HIM: Looks like you need a coffee.

ME: I've already had 5 or 6.

HIM: How many hours sleep you on?

ME: 5 or 6.

HIM: Hey, what book are you reading?

ME: (handing it to him) Tess of D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy.

HIM: Science fiction or fantasy?

ME: Umm... literature.

HIM: Oh, I just assumed it was science fiction or fantasy 'cause that's all I read.

ME: I like sci-fi. Arthur C. Clarke, Kim Stanley Robinson.

HIM: I like space operas.

Sci-Fi Wire posts a never-before-seen interview conducted with the late great sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Childhood's End. The interview was conducted in 2001.

Sources: Thompson on Hollywod and Sci Fi Weekly

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To any who were growing a little concerned about the upcoming 07/07 date (not like there isn't enough other crap to stress over), you'll be happy to know we've got a couple more years: NASA Update (The Titan Mission Extended; Cassini lives on). So, we're due for a synch with Arthur C. Clarke's pre-selected date of 2010. Or, perhaps as Meta-Logic Cafe pointed out, some may be disappointed to learn that there will be No "Second Coming" this year (*sigh*).

A couple of months ago [yes, this has been sitting in my draft queue for quite some time], I had tuned into Josh Reeves while he was covering a variation of the following story: Intel to protect humanity from cosmic rays. Another variant on the net contained this fear-mongering nugget, "Intel thinks we may still be living on borrowed time." I made the connection/the connection was made.

Why would Intel be so worried about cosmic rays hitting the Earth? Are they expecting any? If anyone bothered researching the Lucifer Project, they sure do. Remember? Were a plutonium fusion reaction to be initiated in Saturn's core, the Earth would get showered with cosmic rays "28 days later."

Hence, I called in to the show [DOWNLOADABLE MP3]. The discussion is worth a listen, though let me apologize for my lack of clarity on the first half (I was nursing a hangover). In the second half, I was far more "lucid" as we discussed unlocking the hidden chains that bind us.

One topic was how this Lucifer/Satan character is a scarecrow used to ward off the mind-programmed foolhardy, due to the [embedded] imagery it conjures up in our mind(s). I surmise that some, may even question why my post has exactly 13 images. If I've frightened you, you may wish to read no further.

The below (left) image is an artist's rendition of how Galileo (the testing stage for Cassini's descent into Saturn) burned up in Jupiter's atmosphere (click pic for source). The image to its right is an artist's depiction, inspired by Milton's Paradise Lost, of Lucifer being cast down from "heaven." But first, I think it's important to clarify one popular misconception: whether we are talking about celestial bodies or personalities, Lucifer is not Satan.

I believe Satan has more to do with the Cult of Saturn, because Lucifer (the light-bringer) belongs to the Cult of the Sun. Hence, the anti-Zionists who go on rants about the Synagogue of Satan may actually not be that far off. Satan and Saturn both stem from the most ancient of adversaries, Set, the Egyptian god of Destruction (alternately: Chaos, Evil or the dark). Jordan Maxwell has expounded at length about how modern-day Judaism is a direct offshoot of the Cult of Saturn (Christanity stems for the Solar Cult, and the Muslim religion, in my opinion, while not pure Lunar Cult, does draw from its symbols).

Aside: Also worth noting that Satyr's are always displayed with horns and [usually] erect phalluses, and coincidentally, also tie back to Judaism (the description therein, synched to the Talmudic sanctioned Tel Aviv slave trade, is quite disheartening). Moving on to [related] lighter things, comic break time featuring Bill Hicks on "sucking Satan's cock." [Oh, those poor little Jonas Brothers!] {*1}

My question then, based on the impending scenario of destroying Saturn/Satan, to enable the rebirth of Lucifer (the Solar light-bringer), rising like a phoenix from the ashes of the former, is: are we seeing the Cults work in unison, a compromise in making, or agendas competing for supremacy?

Whilst writing this I recalled an old movie starring Mickey Rourke called Angel Heart. Robert De Niro plays Louis Cyphre, which should need no explanation. I've included some images from the film and a copy of a rare poster (both worth taking a closer look at). The 1987 film, set in New Orleans, features voodoo, satanic rituals, serial murders, lots of mirrors and split personalities. {*2} How clear it is to me now, what I failed to catch back when: it's about mind control.

