What are you watching?

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111837/


The First Vampire In China - 茅山学堂 (1996) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100109/
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x98c3bw


The Nine Demons - 九子天魔 (1984) Hong Kong https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087802/
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x98c3mw

Night Girls - 夜之女 (1986)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x988a7c
Supposedly it has a dubbed version and might go by Midnight Girls?

Full movie though needs CC for subs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHRXZnG7zpc
https://www.youtube.com/@8-hkmovie

Looking for Mr Vampire series directed by Ricky Lau
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089371/


Something similar with English dubbing:

The Prodigal Son (Sammo Hung, 1981) Yuen Biao
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=726544925479397

Once Upon a Time in China 6 - Kickboxer (Wu Ma, 1992-3) Yuen Biao



More excitingly bad movies
https://archive.org/details/@dead_zoner


A short experimental comedy film:

The Black Tower by John Smith (1987) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125016/

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Controversial video, he’s right about the DNA stuff. However, I don’t agree with the author in that things were done deliberately (aside from religious persecution) because the tech and science wasn’t there back then, but it just shows history is crazy and people just didn’t know what they were doing back then. It was all just wrong, basic principles, ten commandments if you will..Thou shall NOT .....

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Kubrick never made mistakes unless they were intentional, and it does seem like he was making a tongue-in-cheek reference to Kennedies assassination (though it also seems interesting that the movie JFK was sort of a nod of the hat to Kubrick if he was making a reference to Platoon in the cover while having the monologue by Dick Armie about both the (former Marine) UT Tower shooter, as well as Lee Harvey Oswald.



This movie series was interspersed in Archive channels with a bunch of pro-fascist nonsense, and I can see why. It seems popular with the Ruskies also.








USAID did have some geopolitical interests that overlapped with the CIA (hence why the CIA is often known for being involved in drug trafficking. . . Which many CIA spies will tend to deny, even if it's obvious that they function clandestinely and have had many confessions by fairly credible drug traffickers such as Pablo Escobar's son.) Much of this is probably to actually dismantle or destabilize regions of the globe that are perceived as being in competition with global influence (and whether Russia was simply responding to what it perceived to be a threat in the middle east, being that of Israel and how it would set the stage for non-Arabic relations, or it was inevitable even since ancient times that the region was strategic for trade, etc.)



And more so in today's society we have turdbrain Musk and tech influence and not so much the gas military defense contractors determining the geopolitical motivations. For the longest time the oil industry was being propped up as a tool used to control, which is probably also why the energy sector has nuclear reserves in conjunction with defense, because that would of course be the future of the geopolitical sovereignty.

I might have posted this prior, as it was about a month ago and was before shit really hit the fan with DOGE-turd (which of course would be a fascist leadership that historically was unique to Venice and Genoa, which somehow get's translated to a modern dystopian techno-oligarchy which has somehow been mistaken by a malignant sociopath as being an idealized "utopia."

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28:00 not to mention that Starlink (aside from the now antiquated speeds) requires sending up tens of thousands of satellites, which only have a 5 year lifespan (despite claims that they can apparently move to avoid impacts) are constantly deorbiting since they only function at lower elevations (probably because if they were further out they would operate slower) causing aluminum oxides to deplete the ozone layer as they burn up. They are becoming more ubiquitous than meteors, and I wouldn't be too surprised they could be hacked and deorbited intentionally.

All of Musk's "projects" and distractions are intent on consolidating as much power even if doing so causes massive collateral damage to everyone around him. How many deaths are directly linked to him, not including the deaths of Russians who he supposedly favors more than Ukraine and only intends to profit off of while lying about undermining their war efforts, and is now siding with Trump and JD Vance under their "America First" (which sounds eerily like "One China. . . policy,") to not provide any aid for, is abysmal and contradictory to an honest person.

When Musk pointed out the very good chance that his Starship rocket would explode since he had a weak section of the heat shielding, he didn't seem too concerned with trying to improve it, and instead let the rocket explode. He also has been cited by the FAA for illegal rocket launches (hence why everyone was going insane wondering what all the satellites were, since no rocket launches were being announced.)

