I love the internet. It brings all the most interesting people that i have ever known closer to me. I used to think the purpose of technology was to bring people more access to things like art from those "elitist" museums and such but then I got older and realized that people ain't shit. Anyway what that was all leading up to is that you make me laugh my ass off and in a perfect world, even a just one, you would be getting mad pussy. Fucking rat bastard God...
Well, hey, thanks for the compliment. But the way I figure, God has little influence in this. I mean, as far as I've read in the Bible (first 5 books or so), God seems to be pretty arbitrary as far as who he pays attention to and in what way. Sure, they tacked that extra part on the end like a bad sequel ("New Testament"? Sheesh, at least come up with a more original title) that basically changed 80% of what came before, but I haven't gotten that far yet, so my God is still worried about a relatively small population in the Middle East (or Near East, as they call it in German) and couldn't care less about me.Not that I meant to turn this into a religious tirade or anything.
Haviing lived with a fundamentalist Christian for a year, I have had occasion to read a lot of the Bible, mostly to debate him. But yeah your God is still pretty small. As a matter of factr, he's still sweating the other Gods, thinking they'll player hate him and steal his bitches. Otherwise, why in Genesis would he say "We have created man inour image" and also why would the "Worship no other Gods but me" be so importnat if there weren't other Gods?But both Gods are rat bastards, in their own way. At least in the Old Testament God was interesting because has was all about killing, slave taking, raping, punishing, yelling at motherfuckers who fucked up. Most people know the story of Job kind of(I would bet most of them know it from Cape Fear actually), anyway God takes a bet with Satan, Satan punishes Job with all these horrible things to test his faith. What they never talk about is a) Job's wife and friends turn out to be complete bastards b) Job himself is a whiny bastard, not exactly a stoic sufferer and c) after it's all over Job is one of few who actually gets to talk to god. So naturally his one question for god is "what was that all about?" And what does god do? Smacks him down! He's all "listen up Job, you ain't shit, and don't question me. you don't know me, so fuck off"(these are all paraphrases of course. hey maybe we should write a hip-hop version bible with updated speech to appeal to the younger generation. i smell book deal) Although I am quite a fan of some of it like 1 Timothy 2:14 in the NT.I was reading the other day that something like 94% of American profess a belief in God but like 50% of Europeans. By casual observation would you say that European number sounds accurate? And another question, are any of the following things legal in germany: prostitution, marijuana, mushrooms, assault rifles. I don't know where the hell this thing got off the track and started rambling. Teach me to write from work...
I don't know where all this God talk came in, but I say, do it. If it's your creative vision, then by all means follow it. I think Dallas took you too lightly, I think you have an excellent backbone for an amazing cinemetic experience - don't let the naysayers get you down. Say no to their nays. Pick up a camera and go apeshit with the nets and the rays and let the nays rest in piece in the graves that they dug with their narrowmindedness.
Well, I can only speak about Germans, and certainly not very well. Really, I couldn't say one way or another. I certainly don't see many of the crazy religious types that we make fun of in the US. I think the people here just take a more laid back view on things. But at the same time, when you register to live somewhere in Germany, they ask your religious affiliation. They then tax you based on that and give some money to your denomination, if I understood the system correctly. When I filled that out and put none, the person who was helping me seemed a bit surprised, so I guess most everyone is allied with one religion or another (mostly Catholic or some for of Protestant).Legalities:Prostitution isn't legal, I don't think, except in certain specific areas, but I don't think the law is enforced. Here in Nürnberg there's one place in the old part of town called the Frauentor (women's gate - one of several gates in the wall that surrounds the old part of the town) where the prostitutes have their businesses. They sit in the building at a window to talk to potential customers.Marijuana is also illegal, I believe (again, not sure), but also is something that is used socially and the police generally ignore such things unless someone is being stupid and blatant. This is my impression, anyway.Mushrooms - keine AhnungI have no idea where gun ownership stops being legal, but people are allowed to own guns. It's just a much stricter process to get them and I think if you go hunting the areas a regulated much more than in the US. Again, I'm no expert - these are just impressions. Certainly gun ownership is not common at all.
