I had this weird feeling earlier, Sometimes you notice what you say or do seems to leave a long term AI connection footprinted into digital platforms.. Many of us use search engines daily that are collecting our personal data as we go along.. Of course we already knew Google, Amazon, Ebay and several others track and capture our every move…Even Youtube can populate videos that are so catered to your specific liking and taste that it is almost creepy. I first tried to chalk it up like it was no big deal. Suddenly I felt this eerie feeling like what if something was watching me, like that Jim Carey movie “The Trueman Show”. Sometimes it’s just difficult to see the entire USA crumble. We are all forced to ask questions and think outside the box on what levels of surveillance is really watching us and for what purpose. I can’t even describe the feeling I mentioned earlier but it was such a strong feeling that it made me step back from the whacked-out battle of perspectives currently in the world. I started to notice all the holes in the media stories very quickly but now more than ever. As I type this there is literally a communist style commercial coming on. The commercial is all about equality and allocating the job market in certain ways and to rely on more help from the government. This current modello19 life situation is comparable to something having a short circuit or even a glitch, that few even notice. When you have a short circuit a few things happen.; Problem one is that you don’t get the full potential out of yourselves when restricted. Problem two that happens with a glitch is you spark and work half the time but do not work in the most needed times. Also with short circuits you can ruin other things around it almost like electronics having an upset day. I remember when 2020 hit the world it was like the entire globe became zombies and we find ourselves observing what people say and do to determine what side they are on. For a simplistic example; we currently have certain triggers (or ways to find out) for people and who they might have voted for or if they are social distancing. I also don’t really think actual mind control isn’t out of the ordinary as repeating things over and over like “stay safe” “stay safe” “please social distance” that plays over and over grocery stores and mainstream media means something. All of these thoughts overwhelmed me with this giant cloud of doubt in many things including basic freedoms and other things our current world is showing us they can confiscate from us at any moment. I feel like we are all just ants on an ant farm or files in a digital archive cabinet. The government likes stirring us around from time to time just to see what happens next. Like someone’s pet who is supposed to do what they are told to do. This revelation was so energized in me that I started doing unrealistic things in this moment… things like telling my computer the “watcher” I shall call it out and was telling “it” that it needs to pay me money otherwise I will try to expose the truth. silly, but who cares, see what happens. However as I was speaking out loud I mentioned that if paid I would delete everything I was thinking and continue on this current life living in the modello19 fake sickness. Basically, I was willing to sell out and roll over instead of defiance against what the government is actually doing to us. Long story short I asked for 20Million (HAHA) to shut my mouth and never bring up one of the biggest secrets in human history -which is the laboratory called Earth, or dimension earth whatever they call it. Keep in mind I asked my computer for that money out loud (HAHA x2) All of this hilarious talking to computers shit is under the idea that the government can track every digital move we make as well as see out of any camera; laptops, cameras, phones or hear from any wired microphone we have. It also dawned on me how people often have this fear of the government watch and yet we already have chips installed in the drivers licenses. Most of us never leave home without our wallet/drivers license/phone. The newer drivers licenses ALL have chips already in them. With GPS tracking signed sealed and delivered the phone would be a backup resource to track locations, among basic apps. All of these revelations and understandings makes me feel like not only could I be the person like in the TrueMan show, what if the entire population is a Trueman show for every household. Each show is all in there own world separately. Soon I imagine each household will be watching media or news coverage catered only to them. We have seen a lot of What happens when someone wants to get verification of facts and they use something common like Wikipedia. This website was initially what most people use to use for a fact check on something they can’t be certain of. Now you can’t believe anything you hear on TV and only less than half of what you see. Think about that for a minute. We are now in a time were the internet along side TV could be completely manipulating all of us individually and differently. Like a small dial to shift us from towards a direction with about 100 different ideas of what is going on. knowledge is power and money is a fair thing to trade for those uncovered facts. That being said I think the 20M should be the amount the government can pay me to suppress my facts. That number 20M came out of pure thin air but who is to judge me when they/the government have been printing trillions of dollars we as the USA don’t have. The people in charge also want to pump us with even higher ESD benefits, as well as create new rules for us. We are like a society on steroids that won’t be able to sustain. We are watched way more than we even know from how advanced technology is. You can’t sell an Automotive engine rated to have thousands of horsepower when they don’t have it. This is because back in the day you had to measure how much power you potentially had via Horse power. You also can’t put false information in Wikipedia either because many use that as a way to see if something is real enough to be put out there like that. Now we are in a world where no one knows the difference anymore. So we can say whatever horsepower we want when we are selling something or put anything on the internet. That’s bullshit. I think the Government has it’s talons in us and about 90% of the population seems to be onboard with all this shit that’s going on out there. People say stay safe when you leave a store and I always reply, ….. NOPE, stay fearless!
