Doctor Who

The new Doctor is a guy called Matt Smith, who we don't know much about.

This is usually a good thing. Apart from Casanova we'd never seen Tennant in anything and Davidson had only been in All Creatures Great And Small (that we know of).

This will of course be the 11th Doctor, so only two more unless they work out a way round the regeneration problem.

As we said before, it never stopped the Master. When we first met him, played brilliantly by Roger Delgado, he was on his last incarnation. He got round this by taking over the body of Nyssa's father, and was played by Anthony Ainsley.

In the 8th Doctor movie we see him as some snake creature, after his execution by the Daleks, then taking over the body of Eric Roberts.

Then we see him up against the 10th Doctor, first as an ageing Derek Jacobi, then regenerated into John Simms (but why no goatee, John? Travesty!)

So we know the Master can regenerate past the 13th incarnation.
We wouldn't expect the Doctor to steal bodies, so does that leave him with some legit method to crack the problem?

Like we said before, we don't consider the McGann film to be a real part of the Doctor's history, any more than the Cushing films were. If we never had Ecclestone, and Tennant had been the Millenium Doctor from 2005 (as he should have been) then Smith would be the 9th Doctor.

This also raises the issue of will we ever have a black Doctor or a female Doctor?

Without making a bad pun - time will tell.

Pussycat Dolls

PCD v2.0 is a lot more streamlined and they are already onto their 3rd single of what they are calling "Doll Domination".

They have now streamed down to a 5 piece format, which always works best with this kind of act. In some of their earlier vids it was hard to tell how many members the band was supposed to have. In "Dontcha" there seem to be about 9 of them.

Of course the best thing they did was get rid of Carmit the drag queen. Did anybody really not notice that was a bloke? Ironic they have that song "I Don't Need A Man". Well, then why do you have one in the band then?

After Nicole's brief solo fling - single Baby Love and appearing on Timberland's Scream (outfoxed by Keri Hilson unfortunately) she's back heading up her band.
The thing about this "band" is, all they are is Nicole's backing dancers. It's obvious none of them actually sing on the tracks, and on "I Hate This Part" they don't even bother pretending.

At least with Missy Elliot doing guest vocals, Nicole's won't be the only female voice heard on the track for once!

Vincent's last painting

Wheat Field with Crows was Vincent's final painting before he committed suicide.

Cypresses

Sunflowers

Vincent cafe

Vincent

Don MacClean wrote this song for Vincent Van Gogh. It was inspired one of Vincent's greatest paintings, of the same title.


Starry, starry night.
Paint your palette blue and grey,
Look out on a summer's day,
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.
Shadows on the hills,
Sketch the trees and the daffodils,
Catch the breeze and the winter chills,
In colors on the snowy linen land.

Now I understand what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now.

Starry, starry night.
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze,
Swirling clouds in violet haze,
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue.
Colors changing hue, morning field of amber grain,
Weathered faces lined in pain,
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.

Now I understand what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now.

For they could not love you,
But still your love was true.
And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night,
You took your life, as lovers often do.
But I could have told you, Vincent,
This world was never meant for one
As beautiful as you.

Starry, starry night.
Portraits hung in empty halls,
Frameless head on nameless walls,
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget.
Like the strangers that you've met,
The ragged men in the ragged clothes,
The silver thorn of bloody rose,
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.

Now I think I know what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they're not listening still.
Perhaps they never will...

Man On The Moon

We rewatched Man On The Moon again the other night, the Andy Kaufman biopic starring Jim Carrey.

The title song is by R.E.M. from the 1992 album Automatic for the People.
It makes numerous references to Andy, including his Elvis impersonation and work with wrestlers Fred Blassie and Jerry Lawler.

The title, video, and lyrics are a reference to the conspiracy theory that the American moon landing was faked. There is also the theory that Andy faked his death.

The song gave its name to the film and was used in the soundtrack.
It was released as a single in 1993.