Business. . . "Business" as usual.

What amazes me are all the dumbasses that will still lick Trump's Musky ass, who barely have an iota of brain cells clumped together, to recognize it for what it is. Literal "Professors" or 'Instructors' of a tech school who are responsible for Data Security and listed on the school's list of main people resort to dumb memes that I was upset when Trump (or especially now Musk) wasn't in jail; and it's dumbfounding.



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In this scene it would have continued where Arseface/Eugene gives the candy bar to Hitler and befriends him.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10155053311336633


Just prior to the next video:




This is far too prescient (though the video series was from 2017.)
It's from a 1990s comic book series by Garth Ennis - called Preacher (from DC Vertigo and Image Comics)





Look Who's Back (David Wnendt, 2015) Er Ist Wieder Da





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Cave Explorers called the 'Action Adventure Twins' discover a pretty deep cave that seems a bit risky (considering anything could have happened when they were down there.)
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=8360919974011393

I'm trying to find the larger format video on their Youtube Channel because social media is clickbait bullshit usually,. and I hate the format.
https://www.youtube.com/@ActionAdventureTwins

Many of their videos are pretty crazy, and at one point he seemed to point out a rare fossil that would have become extinct 251 million years ago, just lying on the surface of one of their explores. I might have lost track of which video it was (though I paused this video and came back, and it does look like they reached that depth in the geological stratus.)



An open cave filled with crystals.


About 11-12 minutes in, they approach a cave system waterfall where the floor drops down to 280 feet from above.


Return trip here (Part 2 venture) https://youtu.be/oVicD63LJWc



Another channel's crazy exploration of a cave with an entrance beneath a house.

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(Chernobyl) Inseperable (2013 miniseries) April 1986 Pripyat Ukraine/USSR 3 hr









And they want to propose a 20 TRILLION dollar underwater Atlantic ocean tunnel using hyperloop to connect Britain of all things? Doesn't Britain have a tunnel crossing over to France, and do they really want to risk having some kind of underground explosion or terrorist plot, if it doesn't fail due to pure greed and incompetence that's been demonstrated with the "Hyperloop project" that really only cancelled some high speed metro system, and never actually did anything.

And this is the kind of shit that leads to WW3.






And the economy is a lie (which is why Humpty Trumpty is really taking it up a notch on the ledge.)

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I just wanted to point out something kind of funny. In this 1951 film of the Moulin Rouge, Jose Ferer is already regarded as an Academy Award winner, where he plays a painter ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_de_Toulouse-Lautrec .)


I also noticed:
2:30 Habsburg jaw, which neither the actor, Walter Crisham, nor the historical Valentin le Desossé seems to have had when looking at photos of them (though maybe his jaw became more pronounced as he aged, and the depiction was based on both a painting by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec referencing him as well as a depiction of a man in an old pamphlet which seems to match his appearance?)

Both depictions can be found here:
Photo: https://www.moulinrouge.fr/en/the-mouli ... desosse-2/
Painting https://www.bartongalleries.com/library ... Le-Desosse
Flyer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_ ... soss%C3%A9
where he's dancing with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Goulue

It was basically one of the first "night clubs" since they were one of the first in Paris to have electric lighting, and it seemed to pay off, while attracting eccentrics with physical abnormalities, who felt compelled to do art to since it was amongst the few places that would have had the option to stay out late. Admittedly it would have been more interesting during it's time but the strange alloure of art is a time capsule.

Amongst two depictions of the place, he also depicted an equestrian at place called Cirque Fernando
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/61128/at ... ulin-rouge


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Anyway, that was a sidetrack as I was watching an 1980s (not to the confused with the 80s of the 1800s) Horror film documentary which was part 2 of literally close to 15 hours amongst 3 that cover that decade: In Search Of Darkness (David A. Weiner, 2019, 2020, 2023) which also continues on into a single 5 hour episode for 90-94, as well as spins off into a single 5 hour 'In Search of Tomorrow' focusing on Sci-fi as well as someone else's modest 2 hours In Search of the Last Action Heroes (Oliver Harper, 2019,) which totals to 22 hours if I were to watch them all.