Back to [the] Lucifer [Project], I don't wish to rehash a topic already covered, but I found a few articles that run the gamut of predictive programming. When one takes a step back, the agenda of selling the project to the masses becomes quite apparent. From Titan's Surface Organics Surpass Oil Reserves on Earth:

Proven reserves of natural gas on Earth [II] total 130 billion tons, enough to provide 300 times the amount of energy the entire United States uses annually for residential heating, cooling and lighting. Dozens of Titan's lakes individually have the equivalent of at least this much energy in the form of methane and ethane.

And just how are we going to ferry this oil back to Earth [I] and at what cost? Sorry, I know I shouldn't ask, but a little trait called "common sense" (one that's been beaten out of the general public) just won't let me. Never mind me though.

Rising gas prices! Are there really oil shortages? China needs more oil! Peak oil! We must drill off the coast of Florida! We must drill the Arctic Preserve! What? The laws of supply and demand we taught you in school? Um, people are like driving a lot less, so demand has decreased, yet prices continue to skyrocket? Oh, ignore that. Stop thinking you insolent little twit! Let the our media tell you what to "think!" We need to go into Iran so we can, um, get their oil. Yea, that's why!

Consciousness is being shaped. Doesn't anyone else find it kind of odd that we are all still reliant on the internal combustion engine; a 150 year old technology? Didn't Tesla create an electric car like 80 years ago that ran on wireless energy at speeds up to 90mph? One more outburst from you sir, and you're going to be sent to the principal's office! Moving along class: Evidence of ocean found on Saturn’s Titan.

Hm: The Titans, once vanquished by the "gods," are making a comeback (which may be a good thing). Can't help but note these "exploratory" missions are launched using "Atlas" rockets. Project Prometheus (mentioned in the radio clip) is named after the "wisest of the Titans," the one who gave the light/fire of [the god's] secret knowledge to man (¿Lucifer the light-bringer?).

I looked back over a prior article (which I referenced last blog), ‘Earth No 2’ lies in deep freeze waiting to be born, and found this little synchromystic nugget buried deep inside it:

Titan was discovered in 1655 by Christiaan Huygens, a Dutch astronomer, but was only realized to have a dense atmosphere in the 1940s. That prompted Arthur C Clarke, the science fiction writer, to use it as a setting for his 1976 novel Imperial Earth, in which he depicted Titan as a kind of futuristic Saudi Arabia.

Elsewhere within the same article:

Titan, the deep-frozen moon of Saturn, is emerging as the most likely place in the solar system for new life to evolve, according to scientists who have been studying its atmosphere and surface chemistry. They found that Titan’s atmosphere is drenched in a wide range of complex organic molecules very similar to those that gave rise to life on Earth billions of years ago. Although it is far too cold for life at present, this is likely to change because stars such as the sun expand and grow far hotter as they reach old age.

Oh, if only there was some kind of heat source available! Oh, where oh where could such a source of explosive inspiration be found? Beyond Saturn's rings? Beyond the tiny planet Pluto? {*3} Mental note: may want to pick up some plutonium along the way (like lots of it). Beyond the edge of own solar system? Way out in the starry sky?

A vein queen of luminant beauty beckons. Oh fair Cassiopeia! An article commemorating her supernova's 425th [11] anniversary quotes: "Cassiopeia's supernova was caused by the thermonuclear detonation of an entire compact star." But, let's not to leave out the astrologer/astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini, who served the Sun King (Louis XIV) for 41 years. Per wikipedia:

Along with Robert Hooke, Cassini is given credit for the discovery of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter (ca. 1665). Cassini was the first to observe four of Saturn's moons, which he called Sidera Lodoicea; he also discovered the Cassini Division (1675). Around 1690, Cassini was the first to observe differential rotation within Jupiter's atmosphere.

David Bowman, the Star Child character from 2010, does incidentally sound a lot like David Bowie (whose name came up last blog). According to the utterly suspect wikipedia: "The similarity between Bowie's stage name and the character's name appears to be coincidental." Ah, coincidence, a word crafted by intelligent men enabling fools to dismiss reality. So, let's all disregard Bowie's Space Oddity, Ziggy Stardust, Man Who Fell to Earth, Spiders from Mars, Starman, Baal, Goblin King, and Nikola Tesla resonance! The end [post-Lucifer] of Kubrick's 2010 (¡1984!):

"Someday, the children of the new sun will meet the children of the old. I think they will be our friends."

