Wizards
Posted On : Aug / 02 / 2008
Wizards
is an animated post-apocalyptic science
fiction/fantasy film about the battle between two
wizards, one representing the forces of magic and
one representing the forces of technology. It was
written, produced and directed by Ralph Bakshi. The
planet Earth has been badly damaged by a nuclear war
instigated by terrorists, and it has taken two
million years for the radioactive clouds to once
again allow sunlight to reach the surface. Only a
handful of humans have survived, while the rest have
changed into mutants who roam the radioactive
wastelands of Earth. In the good land of Montagar,
fairies, elves and dwarves (the true ancestors of
man) have returned and now live happily in the good
areas.
The Golden Compass
Posted On : Aug / 02 / 2008
The
story concerns Lyra, an orphan living in a parallel
universe in which a dogmatic theocracy called the
Magisterium threatens to dominate the world. When
Lyra's friend is kidnapped, she travels to the far
North in an attempt to rescue him and rejoin her
uncle. In this parallel universe in which a person's
soul resides outside the body in the form of an
animal called a "dæmon".
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Posted On : Jul / 30 / 2008
Indiana
Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a 2008
adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, from a
story co-written by executive producer George Lucas.
Set in 1957, the fourth film in the Indiana Jones
film series pits an older Indiana Jones (Harrison
Ford) against agents of the Soviet Union, led by
Irina Spalko, in the search for a crystal
skull.
The skull is elongated in the shape that indigenous
peoples formed their own skulls into, but the Soviets
believe the skull, which magnetically attracts even
non-ferrous objects, is from an extraterrestrial
life-form and holds great psychic power.
The John Titor Enigma
Posted On : Jul / 24 / 2008
John
Titor is the name used on several bulletin boards
during 2000 and 2001 by a poster claiming to be a
time traveler from the year 2036. In these posts he
made numerous predictions (a number of them vague,
some quite specific) about events in the near
future, starting with events in 2004. He described a
drastically changed future in which the United
States had broken into five smaller regions, the
environment and infrastructure had been devastated
by a nuclear attack, and most other world powers had
been destroyed.
Robert Anton Wilson
Posted On : Jul / 09 / 2008
Robert
Anton Wilson or RAW (born Robert Edward Wilson,
January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007) was an American
novelist, essayist, philosopher, psychonaut,
futurologist and libertarian. Wilson described his
writing as an "attempt to break down conditioned
associations—to look at the world in a new way, with
many models recognized as models or maps and no one
model elevated to the Truth." . . . "My goal is to
try to get people into a state of generalized
agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but
agnosticism about everything."
Ezra Pound
Posted On : Jul / 03 / 2008
John
Titor is the name used on several bulletin boards
during 2000 and 2001 by a poster claiming to be a
time traveler from the year 2036. In these posts he
made numerous predictions (a number of them vague,
some quite specific) about events in the near
future, starting with events in 2004. He described a
drastically changed future in which the United
States had broken into five smaller regions, the
environment and infrastructure had been devastated
by a nuclear attack, and most other world powers had
been destroyed.
Cafe to Cybercafe
Posted On : Jul / 03 / 2008
The
local cafe......... populated with students,
professors, artists, writers, and musicians, had
gone, replaced by yet another chain offering a
prepackaged and franchised atmosphere that could be
found anywhere on the planet. The former rows of
books, everything from novels, poetry, and drama to
philosophy and social science....... had been
replaced by, well, nothing. Emptiness. Mirrors
reflecting back the image of the consumer to
himself. In the place of books, there was now
wireless Internet access...... Rather than coming in
for a discussion with other flesh and blood people
facing you across the table, the tables were full of
laptops as the customers carried on their virtual
life oblivious to those around them.
Alex Jones
Posted On : Jul / 02 / 2008
Alexander
Emerick Jones (born February 11, 1974) is an
American paleoconservative radio host and filmmaker
who is known for his outspoken opposition to
internationalist organizations such as the United
Nations and World Bank. He is described by many as a
conspiracy theorist, and has been accused by
left-wing groups of being a disinformation operative
diverting the disaffected toward far right
conspiracism.
George Carlin
Posted On : Jun / 25 / 2008
George
Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an
American stand-up comedian, actor and author who won
four Grammy Awards for his comedy albums. Carlin was
especially noted for his political and black humor
and his observations on language, psychology, and
religion along with many taboo subjects. Carlin and
his "Seven Dirty Words" comedy routine were central
to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case F.C.C. v.
