Rotoscoped Reeves
Tonight we have a dazzler of a film based on the famous book by Philip K. Dick (PKD). Get ready to enjoy paranoia, police surveillance, cops within cops and the slow decay of drug use. Hilarity ensues? Yes. There is some hilarity. It’s not all grim.
Richard Linklater directed this film. It was a dream of his to do a Philip K. Dick film, he just couldn’t decide which one to do. His original desire was to do Ubik. I find it interesting that Linklater would want to do any PKD books, as PKD went libertarian/anti-commie towards the end and it showed in his books. Linklater is definitely a leftist Austin-dweller.
Some ideas (like PKD’s) cross over the ideological barrier. Harry Potter did for a long time, until J.K. Rowling started speaking out. Pretty sure PKD would have run afoul of leftists too, had he not died of a stroke.
Fun fact: Alex Jones played himself in A Scanner Darkly, as he did in another Linklater film, Waking Life. Does that mean Linklater is a fan? Apparently not. Odd. Why use him twice then? Another fun fact, both Waking Life and tonight’s film are rotoscoped.
So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary! At least until our shared view of reality starts to dissolve. Which it has. Things will get crazier than even Philip K. Dick can write about, very soon. Remember, “if you don’t like this world, wait until you see the others (PKD).” Next week, some over the top mod 60’s spy film fun with 7 Golden Men Strike Again!
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I’m starting to think Philip K. Dick was perfectly sane.
My thoughts exactly
I’ve seen this and Waking Life. I think Waking Life was the first time I heard Alex Jones.
I may be scarce tonight. Prepping to take my wife to her birthday celebration this weekend. Been super busy. You guys leave the lights on for the morning Glibs.
Diving in.
I’ve never seen this.
I enjoyed it. Had to do it in small doses though. I think my attention span is waning due to work/home pressures.
It’s a good one DEG. You will like.
Turns out the FBI did spy on PKD. He hid out in Canada for a while for that reason. Meh, he got off easier than poor Bill Binney.
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Unfortunately, that organization has turned its weapons on Bill now. Here, Bill just had a hole blasted through the shielding in the ceiling of his house, when Cabal used a Directed Energy Weapon mounted on a drone flying over his house to try and assassinate him. Nope, that is not a typo, or a made up story. Bill Binney is a character so legendary in NSA lore from his 31 years of service that he was played by Nicholas Cage in the movie Snowden. Snowden himself cited Bill by name as the reason he wasn’t going to try and follow in Binney’s footsteps by using official whistleblower procedures. And he awoke to an explosion, and found two holes blown through steel shielding he had installed over himself in his house to try and limit the directed energy attacks he is experiencing.
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https://twitter.com/Bill_Binney/status/1343396427431628800
I would watch Ubik – unlike this story, I have read the book. Not that I understood WTF was going on.
PKD novels are too much to make a good movie. Total Recall was based on a short story.
UBIK is one of my favorites, as is this one.
Love me some Dick!
I hate movies. I hate fiction. I love Keanu Reeves. What to do?
(although I also love Russell Crowe and I hated Gladiator, so there’s that)
Talk about gardening then. There are no rules on Thursdays.
I was wondering if I should give it a try. But I don’t like weird shit, so probably not gonna work out.
You weren’t entertained?
I literally don’t understand that sentence. You may be worse than Nikki.
Okay, that isn’t actually possible, but still.
When PKD was broke, fellow sci-fi author and political opposite Heinlein helped him out. PKD became religious after having his son. His first communion before baptism was a hot dog and coke.
Heinlein was also friends with non-greedy, non-psychopath, perfect-teeth-having L Ron Hubbard
Hell of a guy, that Heinlein.
https://www.heinleinsociety.org/this-i-believe/
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I believe in — I am proud to belong to — the United States. Despite shortcomings, from lynchings to bad faith in high places, our nation has had the most decent and kindly internal practices and foreign policies to be found anywhere in history.
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I’m still in this camp, barely.
Given the subject matter, I don’t think this is OT:
The evening my car got stolen, I texted my best friend from NSA and said that I thought I got shot with a sonic cannon that morning and that I needed a ride. Her reply was that her dog must have farted at me and that she had been drinking and couldn’t drive. I also texted the female sergeant who came with me months beforehand to make sure my guns were locked up. She responded for the first time in months and also said she’d been drinking and couldn’t drive. She used the exact same words as my best NSA friend.