There ain't much vision really. I just thought it would be funny to see a movie where every car was a corvette stingray. The rich, the poor, the cops, the president's limosine - all would have the body design, but would be modified to fit the purpose. So there could be the four-door sedan model for the yuppies, etc.The mosquito nets were just tacked on cause I saw some movie on tv that took place in Thailand or somewhere and the people slept under these nets that just looked kinda groovy draped over the bad. I could imagine it would make for an interesting sex scene. Kind of like those four-post beds that have the silk curtains, but a little more ghetto.Anyway, I have nothing else but those visual things. Lord knows I've thought back to that decision I made to go to Berkeley instead of USC film school any number of times - I've even looked into going to grad school there - but I'm just not much of a story teller yet. All's I get are snippets. I'd like to have this feeling, this image, but I can't (or won't) sit down and actually put in any work to get anywhere with it. Same reason why I probably won't have a book out any time soon.
Well, it's interesting to find out that you have more of an idea than you first alluded to. I was actually just joking around because I thought you were just making some random drunken statement - and I was attempting to be ironiconoclastical. However, I can actually see how those two elements would kind of blend together well in a sort of strange fantasy-like epic never-tomorrow film like Mad Max. There could be an easy justification why all the cars were Stingrays if it was 3018 - or on some random island somewhere. future - global warming - glaciers melt - planet overtaken by water, thereby overtaken by mosquitos - and the stingrays thing can be like the pathetic-ass Taco Bell thing in Demolition Man where every restaurant is Taco Bell - so in your movie every car can be Stingrays because the Corvette people financed half your film. I'm calling Kevin Costner and Gerard DePardieu. I think it would be awesome though, to have a element like the Stingrays thing that goes entirely unspoken - like it's not strange that these people all have the same car. I think it's a really interesting place to go where it's just kind of like earth-tangent - one of the many directions that could have taken place through time - and to tell stories from within them without justification.
Well, I initially took your first comment as a joke because of the excessive new-agey poetic statements, but I wasn't certain how serious you weren't.When I originally wrote the stupid entry it was just what you said. No thought or anything, just two things that came together in my head. But I was also thinking about the whole 'put it in and don't ever say anything about it' aspect which you mentioned. Tell a normal movie type story but just put random unexplained stuff in there. I mean, really, they already do that when they put all these abnormally attractive people in movies and people take it normally, so why not put abnormally attractive cars?
I think you make a good point. The people in movies are kind of abnormal looking. I'd never really thought of it like that. Yet, that doesn't prevent me from citing someone like Julia Stiles as being ugly as hell - but that's because people are telling me that she's attractive, when I wouldn't look twice at her in real life. It's like Titanic, or Pearl Harbor when apparently everyone that was involved in World War 2 was gorgeous - except for Ewan Bremner, the funny looking guy. and the people who are ugly or fat are always way over the top. It's odd. Take Benicio del Toro, for instance. I think he's a great fucking actor, and cool as hell, but I wouldn't really consider him attractive. And I think if he was assistant tire installer at Firestone, he probably wouldn't have mad bitches after him - he'd just be another mexican mechanic. Blah, blah, blah.yes, random randomness is the key. It's especially great when it's the type of stuff that people might not even notice. Like with the Stingrays. If there are only two or three car shots in the whole movie, and its' not a major plot point - people probably wouldn't even notice. But, if you show like a whole parking lot full of stingrays, then that'a a different story.Okay, I'm leaving.j-
"Take Benicio del Toro, for instance. I think he's a great fucking actor, and cool as hell, but I wouldn't really consider him attractive. And I think if he was assistant tire installer at Firestone, he probably wouldn't have mad bitches after him - he'd just be another mexican mechanic. Blah, blah, blah."Now see that's insightful. And either you or Chris should make a movie about how bitches are all materialist whores with generally no interest in improving themselves, are bags of neediness or ice queens depending on which one os the exact opposite of what the guy wants, and are generally only good for vaginas and breasts, but certainly not for any serious thought or ideas of value, as history and our own experience has shown us. Now that would be a $9.00 movie.
