this week [by week i mean whats gone by of this week and last week also] i have been mostly

watching Clerks, like Richard Linklaters i don't know how to spell his last name] Slacker inspired Kevin Smith, Kevin Smith has inspired me to do what? i'm not sure make a movie i suppose but i think i'd have to do it on somewhat less than twenty eight thousand dollars[!!!??!!?!?!] i have some ideas, well alright i have one idea, bassically make a movie about making a movie where the story is told through a series of auditions seen through the eyes of the directer and through this you would see the plot of the movie developing and allso see who gets what parts and allthough there would be only one camera and you would only ever see the audition room you would allso see the story of the peoples personal lifes building up through little comments that the people make durring the auditions like say for instance explaining why they were late and you would also see the story of those making the movie unfolding in a similar manner so the film would in effect be telling four story lines at the same time. most of it would be unscripted only the major plot points and the a basic film script for them to read from would be written before hand.
all ideas
Copywrite Phillip R Goodman [sept 2006]
Curse all who attempt to steal [sept 2006]

OK thats my pitch [maybe that should have been the title, it certainly would have been shorter why do i have such long titles? whats the attraction?]

the american media gluts itself on 'pedophile thriller porn'.

The coverage of the ramsey case kinda ammounts to 'pedophile thriller porn' and the american media clearly loves where as in britain i haven't heard anything about it seamingly for weeks, is this just because the american media were complicit in the hounding of the ramsey family or is it the nature of the american media and indeed america its self that has caused them to latch on to this story and equally is it the nature of the british media and of britain itself that causes them to treat it as a small story or is it something implicit in the case itself the makes it unimportant?

war war the expanded edition.

The war on terrorism, the complete inefficiency in government, all the bumbling of everything from enquirerys to the hurricane katrina relief effort, everything, and I mean everything, that bush does is done in order to bankrupt the government, to drain the beast of its life blood, and when this process is complete, when there is no blood left to drain, when the government has no money left with which to run anything, then shall the vultures sweep in, the corporations from oil moguls to arms dealers. The government will slowly but surely be auctioned off. It will start out with the public amenities, then the army, and finally the white house itself and all who remain within it including the presidency. Yes in the end the president and indeed the few people who still vote, will be nothing more than fronts, patsies, and token gestures the only people who will actually have any real voting power will be the stock holders and the more stock you have the more votes you get.
Why will this be allowed to happen? Answer: The average American. The average American does not care, he does not think about politics be they global or local “that’s what the politicians are there for numb nuts”, the average American does not vote, in fact considering these other facts I would not trust the average American to vote. Bush was allowed to steal an election not through lack of information but because the average American could not be bothered to get of its humungas collective beeeehiiind and do something about it.
Why is this? [I now move from ranting into a more world-weary style feeling now to be completely destroyed] why this power? They are not politicians they are not intellectuals they are not moguls but they are the majority they have power in numbers and security and it is that security that it is the reason for their incredible apathy they feel I think collectively invincible whatever troubles they have in their everyday lives the greater world of politics never touches them so they don’t care about it they don’t care about anything that doesn’t touch them they won’t care all that much about a earthquake or civil war in some far off and unknown region until they feel it at the gas station you see it all the time on the news “how long before we feel it at the pumps”. The public gets the president it deserves, in the case of George W Bush and in the case of all those that will come after him, the president is manufactured. He is manufactured to be as close to the average American as is possible. He may be an ex-oil mogul but not a very good one and he certainly ain’t no intellectual and he’s a terrible politician, that’s what people like about him they expect nothing of him and that’s exactly what he gives them nothing and a whole load of crap, and with a president like that in charge one can’t help but wonder if the united states of America would be better of as the united corporate states of America but considering that Bush’s buddies in Halliburton are likely to be running much of the show I suspect that, that is not going to be the case.

