Their 2023 album is damn good. Rediscovering these dudes with Spotify and Youtube… they are hilarious and seriously rockin'. One guy retired since the last album apparently, the bald mustache guy.
Their antics on KEXP midway throuh are great… youtube 2024. If I was a live music type, they look like a lot of entertainment in person.
Fan of Rigor Mortis Radio song especially.
Bunch of good youtube vids with details
Metallica, no remorse
Pantera, rise
Pantra, mouth of war
Pantera , regular ppl deceit
Metallica, master puppets
Ac dc, big gun
Slayer ehins the crooked cross
Pantera, mouth for war
Slauer, south of heaven
Pantera, this love
S.o.d,
Megadeth hanger 18
Atheist, samba briza
Stp, sex type thing
Black sabbath, after all the dead
Pantera, this love (pantera siad The Melvins changed it for them, new sound, then they all did their thing)
Alice in chains, them bones
Alice in chains, angry chair
Dune 1984 spacing guild walking ppl bald in black leather
***Careful, two spoilers below for Dark City, The Matric, Inception - maybe more***
Order of movies below in bold and italics... each influenced by the ones before it, right?
Hellraiser Cenobites first eh ? The little kid in Dark City same as the little kid turned Chatterer Cenobite… same mouth teeth chattering. I think it was very intentional. "Hellraiser: Hellbound indicates that Chatterer opened the box while still a young boy." via wikipedia.
That French movie was before dark city. City of Lost Children, 1995. Looking at it now, not a ton of darkly dressed folks but there is one part. The dark ambience and drabness and maybe other elements influenced Dark City I think.
Dark City
The Matrix… alternate realities. Jumping rooftops . “All the memories you need r in this syringe “… inject into head, just like "I know Kung Fu" training injected.
Inception. The transforming city scenes. The dreamworld. The ending with the weird post-apocalyptic beach thing.
More below...
Harry Potter doors appear in walls? In DarkCity, Tuning (T-CHUning with the Brit accent) is used to create doors in walls several times. Reminds me of the run through the door in the train area of Harry Potter.
Saw, jigsaw’s swirl symbol? In dark city, first murder lady had those marks. Cop says “got a jigsaw puzzle here” in drkcty. Saw came out in 2004. Yeah, I think it took things from DarkCity.
Mr Brain or something cartoon. Ask kids. Looks like bulk w hi collar, big bald head.
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Wizardry - EDIT April 21, 2024: Wizardry. Nice DnD based off the old video game. Looks like early 1990s.
Ninja Cadets - some cool monsters. Giant bone naga, dire bear, Giant demon insect-spider.
….EDIT ABOVE HERE and at bottom
Lily Cat … is combo of The Thing and Alien scary gross ((the detective vs. hidden criminal thing sounds like Pitch Black’s story… Vin Diesel)
Black Lion
Gall Force.
MD Geist
The Venus wars
Demon city (yeah, be careful, no youngin's allowed, sheesh.)
The heroic legend of Arislan?
Genocyber?
Cape semi alive or something, grabbed onto ledge after he fell.
Fell probably 150 meters, no issue.
Blue gem on belt thing glowed to scare away the aberrations…. Gibbering mouther types.
Healing general, blood gets sucked back in
Hand demon sucking in matter for power up
Deflected the flying boomerang with his thoughts??? It went over him before returning to the normal physics path
Super str, speed, etc
Turns blue, blue glow eyes… fangs, drink blood from giant snake monsters (Lamia?) .
Sword can lengthen? Seemed to vs giant on moat bridge .
Blue skin n eyes again, countered telekinesis of count Lee, D falls and slightly and seems to fly towards Lee. Manually throws Sword in Lee, but as Lee is stuck to wall way up 60 feet high… D uses his own telekinesis to push sword in from afar moments later, 100% yep telekinesis of D
Ran across water
~Heat from the sun hurt bad, had to bury in dirt to rest
Vampires from like 1800 took over world, wanting it to look same That’s why mech horse and metal castles
Elden Ring
1. For example Torrent the horse has horns like D's horse. And in the 2nd movie, his horse could jump super far all over.
2. His sword in the 2000 movie looks like one of the swords, super skinny with wide guard.
3. There is a good dude in Elden Ring's Nexus area named "D" or Dee or something, and he hunts undead guys.
https://www.listal.com/list/dark-horse-picks-movies
Fandango.
The Quiet Earth.
