Tuesday 30 June 2009
Saturday 27 June 2009
Michael Jackson dies
There's nothing we can really write here that hasn't been said already, but it seems fitting we acknowledge Michael Jackson in at least one post.
Every newspaper has this on the front cover, and TV is full of tribute shows.
The most influential musician since Elvis (technically his father-in-law) and the greatest entertainer the world has ever seen, or is ever likely to.
RIP Michael Jackson.
Every newspaper has this on the front cover, and TV is full of tribute shows.
The most influential musician since Elvis (technically his father-in-law) and the greatest entertainer the world has ever seen, or is ever likely to.
RIP Michael Jackson.
Friday 26 June 2009
Pain and fear
Pain is a gift.
Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.
Without fear, there could be no humility, and every man would be a monster.
The recognition of pain and fear in others gives rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.
Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.
Without fear, there could be no humility, and every man would be a monster.
The recognition of pain and fear in others gives rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.
Faith
There are days of doubt, more often lonely nights, when even the devout wonder if they are heirs to a greater kingdom than this Earth and if they will know Mercy, or if instead they are only animals like any other, with no inheritance except the wind and the dark.
The natural evolution of violence
Not long ago in the history of the world, routine daily violence, excluding the ravages of nations at war, has been largely personal in nature. Grudges, slights to honour, adultery, and disputes over money, are what triggered the murderous impulse.
In the modern world, more in the post-modern, much violence has become impersonal.
Terrorists, street gangs, lone sociopaths, sociopaths in groups and pledged to a utopian vision all kill people they do not know, against whom they had no realistic complaint, for the purpose of attracting attention, making a statement, intimidation, or even just for the thrill of it.
In the modern world, more in the post-modern, much violence has become impersonal.
Terrorists, street gangs, lone sociopaths, sociopaths in groups and pledged to a utopian vision all kill people they do not know, against whom they had no realistic complaint, for the purpose of attracting attention, making a statement, intimidation, or even just for the thrill of it.
Fox
Speed never saved the fox.
To escape the hounds and the hunters,the fox needs cunning and a taste for risk.
To escape the hounds and the hunters,the fox needs cunning and a taste for risk.
Haruspex
A Haruspice was a class of priest in Ancient Rome.
They divined the future from the entrails of animals killed in sacrifices.
They divined the future from the entrails of animals killed in sacrifices.
Eliot
And now you live dispersed on ribbon roads,
And no man knows or cares who is his neighbour
Unless his neighbour makes too much disturbance,
But all dash to and fro in motor cars,
Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.
And no man knows or cares who is his neighbour
Unless his neighbour makes too much disturbance,
But all dash to and fro in motor cars,
Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.
Tuesday 23 June 2009
The 5 roots of violence
There are 5 roots of violence: lust, envy, anger, avarice, vengeance.
The taproot of violence is the hatred of truth.
The hatred of truth is a vice. From it comes pride and an enthusiasm for disorder.
The taproot of violence is the hatred of truth.
The hatred of truth is a vice. From it comes pride and an enthusiasm for disorder.
The books of Richard Laymon
Novels:
Cellar, the (1980)
Woods Are Dark, the (1981)
Night Show (1984)
Beware! (1985)
Allhallow's Eve (1986)
Beast House, the (1986)
Flesh (1987)
Dark Mountain (1987)
Resurrection Dreams (1988)
Funland (1989)
Stake, the (1990)
Darkness, Tell Us (1991)
Island (1991)
Blood Games (1992)
Alarums (1992)
Savage (1993)
Endless Night (1993)
Quake, the (1995)
Body Rides (1996)
Bite (1996)
After Midnight (1997)
Midnight Tour, the (1998)
Among the Missing (1999)
Come Out Tonight (1999)
One Rainy Night (2000)
Traveling Vampire Show (2000)
In the Dark (2001)
No Sanctuary (2001)
Night in the Lonesome October (2001)
Friday Night in the Beast House (2001)
Amara / To Wake the Dead (2003)
Lake, the (2004)
Glory Bus, the (2005)
Novellas:
Out are the Lights (1993)
Fiends (1997)
Collections:
Out Are the Lights, and Other Tales (1993)
Good, Secret Place, a (1993)
Fiends (1997)
Dreadful Tales (2000)
Cellar, the (1980)
Woods Are Dark, the (1981)
Night Show (1984)
Beware! (1985)
Allhallow's Eve (1986)
Beast House, the (1986)
Flesh (1987)
Dark Mountain (1987)
Resurrection Dreams (1988)
Funland (1989)
Stake, the (1990)
Darkness, Tell Us (1991)
Island (1991)
Blood Games (1992)
Alarums (1992)
Savage (1993)
Endless Night (1993)
Quake, the (1995)
Body Rides (1996)
Bite (1996)
After Midnight (1997)
Midnight Tour, the (1998)
Among the Missing (1999)
Come Out Tonight (1999)
One Rainy Night (2000)
Traveling Vampire Show (2000)
In the Dark (2001)
No Sanctuary (2001)
Night in the Lonesome October (2001)
Friday Night in the Beast House (2001)
Amara / To Wake the Dead (2003)
Lake, the (2004)
Glory Bus, the (2005)
Novellas:
Out are the Lights (1993)
Fiends (1997)
Collections:
Out Are the Lights, and Other Tales (1993)
Good, Secret Place, a (1993)
Fiends (1997)
Dreadful Tales (2000)
The books of Neil Gaiman
Novels:
Good Omens (1990)
Neverwhere (1997)
Stardust (1999)
American Gods (2001)
Anansi Boys (2005)
Interworld (2007)
Graveyard Book, the (2008)
Odd and the Frost Giants (2008)
Graphic Novels:
Violent Cases (1987)
Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes (1990)
Sandman: The Doll's House (1990)
Black Orchid (1991)
Sandman: Season of Mists (1992)
Sandman: Dream Country (1992)
Signal to Noise (1992)
Sandman: A Game of You (1993)
Death: The High Cost of Living (1993)
Books of Magic, the (1993)
Sandman: Fables and Reflections (1994)
Sandman: Brief Lives (1994)
Sandman: World's End (1995)
Sandman: The Kindly Ones (1996)
Sandman: The Wake (1997)
Death: The Time of Your Life (1997)
Sandman: The Dream Hunters (1999)
Only the End of the World Again (2000)
Last Temptation, the (2001)
Harlequin Valentine (2001)
Murder Mysteries (2002)
Sandman: Endless Nights (2003)
Creatures of the Night (2004)
Marvel 1602 (2004)
Picture Books:
Mr. Punch (1994)
Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, the (1996)
Wolves in the Walls, the (2003)
Series:
American Gods
Elric of Melnibone
Sandman
Cthulhu Mythos
Death of the Endless
Fairy Tale Anthologies
Murder Most
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
Legends
Mammoth Anthologies
Chronicles of Magravandias, the
Year's Best Fantasy (Eos)
Collections:
Angels and Visitations: A Miscellany (1993)
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions (1998)
Midnight Days (1999)
Adventures in the Dream Trade (2002)
Fragile Things: Short Fictions And Wonders (2006)
Good Omens (1990)
Neverwhere (1997)
Stardust (1999)
American Gods (2001)
Anansi Boys (2005)
Interworld (2007)
Graveyard Book, the (2008)
Odd and the Frost Giants (2008)
Graphic Novels:
Violent Cases (1987)
Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes (1990)
Sandman: The Doll's House (1990)
Black Orchid (1991)
Sandman: Season of Mists (1992)
Sandman: Dream Country (1992)
Signal to Noise (1992)
Sandman: A Game of You (1993)
Death: The High Cost of Living (1993)
Books of Magic, the (1993)
Sandman: Fables and Reflections (1994)
Sandman: Brief Lives (1994)
Sandman: World's End (1995)
Sandman: The Kindly Ones (1996)
Sandman: The Wake (1997)
Death: The Time of Your Life (1997)
Sandman: The Dream Hunters (1999)
Only the End of the World Again (2000)
Last Temptation, the (2001)
Harlequin Valentine (2001)
Murder Mysteries (2002)
Sandman: Endless Nights (2003)
Creatures of the Night (2004)
Marvel 1602 (2004)
Picture Books:
Mr. Punch (1994)
Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, the (1996)
Wolves in the Walls, the (2003)
Series:
American Gods
Elric of Melnibone
Sandman
Cthulhu Mythos
Death of the Endless
Fairy Tale Anthologies
Murder Most
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
Legends
Mammoth Anthologies
Chronicles of Magravandias, the
Year's Best Fantasy (Eos)
Collections:
Angels and Visitations: A Miscellany (1993)
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions (1998)
Midnight Days (1999)
Adventures in the Dream Trade (2002)
Fragile Things: Short Fictions And Wonders (2006)
The books of Kahlil Gibran
Collections:
Spirit Brides (1906)
Tears and Laughter (1946)
Eye of the Prophet, the (1991)
Beloved, the (1994)
Novels:
Broken Wings, the (1912)
Prophet, the (1923)
Spirit Brides (1906)
Tears and Laughter (1946)
Eye of the Prophet, the (1991)
Beloved, the (1994)
Novels:
Broken Wings, the (1912)
Prophet, the (1923)
T.S. Eliot
And now you live dispersed on ribbon roads,
And no man knows or cares who is his neighbour
Unless his neighbour makes too much disturbance,
But all dash to and fro in motor cars,
Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.
And no man knows or cares who is his neighbour
Unless his neighbour makes too much disturbance,
But all dash to and fro in motor cars,
Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.
T.S. Eliot
Preserve me from the enemy who has something to gain, and from the friend who has something to lose.
Teach us to care and not to care.
Teach us to sit still.
The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility.
May the judgement not be too heavy upon us.
There is one who remembers the way to your door.
Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by way of dispossession.
And what you do not know is the only thing you know.
In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.
The world turns and the world changes, but one thing does not change.
