By some weird coincidence i've posted this on an april 1st. But this is a legitimate post.. because they also happen on april 1st's too.. Unlike this video. This video is 100% NOT legitimate. At least not legitimate by my standards.
While Jesus- being [physically] of middle eastern jewish origin- may well somehow have "Sea blue eyes, and a smile that lights up the heavens", it doesn't take an FBI agent to spot the carefully paced words and complete emotional disengagement symptomatic of forced lying in children. That, and the fact his father must describe most of 'his stories' for him while the kid stares blankly into space as if bored out of his skull.
PS extra points if you spot the complete lack of body language or usage of hands when describing things, the fact the adult tensely glances at the child (esp when the child hesitates) but the child does not once dare look at the adult, the child's tendancy to lean away from the adult and have his torso slightly twisted away as if ready to protect himself; the nervous movements when the dad nearly touches him (around 2:05 and 3:00); as well as the deeply cliche yet hugely vague descriptions the child is clearly being asked to give. There must be other hints about what is really going on here but i'm not good enough to spot them all.
Friday, 1 April 2011
Saturday, 19 February 2011
What i'm thinking about Item #3
Problem: So you'd like some company around, but you don't want to have to engage with them all the time, because really you're too lethargic, socially inept and cold hearted to comfortably handle intimate emotional contact. You want someone who tolerates your tendancies towards snuggling up in warm hide-aways, avoiding people, not eating and staring into space thinking about things. Maybe you want the sort of company you can have around more so you can watch the interesting shit they do than anything..
Solution: Get a pet that feels the same way.
This is something i've been pondering on for a couple of weeks now, and i'm now alternating between strong yes and strong maybe. I've done most of the research i feel i need and now i just need to decide if i'm ok to take on a snake for the next 10 years or so. Theyre fairly low maintenance- only needing heat, water and a mouse once every one or two weeks, so that helps.
I'm either gonna go for a Milk Snake (see above and below) or a Corn Snake (see.. er.. google). They're both harmless, being non venomous and appparently preferring to hide than to bite. Milk snakes grow a little smaller than corn snakes and are generally prettier (although there are lots of patterns of corn snakes), but are more 'flighty' and not as docile as corn snakes. I'm not sure which to have at the moment, to be honest it will probably end up coming down to availability or something silly like that.
See how gorgeous and gentle they move:
Something else i'm looking forward to with a snake is decking out the tank:
Tank of choice will be different dimensions depending on snake but i love this jungle decor. I think the snake will appreciate plants to hide under and climb around on too, so it's win-win. It's going to be hard not to go overboard: You can buy all kinds of fake plants, fake branches and vines, even a reptile hammock, waterfalls and mini caves. Hell you can even buy fake cannabis plants. You can put soil in and grow your own tropical plants. Hey, wait a minute..
Milk snakes are nocturnal, and you can buy a 'moonlight' bulb so you can watch them at night without disturbing their day/ night cycle. Moonlit jungle tank + snake is gonna be awesome!
A friend even suggested i also add a few Horrified B-Movie Victims to help liven up the tank.. Nice thinking!
Well project Gettin' a Snake is still far from confirmed- i need a couple of days off work to get things delivered for one thing- but there you go, that's What I'm Thinking About: Item #3.
Solution: Get a pet that feels the same way.
This is something i've been pondering on for a couple of weeks now, and i'm now alternating between strong yes and strong maybe. I've done most of the research i feel i need and now i just need to decide if i'm ok to take on a snake for the next 10 years or so. Theyre fairly low maintenance- only needing heat, water and a mouse once every one or two weeks, so that helps.
I'm either gonna go for a Milk Snake (see above and below) or a Corn Snake (see.. er.. google). They're both harmless, being non venomous and appparently preferring to hide than to bite. Milk snakes grow a little smaller than corn snakes and are generally prettier (although there are lots of patterns of corn snakes), but are more 'flighty' and not as docile as corn snakes. I'm not sure which to have at the moment, to be honest it will probably end up coming down to availability or something silly like that.
See how gorgeous and gentle they move:
Something else i'm looking forward to with a snake is decking out the tank:
Tank of choice will be different dimensions depending on snake but i love this jungle decor. I think the snake will appreciate plants to hide under and climb around on too, so it's win-win. It's going to be hard not to go overboard: You can buy all kinds of fake plants, fake branches and vines, even a reptile hammock, waterfalls and mini caves. Hell you can even buy fake cannabis plants. You can put soil in and grow your own tropical plants. Hey, wait a minute..
Milk snakes are nocturnal, and you can buy a 'moonlight' bulb so you can watch them at night without disturbing their day/ night cycle. Moonlit jungle tank + snake is gonna be awesome!