I was thinking about changing my blog to a vlog since video editing seems more fun and I know I personally enjoy watching endless good videos on YouTube n such. So if I have any followers that were interested in these art projects of mine I just wanted to post this so they can be aware of why there wasn’t any new posts. I consider video editing an art form and making good video edits is like drawing or building something. Basically my plan was to start from my very first blog post and work my way upwards to present time. Of course some posts I might skip but for the most part I will capture the highlights into video stories or reviews. I think I will do a vlog style video thing for just about everything on here using all of these blog entries as templates or video outlines. I even plan to do a vlog on the Monastery post I made that seemed to get a lot of interest. So to anyone who reads this stuff check out my soon-to-be blogs on my current YouTube channel which is titled, you guessed it: “West Seattle King” and I will try to attach links to each blog entry in here as well. Thanks for reading, and West Seattle Militia !!!
Don’t let the above picture fool you, this is a blog entry of semi mourning the death. My dead Facebook account that is! I have been to several funerals in my life and when I just typed that I thought of how sometimes people would wear T-Shirts to memorialize the fallen around the time someone passes away. So with that thought I just literally loud laughed out loud while thinking of me wearing a screen printed shirt that would read: FB in loving memory: Sunrise – 1/31/2008 and Sunset 9/5/2020. HAHA! Sorry, that’s just my humor. So that is to say this is meant to be a dramedy story or whatever they call it but also a true story from start to finish my Facebook journey has been. Also the reason I refuse to ever create a new Facebook after Facebook disabled my personal account this year without any reasoning sent to me. So let’s start off with why social media was created in the first place. Typically the idea was to connect one another in vast majorities to help speed up the process of communication and existence. I personally came from the era of internet forums and calling people on the phone before text messaging even existed. Which doesn’t make me a super old mutherfucker, just means I am a Xennial which I identify right in the middle between young and old souls. Facebook was supposedly the new and best way to connect with friends and family over the Internet while being able to post pictures of each other so it was like everyone was there in spirits. You could even make comments on those pictures to expand your social network whether introvert or extrovert could co-mingle. You could extend more connections of these said networks of humans and “tag” photos of each other creating an internet footprint. Those comments would bubble into larger networks to become friends in common. This was soon to be the future but not everyone knew it in the early 2000’s or at least I didn’t fully grasp it all till now. So back to the start of my Facebook comedian career. I was in this Subway in West Seattle around 2008 and I see this beautiful mixed with Egyptian ethnicity gal in line scoring herself a mighty foot long. I quickly overheard another onlooker of her beauty ask her ethnicity in which she responded so I knew right from the gate to move to a better question. Thus, in a foot race, it would have put my body 2 car lengths past the competition to get her phone number. (<HAHA) Long story short her and I exchange contact info including email as we both worked in the area there with access to the computer during work hours etc. After we exchanged emails she got herself a Facebook account which automatically sent emails to all her email contacts to join Facebook like she did. Genius Suckerberg! So naturally I ditch the myspace like a kid drops his toys and grabs a motorcycle type way. Back 10-12 years ago Facebook was basic person to person picture and light video connections. Occasional DM slides for the most OG, “dusts shoulder real vigorously”. Also 10-12 years ago there was no pop up ads that appeared in your FB “news brainwash” feed that could magically appear there just when you talked amongst your friends. Basically it never popped up advertisements for exactly what you just talked about out loud. Nope, this was early days shortly after you had those unmentionable Top 8’s and theme music for your page era entrance. This was when FB was used mainly to connect with people you knew personally. Although soon after a bear shits directly in the woods like a 2 second mud storm…Myself and others figured out it was better than any dating platform ever to be created. Because not only could you connect with the opposite sex like you already had their phone number from