However you disguise it, this thing does not change: the perpetual struggle of Good and Evil.
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
Teach us to care and not to care.
Teach us to sit still.
The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility.
May the judgement not be too heavy upon us.
There is one who remembers the way to your door.
Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by way of dispossession.
And what you do not know is the only thing you know.
In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.
The world turns and the world changes, but one thing does not change.
However you disguise it, this thing does not change: the perpetual struggle of Good and Evil.
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
Pussy Cat Dolls
PCD are back with a new vid Hush Hush.
Nicole takes a leaf out of Britneys book and starts the vid with a nude scene, getting ot of the bath.
Unfortunately it goes downhill from there as it turns into a 70s disco song, and then they go into a rendition of "I Will Survive", totally with irony, with Nicole dressed up as Donna Summer.
Meolody never looked rougher as well.
Nicole takes a leaf out of Britneys book and starts the vid with a nude scene, getting ot of the bath.
Unfortunately it goes downhill from there as it turns into a 70s disco song, and then they go into a rendition of "I Will Survive", totally with irony, with Nicole dressed up as Donna Summer.
Meolody never looked rougher as well.
The Saturdays
The Sats are back with their sexiest video yet "Work". Molly and Frankie look particularly fine.
The books of H.P. Lovecraft
Collections:
Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales of Terror, the (1951)
Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre, the (1963)
Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces, the (1966)
Tomb and Other Tales, the (1970)
Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, the (1970)
Doom that Came to Sarnath, the (1971)
At the Mountains of Madness: And Other Tales of Terror (1971)
Lurking Fear and Other Stories, the (1971)
Watchers Out of Time, the (1974)
Omnibus Vol 1: At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror (1985)
Omnibus Vol 2: Dagon and Other Macabre Tales (1985)
Dagon and Other Macabre Tales (1987)
Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death, the (1995)
Transition of H.P. Lovecraft: The Road to Madness, the (1996)
Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories, the (1999)
Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories, the (2001)
Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H.P. Lovecraft, the (2001)
Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories, the (2004)
Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft (2008)
Novels:
Case of Charles Dexter Ward, the (1941)
Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, the (1943)
Lurker at the Threshold, the (1945)
Novellas:
At the Mountains of Madness (1936)
Shadow over Innsmouth, the (1936)
Novelettes:
Lurking Fear, the (1923)
Under the Pyramids (1924)
Colour Out of Space, the (1927)
Horror at Red Hook, the (1927)
Shunned House, the (1928)
Call of Cthulhu, the (1928)
Dunwich Horror, the (1929)
Dreams in the Witch House, the (1933)
Through the Gates of the Silver Key (1934)
Thing on the Doorstep, the (1937)
In the Walls of Eryx (1939)
Survivor, the (1954)
Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales of Terror, the (1951)
Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre, the (1963)
Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces, the (1966)
Tomb and Other Tales, the (1970)
Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, the (1970)
Doom that Came to Sarnath, the (1971)
At the Mountains of Madness: And Other Tales of Terror (1971)
Lurking Fear and Other Stories, the (1971)
Watchers Out of Time, the (1974)
Omnibus Vol 1: At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror (1985)
Omnibus Vol 2: Dagon and Other Macabre Tales (1985)
Dagon and Other Macabre Tales (1987)
Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death, the (1995)
Transition of H.P. Lovecraft: The Road to Madness, the (1996)
Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories, the (1999)
Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories, the (2001)
Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H.P. Lovecraft, the (2001)
Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories, the (2004)
Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft (2008)
Novels:
Case of Charles Dexter Ward, the (1941)
Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, the (1943)
Lurker at the Threshold, the (1945)
Novellas:
At the Mountains of Madness (1936)
Shadow over Innsmouth, the (1936)
Novelettes:
Lurking Fear, the (1923)
Under the Pyramids (1924)
Colour Out of Space, the (1927)
Horror at Red Hook, the (1927)
Shunned House, the (1928)
Call of Cthulhu, the (1928)
Dunwich Horror, the (1929)
Dreams in the Witch House, the (1933)
Through the Gates of the Silver Key (1934)
Thing on the Doorstep, the (1937)
In the Walls of Eryx (1939)
Survivor, the (1954)
The books of Frank Miller
Illustration works:
Batman The Dark Knight Returns (1986)
Graphic Novels:
Daredevil: Marked for Death (1979)
Batman The Dark Knight Returns (1986)
Batman: Year One (1988)
Sin City: The Hard Goodbye (1993)
Sin City: A Dame to Kill for (1993)
Sin City: The Big Fat Kill (1994)
Sin City: That Yellow Bastard (1997)
Sin City: Family Values (1997)
Sin City: Booze, Broads, & Bullets (1998)
Sin City: Hell and Back (1999)
300 (1999)
Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again (2003)
Series:
Sin City
Batman The Dark Knight Returns (1986)
Graphic Novels:
Daredevil: Marked for Death (1979)
Batman The Dark Knight Returns (1986)
Batman: Year One (1988)
Sin City: The Hard Goodbye (1993)
Sin City: A Dame to Kill for (1993)
Sin City: The Big Fat Kill (1994)
Sin City: That Yellow Bastard (1997)
Sin City: Family Values (1997)
Sin City: Booze, Broads, & Bullets (1998)
Sin City: Hell and Back (1999)
300 (1999)
Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again (2003)
Series:
Sin City
Saturday 20 June 2009
The books of William Gibson
Novels:
Neuromancer (1984)
Count Zero (1986)
Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988)
Difference Engine, the (1991)
Virtual Light (1993)
Idoru (1996)
All Tomorrow's Parties (1999)
Pattern Recognition (2003)
Spook Country (2007)
Neuromancer (1984)
Count Zero (1986)
Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988)
Difference Engine, the (1991)
Virtual Light (1993)
Idoru (1996)
All Tomorrow's Parties (1999)
Pattern Recognition (2003)
Spook Country (2007)
Jesus
What He really hates is the shit that gets carried out in his name. Wars. Bigotry. Televangelism.
Jobs
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
Friday 19 June 2009
Lady Ga Ga
Ga Ga has a new vid out Paparrazzi in which she plays a very Gwen Stefani type role.
The fact that her real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, ie her first name being the same as last name of the No Doubt singer, may be relevant.
The fact that her real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, ie her first name being the same as last name of the No Doubt singer, may be relevant.
Total Recall
We watched Total Recall again last night.
Watching Michael Ironside and the Mars cops blowing away all those innocent people on the tube makes us wonder if they were trained by the Met Police?
The whole issue of the implanted memories brings to mind an episode of DS9 where O Brien is captured by the Cardassians and sentenced to 20 years. However he doesn't literally serve 20 years, just has an implant to make him think he has. So there he is, back at DS9, not a day older, and hasn't lost anything. Now, in this situation you would think the memories were real, that you had lived through them. But you wouldn't actually live through them in real time. So would this really be a punishment? It' a lot better than serving the 20 years at any rate.
If they remade this film now, or were making it for the first time now, Kaley Cuoco would be great in the Sharon Stone role.
(see her in 8 Simple Rules, last series of Charmed, and Big Bang Theory).
Having said that, we could also picture playing the Sharon Stone role in Basic Instinct...
Watching Michael Ironside and the Mars cops blowing away all those innocent people on the tube makes us wonder if they were trained by the Met Police?
The whole issue of the implanted memories brings to mind an episode of DS9 where O Brien is captured by the Cardassians and sentenced to 20 years. However he doesn't literally serve 20 years, just has an implant to make him think he has. So there he is, back at DS9, not a day older, and hasn't lost anything. Now, in this situation you would think the memories were real, that you had lived through them. But you wouldn't actually live through them in real time. So would this really be a punishment? It' a lot better than serving the 20 years at any rate.
If they remade this film now, or were making it for the first time now, Kaley Cuoco would be great in the Sharon Stone role.
(see her in 8 Simple Rules, last series of Charmed, and Big Bang Theory).
Having said that, we could also picture playing the Sharon Stone role in Basic Instinct...
