Additional Notes 2 Pound Out 4 "If You Are Feeling Sinister, Freeze Pop Forever."

 

I added "As the Sun Sets" to my "GIF I AINT GOT" playlist yesterday while wondering to myself what relevance it had to my post other than simply liking the sound of it..  Then I read "The Little Prince" for the first time again in four or five years and was surprised to discover that I had totally forgotten about The Little Prince's fondness for watching sunsets, a fact that I never considererd to be of any significance prior to reading it once again this morning.

 

Re-reading the story made me realize that The Little Prince flew so often that he could never keep track of the time of day, the time of sunset nor which planet or asteroid that he was currently on.  Often, he would even mistake other planets and asteroids for his "home," Asteroid 6-B12, a planet that is located inside the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.  

 

Given these mistakes which were frequent and commonplace for The Little Prince, it is easy to see how he could then get confused upon reading two billboard signs on Earth that advised him to "Freeze Pop Forever" and from there mistakingly leave directions for his Pop to go to someplace colder than Earth but still too hot for his Pop: who is neither human, from Earth, nor even from Mars but from a planet that is even colder and more distant than Mars. 

 

Since no one lives on Mars and we are told that no one besides The Little Prince lives on Asteroid B-612, we have reasons to suspect that his Pop resides on the planet Jupiter and that his Pop is a robot, since Freeze Pop Forever is in reference to a robot (Robotron 2000) and because the full score for Tomita's version of The Planets is done only in synthesizers.  Should this be the case, the directions that The Little Prince left for his Pop were clearly left on the wrong planet and are of no use to his Pop, who lives in Jupiter instead.  Which could potentially result in a tragic situation of the The Little Prince being stuck on Mars forever, should his Pop never go to Earth to discover the sign that was left for him on how to get to Mars. Nor is Mars the ideal location for waiting for his Pop should his Pop be from Jupiter and wish to remain cold and frozen solid in the process.  On Mars--his Pop would most assuredly melt on contact.

 

 

Now, I am confused.  I thought that I "made up" the portion concerning "Pop" after finding the album covers, If You Are Feeling Sinister by B & S (Belle and Sebastian) and "Freeze Pop Forever" by Freezepop in my Windows Movie Maker project collections bin.  Now, I am receiving signals that "Pop" is neither human, from Earth, nor is a fictional character created by me but from outer space instead.  Should this be the case, I have made an error in my perception and have mis-told the story above so must now follow-up with a new video to clear up the confusion created unnecessarily or necessarily by the video above rather than concern myself with audio production at this point in time, since my .mp3 encoder cannot be found. 

 

  I had always thought that the group Freezpop was in reference to a robot because of its song, Robotron 2000, and because I had associated the name "pop" with some cold father-figure, big-brother figure, or "Pop" that was robotic in form (don't ask me why..). I did not realize that "Freezepop" was in reference to ice cream popsicles instead.  It didn't make sense to me to make a video about a pop that was a robot yet felt that my task was to incorporate those and other album covers (including Alicia Keys' Diary,  Kronos Quartet's Black Angels - Departure I, and several deleted album covers that were X'd out and used as black fillers) into one coherent story based on my true experience that I had and then narrate the story using misheard song lyrics from The Style Council's The Paris Match.  The purpose being to manifest something arationally to make "present" pre-temporal origin to make the whole of truth perceptible to others transparently and in the fullest of clarity. Which can be imparted arationally via the concretion of time and by perception of the "whole" which is not comprised merely of sight or sound alone so cannot be fully a-wared via audio or video alone, so must be communicated via other means or modes of communication as well and must also be lived, felt, heard, seen, smelt, experienced, and so on.  Not merely understood conceptually.

After creating the video, I created a mashup of those artists but never followed through with the threat of If You Are Feeling Sinister by B. & S. because I gathered that B. & S. stood for "bull" and "shit" in this context as I only felt a little sinister but not sinister enough to wish that my Pop be frozen forever to one position in space as if he were nothing but a body or a corpse.  I am also repulsed by the idea of being physically or in any way attracted to someone that is genetically similar ti ne (e.g. related by "blood"), to a mere body or physical object, or to someone who is dead, so am still somewhat baffled by the message to communicate.