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I love the internet. It brings all the most interesting people that i have ever known closer to me. I used to think the purpose of technology was to bring people more access to things like art from those "elitist" museums and such but then I got older and realized that people ain't shit. Anyway what that was all leading up to is that you make me laugh my ass off and in a perfect world, even a just one, you would be getting mad pussy. Fucking rat bastard God...
Well, hey, thanks for the compliment. But the way I figure, God has little influence in this. I mean, as far as I've read in the Bible (first 5 books or so), God seems to be pretty arbitrary as far as who he pays attention to and in what way. Sure, they tacked that extra part on the end like a bad sequel ("New Testament"? Sheesh, at least come up with a more original title) that basically changed 80% of what came before, but I haven't gotten that far yet, so my God is still worried about a relatively small population in the Middle East (or Near East, as they call it in German) and couldn't care less about me.Not that I meant to turn this into a religious tirade or anything.
Haviing lived with a fundamentalist Christian for a year, I have had occasion to read a lot of the Bible, mostly to debate him. But yeah your God is still pretty small. As a matter of factr, he's still sweating the other Gods, thinking they'll player hate him and steal his bitches. Otherwise, why in Genesis would he say "We have created man inour image" and also why would the "Worship no other Gods but me" be so importnat if there weren't other Gods?But both Gods are rat bastards, in their own way. At least in the Old Testament God was interesting because has was all about killing, slave taking, raping, punishing, yelling at motherfuckers who fucked up. Most people know the story of Job kind of(I would bet most of them know it from Cape Fear actually), anyway God takes a bet with Satan, Satan punishes Job with all these horrible things to test his faith. What they never talk about is a) Job's wife and friends turn out to be complete bastards b) Job himself is a whiny bastard, not exactly a stoic sufferer and c) after it's all over Job is one of few who actually gets to talk to god. So naturally his one question for god is "what was that all about?" And what does god do? Smacks him down! He's all "listen up Job, you ain't shit, and don't question me. you don't know me, so fuck off"(these are all paraphrases of course. hey maybe we should write a hip-hop version bible with updated speech to appeal to the younger generation. i smell book deal) Although I am quite a fan of some of it like 1 Timothy 2:14 in the NT.I was reading the other day that something like 94% of American profess a belief in God but like 50% of Europeans. By casual observation would you say that European number sounds accurate? And another question, are any of the following things legal in germany: prostitution, marijuana, mushrooms, assault rifles. I don't know where the hell this thing got off the track and started rambling. Teach me to write from work...
I don't know where all this God talk came in, but I say, do it. If it's your creative vision, then by all means follow it. I think Dallas took you too lightly, I think you have an excellent backbone for an amazing cinemetic experience - don't let the naysayers get you down. Say no to their nays. Pick up a camera and go apeshit with the nets and the rays and let the nays rest in piece in the graves that they dug with their narrowmindedness.
Well, I can only speak about Germans, and certainly not very well. Really, I couldn't say one way or another. I certainly don't see many of the crazy religious types that we make fun of in the US. I think the people here just take a more laid back view on things. But at the same time, when you register to live somewhere in Germany, they ask your religious affiliation. They then tax you based on that and give some money to your denomination, if I understood the system correctly. When I filled that out and put none, the person who was helping me seemed a bit surprised, so I guess most everyone is allied with one religion or another (mostly Catholic or some for of Protestant).Legalities:Prostitution isn't legal, I don't think, except in certain specific areas, but I don't think the law is enforced. Here in Nürnberg there's one place in the old part of town called the Frauentor (women's gate - one of several gates in the wall that surrounds the old part of the town) where the prostitutes have their businesses. They sit in the building at a window to talk to potential customers.Marijuana is also illegal, I believe (again, not sure), but also is something that is used socially and the police generally ignore such things unless someone is being stupid and blatant. This is my impression, anyway.Mushrooms - keine AhnungI have no idea where gun ownership stops being legal, but people are allowed to own guns. It's just a much stricter process to get them and I think if you go hunting the areas a regulated much more than in the US. Again, I'm no expert - these are just impressions. Certainly gun ownership is not common at all.
