The Journeyman Creative Journal

I'm Brian Neuls. This is my page. I will post my own photos, writing samples and trailers and clips of any movies I'm working on. All work is mine unless otherwise noted and all work is copyright myself, with all rights reserved. Thank you.

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Liam Gallagher - Once (Official video feat. Eric Cantona)

Liam Gallagher - Once (Official Video feat. Eric Cantona) Acoustic Sessions, out now https://l-gx.com/acousticsessions WHY ME? WHY NOT. Out Now https://liamg...

Social commentary and criticism often likes to discuss the impact of an aged or aging artist looking back at life and what that means to their art and their place in the world of creativity. Many artists never follow-through on their promise of the early years or they burn out in a flaming asteroid of ego and mismanagement of the base responsibilities of life. When looking at music, aging artists usually fall back on what has always worked or what worked then, and a shocking number of aging musicians - save the miraculous work of Bruce Springsteen that has never stopped being incredibly socially important and relevant - just rely on their sound that so many like. But there are a few true rock stars, titans of their age, who leave a mark so indelible, it will never be forgotten. Liam Gallagher will perhaps always live on forever in the minds of those who watched his meteoric ascent and then insanely meteoric fall as a cautionary tale of not being an absolute and raging cunt with no sense of any personal responsibility of what his actions would do or how they would be taken. Well, this aging artist has not only inserted himself into the pantheon of creative superstars once again, but he's done it with such an astounding amount of nostalgic self-reflection and self-actualization it's nothing less than akin to watching one of the great artists of our era and past eras sit you down and scream in your face as only Liam can that he's not only learned from those years, but oh, how he pines for them, longs for them, but with the intelligence and responsibility of a man who says "I know what happened, I know what I am, and here are my terse, well-put-together reminiscences of all I've learned. You may not get anything from one song but I know, taken as a whole, you'll see what I'm talking about." And it's fucking astonishing to witness. This song is one of those titanic confessions of what it means to want to go back, to always remember what it was like but to be responsible enough to understand it's all gone. Well done, mate. Well done.

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Also, can we please stop saying 'Assault-type Weapon'? Call these guns by their names. Don't let the NRA whitewash even the names of the guns so it's more palatable. Name the guns. I guarantee you know at least one person who has one. Name The Guns.

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AR-15's handed out like [really expensive] candy; random, unsupported traffic stops carried out under false pretenses to entrap people in order to keep 70 percent incarceration rates in private prisons; young people handed medication like it's [really expensive] candy; gun laws that now allow open carry without permit 'when warranted'; Stand Your Ground law that sanctions murder.

Texas: "We have no idea why this shooting happened."

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The filmic relationship between between Avery and Tarantino on Pulp Fiction is almost the exact analogue between Mankiewicz and Welles on Citizen Kane and Pulp Fiction is nearly the exact analogue in social and filmic impact of its time as Citizen Kane. That's kinda incredible.

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How do you get a good economy in this free market? Cut all regulation, cut most taxes (which is a backdoor subsidy - socialism) and then raise the taxes for the working poor, sorry, middle class, and then tout the numbers and the 'jobs reports'. This isn't 'free-market capitalism' in a 'good economy', this is radical 'free-market socialism' that benefits only the companies that then hire the working poor, sorry, middle class, on their terms without recourse. Make no mistake, this isn't a tenet of a societal framework, it's politics in a country that ignores the obvious so that it can believe it's 'fantastic capitalism'. It's immoral. Free-market capitalism cannot exist unless something fails. That's the point of it. It's cyclical. Subsidized capitalism is simply a rigged system. And not for the workers.

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We've gotten water usage to a point where the bill has apparently hit 'a floor', where it's been the same amount each month. So I would infer, from this implication, that we're 'subsidizing' a corporation with a 'minimum fee' regardless of usage. I'm all for subsidizing things, as I am a staunch socialist, and this is, of course, a socialist country. But it is a socialist country so bereft of introspective self-deprecation that it doesn't even realize it practices 'free-market socialism', a societal framework so immoral and unethical that it forces the humanity under its purview to subsidize free-market forces while claiming those free-market forces must not be regulated so the 'free-market' can sustain itself. It's simply appalling in its unmitigated gall - and oh no, I've gone cross-eyed...

