Recent content by vernoncrane

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/thegreatesthit/ help make an old man's dream come true!

Not " Tape Delay", is it?

"It's not laziness per se, it's an anti-academic culture that gives rise to a hell of a lot of bullying and causes many kids to badly underperform at school. It's a vicious cirlce since kids that get drawn into that culture will then inflict it on others, making them simultaneous victims and...

so if cultures do arise from specific economic situations, where do economic situations come from? i mean are they just the arbitrary amalgams of collective actions which, like certain cultures, none of us actually wants, but in the face of which we are powerless to do anything?

"Cultures aren't forced on people from above, they're a cumulative effect of the choices that the people participating in the culture make.." so there is no relation between economic/social factors and "cultures." Cultures are purely and simply elective....and things like, say, social...

"you are more or less dooming yourself to a life of poverty" So this life of poverty is something you opt for, is it? They're deliberate decisions, rationally chosen by independent actors are they, alcohol and cannabis addiction, academic failure, poverty? Every opportunity to...

Would you really say without a shred of wit? I was quite pleased with that bit about " I avoid cliche like the bus-stop ..." etc.... Not even a shred, you say.... ahh, well.

Calm down Tate, I'm not seriously proposing that I would like to murder her, am I? It's a bit of hyperbole for comic effect, if you don't find it funny, so be it, but you risk coming off looking shrill, sententious and humourless here. It would also seem that I'm not...

interested to know what people make of this.. http://www.dreamingmethods.com/?idno=1 I really like this guys stuff and am going to write something on him, so i thought i'd see if anyone else was into it/ had any thoughts..

agggh..its sickening isn't it... they wont let us have anything for free will they... and lets be frank, if that PIL top of the pops performance of Flowers Of Romance, for example, belongs to anyone, it belongs by moral right to those who loved it and whose lives...

just seen "code unknown" and am still digesting it...much more similar to Cache than "funny games" or the "piano teacher" i thought....i'd be really interested to hear anyone else's thoughts on it while i try and come up with some of my own...obviously the opening...

wish i could get mine bigger...look at the size of that woebot's pooch....must be a case of avatar envy...

yeah i have a long history of failing to see Code Unknown...its currently, amazingly, sitting in my local Blockbuster but after having missed its so many times a strange aura of trepidation has developed around it....on the subject.. is it only me or has...

i guess there's always the possibilty tha the film is just finally incoherent.. that all its elements pull against each other.. this final scene that opens up another set of possibilities that have to be resolved by the viewer could be a bold exercise in taking the films...

Save your Monkey bile for these guys... http://www.shewantsrevenge.com/betrayal_idx.html the amazingly derivative nu-post-punk bandwagon vaulting nadir has been reached..extraordinarily they were formed by Justin Warfield who put out a great Prince Paul produced Gravediggers/New Kingdom...