"... fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives ...
"So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you then I would suggest you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked.
"But if you see what I see,
if you feel as I feel,
and if you would seek as I seek,
then I ask you to stand beside me one year from tonight ..."
                —V, V For Vendetta

[This is Part Two of a three-part series. If you haven't done so, you may want to read Part One first.]

So we are talking about the killing of President John F. Kennedy, the fact that his killers were never brought to justice, and the feeling that we are now, as a country, living in Bizarro-world, where everything is the opposite of what it is supposed to be.

We left off in Part One with my ex-gangster friend replying,"Are you having a nice night, kid?" when I asked him who his associates in the mafia thought had killed JFK.

I smiled, but was silent, totally focussed on him and whatever he might say next.

 And he said, finally, looking at me levelly,"I could tell you a story. I don't like to talk about it that much. I knew at least fifty people who were involved who have been killed ..."

(further conversation on the flip-flop)

the bondage jukebox: the best bdsm music and bondage songs

A Mylene Farmer cd cover. I found a myspace tribute page to her. Her music is like most 80's metal: easy listening music with drums and distorted guitar. Lots of thick synth pads, too ... kind of Enya with hairly legs, but in a good way. Mylene is clearly endowed with amazing talents. A HUGE star in Europe.

One of may artists featured on the Bondage Jukebox::::

The French Madonna makes like Joan Jett crossed with Catherine Deneuve in some of the most amazing bdsmy concerts you've never seen, in which she prances in latex hobble dresses, steel-cage ponygirl attire and other visual delights while cooing ethereal over a heavy-metal soundtrack. She even managed to sneak a naughty song ("L'Histoire d'une fÈe, c'est..." the last two words of which translate phonetically into "fessee," French for spanking) onto the soundtrack for Rugrats In Paris. (more on the flipflop)

Here is a little bootleg of John singing "Working Class Hero" with a heavily phase-shifted guitar. Very cool.

Don't know what else to say, except I still miss him after all this time.