Subliminal's blog: "Subliminal Lies"

[Danzig: Mother]
Mother - tell your children not to walk my way
Tell your children not to hear my words
What they mean, what they say
Mother

Mother - can you keep them in the dark for life
Can you hide from the waiting world?
Oh mother

Father - going to take your daughter out tonight
Going to show her my world
Oh, mother

Not about to see your light
And if you want to find hell with me
I can show you what it's like
Til you're bleeding

Not about to see your light
And if you want to find hell with me
I can show you what it's ---

Mother - tell your children not to hold my hand
Tell your children not to understand
Oh, mother

Father - do you want to bang heads with me?
Do you want to feel everything?
Oh, father

Not about to see your light
And if you want to find hell with me
I can show you what it's like
Til you're bleeding

Not about to see your light
And if you want to find hell with me
I can show you what it's ---

[The Misfits: Attitude]
Attitude - you got some fucking attitude
I can't believe what you're saying to me
You got some attitude

Inside your feeble brain
There's probably a hole
If you don't shut your mouth
You're going to feel the blow

Attitude - what you got?
Oh baby, attitude

Inside your feeble brain
There's probably a hole
If you don't shut your mouth
You're going to feel the blow

Attitude - you got some fucking attitude
I can't believe what you're saying to me
You got some attitude

[The Misfits: Braineaters]
Oy! Oy! Oy!

Brains for dinner
Brains for lunch
Brains for breakfast
Brains for brunch
Brains at every single meal
Why can't we have some guts

Oy! Oy! Oy!

Brains are all we ever get
In this rotten fucking place, oy! oy!
Brains are all we ever get
Why can't we have a change of pace

Brains for dinner
Brains for lunch
Brains for breakfast
Brains for brunch
Brains at every single meal
Why can't we have some guts, oy! oy!
Why can't we have some guts, oy! oy!
Why can't we have some fuckin' rotten guts

[The Stooges: I Wanna Be Your Dog]
So messed up, I want you here
In my room, I want you here
Now we're going to be face to face
And I'll lay right down in my favourite place

And now I wanna be your dog
Now I wanna be your dog
Well c'mon...

Now I'm ready to close my eyes
Now I'm ready to close my mind
Now I'm ready to feel your hand
Lose my heart on the burning sand

'Cause now I wanna be your dog
Now I wanna be your dog
Well c'mon...




SO! (actually, hold on, I need to tend to some status comments)

SO! (Take Two) What's up? Really, I'm hot as fuck but in a pretty stellar mood. Full of all kinds of hyper, and I kinda wanna watch Watchmen. but, I wanna finish the original (read: REAL) Star Wars trilogy... and really, I'm finding some serious ........ inconsistencies. Well, okay, nothing serious, and I suppose a lot of it can be summed up in what Obi-Wan says toward the beginning of Jedi: "It was true from a certain point of view", which does in a way say to me that the view is very subjective, and the plot holes aren't necessarily plot holes. Well, they are, but they aren't. Bugger. I know, I'm getting philosophical with The Wars, but fuck you, it's about story telling, and I enjoy story telling, I enjoy examining story telling and how it works. Movies, books, whatever. It doesn't really matter the story, because in essence, all stories are the same.

We go from the true story tellers in pre-historic times, telling stories, literally, those who spoke. Spoken word stories that would change with each retelling, various embellishments, whatever to other forms of story telling. From the spoken word, we go to the written word, then we go to the radio shows (going to listen to the original War of the Worlds radio programme by the late great Orson Fucking Welles, to study that and hopefully find other radio programmes, which there used to be many, the serials and such) to the movies, which to me does include the old Serials of the 30's and 40's, the golden age of Talkies. It all involves story telling, even the silent films (ESPECIALLY the silent films), they had to convey their story not with words, but with actions and camera movement. I respect silent films a hundred times more than I do the original talkies, and a thousand fold more than I do recent film. I also have a dear love for any film pre-dating... Star Wars, actually. The original Star Wars, Episode IV was the first to really use computers in any capacity. It's true, and that's when the magic began to get lost. It was still another 20 years before it went overboard (CIRCA Terminator 2: Judgment Day)

But whatever, this isn't a film critique, necessarily, even though in a way it is.

The art of telling a story and telling a story well. It seems to be a lost art, in a way. A truly compelling and memorable story. Tell me the last movie that you saw that really grabbed you by the balls and made you want to watch it over and over and over and over and over and remember it for always? I can say Mulholland Drive, but as I've said before, David Lynch is not a conventional moviemaker, so I consider his films exempt, in a way, though the use of digital effects is still nowhere to be seen, really.

But nonetheless - The last film you saw that was truly compelling, that was memorable. Can you tell me? Pre-dating Mulholland Drive (and David Lynch to any capacity), I'd have to say Jedi... The original Star Wars movie (because really, it is a movie in 3 parts) because they did maintain that kind of magic... but really...

Okay - digital movies, digital effects are not an artform. They are cold and they are calculating. The story can still be good and compelling, but it's rare. The films coming out today are geared to the lowest common denominator, for the big tits, big explosions and big laughs crowd (even though the humour is juvenile and asinine) but whatever. Where was I going? I don't know... I'm... fuck. I don't know, I lost my train of thought and as Tori won't be on tonight, there's no point in really writing this, as she's the only one to read this nonsensical bullshit....

Let's just say - movies today really are not worth really watching. There are exceptions - Watchmen being amongst them, because.... even though it's big on the digital effects, it's used to tell the story, and the fact that it's another in the long-line of comic book movies (a trend I can't fucking wait to see end, but know it won't as long as Hollyweird is raking in the money), it finds itself exempt from that category as well, because it's not a typical comic book, there are some pretty heavy issues that it deals with, like V for Vendetta, that really need to be discussed in our culture and society, though no one is doing it, because they've all become docile fucking swine happy as a pig in shit to be raped by the politicians and national media (all media, none are really exempt... even Music, Popular Music has gone to shit) ...but whatever. What the fuck can I do?! One man against the entire fucking machine!?

To be chewed up by the cogs, I might as well just kill myself and be done with it.

Meh.... fuck it.

[The Misfits: Last Caress]
Well, I got something to say
I killed your baby today
It doesn't matter much to me
As long as it's dead

I got something to say
I raped your mother today
And it doesn't matter much to me
As long as she's spread

Sweet lovely death
I am waiting for your breath
Come sweet death
One last caress

I got something to say
I killed your baby today
It doesn't matter much to me
As long as it's dead

Sweet lovely death
I am waiting for your breath
Come sweet death
One last caress

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