Ender's Game

1) I have memories of having watched the movie Ender's Game today
 
2) It was amiable enough but where's the fun in watching people play video games that look like video games?
 
3) The rest of was otherwise very good and well acted. Haven't read the book though. Alien ship designs seemed slightly over used if one has seen a number of scifi films in the last few years
 
4) Was there a side to the original story left out of the movie? Don't know how Enders Game compares to The Last Starfighter either. The connection to suddenly make with with the latter is that the film seems to be about a boy who plays a computer arcade game and he's so good that an extra terrestrial organisation seek him out to bring him into their starfleet to fight of alien enemies. Vut really I don't know anymore than that and that might not be very accurate.
 
5) I took a quick look at the Enders Game novel ending and wonders with some confusion about the whole thing as if having visited a mausoleum or a memorial for thousands of dead soldiers

The Counsellor

I enjoyed The Counsellor. Vicious deaths, stylish sets and somewhat disjointed story leaving one to wonder what was going to happen next. The story that slowly unravelled its fragments felt fresh and unencumbered. Maybe there's nothing to discuss but take in the imagery. Often it felt as if the characters and events came out of a white light and went back into the light as soon as each scene was over. I take this as a quality of the film's story and perhaps the long words of advice given down the phone to Fassbender's character enough the sense of it all. If people have fallen asleep during The Counsellor, indeed it has a certain soporific quality but a number of these slow arty movies do.

Overlong words to describe thoughts on Hannibal

1. I think that my favourite TV series of the year of 2013 has to be Hannibal, which is loosely inspired by the novel Red Dragon which i have not bothered to read, but I have watched the various movies based on the novels and although I have liked them have found that I can only be bothered to watch them once and never really find the interest to see them again. I admit that these days I can't stand watching much television at all since I don't value many of the new television series. I have watched enough lawyer series and police series where somewhere in America they have they have an unbelievable crimelab facility. I have not been interested in these television series about serial killers as the main character, I have avoided them. and so in the end, I ought to have avoided Hannibal, I was wondering what sort of awful liberties that the creative team might have taken to make a series, but there was something that seemed devilishly interesting to me about the whole thing especially with Mads Mikkelson, a Danish actor with an almost strange skull like face taking up the role of Hannibal Lector.
2. When I first watched this series I was charmed by it but I was horrified to find out that other people who loved it were boasting that the series' creator was paying homage to David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick through the series, I didn't want to hear any of this and I was a little horrified by the idea of this because I liked David Lynch's films very much but I don't like seeing people attempting to copy his work and when a TV series creator openly talks about his need to show off comparisons to Lynch and Kubrick, as with a lot of American TV series creator who goes on blowing his trumpet about what he is doing, I tend to want to shove everything they say down the toilet. I wouldn't be asking David Lynch what he ought to say about the Hannibal series just because the creator mentioned his name. It might be this reason that I don't like reading or seeing interviews with Damon Lindelof or Joss Whedon. But having watched Hannibal every week that I could, I have enjoyed the strange surrealistic sequences in the movie, the artistically displayed corpses of the murder victims and the imagery of the TV series has ignited fires in my dreams, I would almost want to imagine Mad's Mikkelson's Hannibal as a person who comes from a Dali painting.
3. In scenes Mads Mikkelson sometimes tends to mumble his lines with his thick European accent but he does it gracefully and it's wonderful to have someone so un-American at the front of a TV series like this, it seemed to go enough against the grain. It's quite possible that we're not missing any of the words that we didn't understand, perhaps in this series there is nothing much actually being but are transformed the lines perhaps with ghosts of meaning in the spaces in between that never quite appear. Perhaps all of the dialogue is supposed to be nearly forgotten and then when rewatched, forgotten once more, there are no particularly memorable quotes from the series to entertain friends with
4. The other main character, Will Graham played by Hugh Dancy probably is playing him in such a way that he doesn't outshine Mads even when he mumbles his dialogue the most. His character is perhaps flat and boring or maybe Hugh plays his role well as a mentally burned out schizoid man skilled with using some sort of pyschic senses in solving a crime, it might be hard to sell that concept even if he was playing such a person. Despite his gifts, he is another character for Hannibal Lector to run rings around.
5. Perhaps I have not been so interested in the way that there are guest stars for various episodes, such as British stand up comedian Eddie Izzard turns up as a serial killer in one episode and as much as I like Lance Henriksen in many of his roles, he turns up as a serial killer and I wonder what the hell he is doing there apart from being an actor playing his role, but I look forwards to seeing him in the series again later on. However we have the likes of David Bowie soon to be playing Hannibal's uncle and I am not sure what to say about that either, but in the end, perhaps the answer is why not.
6. I like the series because it seems to be about people dealing with psychic worlds and problems of the inner world and some surrealistic imagery. I am a fan of the TV series Monk and enjoy his quest to adapt to the world around him and so I enjoy the scenes where Hannibal is talking to his psychiatrist played by Gillian Anderson about his own problems such as dealing with the whole concept of having an actual friend which in his own way perhaps Hannibal makes out of Will Graham because he feels they have some form of connection through their dealing with criminal investigation. Hannibal has problems himself in having personal friendships and breaking down his personal walls is an issue
7. There are a lot of conflicts that these people have to deal with and steering in slightly the wrong direction with Hannibal could mean their death is imminent and then those who he appears to value the friendship of most of all appear to be the subject of his games
8. As it seems, Hannibal's own psychological problems appear to be part of a facade for ulterior motives because anyone who gets in his way he is likely to kill and his psychiatrist who secretly knows something is perhaps not wholly aware of his intentions. Hannibal is a psychiatrist himself and one of his patients who obsessively identifies with him also wants to become an actual personal friend of his, but this results in Hannibal seeing him as a nuisance and eventually having to kill him. When he invites a man who is revealed to be a serial killer around to his house for dinner, one might have been someone who he could have made a friend out of but it turns out to lure him into a situation where he can have an opportunity to kill him . When he tries to help a young woman that has got involved in a murder case that he feels fatherly tendencies for, the result in his failure to help her means that he has to kill her. Will Graham starts out with absolutely no desire to befriend Hannibal Lector but Hannibal appears to want to be friends with him and it soon results in Will Graham finding himself behind bars accused of murder , and maybe this is where Hannibal planned to put him because he was likely to find out sooner or later that he himself was a serial killer and it appears that perhaps he valued his life enough not to have found himself killing the man.