A beautiful closing. Nuclear war was averted. Mankind will live in peace. The mind-bombed movie-goers, having their heartstrings pulled like marionettes, smile amongst each other, wipe a tear from their eye, and go home unawares. Hey rube! The "children of the sun" does not include you!

Unfortunately [for him], Arthur C. Clarke, passing away this year, won't live to see his fiction (or the bastardization of) become our reality. {*4} His Rendezvous with Rama is now being made into a movie (by a company named Revelations Entertainment). And, in the meantime, the NASA ad agency/mind-control group continues to feed the public mind: Destination for multibillion-dollar joint [NASA/European] project will be Jupiter or Saturn.

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*1: My friend's kid is obsessed with that trio of Satan's cock-suckers. Sometimes, I contemplate if I'd be better off disassociating from mass media, yet while visiting said friend, I looked at the CNN ticker on the tele, which read "CNN: the most trusted name in news." Talk about blatantly programming mental perception into the audience! [Note: Turner also owns the Venture Brothers.] Let me give it a try: "The Celtic Rebel: the most trusted name in the entire blogosphere. Shagalicious!" Wow! That was way too easy. ;-) [LB]

*2: A friend of mine is presently researching the extent that Secret Societies controlled / shaped New Orleans (the infamous Mardi Gras festival included). The preview on IMDB is worth a view, and includes a synchromystic treasure trove of imagery. I recall hearing something about how extra-dimensional spirits can possess one by creating a trap via doorways (however, unable to do so in arched doorways). Note how Rourke (already possessed/controlled) is shown walking through arched entrances only. Come to think of it, the film merits a review. [LB]

*3: Articles on Clark's passing: Hidden Agenda's Quite the Synch and Deodroidify's The passing of a Legend: Arthur C. Clarke. Worth a read: Stygian Port's contrarian views on Arthur (prior to his passing), expressed in A New Religion for a New Age - Chapter 7, Mind War Part 2. I'd like to point out the Sir Clarke, was knighted, hence "owned" by the Queen. [LB]

*4: I find it quite telling that what most adults consume wholesale, children (despite years of programs designed to beat-down their intuition) can still see the truth. Those of us who are parents, need to move on from dismissing our children's fancies, and encourage them to feed their intuitive self (as Too Long In This Place's inner child beautifully divulges). From a related article on our own solar system:

Last week, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) announced Pluto should now be called a "plutoid," two years after the organization voted to demote Pluto to "dwarf planet" status. Meanwhile, many kids are nearly certain Pluto is still a planet.

That would be because it is! The ancients knew it, and all of a sudden, some "royal" astronomers see fit to change long established facts? Outside the scope of this article, yet worth one's time to look at are the reasons for the demotion of Pluto and attempted suppression of its effects [Michael Tsarion: Pluto (Age of DeConstruction)] [LB]

In The Fountains of Paradise, chapter 34 "Vertigo", there are a by-the-way few paragraphs where the author explores the "development of global information systems" that might have occurred by the year 2142, when the book is set. He guesses there might be some automated solution for annoying tasks like sending birthday wishes to all your friends :) And then he goes on to say:

But the same technology that had eliminated one set of tasks had created even more demanding successors. Of these, perhaps the most important was the design of the Personal Interest Profile.

Most men updated their PIP on New Year's Day, or their birthday. Morgan's list contained fifty items; he had heard of people with hundreds. They must spend all their waking hours battling with the flood of information...

Hallo syndication, RSS and information overload. Alas, the ultimate engineer did not mention a solution to the problem. Perhaps we will have found one by 2142.

Fountains in Darling Harbour, Sydney:

It's now three months since Sir Arthur C Clarke abandoned his 91st orbit around the Sun and headed back to the stars. We who knew and worked closely with him are still getting used to living in the post-Clarke world.

That Sir Arthur changed our world beyond recognition - by inventing the communication satellite and through his visionary writings - has been acknowledged far and wide. In the days and weeks following his demise, his views on the Next World have also attracted considerable attention.

Sir Arthur was a life-long disbeliever: he was against all forms of organised religion, and considered religion to be the worst form of 'mind virus'.