A friend even suggested i also add a few Horrified B-Movie Victims to help liven up the tank.. Nice thinking!
Well project Gettin' a Snake is still far from confirmed- i need a couple of days off work to get things delivered for one thing- but there you go, that's What I'm Thinking About: Item #3.
What i'm thinking about Item #2
I don't particularly i want to tell you about what i'm thinking about at the moment, but.. i would love to show you.
In case you were ever wondering, dude shows us how to fly, and just as cool, how to check over a plane. There's a whole playlist of 2-3 min tutorials on it, in fact. This is just how to get off the ground:
even cats can enjoy!
"DON'T RUN AWAY! IT'S JUST A JET!!"
In case you were ever wondering, dude shows us how to fly, and just as cool, how to check over a plane. There's a whole playlist of 2-3 min tutorials on it, in fact. This is just how to get off the ground:
even cats can enjoy!
"DON'T RUN AWAY! IT'S JUST A JET!!"
Tuesday, 11 January 2011
This last few days i've been sat on my sofa absorbing copious amounts of media. I was going to give you a review of all the things what i did sit and see, but it was much too much work, so i thought i'd just give you a review of the top 4 (They are: Community [Excellent]; Memoirs of a Geisha [Very Good]; Trinity and Beyond [Very Good if you like nuclear weapon test footage] and Exit Through the Gift Shop [Excellent]).
Well, hope you enjoyed that. Check back for more next week!
Ok so.. i admit, full-bodied reviews are still too much for my lazy ass right now, but i don't want you going away from clicking this post empty handed.. So let me just recommend my favourite:
This is that banksy documentary- as in by banksy, not (directly) about banksy.
The film follows french clothes-store-owner Thierry Guetta, a man who's personality could be described as stupid, genius, or special needs.. depending on your personal perspective. Thierry, also an obsessive-compulsive camera-man, discovers that his cousin happens to be a prolific street artist- and starts following him around, filming him at work. Thierry eventually meets more artists and finds himself caught up in the weird and wonderful underground world of tagging and street art. He goes on to produce over 10,000 hours worth of footage- capturing artists at work in their studios or on the street, police chases, interrogation, climbing up buildings and even shots from inside Banksy's own workshop as he prepares and dispatches his pranks on the world. After thierry.. attempts.. to put together a "documentary" with the footage, his own adventures and misadventures begin, ultimately with cringeworthy and comic, yet thought provoking consequences. After spending some time defining street art by what it is, the film comes round to defining it by what it isn't.
One of the great things about this film is the controversy surrounding Thierry. It's a documentary, but does this guy actually exist? And if so did he really become a street artist? Or is this him and Banksy pulling off one big prank on the art world? Or could he even be Banksy? Either way, it's clear that Banksy didn't intend for this to be taken at face value. The film was created to give us an authentic, personal insight into the playful, defiant soul of street art, and ultimately the difference between those who produce the culture and those who, really, kinda just don't.
Rating: Absolutely worth a watch!
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Bonus Post Feature
Congratulations, you have found this post's bonus feature, Welldone yourself! This isn't directly connected to Exit through the Gift Shop, it's just a video of some street art i like. Note: This clip happens to sync pretty well to any electronic music you may have, and such activity is recommended.
Enjoy!
Well, hope you enjoyed that. Check back for more next week!
Ok so.. i admit, full-bodied reviews are still too much for my lazy ass right now, but i don't want you going away from clicking this post empty handed.. So let me just recommend my favourite:
This is that banksy documentary- as in by banksy, not (directly) about banksy.
The film follows french clothes-store-owner Thierry Guetta, a man who's personality could be described as stupid, genius, or special needs.. depending on your personal perspective. Thierry, also an obsessive-compulsive camera-man, discovers that his cousin happens to be a prolific street artist- and starts following him around, filming him at work. Thierry eventually meets more artists and finds himself caught up in the weird and wonderful underground world of tagging and street art. He goes on to produce over 10,000 hours worth of footage- capturing artists at work in their studios or on the street, police chases, interrogation, climbing up buildings and even shots from inside Banksy's own workshop as he prepares and dispatches his pranks on the world. After thierry.. attempts.. to put together a "documentary" with the footage, his own adventures and misadventures begin, ultimately with cringeworthy and comic, yet thought provoking consequences. After spending some time defining street art by what it is, the film comes round to defining it by what it isn't.
One of the great things about this film is the controversy surrounding Thierry. It's a documentary, but does this guy actually exist? And if so did he really become a street artist? Or is this him and Banksy pulling off one big prank on the art world? Or could he even be Banksy? Either way, it's clear that Banksy didn't intend for this to be taken at face value. The film was created to give us an authentic, personal insight into the playful, defiant soul of street art, and ultimately the difference between those who produce the culture and those who, really, kinda just don't.