The books of Ernest Hemmingway
Novels:
Sun Also Rises, the (1926)
Torrents of Spring, the (1926)
Farewell to Arms, a (1929)
To Have and Have Not (1937)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
Across the River and into the Trees (1950)
Old Man and the Sea, the (1952)
Islands in the Stream (1970)
Garden of Eden (1986)
Collections:
Three Stories & Ten Poems (1923)
in our time (1924)
In Our Time (1925)
Men Without Women (1927)
Salmagundi (1932)
Winner Take Nothing (1933)
Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, the (1938)
Essential Hemingway, the (1947)
Hemingway Reader, the (1953)
Collected Poems of Ernest Hemingway, the (1960)
Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories, the (1961)
Fifth Column, the, and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War (1969)
Nick Adams Stories, the (1972)
Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, the (1987)
Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, the (1987)
Anthologies:
Fifty Great Short Stories (1952)
Short Story Masterpieces (1954)
Six Stories (1965)
Story-Makers, the (1970)
Double Vision: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Stories in English (1976)
Short Shorts (1982)
World of the Short Story, the (1986)
Norton Book of the Sea, Volume II, the (1991)
Nobel Crimes (1992)
Fiction: A Harpercollins Pocket Anthology (1993)
Outspoken Princess and the Gentle Knight, the (1994)
Oxford Book of American Short Stories, the (1994)
Murder at the Races (1995)
Crime Movies (1996)
50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time, the (1998)
Mammoth Book of Armchair Detectives and Screen Crimes, the (1998)
Plays:
Fifth Column, the (1938)
Novelettes:
Undefeated, the (1925)
Snows of Kilimanjaro, the (1936)
Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, the (1936)
Night Before Battle (1939)
Textbooks:
Green Hills of Africa (1935)
Sun Also Rises, the (1926)
Torrents of Spring, the (1926)
Farewell to Arms, a (1929)
To Have and Have Not (1937)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
Across the River and into the Trees (1950)
Old Man and the Sea, the (1952)
Islands in the Stream (1970)
Garden of Eden (1986)
Collections:
Three Stories & Ten Poems (1923)
in our time (1924)
In Our Time (1925)
Men Without Women (1927)
Salmagundi (1932)
Winner Take Nothing (1933)
Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, the (1938)
Essential Hemingway, the (1947)
Hemingway Reader, the (1953)
Collected Poems of Ernest Hemingway, the (1960)
Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories, the (1961)
Fifth Column, the, and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War (1969)
Nick Adams Stories, the (1972)
Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, the (1987)
Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, the (1987)
Anthologies:
Fifty Great Short Stories (1952)
Short Story Masterpieces (1954)
Six Stories (1965)
Story-Makers, the (1970)
Double Vision: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Stories in English (1976)
Short Shorts (1982)
World of the Short Story, the (1986)
Norton Book of the Sea, Volume II, the (1991)
Nobel Crimes (1992)
Fiction: A Harpercollins Pocket Anthology (1993)
Outspoken Princess and the Gentle Knight, the (1994)
Oxford Book of American Short Stories, the (1994)
Murder at the Races (1995)
Crime Movies (1996)
50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time, the (1998)
Mammoth Book of Armchair Detectives and Screen Crimes, the (1998)
Plays:
Fifth Column, the (1938)
Novelettes:
Undefeated, the (1925)
Snows of Kilimanjaro, the (1936)
Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, the (1936)
Night Before Battle (1939)
Textbooks:
Green Hills of Africa (1935)
Ecclesiastes
And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly:
I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
Thursday 18 June 2009
Girls Aloud Top Ten vids
1. Something Kinda Ooooh
2. Love Machine
3. I'll Stand by You
4. No Good Advice
5. Wake Me Up
6. Sound of the Underground
7. Biology
8. Jump
9. Can't Speak French
10. Long Hot Summer
2. Love Machine
3. I'll Stand by You
4. No Good Advice
5. Wake Me Up
6. Sound of the Underground
7. Biology
8. Jump
9. Can't Speak French
10. Long Hot Summer
The Doors - The End
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
Ill never look into your eyes...again
Can you picture what will be
So limitless and free
Desperately in need...of some...strangers hand
In a...desperate land
Lost in a roman...wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane
All the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain, yeah
Theres danger on the edge of town
Ride the kings highway, baby
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
Ride the highway west, baby
Ride the snake, ride the snake
To the lake, the ancient lake, baby
The snake is long, seven miles
Ride the snake...hes old, and his skin is cold
The west is the best
The west is the best
Get here, and well do the rest
The blue bus is callin us
The blue bus is callin us
Driver, where you taken us
The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived, and...then he
Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
He walked on down the hall, and
And he came to a door...and he looked inside
Father, yes son, I want to kill you
Mother...i want to...fuck you
Cmon baby, take a chance with us
Cmon baby, take a chance with us
Cmon baby, take a chance with us
And meet me at the back of the blue bus
Doin a blue rock
On a blue bus
Doin a blue rock
Cmon, yeah
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
It hurts to set you free
But youll never follow me
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of nights we tried to die
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
Ill never look into your eyes...again
Can you picture what will be
So limitless and free
Desperately in need...of some...strangers hand
In a...desperate land
Lost in a roman...wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane
All the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain, yeah
Theres danger on the edge of town
Ride the kings highway, baby
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
Ride the highway west, baby
Ride the snake, ride the snake
To the lake, the ancient lake, baby
The snake is long, seven miles
Ride the snake...hes old, and his skin is cold
The west is the best
The west is the best
Get here, and well do the rest
The blue bus is callin us
The blue bus is callin us
Driver, where you taken us
The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived, and...then he
Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
He walked on down the hall, and
And he came to a door...and he looked inside
Father, yes son, I want to kill you
Mother...i want to...fuck you
Cmon baby, take a chance with us
Cmon baby, take a chance with us
Cmon baby, take a chance with us
And meet me at the back of the blue bus
Doin a blue rock
On a blue bus
Doin a blue rock
Cmon, yeah
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
It hurts to set you free
But youll never follow me
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of nights we tried to die
This is the end
Hollyoaks Top Ten Babes
1. Mercedes
2. Hannah
3. Jackie
4. Lorretta
5. Zoe
6. Teresa
7. Carmel
8. Sarah
9. Steph
10. Sasha
Also ran: Cindy
Yes, now Loreta has arrived, the single mother slapper has been relegated to the also rans.
2. Hannah
3. Jackie
4. Lorretta
5. Zoe
6. Teresa
7. Carmel
8. Sarah
9. Steph
10. Sasha
Also ran: Cindy
Yes, now Loreta has arrived, the single mother slapper has been relegated to the also rans.
Blood in the moonlight
Blood in the moonlight appears black.
Of course, it keeps it's distinctive sheen.
Of course, it keeps it's distinctive sheen.
Sociopaths
The first and worst sign is sadism to animals as a child.
They have no remorse or guilt at all. No conscience.
Usually the sociopath will be a drifter with a history of trouble with the law.
They are shallow and exploitive in small things.
They are insensitive.
At an early age there is a strong bonding of aggressive and sexual drives in sadists.
When the military identifies these types they train them up to be assassins and snipers.
They have no remorse or guilt at all. No conscience.
Usually the sociopath will be a drifter with a history of trouble with the law.
They are shallow and exploitive in small things.
They are insensitive.
At an early age there is a strong bonding of aggressive and sexual drives in sadists.
When the military identifies these types they train them up to be assassins and snipers.
The Murder House
A murder house is ugly to the neighbours, like the face of someone who betrayed them.
Only outsiders and children stare.
Only outsiders and children stare.
Tuesday 16 June 2009
Time
There is one small event, which occurs to everyone.
One day you suddenly notice ageing in your hands. It is as if they suddenly appear before you and the skin has slackened over the bones and tendons, and your hands are creased in diamonds as small as lizard scales.
It's the moment you realise, not just think but truly KNOW, that one day you are going to die.
One day you suddenly notice ageing in your hands. It is as if they suddenly appear before you and the skin has slackened over the bones and tendons, and your hands are creased in diamonds as small as lizard scales.
It's the moment you realise, not just think but truly KNOW, that one day you are going to die.
Nature
We don't invent our natures. They're isued to us along with our lungs and pancreas and everything else.
Why fight it?
Why fight it?
Saturday 13 June 2009
Mercy
We make Mercy.
We manufacture it in parts that have overgrown our basic reptile brain.
There is no murder.
We make murder.
And it matters only to us.
We manufacture it in parts that have overgrown our basic reptile brain.
There is no murder.
We make murder.
And it matters only to us.
Ecclesiastes
And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly:
I percieved that this also is vexation of spirit.
I percieved that this also is vexation of spirit.
Level kisses
Did you ever see a couple that were exactly the same height?
A level kiss in public carries a pleasant jolt.
Possibly because level kisses are usually exchanged in bed.
A level kiss in public carries a pleasant jolt.
Possibly because level kisses are usually exchanged in bed.
William Blake
For Mercy has a human heart,
Pity a human face,
And Love, the human form divine,
And Peace, the human dress.
("The Divine Image" from Songs of Innocence)
Cruelty has a Human Heart,
And Jealousy a Human Face,
Terror the Human Form Divine,
And Secrecy the Human Dress.
The Human Dress is forged Iron,
The Human Form a fiery Forge,
The Human Face a Furnace seal'd,
The Human Heart it's hungry Gorge.
("A Divine Image" from Songs of Experience)
Pity a human face,
And Love, the human form divine,
And Peace, the human dress.
("The Divine Image" from Songs of Innocence)
Cruelty has a Human Heart,
And Jealousy a Human Face,
Terror the Human Form Divine,
And Secrecy the Human Dress.
The Human Dress is forged Iron,
The Human Form a fiery Forge,
The Human Face a Furnace seal'd,
The Human Heart it's hungry Gorge.
("A Divine Image" from Songs of Experience)
Girls Aloud
Sounds of The Underground was their first big hit. Their image was undefined, but we had Nadine's long legs right from the start and Sarah was doing her trashy blonde bit with the boots and her sexy dances. Kimberley first showed us her big pouty lips. Nicola was the rough one from day one. Tweedy was totally undefined - she looked like a weird chav in this vid and didn't yet have her trademark pouts and hair.
In second vid No Good Advice they were no better defined. Same goes for third single Life Got Cold. Speaking of which, not a good choice for a third song. After a big number one debut single, and a Rocky follow up, it's good to do a ballad as your third single. Worked for Avril Lavigne. However LGC was more like an early Sugababes song and didn't suit GA. There could have been a much better choice, especially when we look ahead to songs such as Stand By You or Whole Lotta History.
Next song was a cover of the Pointer Sister's Jump for the soundtrack to Love Actually. Still undefined in terms of hair and clothes. Tweedy has started smiling in her vids now, and the hair is wild and volumous. We never liked her with the short bob.
The Show was the first song off the second album "What Will The Neighbours Say?" Image still undefined. Sarah's hair is growing, as is Tweedys, and they've all started experimenting with colour. Tweedy smiling. Nicola worse than ever.
Love Machine. This is where it starts to come together. A different direction musically and the image is starting to gel. Dancing in a nightclub in sexy dresses, with long brown legs and cleavages. The first truly vintage GA vid. Sarah's hair is good, long and flowing as it would remain for the next few vids. Nadine looks right, her hair is right, legs are out, voice is strong. Even Nicola looks passable now. Tweedy still isn't right. The smile now looking a bit forced and false, hair scraped back, and the worst dress of all of them. Sexiest dress is Kimberley by far, a pink number cut in all the right places. Hair jet black. Pouting, wiggling, tanned. Kimberley's sexiest moment ever.