simply via FB friend = FB messenger…you could then, also see profile pictures, general location, who they hang out with, what places they frequent, videos of them, age, employment and of course the male favorite, friends in common. Basically you could be more informed of any given woman, than all of their stalker ex boyfriends combined into one mega toxic brain. (<JK HAHA kindof) Yes, my friends I never ever downloaded one dating app because I never needed to when Mark sneaked one into all of our electronics so silently that some people actually use it to communicate over standard texting. Crafty. Regardless, le (fancy voice)Facebook was like hunting with a fucking machine gun to locate women. One minute you are happy to connect with that old flame from high school on FB and the next thing you know you are flirting comments with a high class stripper (Bikini Barista) from the dirty south end. Who probably misses her Daddy a bunch. Or maybe sliding in the DM’s of some hot Microsoft freak who goes with you to family shit but undercover wants to soak her business attire in the juice of West Seattle. Keep in mind this “DM Slides” is a term which was coined by the millennials as sliding into someone’s direct message inbox. As mentioned before I myself identify as an “Xennial” which means I grew up playing outside and had pagers n shit as oppossed to how many likes get to the center of the EDM, pop! So yep, Xennial, google that shit. Anyway, so the FB thing soon became very quickly a place to meet anyone you wanted, conduct business, date strangers, cause fights on comments that equal fights in real life. Social media has calculated easier ways’ people can catch someone cheating on them. Or social media can be the way people conceal their cheating. Social will always be basically the cause of and solution to everyone’s problems. No hate on social medial at all, I gained best friends from it. I dated awesome chicks from it’s connection gateways. I have helped people who were in need which also went vise versa. I used it to communicate with my family on the Canadian Squamish Rez, fist up for my Native Americans! (said in Randy savage voice) When you have family or friends in other countries Facebook for sure made it much cheaper to stay constantly connected with everyone. One of the downfalls of having Suckerberg jack your Facebook away like this. Oh well Dun Dun (dramaedy quick drama part haha). Also I think writing this reminds me of feeling like a real OG participants to the Fake book era. Because when Facebook really seemed to be everyone was the ignition of smart phones. That’s when social media and apps really hit. Because anyone who was anyone had a Facebook app directly on their phone as soon as you unpackage it. We were no longer logging in at home or at a desktop like some “hot or not days” after scrolling the dirty.com with your AT&T Razor phone on the counter. Now on our phones we are constantly manually checking in, posting pictures, making comments, arguing with opposing opinions. This tool of communication was not only at our fingertips, but anywhere you go when your phone is on your person. Something most never left home without. In present time it wouldn’t even phase a senior citizen glance at both male and female humans sitting on their phone at any given moment. Just zombies manipulated into mental stimulation. Trust me I can zone out on my phone at times too. Just interesting to drive down the road and see human people at bus bus stops glued to their phones or even our acquaintances spotted visually scrolling during various times of the day. Someone could post their feelings on FB at any moment and even include pictures or other website links, GIFS, EMOJI’s or otherwise early days MEMES, in an effort to help promote their thoughts and theories. Another common weak point of the average Jane Doe, was always the mistake of the good ol’ fashioned cry for help FB-posts that are strategically masked by a side boob image or angled down selfie shoot conveniently in the gym or public bathroom. Facebook had has now evolved even further to the point where if you don’t have it, you are considered an outsider social media. You are closed off to view political jargon shared amongst friends, or relationship sob posts to soak comment threads in thirsty pillows. Facebook allows pictures of others to profess personal memories to store online, or cross into self fake or real status wars. because in the end, any publicity, is good publicity if image is the goal. Without facebook some actually are more productive without detouring in a distraction ruled by Zuckerberg. Looks like not having a FB can also close you off from drama. However just like crack probably is a terrible buddy to invite over and I’m sure very bad for you, plus costs money. It also might give some people a kick ass