Mott the Hoople and the Game of Life. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Andy Kaufman in the wrestling match. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Monopoly, twenty one, checkers, and chess. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Mister Fred Blassie in a breakfast mess. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Let's play Twister, let's play Risk. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
See you in heaven if you make the list. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Hey Andy, did you hear about this one? Tell me, are you locked in the punch?
Hey Andy, are you goofing on Elvis? Hey baby, are we losing touch?
If you believed they put a man on the moon, man on the moon
If you believe there's nothing up my sleeve, then nothing is cool

Moses went walking with the staff of wood. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Newton got beaned by the apple good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Egypt was troubled by the horrible asp. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Mister Charles Darwin had the gall to ask. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Hey Andy, did you hear about this one? Tell me, are you locked in the punch?
Hey Andy, are you goofing on Elvis? Hey baby, are you having fun?
If you believed they put a man on the moon, man on the moon
If you believe there's nothing up my sleeve, then nothing is cool

Here's a little agit for the never-believer. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Here's a little ghost for the offering. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Here's a truck stop instead of Saint Peter's. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Mister Andy Kaufman's gone wrestling (wrestling bears). Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Hey Andy, did you hear about this one? Tell me, are you locked in the punch?
Hey Andy, are you goofing on Elvis? Hey baby, are we losing touch?
If you believed they put a man on the moon, man on the moon
If you believe there's nothing up my sleeve, then nothing is cool

If you believed they put a man on the moon, man on the moon
If you believe there's nothing up my sleeve, then nothing is cool

Deus Ex Machina

All the screen’s a stage and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one person in their time plays many parts, their act being seven ages.

At first the infant mewling in test tube’s neck...

Then the whining School Child, with cassette and shining morning face creeping like a snail unwillingly to databank...

And then the Lover, sighing like a furnace, with a woeful video made to their lover’s hologram...

Then a Soldier, full of strange oaths. Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, seeking hi-score, even in the laser’s mouth...

And the Justice, in fair round belly, with eyes severe and clothes of formal cut. Full of wise words and machine code...

The Sixth Age shifts into the lean and slipped pantaloon. With spectacles on nose. Their youthful clothes well saved, a world too wide for their shrunken shank. And their adult speech synthesiser turning again towards a childish treble, piping and whistling in its sound...

Last scene of all, that ends this strange, eventful history, is Second Childishness, and mere oblivion. Without keyboard, without monitor, without power supply...

We don’t inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
We borrow it from our children.

Imagine if we could begin our little life all over again.
Imagine if it was all nothing more than some Electronic game.
Imagine if I knew then what I know now.
What did you learn?
I can’t quite remember, but I’ll try and be better next time.

One question.
One answer then.
There is something warm wet and salty on my cheek. What is it?
That is what human beings used to call a tear.

7 Ages of Man

By William Shakespeare, from As You Like It:

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players,
They have their exits and entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Then, the whining schoolboy with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.
And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow.
Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden, and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth.
And then the justice
In fair round belly, with good capon lin'd,
With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws, and modern instances,
And so he plays his part.
The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side,
His youthful hose well sav'd, a world too wide,
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again towards childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound.
Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

Keri Hilson

We've been seeing her all over the place but what we want to know is this- is she a real singer or some session stand in?

We first noticed her on Timberland's "Way you are" (or whatever it's called).
Next we see her with him again on "Scream", outvamping Nicole Pussycat (her sexiest moment to date).

After that she appears as the girl in Usher's "Club" vid (though doesn't sing on the track).

Other cameos include Nelly Furtado's Promiscuous and Fergie's Party People (right at the end - blink and you miss her).

Now she's singing on the new Chris Brown track.

Question is, will she ever release anything under her own name? Keep watching.

Jesus walks

Jesus is looking down on Earth from Heaven and sees a beach with sewage being pumped out.

"What's that then?" he asks John.
"That's sewage, Master. Humans pump it out into the ocean."
"I'm not having that," says Jesus, "come on, we're going down to sort this out."

So they beam down to earth and are soon standing at the edge of a vast sewage lake.