Günter Grass

perhaps one of Germanys greatest living authors, has recently admitted that in the closing stages of the second world war [at the age of seventeen] he had been recruited into the Waffen SS. One would imagine that in a country so traumatised by its recent history such an admission, especially coming from such a high profile figure and one who is so vehemently anti nazi, would be seen as an act of bravery but no, he has been roundly and venomously attacked by politicians, by his contemporaries, by just about everyone. I find it to be further more disgusting proof of Germanys [almost] complete inability to move on from the past, a past they cling to in such a manner that it causes them to persecute anyone who questions them in this regard and to villainies individuals such as Günter Grass who like most of the country of the time were caught up in it. The fact of the matter is that the man cannot change his past only his future and his present, should he have previously been so reticent about his war time activities, no of course not but had he come out earlier he would simply have been crucified earlier.

war war

this [the war in Iraq and just about everything else he does] is all part of bush's grand plan to bankrupt the goverment so that it won't have any money to run anything and will thus have to farm things out to the private sector eventially a consortium of bankers, arms dealers and oil moguls will be running the show and when that happens the president and indeed the few people who still vote will be mere patsys, fronts, puppets and tokens only the shareholders will get to really vote. Not that that will bother the average american as the average american doesn't vote in fact i wouldn't trust the average american to vote, W is in power because the average american doesn't care enough to get off their great collective beeehiiinds, so maybe americas new corporate overlords will acttually run the country better, but then seeing as its likely to be haliburton running the things, probably theres no hope of that.

Go to

http://www.healthvsmedicine.blogspot.com/
I found this while it was on 'blogs of note', now it isn't so i thought that i'd post it here, suffice it to say it kicks arse.

ceasefire?

Israel has once again wrong footed itself as it has been doing since the very begining of this war, the ceasefire may not be over, after all Hizbolah hasn't completely restocked its arms yet, but Israel has certainly broken it. When the ceasefire began Hizbolah said that it would be made invalid if Israeli troops were to remain in the country and thus they would be fired on, Israeli troops have indeed remained in the country and yet Hizbolah has failed to make good on its promise and as it turns israel has been the first to brake the ceasefire by attacking Hizbolah killing three Hizbolah fighters and losing one of its own, they claimed that they were dissrupting arms coming in from Syria and Iran noble aims perhaps but this entire opperation makes Hizbolah look like the 'big man' and Israel........... well it doesn't make them look very good atall. They have as i said once again completely wrong footed themselves this entire war which Israel launched not simply against Hizbolah but against the entire Lebonease nation has made Hizbolah who were previously dispised by much of the Lebonease people and there goverment look like heroes.
And so what is the international comunity going to do well......... probably nothing at least not for some time what they need to do is broaker a similar ceasefire in Gaza and then go onto more permanant stabalising action in Lebonon preventing any other war from breaking out, and then back to Israel where they need to enforce 'the road map' but this won't happen the fact of the matter is that conflict in this region seems so much to simply be the status quo that no one cares all that much about it except to the extent that they speak many token words to make themselves look good and the fact of the matter is that if there was no oil there then they probably wouldn't even do that.

Legislature freedom and protection.

I find this American aversion to anything even slightly socialist/communist interesting I understand that it is because of the cold war but still it is very stupid especially considering that most western governments have some sort socialist value in their current systems of government.

I see it like this communism means freedom for the government capitalism means freedom for the corporation but democracy means freedom for neither but freedom for everyone and this in a way is the problem as it means that large organizations such as drug companys get more power than they should have as there is a feeling that one cannot bring forth any legislation that would impinge on the freedom of those corporations completely disregarding our freedom [this has been tested in the courts] which ends up with situation like the one we are in now whereby we can't get proper drug legislation to protect the people and anyone who tries to do so is practically decried as a communist in much the same way as someone in a communist country suggesting that the solution to their economic problems might be to have some private enterprise might well be decried as a capitalist.

THIS MUST END.

Just as china has proved that some private enterprise can help to solve the economic problems caused by communism so too must we swallow our pride and use a bit of communism to solve the legislative problems caused by having a capitalist based democracy, ultimately perhaps democracy should be neither capitalist nor communist but a bit of both.

