to be in love part 2

"To be in love..." were the first words to a song by a cartoon pop singer named Minmae (not sure of spelling) on the Japanese anime series Robotech. Robotech was broken down into three parts back then and I'm not sure if I can remember the name of that particular title, maybe "?"... I got nada for that, not even a hint? It dealt with the first part of the story with young Rick Hunter, Lisa Hayes and the rest of 'em, heroes that made nine year old eyes wide with adventure and excitement and reverie for the fantastic and mysterous future, subtexted with mad passion and whipping danger necessary to fill the belly of entropy...all this in a flash of youth watching a cartoon drawn by men and women of an exotic culture plus thousands of miles away, but touching and gently massaging this loving, growing heart and leaving an indelible impression upon the Cult of Los Angeles. Of course there was a madcap love story between the singer and the show's protagonist, Rick Hunter which ended up withering as the story became more complex. Whatever. The point is I learned so much from "outside" sources that are particularly bizarre when analysed. After all these years the words to the aforementioned song still stir powerful emotions in my belly. I experienced a pull towards how I thought (projected) it felt to be in love by how her voice sounded and resonated throughout me, the experience, a palpable and measurable one, a fascinating event that I can pinpoint the origin of only because it was of such deep and profound import. The careful consumption of a steady diet of popular culture and some not-so-popular culture plus diamonds in the DNA equals a particular, well, answer?, solution? or just some simple equivalence...Maybe that is the most high and at bottom, the delicate still point that encompasses all the past and all the future-pressing them to the molten event, the potent moment...To this is the Cult of Los Angeles aghast and akimbo inside, this utter cool and new beatific.

"Everyone has an opportunity to use whatever advantage they are afforded. From bacteria to insects to the kingdom of beasts this is evident. And everything is always deserved, if by the cause of nothing else than an exacting necessity."

This is the way of life in the Cult of Los Angeles, for sure...exciting like Robotech was (and still is) to the nine-year-old watching and learning about love, passion, change...diamonds wrapped in DNA (like Angelface! in dress today...).