Jesus starts walking out across the surface of the lake. John, reluctantly steps in and follows him. Jesus continues to walk across the surface while John wades in. Soon the sewage is up to John's knees, then his ankles, then his waist, then his chest. Finally when the sewage reaches his chin he decides he has to speak.

"Master?"
"Yes John?"
"I know I said I'd follow you wherever you may go, but I'm up to my neck in raw sewage..."
Jesus turns to him and says
"Well my don't you walk along the pipe like I am you daft cunt?"

Madeline Zima - Californication - Click here for the funniest movie of the week

3 rules safe

According to Asimov the first rule of robotics is that no robot can ever harm a human.

So how do you explain the fucking Terminator?

Songs of Innocence and Experience

Following on from my William Blake post earlier:

http://vassago-vassago.blogspot.com/2008/12/william-blake_27.html

We noticed both Hillary Duff and Miley Cyrus have sexy new songs out.

Miley, who we remember as the innocent Hannah Montana, has been working on a series of increasingly suggestive songs and videos, with this "fly on the wall" being the third and best yet.

Hillary, who we remember as the innocent Lizzie Maguire, and who had a brief bland pop career a few years back, has launched a raunchy cover of Reach Out And Touch Me, accompanied by an equally raunchy vid.

Of course, all these are topped by Britney whos next song off the Circus album will be called

"If You Seek Amy"

As in "F.U.C.K me".

Fill your boots

We re-read Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy over XMas.

Right at the start Ford and Arthur are in the pub, just before the world gets demolished, and they order 6 pints. He gives the barman a fiver and says "keep the change".

We know it was written in 1979, but how much did a pint cost back then? These days, 30 years later, it costs £3 in most places.

However, a lot of pubs are now doing credit crunch beaters, special deals, and some are doing £1 a pint days and price holds.

Perhaps we're having an economic reversion.

Room at the inn?

Jesus Christ walks into a hotel, gives the manager three 9 inch nails and says "can you put me up for the night?"

In your hands...

If I tell you that your child needs a heart transplant and will die today this day without it, how do you feel?

Take a moment and really think about that because it can happen to anyone any day.
(there but for the grace of God...)

So I bring in a live child, maybe an orphan, maybe one of those foreign ones that celebrities like to adopt. I hand you a gun and tell you that if you put a bullet through this child's head then I will transplant the heart into your child.

What do you do?

Because, if they are truly honest, everyone would do it, without hesitation.

What you wish for...

You see a family at a hospital, their child is dying because it needs a heart transplant. The parents go to the chapel and pray. They pray to God for a heart to become available for their child.

Then they hear a heart has just become available. The transplant goes ahead and the child is saved. The parents go back to the chapel praying and giving thanks to God for this miracle.

But.

For this "miracle" to happen, somebody else's child has to die.

Which makes you think - when you go into the chapel to pray for your miracle, what are you actually praying for?

And what kind of God answers?

God

THEORY

The war between good and evil, between God and The Devil is over and God lost.

That's why the world is the way it is - war, famine, suffering - why you have things like cancer and tornadoes and child abusers. This is Hell on Earth, literally - you live a short life of suffering and then you die and go to Hell.

All religions are lies except maybe Buddhism as the first noble truth of the buddha is that all life is suffering.

DNA

Wilson and Crick, who discovered DNA said they could see the hand of God, could see His work. They won the Nobel prize for this work, so that puts them as best to know.

This is not uncommon in science, with people like Stephen Hawking talking about the Mind of God in his work on Theoretical Physics.

Studying physics and DNA tells us that life can't be random, an accident. There has to be intelligent design behind it. Witnessing the true miracle of life we can come to really believe in God.

But look at cancer hospitals. A child is dying of cancer. Their parents go into the chapel, kneel and pray to God to save their child. And while they are in there their child dies. They come out and the doctor has to tell them the news.

So it then makes you think, why would God let that happen? Why would he put cancer inside the miracle that is DNA?

It' a question I continue to ask.

Lucifer

THEORY

Another theory is that Lucifer, the Angel of Light, is actually the One True God, the Creator.

