[stupid first world problems you're dealing with]

 

Well, as the plan goes it's going to be four tracks of sludge metal and four tracks of experimental guitar pieces, with the metal up front as the first half. I wonder if bandcamp would allow me to place a divider between the halves or if I'll just have to write an interlude for them. Hmm.

two releases

 

yes two eps FTW

[North Korea]

I had no idea that ROK was a dictatorship as late as that or at all really, so that's completely news to me, and extremely interesting, thank you!

 

Really there's virtually no education in the UK about either side of Korea. The only information we get about Korea is that those silly North Koreans are playing up again in the news. At which point it's basically just "they're the bad guys" but no real depth or explanation, it's just cut and dry like that. You have to really go digging to find information.

 

This is all most people in the UK know about Korea.

 

[Now Reading]

I just finished reading both Life of Pi and Cloud Atlas *sigh* I should have just watched the films. Waste of my time.

 

 

(I can't resist that little nyan cat gif)

[Films Recently Watched]

Room 237 (the documentary about The Shining)

 

This is a documentary about mad people (over)analysing a mad movie.

I like The Shining. Don't get me wrong. I also love reading interpretations of movies that are a bit on the crazy side. But the people in this documentary (whose faces we never see btw.) are out of their fucking minds. I don't know if this documentary is supposed to be serious or of it's like the Toddlers and Tiaras show where it actually points fingers at the people who are on the show. The theories - and in some cases "conspiracy theories" - are all over the fucking place. When some of the theories were presented, I was thinking, "sure, why not? Makes sense... kinda.", but then we got to the theories about The Shining being the film where Kubrick admits to being the one who faked the moon landing and that the guy who figured this out was now being watched by the government and so on. Holy shit balls. Or that guy who believed that it made perfect sense to watch the movie forwards and backwards at the same time and then superimpose the two screenings, because then "everything lines up!"

I laughed out loud when one of the theorists said that he hadn't had a job for quite some time, because throughout most of the documentary I was thinking to myself that these guys must have a lot of spare time on their hands and that maybe they should get a job.

 

Apart from the fucking wackjobs talking about The Shining being about the holocaust and Jack Nicholson's hair on the photo of the ball room party forms a Hitler mustache when they fade in to a close-up of his face, the documentary itself wasn't that good. Like I said, you never see any of the people who are throwing their wild theories around the room. You only hear their voices. So since you never see anyone, the only things they show are clips from the movie and these staged clips of kids from the 80s watching The Shining in a cinema over and over and over and over.

Also the music was terrible. I know it was trying to be very 80s Kubrick-ian and blablabla, but it didn't work at all. Also, whoever mixed the sound ought to be shot in the foot for doing such a terrible job.

 

I give it 5/10

 

Yeah I also thought that most of the theorys in this are bonkers, however I do find it weird it doesn't even mention the illuminati references in his films??? Or the theories behind that at least.

 

I did find the Native American thread pretty interesting and think there might be something to that. Who cares if the moon landings are real, the real misinformation is that the Americans won the space race. They lost it! The Russians put the first man into space. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin

[stupid first world problems you're dealing with]

I can't seem to get around to sending off my insurance for my stolen phone. *sigh*

 

Right now I'm having top use my old iPhone 2 which has no internet on it.

[North Korea]

Is this real, or propaganda to enable a preeemtive strike on North Korea?

[Films Recently Watched]

f u man dazed and confused is amazing

 

Yes it is, I'm going to watch it again tonight actually.

[squarepusher in a turtle costume]

BWAHAHAHAHAHA! WTF is going on here? I mean, seriously.