They confuse me.

I used to get confused between Christopher Lee, Christopher Walken and Christopher Loyd.
I don't any more but............
I still get confused betwenn Bill Paxton and Bill Pullman.
Why do they have to have such similar names?
Actors change there names all the time why couldn't they?
It would certainly improve there carreers, not that they nessasarily need improving but its allways good in that game to have a name not easily confused with another actor's.
Help me.
How do you tell the apart?

A number of things i have recently said on the subject of danny wallace.

I've not been up to much recently I have however started reading danny wallace's book 'join me' I'm becoming rather obssesed with him, funny thing happened to me recently I wanted to get that book from the library but it wasn't there so I ordered it, about a week later I received a phone call saying that they had my book in so the next day I went to collect it only to find that they did indeed have the book but it was reserved for someone else so they re-ordered it for me, a week later at exactly the same time recieved the same phone call telling me that my book was in and so the next day I went to collect it only to have the same thing happen, obviously I complained saying that this is the second time this has happened, and just by chance they happened to open the book and have a look at the rest of the reservation slip, it did indeed have someoneelses name on it however it allso had someone elses book on it the slip had some how managed to slip into the wrong book once lifted up it revealed another slip of paper wih my name on it and indeed my book on it, the other slip of paper was for a reservation of 'my first potty'.

I have allready said these things in two e-mails and I am likely to be saying it in a much edited form on the forum of his website, one of the things that has often or indeed just now struck me about danny wallace is that it may well be dangerous to be a freind of his as he may try and rope you into one of his strange skeems and even if this doesn't happen you're likely to end up in one of his books of course that probably appeals to a lot of people which puts Mr wallace in a dillema whereby he is haunted night and day by sycophantic idiots wanting to get in one of his books and thus in there strange little brains become rich, famous, and celebrated and at the other end of the spectrum avoided like the plague by perfectly nice people who he might well love to be freinds with but who have an aversion to any sort of limelight and are put of by the fact that they may end up with an entry in one of his books of course they could refuse him permission to put them in but seeing as they are the nice sort of people that danny wallace would love to have as freinds they probably wouldn't have the heart to do so and thus will probably just avoid him.

such is life.

Evolution versus religion in the minds of the masses.

The problem with evolutionary theory versus religion is that most people don't have the time to read up on this stuff it is after all bloody complex stuff, so because of this they just go with what their leaders are saying on the subject, the problem is, is that they have two sets of leaders scientific and religious, with religion you get an easy to understand explenation for everything, you get morality and you get an afterlife as well wheras with science you get a great if at time harder to understand explenation of everything or allmost everything around you and you get the tools with which you can dicuss this and explore it further but you don't get all the stuff the religion can give you. the fact of the matter is that most people know that the scientific answers are the correct ones but its just that with religion you get more bang for you're buck as people say so most people go with the religious answers if religion offered less than science then people would go with science.
The way to counter this is to show exactly how little religion offers you by which i mean show the things that it doesn't offer you and show how you would be able to come at all of those things via science. You could write a whole book on it, the only problem being that most people won't have the time to read it.

Shoulder to shoulder.

