tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post6740694949694681433..comments2024-03-21T02:23:19.513-07:00Comments on STEVE PIECZENIK <b>TALKS</b>: Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08376863188680913389noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-62283749407423031792013-01-20T10:43:09.228-08:002013-01-20T10:43:09.228-08:00"The Departed" was a wonderful script ba..."The Departed" was a wonderful script based on a true story and could have been an important film except Scorstase tured it into a laughing horror show.<br /><br />"Body of Lies" was an important book which captured the realities of the CIA and phoney War On Terror but was RUINED by Ridley ["Alien"] Scott, who is incapable of any kind of adult material.<br /><br />Time and time again today's directors botch and ruin great material because they are immature, comic book level idiots or WORESE....such as Tarantino, Rodriquez and Scorstase, who are scoiopaths.MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-80522035947603603102013-01-20T03:27:41.232-08:002013-01-20T03:27:41.232-08:00Well I wassnt a fan of any of the above films gran...Well I wassnt a fan of any of the above films granted! But it boils down to preference I suppose, I've read some accompanying books to some of gangster films and found them to be good also, I find sub culture very interesting and I suppose the fact we readers engage on these types of mediums make us every bit part of of that sub culture Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14612969869137211590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-88821627669836574832013-01-19T23:44:09.776-08:002013-01-19T23:44:09.776-08:00Hey you mugs. Are you on the level or are you a h...Hey you mugs. Are you on the level or are you a heel?<br /><br />Hey...what kinda junt ["joint"] is that you're runnin' ova dare?<br /><br />Hey, whadda ya so sore about?<br /><br />Go ahead, lettum have it!<br /><br />I'll givit tooya good....see.<br /><br />Hey...whatsit tooya Mug!MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-11238725396927257632013-01-19T23:36:09.197-08:002013-01-19T23:36:09.197-08:00To say the films of Scorstese are not bad is simpl...To say the films of Scorstese are not bad is simply untrue.<br /><br />Scorstese will be remembered as a Hollywood icon and darling who made horrible films.<br /><br />"The Departed" "The Aviator" "King of Comedy" "New York New York" "Gangs of New York" "Cundin" "Last Temptation of Christ" "The Color of Money" are...<br /><br />1.stylistically uninteresting <br /><br />2.devoid of any meaningful relationships between characters or authtentic human character [Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore being the one exception].<br /><br />3.Relies entirely on making humor out of over the top gratuitous violence.<br /><br />He will not be remembered.<br /><br />The guy's a cokehead too...seriously. MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-14444540433406885112013-01-19T08:50:17.407-08:002013-01-19T08:50:17.407-08:00Probably fair to say that they haven't had a f...Probably fair to say that they haven't had a fight in their lives but they we're not bad films and a harsh reality is some people are more Donnie brasco than Gordon gecko, life imitates art far more than art imitating life! You only have to look at who is supposed to run the western world and there you have the same scenario! The world is a stage but the play is badly cast!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14612969869137211590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-49712741716665749082013-01-19T00:03:10.443-08:002013-01-19T00:03:10.443-08:00How about the domestic terror from within?
Almost ...How about the domestic terror from within?<br />Almost 11 million views:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx9GxXYKx_8&bpctr=1358583861Patriarchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18138603022259989149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-64972979891034265422013-01-18T23:55:15.109-08:002013-01-18T23:55:15.109-08:00"Fugeddaboutit" was popularized in the e...<a href="http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/fugeddaboutit_forget_about_it/" rel="nofollow">"Fugeddaboutit"</a> was popularized in the early 1990s in television ads for Tops Appliance City. DOMNIE BRASCO takes place in the 1970s. However, as I note, similar New York City words had been popular since at least the 1930s.Barry Popikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16203198416824735505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-70185586031098606542013-01-18T21:15:29.924-08:002013-01-18T21:15:29.924-08:00"I create nothing. I own."