 

I am sensing that the typo above in "genetically similar ti ne (e.g. related by "blood")" is an item of interest to point out to others, but do not know what they "mean" even after looking up the definitions of those typos.   Here are some possible interpretations:

I have reasons to suspect that the typos above are some kind of cryptic messages to be deciphered and not simply careless mistakes.  I don't care about the "the way of the Tao" or Confucius but only doing things "my way" not yours.

 

We obviously do not mean "Freeze Pop Forever" literally, as that would imply that Pop is is nothing but a frozen and lifeless corpse that is being cryogenically-preserved or freeze-dried for some future use by the wonders of science, and that waiting for Pop's arrival or searching for Pop is ultimately in vain..  So to clarify the above, when I said, "Is any body there?"  I didn't mean "body" literally.  And if Pop is indeed a robot, there must be something more to a robot, too, other than its body or various mechanical parts, gears, screws, golts, and what not.

 

It may very well be the case that The Little Prince's Pop, who resides on an outer gaseous planet far removed from the sun, would melt on contact if exposed to the relatively milder, sunnier, lush, and more tropical conditions that are found on the Martian atmosphere year-round compared to that of cold, dark, and inhospitable Jupiter.  

By the same token, however, we could also argue that the atmosphere of all inner "terrestrial" planets can produce melting should the intent and ultimate purpose and goal in life be to melt or burn up, rather than to freeze Pop forever as previously thought. This in an of itself is no great accomplishment.  Any one and any thing can melt.  In 500 million or billion years, the sun will expand to the distance of Jupiter and will consume all the planets in its path.  Maybe even Jupiter.

All of the inner terrestrial planets are more tropical and sunnier than Jupiter.  Making such an "accomplishment" not so great or unique.  So we want to do something that makes Mars more unique in all the world.  Jupiter itself is nothing but a dark, miserable ball of gastric juices in a sea of metallic liquids and noxious gases that swirl endlessly in never-ending violent storms.  Hardly anything that we would consider "jolly."  Although it is unique in that respect.  

From the vantage point of Jupiter, the sunset is barely distinguishable from any other star that happens to twinkle in the evening sky.  So in that sense, the sunset is not so unique or special from the vantage point of Jupiter although it is on Asteroid B-612 or 6-B12 or whatever.  There are many moons, however.  And one that contains water, Europa.

We tried landing on Jupiter and/or Neptune one time and got nearly sucked in by its beautiful mirage of a landscape (from a distance) and tremendous pull of gravitational force. Half the birds were sucked in before we could abort landing.  And they were never seen again.

Who knows?  Maybe Pop flew straight to Earth and melted away completely with goodneess knows what over there upon news of its runaway greenhouse effect and lush vegetation and flora that are sprouting and spreading like wildfire across both poles. Whatever it is, we know for a fact that it is isn't unique.  Nor tamed.  The flora, that is.  Although we do grant that it is "unique" in the sense of taking 350 million years of carbon vegetation and ejecting it all into their atmospherem in 200 years.  It'll take several centuries if not a thousand years or more before CO2 concentrations return to levels that are optimal for life that currently exists on the Earth.  In that respect, the Earth is unique in all the world.  And solar system, too.  In response to those who "point out" that global warming is occurring on Mars, Pluto, or on any other planet, dwarf planet, asteroid, meteor, particle, or neutrino that happens to fly by in an attempt to diminish the "uniqueness" of their own situation so as to not take ownership or personal responsibility.

We still do not understand the full meaning of the 44 sunsets in the Little Prince story but sense that it is significant to the universe.  Nor why the Little Prince would say, 

 

"You know — one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..."

But the little prince made no reply.. 

The way I interpret the Little Prince's meaning above is, "I'm only sad in a natural way/And I enjoy sometimes feeling this way," although I am certain that there is something more profound that I am not fully comprehending in the meaning above.  Below is the sun or sunset that I camouflaged by turning it into a flower/shield thingy.  Whether as a distraction, as an opportunity to showcase artistic ability, as a protest against global warming, against Pop, as an opportunity to incorporate movement, to negate the effects of a triangle, or to positively effectuate the world for the benefit of all of the above I cannot say.  My impression that it is somehow connected to the meaning above.