So far after kind of watching the first one, and am half way through part 2 it only reinforced my awareness that the vast majority of the horror genre was crap (and that it was probably hype from the first movie that made people continue to watch crappier films on account that few people knew what to expect apart from the hype, since it was before the internet and only word of mouth would allow for someone to know some of what to expect, which only amplified the interest in something that would still be kind of "crappy."

Something that stood out though was a first time (Horror and maybe not other major film) Director that managed to snag both a very famous acting studio coach named Martin Landau, who was able to get Jose Ferrer.

The Being (1983 by Jackie Kong who was 23 when she wrote the movie script.




A list of all the movies that show up in the 'In Search of Darkness' docuseries.
https://letterboxd.com/matthias_812/lis ... ster-list/


Some of the horror films are the Troma Entertainment junk (known for such classics as Toxic Avenger series and Poultrygeist (found below.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troma_Entertainment
https://archive.org/details/@kyle69



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I was thinking this might be real. . . Pretty strange stuff (it's not real.)
In Our Garden (Giuseppe Andrews, 2002) Gayle Wells
It starts off with the trailer and then has the full movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IeE6VE-_88

The same Director of Pregnant With a Swastika from 2014 (and I can confirm it is not Elon Musk's baby.)
https://archive.org/details/pregnantwithaswastika

Garbanzo gas is another movie he made apparently that's in that archive.

Apparently, the guy has many similarities to another person I posted about recently, who is a Musician named Daniel Johnston (who lost his marbles.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/GiuseppeAndrews/



Idiocracy is very nice right about now.
https://archive.org/details/idiocracymikejudge

I would recommend the Matroska versions, though MP4 would probably be sufficient.


Chucky vs Buddy (Child's Play 1988 vs 2019)



NASA space footage from 2012
https://archive.org/details/VideoFiles2012

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Trump is clearly too dumb.





Currently $1 (instead of $20) on GOG (though this video is kind of sufficient to satisfy curiosity.)


And Wizardry 8 is $2.49 with an estimated 100 hours of gameplay, which they seem to accomplish in 16 (and though this video looks pretty good for being 13 years ago, that might say more about the gameplay being more relevant for that time-period.) It looks closer to what Morrowind was aiming at, while Morrowind would continue on with other Elder Scrolls games (so by comparison. . . And with Morrowind the cheat codes made it playable as you could fly with potions and kind of skip through most of the things; and "break the game" which is probably what made the GTA series popular as well, since people generally got distracted instead of following the game itself.)



Also a Wolfenstein 'The Two Pack' with both Old Blood and New Order, for $7.49 when normally $30. Both games came out around 2014-2015.
https://www.metacritic.com/game/wolfens ... old-blood/
https://www.metacritic.com/game/wolfens ... new-order/

Even though the game series has a lot of promise, the game was only ever relevant around the early 90s, and even then, the game only seemed truly great when it was on the 3DO, since it had the perfect combination of controls for the original series, and included CD audio rather than crappy synthesized. The newer series was better marketed but beyond that, the mechanics of the game probably hasn't changed much since the reboot on newer consoles (all of which I've tended to ignore.)

Edit: Though I am looking over it and it kind of reminds me of Duke Nukem Forever where they try to incorporate different gameplay elements to make it more interesting.


It still seems to have a garish brown color to much of it even with Nexus mods, and you can also use console commands, though it should still be around 6-7 hours easily without it.

Cont:
Though just like FF7 Remake and Rebirth, I will probably end up getting this anyway (though with FF7 I was either modding it heavily or downloading endgame save files to rush through the beginning and not screwing around with it much. the Red XIII character had the same voice actor throughout but for some reason the executive decision was to emphasize his youthfulness in the Cosmo Canyon portion, to where you would swear you were playing Kingdom Farts; so I kind of think I know who is to blame for that.) The time spent playing prior games has very little impact or benefit into the sequels, and it seems more like an absurd preoccupation, and I feel less inclined to explore and ponder the environment, as if I was just fast-forwarding crappy Youtube videos with little interest in the content. . . I'm not even so sure it's because I played the original, just that any addition to the new games actually seems like a step backwards, even though it's far more faithful to the original than many care to remember. Either way, the new Wolfenstein games are more marketed hype than actual enjoyment, I suspect, and they were mostly getting released following Quentin Tarantino's 'Inglorious Basterds.'