What I don't understand is this, why is it that people keep on insisting that the UK is subordinate to America? Why is it that people have a problem grasping the idea that things in the world that our two countrys are involved in are going according to Tony Blair's plans every bit as much as they are going according to Bush's? It reminds me some what [in a roundabout sort of way] of the argument that there is no god because if there was then he wouldn't allow all of these bad things to happen and no one ever thinks that maybe there is a god and he's just an arsehole, the other argument is that god allows them to happen because of free will but that makes absolutely no sense when applyed to things such as earthquakes, and so the leaves my 'god is an arsehole argument' as being the only one that covers all situations while still allowing god to exist, interestingly the 'gods an arsehole' argument seems to offend religious folk considerably more than the 'god doesn't exist' one, but i've got rather of the beaten track here so alow me to position myself back on it.........yep there it is .... and now i'll continue. Every available peice of evidence seems to point towards Blair agreeing almost totaly with Bush and vise versa, for instance if one looks back to before the Iraq war to before I think even 9/11 one sees that Blair was actually talking to Bush about the nessesity of a second war against Iraq and the need to unseat Sadam it is entirely possible that Blair was infact one of the first to plant this idea in Bush's empty warhead of a skull. Bush if you recal back to when he was running for president ran on a platform of America looking after its own and not interfering in the world i beleive he even said 'if we leave them alone then they'll leave us alone'. Now considering that Blair was the one who talked Clinton into military intervention in Kosovo and considering that Bush's way of thinking seems to have [post 9/11] come around to Blair's perhaps it would be advisable to think of them at very least as equal allies and quite possibly as unequal allies with Blair on top. The fact that the UK as a whole has not seen the benifits of this relationship is irelevent, might it not be possible that Tony Blair is just a big arsehole who doesn't care about the people of this country only about his own agenda for the world.

Racist State?

There is no Black homeland, there is no Arab homeland, there is no White homeland, why then must there be a Jewish homeland?
France is the homeland of the French but being French is being part of a nationality, not a race why then do the Israelis insist on basing their nationality on there race?
The Jews say Israel is there homeland because of biblical history but biblical history is unproven where as we know that the Palistinians have lived there for two hundred years and we know that Arabs have lived there in large groups for something around a thousand years why can not Israel be their homeland as well.
Why does anyone need a homeland?
If the Jews originally came from the land now called Iraq why is that not their homeland?
If Israel isn't a racist state then why does it insist on above all else protecting the rights of one and only group of its citizens, this is what the BNP preach and National Front allso [keep Britain White] , if they are racists why is not Israel?
If you're family has lived somewhere for two hundred years straight surely they are more diserving of the land than someone who lived there some thousands of years ago?
Does recent history trump ancient history?
Why do only the Jews have a Law of Return?
Should the palistinians allso have a Law of Return?
Should there even be a Law of Return?
If giving certain protections to one groups and refusing them to all others is discrimination, and if the people you give it to are of one race and the people you refuse to give it to are of other races and if the discrimination is based on that racial difference then why isn't it racial discrimination?
and if this is a key law of a country then why is this country not to be seen as a racist state?
My family once lived in Germany should we have a Law of Return?
Should we be given the right to go back there and once more become citizens without any sort of immigration process?
Why should we be treated as if we had never left?
Why should any group of people be treated as if they have never left a country when they have in fact not been in that country for generations, for generations, upon generations in fact?
Would israel support the idea of giving all of America back to the Native Americans?
If that were to happen, and considering that the Jews originally came from Iraq, would the Native Americans support Israel in kind?
Would they give them the same level of support, and sell them the same number of arms, or would they support Israels other native population and do the same for them?

yahoo answers.

through my use of yahoo answers i have been able to work out that faith is a combination of trust and the fear of retribution for not trusting enough and that religion is passed down from generation to generation through a combination of ignorance, lazziness, and brainwashing.
I have allso learnt that there are three different sorts of people on the internet and in particulalar on yahoo answers
1: the supposed liberal, often takes an anti-american stance.
2: the anti-liberal, often is shown to think that anything he or she dissagrees with is being said by a liberal and is nothing but liberal propaganda
3: the joker, doesn't take anything seriously, if anyone takes anything seriously or shows any real passion on a subject he or she will tell them to lighten up and then make the false statement of saying that this is meant to just be fun.
I have allso found out that I am not a combination of all or any of those.