I'll Stand By You. Second cover, second ballad, and their defining moment. The stylists must have been working overtime and they got it right. Hair, makeup, wardrobe. Tweedy's defining moment, absolutely perfect, and she's started doing her facial expressions and that pout, and her little girl face. Nicola looks OK, hair darker. A simple vid, just a sand dune in a studio, but effective. This vid defines the GA image.
Wake Me Up. The fourth single from the second album. The one on the motorbikes. Nicola's best vid. Her hair is dark, her skin is tanned, her body is firm, her abs are tight, and she sings the second verse. For the first time she actually looks like she belongs in the band. Sarah and Tweedy have long and flowing hair. Sarah's best hair vid.
Long Hot Summer. Following up on Wake Me Up, the song for the summer of 2005. First song off the third album. Unfortunately this is a bad vid. Hair and makeup is wrong, lighting is wrong and unflattering, wardrobe is bad. Nicola gets front and centre for the dances and looks bad. We'd never say Tweedy could look rough, but she almost does here. "Unflattering" doesn't quite cover it. Considering how they came along visually in the last two vids, this is a let down.
See The Day. Third ballad, third cover. Nicola getting away with it just, with long dark hair. The band look good again, Nadine sounds terrific.
Biology. Sexy black dresses. Hair and makeup great. A great promo for the album. Vintage GA again.
Whole Lotta History, An original ballad. Nadine looks gorgeous at the start in a wooly jumper. Tweedy looks gorgeous on the bed in lingerie. The fourth song off an album will never sell as well as it's predecessors and this deserved to have been released earlier, before the See The Day cover.
Something Kinda Ooh. The Greatest Hits album was released next and this was the original single from it. Sexiest vid ever. Sexiest song ever. The one with the cars. Nadine wearing one of her now trademark strapless dresses. Tweedy looks sensational in figure hugging outfit. The group line dance is some of their worst ever choreography. The sillouette solo dancing is some of their sexiest ever. Done on a budget and rushed and it shows, but who cares? Nicola is now back to a messy red blob and pale skin like she's given up. Harding now sports raunchy blonde bob, like the old days, which is how we like her best.
Think We're Alone Now. Cover song for a film soundtrack. Tweedy's sexiest dress ever.
Walk This Way. Cover duet with the Sugababes for Comic Relief. Tweedy looks odd, a bit like Posh did in "Who Do You Think You Are?". SThought: switch Heidi and Nicola and GA would be THE perfect girl band. They pretty much are anyway.
Sexy? No! No! No! The first song off next album Tangled Up. Tight rubber suits. Should be Sexy? Yes! Yes! Yes!
Call The Shots. Sarah's worst hair ever. Just whose idea was that? Some of Tweedy's best leg shots, especially those tanned thighs. She doesn't get enough credit for her legs, as Nadine takes most of the attention, but she can hold her own standing next to The Bombshell. Tweedy hair shorter and straight, not her best look. Nadine hair long and straight, not her best look.
Can't Speak French. Nadine looks spectacular in this vid in her strapless bodice, cleavage heaving, hair flowing, makeup and face perfect, and some of her best vocals. Nicola looks like a bloke in drag.
The Promise. First song from Out Of Control album. Tweedy's legs on show again in 60s throwback vid. Nadine looks incredible in her sparkling torch dress. Nicola looks like an old woman. Sarah hair bad.
The Loving Kind and Untouchable. The two most recent songs from the most recent album, and probably the only ones they'll release from it. These together show the band has gone as far as they can musically and visually.
Will there be another album?
In second vid No Good Advice they were no better defined. Same goes for third single Life Got Cold. Speaking of which, not a good choice for a third song. After a big number one debut single, and a Rocky follow up, it's good to do a ballad as your third single. Worked for Avril Lavigne. However LGC was more like an early Sugababes song and didn't suit GA. There could have been a much better choice, especially when we look ahead to songs such as Stand By You or Whole Lotta History.
Next song was a cover of the Pointer Sister's Jump for the soundtrack to Love Actually. Still undefined in terms of hair and clothes. Tweedy has started smiling in her vids now, and the hair is wild and volumous. We never liked her with the short bob.
The Show was the first song off the second album "What Will The Neighbours Say?" Image still undefined. Sarah's hair is growing, as is Tweedys, and they've all started experimenting with colour. Tweedy smiling. Nicola worse than ever.
Love Machine. This is where it starts to come together. A different direction musically and the image is starting to gel. Dancing in a nightclub in sexy dresses, with long brown legs and cleavages. The first truly vintage GA vid. Sarah's hair is good, long and flowing as it would remain for the next few vids. Nadine looks right, her hair is right, legs are out, voice is strong. Even Nicola looks passable now. Tweedy still isn't right. The smile now looking a bit forced and false, hair scraped back, and the worst dress of all of them. Sexiest dress is Kimberley by far, a pink number cut in all the right places. Hair jet black. Pouting, wiggling, tanned. Kimberley's sexiest moment ever.
I'll Stand By You. Second cover, second ballad, and their defining moment. The stylists must have been working overtime and they got it right. Hair, makeup, wardrobe. Tweedy's defining moment, absolutely perfect, and she's started doing her facial expressions and that pout, and her little girl face. Nicola looks OK, hair darker. A simple vid, just a sand dune in a studio, but effective. This vid defines the GA image.
Wake Me Up. The fourth single from the second album. The one on the motorbikes. Nicola's best vid. Her hair is dark, her skin is tanned, her body is firm, her abs are tight, and she sings the second verse. For the first time she actually looks like she belongs in the band. Sarah and Tweedy have long and flowing hair. Sarah's best hair vid.
Long Hot Summer. Following up on Wake Me Up, the song for the summer of 2005. First song off the third album. Unfortunately this is a bad vid. Hair and makeup is wrong, lighting is wrong and unflattering, wardrobe is bad. Nicola gets front and centre for the dances and looks bad. We'd never say Tweedy could look rough, but she almost does here. "Unflattering" doesn't quite cover it. Considering how they came along visually in the last two vids, this is a let down.
See The Day. Third ballad, third cover. Nicola getting away with it just, with long dark hair. The band look good again, Nadine sounds terrific.
Biology. Sexy black dresses. Hair and makeup great. A great promo for the album. Vintage GA again.
Whole Lotta History, An original ballad. Nadine looks gorgeous at the start in a wooly jumper. Tweedy looks gorgeous on the bed in lingerie. The fourth song off an album will never sell as well as it's predecessors and this deserved to have been released earlier, before the See The Day cover.
Something Kinda Ooh. The Greatest Hits album was released next and this was the original single from it. Sexiest vid ever. Sexiest song ever. The one with the cars. Nadine wearing one of her now trademark strapless dresses. Tweedy looks sensational in figure hugging outfit. The group line dance is some of their worst ever choreography. The sillouette solo dancing is some of their sexiest ever. Done on a budget and rushed and it shows, but who cares? Nicola is now back to a messy red blob and pale skin like she's given up. Harding now sports raunchy blonde bob, like the old days, which is how we like her best.
Think We're Alone Now. Cover song for a film soundtrack. Tweedy's sexiest dress ever.
Walk This Way. Cover duet with the Sugababes for Comic Relief. Tweedy looks odd, a bit like Posh did in "Who Do You Think You Are?". SThought: switch Heidi and Nicola and GA would be THE perfect girl band. They pretty much are anyway.
Sexy? No! No! No! The first song off next album Tangled Up. Tight rubber suits. Should be Sexy? Yes! Yes! Yes!
Call The Shots. Sarah's worst hair ever. Just whose idea was that? Some of Tweedy's best leg shots, especially those tanned thighs. She doesn't get enough credit for her legs, as Nadine takes most of the attention, but she can hold her own standing next to The Bombshell. Tweedy hair shorter and straight, not her best look. Nadine hair long and straight, not her best look.
Can't Speak French. Nadine looks spectacular in this vid in her strapless bodice, cleavage heaving, hair flowing, makeup and face perfect, and some of her best vocals. Nicola looks like a bloke in drag.
The Promise. First song from Out Of Control album. Tweedy's legs on show again in 60s throwback vid. Nadine looks incredible in her sparkling torch dress. Nicola looks like an old woman. Sarah hair bad.
The Loving Kind and Untouchable. The two most recent songs from the most recent album, and probably the only ones they'll release from it. These together show the band has gone as far as they can musically and visually.
Will there be another album?
Friday 12 June 2009
Lampion
The light from oil lamps has been described as "the light of other days".
The sun grows the plants. The plants create oils. The oils fire the lamp.
This gives us back the light of other days.
The light of an oil lamp is the stored, converted, and liberated sunshine of years past, of bygone days.
That's why it can be so melanchology and nostalgic.
The sun grows the plants. The plants create oils. The oils fire the lamp.
This gives us back the light of other days.
The light of an oil lamp is the stored, converted, and liberated sunshine of years past, of bygone days.
That's why it can be so melanchology and nostalgic.
Desperation
Desperation is energized despair.
Despair is the abandonment of hope.
Without we have no defence against fear.
Despair is the abandonment of hope.
Without we have no defence against fear.
Holograms
Everything on earth came from the sun, so the earth itself is nothing more than solidified sunlight.
You are nothing more than solidified sunlight, a collection of photons, a hologram.
You are nothing more than solidified sunlight, a collection of photons, a hologram.
Sheryl Crow
We've got loud guitars and big suspicions,
Great big guns and small ambitions,
And we still argue about who is God.
Great big guns and small ambitions,
And we still argue about who is God.
Why did Jesus arrive when he did?
Let's examine this.
The last books of the Old Testament are Zechariah and Malachi which are prophesies.
The New Testament, of course, starts with the birth of JC, or the prophesies of His birth if you're reading Luke, right back to the angel visiting the father of John the Baptist.
The years between the OT and NT include the story of Alexander the Great, who conquered Judea, Egypt and Persia. It is also the time of the first great Philosphers including Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. Ari was, in fact, the teacher of Alexander.