Rating: Absolutely worth a watch!
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Bonus Post Feature
Congratulations, you have found this post's bonus feature, Welldone yourself! This isn't directly connected to Exit through the Gift Shop, it's just a video of some street art i like. Note: This clip happens to sync pretty well to any electronic music you may have, and such activity is recommended.
Enjoy!
Monday, 29 November 2010
What big blog posts you have..
Right! I think it's time for this seasons post:
With werewolf month swiftly approaching us, i've been finding it progressively harder to maintain my excitement for fear of annoying the fuck out of everyone. So as a means of expressing my excitement tastefully, i've been curating a lycanthrope themed spotify playlist for you all to enjoy!
The tracks have been picked for their own take on the werewolf myth, cover a variety of werewolf behaviour, and then back in normal life again. I've resisted the temptation of just using almost entirely metal tracks, because even though most werewolf tracks are metal, the lyrics are frankly incomprehensible, rendering it pointless. A couple did get through though.
If you don't have spotify, you can download it here. No invites or anything necessary and the 'Open' package is completely free (although you will have to occasionally hear comically horrendous adverts).
Anyway! motherfucking music right here! click the cute little wolf:
P.S. i am not a furry
With werewolf month swiftly approaching us, i've been finding it progressively harder to maintain my excitement for fear of annoying the fuck out of everyone. So as a means of expressing my excitement tastefully, i've been curating a lycanthrope themed spotify playlist for you all to enjoy!
The tracks have been picked for their own take on the werewolf myth, cover a variety of werewolf behaviour, and then back in normal life again. I've resisted the temptation of just using almost entirely metal tracks, because even though most werewolf tracks are metal, the lyrics are frankly incomprehensible, rendering it pointless. A couple did get through though.
If you don't have spotify, you can download it here. No invites or anything necessary and the 'Open' package is completely free (although you will have to occasionally hear comically horrendous adverts).
Anyway! motherfucking music right here! click the cute little wolf:
P.S. i am not a furry
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
Oh Woops..Been playing civillisation 5. It's alright. There's things i'd do differently in it, like more differences between the armies, and things like a nuke would actually destroy a city instead of just setting it on fire, but these are minor complaints.
The thing is the games take a long time to play out, and are really engaging. There's enough stuff going on that towards the end, my computer slows down and starts taking about 10 seconds to process each turn (my computer does that! don't try on a laptop!) and you can't help but be curious about whats going to happen. it's got a bigtime 'just one more turn.. ' effect. Which can last for upto 12 hours..
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Tropico 3
Hey guys!
About a week ago, (a week ago? i think it was a week.. i've lost track of time) i agreed to a friend to review my new-found favourite game, Tropico 3. I had a b.. Shit! Was i supposed to do it for this weekend? No! I mean yes..! I was! bloody fuck, ok..
Er, well, i guess actions save a thousand words, or pictures speak louder than words or whatever, so i may have to phone in sick saying, "i enjoyed it so much, i've been unable to write anything.. so um, here's some pictures..?"
PS. to whom it may concern: Ha, i'm joking.. i am still gonna try and write a proper review, i promise! Possibly within the week, i dunno.. I've only got a couple of islands left.. so hopefully..
Btw since few people know anything about this game: it's a sim-city strategy style game, set in cold war era carribean. You play a dictat.. I mean Presidente, aided by your (generally) trustworthy advisor Penultimo, building a nation from scratch on deserted islands to fulfil various objectives. Throughout each level the superpowers compete for your "loyalty to their respective ideologies" (read "usefulness") sometimes by making helpful offers, sometimes demands, and sometimes, if things get really bad, by turning up to say hello with some gunships. There is never a dull moment, with the various domestic factions and their silly requests, the people occasionally being the unappreciative shits they can be, random events and obviously elections.. if you choose to go in for all that democratic rubbish, of course. Nothing in the game is obligatory, but every choice you make- from choosing a capitalist or communist approach, to your response to posed offers, to the 'fate' you might arrange for a particular troublesome citizen- everything impacts something somewhere in the game. As the dischordia saying goes: Do what thou wilt, but remember, no one likes an asshole.
Most of my islands have been tobacco paradises.
A little on going sandbox project, where i'm trying to see if i can get the population's happiness up to 100%. I don't think i've ever got higher than 65%, and that only after the KGB put drugs in the water supply.
Hi-5 if you know it
The custom avatar page lets you choose your characters strengths and flaws. I haven't had the courage to try out this flaw yet..
Tropico 3 can be slow paced (fitting for carribean culture really), but very satisfying, especially if strategical thinking pleases you in games, and you're happy to do it in a world whose citizens take dilemnas with a pinch of salt, a fat cigar and some disprortionately joyful music.
Incidentally if you decide to try it out, a few things:
1. right now its on sale for less than £7 on steam. (normally £20)
2. this game has a lot of detail, it can be very subtle and complex, yet it has a frankly pitiful attempt at a tutorial- and the steam version doesn't even come with a manual. I've seen many comments on the internet like: "don't like this game. I can't feed the people and they keep starving", "this game is too slow, each level takes days." and "rebels keep attacking me and i can't stop them" because people simply don't know how it works. The manual can be useful for reference and can be downloaded here. There is also a fan guide that people have said have helped them here, although imo the author doesn't seem to know where his opinions stop and rational strategy starts. Experiment a bit in the game (you don't have to know everything right away) and hopefully you'll be away.
3. Thirdly.. the DJ.. he is fucking annoying. You can turn him off in the options. Or even have him shot, if you have the expansion pack and you're feeling like that.
Right well, i suppose sooner or later i need to get on with a proper fucking review. Oh.. and sorry i haven't posted here much for a while, i... i don't know, i don't think i even have an excuse this time. I am well though, more or less, hope you've been fine too :)
About a week ago, (a week ago? i think it was a week.. i've lost track of time) i agreed to a friend to review my new-found favourite game, Tropico 3. I had a b.. Shit! Was i supposed to do it for this weekend? No! I mean yes..! I was! bloody fuck, ok..
Er, well, i guess actions save a thousand words, or pictures speak louder than words or whatever, so i may have to phone in sick saying, "i enjoyed it so much, i've been unable to write anything.. so um, here's some pictures..?"
PS. to whom it may concern: Ha, i'm joking.. i am still gonna try and write a proper review, i promise! Possibly within the week, i dunno.. I've only got a couple of islands left.. so hopefully..
Btw since few people know anything about this game: it's a sim-city strategy style game, set in cold war era carribean. You play a dictat.. I mean Presidente, aided by your (generally) trustworthy advisor Penultimo, building a nation from scratch on deserted islands to fulfil various objectives. Throughout each level the superpowers compete for your "loyalty to their respective ideologies" (read "usefulness") sometimes by making helpful offers, sometimes demands, and sometimes, if things get really bad, by turning up to say hello with some gunships. There is never a dull moment, with the various domestic factions and their silly requests, the people occasionally being the unappreciative shits they can be, random events and obviously elections.. if you choose to go in for all that democratic rubbish, of course. Nothing in the game is obligatory, but every choice you make- from choosing a capitalist or communist approach, to your response to posed offers, to the 'fate' you might arrange for a particular troublesome citizen- everything impacts something somewhere in the game. As the dischordia saying goes: Do what thou wilt, but remember, no one likes an asshole.
Most of my islands have been tobacco paradises.
A little on going sandbox project, where i'm trying to see if i can get the population's happiness up to 100%. I don't think i've ever got higher than 65%, and that only after the KGB put drugs in the water supply.
Hi-5 if you know it
The custom avatar page lets you choose your characters strengths and flaws. I haven't had the courage to try out this flaw yet..Tropico 3 can be slow paced (fitting for carribean culture really), but very satisfying, especially if strategical thinking pleases you in games, and you're happy to do it in a world whose citizens take dilemnas with a pinch of salt, a fat cigar and some disprortionately joyful music.
Incidentally if you decide to try it out, a few things:
1. right now its on sale for less than £7 on steam. (normally £20)
2. this game has a lot of detail, it can be very subtle and complex, yet it has a frankly pitiful attempt at a tutorial- and the steam version doesn't even come with a manual. I've seen many comments on the internet like: "don't like this game. I can't feed the people and they keep starving", "this game is too slow, each level takes days." and "rebels keep attacking me and i can't stop them" because people simply don't know how it works. The manual can be useful for reference and can be downloaded here. There is also a fan guide that people have said have helped them here, although imo the author doesn't seem to know where his opinions stop and rational strategy starts. Experiment a bit in the game (you don't have to know everything right away) and hopefully you'll be away.
3. Thirdly.. the DJ.. he is fucking annoying. You can turn him off in the options. Or even have him shot, if you have the expansion pack and you're feeling like that.
Right well, i suppose sooner or later i need to get on with a proper fucking review. Oh.. and sorry i haven't posted here much for a while, i... i don't know, i don't think i even have an excuse this time. I am well though, more or less, hope you've been fine too :)
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