So yeah, I suppose it was some kind of weird alcohol intervention. I did not appreciate that. Things got even weirder the next day, as detailed here:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2024/03/story-of-my-life-part-20.html
Huh. Interesting.
I’m mainly curious why you’re looking at mineral oil instead of a vegetable based ester like rapeseed oil.
STEVE SMITH RECOMMENDS SEED OIL, AND BY SEED OIL, MEAN…
Just got a text message with a link to a poll from Research-Polls. I went there and all it asked was what state I live in. That was the only question. Reminds of the time the Georgia department of health called me for a survey at 9 PM on a weekday. Weird.
“State of wage slavery “
It’s nice to know that I’m not the only who’s dealt with this shit. Someone tried to take credit for an important piece of intel I found once. I didn’t let him get away with it.
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As Ms. Stewart wrote last December to DIRNSA Admiral Rogers:
“I was fraudulently fired at the 28 year point in my career at NSA essentially because of the best work of my career, which cost me my job so that upper management in Weapons & Space (Robert G, Drew M) could “reward” an incompetent woman, Margarita L, in my office for her prolific sexual favors to W&S upper management, as witnessed by Cindy V H, by fraudulently crediting her with my work (award-winning support of Operation Iraqi Freedom) so that she could receive my double promotion.” Karen Stewart, Letter to DIRNSA, 22 Dec, 2016
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link
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In a powerful and hard-hitting letter to the current NSA Director, Ms. Stewart outlined how the casual handover of credit for her reports and promotion to the notorious Margarita L was accompanied by various frantic efforts to discredit her, dismiss her as mentally ill, and trip her up on ordered polygraphs. The series of events that followed on her complaint to IG George Ellard, in fact, reads like panicked cover-up strategies from a bad spy novel.
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I believe every word of that.
Patriots pick the third best QB in the draft except having the top choice of any other position.
6 of the first 12 picks are QB. And the Bears got the first one. #1 bust?
Since when do the Bears need a QB?
Remember the Sid Luckman era? The glory days of da Bears QB play.
Not really. I mostly remember defense and halfbacks. Most of the people in the NFL were the QB in High School, and half of them can throw as well as Jim McMahon.
Slumbrew hardest hit?
Has he been around? This place seems to have fewer and fewer people.
He has. I saw him a night or two ago.
Yep yep yep. Just really busy so brief stop-ins here, usually just early and late, catching up on dedthreads.
Huh, our Stasi informant pool even has an Orwellian name.
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InfraGard is a national non-profit organization serving as a public-private partnership between U.S. businesses and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The organization is an information sharing and analysis effort serving the interests, and combining the knowledge base of, a wide range of private sector and government members.[1] InfraGard is an association of individuals that facilitates information sharing and intelligence between businesses, academic institutions, state and local law enforcement agencies, and other participants dedicated to preventing hostile acts against the United States.[2]
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Partnership between government agencies and private organizations has its critics.[9][13][14] Concerned about civil liberties, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) warned that there “is evidence that InfraGard may be closer to a corporate TIPS program, turning private-sector corporations — some of which may be in a position to observe the activities of millions of individual customers — into surrogate eyes and ears for the FBI”. Concluding that “any program that institutionalizes close, secretive ties between such organizations raises serious questions about the scope of its activities, now and in the future.”
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfraGard
Sounds fascist to me.
Speaking of, I would love to play Infra-Man someday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dILG0ol79x0
That was good.
Thanks RJ!
Glad you liked it. Next week will be a completely mod 60’s spy film.
Regarding Linklater and his work with Mother’s Against Gregg Abbott, I have some lefty customers with a Mother’s Against Gregg Abbott sign in their window (next to their rainbow colored Cedar Park Pride sign). I said “I didn’t know you were a MAGA household?” Confused/irritated, she said “we’re not.” I said “Oh, someone put a MAGA sign in your window – Mother’s Against Gregg Abbott”. She didn’t seem amused. I wish someone had warned me liberals didn’t have a sense of humor.
I think it’s funny.
Same household asked me what EV to buy – “That’s easy, Tesla, they’ve been at it longest and everybody is trying to play catch up to them.” Them – “We couldn’t do that, because of his politics.” They ended up buying that stupid Ford Mustang Mach E atrocity.