Enemy Mine (pretty good when I was a teen)
The Prophecy (seemed amazing when watching in college)
Moon (very good as an adult!)
Screamers (... some entertainment... what's his name the Robocop guy is always great).
Robot Jox (I'm now one of the cult classic believers)
Krull (is awesome of course.)
Human movements like
Other
https://sabukaru.online/articles/guide-japanese-horror-movies
And sounds like I should watch Kawidan.
Apparently it's a big deal. Well it is on that "list" ... some snobby official movie list HBO MAX was referencing... the Criterion Collection. I need to finish watching it. Duckduckgoing "Onibaba analysis" reveals good analysis writeups but they have lots of spoilers. I'll try to avoid major spoilers. Check this out:
https://sabukaru.online/articles/guide-japanese-horror-movies
Described by master horror director, William Freidkin, (The Exorcist) as one of the most frightening films he’d ever seen, Onibaba is praised by many as being one of the formative J-horror classics, and affirmed by its director as a haunting reaction to the ravages of Hiroshima and Nahasaki and the disfiguring legacy of the atomic bomb attacks
Would never have guessed it was connected to The Exorcist. Definitely would never think the dude that made The Exorcist, the most messed up and scary movie ever, to be scared by this movie. Maybe it's the nuclear bomb reference [update: i just watched this... i guess symbolically it is another after WWII atom bomb thing), which is indeed one of the most horrific (burns) and scary (end of world) stuff around.
UPDATE: Watched Onibaba. Interesting movie... the slowmo zoomed in grass shots are hypnotic, really loved them. Once or twice the music during those shots reminded me of Under the Skin's (2013) creepy soundtrack and feel. Also a site said the masks were designed historically to evoke different emotions depending on the mood/delivery... like it could be scary monster attacking you, could be "I'm in pain ouch get the mask off". There is a lot of analysis out on the web over this movie, let me see if I can find that one place that had soooo much info. I think this one (and I think it has one MAJOR spoiler for this movie and one MAJOR spoiler for Seven Samurai so, be careful):
https://www.deepfocusreview.com/definitives/onibaba/
Quotes:
"The old woman dons a robe with a crab decorated on the back; the daughter’s robe features a scallop. Both aquatic creatures find their sustenance by consuming the muck and microbes that fall to the bottom, and Shindo undoubtedly chose these animals to reflect his characters. The women have reverted to an animalistic state, killing and jealously shoveling food into their mouths when they have it, from bits of rice to an unfortunate stray dog. They are scavengers, not unlike the ravens that linger near the women throughout the film. Shindo admits that with Onibaba, he “wanted to convey the lives of down-to-earth people who have to live like weeds.”
"Even today, to watch Onibaba is to negotiate a bizarre combination of visual and performative styles. Shindo made several films that experiment with highly stylized period pieces, known as jidaigeki. Rather than the stories of heroic samurai and nobility usually associated with jidaigeki, which reinforced the traditional themes of Japanese storytelling, New Wave filmmakers refigured the same settings and character types with a touch of iconoclasm. Japanese cinematic style itself was a matter of tradition, drawing from venerable representational styles found in theater and painting. Jidaigeki owes its origins to kabuki theater, but Onibaba is far from traditional. As evidenced by the hannya mask, Shindo uses touches of Noh theater in his production. Elsewhere, Otowa, Shindo’s wife at the time, bears the look of a hannya mask, complete with angular eyebrows, wild hair streaked with gray, and a winged liner on her eyes. She looks less like a realistic peasant than an actor in an open-air Noh stage drama. Similarly, Shindo’s choice of the hannya mask allows the viewer to read its various uses in the film without ever changing the mask itself. Such masks have been designed to evoke a range of emotional responses depending on the context of a scene, and the actor behind the mask expresses emotion by maneuvering their posture and shifting the audience’s perspective on the mask. At first, when it appears on the samurai in the reeds, or when ---removing spoiler--- scares away ---removing spoiler---, the mask looks frightening and monstrous. Later, when it has ---removing spoiler---, the same mask shifts from a fearsome expression to a look of pain and fear, making it an incredible tool that informs the character behind it."
Before I forget, the kissing seems wrong, not 1300s Japan... wasn't it introduced by Western movies and such recently? The reference to hell seems out of place also, I'm pretty sure it is a much newer introduction... maybe even with 1940s+ influence of US and England on Japan. I've seen the crazy hell+oni thing in southern Japan... and it is extremely interesting, but from what I read it is all recent Christian influences. More to be researched here, I'm only like 95% sure.