Here is the full gameplay of New Order (which tends to get the most attention)


The cafe scene is about 2:20 in.


Mods and console commands exist, though probably aren't necessary (however, even games that came out nearly a decade earlier look better in my opinion, and the mods don't necessarily get rid of the tonality of the game, which is kind of a garish brown.)

$2 right now (normally $20) and reminds me of Hyper Light Drifter (though has a lower rating and might be shorter at 5 hours.



$1.29 and fairly overlooked


I played the demo before watching the video, unaware I had the 50 coin to go ahead and buy the pass the guard was going to give, though didn't save it since I assumed it automatically saved upon returning to the statue. The game was functional though a bit awkward at first, though I got as far in 6 minutes (so I guess reading it out loud takes more time than speed reading it.)



Shadow Warrior 2 Deluxe Edition shouldn't be missed for $3.99 (normally $40,) though it also has some issues.
https://www.metacritic.com/game/shadow-warrior-2/

Though it might be the only one worth playing, and you can buy all the games leading up to 3 for around $8 on Gog, and yet I nearly forgot I already had one of them and never played it. A demo by the company has a demo promoting the game in a free download called Devolverland Expo, though the game itself is only around 5-6 hours long and people believe it was left unfinished to try and sell copies (probably because of Covid closing the workplace down.)


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DoubleFine Adventures (documentary about the game Developer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVwg-9W ... 3D&index=2


Max Headroom S1-S2 (1987-1988) Rocky Morton, Annabel Jankel



Just like the above series, this one doesn't have the movie the series is based on (though does have the made for TV movies Directed by Kenneth Johnson.) Pretty much anything to do with Alien Nation is rated around 60%.




Miracle Mile (Steve De Jarnatt, 1988) Anthony Edwards
https://m.ok.ru/video/43282991682
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/miracle_mile

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The same thing happened in Rome, when stupid shit like JD Vance pander to wannabe Hitler and get's a front-row seat.



Right-Wing Blogger Curtis Yarvin Is Wrong. Democracy Is Good.
https://jacobin.com/2022/12/curtis-yarv ... monarchism


Donald Trump was recruited by KGB with codename 'Krasnov', claims ex-Soviet spy
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/donald-trump- ... 59277.html

That is kind of weird if true that he was recruited by the KGB and given the codename Krasnov (after Peter Krasnov, who was a Russian military leader who eventually sided with the Nazi fascists of WW2 and executed tens of thousands of citizens, and ends up getting executed in Moscow, as it now echoes what is happening with the Democrat party who echo the mantras of Curtis Yarvin who wants to end Democracy and destroy the government from within while also undermining things like USAID that kept geopolitical interests such as that of Russia "at bay." It's entirely possible such a codename would be random and his actions are just an indication of someone who gives free-reign to Russian hegemony, while also selling out the Democracy he was supposed to uphold, in favor of the ideologies of those such as Curtis Yarvin aka Mencius Moldbug who wants to destroy it outright and replace it with techno-fuedalism/monarchism.


This is nothing new as even a book was written some years ago that linked Trump to the Russian mob (which could also have ties to KGB assets, and it's possible that Trump wasn't aware he was given a codename and it was just how Trump was brought up in brief communication, and he was just "oiled" for pro-Russian interests because he's easily duped or even blackmailed to go along with whatever they want.

IF YOU GOOGLE KREMLIN HEADQUARTERS IN GOOLE MAPS THE MAR-A-LAGO SHOWS UP
https://www.google.com/maps/search/krem ... FQAw%3D%3D

(Which says more about the questionable nature of Google Maps edit which will tend to refuse legitimate edits in favor of dubious ones.)



