What are you watching?

[Catoptric]

This is probably all bullshit but I'm going to watch it anyway.

Trailer for 'The Primordial Code' (released less than 2 weeks ago by Marijn Poels?)


I'm still not even sure what it's about, though here is the full movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYQ3cI2J4aM

Discussion about it: https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/the ... ode.73164/

It seems to be about the zeitgeist (and maybe even inspired by the Zeitgeist series) of belief, where popular assumptions about belief propels erroneous conclusions that fail to reexamine something in context of how it was understood in the past? Down the rabbit hole, in other words?

I miss eccentric and pseudo-intellectual documentaries (things such as 'What the Bleep Do We Know!?') and they seem to not be made as much, though possibly because people start to scrutinize the content more if they aren't already into some kind of GAIA (the shit show online "educational/entertainment" cult-like fetish; ie people like Joe Dispenza might still be featured in documentaries but unless people aren't retarded do they actually believe what he's saying.)

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33 Facts That Capture The Strange And Salacious Life Of Benjamin Franklin
https://allthatsinteresting.com/benjamin-franklin-facts


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Kundun





Randomness explains the steep departure from various outcomes (rare people often come out of disparate circumstances, such as Seabiscuit being a "runt" and not being what was expected of exceptional performance, whereas the specially bred horses--much like the Belgian Blue cows--have bone fractures from the absurd end results.)

Epigenetics factors into why people might carry certain genes but not express them until the environment triggers it. . . Society did not evolve in a vacuum, and some environments produced undesired characteristics as a byproduct of bottlenecking the end result into an absurd caricature.


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Urbex
https://www.youtube.com/@SteveRonin/videos

Some decent documentary-type of stuff
https://archive.org/details/%40santa_ba ... ate&page=2


The Lord of the Universe (1974 documentary by David R Loxton, of a cult leader, Guru Maharaj Ji at Houston Astrodome)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1087602/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Universe
https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Guru_Maharaj_Ji

This is actually called:
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (Werner Herzog, 2016)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5275828/



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Watching the Mask (1985) movie, the mother character played by Cher does allude to turning tricks for money (such as going in for an interview and offered the job plus "bonus" money, she accepted the offer but turned down the job.

Apparently, someone that knew the real "Rocky" (Roy Lee "Rocky" Dennis) explains his mother:


"I knew Rocky quite well and the movie is pure fiction in regards to the portrayal of his mother. She was a prostitute who, while Rocky and I we were in the hospital, was busted for turning tricks in Rocky's hospital bed, stealing drugs, needles, selling drugs, and stealing other patient's personal belongings. The hospital, being charitable, decided not to have her arrested; she was placed on a "guarded list" which meant that in order to see Rocky she had to be escorted by a guard who never let her out of his sight until she was escorted to the parking lot. The movie makes her out to be a concerned mother who was a saint. That is pure rubbish. She was such a "good" mother that the county considered putting Rocky in foster care. She would disappear for weeks at a time and Rocky would have to fend for himself living off the goodness of neighbours who fed him. He was a brilliant young man. He was a biker-kid, so pretty rough around the edges, but he was fun to be around and he was absolutely brilliant."



Rocky Dennis: Teaching the Boy Behind the Mask
https://patch.com/california/glendora/r ... d-the-mask


The article behind the paywall says the mother would eventually die at age 70 from a motorcycle accident:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm ... story.html

[Catoptric]

Blackfish 2013 documentary about killer whales was removed, so I'll replace it with:



Monotropism (paying stronger attention to what is paid attention to, compared to "neurotypicals.")

[Catoptric]

Superconducting Super Collider In Waxahachie, Texas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercond ... r_Collider

The USA's Super Collider Lies Abandoned in the Texas Desert (it's really not a desert. . . though perhaps if it stretches 14 miles, some portions might seem arid.)
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/curious ... estigates/


I'm seeing a lot of different references to the cost of the project (I believe one saying $21 billion is referencing if the project was completed) with $400 million ($2 billion adjusting for inflation) to be the general sum, with $10 billion being another number that pops up.