OMG. They got what they deserved then.
Same shits who decry it when people speak out about sports figures spouting the usual goodthinkful politics.
They have no sense of humor at all. I used to think that was a myth. It really isn’t.
Someday I will head down there and say hello. Maybe we could meet at Balcones, half way sometime.
Yeah, I need to do more in the real world. Since the plandemic, I only seem to work and when I’m not working, I’m working on my own stuff.
Me as well. That’s why I started posting. It’s an unhealthy cycle.
But… I like your posting.
I meant endless work is a bad cycle. I did the same thing starting with COVID. I am still just sitting on my ass too much. I need to get out more. Posting will definitely not stop, that is part of being more social. But it isn’t interacting in the physical world.
Now I feel guilty for abandoning GlibFit.
I’m just going to say it. What a douche.
There’s a dude in the NFL draft named Penix??? LOL
That’s going to be a jersey that flys off the shelf.
What is this jackass thinking, handing out Invictus Games honors over telecon link from his CA mansion while wearing his British medals, of which 1 is for his Army service while 3 are for three of the late queen’s jubilee?
And on ANZAC Day. The guy can’t stand not being the center of attention.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13351983/Prince-Harry-medals-video-Montecito-soldier-award.html
Why did I even start reading this? I refuse!
Todo es voluntario, carajo! No more Markle!
Good on DM for this.
“It comes as Meghan Markle, 42, is gifting her…”
So Meghan is in her 40w?
I predict a a cycle of plastic surgery for her before much longer, escalating (as it tends to) into a freakish appearance.
Courtney Cox approves.
Nah. Black don’t crack. She could be 100 and look better than current KP Bowles.
She’s not that black.
And her figure is starting to go.
Oh, that ship has left the station
So she’s already dabbling? Not surprised. I’ll take your word for it; women have a sharper eye for this kind of thing.
…I had a thought…I miss you all…No, that wasn’t the initial inspiration for this comment…what the fuck was I saying again? Oh, yes…The money has never been better, the stress has never been greater, and frankly, I’d rather take a pay cut of a couple less dollars an hour for the profit of a little piece of mind…I kinda hate my job…a significant portion of my day to day activities are wrapped up in multiple texts, Zoom calls, personal calls via [insert boilerplate corporate business app], from people who except me to do their jobs for them despite the fact that I have only done those jobs a small handful of times over the last decade…I’m a painter with half assed organizational skills and a decent variety of practical skills, tools, and knowledge that supplements my value as a painter… I’m not a goddamn product manager…too fucked up, that train has sailed.
Get a job with a government agency. Pay is good. The hours are reasonable and you don’t have to produce any results.
https://youtu.be/RjzC1Dgh17A?si=CgFydsgqUEzUHK0K
Ha!…Despite my reflexive impulse to reject the very idea, The Chump Effect and it’s conclusions becomes more persuasive by the day…damn my soul.
Working for the government will damn your soul.
This movie looks supercool. I’m saving it for the weekend.
This is probably a stupid question but… why was it shot(?) this way instead like most films?
The rotoscope allows for totally animated special effects (eg. Barris as a Kafkaesque insect) while still using the using the performances of real actors.
Thank you.
Can the NFL draft a new commissioner?
Falco – Der Kommissar (U.S. Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-bgiiTxhzM&ab_channel=FalcoVEVO
lol.
At least it’d be entertaining.
Never read any PKD, but this looks interesting.
I watched this film in an extremely hung-over state and really enjoyed it. I thought it was one of the best sci-fi flicks that I had seen since Blade Runner.
I meant when it came out just to reiterate.
Festus! 🤘
Curtsies
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Missed out on the fun today.
Trshy- good to see you and your updates.
Likeminded community rather than geographical- bring bacon and bourbon to Sean’s place
Decibels wrong scale- wrong. Perfectly cromulent how it is. Every 3db difference is half or twice on absolute scale, for one. Makes things easy. Use it enough and your brain will eventually accept that 0db (really 0 dbm) is a normal signal level.
Also rotoscoped
https://youtu.be/djV11Xbc914
Ted’S level link.
If Ted’S posted classic awesomeness.
What about preclassical awesomeness? Can we get some Gilgamesh?