It was Jehovah who ran the insurrection, took over Heaven, and cast Lucifer and his angels into Hell.

That's why the world seems so back to front and nothing makes sense. That's why he cast Adam and Eve, God's most beloved creatures, out of Eden into a world filled with pain and suffering. All religions are arse-backwards and based on premises and concepts that have no reality in the real world, the physical and natural world. As we are coming to understand quantum physics and DNA we are coming to realise this.

Maybe the only people who really have it right are the Satanists.

Judges

THEORY

Another theory is that God sent all kinds of Judges, Kings and saviours from David to Samson and His people kept turning away. So He does the best He can - sends His own son - and what do the humans do? They execute him.

After that God gave up on Earth and left us to the Devil. No more miracles, no more answered prayers, no more Messiahs.

Demons

Have you see this yet?

It's like a British Buffy, if Xander were the slayer instead of a girl. Only he's not a Slayer who slays demons, he's a Smiter who smites them. In a nice twist he's the last descendant of Van Helsing - more the Hugh Jackman than the book version.

He has a watcher, who's not called a watcher. In another twist, he's supposed to be American. Whereas Rupert Giles, Buffy's Watcher was an Englishman in LA, this watcher is Rupert GALVIN. Quite why he should be American is never explained, as you'd think these sorts would all be English anyway. He's played by Gene Hunt from Ashes To Ashes and the accent is totally unconvincing.

Supporting cast include their own version of Willow, called Ruby. And Mina Harker, as in the Bride of Dracula. Rather than the fierce vampire lady we saw in League Of Extraordinary Gentleman, she's a blind pianist. It's never explained if she's a vampire, though it's hinted that she's very old and has a 6th sense.

And although Giles, I mean Galvin, isn't a librarian, they have a library. Which they call The Stacks.

Maybe this will go on to become a good show, maybe it'll get axed after one series.

Question

So who exactly was "Riley" and why was his life so good we should all want to imitate it?

Top Ten Hollyoaks Babes

(now Louise has left it's open season)

1. Mercedes
2. Hannah
3. Carmel
4. Zoe
5. Jackie
6. Steph
7. Sarah
8. Theresa
9. Cindy
10. Sasha


also rans:

Amy - no
Lauren - no
Nancy - no
Lila - no
Michaela - urgh - no!

Girlbands

It's great that Alisha's having a pop comeback, and all on the back of her Strictly win last year. But not only is she using all the dances in her vids she's even wearing the same dress!

Expect we'll see Rachel Stevens this time next year doing the same thing.

Of course Alisha was always the sexiest member of Mis Teeq, much the same as Rachel was the sexiest member of S Club, and girl most likely to suceed with a solo career.

Which makes you look forward to when Girls Aloud and The Sugababes split up, who'll go on to do well. Tweedy seems to not only be sewing the seeds of a solo career, after her Will I Am appearance, but with the X Factor she's getting noticed for other things. Nadine is, of course, most likely to have a solo career out of the five of them.

With the Babes it's hard to tell. Heidi is the obvious one. Yet Mutya and Siobhan never did well with their efforts.

Which also raises the point - if Keisha leaves, will the 4th Babes lineup really be The Sugababes, with no original members? Or if they stay as they are, but Siobhan and Mutya decide to relaunch with a new 3rd girl (on the back of BB), and call themselves the Sugababes?

Will the real Sugababes please stand up!

And did wny of the girls from Liberty X or Atomic Kitten even bother?
(don't even mention Hear Say. But good to see the Marsh doing well in her acting)

Boy George

Most people think Boy George was a transvestite, dressing like a woman. He wasn't. He was a white rasta.

Think back to an early video such as Do You Really Want To Hurt Me. It's a reggae song. Check out the video. George dresses in rasta style, with rasta clothes. He never wears a skirt or dress. He has his hair in dreadlocks.

OK, he wears make up and his pretty face makes him androgenous enough to maybe be female. And he was openly gay at a time when it wasn't cool to be so. But this was also the New Romantic period, the early 80s when stars like Adam Ant were pioneering outrageous themed images for video and stage.