There ain't much vision really. I just thought it would be funny to see a movie where every car was a corvette stingray. The rich, the poor, the cops, the president's limosine - all would have the body design, but would be modified to fit the purpose. So there could be the four-door sedan model for the yuppies, etc.The mosquito nets were just tacked on cause I saw some movie on tv that took place in Thailand or somewhere and the people slept under these nets that just looked kinda groovy draped over the bad. I could imagine it would make for an interesting sex scene. Kind of like those four-post beds that have the silk curtains, but a little more ghetto.Anyway, I have nothing else but those visual things. Lord knows I've thought back to that decision I made to go to Berkeley instead of USC film school any number of times - I've even looked into going to grad school there - but I'm just not much of a story teller yet. All's I get are snippets. I'd like to have this feeling, this image, but I can't (or won't) sit down and actually put in any work to get anywhere with it. Same reason why I probably won't have a book out any time soon.
Well, it's interesting to find out that you have more of an idea than you first alluded to. I was actually just joking around because I thought you were just making some random drunken statement - and I was attempting to be ironiconoclastical. However, I can actually see how those two elements would kind of blend together well in a sort of strange fantasy-like epic never-tomorrow film like Mad Max. There could be an easy justification why all the cars were Stingrays if it was 3018 - or on some random island somewhere. future - global warming - glaciers melt - planet overtaken by water, thereby overtaken by mosquitos - and the stingrays thing can be like the pathetic-ass Taco Bell thing in Demolition Man where every restaurant is Taco Bell - so in your movie every car can be Stingrays because the Corvette people financed half your film. I'm calling Kevin Costner and Gerard DePardieu. I think it would be awesome though, to have a element like the Stingrays thing that goes entirely unspoken - like it's not strange that these people all have the same car. I think it's a really interesting place to go where it's just kind of like earth-tangent - one of the many directions that could have taken place through time - and to tell stories from within them without justification.
Well, I initially took your first comment as a joke because of the excessive new-agey poetic statements, but I wasn't certain how serious you weren't.When I originally wrote the stupid entry it was just what you said. No thought or anything, just two things that came together in my head. But I was also thinking about the whole 'put it in and don't ever say anything about it' aspect which you mentioned. Tell a normal movie type story but just put random unexplained stuff in there. I mean, really, they already do that when they put all these abnormally attractive people in movies and people take it normally, so why not put abnormally attractive cars?
I think you make a good point. The people in movies are kind of abnormal looking. I'd never really thought of it like that. Yet, that doesn't prevent me from citing someone like Julia Stiles as being ugly as hell - but that's because people are telling me that she's attractive, when I wouldn't look twice at her in real life. It's like Titanic, or Pearl Harbor when apparently everyone that was involved in World War 2 was gorgeous - except for Ewan Bremner, the funny looking guy. and the people who are ugly or fat are always way over the top. It's odd. Take Benicio del Toro, for instance. I think he's a great fucking actor, and cool as hell, but I wouldn't really consider him attractive. And I think if he was assistant tire installer at Firestone, he probably wouldn't have mad bitches after him - he'd just be another mexican mechanic. Blah, blah, blah.yes, random randomness is the key. It's especially great when it's the type of stuff that people might not even notice. Like with the Stingrays. If there are only two or three car shots in the whole movie, and its' not a major plot point - people probably wouldn't even notice. But, if you show like a whole parking lot full of stingrays, then that'a a different story.Okay, I'm leaving.j-
"Take Benicio del Toro, for instance. I think he's a great fucking actor, and cool as hell, but I wouldn't really consider him attractive. And I think if he was assistant tire installer at Firestone, he probably wouldn't have mad bitches after him - he'd just be another mexican mechanic. Blah, blah, blah."Now see that's insightful. And either you or Chris should make a movie about how bitches are all materialist whores with generally no interest in improving themselves, are bags of neediness or ice queens depending on which one os the exact opposite of what the guy wants, and are generally only good for vaginas and breasts, but certainly not for any serious thought or ideas of value, as history and our own experience has shown us. Now that would be a $9.00 movie.
Bah, you have your fun trip every damned weekend.I don't get to run off to visit anyone particularly special every weekend. :-P
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