This seems to best sum up what the billionaires are trying to do. They basically have zero interest in maintaining a larger socio-economic model that functions within democratic government, but rather separate from it. If they don't have loopholes to exploit within the system, they will create their own "friends with benefits" model of an idealized "utopia" separate from the "undesirables."



You can already see Elon attempting to create his own city that is chopped out of the a larger one who were mislead into believing he was just using the area as a platform to launch SpaceX, and basically buying up all the land and keeping people within their own built houses that have factory workers on a leash, not too different from the Gilded Age.


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FB started muting his videos and shadowbanning anti-Trump content (probably because of insular Trumpanzees reporting them?)




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Elon Musk wants ‘60 Min.’ jailed: Darcy cartoon
https://www.cleveland.com/darcy/2025/02 ... rtoon.html


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This actually does look pretty similar (though Harlan Ellison is still a bit of a douchebag.)


While someone mentioned Metal Gear Solid being a rip off of one of the characters in Terminator, Hideo Kojima also used the likeness of Gibson and Glover in Lethal Weapon for Policenauts, as well as Harison Ford in Blade Runner for Snatcher. Contra as well for Arnold and Sylvester. In the same way you find many anime influenced by cinema and vice versa, movies made today are influenced heavily from how people approached film techniques, just as Star Wars was influenced by Nazis and Japanese Samurai culture for Darth Vader.



This also happens (much like Mac and Me being an ET rip off, widely regarded as one of the worst movies of all time.)



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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus: ... in_Project

Colossus The Forbin Project (Joseph Sargent, 1970)







Oddly, that mall 5 months before closing completely had an abandoned Subway where a woman was killed (and not found until 2 weeks later.) Even when most malls are still "open" they are practically abandoned, and when I went to watch a movie at a theater at a local one, before entering the building, Police were out in front of one of the few remaining "flagship" stores (which might have been a liquidating JcPennies. . . And I went to watch Joker, of all movies.

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/gwinne ... 770427122/

The fucker who did it makes me think of Kanye.
https://www.11alive.com/article/news/lo ... -568489259


And I just now realized the sequel had come out for Joker, and costs 4 times more. Even with a low rating on Rotten Tomatoes (the original ratings on IMDB was much higher than they usually get, and yet Folie a Deux was universally despised,) it seems not much higher than the original (which I thought was probably one of the more decent films in recent years simply because it seemed to portray an accurate psychological profile despite differing from the comic in many ways.)



In no way do I consider Joaquin Pheonix an accurate portrayal of the comic Joker character, but he seemed to be the most believable "human" personae of someone like that, and the creative decision to turn the sequel into a musical just seems like an absurd trend that movies have been taking recently. It does almost have a similar take to "Who Framed Roger Rabit" with an animation at the beginning, and yet seems completely at odds with comic variations; as though a caricature of what it was trying to do in the first movie.



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An interesting, but incredibly stupid movie.

Miracle Mile (Steve De Jarnatt, 1988) Anthony Edwards

A critique
https://www.beesmygod.com/miracle-mile-1988/


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Jimmy Kimmel Handmaskk
https://fb.watch/x_ukpmQMLm/
https://handmaskk.com/


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A better video, with all the key story components of the last 4 Wolfenstein games.



The games are from around 2014-2017, so they might be considered a bit old now. . . Though still relevant when you consider the story as a reflection of needing to "learn from the past" in order to avoid it. 4 hours 5 minutes in is maybe not a bad starting point if you just want to get to the more interesting parts.

These (PC games) are fairly cheap on GOG.com right now, though what is 7 hours in video could be sped up 2x and skipped through in under 3 hours, to get the gist of what would probably take over 20 hours for a first-time player.

A two-pack of the first games (Old Blood which is a prequel that came out after The New Order, though it's assumed the game should be played after as a sequel to fill in the events leading up to it) is cheaper as a whole than when bought separately, and some suggest to skip some of the more recent games (though the New Colossus is one of the more interesting visually, and this cuts out the gameplay that people seem to have the most complaints about.)