Pacifica Foundation, in which a narrow 5-4 decision
by the justices affirmed the government's right to
regulate "indecent" material on the public airwaves.
The Work of Carlos Castaneda
Posted On : Apr / 09 / 2008
Carlos
Castaneda (December 25, 1925 – April 27, 1998) was a
Peruvian-born American author. Starting with The
Teachings of Don Juan in 1968, Castaneda wrote a
series of books that describe his training in
traditional Mesoamerican shamanism. His 12 books
have sold more than 8 million copies in 17
languages. The books and Castaneda, who rarely spoke
in public about his work, have been controversial
for many years.
Bob Dobbs, Holeopathic Retrievals, and Synchronistic Linguistics
Posted On : Mar / 31 / 2008
According
to Bob Dobbs everyone died in 1945, leaving behind a
world of "holeopathic retrievals." "Holeopathic," he
explains, is a mixture of "homeopathy" and
"hologram." Homeopathy is a form of medical
treatment where the physician takes the essence of a
substance and dilutes it, the theory being that the
tinier the dose the more potent it is. A hologram is
an artificial environment indistinguishable from the
reality upon which it's based. Dobbs claims it was
the implementation of what he calls "the solar
government" in 1945 that caused the disappearance of
Earth's entire population, who were then replaced
with holograms. This means that succeeding
generations are mere holograms of holograms of
holograms, ad infinitum. The tinier the holograms,
the more realistic and engaging the artificial
environment becomes, hence the term "holeopathic
retrieval." In order to break out of this program,
he claims we must become what he calls "menippean
satirists."
The Comedy of Bill Hicks
Posted On : Mar / 21 / 2008
Hicks
stripped away the lies and deceit our governments
have woven for us, laying bare grim truths, laced
with his biting, trademark wit. Bill's humour though
sometimes harsh, was not intended to upset, more to
bring people together: "The best kind of comedy to
me is when you make people laugh at things they've
never laughed at, and also take a light into the
darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to
the light. I thought the whole point of it was to
make you feel un-alone."
Resident Evil Extinction
Posted On : Mar / 18 / 2008
The
Umbrella Corporation appears to be the only
organized society of humans left in the world, its
remnants forced to live underground in Hive-like
constructs dispersed around the world. Dr. Sam
Isaacs (Iain Glen) believes that he can develop a
permanent cure to save what is left of humanity, as
well as tame the zombies so as to create a viable
workforce by using blood from the original Alice.
They Live
Posted On : Mar / 10 / 2008
Part
science fiction thriller and part black comedy, the
plot deals satirically with the perceived notion of
a declining economy, within a culture of greed and
conspicuous consumption commonly associated with the
1980s. It posits a world in which some of the monied
elite (i.e., the "yuppies") are actually aliens
oppressing the poverty-stricken lower classes
through subliminal media advertising.
The Cave
Posted On : Mar / 10 / 2008
Deep
in the Romanian forest, a team of scientists stumble
upon the ruins of a 13th century abbey sealed away
by a long forgotten priesthood. On further
inspection, they make a startling discovery: the
abbey is built over the entrance to a giant
underground cave system. These scientists are Dr.
Nicolai and his associate Bacovia Radescu. Local
biologists believe the cave could contain an
undiscovered ecosystem, so they hire a group of
American spelunkers to help them investigate its
depths.
The Matrix Decoded
Posted On : Jan / 31 / 2008
The
Matrix trilogy has so much symbolism packed into it
that I can't help but to reference it as an example
when trying to explain many things. Many times I've
said, "Like in the Matrix where..." Well, I'm not
gonna do a complete breakdown, or even a
chronological one. So to get on with it, here's some
stuff I have noticed in the films. It is interesting
to note that the blue pill and red pill are
perfectly analogous to the Blue and Red Lodges of
Freemasonry. Those in the Blue Lodges (1-3rd degree
masons) are deliberately misled and know very little
truth about their organization as a whole, but those
who are initiated into the Red Lodge (4-33rd degree)
learn incrementally more about the truth as they
progress up the chain.
Sacred Order of the Stonecutters - The Simpsons
Posted On : Jan / 31 / 2008
"Homer
the Great" is the 12th episode of The Simpsons’
sixth season. It features the Stonecutters, a
fictional secret society which is an overt parody of
the Freemasons.