Being omnisexual and fairly androgenous ourselves we appreciate what pioneers like George did to make our way of life acceptable. But we also appreciate great music, the music of different cultures.

Which is what Culture Club was about after all.

Basshunter

It's been fun watching Basshunter's series of videos.

Isla features in all of them, as do her too blonde friends (one of them seems to be called Nikki69 - more on that when we find out later).

In the first vid Isla has dumped her dweeb boyfriend, but they reunite in a club later. BH himself does not appear.

In the 2nd vid they are all on holiday and they manage to have a big row at the end of the vid over some girl. BH himself appears, as the club DJ.

(When I saw him perform live, I learned he is not just a DJ, he sings the lyrics himself, something which we wouldn't have expected or realised.)

In the 3rd vid, BH takes a central role. He is in a cafe where Isla is the waitress, so invites her to a car event. When she turns up, its appears it's some Fast and Furious style meet and he is a driver. Her current bf is BH's rival, and she is doing the starting.

Of course BH wins, then at the evening party (where he hasn't bothered to change clothes), he starts doing a bit of karaoke and this pulls her.

In the 4th vid, they are all on a skiing holiday a la Last Christmas, and it's a girl singing the song. Not sure if Isla herself sings or she's just eye candy for the vids.

Let's see where he takes his concepts next.

EastEnders

So Janine is back in EastEnders.
Has anybody else notced her character is a complete carbon copy of Cindy in Hollyoaks? They even gave her the same hair.

Blind black guys are cool

So why are blind black guys so cool?

In music there is Ray Charles, then there is Stevie Wonder.

In TV, we have La Forge in Star Trek TNG, and even Becker has Jake.

There is even that song "Piano In The Dark".

And of course Morgan Freeman in Unleashed, playing Jet Li's friend.

X Factor

So what happened to all the girlbands?

Britan is crying out for a new gb. Girls Aloud, great as they are, are coming towards the end of their time. The Sugababes might survive another incarnation.
The Saturdays are good, but they are new and they will be the only ones. No more Spice Girls, no more Atomic Kitten.

All these potential bands generated by the show, such as Desire, Bad Lashes and GirlBand this year shows the potential is out there. That experiment to put Hope together last year showed what can be done getting talent together in a small amount of time. We know an act doesn't have to win the show to become the best selling act.

What we'd also like to see is Phoebe from last year do what Alexandra did - go away, polish up her act, come back and win. It was unfortunate that she got overlooked by all the judges, and went as far as she could with her "backing group" (which is all they really were) before not making the cut. She has the voice and the talent so hopefully (no pun intended) we'll see her back.

James Bond

Have you watched Quantum of Solace?

It's a direct followup(don't say sequel) to Casino Royale. Hopefully it'll be the last one that they use Daniel Craig for.

There's a pattern emerging in Bond actors. You know how with Star Trek films the even numbered ones are good while they odd numbered ones are not so. It's becoming apparent with the odd numbered Bond actors - Connery, Moore and Brosnan that they got the movie character right, and right for his times. He's smooth and sophisticated, cool and tough, and stylish.

With the even numbered Bonds they try to go back to the books to make him tougher, ruthless and more vulnerable. More human. And it doesn't work.

Craig is OK, same as Dalton and Lazenby were OK, and it's OK for a film or two, a good break in the series.

Connery did 5 films before Lazenby took over for one. Lazenby's second would have been Diamonds Are Forever but he was so disastrous in the role that they brought Connery back to do Diamonds his way, and it was one of his best. Moore did 7 (though he probably shouldn't have done Octopussy and definately shouldn't have done View To A Kill at that age). Then we had Dalton for just two. Then we had Brosnan for 4 (pity he didn't do a fifth). Now 2 from Craig.

Now it's time for stylish Bond for the 7th incarnation. Don't get me wrong - Casino was great, doing the first book properly at last, and doing it properly. But we don't need a third Craig Bond done "like the books".

