Tom’s third Flash movie was built by request of Mo of Mo Morgan.com and is a rather poor representation of the good man himself. The first representation was astonishingly good. But I lost that somehow, and couldn’t find a way to get it back. I wonder what I’ll make tomorrow.
One of the coolest, sickest, sites I’ve seen in a long time, uncelebrity.com lets you say exactly what you’d like to do with your favourite stars. I don’t know whether I’m more alarmed by the sweet ‘I want to walk with him on a beach’ ones or the full on dodgy porno wank fantasy ones. I don’t know which ones are funnier either…
Via Prol: Buffy Lives.
Tom’s Second Flash Movie:
I only wish I knew how to crop things.
OK – this is exactly why I love Wil Wheaton’s weblog so much: Son of SpongeBob Vega$Pants: “So I get to the hallway where we’re set up for autographs, and, as I am walking up the hallway, I see Dorn, Marina, Renee, Kate Mulgrew, and WILLIAM FUCKING SHATNER. Shatner has always been a dick to me, but I want to say hi, so I approach them, and I say, “Hi! How you guys doin?” Everyone returns my greeting, even Kate, who I don’t know, at all. Never even been introduced. Everyone, that is, except WILLIAM FUCKING SHATNER! Old toupee-head won’t even look at me! I don’t know what this guy’s problem is, really. I think he’s very funny, I think he’s got a great sense of humor about himself, but he is always a dick to me.”
In another article from disinformation, there is discussion about the memetic effects of Hollwood imagery. Although the article strays dangerously close to advocating censorship on the grounds of ‘putting ideas into people’s heads’ it does question the relationship between the Spectacle and political and terrorist action. Perhaps it’s only understandable that a radical politician of a fundamentalist country should try to make a movie in which the ‘bad guys win’.
Disinformation is back, and with a range of perspectives on events in America over the last week.
US terrorist attacks: due to circumstances beyond our control . . .: “The anti-globalist movement has existed at the fringes of American politics for several reasons. Understanding these reasons reveals the hidden complexity and undercurrents of the American political landscape. A more in-depth understanding can also serve as a buffer against the perils of groupthink.”
Terrorism and witch hunts: “‘Inevitable Ring to the Unimaginable’ by Australian journalist John Pilger, argues that “the US and its sidekicks, principally Britain, have exercised, flaunted, and abused their wealth and power ‘for so long they shouldn’t be surprised if those they have victimized fight back.’ Among many examples, he cites the 200,000 Iraqis killed during the Gulf War, and the million others who have since died in Iraq as a result of US/UK sanctions, and concludes that ‘Western terror is part of the recent history of imperialism.’
This perspective is directly contradicted by former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s ‘Response Must Destroy the Network that Shelters Terrorism.’ Kissinger writes that countries harboring terrorists ‘must pay an exorbitant price’ (ironic given that the US trained and funded Bin Laden and at least a few of the hijackers) and calls the World Trade Center attacks ‘a threat to our social way of life and to our existence as a free society.'”
Meg just threw me a list of songs with questionable lyrics that she found on the web. Songs – presumably – that people have decided not to play during the current events. Which possibly explains why everyone feels so suffocated. Part of me thinks that some of these songs should be being played. Why can’t John Lennon’s Imagine be heard? It’s message should be more true now than at any other time, surely? And “Walk Like An Egyptian”? What possible reason could there be for not playing that? [lyrics]. And while I understand why it’s not being played, I desperately need to hear REM’s “It’s the End of the World as We Know It” at the moment. There has to be some release for the anxiety that seems to be building again.
Does anyone have the slightest idea when My Own Private Idaho might be coming out on DVD? I miss River Phoenix. When I visited Kerry in LA, we went to a shop directly opposite the Viper Room where he died.