Frankenstein's Army

a) I very much liked "Frankenstein's Army" on DVD, I wish I had seen it at the cinema but when it was shown at a Film Festival in Leicester Square, all the decent seats were bought up before I could buy a ticket.

b) As much a bizarre mind boggling visual treat as some might assume, despite the low budget. Probably a sizable chunk of the movie seemed like a shoot-em-up computer game, but still very interesting like a long nightmare

c) What we see in the film is as seen through the camera of the lens of a soldier who is supposed to be filming the whole thing as we watch the movie. So this means it's a "found footage" movie and quite honestly I wouldn't know anything about that normally but there are some films that I have seen where film footage is found one way or another.

d) There are twists and turns to be encountered amongst the gang of Russian soldiers who are the main characters of the film and a long part of the film is spent just exploring the environment with nameless skeletons, piles of nuns placed on a fire, a seemingly empty building that is revealed to be Frankenstein's monster factory. Numerous Frankenstein's various monsters are to be found populating the movie in killing mode, however many are very easy to kill off once they are seen for what they are. It's amiable nonsense in which I found no ultimate depths, I was probably happy to see all the characters killed off. Perhaps I might even want to watch parts of it again.

As a young man read A Game of Thrones in a coach

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Hungarian version of A Game of Thrones

  

1. I am in a foreign country on a coach journey sitting next to a young man who is reading a novel by George RR Martin or something or other and the book possibly has an image of a dragon on the cover, I can't read the words because it is in an Eastern European language, but I am imagining what this boy is read and it's something very strange that probably has nothing to do with the book whatsoever. It might be a fantasy fiction novel, I only like J R R Tolkien's work in that genre but I felt encouraged to imagine that the young man was thinking. I first imagined that this foreign language, was tearing his eyes, his brain tissue and skin apart with teeth , blades and spikes, shoving all manner of cooked body parts and interior  organs into his mouth driving him insane. The cover turned out to be that of Game of Thrones which I have not bothered to watch on TV or read as a book.
2. A wicked dog handler skewers the throat of a large aggressive dark purple dog with a long spike and holding the spike with two hands, he directs the dog in the direction of a young man who is sitting there, and this creature rips open his belly and then the stomach and bladder, leaving open to the air from inside the body a translucent organic cup filled with a hot brown steaming liquid which the dog once is has stopped ripping everything apart begins to lap up the soup.
3. A falcon is inside the back of the young man's throat and pushes a wing through his mouth, he is confused to find this feathered limb  pushing its way through filling his mouth and unfurling outside of his mouth, and then the creature with its beak begins to rip through the upper front lip and the nasal cavity poking its head out of a hole that was once a nose.
4. The body is still sitting there somewhere and he finds that a dark flowing stream comes out of his stomach, across a table surface and a shadowy man nearby is drinking from the stream cupping his hands and filling them with the flowing liquid, and he spies inside the young man's his tongue had now transformed into an orange amongst other oranges in a wide wicker basket that is his open mouth, the young man has been bound down by a woman who is presenting the basket of oranges as a gift to the shadowy man at the expense of the mouth of the the young man. The shadowy man peels the orange and the young man is quietly screaming but he can not utter a sound and the shadowy man pulls out more oranges, right to the root of the tongue and the dangling piece of flesh at the back of the throat.
5. The young man sees before him the basket of fruit now half eaten, it may be a moment where he has been removed from the previous experience and something has come to take him away from this deranged state, as if something as giant as a radar dish resting on one of its edges and a giant winged bird of creature comes from behind it and fills the sky. Out of the ground a large sphere grows and out of the tip of that another sphere and another and so on forming a tube and going into the sky reading the belly of this flying beast now stationary in the sky and this tube as a a pipe drawing translucent dark fluid from the giant winged entity leaving its transparent, like a reverse umbilical chord but stands like an elongated bending bare tree trunk and the liquid is pulled into the ground. Perhaps a part of the young man's psyche has ascended through the transparent tube into the winged vessel and it about to be taken away.
