Singin' in the Pain

THE FUTURIST! wants you to please watch this video from the British television program THE X-FACTOR, a show attempting to find the next big thing in music. It's going to be a hard thing to do, but DO IT! He then has an observation to make ...



THE FUTURIST! is fascinated to know people like this exist. Did you see their energy, their over exuberant sense of ecstatic phoniness? And that song is called "I Don't Feel Like Dancing" Hmmmm ... they don't feel like dancing, yet they are and doing so in the manner of people injected with the most potent form of liquid cocaine and vast amounts of VERY BOLD Ethiopian Shade Tree Coffee. Amazing. THE FUTURIST! asked haiku, his dear friend and faithful factotum, if he ever acted like this in his life. haiku merely replied in a monotone manner, "FUTURIST! I am not crazy." THE FUTURIST! concurs with that statement. haiku is not crazy. But, does haiku ever FEEL like that? After watching this THE FUTURIST! realized that if he did not feel like dancing, he would not dance in such a manic manner to express his desire not to dance. He doesn't dance anyway. And he never has felt how these people appear to feel or want us to believe how they supposedly feel. Inside THE FUTURIST! there is a stirring to dance like that ... to show that much joy, but, hopefully, not appear so ... phony. So, he won't dance, except, maybe, in his mind when he is staring out the window adjusting his necktie or day dreaming while trying to think of a 10 letter word for "sadness" to answer clue 4 Down in the daily newspaper crossword puzzle.