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Kramer Tries Mousse | The Apartment | Seinfeld

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I had this video on my playlist and when I eventually got around to playing it, realized it had been moved to private.

Upon further looking into it, it seems this guy covered the channel (which he gets to around 3 minutes in) and I'm guessing either the account was hacked, since the channel of Clark Elieson ( https://www.youtube.com/@ClarkElieson ) which links from the profile image in Google Image search matching what he shows in this video, is now promoting XRP (Ripple Crapto coin/con.) He might have just gotten a lot of negative attention from this video (which might have been the first time many idiots heard of antinatalism) and just said, "fuck it;" however, too much of what his channel indicates is a possible hacked account with unscrupulous sociopaths that lure people into buying shit tokens (which won't solve their toilet paper hoarding or binging on cancer-inducing shitty survivalist food for when their panic sets in once society does away with itself.)



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Francis Copolla Movie that came out recently (first impression: makes me think of Cloud Atlas or Blade Runner 2049, wich a hypothetical: If the Roman Empire never really collapsed, and continued unabated, )







Something interesting. . .

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2579836/?ref_=nmbio_mbio







How have I not ever heard of this comedy series?

Almost Live! (circa 1984-1999)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0149413/

Impeachment Hearings [S15E11]




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(I found a DVD of the first one in the trash.)

William Tyndale movie from 1986, 'God's Outlaw'


The Director was following up from a 1983, John Wycliffe movie.


This is a "remake" (more of an odd Youtube video with reinactments of the film) of that movie


Though miniseries like Wolf Hall cover William Tyndale, I've never been fully satisfied in the way it's depicted. The actor chosen for the above looks very much like a badly cast 1980s actor who may well resemble some aspects, but is no where the same as the historical person, nor does he seem to attempt to be. The way it's presented is more appropriate for those already familiar with the context of what is taking place in the film development (which kind of makes it a bad film, if judging it by the criteria of how you present an essay, assuming a person is being introduced to the subject for the very first time; though I would be wrong to say it doesn't make it obvious.)

Aside from the obvious "heritic," "blasphemer" the historical context is at odds with what was happening in England and abroad, and where the various language adaptions were already taking place, and how such people were really just thorns in the side of the antiquated Roman Catholic establishment, which would quickly be fucked over by Henry VIII who equally wanted people like William Tyndale to be prevented from having any influence (and hence one sees some correlations to how the earliest 'Christian' church was beginning to manifest, to where the Roman authorities would eventually just "adopt" it and call it their own. . . as most all of William Tyndale and John Wycliffe's work would be plagiarized with varying degrees of redactions and "reinterpretations" which more closely aligned with the established government. Things like the Geneva Bible were really just continued trends from the 1500s that became rooted in the early New World colonies, but were considered somewhat "bad versions" over time due to how some of the translations were considered inaccurate (and even with modern versions, arguably the "localization" of the text is the only way you could even contextualize it, as even historical interpretation would have differed greatly from modern context.)


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Montauk Chronicles 2015 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1661066/


https://www.youtube.com/@TheEsotericaChannel







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Juliette Lewis is so similar to Liv Tyler that I easily confuse them. This movie is also similar enough to Kalifornia as to be easily mixed up, since Lewis and Pitt are both leading characters in a love/crime duo. Likewise, Lewis also kind of continues from this film in Natural Born Killers where the stepdad in this film is replaced with Rodney Dangerfield's character and brags about "breaking her in."


Liv Tyler tends to play less the bad upbringing and turns to crime casting, and more of the seemingly slow but more innocent minded characters, and perhaps a bit smarter roles as well (such as in Lord of the Rings, where she learned "Elvish." They have a similar rural delivery and less of a dynamic from such roles.

Strangely not many seem to mention the similarities, so it might just be how I associate their roles.


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The Law Of Ueki - Shonen (intended for young boys though that might be most anime) manga series
review: https://dreager1.com/2021/05/02/the-law-of-ueki-review/
All episodes https://archive.org/details/exiled-dest ... -b-6-ad-17

Another with a similar rating is Ghost Stories from 2000, which I overlooked.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285368/
https://archive.org/details/17.-ghost-s ... 10bit-hevc

Other anime I might need to check up on
https://archive.org/details/anime-stuff-three_202111

I'm actually looking at more DVDs, and have the first season of the original Kung Fu series (and initially I was forgetting that what I saw on TV was Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, which has a very different approach, and seemed to contradict what would evidently have been a turn of the 20th century old west with horses, if going by the chronology of 'The Legend Continues' unless I'm missing the context of just who the story continues from.)

1972-1975 series https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068093/
1993-1997 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103460/

David Carradine's father also had a similar role to the Kung Fu counterpart and was playing an Asian immigrant in the wild west show Gunsmoke. John Carradine was in some of the more famous movies (at least what I would consider as serious acting roles, since Kill Bill seems like more of a joke.)

One of the discs made me decide to watch Samurai Champloo
https://archive.org/details/samurai-cha ... 1-lm-ber-t

Karas: The Prophecy (2005) miniseries was also pretty interesting (though it seems overlooked or disregarded, even though it had a decent enough premise--if not misguided by the story-telling if not paying attention--and was great to see?)

I didn't know Maison Ikkoku was anything other than an interactive video game (apart from a Japanese only NES game, it also seemed to show up on Japanese PC game ports (or maybe it was just the PC Engine aka Turbographx-16
https://archive.org/details/@fumeicom

Direct link: https://archive.org/details/maison-ikkoku-vhs-batch

One of the series is Honey Honey which would be easier to watch on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?app=de ... _ePt6d-02Q




I am reluctantly watching Sopranos as well (because I found the characters annoying when it was released and found no interest in it; same with Breaking Bad, which I don't regret watching though if I had to watch it again, that would be a hell no.)


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Joker: Folie a Deux

Thumbs down.

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Top 10 Reasons Why Germany’s Weimar Republic Was a Party-Lovers Paradise

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A video titled 'Together with you (He Ni Zai Yi Qi)' by Chen Kaige on a Video CD (which I assumed might have been a soundtrack since it was found with a lot of music CDs) was found in a recent dumpster excursion, and it brought me back to the topic of another film he made

Together with you (Chen Kaige, 2002)


Judging by the thumbnail. . . I see where they're going with this. . .

Farewell My Concubine (Chen Kaige, 1992)


I recall when this was mentioned during its release though didn't know much about it, and it never really had the chance to be seen in any theaters to my knowledge (in fact the Director makes practically no money on any of his films, according to Rotten Tomatoes, but also China not until the last 2 decades started to dramatically increase the number of theaters people could attend, which tends to favor a lot of the Hollywood crap that's been released in recent years.)

A recent 4k release was just made (for some reason I was still thinking 4k UHD was a continuation of HD DVD, but it's still Blu Ray

And then again, people are mentioning that their LG 4K player won't even play it. I've noticed something weird where some region codes that aren't even set for some players, will still play on others.

https://www.amazon.com/Farewell-Concubi ... merReviews

Either way, it is one of the more interesting films, and I have no idea what it's really about.

I sort of forgot that the film was banned in China for being a bit gay.


https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/farewell_my_concubine

I'll keep an eye out for some online content for it, though I might just get a Blu Ray since it's currently being sold for half off (though still a regular price of $20 as far as I'm concerned.)

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My Cousin Vinny (Jonathan Lynn, 1992)


Last Starfighter (Nick Castle, 1984)


A prototype of a game based on what was featured in the movie was made (the first to incorporate a Motorola 68000 processor) but was never released (the culmination of the 'video game crash' that year, etc.) and it seems like whatever was built of the prototypes were destroyed (or at least the movie prop was.)

A seemingly authentic video game was made by fans:


And a download page from 2006 that I'm thinking might be safe, but Chrome isn't exactly liking it.
http://www.roguesynapse.com/games/last_starfighter.php






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I started to watch the early 2000s X-Men movies (and having little more than vague knowledge apart from the cartoon series, am glad to have watched The Last Stand which was kind of a prequel to the 2000 movie; though it does also culminate in the end of Professor X and carries over from the academy.) About the only one I saw in theaters was Wolverine, and I pretty much ignored the rest.

X-Men Animated series


Not to be confused with X-Men (2011) cartoon
https://archive.org/details/x-men-marve ... ai-upscale


Some of the X Men movie seems familiar because it reprises some of what happens in the cartoon and comics. Also, Anna Paquin kind of sucks at acting.

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I'm actually watching the Patton (George C Scott, 1970) movie, but this also covers the topic I was looking into; about General Patton's delusional claims of being reincarnated from numerous battles, including prehistoric encounters with mega fauna.

His various claims
https://www.quora.com/Who-did-Patton-th ... nated-from






Also, a Winston Churchill film I nearly forgot about from 2002.




And a really crazy cold-case about the founder, Larry Hillblom, of DHL, where it's suspected he was going into hiding (after being involved in a crash of his plane with his executive team.) It seems far more likely that the Executors of the will were scrubbing his home of DNA evidence given his absence from his 'Will,' specifying, what should happen with the bastard children from all the underage prostitutes he knocked up? His body being lost at sea was probably something they did recover (though were paid off from acknowledging it immediately, when the aircraft flyover spotted something bobbing in the ocean) but secretly buried it outside of official reports? An annual payout from the money would easily brush aside any disagreement to the matter when hush money is involved, and those who were placed in charge of the estate could parasitically take advantage of the larger amount given to them annually? That or Larry Hillblom was having the money redirected into an annual payout that ultimately went to him in hiding while giving the option for those bastard children (as it's revealed near the end he was actually involved as a Judge that passed laws for children born out of wedlock to claim inheritance upon proven biological relation to someone's household after their death?) I think he simply didn't want to have to acknowledge them officially, and perhaps his having an earlier aircraft incident made him aware of his own mortality and having a "coming to Jesus meeting" with eventuality?


It seems less likely he would be psychopathic enough to want to fall out of a plane so far from the mainland at the risk of dying unless someone else could get him safely onto a boat, so the thought that he would have died is far more likely, and perhaps had his body eaten by sharks, etc.



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New Orleans Six Flags Wrecked by Hurricane Katrina is Finally Getting Demolished

https://www.vice.com/en/article/new-orl ... emolished/







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Mountains of the Moon (Rob Rafelson, 1990) based on Richard Francis Burton

https://m.ok.ru/video/2013914401491

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Francis_Burton


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Chongqing, China

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12 Monkeys (TV Series) 2015-2018











Tibetan Book of the Dead






Project 25 cult BS
https://static.project2025.org/2025_Man ... p_FULL.pdf








Good insight on Trump and his followers.