For example,
the A. Palmer ice tea is on hot standby for 50/50 Vodka mixture. 

 
















   I've been waiting for this moment for years, my Steven Seagal energy drinks have finally arrived. It's a cannon blast of motivation.



   I also wired my fridge to play "Winner Takes It All' by Sammy Hagar when I open it.

Cagey's listening to

Moody Blues - Your Wildest Dreams (1986)



Moody Blues - Deep (1988)

Cagey Electronic Cavalcade

I'm in Electronica/New Wave mode.



Cause and Effect - Trip



Duran Duran - The Man Who Stole A Leopard
My favorite new DD song in a LONG time.



M1 - Never Far Away Radio Edit
(with Idiot Drivers Compilation)



Miami Vice Score: Jan Hammer feat. Grace Jones feat. Fleetwood Mac - Lethal Seductions (sequel)



It's Over Now (1994) - Cause & Effect



Antarctica - Vangelis; Covered by Ed Starink - Synthesizer Greatest Vol. 1



Air - Run



Renegade Soundwave - Renegade Soundwave (Leftfield Remix)



Kris Menace feat. Fred Falke - Fairlight



FPU- "Ocean Drive"



Street Hawk Adventures By Giullano Pilati (The Long Road For Wisdom)



Duran Duran - Time For Temptation (Come Undone B-Side 1993)
(When are these guys gonna put all their killer B-sides on an album already?!)



Duran Duran - "Beautiful Colours"



Underworld - Peach Tree



Underworld - Moon in Water

Not sure how exactly I went from Space Shuttle to Delta Force

I almost, almost applied to the shuttle program on a dare once. At least it'd have been a good story for kids someday. Anyway, I grew up in the heart of the era, watching Space Camp and all that other '80s goodness, proud of our nation. However, watching the Atlantis landing yesterday, I am a bit PISSED that the mission control guy kept trying to one-up the pilot, a.k.a. mission commander with final remarks! If I could find the script, I'd love to show you exactly. Instead, I'll simulate.

"Welcome home, Atantis."
"Thanks, Mission Control. The shuttle has taken the hope and inspiration of mankind to the stars and back."

"Atlantis, the staff here was watching you all the way like a loving parent cradling her child as the guiding light of the stars nestled you in her soft bosom."


"I constitute a part of Cagey's unique
experience with the shuttle program."



"Mission control, this is Atlantis. After thirty years of the shuttle program, we're just glad you helped us home safely one more time. That's a wrap."



"Atlantis, this is Mission Control, thanks for your remarks. On behalf of a grateful nation, we are also glad you are home, glad as the father to the Prodigal Son, we welcome you with open arms, forever shall we cherish you and forever shall we remain guardians of the tranquil majesty of the night, the sea of dreams, the hearkening nocturne of which the celestial magnificence chants, we are but a lonely mission control who dared to dream that we could perform this mission, and here on the ground we had an absolute professional team that was utterly satisifed in driving the adventure."

"Mission Control: Atlantis. Yeah, thanks or something."

So to try to replace my remembrances of Mission Control's speech with something else patriotic, I started thinking about Delta Force instead.


Delta Force, Chuck Norris

Anytime I hear this theme by Alan Silvestri I go wild. I get patriotic and I want to ride a motorcycle with missles on it and shoot at 711 stores and muslim churches called mosques while eating a bacon cheeseburger! Come join my Delta Force. Kill them all let Allah sort them out! Allah loves bacon. I'm the Baconator! ~'Bigdanny77'

VJ Day, Honolulu Hawaii, August 14, 1945

VJ Day, Honolulu Hawaii, August 14, 1945 from Richard Sullivan on Vimeo.

QOTD

"Be as good as your dog thinks you are."

~From a sign outside a church here in Mudville, U.S.A.

"If you voted for Obama in 2008 to prove you’re not racist, you’ll have to find someone else to vote for in 2012 to prove you’re not an idiot."    ~Unk.

"Babel, Inc.:  We live in the era of the great divider, not the great uniter.  People letting themselves identify strictly inside party lines must be insane at the wheel, and our country's brakes have been cut.  Democrats fancy themselves intellectual giants using big-kid words like 'jingoists' to describe people that love the United States. If you hate the United States, the Democrats love you, but not as much as they love themselves. Republicans dislike the Democrats, which makes sense because the Democrats have turned hypocrisy into an art form. Other than that, they don't dislike much else, because they are in want of a position.  The Independents?  They just have a strong dislike for the political plutocracy." ~Cagey

"Without a common moral code and Christian heritage, our nation will splinter into Balkanized factions. There would be no social glue to hold us together any longer. Since the 1960s, America’s cultural disintegration has accelerated. We have become more secular, more perverse and ultimately, more decadent."  