After Alex's death and the collapse of his empire, we see the rise of the Roman Imperator Julias Caeser. Caeser is killed about 30 BC so his nephew Octavian becomes the first real Roman Emperor. At the time of JCs birth he is now Emperor, called Augustus, and Herod is in charge of Judea. By the time JC starts His ministry, Tiberius is Emperor.
Judea is never freed and the Roman Empire does not collapse. Not til the time of Constantine, when he becomes the first Pope. The Catholic church today is basically the decendant of the Roman Empire, and the pope is the Emperor.
(Interestingly, the Pope has usually been Italian. Just before WWII, Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla was made the first non-Italian Pope for centuries. When he died in 2005, his successor was the German Cardinal Ratzenberger. Sign of the times.)
The last books of the Old Testament are Zechariah and Malachi which are prophesies.
The New Testament, of course, starts with the birth of JC, or the prophesies of His birth if you're reading Luke, right back to the angel visiting the father of John the Baptist.
The years between the OT and NT include the story of Alexander the Great, who conquered Judea, Egypt and Persia. It is also the time of the first great Philosphers including Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. Ari was, in fact, the teacher of Alexander.
After Alex's death and the collapse of his empire, we see the rise of the Roman Imperator Julias Caeser. Caeser is killed about 30 BC so his nephew Octavian becomes the first real Roman Emperor. At the time of JCs birth he is now Emperor, called Augustus, and Herod is in charge of Judea. By the time JC starts His ministry, Tiberius is Emperor.
Judea is never freed and the Roman Empire does not collapse. Not til the time of Constantine, when he becomes the first Pope. The Catholic church today is basically the decendant of the Roman Empire, and the pope is the Emperor.
(Interestingly, the Pope has usually been Italian. Just before WWII, Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla was made the first non-Italian Pope for centuries. When he died in 2005, his successor was the German Cardinal Ratzenberger. Sign of the times.)
Evil
If evil geniuses are so rare, why do so many bad people get away with so many crimes against their fellow citizens and, when they become leaders of nations, against humanity?
According to Burke:
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Append to that:
It is also essential that good men and women not be educated and propeganderized into believing that real evil is a myth and that all malevolent behaviour is merely the result of a broken home or a failed society's shortcomings, amenable to cure counseling and by application of a new economic theory.
And not forgetting:
the greatest trick The Devil ever played on the world was convincing mankind that he didn't exist.
According to Burke:
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Append to that:
It is also essential that good men and women not be educated and propeganderized into believing that real evil is a myth and that all malevolent behaviour is merely the result of a broken home or a failed society's shortcomings, amenable to cure counseling and by application of a new economic theory.
And not forgetting:
the greatest trick The Devil ever played on the world was convincing mankind that he didn't exist.
The birth of Christ and the Early years
The Gospel of John is the sparsest of the four. It starts with The Word becoming Flesh. He sort of requotes Genesis - the whole "Let There Be Light" bit, then jumps to John the Baptist as the next big significant event in world history.
JtB paves the way for JC, like a herald. He has to convince the people that he is not Christ, The Prophet or Elijah (though we now know he was the re-incarnation of Elijah).
Then JC turns up, gets baptised, and goes recruiting.
Mark is also pretty sparse. He also starts by quoting Isiah 40:3, as well as a bit from Malachi (3:1).
JC turns up to get baptised, then goes off to the desert for 40 days to get tempted by Satan. JtB goes to prison. JC ges out to do some recruiting and healing.
Matthew has a far more in depth beginning than even Luke. He starts with the geneology of JC, starting from Abraham, down to David, and down to Joseph.
This is supposed to prove that JC is a descendant of David, and somehow has royal blood. Yet, if Joseph isn't his bio dad, just his stepdad, it kind of misses the point.
Then Matt covers the angel speaking to Joseph, the birth of JC at Bethlehem. The star. A quote from Micah (5:2). The three magi, or wise men, or kings sent by Herod. The escape to Egypt. Herod kills the firstborn then has a stroke and dies. JC returns to Nazareth.
Then we have JtB preparing the way, JC's baptism, then the desert temptation.
Luke is equally concise. Like Acts, this book is written to his friend Theophilis, and is a first hand account (more or less).
There is a detailed account of the foretelling of both JtB and JC, so a lot of backstory. JtB's birth is covered in as much detail as JC's is.
This story has the account of the three shepherds, watching their flock by night and visited by an angel who sends them to the birth. So whether there were just 3 shepherds, just 3 kings, or both, depends on how you interpret the story.
We see JC presented at the temple and circumcised (ouch), then JC at the Temple as a boy.
JtB's preparing the way is very detailed in this one. We're told it all take place in the 15th year of Tiberius.
Isiah 40:3 gets quoted again, but JtB does a lot of preaching of his own.
JC turns up to get baptised.
The Geneology appears here, but in reverse, counting back from Joseph. It doesn't just stop at Abraham, but goes right back to Adam, "Son of God".
Then JC goes off into the desert to get tempted.
We even have a quote of the conversation.
JtB paves the way for JC, like a herald. He has to convince the people that he is not Christ, The Prophet or Elijah (though we now know he was the re-incarnation of Elijah).
Then JC turns up, gets baptised, and goes recruiting.
Mark is also pretty sparse. He also starts by quoting Isiah 40:3, as well as a bit from Malachi (3:1).
JC turns up to get baptised, then goes off to the desert for 40 days to get tempted by Satan. JtB goes to prison. JC ges out to do some recruiting and healing.
Matthew has a far more in depth beginning than even Luke. He starts with the geneology of JC, starting from Abraham, down to David, and down to Joseph.
This is supposed to prove that JC is a descendant of David, and somehow has royal blood. Yet, if Joseph isn't his bio dad, just his stepdad, it kind of misses the point.
Then Matt covers the angel speaking to Joseph, the birth of JC at Bethlehem. The star. A quote from Micah (5:2). The three magi, or wise men, or kings sent by Herod. The escape to Egypt. Herod kills the firstborn then has a stroke and dies. JC returns to Nazareth.
Then we have JtB preparing the way, JC's baptism, then the desert temptation.
Luke is equally concise. Like Acts, this book is written to his friend Theophilis, and is a first hand account (more or less).
There is a detailed account of the foretelling of both JtB and JC, so a lot of backstory. JtB's birth is covered in as much detail as JC's is.
This story has the account of the three shepherds, watching their flock by night and visited by an angel who sends them to the birth. So whether there were just 3 shepherds, just 3 kings, or both, depends on how you interpret the story.
We see JC presented at the temple and circumcised (ouch), then JC at the Temple as a boy.
JtB's preparing the way is very detailed in this one. We're told it all take place in the 15th year of Tiberius.
Isiah 40:3 gets quoted again, but JtB does a lot of preaching of his own.
JC turns up to get baptised.
The Geneology appears here, but in reverse, counting back from Joseph. It doesn't just stop at Abraham, but goes right back to Adam, "Son of God".
Then JC goes off into the desert to get tempted.
We even have a quote of the conversation.
Thursday 11 June 2009
William Gibson
William Gibson wrote three cyberpunk novels - Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive. He also wrote three short stories which also take place in The Sprawl - Johnny Mnemonic, Burning Chrome and New Rose Hotel.
The Sprawl stories, written in the 80s, capture 80s culture, integrating technology and fashion. They paint a credible future, a realistic future. A future based on the modern condition (as it was in the 80s), but still relevant when re-read today. Rather than all robots and spaceships, the stories take place in post-modern cities, full of cybernetics, biotech and communications webs.
The cities and the world are dominated by Multi-National Corporations - even the Yakuza are now a MNC and have taken over the Triads and the Mafia (a hostile takeover one would imagine). The citizens of these new cities are burnt out, like the citizens in Judge Dredd or Blade Runner.
Night City in Neuromancer is described as "a deranged experiment in Social Darwinism, designed by a bored researcher who kept one thumb permanently on the Fast Forward button".
What makes the Sprawl stories so good is that they are recognisable. This could be our future, in one of our cities. This is the underbelly of future life on the streets. Gibson's characters are on the fringe of society, as many of our modern fictional heroes are. They are hustlers, cowboys and losers who live in this future nightmare Gibson has created. This future is alive, not just speculative. These stories take place on the mean streets, in the avenues and alleyways.
This is the section of the iceberg that is far below the surface, the deepest and darkest parts of this future world. In this sense, Gibson is as much a sociologist and anthropologist as he is a scientist.
The Sprawl stories, written in the 80s, capture 80s culture, integrating technology and fashion. They paint a credible future, a realistic future. A future based on the modern condition (as it was in the 80s), but still relevant when re-read today. Rather than all robots and spaceships, the stories take place in post-modern cities, full of cybernetics, biotech and communications webs.
The cities and the world are dominated by Multi-National Corporations - even the Yakuza are now a MNC and have taken over the Triads and the Mafia (a hostile takeover one would imagine). The citizens of these new cities are burnt out, like the citizens in Judge Dredd or Blade Runner.
Night City in Neuromancer is described as "a deranged experiment in Social Darwinism, designed by a bored researcher who kept one thumb permanently on the Fast Forward button".
What makes the Sprawl stories so good is that they are recognisable. This could be our future, in one of our cities. This is the underbelly of future life on the streets. Gibson's characters are on the fringe of society, as many of our modern fictional heroes are. They are hustlers, cowboys and losers who live in this future nightmare Gibson has created. This future is alive, not just speculative. These stories take place on the mean streets, in the avenues and alleyways.
This is the section of the iceberg that is far below the surface, the deepest and darkest parts of this future world. In this sense, Gibson is as much a sociologist and anthropologist as he is a scientist.
Every cloud has it's thorn...
The only real problem with being the smartest person in the world is I'm constantly surrounded by stupid people...
The Human Comedy
A species that can blind itself to truth, that can plunge so enthusiastically along roads that lead nowhere but to tragedy, can be amusing in it's recklessness.
