Something I Learned

Something most folks don't realize is that the Grunge look that was popular was actually invented by the German Communist playwright Bertholt Brecht.  This comrade had a West German publisher, an Austrian passport, a Swiss bank account, and an East German theater company with hot and cold running actresses.

Nice work if you can get it.

History Lesson

What most people don’t realize is that The Matrix is really a remake of the 1969 East German film Wirklichkeit ist eine Illusion, also lassen Sie uns sprechen Rätsel, Eintragfaden-Polizei und Tanzkampf (”Reality is an Illusion, so Let Us Speak Riddles, Shoot Police and Dancefight”). This film was made in response to the large number of philosophically obscure European films released in 1968 and the East German communists didn’t want to be left in the dust by their Western opposite numbers (It’s the RED pill for a reason).

Unfortunately the East German censors were either not “read in” on the project or they didn’t care and they refused to approve of its release and the film was placed into storage until the fall of the East German communist government in 1989. After a very short limited release a number of VHS copies of the film made it to Los Angeles and the rest is history.

(Yes, I’m kidding.)

Thoughts For The Day

Knowledge is knowledge.  Some of the things one learns are nasty, live with it.

Battlefield Earth is so bad I can’t even watch a review of it. 

Even though I judge everyone by the same moral standard regardless of their ethnic background I'll be denounced as a racist.

Peace Activists are essentially part of the problem of aggression.

Authority: Someone who knows what they're talking about and what they're doing.  It's not a word that can be reasonably used to describe the present occupants of the executive and legislative branches of the Federal Government.

History Lesson

What most people don’t realize is that The Matrix is really a remake of the 1969 East German film Wirklichkeit ist eine Illusion, also lassen Sie uns sprechen Rätsel, Eintragfaden-Polizei und Tanzkampf (”Reality is an Illusion, so Let Us Speak Riddles, Shoot Police and Dancefight”). This film was made in response to the large number of philosophically obscure European films released in 1968 and the East German communists didn’t want to be left in the dust by their Western opposite numbers (It’s the RED pill for a reason).

Unfortunately the East German censors were either not “read in” on the project or they didn’t care and they refused to approve of its release and the film was placed into storage until the fall of the East German communist government in 1989. After a very short limited release a number of VHS copies of the film made it to Los Angeles and the rest is history.

(Yes, I’m kidding.)

Casting History

Jim Carrey was cast as a moron (that's the nicest way I could put it.) in The Dead Pool. (which also starred Clint Eastwood and Liam Neeson)

History Lesson

What most people don’t realize is that The Matrix is really a remake of the 1969 East German film Wirklichkeit ist eine Illusion, also lassen Sie uns sprechen Rätsel, Eintragfaden-Polizei und Tanzkampf (”Reality is an Illusion, so Let Us Speak Riddles, Shoot Police and Dancefight”). This film was made in response to the large number of philosophically obscure European films released in 1968 and the East German communists didn’t want to be left in the dust by their Western opposite numbers (It’s the RED pill for a reason).

Unfortunately the East German censors were either not “read in” on the project or they didn’t care and they refused to approve of its release and the film was placed into storage until the fall of the East German communist government in 1989. After a very short limited release a number of VHS copies of the film made it to Los Angeles and the rest is history.

Quote Of The Day

I hate video games.

--Uwe Boll in Postal.

Question Of The Day

Do you want to be a drummer for Spinal Tap?

There is no such thing as common sense Gun Control.

Punishing a man for an act he did not commit is unjust. Imprisoning a man for speaking the truth is tyrannical. Disarming the citizens -- who are the sovereign authority of the nation -- is treason.  To say anything more would require the extensive use of barracks language.