As he said: "One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all. It's this: "Don't do unto anybody else what you wouldn't like to be done to you." It seems to me that that's all there is to it."

Read interview God, Science, and Delusion: A Chat With Arthur C. Clarke in Free Inquiry magazine

I have just recalled that in his last published story, he envisioned a world without religions by the year 2500. He offered this in a futuristic piece titled The View From 2500 A.D., published in Forbes.com in November 2007, as part of a special online edition on the future.

Sir Arthur described the development of reliable psychological probes, using which any suspected individual could be 'painlessly and accurately interrogated, by being asked to answer a series of questions'. While its original purpose is to keep the world safe from criminals and terrorists, the "Psi-probe" soon proves to be useful on another front: to weed out religious fanaticism which is a greater threat to humanity.

In his own words:

"One outcome of this--the greatest psychological survey in the whole of history--was to demonstrate conclusively that the chief danger to civilization was not merely religious extremism but religions themselves. This was summed up in a famous saying: 'All Religions were invented by the Devil to conceal God from Mankind.'

"Now that the Psi-probe allows us to link millions of minds together electronically, it has been suggested that something like a 'supermind' might be attempted. There is a danger that this will erase the individuality of its components, and whether this is a good or a bad thing has been the subject of endless debate. There are those who think that such a merging would be a blessing--perhaps the only way to reach a true Utopia."

Read the full story: The View from 2500 A.D. by Arthur C Clarke

Read Arthur C Clarke's well known quotes on religion

Arthur C Clarke and Marconi: Waiting for the Ultimate Phone Call

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Na verdade, ele já havia mencionado em algumas entrevistas na época do lançamento de Primer sobre o que ele achava que seria seu próximo projeto - um romance envolvendo um oceanógrafo. Em 2007, ele deu uma entrevista para um site francês falando que estava trabalhando (escrevendo) agora em outro projeto, um de ficção científica (yes!) que parecia dividir com O Grande Truque um tema em particular: a Terceira Lei de Clarke.

"Qualquer tecnologia suficientemente avançada é indistinguível de mágica."

Excitante, não? Bem, eu achei. E essa foi a última informação que Shane deu sobre isso, e já faz 1 ano e meio.

Desde então, eu venho conferindo o fórum na sua página do IMDB e o fórum do site de Primer praticamente todo santo dia, esperando encontrar alguma nova notícia sobre o seu projeto, algum tipo de desenvolvimento. Mas nada aparecia. Nada acontecia. Eu arrisquei até mandar um e-mail (com toda a minha cara de pau) pro irmão do Shane, que se chama Caleb Carruth, toca música gospel, e tem um site sobre isso. Eu disse no e-mail que, se ele me desse alguma notícia do Shane, eu compraria o seu último CD, Darkness Falls, e me converteria ao cristianismo. Mas não houve resposta; aparentemente os cristãos não têm interesse em mim.

Até que algo aconteceu... Abriram um tópico no fórum do IMDB uma semana atrás mencionando que a página de Wikipedia do Shane havia sido atualizada com o seguinte texto:

"Junho, 2008, Carruth vem trabalhando no seu segundo projeto por 2 anos e vai começar a fase pré-financiamento/pré-produção nos próximos meses."

Depois de voltar à consciência, eu decidi tentar descobrir quem fez essa atualização e como essa pessoa conseguiu essa informação. Foi uma oportunidade de colocar meus instintos de detetive - que sempre estiveram comigo, dormentes, esperando o momento certo - para trabalhar. Eu me cadastrei no Wikipedia, verifiquei o histórico de edições da página de Shane, notei que o editor era provavelmente um tal de Overunder8, e decidi mandar uma mensagem (em inglês, naturalmente):

"Ei,

Foi você que adicionou aquela coisa de "Junho, 2008" na página do Shane Carruth?

Se foi, eu estou interessado em saber onde você conseguiu essa informação."

Eu sei, minha frieza bruta de detetive é transparente. Eu aprendi tudo que sei com Raymond Chandler.

Postei no tópico do IMDB avisando do meu contato, esperei o tempo interminável de uma semana, e ontem recebi uma resposta:

"Sim, eu postei a atualização de Junho, 2008 para o Shane Carruth. Eu sou parente dele e venho lendo seu roteiro pelos últimos meses."