high. Hopefully people don’t go ending under interstate 5 with your social media iphone pipes. Instead let it be the last resort you scroll when you are waiting to die in the Dept of Licensing waiting line! Facebook and social media really is equivalent to that special someone who gives us all those toxic coasters. You know the ones where your real human Ex of yours has that ability to be shitty at certain things but stellar at a couple things. Both skill avenues tend to just fuck with your world ever so slightly ways. Facebook my friend, can do just that and even make you ashamed when you miss it. So as many might know, I was pretty fucking funny on my Facebook page. I have always had a fascination with anything technology, internet whatever shit and on my Facebook I would post cool cars, awesome motorcycle stunt videos, pretty women and groups of friends hangin out smiling yet also networking within a circle of real dudes in real life. Nothing negative or hateful on my Facebook page and for sure never any inappropriate nudity or weirdo shit on there. Just classic night outs with friends or pictures of legendary memories Never much profanity than what comes natural. Less swear words goes a long way to getting your point across and I consider myself silky smooth and pixelated but digitally enhanced radio worthy in my communication electronic deliveries(that said in robotic pimp voice). So basically as my Internet rep built on the Fake Book machine it’s usually meaning that all good things must come to an end. So after 12 loyal long and firmly hard years with Suckerberg’s blue and white internet canoe, they decided to disabled my FB account for no reason. Meaning, they did not send me any email or even a warning in my FB instant messenger. Many who don’t have Facebook accounts would think this situation is hilarious and doesn’t matter at all. Which I can see why they would say that about the matter. However, you non FB people who never had a Facebook account can’t ever tell the story of how they reconnected with a loved one via FB. Or got connected for a high paying job through a post they saw on FB. People who never had Facebook couldn’t talk about pictures they shared with someone who unfortunately died but all that’s left of their rich memory is to their Facebook pictures and videos. Maybe special internet data you two shared in real life, yet documented on the internet for safe keeping. Often people these days and comfortably tell stories of meeting their husband or wife by connecting through Facebook in some type of way. Others even talk of mutual friends becoming larger friend groups. Facebook participants can even share stories of organizing events and birthday parties via Facebook pages to help make memories more memorable. I distinctly remember getting prompted live music invites in my FB notifications based off recent venues I FB checked in at. Once Facebook grew up before all of us we it quickly switched into Facebook’s being the parent. Now we are like FB children categorized by name and city with website tag. Once our profile uploaded we are visible to be watched, monitored and judged by anyone within our Facebook friend lists. Now a days FB friend lists consist of friends and family and mixtures of our own peers and acquittances. Trust me, it’s fun to post and comment pictures all day and get the latest news in the world of anything at a moments notice. Yet we might have went too far this time. Like building the atomic bomb, it was a great idea but what if it explodes and kills millions of people yet they built it anyway right. I tend to believe that Xennials in some ways actually fostered the internet into where it’s at in our 30’s today. True respect to Zuckerberg on a real serious note. That dude took an idea, made it better, then became a Billionaire. Can’t really hate on that. We gotta pay attention is all I’m saying. It was bad enough realizing our cell phones were becoming mobile audio/video tracking devices that we carry with us at all times yet we can find these said cell phone devices by GPS at any moment. After that conquest was completed Facebook made it possible to have large majorities of personal data to use any way they see fit. Even if that data had the power to sway opinions or views. The only purpose to mess with human minds like that is for psychological warfare. Maybe not that extreme HAHA! but you get the idea. Totally influencing people in subtle ways based off social media apps. This isn’t a conspiracy theory blog post or some attempt to prove aliens exist and the government is creating Wizards riding unicorns crap. No this blog post is just saying I can’t really tell you if Facebook honestly helped or hurt me in my life. If you have to question anything like that you probably don’t need it at all. Because in some ways it’s nice to