When Homer notices that Lenny and Carl are enjoying
unexplainable privileges at the nuclear plant, he
investigates and discovers that they are part of an
ancient secret society known as the Stonecutters. When he
tries to join, he learns that in order to gain
membership, one must either be the son of a Stonecutter
or save the life of a Stonecutter. While extolling the
Stonecutters at the dinner table, he discovers that his
father is a member and is admitted. After joining the
Stonecutters, Homer takes great pleasure in the Society's
secret privileges, such as an underground byway past
Springfield's traffic jams and the Society's drinking
bouts.
The Super Mario Brothers Story
Posted On : Jan / 31 / 2008
Reptiles
from another dimension invade and corrupt the sacred
kingdom.....
Mario and Luigi head deeper into the caves following Daisy's screaming and discover an interdimensional portal through which Mario and Luigi follow Daisy. They find themselves in a strange dystopian parallel world where a human-like race evolved from Tyrannosauridae. It is claimed that they are decended from a T. Rex population that escaped through the interdimensional portal. Iggy and Spike turn out to be lackeys (and cousins) of the other world's evil and feared dictator, King Koopa. However, the two have failed to also bring Daisy's "rock," a meteorite fragment which Koopa is trying to get in order to merge his world with the real world that separated from Koopa's world during the "Big Bang".
Chitauri - Marvel Comics
Posted On : Jan / 30 / 2008
The
Chitauri are an ancient technologically advanced
race of extraterrestrial fanatics dedicated to
controlling all other life in the universe,
eradicating that which they cannot control.
Determined to bring harmony to the universe since
the dawn of time, they regard themselves as the
universe's immune system, purging diseases such as
chaos, disorder and independent thought. Dubbed
the
Chitauri by Africans who encountered them on
Earth,
these aliens have been known as the
Annakui
or Skrulls on other worlds. Within their own society,
they have little use for individual names or
personalities, functioning as a collective with shared
goals and values; however, they do assume identieis while
infiltrating the races of other worlds. They have
replicated the appearance of other life forms, but must
consume teir victims first in order to assume their
shapes. In their natural state, the Chitauri are eight
feet tall and reptilian in appearance. At least some of
them posses enhance strength, durability, senses, and
regenerative powers. Their ruling class apparently
possesses these traits in greater abundance then the rank
and file. They reportedly spend at least part of their
lives in realms beyond three-dimentional space, but use
their shape-shifting powers to assume forms better suited
to three dimensions when operating within our reality.
V for Vendetta
Posted On : Jan / 30 / 2008
V
for Vendetta is a 2006 action-thriller film set in
London, England in a near-future dystopian society.
The film follows the mysterious V, a freedom fighter
seeking to effect sociopolitical change while
simultaneously pursuing his own violent personal
vendetta. The film is an adaptation of the graphic
novel V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd.
V for Vendetta was directed by James McTeigue and
produced by Joel Silver and the Wachowski brothers,
who also wrote the screenplay. The film stars
Natalie Portman as Evey Hammond, Hugo Weaving as V,
Stephen Rea as Inspector Finch and John Hurt as
Chancellor Sutler.
Black Lodge of Twin Peaks
Posted On : Jan / 30 / 2008
The
Black Lodge is a "fictional" place in the television
series Twin Peaks. It is an extradimensional place
which seems to include the "Red Room" as seen by
Agent Cooper in a dream early in the series, where
he sees himself 25 years older sitting in a chair.
In the series, the Native American policeman Deputy
Hawk says that the Black Lodge is from the mythology
of his people. One entrance to the Black Lodge seems
to be located in Ghostwood Forest surrounding the
town of Twin Peaks. A pool of a substance akin to
scorched engine oil, is surrounded by 12 young
sycamore trees. This area is known as Glastonbury
Grove. It is said that the key to gain entrance to
the Black Lodge is fear. This is in contrast to the
key to the White Lodge, which is love.
The Neverending Story
Posted On : Jan / 30 / 2008
The
story of the book starts with fantastic creatures in
the world of Fantasia discovering that a strange
force called "The Nothing" is starting to take over
their world and make things disappear. The group
consists of Teeny Weeny and his racing snail, a
Nighthob and his "stupid" bat, and a giant
Rockbiter. They make their way to see the Empress of
Fantasia at the Ivory Tower and ask her for help.
Unfortunately, the Empress is deathly ill. The
Empress has summoned a great warrior from a tribe of
the Plains People named "Atreyu." Atreyu (Noah
Hathaway) arrives, and is given a magical medallion
called the Auryn, which acts as both a guide and a
symbol of the Empress' authority in requesting
assistance.