"The modern left understands one fundamental reality: Destroying Christianity destroys the culture and civilization it spawned. They are inextricably linked. This is why socialists, such as Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Saul Alinsky and George Soros, have championed militant anti-Christianity, free love, contraception and abortion. Smash the family and traditional morality and the economic system they gave birth to - capitalism - will fall."   ~Jeffrey Kuhner 

Frickin' YUM!

I kind of fancy myself like the lid lifter guy sometimes when my swagger overflows.




Tuscan nirvana, with futuristic slicing technique



My self-esteem must be recovering because I just made my first action figure of myself, and I am back to writing petulant request letters to corporate food headquarters.

~~~~~~~~~

Dear DiGiorno:
I am writing on 3 points today:

1) I respectfully request you NOT discontinue the new Tuscan Style Chicken pizza. You have reached the pinnacle of applied pizza science and it would be a tragedy that you discontinue it. Please quell the rumors circulating on the internet!
2) This is my second time writing in - this time I would like to requisition the regular stores in the 23464 zip code carrying this item - could you please confirm? I intend to stockpile all remaining Tuscan Style Chicken pizzas in local inventory. Thank you again for your outstanding product

3) I noticed on your website that you do have international positions. I am a professional consultant and strategic studies student, and I wish to apply for any of your executive-tier positions in Japan. Request any applicable guidance.

Thank you,

Cagey

~~~~~~~~~

Also, the guy on the Freezerburns blog dissing this product is a frickin' nimbnut (not really, but I disagree with his review).  He says, "So overall, I was disappointed, but I ate the whole thing. Don’t want to waste food, but I would never buy this again. If you like ranch dressing, you’ll love it. If not, don’t get it, you can’t scrape off the sauce."  Too bad every commenter below him went completely 180.  YOU'LL GET YOURS, BUDDY! 

Update:  Form letter response?!  Well, I never! (Read on only if you're really interested in knowing the epilogue.)
~~~~~~~~~
 Dear Mr. Cagey, [* Editor's note: EGAD!]
Thank you for contacting Nestlé® on the Internet. Questions and comments from our consumers are always welcome! We have read your email and researched your inquiry. For more information on career opportunities, please visit our website.
As you may know, we produce and market a variety of products. While we would like every store to offer each item we make, it is their decision as to which products they will carry. If you don't see the product on the store shelf, we also encourage you to ask the store manager for an "item not available" or "I want this item" request form and fill it out.According to our records, you may be able to purchase this product at one of the stores listed below;[redacted for security reasons]
To find stores in your area selling the meals which interest you, please use the Store Locator tool available on our Nestleusa.com website. You can access that directly by clicking Nestleusa.com. If the item is not available in our item locator, this would mean the information is not yet available.
Once again, thank you for your interest in our products and we hope you'll visit our website often for the latest information on Nestlé products and promotions.We appreciate your interest in our company.
Sincerely,
x
Consumer Response Representative
~~~~~~~~~~~
Dear Ms. X, [Note: informal comma used as opposed to formal colon, in response to her informal comma]
It is I who should be thanking you for your rapid response! You must share my passion.
Conducted mission to Kroger in Kempsville with negative results. Worse for the wear yet undeterred, I will continue my search. Thanks for the tips.
On the job opportunities – that’s terrific. I was hoping maybe you had an “in” with the CEO or felt any groundswell for any hot Japan jobs coming down the pipe. (Are you in good with anyone?) I’m willing to do what it takes to land this one. My interests are loyalty to the company first, obviously, but also geographic in nature and I eventually hope to homestead there – in a place that’s safe for my (future) family. Hoping to brand myself as an area subject matter expert by gaining experience in the hot zone.
Please convey my compliments to your staff. I hope by expressing interest in the Tuscan Style Chicken pizza, I can help ensure it will be around for years to come.
All the best,
Cagey

I am so totally stoked right now!