We like our movie Bond to be outrageous. We love it when Connery steps out of the water, peels off the wetsuit to reveal an immaculate tux before strolling up the beach into the hotel, not a hair out of place. We love it when Brosnan, racing down the Thames, dives the boat and straightens his tie underwater. This is how the movie Bond is supposed to be.

Hopefully they'll have the perspective to pick a proper stylish charismatic actor to do the 7th Bond.

When he says "you were expecting someone else?"
we can say "No way!"

John Smith

Is John Smith really the most common name there is?

We're told it is but I've never met anybody called John Smith.

There's John Smith's bitter, and John Smith was the former leader of the Labour party.

It's popular in fiction. Hannibal in the A Team's real name was John Smith, and Dr Who uses it as an alias. There's also Johnny Smith in The Dead Zone.

I know a lot of guys called John, and a lot of people called Smith, but never a John Smith.

If you were to tell somebody you meet that your name is John Smith they'd frown and think you were lying (and unless your name is John Smith then you are). But if it's such a common name, then wouldn't it be more likely you were John Smith than somebody else?

Big Brother

So Latoya covered a Michael Jackson song last night. Is it just us or does anybody else think they are the same person? Or is this Latoya actually Michael in disguise?

After Jermaine, now we have a second Jackson on BBm is this going to be a future trend?

Barack Obama

Coolio said an interesting thing on CBB last night.

He said that when it became obvious that Obama could win, all the minorities that wouldn't normally vote or who have never voted got behind him. As well as African Americans, this also meant Mexicans, women and kids who ignored voting before.

Being mixed race ourselves, we are glad about Obama's victory, mostly because we are now living in a more enlightened time that makes this possible.

Tupac, a contemporary of Coolio, wrote the lyrics "we have yet to see a black president" back in the 90s.

In the film Deep Impact, Morgan Freeman played the President. Reviewers at the time thought it was "hopelessly optimistic".

The most important point of all of course, is that Obama is actually the best candidate and will make the best President.

The Fly

We watched The Fly again this week.

It does make you wonder about a few things. Like what if he'd had crabs. Would he be merged with the crabs' DNA and turn into a giant public louse? And what about all the bacteria that lives on or with you - are those genetic patterns recognised?

And what about the lady? If they'd had sex, and she teleported immediately, as he wanted her to, would his "DNA deposit" get absorbed into her?

The Ten Circles of Hell

1st circle: Limbo. Reserved for the souls of the just people who never knew Christ, and those (especially infants) who died without baptism and never committed a sin.

2nd circle: The Lustful.
Landscape: a violent storm which tosses around the souls.

3rd circle: The Gluttonous.
Landscape: heavy steady rain.

4th circle: The Avaricious and Prodigals.
These souls, mostly clerics, go opposite direction, bumping into each other as they push big rocks. The guardian is Pluto

5th circle: The Wrathful and Sullen.
These souls are submerged into the river Styx, which surrounds the city of Dis. The wrathful emerge from the dirty waters while the sullen are completely submerged.

The city of Dis: High walls with closed doors guarded by devils, helped by the Furies and the Medusa.
"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here"

6th circle: The Heretics.

7th circle: The Violent. Introduced by the Minotaur, this circle is divided into three rings.

Violent Against their Neighbors (tyrants and murderers). These souls are plunged into a river of boiling blood: the river Phlegethon. They are watched over by the Centaurs.

Violent against Themselves (suicides). It is an unnatural forest with leafless trees. These trees are the souls of the suicides.

Violent against God and Nature. Blasphemers, Sodomites, etc.

The river Phlegethon cascades into the eight circle

8th circle: Fraud. It is called Malebolge because it is divided into ten bolge (ditches).

9th circle: Treachery. It is divided into four sections. The sinners are in a frozen lake, Cocytus. This circle is surrounded by the Giants

The ice of the 9th circled is kept frozen by Lucifer's six flapping wings. Lucifer has three faces, with three mouths, each chewing on a sinner: Judas is in the middle mouth with his head inside, Brutus and Cassius are in the side mouths, with their heads hanging out.