Detournement

Given that we have relatively large amounts of renewable resources and any new fields will have diminishing returns in terms of energy effiency and tax take it seems like we should be leading the way in terms of "keeping it in the ground". If not Scotland (and Norway) then who?

As I said previously the Scottish and/or UK government can easily publish the stats they have on excess deaths by vaccination status. They did this all through 2021. Now they refuse to do so.

If you Google "coup in Peru" all the stories tell you that the elected President who got deposed tried to do a coup.

The crazy thing about this is that there was an actual coup in Peru three weeks ago and people have been murdered but because that's an official Washington DC effort it's barely been commented upon.

He's got a long way to go yet. In ten years time he'll be looking like Robert The Bruce's Da and still wandering around Central Florida in a Brazil top.

Bolsonaro was playing Russian Roulette eating KFC with his guts. The old Union Street one would have finished him off within minutes. Mankiness off the charts.

Liam Neeson brings us full circle with that crazy interview he did where he said he wanted to do Death Wish for real in Dublin.

Well done @Slim Charles. the fact that we avoided a Shawshank number 1 has to count as a success. Now do the real poll where everyone who selected ten films in English and/or tens films in colour gets automatically disqualified.

Just watched the first episode of Copenhagen Cowboy and it's already shattered me. There's only 6 episodes so no bingeing.

American Sniper made $500 million. As the Taken movies have proven, show a white man killing swarthy foreigners and they will come.

A good bit of production trivia is that they filmed an effect with the eye popping out with no intention of putting it in the final cut. They used the footage to manipulate the censor into leaving the rest of the scene as it as was with the only change being no eye pop.

Is the trope not usually that the body is so decomposed, disfigured or burnt that a normal visual 'identify the body' process won't work so they use dental records to confirm the ID rather than a family member? The CIA doesn't need dental records when hundreds of millions of people sent their DNA to private companies doing PCR tests. Not to mention the NHS selling us all out to Palantir.

I'm going to try and watch them all over the next few months.

Lolita (1962) I reread the book last week so i watched the both the films to compare and contrast. When i watched this last year I thought Kubrick had focused on Quilty rather than Humbert because of censorship and also because if you have Peter Sellers in a film you use him. Rereading the book Quilty is a minor character but is always in the background and appears to be running some sort of Epstein style paedo blackmail operation with occult aspects. Once you watch the film and look for that it's sticks out a mile. Kubrick uses lots of pyramid imagery in scenes with Quilty which are prominent throughout his films and are usually associated with corrupt elites. Lolita (1997) This version with Jeremy Irons as Humbert removes all the humour and most of the Quilty stuff and instead chooses to make Humbert sympathetic and sexualize Dominique Swain as Lolita to a very surprising extent. Kubrick used a 14 year old actress and made her look older and removed all the overt rape. This version has a 15 year old who looks younger and the film has all the brutality from the book. Somehow despite that Irons is portrayed in a more sympathetic manner than Mason. It's a strange film. Play Misty For Me (1971) Clint invents the bunny boiler genre. Clint plays a late night radio DJ who is into poetry and jazz who gets tangled up with a crazy female listener. It features loads of scenic shots of Monterey and Carmel where Clint would later become mayor, it has a long scene where Clint is grooving at the 1970 Monterrey Jazz festival to a Cannonball Adderly set and apart from the psycho bird it's all good California vibes. You can see why Clint got so raging later on in life because in 1960s Carmel he was probably living at the apex of human (male) civilization and the only way was down.

The queueing up outside the local flea pit rather than just booking tickets online and turning up made it feel like a big event I think. Bigger auditorims and screens made a difference as well. The local cinema I went to as kid was falling apart and got demolished when I was 15 but a quick Google shows that it had three screens with capacities of 466, 310 and 224. The big screen at the GFT which feels massive has 394 seats. Plus there was all the cigarette smoke which added to the atmosphere. Here's a nice photo of my Dad and me at Honey I Shrunk The Kids back in the days before multiplexes.

