What are you watching?

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https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1004870-crawlspace






Crazy crackers:
https://archive.org/details/@threegracespress
https://archive.org/details/@aklan27
https://archive.org/details/@maddyokky555
https://archive.org/details/@mrreptiles


Reading stageplay-related books (most aren't freely available)
https://archive.org/details/@altheab


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This seems to be the actual video and book creator's archive, who sells the books on Amazon. They list 3 different versions of their books (ranging from 20mb-80mb.)

It's a shame the music clashes badly with the narrative.


More stuff: https://archive.org/details/@threegracespress

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11446297/




Not surprisingly (basically it has that "tone" that you only find on the platform) it's only shown on ("LETS GET READY TO!") Rumble.
https://rumble.com/search/all?q=TECHNOC ... IBULATIONS


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David Foster Wallace And The Horror Of Life (4 gig audio exclusive video)
https://archive.org/details/david-foste ... or-of-life

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I finally found The Goonies (flip through it or click on the icon, as it has two formats of either 6 gig or 600 mb.)









Comics (mostly text-based, though animated ones exist) I should note that these might be flagged as unsafe or are restricted in Windows 11, though load without issue on Kindle.

The Millennium Series by Steig Larrson, Davide Lagercrantz (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
https://archive.org/details/the-millennium-series

The Millennium Series PDFs
By: Stieg Larsson, David Lagercrantz
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005)
The Girl Who Played with Fire (2006)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2007)
The Girl in the Spider's Web (2015)
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (2017)
The Girl Who Lived Twice (2019)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Niels Arden Oplev, 2009 Extended version) Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist


Extended subtitles (might require shift SRT though I found one that matches exactly)
https://subdl.com/subtitle/sd1801/the-g ... ium-part-1



Mostly an audio podcast about clownlike "machine elves" they try to interpret as nephilim
https://www.youtube.com/live/diIod9HFaN ... Bocdeg8Mty



Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan, 2000)



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These are worth saving and appending to subtitles

Los Olvidados The Young and the Damned (Luis Buñuel, 1950) Roberto Cobo
https://subdl.com/subtitle/sd220967/the ... -olvidados



Another Bunuel movie:

El aka This Strange Passion (Luis Bunuel, 1953) (This seems to match up with the official time frame of playback, though it might be altered)

https://subtitlist.com/subtitles/el/english/2123397

In another video I had to shift -30 seconds to match it up (but around the 7 minute mark, another sequence needs to be -4 seconds as well, and then at 9 minutes, it's -9000ms g
https://www.happyscribe.com/v2/8224621/ ... /workspace

I realize now that you can also adjust subtitles in VLC by pressing G to subtract 50 milliseconds or forward it by H (so using G to (-)4000ms seems to align the rest of the movie, though it still get's off even more after that. . .

https://www.gadgets360.com/how-to/featu ... 0press%20H.



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https://fourstarfilmfan.com/2022/02/17/ ... dent-1967/


Stella Stevens played similar roles in the next two films, and like many ancient 1960s-era actors, died this year.


The Ballad of Cable Hogue (Sam Peckinpah, 1970) Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, David Warner, Slim Pickens, Robert Golden Armstrong Jr, and L.Q. Jones aka Justus Ellis McQueen Jr
https://ok.ru/video/2201882855963

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A Boy and His Dog (L.Q. Jones aka Justus Ellis McQueen Jr, 1975 post-apocalyptic film set in 2024) Don Johnson (based on a Harlan Ellison sci fi)


Last year The Director (who also starred in some mini porno movie within the movie according to his title credits) died.

