The sci-fi author believed he’d glimpsed parallel worlds, while under the influence of sodium pentothal.
Said PDK, “We are living in a computer-programmed reality. And the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in our reality occurs.”
YouTube – Did Philip K. Dick disclose the real ‘Matrix’ in 1977?.
My prediction: Avatar will be the film that finally undoes the reportedly wicked, egomaniacal, James Cameron, who has yet to make a singe, goddamn, good picture. (Hey, I started hating the guy after Cameron was rumored to be calling Kate Winslet, Kate Weighs-a-Lot.)
My Second Life avatar, Oscar Finsbury, will eat his three-cornered hat, if I am wrong:
Executives at Fox, the company which has put up the majority of the money, are “very scared, nay terrified, that it is all going to go wrong,” one movie insider told me.The question is, has Hollywood’s most monstrous genius finally gone mad?
Students of film history will recall the Heaven’s Gate debacle, in which director Michael Cimino demolished United Artists with his own, out-of-control film project.
I enjoyed a chat this afternoon with two of my wonderful neighborhood pals, in a suitably natural setting: beside Pine Tree Brook in Milton. I was telling my friends about this:
Isabella Rossellini talked with Tom Ashbrook yesterday about her series of 18 shorts, Green Porno. It’s a great interview about these gorgeous little pieces, which feature simple sets and cool, paper costumes.
Five hundred magazine covers — Vogue, Elle, Vanity Fair. Famous screen roles — “Blue Velvet,” “Wild at Heart,” “30 Rock.” Famous parents — Ingrid Bergman, Roberto Rossellini. Famous lovers — David Lynch, Martin Scorsese.
Now Isabella Rossellini has taken her talents, humor, and iconoclasm to the sex lives of the animal kingdom.
Click here to see the Sundance page with Rossellini’s sexy science videos.
As for whether these are NSFW, well, I don’t know what to tell you.
The U.S. is closing in on $10 trillion in debt. It is painful to contemplate what being in hock like this will do to our liberties. The latest FUD flick, in the Inconvenient Truth vein, is IOUSA…
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Great CGI stuff, makes me feel better for moving away from SF, knowing it is clearly now under Imperial occupation.
Also, here’s a chestnut from Alan Watt, last night on RBN, about the “scientific dictatorship,” and its attempts to blind us with science: “When you really see the truth of it all, it’s beyond science science fiction. It’s hell.”
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from Mark:
Isaac Hayes, the musician who so inhabited the role of The Duke, “A Number One, The Big Man,” in John Carpenter’s dystopian thriller, “Escape from New York,” died today while exercising at his home. (That’s Hayes on the left, with costars Harry Dean Stanton and Adrienne Barbeau.)
Hayes’ musical influence is apparent in Carpenter’s soundtrack for the film, which features soulful, heavy bass lines accompanied by the sounds of steel drums.
Exercise was one of the famed Scientologist’s favorite pastimes. His treadmill was still whirring when a family member found him on the floor beside it.
Soul icon Isaac Hayes dies in Memphis at 65 | U.S. | Reuters
Oscar-winning soul singer Isaac Hayes who, along with Al Green, James Brown and Stevie Wonder, was one of the dominant black artists in the early 1970s, died in Memphis on Sunday. He was 65.His friend and former manager, Onzie Horne, told Reuters he spoke to Hayes’ wife, Adjowa, who confirmed that Hayes had died.
My wife, Lisa, has already spiked this idea for our living room: an Alien-inspired table. I think the most dangerous of this is the giant sheet of glass, unimaginatively plunked on top of a beautiful sculpture made from recycled car and bike parts.
Sadly, this link (see below) links to another, which is unavailable at the moment, as it is getting slammed with traffic. Thanks, Ted! — mb
Alien tables: Not recommended for night time use – SlipperyBrick
These Alien tables are pretty awesome sculptural pieces. If Ripley went into the furniture business, this would naturally be the result. Who wouldn’t love to own one. Thing is, there’s no way this thing is in my house at night. Who wants to walk by this thing in the dark?
This avant-garde film, by Tracy Twyman, recently re-appeared on YouTube. I can’t remember exactly how I stumbled into it. I’m glad I did. It’s cool little piece.
Twyman is a controversial occultic historian, whose critics accuse her of being a monarchist. But the artist and historian, who published Dagobert’s Revenge Magazine through 2003, is new to me.
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Psst: It’s the Rosy Cross
The secret behind the film “The Secret,” a cheesy round-up of C-list motivational speakers, is Rosicrucianism, according to a recent commentary by Terry Melanson at Conspiracy Archive. The speakers in the film include one chiropractor, one-or-two New Age religious figures, and several self-described scientists. All make non-scientific connections between physics and psychic powers.
They insist that by thinking “I will be a millionaire,” you can become one.
Terry draws a tight, detailed timeline of movements from “The Secret” (i.e., “the power of attraction”) back to positive thinking movements in the mid-20th century, even the mid-18th century. He also notes the subliminal use of the word, “Rosicrucian” (see still image, above), throughout the film.
“The Secret” is nothing new. But its production values should be high enough to bring a fresh batch of suckers into “the movement.”
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