glorify our lives on the interwebs. Although in other ways just being a local Legend off the grid in your own neighborhood primarily from word of mouth or reputation is hella filthy where I come from. West Seattle that is!! (said with my chest protruded wayyy out!) But seriously I won’t be making any real attempts to get my FB back. I sent the typical confirm your identity and google searched all the possible variables of why my account was disabled or deleted and basically I noticed how bat shit crazy we humans were. The deeper I searched for answers the deeper I noticed the dependency we all had to it. I started to remember an odd memory of a recent vacation that felt relevant to losing social media briefly. I was out in London and having real shitty cell service in most of the areas for whatever reason. I was having lots of fun despite that disconnection. I was just cruising around the city on a rented Jump Bike breezing through UK peeps. I just pegged that jump bike peddle to 100 thru the city and let the G Perico music blast my apple ear holes! I felt like I was in another word escaped from the internet world and free to meet whoever I want and be whoever I said I was without any social media additives to the equation. The bigger picture can be comical yet redundant and we don’t even see it! Like Zombie lemmings following each other off a cliff only to get a slow death. New technology can change relationships pathways with something as simple as the [Like] button. One minute the like button created a DM slide you wanted and next minute your girlfriend or millennial situation-ship, entanglement pal/friend thing is dumping you publicly for your mutual FB friend Tony who has all the great gym selfies. <HAHA, that shit is funny out loud. So in summary, after experiencing how much Facebook could help or hurt you was part of the mystery that kept you logging in each day. Welp, there is always Instagram and Snap Chat! HAHA! SuckerBerg!
This book was published in 1971 and comprised of the viewpoints of a Teenager named William Powell. There is a documentary I recently watched on the book that was released in 2016 where Powell shows much remorse of the books creation as well as documented attempts to take it off the bookshelves across the world -though never successful, especially with the introduction into the internet. On one hand this book was blamed for several bombings, mass shootings, rebellious or radical situations against the government yet on the other hand it’s argued that if this book is to blame then do the Gun manufactures or alcohol distributors feel guilty when humans use their products to commit crimes? You be the judge. One thing is for certain this collection of ideas and thoughts took place around a time we had many historical events in history that will never be forgotten. In this books development, the Vietnam War was taking place, Women were marching the streets for equal rights, African Americans demanded civil rights in a time when they used separate drinking fountains. Jimmy Hoffa was leading the Teamsters Union under mafia influence while meanwhile, people are getting smoked left and right back when assassinations were possible. Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, President Kennedy were all killed during this books birth and creation. You had Black Panthers and other Militant groups in full force at this time. Not to mention the loss of influential musicians like Jimmy Hendrix passing towards the end of that decade. All of these feelings and emotions and protests against the war were a lot for the Hippie generation of Americans who rolled down hills in Shopping carts during Woodstock 69′. This is all relevant because Powell being a 19yr old kid watching all of these events wanted to express his feelings on print but didn’t know the impact it would leave behind for generations to come. Powell received death threats and was even taken to court over plagiarism which he was never convicted of. Powell wasn’t safe anywhere from the torment of the book he created. Not to mention; jobs, family, social circles and life were all altered from the day that book went into circulation even up until his death in 2017 which was shortly after his 2016 documentary expressing how the book was created and how it became a chapter in his life he no longer agreed with. After the book was published Powell went on to be a Teacher and work with kids that had learning disabilities as he felt he could relate and saw a piece of himself in them. He was a Teacher for many years even despite his job being threatened several times for his Anarchist cookbook. Even though Powell expresses his remorse and displayed attempts to remove this book from circulation the damage was already done. Reminding us all that just a few seconds or moments could alter our future forever.