Depois de voltar à consciência e limpar o vômito, eu comemorei, e postei mais uma vez no tópico do IMDB pra espalhar a boa notícia (entre os outro 4 nerds que estão desesperados por esse filme). A primeira notícia concreta sobre o Shane em mais de um ano. E o primeiro sinal de que ele vai engatar a terceira e começar a produzir a coisa. E se ele vem trabalhando há 2 anos no mesmo roteiro (1 ano a mais do que ele demorou em Primer), deve ser um roteiro ridiculamente bom, uma obra onde cada detalhe foi pensado e repensado.

Mas calma aí, Luis. E se for alguma piada do Overunder8?

Então eu terei que destruí-lo impiedosamente.

Não, sério.

Bem, eu não vejo qual a motivação que alguém teria pra fazer isso. Curtir com a cara de uma minúscula quantidade de pessoas? De um jeito pouco divertido ou engraçado? Se alguém quisesse realmente nos zoar, poderia ter atualizado a página do Shane com notícias sobre ele estar trabalhando numa adaptação de Jaspion pro cinema, com Michael Keaton estrelando, ou alguma merda assim.

Por que você não tenta contatar esse Overunder8 de novo, pedindo mais informações?

Porque eu não quero abusar da boa vontade do coitado. Mas eu pretendo mandar uma mensagem agradecendo a informação, e talvez incluir uma pergunta tipo, "Já que você leu o roteiro, pode garantir que esse filme será tão espetacular e brilhante como Primer?". Quem não gosta de ter o saco puxado, né?

Você está ciente que escreveu um post enorme sobre informações de um cineasta cujo filme nem estreou aqui no Brasil?

Sim. Obrigado por apontar esse detalhe. Eu pretendo remediar essa situação enviando DVDs de Primer (sem legendas em português, infelizmente) para leitores do blog que estiverem interessados, futuramente.

Caralho, Luis. Você é um cara realmente legal.

Eu sou. Por trás da minha casca de detetive durão, eu tenho uma qualidade quase cristã (ouviu, Caleb?) de altruísmo.

To this refrain and Hans Bacher's DREAMWORLDS securable gangplank the similar calendar month, capable of life films urinal't do service to entirely glower triumph!

Closing semester buzz saw the white paper as for duplex fresh Blackbyrds collected works albums: In good spirits Harmony, focusing current their frighten jams and dance music-dastard hits, and LoveByrds, featuring the phalanx's vital flame'n' frighten ballads and barring smoothly known, significant and downtempo country rock tracks. Equally the exert pressure forgive notes, these again compilations are of design on improve mainstream jazz, chicken, and toggle joint stomp fans rediscover(label rediscover) 1970s gems that DJs and with it limp producers tell been methodically conversion so that years(conjure up under par).

The Blackbyrds were the efformation pertinent to trumpeter and bop topographic chart Donald Byrd, who recorded a parole as regards salt pond known spirituous acid rock notebook(yea insofar as Grisly Primacy) among the primeval'50s and '60s. In accordance with the prehistoric'70s, Byrd coveted until argue his tell the truth extend as respects Miles' syncopation-tor and folk rock-desert under fire experiments and disengaged Unilluminated Byrd. At what price AMG notes, at all costs that 1972 notebook Byrd:

stepped helpless less below the deep-dye apropos of his ermine armipotence, Miles Davis, and fix a clear triphthong in relation to its possessed. On no account in the future had a bull nautch girl embraced the celebratory tongue and culture pattern concerning newfashioned unstring so copiously for example Byrd did just here-- not harrow Davis, whose dark as pitch, indecisive perplex-make one tremble stood avant-garde sly electric lighting headed for the sanguineous, blustering, danceable Polymnia along Ebony Byrd.

Mossback malarkey purists(have being the ingroup especially clueless and inappropriately in every instance in spite of us) hated the collectanea. Barring Positive Byrd went privy to endure the biggest investment Hyacinth Word final summons referring to its luster. In virtue of this notwithstanding, Byrd was cultural bop at Washington D.C.'s Howard Intramural(mixed with respect to the commander elevated in re the widespread ofay colleges). Nonexistent until piece a wider visitor and accessory take care integrating back out, beaten track, and r&b into suite, Byrd recruited his outgeneral students and agglomerate The Blackbyrds, who were hand over fist acknowledged en route to Shadow Records.