-- Gordon Ge..."I create nothing. I own."<br /><br />-- Gordon GekkoMITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-11051760815992729692013-01-18T20:13:34.882-08:002013-01-18T20:13:34.882-08:00And as for the American servicemen killed or maime...And as for the American servicemen killed or maimed by the Talibs, Hakani's, etc. supported by Pakistan...<br /><br />Guess what?<br /><br />You're government doesn't give a shit.<br /><br />You're only cannon fodder.MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-48403630320990194892013-01-18T17:48:31.049-08:002013-01-18T17:48:31.049-08:00I gotta say I really vomit when I see snot-nosed p...I gotta say I really vomit when I see snot-nosed punk drug-addicted cokeheads like Marty Scorstese make sick comedy out of savage violence. Criminal violence isn't so funny in real life, and the dis-connect between reality and fantasy in the minds of sicko "film-makers" like Scorstese, Tarantino, Rodriquez and other pussy-punk wimps who have never been involved in real violence in thier lives makes me puke.<br /><br />I wouldn't mind meeting any of these wimps in a dark alley sometime and teach them a lesson about what's not funny about their chosen craft.MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-92024998191084726952013-01-18T17:39:20.625-08:002013-01-18T17:39:20.625-08:00When I was in graduate school and learning how to ...When I was in graduate school and learning how to build nuclear bombs from George Rathjens, we were all fixated with the prospect of the "ISLAMIC BOMB!"<br /><br />Beleive it or not in 1984 so many people assumed when Pakistan "got the bomb" that it would therefore hand it over to every Muslem "radical" who might seek to have it. Little did we know that Pakistan's bomb would have nothing to do with Islam, Israel, or anything else ultimately except perhaps how much the North Koreans could pay to have one too.<br /><br />Yes boys and girls the Pakistanis dis what we asked them to and played Russian Roulette by tempting the Soviets to attack them for allowing the Afghan Mujahadeen sanctuary in their barren nation. I among others was surprised at the Soviets' forebarance, and their failure to punish Pakistan was what emboldened Director Casey [not Charles Wilson] to escalate the matter until every village in Afghanistan ran with blood [thank you, Ronald Reagan].<br /><br />So in 2001 the US comes along and demands that the Pakistanis reverse themselves and put to the sword the very allies and kinsmen we so recently praised, and upon whose honor the Pakistanis have pinned their souls.<br /><br />Yes Dr. P in General Kahn you learned what true HONOR means to these people!<br /><br />And they weren't about to betray their allies in Afghanistan and elsewhere so easily. <br /><br />It took several years for the USG and CIA to figure out what I and many of my generation already assumed - that from 2001 onwards the Pakistanis were double-dealing the US, and that's what the US deserved.MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-59475107638143645072013-01-18T12:19:00.469-08:002013-01-18T12:19:00.469-08:00Ha ha fantastic film, one of my favorites and a gr...Ha ha fantastic film, one of my favorites and a great book to! Surely Dr p with your experienceyou could make a film of all the warring nations and base it on the great gangster movies? A composite of good fellas , godfather, casino,donnie brasco etc etc, USAwould have to be played by Joe pesci! Britain definately would have to be duvalls tom hagen, and I'd have to cast Iran with de niro with the rest of Europe played as hyman Roth!! Israel the Teflon don, with India and Pakistan represented by the kray and Richardson gangs of London, if your to busy hey forget about it!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14612969869137211590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-48475598986158601442013-01-18T07:40:28.051-08:002013-01-18T07:40:28.051-08:00What is the salient feature of The Divine should s...What is the salient feature of The Divine should such an entity exists? Absoluteness and being absolute means that there is no such thing as "Democracy". Afterall, when you could do no wrong and is actually the source of correctness for ALL, the weakness of "Democracy", that of The 51% bullying The 49%, pales into insignifiance/uselessness, especially the uselessness of those airyfairies who demand and expect to be worshipped, 25/8, those whose wetdream is to be Superman/The-Present but are always exposed as Subman/The-Past or Supraman/The-Future instead after emerging from their phone booths, the pour thangs - "Not so poor when we have your IP address and know who you are and will vapourise you when it is your turn next…" 3men to that.<br /><br />Those who are into Religion 101 and could spout-off every warning line and passage of direness in "The Religious Texts" might be surprised to learn that The Divine is not only not about Religion & Religiosity, The Divine is actually a living entity, so alive that HE, through He-She, has no need for time and is never, ever, under the threat of Ownership Issue, least of all by The G_d-dists, The Hallelujahs and The Blow 'Em Uppers, The Semitic Speciality of 3 for the price of 1 - not such a bargain after realising that you could only keep one because being human means that they cannot live with one another without divine intervention.<br /><br />True Religion is the innateness of Morality within, usually expressed as Taboos, and which confers the authority, oka Authority, which requires no reverence to Saving-Worshipping or even jackbooting. This Authority ensures that a normal human will not, say, poke a needle in his eye for whatever reason of normality - and all without the sanctioning of Quackery & Handler, that Tentacle of The Bookie whose mantra is Repeat Prescription.<br /><br />Religion therefore is about becoming Pure [within Desire, oka the Unrequited Past] and is neither willy-nilly Desiring Purity, oka Control Freakism, especially others' purity, nor to become the object of Desire by Others, oka Abandonment. This latter part of being an object of worship is what truly damages most because its operation is covert, being Of Cunning, oka Left-Sidedness. Humanity being Of Duality/Relativity, the dual-natured human like a football team where one has both a Goal-Scoring and a Goal-Keeping Department. Without being able to balance both, one's moral/true/absolute progress then is akin to taking 1 step forwards and 2 steps backward. If true, one's first duty then is to identify whether "Leadership" belongs to The GSD or The GKD whilst not forgetting that the failure to realise this reality is what limits the number of humans who are able to transcend being Of Purity/Absoluteness. As per the norm, Humanity's MO being Of Ownership Issue, when attainment fails, to own then becomes the next best option and when it comes to owning, it is merely the latency to being owned. This is because the desire to own stems from having been owned by a higher, but usually unseen, Concept, which in the case of humans, are one's Thoughts Of The Past or The Future. balancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05355475485081305197noreply@blogger.com