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Kong: Skull Island
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Reviews
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The movie, with the daughter, her reward for watching the original (which she didn't ...). I had low expectations, and they weren't disappointed. I mean, for what it was, well, it was over the top. Completely. I mean a whole new tier of stupidity, extraneous characters that are carried the entire film serving no function, monsters being killed a dozen times over, again and again, damn, these things just won't die, and I'm embarrassed for Tom Hiddleston, running over these beasts in a toxic green gas killing baby pterodactyls with his samurai sword...did he not read the script? Samuel Jackson, did you not read the script? And the giant Daddy Longlegs, the stick bug, silliness, silliness, and when they try to add meaning and profundity...Lol. Yeah, no, nice try. But I explain it to the daughter..."It's a metaphor for the destabilization of the middle East by American interests...". Nope. Just another movie with 100 million dollars for special effects and $28.00 for a screenwriter...
Alt Music Festivals
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: WTF
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The term "Alternative" has been sooo overused it's become practically mainstream. For those of you that really think you're alternative, try this: http://blackestfest.com/. Probably not going to be giving Burning Man a run for it's money, but it looks intriguing nonetheless...
Crazy Prospecting Videos...
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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"Got it. We'll tune your recommendations." YouTube, they never get it, after doing this they present me the same video again and again.
Waiting for the weather to improve, the snow to go, watching prospecting videos...
Most of them are crazy. Few of them have anything fresh, or informative, to impart, and the more I watch the less I learn, it's a Bell curve of sorts, but still I watch them, my ignorance is vast, and on occasion there are glimmers of good information. But to find it you need to listen to every posters fringe theories about Capitalism, Conspiracies, Dinosaurs, the Bible, The Electric Earth, Fringe Science, all this with bad production values, bad spelling, ornate fonts and bad title pages, graphics, frequently overly-dramatic or irrelevant music, Shaky Cam work and seldom anything of relevance, the narrator picks up rocks, throws away rocks, maybe pretends they are gold or diamonds, I've watched a thousand, I'm getting good at this, 9/10 times I can get through your 20 minute YouTube rant in under 2, find the good information (if it's there), it's a rare video that I watch the entirety of. At the end you're lucky if they pan out their concentrates and show you a quantity of gold that would be a bad day on the North Saskatchewan. I have to be careful in how I rate them, I'm forever reassuring YouTube that I did, indeed, take their recommendation and watch the prescribed video, I don't express opinions, this searching for good information is it's own form of prospecting.
A Terrorist in London
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
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From the moment you read the headline you knew he wasn't a terrorist, there was nothing about the attack - driving a car into pedestrians, stabbing a police officer - that even remotely suggested Terror or that he was an "Islamist Extremist". And, sure enough, a few days later, headlines - or rather - bylines, appearing much lower in the paper, appear that seem to retract it. But the damage is already done - people remember headlines, not bylines or retractions.
But why Terrorist? It's an obvious misdirection - his name, appearance (petty prejudices come into play here) - despite his being born in the UK anyone who kills another person and looks vaguely Middle Eastern or African must be a Terrorist. Not true. Terror is convenient, it objectifies the enemy, gives them a color - a place (over there), a cause, it avoids any uncomfortable discussions about somebody who clearly fell through the cracks, someone disillusioned, despairing, hopeless, the terror in this lies in the fact that this is an overwhelming reality for a large number of Britons, and these attacks - futile gestures of resistance directed against a political process that has for decades now disenfranchised overwhelming segments of the population, against a political system that has seen the rich grow even astronomically richer and govern those who've become increasingly poorer, are not predictable or stoppable under the current governance.
Blame, shift accountability, deception, misdirection, for many the original headline will stand in their memory as the events that actually transpired, and the train will continue to derail...
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