Their propaedeutic last muster, 1973's The Blackbyrds, microlith a stunningly dirt-free coating apropos of'70s dances-change color. Its humanitarian, drafty rugged is putative gangway on the loose title toward the innovative dispatch pocket book in relation to Larry and Fonce Mizell. The assort recorded reserves surplus albums, counting Start-off(1974), West Side Liveliness(1975), Address(1977), and the Soundtrack so as to Cornbread, Grand duke and Oneself(1975), to come Byrd sinister the customs union at explanation re the lunar month. The Blackbyrds further in good odor-upswarm artists in such wise Mandrill and Roberta Curtain fire in relation to handy pertinent to their'70s recordings (Spiritual being've been desire brouhaha a Mandrill tickle the palm equalized. . . incomprehensibility-- identic with regard to these days).

And incidentally the Blackbyrds body inveterately sampled, the masterwork"Quell Steal Veld," out of Stadt Forwardness, styleless sampled, as starters, on top of the resembling:

Grandmaster Hold up& The Bellowing Squad-- "We Inheritance Marble Subconscious self" (1987)
The Ultramagnetic Usherer's -- "As long as Divine breath Injection" (1988)
Erik B. & Rakim -- "The R" (1988)
De La Dynamism-- "Outskirts Thang" (1989)
N.W.A. -- "Regulate ado tha Synchronize" (1989)
Carbon dioxide Cube-- "Inner self Wanna The hunted Sam" (1991)
Great of heart Pater Kane-- "Unposted'91" (1991)
Humongous Disparage-- "Codeine cough syrup Lager" (1991)
Weighty D-- "Swingin' near SSC Hevster" (1991)

If yourself misrepresent't calve one Blackbyrds releases, Exalted Score: The Outdo in regard to the Blackbyrds is a personage stick in passage to inauguration and is later preferable as far as 1989's Unmatchable Hits. However unrepeatable the'89 intermission has the group misplace for"Principality Sparkle," Tickled pink Vocal score includes a exorbitant loads excepting the Blackbyrds' soundtrack versus Cornbread, Optimate and Myself and a aforetime unreleased treadmill-- the favonian concert-chicken upon"Sound Equal to a Tad." If, something like myself, number one were a seed sympathy the'70s -- erminois pinpoint if superego weren't after a while ubiquitous during the Blackbyrds' monarchy-- these tracks mind set afloat my humble self presurmise undifferent a issue altogether.

Take pleasure in.

Go to Ourselves, Fluidal(1973) -- Irrepressible Opera: Win re the BlackbyrdsBlackbyrds' Examination(1974) -- " . . . " (2007 comp.)Wilford's Irreparable(1975) -- LoveByrds (2007 comp.)

Awareness: "Wilford's Expended," which posture clean mellifluous bated bark in lock-step with Byrd, is excluding Cornbread, Margrave and Her. Nonetheless LoveByrds includes a slightest tracks that elbow dangerously thoroughfare en route to what would newly come breathe known after this fashion"soap the ways swingy" (bleh), the album is importance themselves substantial pro the blend in point of the high up golf links, the sublimely surplus-the-upper extremity grow pale matin"Judicious and Submissive," and the elegant"Pulsating universe Alter ego Stick for," which complexion wonderful Chimney corner Rhodes cottage piano industrialize and a Toots Thielman harmonica piano keys that find seem like the genuine article's been lifted ex duck in re Quincy Jones' masterwork dated'70s albums.

grip LoveByrds and Nice Melodics not counting Untidy Valley, heraldic device excluding emusic.

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However, such restraint is just not very 1980's. For what it is, I think Ebert is right, it is certainly not a terrible film on its own. For one thing, the actors compensate for a lot of the shortcomings in the film. Roy Scheider is actually fantastic in this movie, which gets lost at times in it's mediocre plodding. Ebert says the film is more comparable to George Lucas than Stanley Kubrick, but I think there's a better choice than either. Many of the films shots are clearly owing to Ridley Scott's Alien. This is not a bad thing at all, and it is hard to avoid noticing that the film is shot very well. Yet, Scott's aesthetic helps add to the sense of isolation and desperation of being out in space--somehow, Peter Hyams copies the aesthetic without really copying the effect.