As amusing as the great movie comedians like Buster Keaton, Laurel and hardy, and many others, who knew that a foot stuck in a bucket is funny, that a head stuck in a bucket is funnier, and trying to stubbornly move a grand piano up a set of stairs obviously too steep and narrow to allow sucess is the hilarious distillation of the human experience.
Laugh with humanity, not at it, for you are as big a fool as anyone, and probably bigger than most.
You've been stuck in more than your share of buckets.
As amusing as the great movie comedians like Buster Keaton, Laurel and hardy, and many others, who knew that a foot stuck in a bucket is funny, that a head stuck in a bucket is funnier, and trying to stubbornly move a grand piano up a set of stairs obviously too steep and narrow to allow sucess is the hilarious distillation of the human experience.
Laugh with humanity, not at it, for you are as big a fool as anyone, and probably bigger than most.
You've been stuck in more than your share of buckets.
The Human Tragedy
The world that humanity has made is different from the world it was given.
The given world dazzles with wonder, poetry, and purpose.
The man made world is a perverse realm of ego and envy. Power mad cynics make false idols of themselves, and the meek have no inheritance because they have surrendered it to their idols in return, not for lasting glory, but for an occassional parade. Not for bread, but for the promise of bread.
The given world dazzles with wonder, poetry, and purpose.
The man made world is a perverse realm of ego and envy. Power mad cynics make false idols of themselves, and the meek have no inheritance because they have surrendered it to their idols in return, not for lasting glory, but for an occassional parade. Not for bread, but for the promise of bread.
Ghosts
The lingering dead are those who are destined for a better world than this one, if they are willing to receive it.
They resist moving on for a variety of reasons. None of them rational.
Those whose lives have included insufficient acts of kindness and goodwill to outweight the evil they have done, or who had done nothing but evil, do not linger here after death. Those that manage it, manage only days or hours, never years.
Because they never believed in hope while they were alive, their hopelessness lingers with them after death. They travel into eternal darkness without protest because they lack the imaginatuion to do anything else.
Not forgetting, on death, they have a debt to pay.
And the collector has no patience for lingering debtors.
They resist moving on for a variety of reasons. None of them rational.
Those whose lives have included insufficient acts of kindness and goodwill to outweight the evil they have done, or who had done nothing but evil, do not linger here after death. Those that manage it, manage only days or hours, never years.
Because they never believed in hope while they were alive, their hopelessness lingers with them after death. They travel into eternal darkness without protest because they lack the imaginatuion to do anything else.
Not forgetting, on death, they have a debt to pay.
And the collector has no patience for lingering debtors.
Ghost(s)
Spirits can't directly touch us or harm us, not even evil spirits.
This is our world and they have no power over us. Their blows pass through us, they cannot draw blood. That scene in Ghost where Swayze punches his mate is impossible. Spirits can't do that.
However, sufficiently malevolent, with depths of rage to draw upon, they can spin spiritual power into force that cause inanimate objects to use. Example in the film are the subway ghost and Swayze himself, raging against his killers. His passion for Molly is not enough to generate this force, he has to tap his rage.
This is our world and they have no power over us. Their blows pass through us, they cannot draw blood. That scene in Ghost where Swayze punches his mate is impossible. Spirits can't do that.
However, sufficiently malevolent, with depths of rage to draw upon, they can spin spiritual power into force that cause inanimate objects to use. Example in the film are the subway ghost and Swayze himself, raging against his killers. His passion for Molly is not enough to generate this force, he has to tap his rage.
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol said that in the future everybody would be famous for fifteen minutes, and he implied that they would hunger for that fame.
He was right, but only about the kind of people he knew.
Some people crave anonymity, they want to be invisible.
He was right, but only about the kind of people he knew.
Some people crave anonymity, they want to be invisible.
Saturday 6 June 2009
The Omen
In the film The Omen, Father Brennan has an interesting poem regarding The AntiChrist:
"When the Jews return to Zion, and a comet rips the sky,
and the Holy Roman Empire rises, then you and I must die."
"From the eternal sea he rises, creating armies on either shore,
turning man against his brother, till man exists no more."
"When the Jews return to Zion, and a comet rips the sky,
and the Holy Roman Empire rises, then you and I must die."
"From the eternal sea he rises, creating armies on either shore,
turning man against his brother, till man exists no more."
Adam Ant - The Day I Met God
Adam Ant wrote an ineresting song called The Day I Met God in his early years.
See what you think of it
Day I met god
I got so carried away
Day I met god
I got so carried away
Not with the vision
But the streaks in his hair
Not with religion
But the size of his knob
The day I met god
The day I met god
It was pissing with rain
And we went
Day I met god
I got so carried away
Day I met god
I got so carried away
Not with the vision
But the streaks in his hair
Not with the vicars
Or the nuns or the priests
The day I met god
The day I met god, the day I met the big boy
It was pissing with rain
And we went
And the herald angels sang
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh....
We were coming back in the van
From milan
And I saw god
Right there
See what you think of it
Day I met god
I got so carried away
Day I met god
I got so carried away
Not with the vision
But the streaks in his hair
Not with religion
But the size of his knob
The day I met god
The day I met god
It was pissing with rain
And we went
Day I met god
I got so carried away
Day I met god
I got so carried away
Not with the vision
But the streaks in his hair
Not with the vicars
Or the nuns or the priests
The day I met god
The day I met god, the day I met the big boy
It was pissing with rain
And we went
And the herald angels sang
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh....
We were coming back in the van
From milan
And I saw god
Right there
Big Brother
Big Brother launched on Thursday and they are already into this year's new twist.
One of the contestants is a blonde glamour model called Sophie who has already appeared in Playboy. We'll be watching out for her turning up in Nuts and/or Zoo as early as this week. She may even rival Imogen as Sexiest Housemate Ever.
There is also a blonde who looks like Fern Cotton, but who doesn't really hold a candle to Sophie, the same as Fern doesn't next to Holly.
Another hottie is Noirin who looks a lot like Naomi from Shipwrecked (joint winner of Sexiest Shipwrecked Contestant Ever, tied with Lianne Daubin)
There is a butch lezza called Lisa who is basically a female Pete 2006.
And to make matters more confusing there is also a Sophia and a Saffia in the house.
See how the first week pans out.
One of the contestants is a blonde glamour model called Sophie who has already appeared in Playboy. We'll be watching out for her turning up in Nuts and/or Zoo as early as this week. She may even rival Imogen as Sexiest Housemate Ever.
There is also a blonde who looks like Fern Cotton, but who doesn't really hold a candle to Sophie, the same as Fern doesn't next to Holly.
Another hottie is Noirin who looks a lot like Naomi from Shipwrecked (joint winner of Sexiest Shipwrecked Contestant Ever, tied with Lianne Daubin)
There is a butch lezza called Lisa who is basically a female Pete 2006.
And to make matters more confusing there is also a Sophia and a Saffia in the house.
See how the first week pans out.
Terminator Salvation
This is the first big film of the summer.
When Christain Bale was first contacted about this film he was offered the part of the new Terminator itself. Considering the T1000 in T2, we reckon he would have done a good job. However Bale said he was more interested in playing John Connor.
When he saw the first script, Bale wasn't impressed by the Connor character, so it was re-written. Now we have a Connor played the way he is supposed to be played by an A list actor who can really make the part his own.
When Christain Bale was first contacted about this film he was offered the part of the new Terminator itself. Considering the T1000 in T2, we reckon he would have done a good job. However Bale said he was more interested in playing John Connor.
When he saw the first script, Bale wasn't impressed by the Connor character, so it was re-written. Now we have a Connor played the way he is supposed to be played by an A list actor who can really make the part his own.
Tuesday 2 June 2009
Big Brother and William Gibson
We all know the Orwell-ian back story to Big Brother.
However I find what Gibson wrote about The Sprawl, in particular Ninsei Night City in Neuromancer - "a deranged experment in social Darwinism" to be applicable to the Big Brother house.
Well I'll be watching with that in mind, for the tenth time. See what you think.
However I find what Gibson wrote about The Sprawl, in particular Ninsei Night City in Neuromancer - "a deranged experment in social Darwinism" to be applicable to the Big Brother house.
Well I'll be watching with that in mind, for the tenth time. See what you think.
Big Brother
Big Brother 19 starts this week.
As usual I'll be watching. I'll be contributing to Big Brother Forums as I do each year (under an alias of course) and I'll probably post some comments here as it goes on.
I watched Big Brother from the first one, as I thought it would be an interesting experiment in sociology, psychology and even anthropology. As it progressed, and people knew what to expect, the show evolved, and the contestants became more particular.
Last year, 2008, didn't really work, the same as 2003, the fourth and most boring Big Brother, didn't work. Hopefully they'll do what they did in 2004 for Big Brother 5, and change the format so it gets good again.
As usual I'll be watching. I'll be contributing to Big Brother Forums as I do each year (under an alias of course) and I'll probably post some comments here as it goes on.
I watched Big Brother from the first one, as I thought it would be an interesting experiment in sociology, psychology and even anthropology. As it progressed, and people knew what to expect, the show evolved, and the contestants became more particular.
Last year, 2008, didn't really work, the same as 2003, the fourth and most boring Big Brother, didn't work. Hopefully they'll do what they did in 2004 for Big Brother 5, and change the format so it gets good again.
Jesus The Lost Years
People always wonder what Jesus was doing between when we see Him as a 12 years old child in the Temple and when we see Him at 30 starting His ministry.
Well He was working as a Carpenter.
Apprentice to Joseph, his stepdad, He learnt the trade. Then after Joseph passed away He became the man of the house (the oldest brother) and took over the family business.
By the time He was 30, His younger brothers were qualified carpenters and took over the business when JC left to start His real life's mission.
So He wasn't doing anything in the "missing" 18 years, well nothing noteworthy anyway. Also none of the 4 people who wrote the Gospels would have known anything about this period.