I still would rather watch the video as this is mostly the story and is more interesting overall since it doesn't get bogged down in unnecessary components.



It's about $14 right now (if you skip the latest one, which looks kind of like a dumb mix of the intro sequences to Fallout 3 and 4 and whatever they are trying to do.) The actual game is mostly the twin children of the protagonist, but the story evidently involves other characters, which is what the video focuses on.


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Similar appeal as Wizardry 8, but less time-consuming if you just play straight through. It looks like a combination of Samurai Warrior, City of Lost Children, Matrix, Morrowind, and Deus Ex.

A little strange though, if you google it the Metacritic reviews don't show up easily, and you get a widely different interpretation of the game. This review itself even says they tried to get into it numerous times and only now are getting through it.

https://www.metacritic.com/game/eye-divine-cybermancy/




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The Vampire Lovers (Roy Ward Baker, 1970) Peter Cushing




Is better than Vampire Night Orgy aka Orgy of the Vampire.


Looking for

Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967) Faye Dunaway, Warren Beatty, Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman died and he has rarely been seen in the last 20 years, and the latest photos of him might have been a year ago. I believe he either died naturally and his wife killed herself and her dog, or they had carbon monoxide poisoning. Judging from the size of their house, I doubt carbon monoxide was something that would easily occur.

https://apnews.com/article/gene-hackman ... c1b956a5c8

Looking into it, he is supposedly still worth around $80 million, and once he died, she would have likely continued to live for many decades considering their age difference.

Looking into it, a German shepherd was dead in the closet and she was found in a separate room near a space heater while the front door was left "open" (either they mean it was unlocked when a utility man showed up and found them, or for some strange reason it was opened completely.) Pills were scattered around like you would find in some stereotypical depiction of a suicide, but I have doubts that such things are usually found in such ways when people actually do overdose, and the two smaller dogs were unaffected apparently, which seems a bit weird if someone intended on dying with their animals after the patriarch of the household had gone before them.

It's possible that she would have wanted the utility workers to find them as she anticipated it and didn't want the German shepherd to attack them and didn't have the same concern for the smaller animals, as they had been dead for some time prior to discovery, though it does seem a bit odd she wouldn't have been emotionally prepared for his departure.

She might have woken up to him in the bed and realized he was dead, and realized that carbon monoxide poisoning was making her lethargic, opened the door, and then attempted to check on the space heater, only to already be too affected by it (though it seems no indication of a gas leak has been indicated?)

I nearly forgot he acted in Young Frankenstein, as the 'Blind Man.'
https://x.com/MarshallJulius/status/1895058798194369023

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Star Wars Deleted Magic Revisited (Garrett Gilchrist, 2009)




This movie had a pretty big impression and because the book publisher would go bankrupt in 1985 (and once the rights to the franchise was acquired, was made into a TV series that I never got around to watching) and the unmistakable animation style of Richard Williams is apparent throughout.

Raggedy Ann & Andy A Musical Adventure (Richard Williams, 1977)
https://archive.org/details/raggedyanna ... ison+2.mp4



Though I remembered it, I glossed over it when looking up this other film, that I highly suggest downloading the larger file format (which I think is on Archive org.)

The Thief and the Cobbler (Richard Williams, 1992,95, 2013) 28 year project


It seems very different from the two prior variations that were published (after the the creator had the project taken over and released unfinished as he wanted it.)

- The Princess and the Cobbler (9-23-1993, AU) 1 hr 20 m
- Arabian Knight (8-25-1995, US Miramax Cut) 1 hr 12 m
- The Thief and the Cobbler Recobbled Cut Mk4 (2013) 1 hr 40 m (which uses early drafts to fill in the content.)
https://archive.org/details/thief-cobbl ... 3-hd-h-264

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TRUMP needs to get back to some of his GERMAN roots and invite this GUY to the WHITE HOUSE:

Paul Kalkbrenner - live at Lowlands 2019



p.s. It will balance things out against RUSS.

p.s. I may be German but it depends on my YDNA R1B subclad....I definitely find GERMAN MUSIC #1