Category Archives: Thoughts from the expats corner
Jack Corbett has now been living full time in Thailand as an expat. This category encompasses a wide range of thoughts and subjects from the perspective of being in a strange land thousands of miles from the United States where the culture oftentimes seems to be 180 degrees apart from the values and beliefs of the West.
I want to remind you of the night we walked down the Soi Promised Land. I believe it is in your latest book Pattaya Pattaya Pattaya Confessions of Sin City. I am walking down the Soi enjoying the nightlife and encounter the most stunning girl I have ever seen. She had a shape the would make Raquel Welch sit up and pay attention. Her face and makeup were immaculate. She was sitting on a bar stool in the street. Her looks stopped me dead in my tracks. She immediately came over and invited me in for a drink. You and I followed her into a bar which I immediately realized was a ladyboy bar. We had a drink and I ran my hand up the inside of her thigh with her short dress pulled up. She stood up pulled off her dress and posed against the wall wearing only her high heels and a smile. Wish I had a picture to remember. There was nothing to indicate she was a ladyboy other than the bar she was working in. She and I went upstairs, you went down Soi Promised Land and we met up later. It was an evening I will remember forever.
Jack, I am so happy to have made your acquaintance. Looking forward to great adventures in the future.
In this last video, the night Pattaya died, I chose my music carefully, asking Nikki to play Thai music from Body Slam. Which got the girls dancing like there’s no tomorrow. Which for Pattaya, in a way there might never be another night like this. Not tomorrow, or next week. Not next month. Or for who knows how long.
After the Night Pattaya died, we will all be wearing masks on the beach and likely not be allowed to swim in the water.
There would be another Covid 19 shutdown that would have an even more devastating impact on Pattaya than the first one ever did. Millions of Thais will soon lose their jobs in the days to come. While Thai tourism would come to a complete halt. Nikki knew it. The bar girls attending this last party knew it. And I knew I had to do a video on you tube that could express what we were all feeling. To be a premonition that could convey the tragic loss to come.
Music plays an integral part in almost all the videos I put on You Tube. Because I spend hours putting my music together to capture the spirit of each video.
I use Cyberlink’s Power Director as my video editing program because it’s number one when it comes down to getting the finest audio clips for my videos, which really paid off here because I wanted my music to convey the tragic sense of loss after the night Pattaya died.
Cyberlink’s Power Director is also the most intuitive and fully featured video editing program although I have found that Corel’s Video Studio is almost as good. But Cyberlink has its own infrastructure of great copy right free selections I can choose from. And trust me, I’ve spent many days sifting through Cyberlink’s Director Zone’s thousands of music selections to add to my own music library. Cyberlink’s Power Director also has a magic music wizard that ties into a large number of Smart Sound selections which I’ve had to pay for at $99.00 per album.
I chose a military funeral selection from my Cyberlink audio library to start this video off. Which expresses both sadness and death. This audio selection would be perfect because it would reflect nearly 300000 deaths in the United States. While also foretelling the many deaths I believe will occur in Thailand in the not too distant future. It would also express the loss of millions of lost jobs in both countries. While it would also convey my own feelings of complete loss now that all of Thailand’s bars would soon closing. And that all the good times would come to an abrupt end. So I had to have a funeral for the night Pattaya died. In audio format instead of visual which I felt would far more haunting and effective.
Although Nikki plays a lot of Western style music that even includes a lot of Country Western, only Thai music would do for this video. I felt that Body Slam’s “Hot” would be the perfect vehicle to convey the indomitable Thai spirit that rises to the occasion when the most disastrous calamities occur.
For Thailand we are talking about millions of jobs being lost in the next month. And the nearly complete destruction of tourism for years to come. In my night Pattaya Died vision of the future death would take many forms. From Pattaya’s soon becoming a virtual ghost town to the sickness and death toll the virus would soon take.
My audio had to capture the human spirit at its finest. So I looked over half a dozen Body Slam videos on you tube to find exactly what I wanted.
It had to be uniquely Asian with with an exotic character that is nearly impossible for Western musicians to duplicate. To my ears, the video I chose has two lead singers. Or at least two distinct voices. One that is high pitched that is reminiscent of the High Seasons. Yet it’s not anything like the high pitched voice from “Candy Girl, Walk like a Man, or Big Girls don’t Cry,” for example. Or from any of the Four Seasons clone groups which are too American. But in this video,the second singer just might be a lady boy. But lady boy or not, this video is pure Thai.
Watch this video with its hundreds of incongruous images of the entire world entering hell. And yet, the music remains as great music always will. Just as it does in the Night Pattaya died.
But the video’s over four minutes long. And I was already using Body Slam music as an integral component of the video. To complete my investment in Cyberlink’s excellent video editing software I spent an additional hundred dollars for audio director software. Which now gave me the ability to fade out my last video clip that would accompany the last portion of the video. To complete the overall impression of sadness and impending doom, purchasing audio director was a no brainer.
To wrap things up here’s the video once again. Watch Nikki dancing and shouting at the top of her lungs as if there is no tomorrow. And watch Nee Nee dancing in a chair in her own little world. Both women knowing all too well that things will never be the same again. It’s the right music with the right women to play their parts so well during the night Pattaya died.
But I just can’t help myself, Gotta put just one more video up. From You Tube Body Slam Hot, a final version.
Here’s the list of crimes Killer Trump committed against the American people and his country. Along with Vice president MIke Pence, and Senator Ted Cruze. And right behind those two is almost every Republican Representative and Senator for endorsing Killer Trump’s traitorous crimes.