John The Baptist was paving the way for JC, letting people know He was on the way.
Some people think JC was training to be a rabbi, a Jewish priest. This is untrue. JC was never a rabbi, He was a carpenter. He spent His hours working for a living. Only children froma rich house would study at Temple to be rabbi.
At John 7:14 JC explains how His teaching comes direct from God. He is not teaching Jewish scripture, learnt at a Jewish temple. He is teaching the first lessons of what would become Christianity.
Balthazar, one of the three "wise men" or "three kings" or "magi" (depending on which version of the story you are following) was at the birth of Christ and also at the Crucifixion (we see this illustrated particularly well in Ben Hur). So Balthazar would have been able to tell people who were there the story of the birth.
Well He was working as a Carpenter.
Apprentice to Joseph, his stepdad, He learnt the trade. Then after Joseph passed away He became the man of the house (the oldest brother) and took over the family business.
By the time He was 30, His younger brothers were qualified carpenters and took over the business when JC left to start His real life's mission.
So He wasn't doing anything in the "missing" 18 years, well nothing noteworthy anyway. Also none of the 4 people who wrote the Gospels would have known anything about this period.
John The Baptist was paving the way for JC, letting people know He was on the way.
Some people think JC was training to be a rabbi, a Jewish priest. This is untrue. JC was never a rabbi, He was a carpenter. He spent His hours working for a living. Only children froma rich house would study at Temple to be rabbi.
At John 7:14 JC explains how His teaching comes direct from God. He is not teaching Jewish scripture, learnt at a Jewish temple. He is teaching the first lessons of what would become Christianity.
Balthazar, one of the three "wise men" or "three kings" or "magi" (depending on which version of the story you are following) was at the birth of Christ and also at the Crucifixion (we see this illustrated particularly well in Ben Hur). So Balthazar would have been able to tell people who were there the story of the birth.
Monday 1 June 2009
Stephen King's recommended reading
In the book Danse Macabre, King makes a list of roughly one hundred books—novels and collections. King has marked with an asterisk ( * ) books which he felt were particularly important.
We have read all these books, some more than once, and recommend you do the same.
It would be interesting to see what an updated list for up to 2009 would include.
Richard Adams. The Plague Dogs; Watership Down*
Robert Aickman. Cold Hand in Mine; Painted Devils
Marcel Ayme. The Walker through Walls
Beryl Bainbridge. Harriet Said
J. G. Ballard. Concrete Island*; High Rise
Charles Beaumont. Hunger*; The Magic Man
Robert Bloch. Pleasant Dreams*; Psycho*
Ray Bradbury. Dandelion Wine; Something Wicked This Way Comes*; The October Country
Joseph Payne Brennan. The Shapes of Midnight*
Frederic Brown. Nightmares and Geezenstacks*
Edward Bryant. Among the Dead
Janet Caird. The Loch
Ramsey Campbell. Demons By Daylight; The Doll Who Ate His Mother*; The Parasite*
Suzy McKee Charnas. The Vampire Tapestry
Julio Cortazar. The End of the Game and Other Stories
Harry Crews. A Feast of Snakes
Roald Dahl. Kiss Kiss*; Someone Like You*
Les Daniels. The Black Castle
Stephen R. Donaldson. The Thomas Covenant Trilogy (3 vols.)*
Daphne Du Maurier. Don't Look Now
Harlan Ellison. Deathbird Stories*; Strange Wine*
John Farris. All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By
Charles G. Finney. The Ghosts of Manacle
Jack Finney. The Body Snatchers*; I Love Galesburg in the Springtime; The Third Level*;
Time and Again*
William Golding. Lord of the Flies*
Edward Gorey. Amphigorey; Amphigorey Too
Charles L. Grant. The Hour of the Oxrun Dead; The Sound of Midnight*
Davis Grubb. Twelve Tales of Horror*
William H. Hallahan. The Keeper of the Children; The Search for Joseph Tully
James Herbert. The Fog; The Spear*; The Survivor
William Hjortsberg. Falling Angel*
Shirley Jackson. The Haunting of Hill House*; The Lottery and Others*; The Sundial
Gerald Kersh. Men Without Bones*
Russell Kirk. The Princess of All Lands
Nigel Kneale. Tomato Caine
William Kotzwinkle. Dr. Rat*
Jerry Kozinski. The Painted Bird*
Fritz Leiber. Our Lady of Darkness*
Ursula LeGuin. The Lathe of Heaven*; Orsinian Tales
Ira Levin. Rosemary's Baby*; The Stepford Wives
John D. MacDonald. The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything
Bernard Malamud. The Magic Barrel*; The Natural
Robert Marasco. Burnt Offerings*
Gabriel Maria Marquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude
Richard Matheson. Hell House; I Am Legend*; Shock II; The Shrinking Man*; A Stir of Echoes
Michael McDowell. The Amulet*; Cold Moon Over Babylon*
Ian McEwen. The Cement Garden
John Metcalf. The Feasting Dead
Iris Murdoch. The Unicorn
Joyce Carol Oates. Nightside*
Flannery O'Connor. A Good Man Is Hard to Find*
Mervyn Peake. The Gormenghast Trilogy (3 volumes)
Thomas Pynchon. V.*
Edogawa Rampo. Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Jean Ray. Ghouls in My Grave
Anne Rice. Interview with the Vampire
Philip Roth. The Breast
Ray Russell. Sardonicus*
Joan Samson. The Auctioneer*
William Sansom. The Collected Stories of William Sansom
Sarban. Ringstones; The Sound of His Horn*
Anne Rivers Siddons. The House Next Door*
Isaac Bashevis Singer. The Seance and Other Stories*
Martin Cruz Smith. Nightwing
Peter Straub. Ghost Story*; If You Could See Me Now; Julia; Shadowland*
Theodore Sturgeon. Caviar; The Dreaming jewels; Some of Your Blood*
Thomas Tessier. The Nightwalker
Paul Theroux. The Black House
Thomas Tryon. The Other*
Les Whitten. Progeny of the Adder*
Thomas Williams. Tsuga's Children*
Gahan Wilson. I Paint What I See
T. M. Wright. Strange Seed*
John Wyndham. The Chrysalids; The Day of the Triffids
We have read all these books, some more than once, and recommend you do the same.
It would be interesting to see what an updated list for up to 2009 would include.
Richard Adams. The Plague Dogs; Watership Down*
Robert Aickman. Cold Hand in Mine; Painted Devils
Marcel Ayme. The Walker through Walls
Beryl Bainbridge. Harriet Said
J. G. Ballard. Concrete Island*; High Rise
Charles Beaumont. Hunger*; The Magic Man
Robert Bloch. Pleasant Dreams*; Psycho*
Ray Bradbury. Dandelion Wine; Something Wicked This Way Comes*; The October Country
Joseph Payne Brennan. The Shapes of Midnight*
Frederic Brown. Nightmares and Geezenstacks*
Edward Bryant. Among the Dead
Janet Caird. The Loch
Ramsey Campbell. Demons By Daylight; The Doll Who Ate His Mother*; The Parasite*
Suzy McKee Charnas. The Vampire Tapestry
Julio Cortazar. The End of the Game and Other Stories
Harry Crews. A Feast of Snakes
Roald Dahl. Kiss Kiss*; Someone Like You*
Les Daniels. The Black Castle
Stephen R. Donaldson. The Thomas Covenant Trilogy (3 vols.)*
Daphne Du Maurier. Don't Look Now
Harlan Ellison. Deathbird Stories*; Strange Wine*
John Farris. All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By
Charles G. Finney. The Ghosts of Manacle
Jack Finney. The Body Snatchers*; I Love Galesburg in the Springtime; The Third Level*;
Time and Again*
William Golding. Lord of the Flies*
Edward Gorey. Amphigorey; Amphigorey Too
Charles L. Grant. The Hour of the Oxrun Dead; The Sound of Midnight*
Davis Grubb. Twelve Tales of Horror*
William H. Hallahan. The Keeper of the Children; The Search for Joseph Tully
James Herbert. The Fog; The Spear*; The Survivor
William Hjortsberg. Falling Angel*
Shirley Jackson. The Haunting of Hill House*; The Lottery and Others*; The Sundial
Gerald Kersh. Men Without Bones*
Russell Kirk. The Princess of All Lands
Nigel Kneale. Tomato Caine
William Kotzwinkle. Dr. Rat*
Jerry Kozinski. The Painted Bird*
Fritz Leiber. Our Lady of Darkness*
Ursula LeGuin. The Lathe of Heaven*; Orsinian Tales
Ira Levin. Rosemary's Baby*; The Stepford Wives
John D. MacDonald. The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything
Bernard Malamud. The Magic Barrel*; The Natural
Robert Marasco. Burnt Offerings*
Gabriel Maria Marquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude
Richard Matheson. Hell House; I Am Legend*; Shock II; The Shrinking Man*; A Stir of Echoes
Michael McDowell. The Amulet*; Cold Moon Over Babylon*
Ian McEwen. The Cement Garden
John Metcalf. The Feasting Dead
Iris Murdoch. The Unicorn
Joyce Carol Oates. Nightside*
Flannery O'Connor. A Good Man Is Hard to Find*
Mervyn Peake. The Gormenghast Trilogy (3 volumes)
Thomas Pynchon. V.*
Edogawa Rampo. Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Jean Ray. Ghouls in My Grave
Anne Rice. Interview with the Vampire
Philip Roth. The Breast
Ray Russell. Sardonicus*
Joan Samson. The Auctioneer*
William Sansom. The Collected Stories of William Sansom
Sarban. Ringstones; The Sound of His Horn*
Anne Rivers Siddons. The House Next Door*
Isaac Bashevis Singer. The Seance and Other Stories*
Martin Cruz Smith. Nightwing
Peter Straub. Ghost Story*; If You Could See Me Now; Julia; Shadowland*
Theodore Sturgeon. Caviar; The Dreaming jewels; Some of Your Blood*
Thomas Tessier. The Nightwalker
Paul Theroux. The Black House
Thomas Tryon. The Other*
Les Whitten. Progeny of the Adder*
Thomas Williams. Tsuga's Children*
Gahan Wilson. I Paint What I See
T. M. Wright. Strange Seed*
John Wyndham. The Chrysalids; The Day of the Triffids
Stephen King's recommended films
In his book Danse Macabre, King recommends a list of one hundred fantasy/horror films, released during the period 1950-1980. King's own personal favorites marked with an asterisk ( * ).
