I am glad I have never been "Baby Jessica'd"

1.	Baby Jessica
	1. a reference to "Baby Jessica" Mcclure, the Texas infant who fell down a well in Midland, Texas on October 14, 1987. This created a national shitstorm of attention as rescuers worked for 58 hours to release her. 2. A sexual act that involves placing one's testicles into another's asshole, to the point where they get stuck. Thus the oft used saying "I baby jessica'd her (him) last night" Chris tried to put the "dog in the bathtub" last night, but he ended up Baby Jessica'ing her. - Urban Dictionary

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

"Midland Texas is the home town of President George W. Bush. " From the Midland Texas Visitors Site.

How many different types of wells are there?

from the mouth of the babe

“I explain to myself that I believe that people cared so much because they would hope that somebody would care that much about them. In a way, helping me out and caring about me helped them out.” - Jessica McClure Morales, in an interview with Matt Lauer.

Bobby George - Jessica's Rescue

This guy has based his entire musical career around a song he wrote about Baby Jessica .

"Everything took a big change in 1987." - Bobby George Dynes.

anarchist marching bands

I am inspired by these:

Hungry March Band
&
Rude Mechanical Orchestra

Hungry March says: Fear shall lead you to the place you most need to be. When you arrive, dive into the sea of the unknown, we will be there cheering you on, furiously playing in a state of absolute delightful madness

it's so beautiful

Everyone wants to think they matter. Everyone wants to believe that you could fall into trouble and the entire world would want to rescue you.

Collins, Iowa

"4 streets, 5 avenues, a few hundred people"

pictures by Kimberley Hale

this made me laugh

A city girl's free association of small towns:

im thinking..."small town"

like ummm john melloncamp

and then i think jack and dianne

and then i think debutante backseat of jackie's car.

i also think of inbred children with webbed feel.

and funny looking trees

flannel

whole milk.

i bet they only drink whole milk in small towns

and of course BRITNEY

and Jamie Lynne

duh.

and...

old time religion

come cookin.

biscuits and gravy.

i dont think that there are any sexy people in small towns

unless they ride John Deer

ox

small town America

I'm going to pull a Julia Allison here and put a query on my blog. (Don't read Julia's blog. It is addictive. It will suck all your time and you will start coveting pink furniture. Don't do it. Just don't.)

My question is this:

What does small town America mean to you? I'm looking for images, movies, articles, poems, quotes, books, songs . . . anything. Send it to me.

Other to do:

Oh yeah, right the damn play. Holla!

To do:

Read

Carl Jung
and Uncle Joe (Joseph Campbell).

Jung

LOL. I love it when I hear a term and don't really know what it means. I thought I had invented this concept, and just applied someone else's words to it. Thanks, Jung, dude.

From http://www.kheper.net/topics/Jung/collective_unconscious.html:

Everyone has their own Personal Unconscious. The Collective Unconscious in contrast is universal. It cannot be built up like one's personal unconscious is; rather, it predates the individual. It is the repositary of all the religious, spiritual, and mythological symbols and experiences. Its primary structures - the deep structures of the psyche, in other words - Jung called "Archetypes"; a later-Hellenistic Platonic and Augustinian Christian term that referred to the spiritual forms which are the pre-existent prototypes of the things of the material world. Interpreting this idea psychologically, Jung stated that these archetypes were the conceptual matrixes or patterns behind all our religious and mythological concepts, and indeed, our thinking processes in general.

Actually, Jung's choice of the term "archetype" is in some senses misleading. For in the late Platonic tradition, the archetypes con-stitute a totally spiritual reality; the original perfect spiritual reality or realities which generates the imperfect physical realities; the "thoughts in the mind of God" of Stoicism and Platonic Christianity.

But Jung interprets his archetypes in a biological sense. He says (no doubt due to the Darwinian influence of his age) that they are "inherited", and that they "have existed since remotest times". Yet even "remotest times" can still be located temporally. Such times may have occured an enormously long time ago, but they are still temporal. Plato and his successors would never speak of the Ideas or Archetypes or Spiritual Prototypes coming into being in some primordial past; for they saw these as spiritual realities, and therefore eternal; beyond time altogether.

For Jung then, the Collective Unconscious is not, as many of his popularisers claim, a kind of "Universal Mind" or metaphysical reality, like the Platonic World of Forms, but rather an ultimately biological reality. The Spiritual concepts of Platonism are not seen as metaphysical, but biological, or rather, psycho-biological.

how to give a voice to the collective unconscious

No, really. How?
The voice of the collective unconscious = the media + the town + conventional mores + adaptation to realistic circumstances.

How can the machine rage against itself?
How does the machine rage within itself?

How does everything go wrong when all you're trying to do is go right?

audience configuration

Maybe the stage is a thrust, with the audience on three sides. The "chorus" (a.k.a. "the town"), which is really an anarchist marching band/gospel choir with a lead vocalist who sounds like Janis Joplin, is BEHIND the audience. So all the stuff you hear comes from behind you.
But I don't want you to see them when you enter the audience. The audience needs to feel like they are part of the larger society, like they are the stars hung on the curtain of the night sky. They are simultaneously of the world but observing it.


Hmmmm, must stop visualizing conventional audience space.
When on Broadway, we will perform at Circle in the Square. Hot.