Lil Marc a young rapper from the South Side of Chicago was gunned down at a bus stop in the middle of the day back in 2014. Lil Marc was a 051 Young Money Gang Member which is part of the Mickey Cobra Set. Gang Set’s are the term used for sub sets or smaller groups associated with the umbrella gang name. So if your set has a name and a leader you are still apart of the larger Gang name. I stumbled across his music on Youtube and did some searches out of curiosity. Gangs are nothing new to any part of the planet and for sure are nothing new to Chicago. Generations of family members are born into gang life filled with violent situations. For most gang members everything comes down to money and trying not to be killed. You get respect for who you kill or how hard it is to be killed. If a rival gang disrespects you or your gang you hurt them. If another rival gang enters into your territory you kill or hurt them depending on each situation. If you need money you would most likely commit robbery, sell drugs or kill mutherfuckers if you apart of Gang life. No active gang members have pensions, 401K to fall back on. Sometimes even boredom or drugs can drive these gangs to kill or often retaliation from the death of your friends (called “Homies”) also can produce murders. If you get the picture of this life it’s an organization designed for death or imprisonment or both. Some of the newer generation of gang culture in the music industry have a style called “Drill Rap” or “Drill Music” where rival gangs use grim gritty violent words to diss other gangs. Formally those songs were just called “diss tracks” back in the day. Lil Marc was an active Gang Member who had a handful of tracks out before his latest diss track called “no competition” which the song called out rival gangs as well as took verbal shots about rival gangs deaths. The song is probably one of the best diss tracks I heard since the NWA and Ice Cube era. He even includes a facetime video in his music video of him arguing with a rival gang member which puts confusion to most viewers & listeners. Possibly because people wonder how two enemies even have each others phone numbers in the first place. However I think the music video is letting us know gang culture is complex, one minute you are friends from grade school -then next minute he is two blocks over joining a rival gang. So in the facetime it’s basically them semi threatening each other with death sprinkled with smiles even though they will both actually kill each other. Some neighborhoods this is all they know. Lil Marc released the “No competition” youtube video holding firearms and making threats with lyrics like; “Put your ass on a T-Shirt” referring to -in death most memorial services have dead homie’s faces on T-Shirts. Lil Marc was killed in the same location another friend of his was killed at years prior in the same exact fashion. Lil Marc was standing at the bus stop around 1:30pm 3 days after his youtube video was posted waiting to go about his afternoon. Rival gang members (most likely) pulled up and opened fire. Several shots hit young Marc and killed him at the scene. Spectators driving by video’ed and took pictures that were also posted online. Sadly photos of Lil Marc, laying dead at the bus stop are easily google’able with video as they drive by including him all wrapped up. Not sure why this story interested me but maybe because I am an enthusiast of music and how diss tracks created a fork in the road. They can make or break an artist or sometimes get people killed. Back in the day they called violent rap music “Horror Rap” “Gangster Rap” and in some cases “Bang’n on Wax” due to the violent nature of the lyrics. Check out the song “No Competition” by Lil Marc and maybe that’s a way we can all pay respects to the death of a young man killed at only 20 years old.
Paramount Theater is among the favorite venues for me. Located in Downtown Seattle and I believe owned by the late and great Paul Allen. Historical theater with multi levels. If you pay for the Paramount membership you get VIP entrance and private lounge with great seating. Either way great seating throughout the venue. This is my second time seeing Dane Cook live at the same venue about 6 years ago. I enjoyed the show many topics were covered about social media and dating which Dane uses his mannerisms and hand movements to make the jokes funnier. One critique is that he used some segments of viral youtube videos that we already knew about but either way still funny. I also think it’s funny how he uses people in the crowd or even the security guards to produce jokes. You feel like it isn’t staged and he is just freestyling his jokes showing he has real talent of being funny without being scripted. Also he took jabs at himself and how he has been out of the biz for a while. A comedy that is good at making fun of himself is also an art. Overall a great show and worth seeing Dane if he ever is in your town for a comedy show.
I was very fascinated with this story. Because years ago I saw the above picture where Duo is running fiercely and shirtless with his trusty RPG while others are ducking for cover. Apparently Chris Hondros in the below picture was a war/ conflict era photographer. He traveled the world photographing wars in the scariest places on the planet. Duo was living in a place where war was coined “the endless war” as it was going on for well over two decades. I will spare the specific details because you can look these guys up on the internet and Hondros has a WIKI page. However DUO isn’t as documented except through Hondros. The reason is that this picture captured so much attention that it was on every magazine, bus stop , news article, art gallery and you name it. All with Duo running at the camera with his battle cry. It’s reported that at that time he walked around shirtless as a commander of his army firing machine guns and rocket launchers without any fear so much so he captured the attention of Hondros. Duo had dropped out of high school to join the army and later it was a means of survival to feed his family. He was pure fearless and gnarly as fuck. the ultimate combat weapon and not a big guy at all, very Shmedium. Hondros was so taken by his presence that he reached out to Duo seen in the lower picture and convinced him to go back to school, get out of war zone and also helped Duo enroll in college. Duo later received a law degree and also got into politics for his country. Hondros said that in some of his pictures they display how uncomfortable war is and how some folks even enjoy it given the nature of Duo in the picture. Bloodlust is how he described it. Although if you ask Duo how he feels, he says he doesn’t like the picture any longer and decided to never raise a weapon towards anyone ever again. He says he was happy at the time defending his country but would much rather help his community in a positive manner instead. There is a movie out called “Johnny Mad Dog” that covers many of the conflict zones Duo was navigating through. Hondros died in an Air Strike in 2011 while doing what he always did. His work and his art has been celebrated for years since his death, including art galleries and donations for worthy causes. Just wanted to share this and to anyone else interested all you have to do is google those names.
Independent Film Masterpiece. You may only recognize Lohan in this and quite potentially James Deen a male PornStar but these things are very besides the point. This is filmed in the realist low budget format you can imagine almost placing you right there in the movie. You see flip phones and older cars on the road telling you the movie was filmed maybe a decade back. Robert Ebert gives a review that the film was too low budget & Low Light / un-sexy in regards to a scene where Lohan prepares for her BF to come upstairs with another couple to the bedroom. However the low light and low distant music made you feel as if it was more realistic. The filmmakers are creative by also doing a scene where Lohan speaks to woman direct yet the nearby people are almost muted to where you can’t hear them. Yet when the importance of her conversation is over the surrounding people go un-mute and you can hear them speaking. Genius setup as to giving you the feeling you are there and can’t hear anyone else until your anxiety simmers from the conversation. Next Ebert goes on to say how it’s hard to distinguish between on-screen Lohan and Personal real-life Lohan and how the movie role and her real life seem very similar. My thought on that is who gives a fuck Ebert?! Maybe that IS her life so sit back and watch or just watch a character going through hard times in the rich areas of CA. Ebert also makes a snarky comment of how Lohan has a scene where she tries to black-male her BF into gay sex on camera. Ebert’s response was something like… the film hinted towards homophobia as if he is discrediting the fact that some straight males would lose their minds being caught having any gay encounter on camera especially as Deen is a known millionaire. Which was also a realistic scenario that would never been approved by big budget film makers. Here in independent film making there are no rules & outlaw shit of film making and that’s why low budget films rule. Deen’s role is one of a B-Level Grammy. Meaning, sure the movie was low budget but you don’t know Deen in any other film besides porn so how can you call him fake, terrible, good or bad as this is his only ever serious film. Thus making his performance perfect and believable. He is a real asshole in the movie and shows us exactly what unlimited money produces in a human. Lohan even confesses she is only with him for money and gives an Oscar performance of how she can never go back to the poor life, ever again. One thing to really understand is this movie is about Lohan’s character, don’t ever confuse that and you will be locked in to the movie. Everyone else is supporting roles and living their own smaller paths in the film. Also take note that these are movie stars and though they don’t talk specific movies or other celebrities in conversation keep in mind Lohan and her circle are all celebrities yet unnamed because names only make you think of real celebrities. You want to watch this as if it’s a story you never heard about with famous peoples lives. Plus as Lohan shops and lives the life in her BF’s mansion another ex BF of Lohan’s who is still in love with her is struggling to stay a float. Now here is the kicker, though this EX BF of hers is broke and drives an old car and basic clothing/apartment living…he is still none the less in the vicinity of upscale California not too far from the Hollywood Hills. So the film is merely describing how even mid-to-high class folks think they have drama in paradise too. There are many women in relationships like Lohan’s character leeching rich men for money living borderline disgusting lives they allow -yet there are also some women living those exact same lives completely truly happy. So think about that shit and how crazy it is to think two completely opposite people could live the same style of life and feel exactly opposite. That’s some shit that shows you how different people really are. Make sure going into this film you understand it is a D-List, B Movie, low budget, filmed very bargain style…and that my friend.. is the VERY beauty of it! It’s the fact that you could visualize the low budget and put yourself in the shoes of the movie. Then at that point you are no longer just watching it because you like movies or like certain styles of movies…rather, you are watching it to see someone’s actual life and found yourself inside the movie seeing it right in the drivers seat. When I saw online that not one single person could give this movie more than 1 star rating with very closed minded reviews..That’s when I knew this was going to be a hard to find cult classic someday. Now that I have this review here. I can prove to the world I was the very first to see the beauty in this film before any other critic did. Enjoy.
This voice will change your life. This venue is a historical spot in the North Seattle area and the show itself was a reunion of surviving members of my all time favorite Seattle rock group Mother Love Bone. No matter what you were there for, you couldn’t take any focus off this stage once she approached the air with her voice. She covered a couple of MLB songs and her opener song of Bone China cover will send chills into you and your children’s children for generations to come. I felt so ashamed that her voice actually sounded slightly better than the original and I felt in my heart Andy Wood heard me think that. She is a blend of raspy calculated lethal vocal cords. Ones that probably need a permit for. That’s how powerful she is on the Mic. Om Johari, founder of the Hells Belles an all female AC/DC cover band is the one to look for. She spends more time promoting other artists as well as different roles outside of singing in the Seattle music scene but if you ever get a chance to have her blow out your ear drums into awesome pieces of pleasure…do it…don’t even thank me because I already know.
Cast: Jason Momoa, Suki Waterhouse, Keanu Reeves, Jim Carey, Giovanni Ribisi, Diego Luna, Jayda Fink, Jayne Trcka
Here is movie that is easy to find and in your local redbox but you may look past it. With a story about people being banished to an area of criminals, losers or otherwise “Bad Batch” unwanted people it’s a world of survival in there. I’m personally a fan of Mad Max style apocalyptic-esq style films that challenge what we “think” would really happen in crazy “end of the world” scenarios. Plus with the the lead role played by Jason Momoa, he is a very believable character for this. In this film watch fro Jim Carey to shine and probably deserved an award of some kind even though his role was very minimal but hugely impactful in this. Anyway, this glorifies the true reality of humans that at the end of the day, It’s always; Survival of the Fittest !!!!
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