RIP, Mirror!

Another of my controversial millionaire friends is down.

May 03, 2024

Yesterday I received a bad news. Another of my millionaire friends died, this time from the Czech Republic. His name was Miroslav Macek, he was 79. I called him Mirror, go figure. Mirror was a controversial dentist, politician, businessman, womanizer, translator and writer. He served as a deputy prime minister of Czechoslovakia. Thank God I’m not that controversial. Wink, wink? Puck, baby!

State-paid, Mirror was my family dentist during communism, which was free, when I was a kiddo. Once, I remember, my grandfather, who was a capitalist trainmaster (running diesel/vapor trains), almost beat him up because he did some private dental work for him, my grandfather paid him a lot of money “under the table”, which was illegal and my strict-principled commie dad strongly opposed, LOL, and three days later all his “fixed” teeth came out, ROFL!

My Roman-Catholic mom called it an act of Satan. I cracked myself up. My die-hard commie dad saved the “criminal” dentist/traitor from a mandatory prison sentence for breaking the law, accepting payment for free service under socialist/communist rule, and from my extremely enraged grandfather’s beating. So he was very grateful and started to “love” our family. It was a prominent Soural family circus, a real shitshow beating any Hollywood comedy. Yup, that Mr. Bean incident happened at the Health Complex in my Czech royal village, Postřelmov, where I tried to grow up in the early 80’s. I haven’t been there since 2018. Wanna go? It’s a nice place, my parents live happily there, they want me to live there. Great memories, yet the true story makes me LMFAO!

So, Mirror took care of my teeth in primary school. During the Velvet Revolution in November 1989, he flipped the communist script to become the most radical capitalist of all times overnight, which catapulted him into the “Democratic New Era” politics of the so called “freedom”, where he became a millionaire overnight, “privatizing” everything public, his ass included, we all supposed, ha ha.

He was a very scandalous figure. Suddenly, however married, he officially became a professional womanizer, the first Czechoslovakian playboy politician. All the tabloid newspapers and the general public were very thrilled and happy, calling him openly the Casanova of the Czech politics, something really new, unseen, unheard of before.

Mirror, the admired & envied, the loved & hated macho persona, nonetheless, was violent in public, defending his bad reputation. Forewarned, the Minister of Health of that time “fucked around and found out”, made a remark during a session in the Parliament that the Casanova was “a shameless money-grabbing biatch marrying his second wife only for money, for many more millions to his belt”. He was slapped hard and subsequently involved in a TV brawl in front of the entertained Czech nation.

Rath vs. Macek, in Czech

His mansion was about 5 km away from my parents’ house, where I would visit him for literature purposes and other artistic and intellectual conversations. By the way, Mirror had studied at the same prestigious beautiful university as I did. Palacký University Olomouc is the oldest university in Moravia and the second-oldest in the Czech Republic. It was established in 1573 as a public university led by the Jesuit order, which was at that time the capital of Moravia and the seat of the episcopacy. Wow? Puck, baby!

As a student working part-time for a Swiss company, I was about to sell him a deluxe 15 volume Encyclopedia Britannica for $3K, when he found out I “was also an English translator and poet/bohemian”. We became kind of friends. I was the only one who approved his third marriage to a girl 42 years younger than he was. It was a scandal, shiit! Yeah, 42 years younger, puck, baby! At that point, people accused him of marrying this girl “to only have some young meat in bed“, a claim I romantically rejected, yet which I kind of relate to, at my age, LOL. Unfortunately, now my friend of many love affairs dubbed “Casanova” is dead, RIP, Mirror! Poor his millionaire widow! I like her.

Odi Acoustic - Josie (Blink 182 Cover)

Yeah, my girlfriend
Takes me home when I'm too drunk to drive
And she doesn't get all jealous
When I hang out with the guys
She laughs at my dumb jokes when no one does
She brings me Mexican food from Sombrero's just because
Yeah, just because

And my girlfriend
Likes UL and DHC
And she's so smart and independent
I don't think she needs me
Quite half as much as I know I need her
I wonder why there's not another
Guy, that she'd prefer

And when I feel like giving up
Like my world is falling down
I show up at 3:00 a.m.
She's still up watching Vacation
And I see her pretty face
It takes me away to a better place and

I know that everything
Know that everything
Know that everything
Everything's gonna be fine
I know that everything
Know that everything
Know that everything
Everything's gonna be fine

Yeah, my girlfriend
Takes collect calls from the road
And it doesn't seem to matter
That I'm lacking in the bulge
She laughs at my dumb jokes when no one does
She brings me Mexican food from Sombrero's just because

And when I feel like giving up
Like my world is falling down
I show up at 3:00 a.m.
She's still up watching Vacation
And I see her pretty face
It takes me away to a better place and