We have seen all these films, some more than once, and recommend you do the same.
It would be interesting to see what an updated list for up to 2009 would include.
TITLE DIRECTOR YEAR
The Abominable Dr. Phibes Robert Fuest 1971
*Alien Ridley Scott 1979
Asylum Roy Ward Baker 1972
The Bad Seed Mervyn LeRoy 1956
The Birds Alfred Hitchcock 1963
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage Dario Argento 1969
*Black Sunday Mario Bava 1961
*The Brood David Cronentberg 1979
Burnt Offerings Dan Curtis 1976
Burn Witch Burn Sidney Hayers 1962
*The Cage Walter Graumann 1961
*Carrie Brian De Palma 1976
The Conqueror Worm Michael Reeves 1968
*Creature from the Black Lagoon Jack Arnold 1954
*The Creeping Unknown Val Guest 1955
*Curse of the Demon Jacques Tourneur 1957
The Day of the Triiffids Steve Sekely 1963
*Dawn of the Dead George A. Romero 1979
The Deadly Beer Freddie Francis 1967
Deep Red Dario Argento ?
*Deliverance John Boorman 1972
*dementia-13 Francis Coppola 1963
Diabolique Henri-Georges Clouzot1955
Doctor Terror's House of Horrors Freddie Francis 1965
Don't Look Now Nicholas Roeg 1973
*Duel Steven Spielberg 1971
*Enemy from Space Val Guest 1957
Eraserhead David Lynch 1978
*The Exorcist William Friedkin 1973
The Exterminating Angel Luis Bunuel 1963
Eye of the Cat David Lowell Rich 1969
The Fly Kurt Neumann 1958
*Frenzy Alfred Hitchcock 1972
The Fury Brian De Palma 1978
Gorgo Eugene Lourie 1961
*Halloween John Carpenter 1978
*The Haunting Robert Wise 1963
The H-Man Inoshiro Honda 1958
Horrors of the Black Museum Arthur Crabtree 1959
Hour of the Wolf Ingmar Bergman 1967
The House that Dripped Blood Peter Duffell 1970
Hush . . . Hush, Sweet Charlotte Robert Aldrich 1965
*I Bury the Living Albert Band 1958
The Incredible Shrinking Man Jack Arnold 1957
*Invasion of the Body Snatchers Don Siegel 1956
Invasion of the Body Snatchers Philip Kaufman 1978
I Saw What You Did William Castle 1965
*It Came from Outer Space Jack Arnold 1953
It! The Terror from Beyond Space Edward L. Cahn 1958
*Jaws Steven Spielberg 1975
The Killer Shrews Ken Curtis 1959
Last Summer Frank Perry 1969
*Let's Scare Jessica to Death John Hancock 1971
Macabre William Castle 1958
*Martin George A. Romero 1977
The Masque of the Red Death Roger Corman 1964
Night Must Fall Karel Reisz 1964
*The Night of the Hunter Charles Laughton 1955
*Night of the Living Dead George A. Romero 1968
Not of This Earth Roger Corman 1956
No Way to Treat a Lady Jack Smight 1968
Panic in the Year Zero Ray Milland 1962
*Picnic at Hanging Rock Peter Weir 1978
The Pit and the Pendulum Roger Corman 1961
*Psycho Alfred Hitchcock 1960
*Rabid David Cronenberg 1976
Race with the Devil Jack Starrett 1975
*Repulsion Roman Polanski 1965
*Rituals ? 1978
*Rosemary's Baby Roman Polanski 1968
Salem's Lot Tobe Hooper 1979
Seance on a Wet Afternoon Bryan Forties 1964
Seizure Oliver Stone 1975
*The Seventh Seal Ingmar Bergman 1956
*Sisters Brian De Palma 1973
*The Shining Stanley Kubrick 1980
The Shout Jerzy Skolimowski 1979
Someone's Watching Me John Carpenter 1978
The Stepford Wives Bryan Forties 1975
Strait-Jacket William Castle 1964
Suddenly Last Summer Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1960
*Suspiria Dario Argento 1977
*The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Tobe Hooper 1974
*Them! Gordon Douglas 1954
They Came from Within David Cronenberg 1975
*The Thing Christian Nyby 1951
The Tomb of Ligeia Roger Corman 1965
Trilogy of Terror Dan Curtis 1975
Village of the Damned Wolf Rilla 1960
*Wait Until Dark Terence Young 1967
*What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Robert Aldrich 1961
When Michael Calls Philip Leacock 1971
The Wicker Man Robin Hardy 1973
Willard Daniel Mann 1971
*X-the Man with the X-Ray Eyes Roger Corman 1963
X the Unknown Leslie Norman 1956
We have seen all these films, some more than once, and recommend you do the same.
It would be interesting to see what an updated list for up to 2009 would include.
TITLE DIRECTOR YEAR
The Abominable Dr. Phibes Robert Fuest 1971
*Alien Ridley Scott 1979
Asylum Roy Ward Baker 1972
The Bad Seed Mervyn LeRoy 1956
The Birds Alfred Hitchcock 1963
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage Dario Argento 1969
*Black Sunday Mario Bava 1961
*The Brood David Cronentberg 1979
Burnt Offerings Dan Curtis 1976
Burn Witch Burn Sidney Hayers 1962
*The Cage Walter Graumann 1961
*Carrie Brian De Palma 1976
The Conqueror Worm Michael Reeves 1968
*Creature from the Black Lagoon Jack Arnold 1954
*The Creeping Unknown Val Guest 1955
*Curse of the Demon Jacques Tourneur 1957
The Day of the Triiffids Steve Sekely 1963
*Dawn of the Dead George A. Romero 1979
The Deadly Beer Freddie Francis 1967
Deep Red Dario Argento ?
*Deliverance John Boorman 1972
*dementia-13 Francis Coppola 1963
Diabolique Henri-Georges Clouzot1955
Doctor Terror's House of Horrors Freddie Francis 1965
Don't Look Now Nicholas Roeg 1973
*Duel Steven Spielberg 1971
*Enemy from Space Val Guest 1957
Eraserhead David Lynch 1978
*The Exorcist William Friedkin 1973
The Exterminating Angel Luis Bunuel 1963
Eye of the Cat David Lowell Rich 1969
The Fly Kurt Neumann 1958
*Frenzy Alfred Hitchcock 1972
The Fury Brian De Palma 1978
Gorgo Eugene Lourie 1961
*Halloween John Carpenter 1978
*The Haunting Robert Wise 1963
The H-Man Inoshiro Honda 1958
Horrors of the Black Museum Arthur Crabtree 1959
Hour of the Wolf Ingmar Bergman 1967
The House that Dripped Blood Peter Duffell 1970
Hush . . . Hush, Sweet Charlotte Robert Aldrich 1965
*I Bury the Living Albert Band 1958
The Incredible Shrinking Man Jack Arnold 1957
*Invasion of the Body Snatchers Don Siegel 1956
Invasion of the Body Snatchers Philip Kaufman 1978
I Saw What You Did William Castle 1965
*It Came from Outer Space Jack Arnold 1953
It! The Terror from Beyond Space Edward L. Cahn 1958
*Jaws Steven Spielberg 1975
The Killer Shrews Ken Curtis 1959
Last Summer Frank Perry 1969
*Let's Scare Jessica to Death John Hancock 1971
Macabre William Castle 1958
*Martin George A. Romero 1977
The Masque of the Red Death Roger Corman 1964
Night Must Fall Karel Reisz 1964
*The Night of the Hunter Charles Laughton 1955
*Night of the Living Dead George A. Romero 1968
Not of This Earth Roger Corman 1956
No Way to Treat a Lady Jack Smight 1968
Panic in the Year Zero Ray Milland 1962
*Picnic at Hanging Rock Peter Weir 1978
The Pit and the Pendulum Roger Corman 1961
*Psycho Alfred Hitchcock 1960
*Rabid David Cronenberg 1976
Race with the Devil Jack Starrett 1975
*Repulsion Roman Polanski 1965
*Rituals ? 1978
*Rosemary's Baby Roman Polanski 1968
Salem's Lot Tobe Hooper 1979
Seance on a Wet Afternoon Bryan Forties 1964
Seizure Oliver Stone 1975
*The Seventh Seal Ingmar Bergman 1956
*Sisters Brian De Palma 1973
*The Shining Stanley Kubrick 1980
The Shout Jerzy Skolimowski 1979
Someone's Watching Me John Carpenter 1978
The Stepford Wives Bryan Forties 1975
Strait-Jacket William Castle 1964
Suddenly Last Summer Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1960
*Suspiria Dario Argento 1977
*The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Tobe Hooper 1974
*Them! Gordon Douglas 1954
They Came from Within David Cronenberg 1975
*The Thing Christian Nyby 1951
The Tomb of Ligeia Roger Corman 1965
Trilogy of Terror Dan Curtis 1975
Village of the Damned Wolf Rilla 1960
*Wait Until Dark Terence Young 1967
*What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Robert Aldrich 1961
When Michael Calls Philip Leacock 1971
The Wicker Man Robin Hardy 1973
Willard Daniel Mann 1971
*X-the Man with the X-Ray Eyes Roger Corman 1963
X the Unknown Leslie Norman 1956
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