Leo
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Last night was date night. Left the dog at my mums. Went to my favourite Indian restaurant in Bradford, Mumtaz
You're dating your mum? All good, not judging.
Last night was date night. Left the dog at my mums. Went to my favourite Indian restaurant in Bradford, Mumtaz
I heard a recent James Cameron interview in which 1) he, no surprise, says that the $ people wanted him to take the "hippie treehugging bullshit" out of Avatar and he had to fight hard to keep it in, and more interesting 2) after Avatar he'd decided to retire from filmmaking to focus on environmental and indigenous rights activism but eventually he decided that he could have more impact using his platform to make more Avatar movies, and that's the only reason he returned to filmmaking at all. The bigger platform part is undeniably true, but the message of these films is so generic and watered-down - not helped by the heavy-handedness and general dumbness of the scripts - that I have to doubt it achieves much. Like bro, you came back for this?Like the culmination of art and tech together with this positive nature love message, but only possible cos of the capitalist machine.
that's incorrect tho. linebaugh and I are in Chicago, hundreds of miles from the nearest Canadian border. gus is, I believe, in Wisconsin somewhere, a bit closer but still quite far.And all the current Americans on dissensus apart from Stan and Leo are very close to Canada
I heard a recent James Cameron interview in which 1) he, no surprise, says that the $ people wanted him to take the "hippie treehugging bullshit" out of Avatar and he had to fight hard to keep it in, and more interesting 2) after Avatar he'd decided to retire from filmmaking to focus on environmental and indigenous rights activism but eventually he decided that he could have more impact using his platform to make more Avatar movies, and that's the only reason he returned to filmmaking at all. The bigger platform part is undeniably true, but the message of these films is so generic and watered-down - not helped by the heavy-handedness and general dumbness of the scripts - that I have to doubt it achieves much. Like bro, you came back for this?
and he already used capitalist $ and cutting-edge technology to make two vastly better, smarter films about the dangers of short-sighted corporate profit motive and technology - i.e. what drives the core conflict of both Terminator and Aliens - decades ago
My apologies. But for me, in England, Chicago feels close to the "top" of America. Although incorrect in real life.that's incorrect tho. linebaugh and I are in Chicago, hundreds of miles from the nearest Canadian border. gus is, I believe, in Wisconsin somewhere, a bit closer but still quite far.
Well obviously it's closer to the 'top' than, say, Florida or California. But I think this just illustrates how hard it is for most Brits (and probably most Europeans generally) to grasp the sheer scale of North America. It's easy to think of Chicago as being "close to Canada" like Newcastle is "close to Scotland", but the min road distance is about 300 miles in one case and under 50 miles in the other case.My apologies. But for me, in England, Chicago feels close to the "top" of America. Although incorrect in real life.
That makes good sense musicologically - although both cities are in the south of the North, and quite far from Scotland!it's cos i think of chicago and detroit as manchester and leeds.
Number 4 was dmt. There's a bit in the film where they plug into the life force and get taken back to a primal memory. Seemed like an iboga or dmt thing to me (I've not tried either).