Anyone who hasn't seen this should do themselves a favour and watch it. It's incredible.

2 correct points out of three ain't bad. The beach scene in Under The Skin and the disabled man who escapes are about as serious as it gets. Aguirre ending with the monkeys is perfect.

So if a player's heart is beating at 120 bpm then are there two moments in every second where he is vulnerable to death from an innocous hit according to this guy? Given how much contact sport is played around the world we would surely see a lot more of this. All the cited previous cases seem to be people getting hit with projectiles rather than body to body.

I don't think so but ScarJo braving Wishaw, Port Glasgow, Livingston and driving a van through thousands of fans coming out a Celtic game should have earned her an Oscar. The choice of locations reminds of this passage from James Robertson's And The Land Lay Still. And The Land Lay Still is woefully unread for being the only great cultural output of the Scottish Independence movement.

Under The Skin should have been one of the 2010s English language films on the actual Sight and Sound poll. Anti Scottish racism at play imo.

It's looking promising.

Vertigo (1958) I've been rereading Lolita this week and noticed that on the first road trip they visit Mission Dolores near San Francisco where the vital scenes in Vertigo, which came out a couple of years later, take place. So I thought I'd rewatch Vertigo with Nabokov and Kubrick in mind. In Lolita Humbert claims Lolita is almost a reincarnation of his first child love Annabel and in Vertigo you have Jimmy Stewart's Scottie attempting to turn the slightly skanky Judy into the classy Madeline who he loved and lost. The subtext to all that is obviously Hitchcock trying to replace Grace Kelly with other blonde actresses after she ditched him to become a European royal. The stuff with Madeline being possessed by the painting of her old world grandmother seems to allude to the American aristo Grace desiring to become a real aristocrat. There is a constant fetish/theme around girls/women's clothes in both Lolita and Vertigo and having watched all the Kelly/Hitchcock films he obviously liked to dress her in black and white and it's noticeable that a very important scene in the film he has Kim Novak in black and white. A couple of other things I noticed for the first time are that when Scottie has undressed Madeline and is waiting for her to wake up he has a porn mag on the table in front of him and that the Maddie Ferguson character in Twin Peaks who is Laura's cousin/doppelganger derives her name from Vertigo. Rocco and his Brothers (1960) Simone in this has to be one of the biggest b*****ds in cinema history, in the second half of the film I felt genuine hatred for him every time he came on screen. I have to wonder if the actor took any flak for it in real life. It's the story of a southern peasant family who migrate to Milan to escape grinding poverty and struggle to assimilate and get by. Two of the brothers are boxers and the fight scenes are brilliant. Mirror (1975) Scenes from the life of a Russian family before during and after WW2. It's non linear in a way that obviously inspired Terence Malick in his later films. It's not exactly a thriller but it looks beautiful and was an enjoyable watch with a few glasses of wine in me.

Natural Asset Classes have been created by Wall St banks but their goal is to transfer ownership of biospheres in Africa, Latin America and Asia to western oligarchs. Australia signed up for it last week but that was basically symbolic as they are already well established on that path. Obviously a Tory government will want to take part in it. As will Labour. As will the SNP. The SNP have sold already sold off Scottish renewable assts to Big Oil for a pittance. It's not about parties.

It's not about people flying less or thinking about their carbon output. People (not rich people) will fly less by being priced out of flying or having their flights cancelled. The PR firm who run Greta are involved in manufacturing consent for the EU Green New Deal which is a huge privatisation scam which will result in billionaires controlling and charging rent on all the low carbon technology we will require to live in the 21st century. Also look into Natural Asset Classes. Which can be summed up as an attempt to privatize the air we breathe.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/dec/31/mikhail-bulgakov-museum-kyiv-calls-to-close Ukrainian nationalists are crazy. "Don't confuse the landlord and the tenant"....