6. But the young man possibly it sitting in a seat wondering what might happen next, his cranium begins to stretch sideways extending almost las long as a warping transparent loaf of bread softly vibrating, and the stretched cranium wants to crawl off like a worm of a caterpillar, the ear moves along and an eyeball elongates from the socket and wishes to wriggle off in its own direction after the moment when the young man feels that he has now seen too much of what existence really is.
7. There is an elderly cantankerous man who keeps vultures that feed on his herd of cattle in a wooded field, he hacks into the flesh with a knife and the vultures approach interested in the idea of the dying creature and he is so sure that from reading a study of the DNA of a young boy who is playing with a ball in a field that he will murder many people and is therefore already guilty of murder and must be put to death. There is nothing that the young man can do to stop this elderly man who is sure that the law will be on his side when he himself grabs the boy by his golden hair, shoves him into the vulture cage and cuts a grid in the child's chest to watch his bleed to death as the vultures becomes more and more interested. The young man can do nothing more but watch the young boy being ripped to shreds before his very eyes as the old man grins wildly.

Person sometimes referred to as Pyramid Head or Triangle Head

1. I'm approached because of my pyramid about four times a day by people from all different walks of life and many more people have been discussing the subject of this device that I have been seen to wear on my head, and so I have decided to create a page on my blog about it.
2. This device so I notice helps to focus the mind, relax the mind, help me to not be so worn out by the toxic central London air pollution as I would normally be, and also it seems to detox the brain. I will often wear it outdoors and wear it when I was to keep awake at home late at night and get written work done at home. I don't claim to know the ultimate ins and outs of its functions from personal experience but have listened to and read what Dr Fred Bell who developed this product has had to say about it. The benefits of wearing this device outweigh the weirdness of it for me.
3. I have experimented with a pyramid with fruit, leaving some grapes outside of it and some inside, and the grapes inside after some weeks later had dried out to quite some degree, had a small amount of mold on it but tasted beautiful to eat. The grapes left outside of the pyramid were soon totally consumed with mold. The pyramid when constructed properly is known to delay the production of putrifying bacteria. So people have used such a device in the past to make cheese from milk.

   

   Todd Rundgren's record album "UTOPIA RA"
   Bearsville Records "K55514" UK 1976

4. There was a Pyramid Experiment Insert featured in the Todd Rundgren's band Utopia's record album, "Ra" released in the 1970s. (Todd Rundgren's record album "UTOPIA RA"
   Bearsville Records "K55514" UK 1976)  A friend of mine had a go with it when the album first came out and found that he was able to make a cup of milk successful turn into cheese.
   
   "Pyramid assembly instructions:
   
   Cut along the outside edge of the pyramid (do not cut off tab 'a'). Gently fold the edges of each panel into a pyramid shape. Tape or glue tab 'a' under the edge of 'b'.
   
   

   
   Experiments have been done with pyramids that have the same proportions as the one you are now holding in your hand. The findings of these experiments suggest that the energy within the pyramid is transformed in such a way that it slows down the rate at which organic matter deteriorates and decomposes. The flavor of foods confined in the pyramid's center was noticeably enhanced, and the freshness of the food itself was preserved for a surprisingly long time. If you would like to try an experiment of your own, find an area free of electromagnetic interference (away from t.v. set, etc.) ~ outside is real good. Using a compass, align one of the faces to magnetic north, place some object inside the pyramid for a while, and observe. Let us know what happens."