L.Q. Jones, Actor in Sam Peckinpah Classics and Director of ‘A Boy and His Dog,’ Dies at 94
https://variety.com/2022/film/obituarie ... 235312747/


I didn't even realize he was in Ballad of Cable Hogue as well. . . And so was Slim Pickens.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/lq_jones



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Brotherhood of the Wolf (Christophe Gans, 2001)
https://tubitv.com/movies/100011093/bro ... olf-dubbed
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0237534/


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Colossus - The Forbin Project (Joseph Sargent, 1970)

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/coloss ... in_project



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I heard the word penultimate twice within two days, from these two videos:

Just now at 5 min 42 sec:


And pretty sure it was in this video that I watched a day or two ago:

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The Pascagoula, MS UFO flap/spree might have been partly confabulations and bandwagon effect (though he kind of seems to be honest; however, as he's talking about his claim he segues to the more well known report and is clinching his hands and noticeably fidgeting his fingers, as though he might be stretching his claims a little.)

I've seen the kinds of stuff he's talking about though. . . Though he strikes me as a grifter.



He did this documentary (and book)


Another thing he did (though it doesn't show his name as Director)
https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/ ... filter-bar


https://tubitv.com/movies/553682/alien- ... -encounter

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I would prefer to watch this one:




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Colorized black and white films (though I prefer the original, some of these are harder to find.)
https://archive.org/details/@george_fergus

One of the movies is this one




Some western films
https://archive.org/download/tgtbtu-1966_20220131

Including The Good the Bad and the Ugly, the titles were shortened down, though they are:

Pale Rider (Clint Eastwood, 1985) John Russell, Sydney Penny

Joe Kidd (John Sturges, 1972) Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, John Saxon

High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood, 1973) Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Billy Curtis

Cold Mountain (Anthony Minghella, 2003) Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, Renée Zellweger, Natalie Portman, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2010) Paul Dano, Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood

The Revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2015) Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy

The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood, 1976) Sondra Locke


Clint Eastwood is kind of an assshole:

https://www.pajiba.com/celebrities_are_ ... erview.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B59uhJUMxF4
https://youtu.be/vl79tu8Xqlk

He also can be unusually approachable
https://www.quora.com/Have-you-ever-met ... as-he-nice






Update: I just now noticed this

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Not sure how the plane this guy was riding in hit a radar pylon of all things. . .
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/159 ... emil-r_del

One of the RAF mentioned
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cunn ... F_officer)










Around 28 through 29 minutes in, the ghost app they are using seems to have genuine conversation.

https://fb.watch/oMbNMEBCRT/?mibextid=RtaFA8

I need to research the app to see if this is just some random word bank.




*I kind of wrote this without fully rewatching this video (I wanted to think of my opinion prior to watching it more than a minute)*

It's a good video; in a strange way I suspect the drinking of alcohol is something that suppresses the "Shine" ability (which is also referenced in The Shining sequel, Dr. Sleep , which I've only barely watched the movie but could never bother watching it completely) and the apparent ability of Jack to see the same visions Danny was seeing, suggest a trauma-response (ergo, Danny using his finger is a bit like dissociation.) The problem I have with the "Two Different Jacks" hypothesis is that some of the aggression that Jack (presumably while drunk) had towards Danny was pre-existing before Room 237, which also has been hypothesized as possibly contributing to Danny's dissociative behavior. The fact he couldn't obtain alcohol (and only imagined it?) suggests he was instead getting drunk on the very spirits he was trying to suppress (but was in denial of seeing?) and fell prey to the hauntings of the past (reflecting a zeitgeist of the Manifest Destiny towards the Native American's and the aristocracy which flourished on the bones in the process?)

Kubrick tries to build on symbolism and sometimes he would experiment with ideas, and what he would often leave out or allow the viewer to question (but never fully answer) was often intended to become a bit of a puzzle to the viewer. I believe I've seen the hypothesis before and it does suggest a duality of the character simultaneously as though he's in a dream state.

Kubrick is very brilliant in making the story only truly understood when analyzed very closely, and very few Directors are capable of it.

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Another thing to consider is Alex symbolized 666, as the everyman, positioned between his two droogs after undergoing his "treatment" of operant condition to a the hypernormalized culture he had been conditioned to behave as.