I know that everything
Know that everything
Know that everything
Everything's gonna be fine
I know that everything
Know that everything
Know that everything
Everything's gonna be fine

#01 Carousel - Blink-182 Acoustic Sessions (Cover by Tiago Contieri)

I talk to you every now and then
I never felt so alone again
I stop to think at a wishing well
My thoughts send me on a carousel
Here I am standing on my own
Not a motion from the telephone
I know not a reason why
Solitude's a reason to die

Just you wait and see
As school life is a, it is a woken dream
Aren't you feeling alone?
I guess it's just another
I guess it's just another
I guess it's just another night alone

Now as I walk down the street
I need a job just to sleep in sheets
Buying food every once in a while
But not enough to purchase a smile
A tank of gas is a treasure to me
I know now that nothing is free
I talk to you every now and then
I never felt so alone again

Just you wait and see
As school life is a, it is a woken dream
Aren't you feeling alone?
I guess it's just another
I guess it's just another
I guess it's just another night alone

Go

Are we all victims of opportunity
Locked outside the door back in '83
I heard the angry voice of the man inside
And saw the look of fear in my mother's eyes

I don't wanna know
(Go, go) I don't wanna know

Mom, get in the car, and let's drive away
She said, "I'm sorry Mark, but there's nowhere to stay"
Gave up all her hope and went back inside
Hid a broken heart and let the engine die

I don't wanna know
(Go, go) I don't wanna know

Why do evil men get away with it?
Can't you see that I'm in a world of shit?
Turn your back your hope and go back inside
Stop my bleeding heart and let the engine die

I don't wanna know
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna know
(Go, go) I don't wanna know
(Go, go) I don't wanna know
(Go, go) I don't wanna know
(Go, go) I don't wanna know

Aliens Exist

Hey mom, there's something in the backroom
Hope it's not the creature from above
You used to read me stories
As if my dreams were boring
We all know conspiracies are dumb

What if people knew that these were real
I'd leave my closet door open all night
I know the CIA would say
"What you hear is all hearsay"
I wish someone would tell me what was right

Up all night long
And there's something very wrong
And I know it must be late
Been gone since yesterday
I'm not like you guys
I'm not like you

I am still a skeptic yes you know me
Been best friends and will be 'till we die
I got an injection
Of fear from the abduction
My best friend thinks I'm just telling lies
Alright

Up all night long
And there's something very wrong
And I know it must be late
Been gone since yesterday
I'm not like you guys
I'm not like you

Dark and scary
Ordinary
Explanation
Information
Nice to know ya
Paranoia
Where's my mother
Biofather

Up all night long
And there's something very wrong
And I know it must be late
Been gone since yesterday
I'm not like you guys
Twelve majestic lies

The Rock Show

Hanging out behind the club on the weekends
Acting stupid, getting drunk with my best friends
I couldn't wait for the summer and the Warped Tour
I remember it's the first time that I saw her there

She's getting kicked out of school 'cause she's failing
I'm kinda nervous, 'cause I think all her friends hate me
She's the one, she'll always be there
She took my hand and I made it, I swear

Because I fell in love with the girl at the rock show
She said, "What?", and I told her that I didn't know
She's so cool, gonna sneak in through her window
Everything's better when she's around
I can't wait 'til her parents go out of town
I fell in love with the girl at the rock show

When we said we were gonna move to Vegas
I remember the look her mother gave us
17 without a purpose or direction
We don't owe anyone a fuckin' explanation

I fell in love with the girl at the rock show
She said, "What?" and I told her that I didn't know
She's so cool, gonna sneak in through her window
Everything's better when she's around
I can't wait 'til her parents go out of town
I fell in love with the girl at the rock show

Black and white picture of her on my wall
I waited for her call, she always kept me waiting
And if I ever got another chance, I'd still ask her to dance
Because she kept me waiting

I fell in love with the girl at the rock show
She said, "What?", and I told her that I didn't know
She's so cool, gonna sneak in through her window
Everything's better when she's around
I can't wait 'til her parents go out of town
I fell in love with the girl at the rock show

With the girl at the rock show
With the girl at the rock show
(I'll never forget tonight) with the girl at the rock show
(I'll never forget tonight) with the girl at the rock show
(I'll never forget tonight) with the girl at the rock show
(I'll never forget tonight) with the girl at the rock show
(I'll never forget tonight) with the girl at the rock show
(I'll never forget tonight) with the girl at the rock show...

Postřelmov’s Coat of Arms

Am I a crowned lion, a king? Puck, baby!

Postřelmov’s flag

Am I a Sagittarius with an arrow in my ass? Puck, baby!

Here are a few pics of my village of some 3000 plus inhabitants back in the Czech Republic, minus me:

Let me update so that you can savor my roots, where I come from. I’m a countryman, I’m a peasant. All the local people talk about me as a lost world citizen, an adventurer, a jungleman, but you found me.

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