UPDATE: I might corrected once again. Seems like versions of something similar to hell have been around in the Buddhist parts of religion via Hinduism for a long while. Hellparks (probably what I saw in Southern Japan) referenced here:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/buddhist-hell-parks-asia
quote:
Buddhism, like Christianity and other religions, often uses art to relay information to worshippers, especially illiterate ones. According to John Skutlin, whose anthropological work in Japan has covered views of devils and hell across cultures, “conceptions of the afterlife have long been mined by artists for their rich imaginative potential. Buddhism, with its roots in Hinduism, is no exception.”
Buddhist texts and art traditionally depict the cyclical nature of the universe as a wheel containing six worlds. “While the upper levels are surely magnificent, it is the lurid depictions of the lowest realm of hell—known as Naraka—that have produced the most shocking and fascinating artworks,” Skutlin says.
Also to note, the translation for Onibaba is all over the place on the English speaking analysis and review sites. I feel somewhat qualified to clear that up a little, because I hear "Onibaba" used a lot around the house, and it has zero to do with this movie.
https://www.filminquiry.com/onibaba-1964-review/
says Onibaba means Devil Woman. Another one translated it as Demon Hag or something.
What do I say? Well, Oni is a type of monster that could easily be called a demon in English. They have horns, they are usually the bad guys in stories... and usually (always?) cruel. The recent Christian influence via that Hell-Disneyworld place I visited with the animatronic(?) Onis and depictions of hell definitely make you think they are demons. But traditionally, I'm not sure they came from a place called hell but were more like monsters, eh? Let's research that more. Yeah wikiped says they live in caves and deep in mountains... sounds right to me.
Onibaba I always thought was a singular mean old witch-like, somewhat monsterous lady that eats people in all the stories my household recounts. Kids stories, eh? So maybe "Demon hag" is a decent translation. Soo..... checking wikipedia, sounds like the good ole singular vs. plural thing in Japanese had me tricked this whole time. Onibaba is not a singular person from stories... there are many and perhaps anybody can be turned into an onibaba, any woman. Old ones called onibaba, young ones called kijo so says wikip.
Let's not forget, "ba-chan" and "o-ba-san" are words for aunts and grandmothers and old ladies and such. So "ba-ba" I'm pretty sure is related to that. I'm putting in all the hypens for emphasis/clarity here.
Rewatching (on fastforward for parts, my fav new thing). Seems obvious that Japan’s Battle Royale (2000) inspired Lost tv show and Kill Bill. In Lost, stuck on island… teams…. Flashbacks to why some were criminals or whatnot.
Kill Bill… Japanese chicks killing ppl. Was that the same actress in both?
Yep, Chiaki Kuriyama via imdb.
Influenced by... yeah, HungerGames certainly.
Let's see what the internet says... yeah:
https://www.escapistmagazine.com/twenty-years-later-battle-royale-has-been-oft-copied-never-equaled/
They list Mazerunner & Divergent (didnt watch), also.
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Saburkaru Online website has info. I like their take on the fact that Ringu->The Ring and Japanese movies were getting hot right around when Battle Royale came out. And good point... it might have all started with the old Lord of the Flies... oh yeah. Different feel due to age differences, but a lot of similarities.
These guys https://sabukaru.online/articles/battle-royal-game-genre
Squid Game, oh yeah?! And there was some Fornite video game thing, too. Oh shit, this PubG game- BR apparently would..."give birth to PUBG (Player Unknown Battlegrounds). A game defined by its large-scale conflict where players fight to be the last one standing in a constantly shrinking arena."
Wow the list goes on and on and on. Crazy.
This is one of those pet peeves where I swear some youtube scientists were explaining it incorrectly (in a hurry or something). Basically, no you can't just keep using relative velocity to keep throwing something faster till you go past the speed of light.
Well, they don't explain how the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light and that part of it... but just read this:
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/alien-space-travel-speed-of-light/
In fact, if you accelerated constantly, at 9.8 m/s², toward any distant astronomical object, you’d find that you never quite reached the speed of light, but only approached it from below. You’d find that you still continued to move faster and faster, and that your destination continued to get closer and closer (and also, the light from it would appear more and more blueshifted as you achieved increasingly greater speeds), but that every photon you emitted still:
However, two things would change dramatically for you on your relativistic (i.e., close to the speed of light) journey: the way you experienced both distances and times relative to someone who remained at rest, either at the source, the destination, or at any other point along your journey.