And someone mentioned Stanley Kubrick seemed to die exactly 666 days before the year 2001, as though to send a message with his passing (or alternatively, it was the 'Illuminati' sending a message to those who knew how to interpret it?) *wink* *wink*



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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryostasi ... _of_Reason

I was going through old cd rom games (you can't even find this game on Steam and it's barely mentioned online, and it seems to have been rebranded from Cryostasis, adding Slep of Reason to it; though I've not seen an actual game cover that says this in full.)

It seems instead of lowering the ladder to reach the top, I have to reduce the steam from the pipes at the 1hr 30 minute mark. I thought I was almost done with the game and it seems I'm only 1/3rd of the way through. . . I may just watch the video instead.

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Short version
https://fb.watch/oPlG8iz5iz/



Another type of video (about Dreidels)
https://fb.watch/oQqruJ0h2y/



The second one is the Christmas special










Sargon or Moses, or Krishna? (kept stored away in a basket and found down a river, and parting of a sea?)



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Strangely, you could compare Thoreau to the modern youtube grifter.

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THE GLEANERS AND I (Agnes Varda, 2000)


https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/agnes_varda



Shaft (Gordon Parks, 1971) Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn


Richard Roundtree died in October


Because I don't want to watch ads (I could watch from here to avoid it) I would rather just read the article. A disabled son was forced to starve and was given punishment for not obeying absurd commands (his mother was a narcissist who sought to punish and control him.)


Boy was ‘on death’s door’ while mother continued to punish him, prosecutor says
https://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/202 ... -says.html

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Reason number 2,648 why I don't want to interact with people. After reading the Youtube comments, it sounds like De Niro was trying to be funny. The proper response would probably be to laugh. I don't really have a fake laugh and hardly a real one. But I'd have to realize it's a joke, which requires knowing his characters in movies which I don't, and fake laugh or else think of something appropriate to say in response to him taking the stairs. I don't know how I'd handle it.

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Chronopolis (Piotr Kamler, 1982)
https://vimeo.com/507158467

That should be the full version, though a longer video of a viewing in California, claims to have a rescore, though I don't see any reason to watch it over this (if anything the way they recorded the event distracted and didn't add any value.)

Basically, it's a Metropolis-inspired claymation involving an advanced animatronic intelligence that experiments with life involving clay, becoming something of a demigod. I suspect the same video may have inspired a creepy claymation children's movie (mostly the Satan creature) in 1985, called 'The Adventures of Mark Twain.' I sort of prefer this animation, though for different reasons. I can see the animation directly influencing some of the video games that were being made in the 1990s as well as the more modern indie games like Machinarium. The way FMV sequences became incorporated into gaming seems to parallel the animation technique used in the movie.


This is a new one I've not seen.

Our Lady of the Sphere (1968) - Larry Jordan - Experimental Film


It's kind of similar to
Glass Harmonica (1968 Russian Animation) by Andrei Khrjanovsky



and reminds me of
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962) by Karel Zeman


It seems the retro inspired silent-film style stopped being made after that point.

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Teorema (1968) - dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini


I had to subtract 27 seconds on an SRT to get it to match.


Jeff Bezos sounds like his voice is changing with all the steroids.




A documentary/mockumentary about the tourist trap of Niagara Falls.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101853/

I was looking for a Peter Greenaway movie from 1980, which is a dark comedy sci-fi involving birds and how people are somehow obsessed with them enough to try to make non-flying animals fly, including themselves. It kind of reminds me of the eccentricity of A Boy and His Dog (L.Q. Jones aka Justus Ellis McQueen Jr, 1975 post-apocalyptic film set in 2024) based on a Harlan Ellison sci-fi, which often incorporates the manic society you might expect following catastrophe and society kind of having to figure itself out.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080715/

There's also some gay Mormon movie from 2012 with the same title. . . It gets pretty confusing.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2306783/