Capturing Beauty
Chapter Seven ‘No Longer a Co-Star’
by
Jon Presco
Copyright 2016
A month ago, driving home from Seattle, Marilyn got a glimpse into ‘The Mirror’. She expected to see her own reflection, but, there is Shauna ‘The Puppet Master’ the Svengali of M’s captured ‘Love Theme’…………LEFT AT THE HIGH ALTAR OF GOD! ONE DAY, THE WHITE MAN WILL PAY!
The notion that Marilyn takes care of Kenny Reed, does exist out there in the minds of many. Blowing my brains out, won’t make it go away. The Phantom of Shauna’s Soap Opera, will never vacate ‘The House’. I expect to outlive her. She will never be an Immortal, if I can help it, because she captured my beautiful Marilyn on her ‘Subversive Stage’. She made her dance to her tune – Black Orpheus! Who is the ‘True Phantom of the Opera’?
Shauna married Ron Jefferson, Les MacCann’s drummer. I was with Marilyn, down in the basement of Joe Frederico’s when Kenny was CAUGHT in M’s eye. He chased after her as we emerged from Hades. My Eurydice, turned, I turned, and she was DEAD once more.
For the last ten years, she has been s held a prisoner in Co-Dependent Hell, she frozen stiff by the promise of a Pay Day! Over my Dead Body. I swing down on their play, I swing down low, clinging to the epic crystal chandelier! Here come Ashley Wilkes, for his Belle of the Ball – and Melanie Baby! He is furious that M was left with Kathy’s Newborn Child set up in the Sawtelle by the Baptist Mother of Forsaken Children, while Arnold Palmer, checks out her seventeen year old ass.
“Run Marilyn! It’s another fucking trap! Run, Marilyn – for your life! It’s Eldridge Cleaver wearing an Evangelical Mask, while Trump speaks before these False Prophets, promising them the Negro Vote is onboard. And they applauded, not believing a word he had to say. But, they clapped, and they clapped, as they threw the real Baby Jesus away!”
Away, oh way! Away! Away!
In May, I offered ‘The Friends & Family’ the story I had compiled – for several years! This is why Marilyn sent me the Cease and Desist, because they wanted it all for themselves. They wanted to cut me out of the deal! The point of no return, has come and gone! This offer is rescinded.
How fucking dare Kenny Reed pretend I am the dangerous parasite! I do all the work, and here come the Big Gorilla! Not this time! Marilyn will not be your slave in – your movie! I set her free! Alas, she is free! No more covert dealing under the dark table. No more slash of a razor in the eternal midnight, for M is shuffling the Deck of Hearts with all those Aces! Say Hallelujah!
The Deck of Heartaches, is in her hand. The screen door opens on Iowa Street. The baby in the manger cries, for the Lost and Forsaken Mother! What became of Kathy’s Lover? Where oh where, is her beautiful baby?
Jon Presco
Copyright 2016
Bohemian Blue
Several days ago, Marilyn Reed, told he her sister Shana loved the show she put on at the Hult Center, and wants her to co-author a book together. Shana co-authored ‘Fela – This Bitch of a Life’ that became a off-Broadway hit that I asked Belle Burch if she wanted to see with me. I had conducted an interview with Marilyn about my chapter ‘Sawtelle’ a neighborhood Shana and M grew up in.
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I am considering turning this chapter over to these beautiful sisters – if they help my vision come to fruition! We have been working on ‘Love Dance’ or ‘My Big Beautiful Bicycle’ on a level ‘The Muses’ created for us. Shana does not read by blog. It’s time she does. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB0GepZMzKU
Marilyn was good friends of the Pasternack family. Joe fled Hitler, came to Hollywood, and made musicals. The major theme of a good musical is “The show must go on!” There are obstacles that come close to closing the show – before it’s premiere. Marilyn was a co-producer. When Shana saw one of the performances, she was inspired to author her half of the story. A professional video of the show is due out any day.
I have been conducting interviews with Marilyn Reed, the wife of Kenny Reed, whose band ‘Stone Cold Jazz’ conducted poetry readings at the Granary for three years. I and Izzy Whetstein read there. Izzy is a original Merry Prankster who was in the movie ‘Animal House’. He and Kenny were in a follow up movie about a frat house that the city of Eugene – tore down! Why? It would have made a great tourist attraction that would have generated much money for the Kenites’. I say Kenites, because years after Kesey died, no one can do anything, or be anyone, or resemble Ken in any manner. We are the City of The Half Dead’. We lost our stadium, our bowling alley, Ken’s cottage, Animal House, The Downtown, and now Kesey square. We are real? Compared to what?
Shauna read this. It was written eighteen months ago.
Beauty and the Crystal Cathedral
I just googled Robert Schuller’s son and discovered we look-alike. We have long faces and similar eyebrows. Marilyn’s older sister, Shauna, was engaged to Robert Anthony Schuller, but, he broke off the engagement. It is believed Schuller Senior was prejudiced because Shauna is half Filipino. After this rejection Shauna became radicalized, dated Ron Jefferson, Les MacCann’s drummer. She then ended up in France with very radical friends. She co-authored the biography of Fela with her lover, Carlos Moore, that became a off-Broadway hit.
I just talked to Marilyn, and she said Shauna’s fiancé’s was forbidden to marry a “brown-skinned” woman as M put it. Robert used to spend the night with Shauna on the living room floor. She assured me there was no subconscious or conscious connection. She told me she was glad the Schuller family power has come to an end, and the Catholics took over their church.
“Their rejection of Shauna led her to get involved in the Black Movement, so, in a way it was a good thing.” M declares, not fully realizing the cultural significance that looms large this very day. The Religious-right and their political party loathes President Obama, and employ their version of Jesus to demonize a man who sixty million people voted for.
Marilyn recalled the long talks we had at the Mormon temple at night, and wished we could be hypnotized so we could recall and record them. I told her we gave birth to the alternative Jesus and Mary Magdalene cosmology, especially after her mother found her copy of ‘The Last Temptation of Jesus Christ.’
Marilyn recently told me the reason her mother took me to three Billy Graham Crusades, is because she wanted me to be saved – because she was living in sin. Teddy, her Filipino lover would spend the night several times a week, and then go home to his Catholic wife. Teddy secretly became a Baptist. Marie’s minister hated Catholics. I know this because I was allowed to stay over Saturday night – if I went to church the next day. Marie was convinced Marilyn and I were screwing. The truth is we were dry-screwing, which was better than intercourse because Marilyn had a great orgasm every time, that were electrical and colorful-filled. We were deeply in love! However, I felt there was a hidden agenda.
Marilyn was strongly influenced by Shauna. We created Little France in West LA. But, here is the kicker, I would take Marilyn up to the Mormon Temple and preach to her about Beauty, Art, and spirituality. We were both amazed where my words came from. I began to own a Christ-complex. These were the best moments of my life. I had it all. I was inspired. I was – in the spirit – even though I rejected organized religion. That the Catholic church now owns the Crystal cathedral, is profound, as is I becoming a theologian. Now add to this my sister’s affair with Daniel.
The photograph of Marilyn holding the hand of Daddy Pete, Shauna’s father, is one of the most beautiful images I have ever seen.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2015
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Schuller
Robert Anthony Schuller (born October 7, 1954) is an American televangelist, author, and television executive. He was formerly a minister on the Hour of Power weekly television program broadcast from the Crystal Cathedral in Orange County, California, where he was named senior pastor in 2006.[1][2]
An ordained minister, Schuller is the only son of Crystal Cathedral founders Robert H. Schuller and Arvella Schuller. He is the best-selling author of Getting Through the going Through Stage, Dump Your Hang Up’s, Possibility Living and the New York Times best seller Walking in Your Own Shoes. He was the senior pastor of the Hour of Power and the Crystal Cathedral for nearly three years, from January 2006 to November 2008. According to the Hour of Power website, he resigned as senior pastor on November 29, 2008. He continues his ministry with Robert Schuller Ministries and is also chairman of Comstar Media Fund, a media investment company, and the Coalition for American Renewal.