Sigh

Had it not have been for the fact that the next door naibours were having a large tree cut down i would have i susspect have gotten a good nights sleep which would have been my first in many nights unfortunately the next door naibours were having a tree cut down and ground up in a big machine and it made an awfull lot of noise and i couldn't sleep so i didn't i'm very tired

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fun for all the family

another game that i made up.

get one of those extreme sports games like tony hawks pro skater or something like that and go onto the free ride section make sure it doesn't display the time and shows the points for each trick but doesn't allow them to acumalate then make sure you have atleast one other person other than you're self at hand to play with you.

rules:

you have two minutes.
you are not allowed to ask for reminders of how much time you have left.
you must peform atleast 3 tricks.
you get one thousand points for each trick peformed
plus the points for you're final trick.
the final trick peformed is either just before the time runs out or just before you bail.
if you bail before peforming 3 tricks then any points that you would have recieved are added on to you're score as minus points.
if you are peforming a trick and you go over the two minutes then the same thing happens.
the winner is the one with the most points.

play example

you perform 3 tricks after the third you bail, the third trick earns you 5000 points plus 3000 for performing three trick giving you 8000 points in total, then the next player performs twenty tricks gets very close to the two minute mark but stops just before the time runs out, they have run very close to the risk of going over two minutes and incurring a large ammount of minus points but because the pushed it to the edge they were able to get 23000 points and thus beat the first player who loses basically because they played it safe.

Places on the bus

The child:
When you are a child you instantly gravitate toward a position knowledge and power or at the very least a mimicking of power and thus you gravitate towards the the front of the bus on the top deck.

The teenager:
One would imagine that the teenager would be just as interested in these thing, however they seek a place as far away from any authority as they can get in short they seek freedom, and in so doing they gravitate to the back of the bus on the top deck, this being the point of furthest distance from the bus driver seen in this case as the major point of local authority, this can
[I would imagine] be carried over into just about any other place, particularly the classroom.

The adult:
When you are older [late teens early twenties onwards] I observe that you go more for the middle ground and more often that not sit on the bottom deck of the bus. The only reason for this that I have been able to fathom is that as you become older, for the most part atleast you become less tribal [the exception to this being sporting events and the like] either by way of being more individualistic and less insecure therefore being less subceptable to the mob mentality of self labeling, or you become more homogenised more conforming to the mob mentality of the larger group/society and therefore less subceptable to the mob mentality of smaller more insecure groups/societys.

Where I fit in:
Interestingly I'm twentytwo and yet I only fit into the adult group when I'm on journeys that I know will be no more than fifteen or twenty minutes, on longer journeys however I fit into the first group, the child, in that I always try to sit on the top deck of the bus and right at the front, whatsmore I do it for exactly the same reasons that of having a feeling of power and a greater ability to aquire knowledge of the world around you i.e. liking the view. However I have one other reason, if I were to sit at the back of the bus I would have to not only hear everyone else but allso see them and I prefer to just hear them and combat that by wearing earphones and playing loud music.

Overview:

first you seek power and knowledge then independence a sense of freedom and finally conformity and convenience, however all of these can be seen as a greater search for safety and security, firstly the safety of self power, secondly the security of the group and of keeping a distance from other groups, and finally the safety of blending in and not sticking out, and for myself I suppose it is the security similar the teenager of distancing myself, from everything, the safety of not knowing and not dealing.

Giving better than you get.

You allways have to give as good as get otherwise you're just lying there and taking it but really you should allways give better, and this works both ways:
If someone does something nice for you you should return it three fold, ten fold even because friendship should allways be rewarded,
and likewise emnity:
If some one hits you then you have to hit back even harder or else it'll just be an 'eye for an eye' sort or thing, and soon you'll both be blind, but if you hit back really hard early on then you may be able to prevent the fight from continuing and simply escalating further and further.
I suppose what i'm talking about here is 'stopping power' for instance if you use the stopping power of a knife then you'll have to stab the person alot or stab them in the heart or the neck to prevent them from coming back at you, and the chances are that person will end dead from loss of blood. It strikes me that it would be much better to use the stopping power of a gun then all you'd have to do is shoot them in the arm and then keep the gun pointed at them until some sort of help arrives, the point being to straight away escalate the fight right to its end point that way you don't get as badly harmed and and you can keep the harm to you're opponent down to a minimun.