Idea Fix - The Blog

I am fond of conspiracy theories but I do acknowledge they can’t all be true. The 911 conspiracy theory while it seems grandiose is one of the more compelling theories in recent years. I shall examine here in coming weeks some major questions that need answering.

The first is building 7. Few people who know the event know about Building 7’s collapse. It was not hit by a plane and it collapsed in on itself after no more than a half dozen hours after the twin towers concertinaed. The problems this causes are threefold. How did it collapse? If it was a controlled demolition who set it up so fast and why is it not admitted? If time was not available to set up a demolition then it was set up before the 911 events… therefor providing proof of a conspiracy in the 911 events.

I will say that if a conspiracy exists I do not have a problem with it the way most people do. This simply shows the extent of US capitalist fascism (let’s call a spade a spade) hegemony and intention in the 21st century. Another example from history of power exerting itself in a self-justificating way. The mainstream media’s compliance in the official story of Osama Bin Laden is no more surprising than Nazi news papers reporting the Reichstag fire as an act of a Dutch/Jewish terrorist Marinus Van Der Lubbe .

Apropos, I am neither for or against the events of 911. I am simply fascinated by the act as a political sign post in the coming world revolution that exhibits strong traits of fascist political theory. 911 after all is a purely political act. Who caused it is only window dressing…the ramifications are obvious in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon and the future conflict expected in Iran, Pakistan and Syria. These wars are the real significance and importance of the event Sept 11.

I will attach two clips on the 911 building seven conspiracy, one which focuses on Larry Silverstein’s (the 911 owner’s) faux pas when he refers to the ‘pulling’ (i.e.controlled demoloition) of building 7 made by the slightly hysteric conspiracy crusader Alex Jones. The second shows the BBC propaganda department announcing the building 7 collapse before it happens. Building 7 is seen to the right of the reporters head…until the feed suddenly goes dead. Very funny. Godspeed, you Black Emperor!

The new film for The Coen brothers (which I saw in Honolulu at an American Multiplex just before returning to our our wonderful utopia here in Australia) is fucking great. Allow me to say here that I really dug this movie. The Coen brothers doing Cormac McCarthy…all bodes well for a great film and it was.

The two stand out performances are Josh Brolin as Llewelyn Moss and Javier Bardem’s portrayal of Mexican assassin Anton Chigurh. Brolin gives an excellent tough as nails non-metrosexual performance as the local desert hunter turned millionaire when he discovers a nice bag of cash after a bunch of Taco eaters offed themselves in a la grande shootout. Moss soon realizes that the previous owners of the cold hard are after him and grabs his cute as a button wife and gets out of dodge. Moss has one main problem…Anton Chigurgh, drug cartel hitman…now turned renegade and after the $ for himself. In what is surely the best stone cold psycho performance of the year Javier Bardem turns the crazy up to eleven for his mystical, manic and moral hitman. The murder of the cop at the beginning of the movie by Bardiem practically gave me a hard on for its ecstatic portrayal of murder. Bardiem doesn’t stop there armed with a handy slaughter house air gun he dispatches all and sundry who get in his way to the dinero. Along the way Tommy Lee Jones does a nice job as the Old man who this country is no longer for. Also a good supporting turn by Woody Harrelson makes you miss him being in films like Natural Born Killers.

The Coen brothers give us a film as cold as the steel air gun of Anton Chigurgh. They are a funny pair those two. Inconsistent and eclectic in some films… they always seem to excel though in crime and noir genres. Blood Simple, Millers Crossing and their masterpiece Fargo are testimony that they should do only this type material. They are schmucks if they give us any more Hudsucker Proxies or Intolreable Cruetlies or Lady Killers, etc. Light comedy and fluff is not for them.

The film also displays the Soprano’s style ending technique in a few crucial scenes that is infuriating but apparently just like the book…so we’ll let them get away with it.

But I will say this. When Lleweln Moss is given an ultimatum by Chigurgh he threatens him back in a tasty manner and I would have loved to see this Mexican tomali dispatched by el Gringo Brolin in a suitably poetic manner. But it is not to be and Bardiem’s character is the films perverse anti hero… who we are rooting for to get away with murder after a pointless accident nearly kills him. All this after he pays a visit on Moss’s wife to extract a debt that is owed in a great scene.

All in all one of the best crime, thriller, westerns in a long while. See it hombres!