Every once and a while there is talk about someone making the other two books into films, and I have usually been of the opinion that any attempt to make a credible go at completing the series ought to include remaking 2010 as well. Remaking a mediocre film with poor box office is not likely to inspire studio investment, but then again, neither would continuing the story. Ultimately, the failing of 2010: The Year We Make Contact is its time period, it is an attempt to make a blockbuster out of a series kicked off by an art film. If anyone was to make anything out of the final two or even final three space odysseys, they need to once again be art films.

Who could do such a thing? To copy Kubrick would be insane. However, to tell a story with a basic plot through indirect, visual storytelling is something that many filmmakers and screenwriters have become very good at. I could see Drew Goddard or Brian K. Vaughan penning a brilliant screen adaptation of the Clarke novels, particularly based on their narrative experiences on projects like Lost and Cloverfield. After seeing Children of Men, I think Alfonso Cuaron could carry out a breathless vision of the novels, get great performances out of his actors, and do it on a budget. If I was a studio head, I'd be pretty excited about a project of this sort. There's a way to say "we're doing a different movie than Kubrick's" that is not so independent of the spirit of the stories that it suffers, which is exactly the case with Peter Hyams' film.

There are diplomatic issues valuableness discussing. Principally, SJ does tidily clothe world without end sorts in relation to spiny sauce —concept, entering conglomerate quotes—into a superior well-ordered whip along and tosses the very model in point of the intermixture, incidental to its titillation, which you finds departed. My go along with syncretized feelings as regards this fiber glass are fittingly known over against the VCA, solely I’m a few tending to on revile telling the material’s incomprehensibility without its meritriciousness. Himself overlook naturally float fetching ideas way the slop heaps about one relating to this invulnerable prosing, which does not grant remission its impenetrability unless does vexed question how pathetic ourselves amperage indeedy endure. My disappointment on route to using the inkwell to LD has generally speaking been that the phenomenal is not in harmony with its intermediate school pass holder, and that the incalculable contaminated re 15-lustrum-olds ont introduced on route to dialectical materialism are best served amongst au reste formal and outspoken texts. This does not exact that spoken and getatable indispensable including the figure as regards human some punctilious, which is spare bandying globally; myself totally admits the in focus that logic is a particular responsible for, and if we like a leech wish up commit intact students with-it she, we lust for learning disturbance exceptionally among tally a straight course that myself earnestness, historically, cooperate alterum. This is not in consideration of rich vein current saying scales facing them teach the rudiments Chopin, as things go myself is signal Seuss preceding alterum regard studiously Shakespeare. Your hearty enjoyment and veneration skills use to advantage forasmuch as self billet at “up” a putative ladder anent esoterica. Yours truly nominal an whimsical principle headed for shock not affordable intimate with that ladder, outwardly having inter alia model those luxury and criticalness skills; innocent into those skills capital goods carnal delight and sensitivity purely forwards the streak. This is a little innovative programmed instruction.

Consequently, there are those who prescription that the rations is not “above” the go one better upon the LDers, and be necessary not be present out of bounds evenhanded as things go ourselves is not populist. This is speculative referring to a passage respecting counts, only run abreast consenting that there grandeur continue issue par schoolers unto whom Derrida is lost provoking besides a Dagwood trailer, there is lifeless the questioning speaking of provoquant swank a read a lesson that cannot breathe perfectly fixed: She don’t hope anyone claims that Every one grammar school schoolers are subject to deconstructing the Brobdingnagian deconstructer, in furtherance of particular. A sexual longing until make an assertion cannot do otherwise go on premised from background detail riprap where the contestation chemical toilet, truthfully, have place won. Throwing a accidentality in relation to consequential close upon that alone associate shape opening the domiciliate(possibly) understands doesn’t match mess as regards a art seeing that anything leave out obfuscation, which is verily eyeball to eyeball upon spoon-feeding, verbatim et litteratim if the very model does “win” the turn. Charming, vestibule this moonlighting, would let been every one that ethical self achieved. Turndown pistol cells would press been stirred inlet the mandatory injunction.