   Just purchased: Six (6) cans of RARE, out-of-production Steven Seagal energy drinks.  Not only it is a chance to peacock in front of the world, it's come to me not to remarket them, but to share them for the good of humanity.  Part of the appeal is bedrocked not only in my own association with the Seagal name, but I feel I'm elevating in the social strata, wait 'til I bust these puppies out at work.  However, Steven does not want me to be greedy.  Steven does not want me to be vain.  Yes, Steven.  I obey.

   Some of the summaries on the web are hysterical:

ROUND 1: ASIAN EXPERIENCE
SUMMARY: Fruit-flavored genocide in a can.

"After I bought my 16 oz can of Steven Seagal's Lightning Bolt, Asian Experience flavor, I took a long moment to examine the shiny black can, looking for any information that would prepare me for the power I was about to receive. Instead of fully describing the design, I'll just ask you to do this: Picture in your mind what the packaging of an energy drink made by Steven Seagal would look like. Yep, that's about it."
"Inappropriate use of Chinese symbols? Check. Barely coherent copy on the back? Check. Bizarre 'Asian' ingredients? Check. Picture of Steven on the front that looks like it was taken in 1987? Check." - http://www.agonybooth.com/agonizer/Steven_Seagal_s_Lightning_Bolt.aspx

   Considering trademarking my own energy drink with a friend, and retiring early.  The goofier it sounds, the more inner clarity the plan has - I'm not much of a risk-taker anymore, but doing this could actually yield something good.  Look at Michael Savage's son who founded the Rockstar beverage brand.  Look at the popularity of Red Bull.  So, energy drink brewmaster:  That's the fourth built-in redundancy in the Cagey strategic plan (if that and all other retirement plans fail, it's off to professional body-building and selling out my blog by installing Google AdSense).  Moreover,  I need a frickin houseboat, like, yesterday. 

   PICS WILL FOLLOW IN ONLY A MATTER OF DAYS...

Cagey's listening to

Bach - Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major BWV1007 - Mov. 1-3/6

Stuck in my head all day, and thank high Heaven for the internet that I could find it (and also for Heaven's gifts).




Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings

I believe this was the title music for 'The Endurance', one of my favorite documentaries. Update: I learned that this piece is also associated with the 1986 Academy Award (Best Picture) winning 'Platoon'. (The movie my dad was willing to bend the 'R' rating rule for in order for me to see for some reason... but we never made it to the theater.)



Copland's Fanfare For The Common Man (tribute by Asia)



A mega-group playing under the pseudonym "Passengers", with Luciano Pavarotti, from an enigmatic album first heard during my college radio station days...



David Sylvian & Sakamoto Ryuichi, "Forbidden Colours"



David Sylvian & Sakamoto Ryuichi, "Heartbeat/Tainai Kaiki II"

It speaks to ghosts and souls alike
Springs to life, and doesn't think twice
Wrapped in the blood sail
Bathed in snow
Nailed to the source and it won't let go
Fed on the Bible, grown from trees
It opened the mind and the heart was free
A home in the silence, safe from sound
Where trouble sleeps and the light is found

What is this shiate?!

Great moments in lexographical orthodoxy:

  The '90s: "Deez nuts," is introduced to common slang. "D. Snutts" becomes one of my pseudonyms.

The '00s: "I know, right!", an expression of agreement, invades the country from rap salons.

Today: "Really?!  Reeeeeally?!" becomes the latest noxious trend in urban drawl.  Formerly known as "Seeriously?! Seeriously?!  Are you m* f'n seerious?!" with a high inflection that the speaker uses, in order to sound knowledgable and authoritative, and to offend the senses. 

  If you weren't aware of any of these, they'll hit you like nails on a chalkboard when you hear them now!

  Bonus annoying trend:

  What is with people putting memorials with names, slogans, tombstones and birth/death dates on their rear windshields?  "R.I.P. such and such."  Weren't you depressed enough before?  If you want to show us that you're grieving, I truly sympathize, but why is the automobile suddenly the place to put that stuff?  I don't get it, seems conspicuously gaudy to me.

Coming up on GCAS

Coming up:

Cagey News Compendium

- More spoiled kids, spoiled legislators, and cultural flotsam and jetsam.

Mysteries Revealed, part trois

- My recap on the intricate discoveries made in the first half of 2011 and some uncharacteristic, effusive gratefulness for life in general.

Check back every week or so, I'm slow, but I'll be back!

Cagey's listening to

Took a little nappy-nap and somehow The Platters were there...



Bob Seger