   

   cut out pyramid with the Utopia Ra album
5. These things better do something drastic for the money you pay and they do as far as I can tell. As far as I know it works whenever I put it on. If you want to use certain ones for certain noticeable medical benefits, you would need to wear it regularly. The Silver Power Dome most likely to be tough to wear at first because of the effects of detoxing. People who have worn my Power Dome often have felt an immediate sensation of feeling calmer.
6. However someone broke my pyramid headgear soon after I brought it, a child did something to it that in the end cracked the apex. If the two sides of the apex are connecting, it works and if the two sides of the apex are not connected properly I start wondering why I am not getting any of the benefits out of the device, and then I will be able to see what is wrong and put the apex back together. This proves to me that it's not just some placebo effect.

   

   the late Dr Fred Bell, founder of the company Pyradyne

7. As far as I'm concerned, I bought a device from a US company , and I find it useful. I'm not sure if I'm the one to explain it.
8. People around the streets of London often see me wearing a pyramid on my head, a it is a Power Dome made by the company Pyradyne. Until a couple of years ago I wore a Ray Dome pyramid for a number of years until I felt it was time to upgrade to something stronger.
9. Dr Fred Bell the man who developed the pyramid headgear product and started the Pyradyne company has had an interesting clientel over the years, however he passed on in 2011. There have been some well known celebrities that he has talked about who have used his products. Frank Zappa used to use a Power Dome and found it good for his creative inspiration. Lee Majors was known to have worn one for some times when he was making his Six Million Dollar Man TV and would have liked to have incorporated it into the plot of the TV series if he had been allowed and James Brown posed for a photo with a pyramid on his head . The writer Ray Bradbury also was known to have worn a Ray Dome for the company for a while. Pyradyne's products have had quite a history going back about four decades. Wesley Snipes has used them for his fitness too. Joe Cocker seems to have used a Powerdome to help him quit smoking a long while back.  David Tickle the record producer used Dr Fred's products in his studio including when U2 recorded their album "Rattle and Hum" .  One of his pyramid based devices strangely turned up as a machine used on a space station in the movie Moonraker.

   

   "James Brown, Lee Duncan and the gang at Aspen", 1981

10. I've heard that people in Camden Market were seen to wear pyramids, I was told that the day before it the market burned down early in 2008. There have been reports given to me by passers by of other people around central London wearing them, and here we are in 2013 and I personally know now of one other person who has actually worn his outdoors, but the more the merrier.
11. For more information on the product, go to the Pyradyne website and you can also contact the company personally to make further inquiries about their products. An archive of Dr Fred Bell's Health Science and Energy Show can be found and downloaded from BBS Radio for a reasonable fee

Fifth something, give me a clue, Fifth State, Fifth Element, Fifth Estate Agent, okay I gives up...

a) I went to see the movie with "Fifth" in the title this evening, someone might ask if it's Fifth Element and I will say "no" and we could spend a long time trying to guess the second word and this film has Benedict Cumberwhatsisname playing Julian Thingamy or whatever his name is. It probably isn't important for me to know or state the whole of the names. Okay I give in Benedict' suname is Cumberbatch and Julian's surname is Assange or is it really Saussage, I am forgetting already

b) I enjoyed the movie that has Fifth somewhere in the title and enjoyed it quite a bit and found it very stylish although it seemed to be rather confusing what was going on at the end leaving one wondering whether Assange's words about the possibility a Wikileaks movie being made and from seeing the sort of character that Cumberbatch had played in the movie, one might expect that character to have said all the things that he did say about the movie as reported recently. It did seem to take one into a confusing question about what actually went on and who was to be believed. Daniel Brühl once again steered the story with his acting presence, some might recall him playing Niki Lauda in the recent movie Rush, and in that movie, he steered the whole story that could easily have been a pretty banal film and made it something quite interesting. Julian Assange appeared to remain a big headed rubbery character with boundaries that could not be established by common thinking alone and Daniel Berg fought to control the monstrous being that he helped to propel into power. One might start to wonder what it would have been like if Benedict Cumberbatch and Chris Hemsworth had been fused into one entity , that being might have looked like someone a lot more similar to James Hunt in appearance in Rush than Chris Hemswoth alone.. And if Daniel Brühl had played the side kick of Cumberbatch's character in the recent Star Trek movie, perhaps it would have made Cumberbatch's character a lot more convincing in seeming to have a reason for what he was doing.

c) Quite honestly the actual events of Wikileaks hasn't really interested me but this Julian Assange has remained a strange enigmatic odd character just from the basic photos of him and his name. I don't know what he is all about and probably would find it hard to want to sit down and think about it. By the end of the movie I was expecting Julian Assange to seek sanctuary in Russia and have the American President after him but no, I had already begun to confuse him with Edwards Snowden since I don't watch the news very much. If Julian Assange fades away completely and people just think of the two as one individual in ten years time, it wouldn't surprise me whatsoever. I am very into people and entities merging into combined uneasy entities in this age that people soon begin to never imagine ever having been seperate at all anywhere in history.