"When canceled, about 20 percent of the SSC was complete—specifically, two dozen kilometers of tunnel had been drilled with 17 access shafts, and 18,600 square meters of buildings erected. Over $2 billion had already been spent, mostly by the DoE, but also $400 million by the state of Texas."




Note: This area certainly is not a desert, though it was being referred to as Desertron (such as this 3 part documentary.)




More info:


You can find a lot of odd comments in some of the videos about people that have been around the area and asking about it (suggesting that some parts of it might not be completely abandoned afterall, though I suspect it's BS.)

The thing is, it is owned by the department of energy and the drill machinery is still down there, so any number of things could be going on with parts of the tunnel system. Perhaps the tunnels could be used for storage of waste materials, for example, which might explain why someone claims he started feeling sick and hasn't been the same since (though I'm suspecting they could be psychosomatic.)

The tunnels likely sit empty in the event they ever would return to using them (since it would still be 3 times larger than CERN, and has potential advantages if purposed) and using them for something that is just plain stupid would be pointless. Why they decided to leave the drill when it could have (presumably) been easy to remove it, seems rather unusual, as it would have been far easier after the tunnel holes were connected, and it had nothing to drill through (and would be far easier to remove than to just leave it abandoned, or am I mistaken?)


What happened to the Superconducting Super Collider site near Waxahachie? Curious Texas investigates
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/curious ... estigates/


When this plant burned up it moved to the abandoned location of the superconducter, adjacent to a Univar plant:
326 N Grand Ave
Waxahachie, TX 75165


The new location would just be one of many buildings connected to the project.

[Catoptric]

For awhile, I was thinking this guy was just manipulating people for business, since a lot of it seems strangely gimmicky, though certain aspects of it seems possibly convincing.


If you try and search for the Atchison DEMON House, you won't find the building show up in the search engine (it will show a Sallie House, which is not what this is; shown at 50:30 in video. https://youtu.be/yy7IehvXBZk?t=3032 ) And he doesn't bother linking the house in the video (which kind of pisses me off, since I want to look into it.) I was thinking he might be Steve Huff since he looks similar which would explain the possible grifter part, though he's a different Steve. I suspect the flooding in the basement might have been an attempt at an insurance scam, and I can't see why they didn't ask whether Police ever did forensic investigation of the bodies in the basement that he seems to be aware of? A bit too loose with the scare tactics as well, but I still have some reservations that their might be some genuine phenomenon they are describing (though why the heck isn't his partner showing up to be interviewed, and yet he's interacting while they are live broadcasting; where the fuck is he?

This is the house:
1322 Maple St, Atchison, KS 66002

https://www.1322maplehouseofthedead.com/

Many aspects seem a bit sketchy, though interesting. The sketchy part is the likelihood he was creating suggestibility through noise and possibly manipulation through his "business partner," and the fact he didn't have any Detective forensics work in his basement is another thing to ponder. He seems to have told people he was a member of the Cities' Chamber of Commerce, which someone should verify if true (as it seems highly unlikely.) If the pile of headstones and bones was in the rubble in the basement, it's possible that when the groundskeeper was digging for new graves, he ended up unburying old ones; though why place such things in the basement?

Still interesting though, and yet a lot of it is supposition, and I'm wondering if he was doing an insurance scam with a flood (which will happen if the house isn't lived in and kept at certain temperatures, as tends to happen with abandoned homes.)




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"Purple Church" Oklahoma (which is usually terrifying enough as it is.)
https://z94.com/this-oklahoma-church-is ... pure-evil/

Some kind of ritual sacrifice shit heads, killing animals and leaving them.


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Bogdanoff brothers



(Budd Hopkins book, 'Intruders - The Incredible Visitations at Copley Woods' circa 1983 story)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104523/

[Catoptric]

Probably crazy though there are more instances of stuff like this (and I suggest reading the commentary as it seems to corroborate what she says.)



A commentary that doesn't particularly speak out against segregation in the movie (though that was the actual reflection on a time and era that still seems to persist emotionally) starring William Shatner before he started in TV series.





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Hunter X Hunter (2011) by Yoshihiro Togashi
https://archive.org/details/hunter2011
https://subdl.com/subtitle/sd1300068/hu ... rst-season


Other stuff

[Catoptric]

The third video is the old Jason and the Argonauts movie from 1963 (which isn't bad to watch alongside One Million Years BC as a junk food.) The first two are Parts 1 and 2 of the 2000 remake/retelling of it, though I suspect the original movie is more authentic towards the "look" and uncanniness that inspired the original legends, such as statues seeming to come to life because they looked so realistic (though maybe not "realistic," it's at least better than cgi adaptation. At least they didn't resort to using lizards or wild boars as giant dinosaurs for special effects.)



I didn't even know this existed:

Super Mario Bros. - The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach (1986)


Subtitles are in one of the folders (the MKV files are an absurd 50+ Gig files, and the various versions are not very clearly detailed.)


Ancient stuff
https://www.facebook.com/reel/223342740 ... tid=9drbnH

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I have a VHS tape of Dances with Wolves which is supposed to be a 4-hour movie, and it's pretty clear it was cut in half.


https://indigenousfilmarchive.com/All-Films



I plan to offload the vhs tapes I have though just wanted to ensure I had a copy available. Currently, I'm looking at some of the Final Fantasy movies, and the quality is noticeably lacking (and to think that Square ventured into the path of no return with Spirits Within is fairly evident.)

[Yesterday]

The Norwegian TV series Thor. In one particular scene friends are at a local diner enjoying some chips. Like literally the crinkle cut French fries are the centerpiece of the scene. These high schoolers just keep reaching in over and over and over for these small segments of crinkle cut fries and grinning. Then there's a black kid speaking Scandinavian gibberish - he loves 'em. Thor gets up and leaves because he's gotta grapple with the new powers ya know. But those fries, "GIMME one more, my name's Thor!" It all gave me a feeling that Norway just discovered fries. So I've been repeatedly buying bags of pedestrian looking crinkle cut fries in attempts to replicate how delicious they looked and probably tasted to 'em. No sauces for dipping. *Slaps hand* They don't do it like that in Norway! One at a time and ya gotta grin a lot.

Reminds of how US commercials tried to convey how scrumptious a Snickers bar is with pretentious over chewing. Remember Wrigleys gum how an actor would slowly fold the stick of gum and sensually chew it? What about those iconic dinner table scenes on any TV show where utensils keep scraping and tapping plates, bowls, and teeth huh? Or any medieval feast with juicy massive roasted turkey legs just devoured from King to peasant. The grog or mede guzzling? "Argh, libations fer all!!!"



P.S. I don't actually drink alcohol or promote actively damaging brain cells.

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Interviews with Michael J. Pollard and Joe Cobb. Kind of a slow or autistic vibe about them. Cobb, from the Little Rascals, lived a pretty long life but wasn't interviewed much. I researched Pollard a couple of years ago after seeing him in The Andy Griffith Show. He seemed slow in the episode. Looks and everything. They're both gone now.

[Catoptric]

The French Connection (William Friedkin, 1971) Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Sonny Grosso, Eddie Egan


Chrome incognito mode bypasses ads (at least when using Ghostery) and so does posting here and playing from the website. . .




16:00 It has never been easier to claim you are Napoleon, or an alien, or even turn into a werewolf.




I don't know where my vhs copy of this went (2010: The Year we Make Contact; sequel to 2001)

[Catoptric]

Full: https://www.cineserie.com/movies/30248/video/1151912/
subs (might be off of framerate) https://subdl.com/subtitle/sd17253/scre ... nn/english






I found it interesting that this documentary about AIDS came directly after that last video.






"Side hustle" occasionally means an actual hustle. . .

Alpha Kings: Gen Z and the World of Financial Domination
https://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/t ... domination


Just as I assumed such bullshit behavior was just dumb men paying exploitative women/girls you find that the human species can be equally stupid and depraved.


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Squid Fleet: The Brutal Lives of China’s Industrial Fishermen

https://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/t ... -fishermen

Reading
What Really Started the Great Chicago Fire?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023 ... MNYR012019