Proud Boys in Action. Protesting against Democrats who the Proud Boys want to protect us from. Morons. All of them who still favor Trump
Criminal Act number one committed by Killer Trump are his unrelenting attempts to invalidate Joe Biden’s winning the Presidential election
Even though nearly all his 60 lawsuits in appellate courts across the U.S. have found the counting of votes to be accurate with no ballot rigging by any election boards throughout the country. While even the Supreme Court has come to the conclusion that Biden won the presidential election fair and square. Which clearly shows the American people chose Joe Biden as our next president. And that the judicial branch of the United States has clearly ruled there were no significant irregularities with the vote counting. So clearly Trump is doing everything he can to disenfranchise millions of Americans to that he can remain in power. By putting himself above the Supreme Court Trump is saying he alone is the law of the land.
So it should be obvious that killer Trump’s persistent efforts to undermine the electoral process is the work of a traitor. Because he is willfully destroying the trust the American people have in our system of government and its institutions. Which he is trying his utmost to replace with a Trump dictatorship.
As if this is not enough, Killer Trump is appealing to such far right wing violent redneck groups as the Proud Boys to take to the streets and riot if Trump loses the election.
Killer Trump is encouraging such groups to commit violence. Which could even lead to Civil War. And in my opinion allow him to declare a national emergency to enable him to invoke the 1792 Militia acts. Which gives the president emergency powers to act when a state is invaded or in cases of Insurrection. So here’s my interpretation of how this could play out.
1933 in Germany wholesale street violence was occurring on a regular basis between Hitler’s brown shirts and the Communists
As a result of a prolonged period of hyperinflation followed by a world wide depression Germany became profoundly polarized. Just as the U.S. is today. Which Donald Trump is trying to intensify. Using the excuse that the Communists were about to take over the country, Hitler was able to assemble his own private army of Brown shirts. Which amounted to hundreds of thousands of men. And like the Proud Boys, the brown shirts were a collection of extremists right ringers who came from the sewers of their respective countries.
So when we compare the Germany of 1933 to the United States of 2021, I have noticed some interesting yet horrifying parallels. Due to the polarization in Germany between Communists and the Nazis, a lot of street violence was occurring. But the same thing is happening in the U.S. today. Thanks to Killer Trump and his followers the U.S. is undergoing a polarization that it has not experienced since the Civil War. And like the Germany of the 1930’s the United States is undergoing another Great Depression. Which the virus threatens to intensify to an intolerable level.
In 1933 Hitler was able to pass several Enabling Acts that allowed him to become Dictator.
The recipe that the Nazis used to seize power had the following ingredients. A long period of economic depression. Which resulted in a huge degree of polarization. And the formation of two large groups of extremists. The Nazis and the Communists. Hitler and his Nazi followers were successful at urging his Brown shirt thugs to be increasingly violent. And finally when someone set fire to the Reichstag (Germany’s parliament), the Nazis blamed the fire on the Communists and the Jews. Which allowed Hitler to convince the Reichstag to give him emergency powers. And by the end of the year, the Nazis had the power of life and death over the entire country.
I am very concerned that History might repeat itself. In Killer Trump we have a melomaniac of Hitlerian proportions. In the virus we have a national emergency that has already killed nearly 400000 Americans. Which I have already mentioned is killing far more Americans than World War II ever did. And like Hitler with his brown shirts, Trump is urging his crowd of redneck misfits to go to the streets. And become violent with whomever stands in their way. If the violence becomes prevalent enough Hitler, I mean Trump, can call upon the emergency powers of the presidency. Which he would then use to call off Joe Biden’s inauguration. Which would give us another 4 years of this ogre.
Treasonous Acts by Vice President Mike Pence
The group, led by Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, brings to nearly one-quarter the proportion of Senate Republicans who have broken with their leaders to join the effort to invalidate the victory of Joseph R. Biden Jr.Credit…Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times
While Mike Pence appeals to the Senate to overturn Joe Biden’s victory, still another traitor lurks in the sewer. Which amounts to both Pence and Ted Cruz doing their utmost to replace our nation’s democratic institutions with an autocrat. But we really need to call this mongrel, Killer Pence for not wearing a mask for months. While downplaying the risk posed by the virus as it took its deadly toll.
By now you are probably wondering why I am calling this blemish on the American landscape Killer Trump
For one thing he’s responsible for the deaths of close to 400000 deaths already. Trump has been totally irresponsible at dealing competently with the virus. And as a president whose duty is to serve and protect, he’s done the complete opposite. And not just with the lives of his countrymen, but also in serving and protecting the constitution of the United States. While who knows what the future might bring. But one thing is certain. Trump is a traitor who would have been hung, drawn and quartered in 16th century England.
And speaking of traitors, along with Mike Pence and Senator Ted Cruze I’d like to put a few names into the following list who are leading the charge in the Senate to invalidate Joe Biden’s presidency.
They are as listed in the Washington Post as Sens. Ron Johnson (Wis.), James Lankford (Okla.), Steve Daines (Mont.), John Neely Kennedy (La.), Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.) and Mike Braun (Ind.) — along with Sens.-elect Cynthia M. Lummis (Wyo.), Roger Marshall (Kan.), Bill Hagerty (Tenn.) and Tommy Tuberville (Ala.) — joined Cruz. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has already said he will contest the electoral college vote certification.
But we really need to add a lot more names to this list. So I suggest that every single Republican who has not endorsed Joe Biden’s victory is a gutless, power hungry scumbag who is guilty of not upholding the United Constitution. And who is not serving and protecting his countrymen. All of them are traitors, with the exception of a few. Such as Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. And as for anyone who supports anyone of these heathens. Consider yourself a buffoon.
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