February 25, 2004 - 5:45 p.m.

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I watched a movie called '28 Days Later' where everyone 
is zombies apart from a few.  We follow the few as they 
travel through deserted UK (apart from zombies!).
Lots of blood + interesting idea.  Similar to 'Day of 
the Triffids' and a aussie tv soap called 'The Tribe'.

I went to sleep thinking about the film.  As a result i 
dreamt of having a gun battle with Mr T(the A team), in 
Hogwarts(Harry Potter).
  I killed him, then thought 'i must check the internet 
when i wake up. Will they mention me killing Mr T?'

aaah dream logic.

UPDATE!
Erk, more violence.  I saw A Clockwork Orange.  After
being repeatedly told how extreme it was, i found that
there was no gore whatsoever.  The disturbing thing was,
i was more disturbed by the central character's rendition
of 'Singing in the Rain' than by any of the rape scenes.

So what's the message? hmm this film only contains nasty
or stupid characters.  Apart from maybe the tramp. Just 
before being beaten up he complains about the lack of 
law and order.  But then he and his tramp posse get 
revenge.  Without hope or morally righteous characters
how can the film put any positive idea forward? It could 
be just a criticism of everything.  It left me thinking;

"wow, that was a cool film.  I liked that guy's 
hat-eyelash combo.  I liked being immersed in a quirky 
little world and liked the stylised language('oh my 
brother')"      ,,
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Up.Date. ah ha!/   i have found meaning:
"What does God want? Does God want goodness or the 
choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps 
in some way better than a man who has the good imposed 
upon him?"
There it is. The central character murders then gets 
corrective treatment that makes him feel sick when he 
thinks about violence and sex.  The author of the 
original book (Anthony Burgess) is apparently saying it 
would be better for the criminal to go on uncorrected, 
rather than suffer the treatment that deprives him of 
free will.

This strikes me as a bit like China's free speach 
problem.  Should they try to force people to be 'good' 
by restricting free speach, or give the people the right 
to choose and bring chaos.  Burgess would say choice at 
all costs.

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These from metacritic.com;

Austin Chronicle / Marjorie Baumgarten:
A chilling classic, the movie is a scabrous satire about 
human deviance, brutality, and social conditioning that 
has remained a visible part of the ongoing public debate 
about violence and the movies.

 From the Chicago Reader
A very bad film--snide, barely competent, and 
overdrawn--that enjoys a perennial popularity, perhaps 
because its confused moral position appeals to the 
secret Nietzscheans within us. It's a movie that Leopold 
and Loeb would have loved, endorsing brutality in the 
name of nonconformism. At best, Stanley Kubrick's 1971 
film suggests an Animal House with bogus intellectual 
trappings. But the trappings--the rationalizations and 
spurious arguments--are what make it genuinely 
irresponsible, genuinely abhorrent.
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.http://www.rottentomatoes.com/top/bestofrt_year.php
Great great     !!amalgam!~!     of movie (+other) 
reviews from various web/print critics.
UPDATE! hmm www.metacritic.com is better but it feels a
bit soulless without cartoon tomatoes.


.http://www.gearchange.org/
Compendium of cringe-inducing key changes in songs.
With samples!
There is also a good amount of trivia about the featured
songs.

Bowie pisses up liverpudlian accent:
http://www.gearchange.org/descriptions/David%20Bowie%20-%20Penny%20Lane.html
another customer/anoother coostomer - dont mix!

Barry Manilow sings "I Write The Songs", when in fact he doesn't.

repeat offenders:
The Beatles
Michael Jackson
Barry Manilow
Westlife
Stevie Wonder

 
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