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not my fault, they gave him the perfect scary voice, just what you'd expect an evil voice inside your head to sound like, all calm and quiet. ... shit, i don't even want to think about him. this movie is great. I don't want to go into it, for fear of ruining things that you only understand later, sometimes days later, but this is a movie that your brain really wants to wrap around. Scary and very depressing and hillarious too, it stars that delightful Jake Gyllenhaal (the guy in BubbleBoy, who is charming the pants off me. I hope he keeps taking these risky and inovative roles). I don't even think this was released anywhere near me, it just came out to rent last week. Also it might have been played down after all the 9-11 "we can't show anything blowing up or anything with planes for 6 months" crap. It's a shame, this is a really good, really different movie. It's about sanity and love and god and rabbits and Oct. 2nd 1988. It will fuck with you for a good long while. |
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not bad. what's weird is a friend of mine does similar bunny drawerings... |
i watched it last night. |
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having Drew in your trailer will sell movie tickets. off-ing her in the first scene pretty much says she only did it for the money and got away with as little as possible. |
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no one ever believes me anyway, why does the new reality have to be darker? did nate tell you about the red cows? |
i lay in bed trying to force the importance of my connections to reality (responsibilities, work, mortgage, etc.) out of my existance. it scares me. like a rollercoaster, stomach in the air kind of scary. i question my perception of reality all the time. this morning on my way to work my wipers did a single swoosh across the windscreen. my first thought was, did that really happen? i thought about that the rest of the way to work. you'd expect to first think, why did that happen? what is wrong with my wipers? but no, i'm wondering if i'm losing my connection to the 'real world'. in order to rebuild the Temple, israel needs a red heffer without blemish or spot (and apparently born in israel.) we heard on 'this american life' saturday a man in mississippi has taken it upon himself to breed a strain of red heffer that will survive in the arid conditions of israel. this was a rebroadcast from a 1999 show. three things leading to the apocalypse- israel regains statehood (check), israel regains jeruseleum (any day now), israel rebuilds the Temple (well, they have the red heffers.) that show also had a woman who was predicting the start of the apocalypse would be sept 11, 1999. |
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It was an entertaining read to say the least. As I am looking at the book now, I see more clearly than our problems with "terrorism" and "Al-Queda" he talks about problems between two countries in the middle east battling. He calls one the white one and one the blue one. The leader of one is captured and then the middle east goes into a totalitarian government. Other references to the "third anti-christ" which many thought was Bin Laden call him "the man from Asia" which makes me wonder, exactly how fucked up is all of this going to be that Nostradamus was so fucking confused. No I don't put stock in it or faith in it, but I think all of the coincidences are amusing and watch to see which ones play out. |
sounds like a fuckin party? military siege?? BAH!!!! Sardines and pain killers? DON'T MIND IF I DO!!! id like invite that weeble, Sharon, to suck my .... ahh forget it |
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Just give me the coffee and the pain killers! |
he wants to call the PLO resistance (Hezbollah, Hamas etc) "terrorists" and does from time to time. However, the "terrorists" aren't looking to advance their cause beyond Palestine, they just want what Israel has taken away, illegitimately. The North Vietnamese were no more "terrorists" than the PLO and its various factions. Though Im not christian, Im hoping some sort of display of peace, 1000s of christians, jews, arabs etc all descend into Bethlehem, just start walking in front of tanks. Get some balls like Chinese students in Tieneman (sp) Square. |
drew barrymore plays a teacher who gets fired due to parental censoring at a catholic school and runs outside immediatly to yell "FUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!" and that's about the extent of her part. it has nothing to do with the general plotline. |
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or maybe it's just that they don't use USA made arms? |
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I know that I don't know too much about international relations, and that I don't know too much about this current fucked up situation. Just expressing thoughts and looking for other thoughts, facts or opinions. |
The Israeli/Palestinian conflict, in my opinion is simply about land and foreign occupation. I don't think its about religion. Israel blew the peaceful coexistance to shreds by invading Lebanon in the early 80s and Palestine in the 6 day war in the 60s. We support Israel because they are one of our best customers. |
I agree with this, but where I think the religion comes in is the "WHY" Israel blew the coexistance. It had something to do with the bible and where Jesus was and who was biologically closest to Jesus or some shit like that. Forgive me, my brain is full right now. I am not thinking as clearly as I should about this topic. I also agree with what you said about Vietnam, but am a bit confused by some of it. I agree that it was a big chess game against communist expansion, but I don't understand about the geopolitical positioning. I just know that the reason we didn't help them in the beginning is because they were part of France and the french were our allies, so we wouldn't help them cuz it would cause problems with the french. What do you mean by they are one of our best customers (Israel)? That one went over my head. |
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Israel is also one of our biggest military customers. F-16s, Cobra Attack helicopters right down to the m-16 rifles their soldiers are using, all bought from the US. Israel is also one of the most formidable allies, militarily and economically that we have in the region. Vietnam was about creating, mainting democracy in Southeast Asia. Im sure its more complicated than Im presenting, but basically it was viewed that if we didn't stop the communist expansion into Vietnam, where would it end. The Russian/Afghanistan war.....our involvment was geopolitical position. Assisting the Afghans to keep communism from yet expanding. Same with Korea. More recently revealed documents present this same scenario in Angola |
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i sense you are, for reasons im too dense to figure out. the weather is kinda chilly as of late. |
useless in the movie. Her acting was porn-level bad. But she's only got 3 scenes or so. While watching the deleted parts on the dvd i finally snapped on her and screamed "act, damn you....ACT!!!" at the tv. Useless. I've watched it 5 times now. We go to friend's houses and just hand them the tape when they answer the door. Sparkle Motion.... holy shit. |
My favorite english teacher used to have us read all sorts of dark literature. "the lovesong of J Alfred Proofrock", Robert Frost's "Provide, Provide", Ionesco's "Rhinocerous"... She was a fading beauty who reveled in portraying herself as a tragic unloved spinster. She wore her hair in a bun, high collar blouses with brooches, and long grey skirts that came down to her ankles. When I think of her, I recall the line "Still waters run deep". She was. |
I was excited by the space-time worms, though. That's a feature of a philosophical debate over whether objects are 3-dimensional or 4-dimensional...my roommate took a grad class that concerned that debate and taught me a little about it. You can read about it here...it's very interesting. |
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they've released the director's cut of donnie darko - i'm going to see it on wednesday. it's been a long time since i've seen this flick, and the newest version is getting rave reviews. |
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Caught it last night sitting next to a boy at the big old theater in yuppie northwest. I appriciated the extra insight into time travel. |