While someone who remained at the same location they started at, such as the origin point or the destination point, would continue to age as normal, someone who traveled through a significant amount of space during that same interval would experience a shorter passage of time, and the amount that it was shorter by would depend entirely on how close they made it to the speed of light during their journey. The faster you go, the less amount of time passes for you, the traveler, but as measured by an observer at either the source or destination, at least as much time that it would take a light ray to travel from here-to-there is required for a spacefaring traveler to traverse the same distance.
Complete sidenote, among others, these guys that laid the groundwork before Einstein were from Ireland and the Netherlands.
George FitzGerland from Ireland. Wikip says: Father was a reverend. FitzGerald is known for his work in electromagnetic theory and for the Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction, which became an integral part of Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity.
Hendrik Lorentz from the Netherlands. -> wikipedia says, he wasn't a straight C student like Einstein, instead: Dad was a horticulturist (a well-off one) and... His results in school were exemplary; not only did he excel in the physical sciences and mathematics, but also in English, French, and German. In 1870, he passed the exams in classical languages which were then required for admission to University.
Pieter Zeeman from the Netherlands. Wikip says: father was a religious dude also, a minister. Pieter became interested in physics at an early age. In 1883, the aurora borealis happened to be visible in the Netherlands. Zeeman, then a student at the high school in Zierikzee, made a drawing and description of the phenomenon and submitted it to Nature, where it was published. The editor praised "the careful observations of Professor Zeeman from his observatory in Zonnemaire". ... .... "He discovered that a spectral line is split into several components in the presence of a magnetic field."
Another interesting dude:
James Clerk Maxwell FRSE FRS (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish physicist with broad interests[1][2] who was responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism and light as different manifestations of the same phenomenon. Maxwell's equations for electromagnetism have been called the "second great unification in physics"[3] where the first one had been realised by Isaac Newton.
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His discoveries helped usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics. Many physicists regard Maxwell as the 19th-century scientist having the greatest influence on 20th-century physics. His contributions to the science are considered by many to be of the same magnitude as those of Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein.[11]
Vice news on YouTube.. long 2.5 hr documentary about the scientist and his family. Before him, nobody realized permafrost held sooooo much carbon about to be released into the atmosphere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ucmiJiEHJ4&list=LL&index=10&t=825s
Summary: Sergey and his son are convinced, and some other scientists back Sergey up, that having 400 million large herbivores in Siberia, Alaska, Canada, etc. would cool the ground more. Why? They eat grass, they scrape the snow out of the way to get to the grass in winter... since snow is s good insulator you want it out of the way to allow the coldest air to cool the ground more. They say measurements show the ground is 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 F)
[edit correction? Other YouTube video by Atlas Pro, Pleistocene park…says ground went from -5 C to -30 Celsius when animals trampled snow!!!! Also hooves vs moss helps grass grow]
colder where the animals are eating the grass in the winter. And, there were way less trees/shrub back a million years ago through 12,000 years ago b/c the herbivores were eating all that grass. This lines up with the way elk or deer were eating the baby saplings in Yellowstone, so it all sort of makes sense at a glance. Crazy and interesting. The amount of mammoth bones falling out of the melting permafrost on those mini-cliffs is no joke, it's a TON of bones that have been there for 12,000 to I think 60,000 years ago. Scary.
How much carbon in permafrost? MIT says a lot... A LOT A LOT,... twice that of our current atmosphere... and Sergey said the same thing on that documentary. Think of it this way... Wikipedia says that humans released about " In 2010, 9.14 gigatonnes of carbon (GtC, equivalent to 33.5 gigatonnes of CO2 or about 4.3 ppm in Earth's atmosphere) were released from fossil fuels and cement production worldwide, compared to 6.15 GtC in 1990."
https://climate.mit.edu/explainers/permafrost ->There’s a huge amount of carbon stored in permafrost — an estimated 1,500 gigatons, or twice as much as the atmosphere contains.
Tons of interesting info on measurements…. Nautical miles, furlongs, Roman miles, Chinese miles, etc. here..
https://www.boatsafe.com/nautical-mile-arrived-speed-called-knots/
And YouTube guy, “What is going on with shipping “… tons of interesting stuff about giant ships..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--l-FWUxxiw&list=LL&index=10
400 meter long ships, what the heck:
