Why Haven't I Seen This Photo Before??

Carrie Fisher and her stunt double napping/sunbathing during the Tatooine shoot in Return of the Jedi.

Denim Thursday, Part 4

It's that time again!

By the way, there's a damn good reason that all of the following photos are shot from the back. Believe me, if you had any idea what they looked like from the front, you'd be thanking me right now.

Now check out the stitchwork on these beauties.











More denims (than you could care to shake a stick at) next Thursday.

Dodge Viper Logo = Daffy Duck Upside-Down

Mind, blown.

Eliminate Pro - Trailer

New game on the iphone - it's top notch stuff, really amazing too - and what's more, it's free!



Quote of the week: "If at any time you need addition help, just hit the Where To Find button."

Pumpkin Soup

...is damn good stuff.

Obsession Of The Week: Time Travel Movies

(Pre-Script: For a while now I have been meaning to start documenting my current obsessions. You know, things that I am suddenly fascinated by, usually for a short period of time. I do believe that I've mentioned this subject on here before, but I never did much about it.)

Like many people these days I am blessed (and cursed) with a mind that is drawn to the new and I am able to keep my attention firmly fixed on that thing... right up til the point when it starts to become boring, then I discard it.

I love being obsessed about things. That is to say, I am obsessed about being obsessed. I am OCD for OCD. And I have been for some time now. The whole idea of documenting my current fixation, whatever it might be, I have been intending to write them down for about 2 or 3 years now. It's never happened though. Not until now. Had I started writing down this list when it first occurred to me, well, it would be a damn long list by now. Momentary fixations come and go in my life with a regularity that is worrying to say the least. Something is brought to my attention, I am intrigued by it, I begin to study it and I look into it's background. Then I usually go ahead and buy a book or a DVD about it. And then, of course, the whole fad runs its course and I forget about it rapidly.

Momentary obsession is something that also hate. It's great being completely immersed in a new subject, but usually there isn't much to it (or it becomes to complicated) and so it gets thrown to the wayside. Any list that I would write here would be a list of things that I no longer care about. Give me a month on any given subject and I can usually become very bored of it, very quickly. This says a lot about the way that I think. I think.

Enough rambling, here's what I am currently obsessing about.

TIME TRAVEL MOVIES

Got to love a bit of sci-fi every now and them. I have been in love with this whole movie genre every since I saw Back To The Future as a kid. I saw it at the cinema on it's original run. Great film. Also, Bill & Ted, The Terminator, Star Trek (the one with the whales)... the list goes on.

One film that stands out in my mind, when it comes to the whole time travel genre, is a movie called Time Cop, starring Jean Claude Van Damme. That's it, right there, your cliche, poorly constructed, time travel movie plot line.


There are 2 different premises when you boil a time travel flick down. Two variants on the theme, if you will. It can all be summed up as a simple enough sounding question: If you could somehow go back in time, would you be able to change the past? This is a matter of some debate amongst "time travel movie buffs". I personally like the storyline where it all happens in one long thread, so you can't change anything because it's already happened. The 5th season of LOST is a great example of the whole "What Happened Happened" scenario. But I also enjoy the Back To The Future concept, when Marty goes back and changes shit around... when he gets back "home" everything is different, for the better.

It's strange to me that you can ask someone if they believe in God, they don't know. You can ask them what their political beliefs are, they don't know. Ask them about how best to combat social decay, climate change, the global economic meltdown... they don't know. But ask them if you can change the past via time travel - A SUBJECT THAT IS TOTALLY SPECULATIVE AND IMPOSSIBLE - and they have a theory about it, thanks to all of the movies they have watched.

Of course, time travel movies are nothing more than a sub-genre of fantasy films (and novels), so really it is kinda pointless to even begin to speculate about the mechanics of the whole time travel movie concept. But it makes a half-decent story, if it's written well enough, don't you think? After all, it's hardly ever about the theory behind it, it's almost always about the story. Give us a fun story and you're always going to be onto a winner with a time travel flick. Take note, Hollywood!

And that's my obsession of the week.

Movie Narative Chart

Whaaaaa?


Taken from HERE.

Denim Thursday, Part 3

More photos of middle-aged men trying their hardest to be teenage rebels.

Enjoy your moment in the sun (AKA "Your photo is on some random blog"), gentlemen.










I am seriously considering putting together a denim-fulla-patches of my own now. But if I do it wouldn't have any Slayer/Slipknot/Dimmu Borgir style patches on it... but would I stand a chance of being accepted into "The brotherhood of the shitty denims" without these bands??

More next Thursday.

Interesting

I am hoping to go to the Roadburn Festival next year (April) and we are looking at going to the Maryland Deathfest (May) too. Going to an ATP event in between is simply not going to be a possibility.... but the fact that it is to be curated by Matt Groening (he of Simpsons fame) has got me strangely interested! No bands have been named for that event yet though, that I am aware of.

ATP CURATED BY MATT GROENING

Leviticus Also Said...

That Leviticus sure was a crazy guy.

Listening To

Although, to be honest, it's not very good.

No, Plato, No

I can’t imagine anything
that I would less like to be
than a disincarnate Spirit,
unable to chew or sip
or make contact with surfaces
or breathe the scents of summer
or comprehend speech and music
or gaze at what lies beyond.
No, God has placed me exactly
where I’d have chosen to be:
the sub-lunar world is such fun,
where Man is male or female
and gives Proper Names to all things.

I can, however, conceive
that the organs Nature gave Me,
my ductless glands, for instance,
slaving twenty-four hours a day
with no show of resentment
to gratify Me, their Master,
and keep Me in decent shape
(not that I give them their orders,
I wouldn’t know what to yell),
dream of another existence
than that they have known so far:
yes, it well could be that my Flesh
is praying for ‘Him’ to die,
so setting Her free to become
irresponsible Matter.

- Wystan Hugh Auden

GI Sunn

Denim Thursday, Part 2

Part 2 of the ongoing adventures of "Really shitty denim" guy and his amazing fraternity of knucklehead loser pals.











For the record, if I did have a denim, it would not have a Rancid patch as the centre piece. Hell no.

More next Thursday!

Quote Of The Day

Dress for the job you want, not for the one you have.

From here