The magic words “Boyd Rice Presents” are always good enough reason to buy a CD. But Boyd’s latest presentation I had not seen in any stores in Melbourne and I had not got around to ordering it online yet. But this week providence placed one before my mits and five minutes later it was spinning in my car as I tear around the city. What can I say. Fucking classic. With songs like “You give me Hard On”, “Too many People”, ‘The Blackness”, “Doomed”, “I don’t know what to do” and “Fuck it” this CD achieved high rotation on my Cd players. Many other great tracks…it truly is a best of the best. Highly recommended… funny, profound, disturbing, controversial, confronting and just plain fun. Everything good art should be. Find out for yourself!

His website is:

www.littlefyodor.com/

Is a sacred Tibetan mountain holy to four major religions Hiduism, Bubbhism, Janism and the Bon faith. In the Hindu religion it is considered the home of Lord Shiva. It is featured in the Werner Herzog documentary The Wheel of Time (well worthing seeing, out locally) and documents amongst other things the pilgrims who travel around the mountain in reverence. Some make the journey laying down on their belly’s and then standing up moving forward to their head and then laying down again. Only the most devoted acolytes do this obviously. Kailash is in a remote part of Tibet that takes numerous days to get to along dangerous paths and you need to pack your own supplies. It has been considered off limits to mountain climbers and is one of the few peaks in the world where man’s fetid foot print has not stepped. It is was also featured on the cover the excellent Throbbing Gristle CD “Part 2: The Endless Not”.

There is something interesting about this mountain to me.

In what can only be described as an act of a legend… a Corey ‘Delaney’ Worthington held a wild party in his Narre Warren home, while his parents were in Qld, caused a riot, got local and worldwide press, then got job offers to be a promoter and is now arrested. This unassuming teenage party animal is remorseless and so he should be. Fuck the bourgeoise parents and police… this looked like one hell of a fucking party. If more young people stood up and fought off the shackles of parental authority we might actaully be able to begin to break down this fucked up capitalist dystopia… which lets face it… is synomous with a living death compared with the Dionysian potentials possible. Fight Authority. Keep those yellow sun glasses on, man…they are cool. Party hard Corey Delaney! I and my film festival MUFF salute you!

Attached is a video interview on ACA. Look at the moral chastening attitude of the interviewer…sickening. Corey, you tell ‘em:

A new Hollywood monster flick is about to hit and after the disaster of I am Legend… I hold out little hope. But the trailer is interesting, so is the idea of telling the tale from an embedded camera among a small group of people caught up in the attack from the monster (a kind of John Wyndham ‘Kraken’ style sea monster I believe). Of course it could suck. That JJ Abrams fellow is involved and anyone who remembers Mission Impossible 3 will be duly and rightfully concerned, he’s also behind that annoying show Lost (that I haven’t actually watched I admit…it just seems stupid from snippets and ads I have seen). But the trailer for Cloverfield looks cool.

A friend sent me this link:

https://www.military-genealogy.com/nameShow?war=1&sid=86953

Apparently a Richard Wolstencroft died in WW1. Maybe that’s why I’m fascinated by the 1920’s… making up for what my name sake missed out on. If anyone has any info on this Richard Wolstencroft let me know. I’d love to do a WW1 movie someday, hasn’t been too many good ones since Paths of Glory . The Great War…they didn’t call it that for nothing.

Here’s a cool track and rare video for one of my fav 80’s bands Talk Talk. The singer is Mark Hollis, he has a cool solo album but hasn’t recorded anything new in close to ten years. Such a shame.

Cool new book about Heidegger’s Hut at Todtnauberg by Anthony Sharr. Heidegger wrote Being and Time and many other major works here. Full of interesting pictures of the hut and the famous well… as well as maps and designs for the Hut’s layout itself. A must for Heidegger groupie’s like myself. I will have to tell you about my failed mission to Todtnauberg in the German winter of 2004 sometime. Basically, the hut was too far away from the town for me to walk in winter. I considered it by luckily Kristen talked me out of it. But I did see the ski village, hills and valleys close by to get a feel for their Being.

Here is a link to description of the book at MIT:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10948

I like spanking scenes in movies. I will post some highlights from the history of cinema. No. 1. The King of course…Elvis and Jenny Maxwell go at it in a scene from Blue Hawaii (1961). Enjoy!