Hour of Power is a weekly American Christian television program formerly broadcast from the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California.
The program was founded and first hosted by Robert H. Schuller. It is currently hosted byBobby Schuller, who is Robert H. Schuller’s grandson and the son of Robert A. Schuller, himself a former host. It has also been hosted by Sheila Schuller Coleman, a daughter of Robert H. Schuller.
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(CNA/EWTN News) – “Through this innovative design process an insightful plan has emerged that will establish Christ Cathedral as a place for involvement in the sacraments, a place to hear the Word of God proclaimed and a place for personal prayer and devotion,” Bishop Kevin Vann of Orange said Sept. 24. “It will be a holy place, where God dwells among us.”
The Diocese of Orange purchased the Crystal Cathedral in February of 2012 from the Protestant community which founded it. The building and its campus was sold after the community filed for bankruptcy in October 2010 when some of its creditors sued for payment.
The church’s longtime minister, Robert Schuller, had approved the original designs for the church building and gave it the name Crystal Cathedral in the late 1970s.
The building is 120 feet tall, 141 feet long and 207 feet wide, covering an area of 78,397 square feet. It is made entirely of glass and steel. The cathedral will have a seating capacity of over 2,000.
The new design aims to support the centrality of the Eucharist, to provide a “solemn and prayerful experience,” and to meet the needs of a 10,000-member parish, the diocese said in a statement.
The altar’s central placement was designed taking into account Catholic liturgy, the massive space, and the presence of the Hazel Wright Organ, the fourth largest church organ in the world. The altar’s design is part of an “antiphonal” layout, with the altar placed at the building’s center.
One altar design photo shows a large crucifix suspended from the ceiling above the altar.
Monsignor Christopher Smith, Christ Cathedral’s rector, noted the ancient Christian image of the “porta coeli,” Latin for the “gateway to heaven.”
“A cathedral, such as the Christ Cathedral when completed, lifts the mind, heart and soul of believers – and perhaps even others – to the love of God and the hope that God has promised,” he said.
He said the design plan aims to build “a deeper unity of purpose and mission among Catholics within our local Church” in addition to “a renewed commitment to permeating the world with the love of Christ.”
The first phase of the project will concern the cathedral itself, its courtyard, and a reflection garden that will house the campus’ existing statuary and the bronze replicas of the 1,800 “Walk of Faith” stones currently on the campus.
The project’s second phase includes the expansion of the cathedral’s lower level, the expansion of the cathedral’s cemetery, and the redesign of the rest of the campus grounds.
The first phase is being undertaken with $29 million from the $100 million capital campaign. More funding is being raised to complete the project.
The structure’s fa�ade of more than 10,000 panes of mirrored glass posed challenges involving heat transfer, excess light, and acoustics. In response, the design team has designed “petals” to cover each piece of glass. The petals will open to control light and heat transfer as well as acoustics.
Bishop Vann thanked the diocese architectural and renovations committee and the architectural firms that worked on the plans. He said the design plan respects Schuller’s “faithful witness and architectural legacy” while creating “a contemplative and prayerful space that embodies the solemnity and reverence of the Catholic tradition.”
The diocese retained the architectural firm Johnson Fain to focus on the cathedral itself, while Rios Clementi Hale Studios was retained to focus on the cathedral’s 34-acre surrounding campus, which will be used as a center for evangelization, arts and culture, interreligious dialogue and outreach to the poor.
When it was announced one year ago that Johnson Fain had been selected to renovate the cathedral, Scott Johnson, the firm’s design partner, explained to CNA that his strategy would be “essentially to conserve and restore the exterior” of the cathedral and that “the new architecture will really be in the refashioning of the operational aspects and the interior elements of the shell.”
The cathedral will reopen after renovations and a formal dedication scheduled for 2017.
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