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Mars is about half the size of earth. Now shrink the earth down to the size of Mars. The Rover is the size of an SUV, approximately. So send an SUV to this a-little-over-half-size earth. This SUV moves at .08699 mph. Yes. Less than a tenth of a mile an hour. Now place this slow-moving SUV on the planet, at say, let's just choose Texas. A highly-arid state in America. It moves a tenth of a mile an hour, but doesn't move all the time. In this smaller earth, Texas would still be approximately the size of Europe, just with a smaller footprint. How much could we possibly learn about the entire earth - and remember, the Mars horizon dead-ends at only half the distance - with a rover this small moving this slowly? It's a start, for sure, but imagine all the things we wouldn't see or understand about the varied nature of what we could find?

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The media never asks what the effect of paying other human beings a living wage could have on your wallet. But it makes sure to tell you what a 'horrific tax' increased tariffs are. A capitalist state never tells you why your products are so relatively cheap and how you can offset slave labor by paying a little more because capitalism can't exist without slave labor because capitalism is profit at all costs, including human life. But they will tell you ad nauseum how bad increased tariffs are. A capitalist state doesn't get much more transparently appalling...but it will.

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At some point, somewhere in the recent history of capitalism, someone said, "But bread is only 4 ingredients. If you add all those chemicals, it just allows your bread to last years in the package. That's not how you make bread. That's not bread." And an 'entrepreneur' replied, "Yeah? Take this $10,000 to that politician over there, and ask him if it's bread. And then ask him if I can sue you for saying it isn't bread."

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At some point, somewhere in the recent history of capitalism, someone said, "But if you replace all the naturally occurring sugars with liquified corn, that's not really a 'sugar drink'. It's a corn drink. That's just liquified corn sugar with food coloring. That's not soda/fruit juice/take your fucking pick." And an 'entrepreneur' replied, "Yeah? Take this $10,000 to that politician over there, and ask him if it's soda/fruit juice/take your fucking pick. And then ask him if I can sue you if you say it's not any of those."

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At some point, somewhere in the recent history of capitalism, someone said, "But if you take out the cocoa butter and replace it with that chemical, it's really not chocolate. That's not chocolate." And an 'entrepreneur' replied, "Yeah? Take this $10,000 to that politician over there, and ask him if it's chocolate. And then ask him if I can sue you if you say it's not chocolate."

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At some point, somewhere in the recent history of capitalism, someone said, "But that's not how you make cheese. That's not cheese." And an 'entrepreneur' replied, "Yeah? Take this $10,000 to that politician over there, and ask him if it's cheese. And then ask him if I can sue you if you say it's not cheese."

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Let's keep in mind: Your prices aren't going to go up because humanity decided that slave labor is wrong and that workers and inmates who make your electronics and clothes and appliances deserve a living wage...no. It's because a few very rich men decided to slap a tariff on the goods so that they just suddenly cost more. And let's keep in mind that there has been absolutely no issue with slave labor, but there is a great issue with this tariff. Tariffs are a part of capitalism that steadies trade and the price of goods and market shares of corporations. Human slavery is as immoral and unethical and insanely evil as it gets. Good look, humanity.

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Why are the apparel manufacturers 'beyond freaked' at the China tariffs? Because this directly affects their use of Chinese slave labor. Listening to these immoral cretins is appalling.

This is a direct quote from Rick Helfenbein, CEO of American Apparel and Footwear: "In 1930, Tariffs were enacted to protect our industry, and they did a great job because today 92 percent of the apparel industry is imported into this country."

He's talking about how good it was they outsourced slave labor! And the reporter on CNN didn’t ask him what he meant exactly by why those 1930′s tariffs were so good. Wanna hear something crazy? Go Trump. I guess it takes a cretinous, immoral scumbag to bring down other cretinous, immoral scumbags. Whatever hurts slave labor leaders is fine with me.

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Mueller didn't interview Donald Trump for the obstruction inquiry about Donald Trump. Okay, whatever. He's President. Mueller didn't interview Donald Trump, Jr. about the obstruction inquiry he was involved in. You've elected a Teflon Don whose family members can get away with just as much as he can. That's astonishing. And terrifying. Oh, well. As they say:

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News: "What will the Vatican do now to help Notre Dame?"

Vatican city's estimated GDP per capita of $21,198 makes Vatican City the 18th wealthiest nation in the world per capita.

Vatican city covers only 100 acres. It is not beholden to any Italian law whatsoever. Any money it collects it keeps. Most of that wealth was obtained through plundering other countries and cities and citizens through oppression, murder, and genocide.

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News: "What have the walls of Notre Dame cathedral witnessed since the 13th century?"

It's witnessed the murder, oppression, torture, and genocide of those who don't believe in the forced tenets of the cult. It's one of the 'great buildings' of a cult that forced itself into the modern world that simply accepts it as a 'religion', by killing, torturing, and wiping out peoples who questioned the foundations of horror it was built on.