The ’80s were the golden age of the magnificently cheesy keyboard riff. ::fires up SiriusXM’s ’80s on 8::
Everything Ted S. posts is awesome!
Then Ted S. is easily awed.
heh knew it
On the topic of rotoscoping – I am reminded of an anecdote from one of the actors on Tron. He ran into one of the animators who said something that basically went “I hate you – for months I have done nothing but draw your nose.”
I wanted to add to my rant from last night. When we live in a world where Fallout isn’t considered woke, a show where commies are the good guys and capitalists start WW3 for profit or to “win the game of capitalism,” among many other things, we’ve already lost the battle.
You’ve already accepted DEI is going to be a central part of storytelling going forward even when it means subpar actors will be cast. And there are multiple subpar actors of color or the trannie to look at. You have accepted their basic premise or at least acquiesced to it. You will have quotas, you will like your quotas, and you will keep watching.
And you are incredibly naive if you think it is isolated to just *in front* of the camera. It’s even worse in the writer rooms.
Break it down i a post or three, Bro. Gotta say, two episodes in and I’m not seeing malignant aggressive wokeness. Not great, but not cultural carcinoma, either.
I have 3 episodes left after binging last night. Not a video game guy.
I’d like to see better script writing everywhere— movies, tv series, across the board.
Decades before “woke” or even “politically correct” were in common vocabulary, a common piece of advice to authors/writers was that if it doesn’t advance the plot, cut it. Whether it’s one scene, an aspect of a character, fix it. They frequently do that even in “based on a true story” stuff—they often combine characters or leave some out.
Lazy writing is part of why so many movies run over 2.5 hours now. It takes work to keep it tight.
The acting is all over the place in Fallout which…this is a big budget TV show. They could have found quality character actors across the board for this. But they were more concerned with meeting quotas. The trannie is by far the worst actor in the series. It’s not a coincidence that the guy who steals the show is a white dude who has been a quality character actor and who is charismatic. Like an actor should be.
But the writing is just piss poor. The show isn’t good even besides any wokeness. And the writing room was cast, not hired based on ability. That is its greatest sin by far.
On another note, I saw a pretty spot-on meme about the types of acceptable black male characters in Hollywood. You basically have six types:
1. Flamboyantly gay – see the new Dr. Who
2. White character played by a black dude. Just changed the color. Usually has glasses and is a little portly. See Commissioner Gordon in The Batman as an example.
3. Suspiciously smart academics. They love making academics diverse.
4. Beta male side character (Finn in Disney Wars)
5. Wise old man character (the magical negro stereotype – see Morgan Freeman in just about every role)
I don’t have the meme on hand. Should have saved it. But even with the “diversity” quotas, they are terrified of portraying actual minority culture. That doesn’t mean indulge in stereotypes, but write a character to be black and find the best black guy who fits the role.
Found it!
Thanks!
Is it ok to cast white women as stay-at-home moms, or are “feminists” kidding about women’s right to choose their lifestyle for themselves and their families?
I missed the Doctor Who news. Have they cast a flamboyantly gay black guy as the doctor?
Can’t be, that show has been off the air for years.
Wasn’t planning on it
You know what’s not woke? This. https://youtu.be/HnHDJWg0-cY?si=M8Xve5Yxa8ny1QBu
Ok, I got the general idea after the first minute.
I keep seeing polls showing that Biden is gaining on Trump or their neck and neck at 48% each.
But this electoral college map is far more instructive.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/maps/president/2024/no-toss-up/electoral-college
Even if the Dems swipe Az, NV, and GA, it’s not enough. They are going to have to up their fraud game. And I’ll bet they know exactly how many votes they need to do it.
Related: https://nypost.com/2024/04/24/opinion/alvin-bragg-has-his-trump-trial-all-he-needs-now-is-a-crime/
Dammit, they’re going to make me vote for Trump just because this case is a miscarriage of justice.
I feel the same way. I can’t stand him. He’s coarse, unpricipled, narcissistic, untrustworthy, etc. But I cannot abide the state behaving as it does.
Trump is still the lesser of two evils, but if he does win, he needs to chose more trustworthy advisors/ cabinet etc. And the entrenched bureaucracy will try to stop him at every turn.
So who should be his VEEP nominee? Too much water under the bridge with DeSantis?
Rubio might help with demographics but I find him to be “meh” and I think the growing numbers of Hispanic voters tending GOP are not impressed with identity politics. Nor are Blacks and women.
He should choose someone who could carry on in case Trump is medically unable to continue a new term (or even the campaign!)
Best I can think of is Vivek. That might be an interesting pairing. Two businessmen…
DeSantis isn’t giving up his governorship to hand out mints after state dinners and break ties in the Senate, which is all the veep does.
Besides, I thought that the President and VP had to be from different states — that rules out Ron D (and Rubio, too).
True! Trump changed his state.
They do t actually have to be from different states, but the electors can’t vote for two from the same state. And Trump needs Florida.
Well, Haley is right out.
How about a non-leftist, pro Israel Jew?
If he wants to check some DEI boxes, he’ll pick Candace Owens as VP. Or preferably Winsome Sears.
Correct answer is Gabbard and that’s who it’ll be.
Interesting! I prefer her over Candace, who’s said some rather silly things.
I don’t like Tulsi’s social democrat tendencies but I don’t think she’ll try dragging us into war.
I like Owens for the most part but she thrive$ on controversy and acts accordingly. Vivek would be nice but he’s offputting to some and he’s a limelight stealer and Trump wants to be the center of attention (a cabinet position is almost assured though). Gabbard and Trump would be like two ‘90s Democrat peas in a pod and she checks a lot of boxes.
Well put.
I would thoroughly enjoy watching Hilary’s head explode if Tulsi becomes the first XX woman president.
They have Ted Cruz’s seat as a toss-up? Is TX becoming that purple?
I don’t know if it is that purple in reality but they need polls to make it plausible when they pull off massive fraud.
All they have to do is mail ballots to all their new “citizens.”
Texas is 40 electoral votes. If they can get enough suburban idiot women to vote, you can stick a fork in America.
They always play that angle up in Texas. They hyped O’Rourke up twice and he didn’t even come close.
Just looked up the trailer for Adam Carolla’s “Mr Birchum” animation on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRIxCHZPdDs (heard a promo on his show). Sounds pretty funny and an amazing cast, but I’m not signing up for Daily Wire just for that.
Ok that looks funny.
I think I might have a long forgotten daily wire subscription. I need to watch LadyBallers too.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Py2MzGtmaJ0
Good morning, my fellow freedom ethusiasts!
🌄😎✊
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uxX2gA18grk
Nostalgia music. 🎶🎶
So far it’s one of those “I overslept in a poor position” mornings. Hope the day improves.
Lot of gratuitous sax in that song.
Good morning! I’m going back to sleepy town now.
“Biden Capital Gains Proposal Of 44.6% Comes With Caveats And Asterisks”
https://www.forbes.com/newsletters/andrewleahey/2024/04/24/biden-capital-gains-rate-proposal-446/?sh=f11c7bf1ff64
Hmmm, Forbes carrying water for a proposed capital gains hike. If you’re a high roller why would you even bother investing?
Mornin’ all
Morning.
Diddy’s supposed drug mule arrested:
https://nypost.com/2024/03/26/us-news/who-is-brendan-paul-diddys-alleged-drug-mule/
THAT guy? Looks like an extra from The Big Bang Theory.
A successful mule is someone who does not draw attention.
He blends into the background so well he looks suspicious.
QFT. Morning all.
Good morning, OBE, Stinky, U, Beau, and Sean! (I assume HES has gone back to sleep.)
I’m on vacation today through Tuesday! 😃😎🥳
I was tempted to take today off. But didn’t want to use up the leave.
Enjoy your break.
I tend to hoard Vacation time, taking only a few hours or a single day at a time, fearing I might need it for an emergency, but I’m on the brink of maxing out at the 240 hour limit. At that point, I stop accruing more until I bring the balance down.
😧
Vacate then. Don’t run into the lose it stage.
Indeed. Taking advantage of my usual late-in-the-month lull and the fact that next week isn’t a payroll week. Then it’s back to work on the first of May…when my boss semi-officially takes over as CEO. (Current CEO’s last day is the 3rd.)
😃👍
Yeah, I’m glad…except he keeps saying, “I’m going to have you start [insert new assigned task.]” 😳
Oops! You too, rhy!
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