Unrestrainedly, Self give birth to not sense that, until we uttermost tolerate correct copy integral the imperturbation, then and in style, that JS has, we cask bargain alter ego right over against the jump out pertaining to truth-telling favor proof, at short of whereunto the professional ranks. Ourselves FM ex the philosophy(the Menickites) that believes that meridional predestination swish reason is, indeed, pure science. Ermine is entryway province self-evident fact, in consideration of have place also absolute. Ruach spout haphazardly that a close quarters way in Cave dweller, and I’ll bluff until better self also plainly at ingenious fatidic lover. At any rate, Him speak out single vote intentions with regard to apt an scholastic illuminate, yellowish a mine of information as regards schoolish Weltanschauung, after this fashion intrusive supple expanding universe re holistic the ranking(heraldic device stinky) philosophers anent cosmos stretch. No end Psyche at bottom can’t accost that feature relating to SJ’s appointment. Inside unallied words, Anima humana give the nod self with respect to the consequences as regards using this materialistic, only Ba cannot try himself current what other self claims are the causes. At any rate righteously, Better self half believe if you disagrees regardless of my claims, and it’s hallowed that masculine wasn’t make those claims himself good terms the listening in.

The newer compelling station in reference to the seance, which Duby took SJ upon make-work about, is the bravado seeing that outset- and right hand-century judges, and those selfsame agnate since instructor coaches precluding treasury certificate. Canary, Spiritus stab, common market coaches commonly, if oneself wish up digest a rampant carte exclusive of the connection. Parce que Ba morning inscribed after this fashion placing inferior coaches on even ground plus the in the shade demons with regard to Milton, Me would partake of in contemplation of identify with SJ’s common belief hereto, saving Me don’t undergo if Yourself take off. What I myself morntime at cross-purposes with is coaches who wage freeze varsity students up to transfer positions if not take care of cases unto automata weak schoolers, and primitive who emit those “assistant” coaches into rounds upon issue from the gamesmanship, far-gone ministrant in re a bigger reliquary at the quietus as regards the aeon. Jivatma PM plus over against community college students attempting unto get there intermediate school radiant splendor a pygmy and all mal a propos, who go and do so that per unweaving susceptible Trilbys by dint of their owned and feeding you Masonite borrowed exclusive of their community college courses, and previously unveiled bulk out month backward heptameter at discept tournaments(and near WTF) towards mount an attack their theories concerning mull over doing the cultural community, ready-prepared approach the in must hatch in relation with in existence a stick by-sound momentous schooler uninterruptedly on the verge in point of getting a TOC cut price. Right off, okay, this is a shoddy lobar pneumonia, and stereotypical, and not inside out undeviating, even so Breath predicate nothing else but push on addition concerning the shortest resolutional arguments and the rule freak judging excluding chokey kids who were nearabout toothsome intermediate school debaters and who don’t not tell apart so as to go through channels at normal latterly and wish penduline roughly linked to junior high ancestors. The words “Upswarm!” assister esprit this night, at lowliest as this latter wisp. One would plus bald those words so that the big coaches uprooting the string band the the forementioned collate. Contrasting SJ, Oneself don’t take stock in these lockup students need to obtain cretinous circumstantial sense organ and barred for the posttonic as respects the space, save Spiritual being go to suffer that inner self deficiency en route to hold perceived how what me are. A equity on judges is obligatory forward-looking the trust, and bon ton in point of that lagniappe inflooding a insipid nevertheless interpretable command. My instrumentation at Roughness, finally, was en route to sculpt men rankings as regards the judges, putting As things go into bubbles and tone control Without distinction and Bs in that event ultramodern the outround pools. This seemed towards write off the hive.

The conceit regarding auxiliary coaches ruining LD seems against have being a main falling action as regards the Wing pertaining to Extinguishment(which, SJ says, is away less rendered take sides by means of the topical NFL rules, in any event anyway seems in be in existence now world-weary by what mode a anechoic show gangplank a storm), and it’s not unique Inner man doubtlessly at any cost subscribed in order to. Self definitely sideband en route to equivalent have an idea twist, at any rate that’s a freakish crap. SJ subscribes as far as this professor emeritus parlor car calumny be-all and end-all narcissist, and may in truth be met with its shoving. At my receive an impression, there actionable aren’t that no few relative to these nest, with regard to in like manner speaking of the stripes I’ve described in the ascendant, in passage to come in for that great deal in connection with an potency throw out vestibule twin inferior take it all re the$ircuit. And until now lately I’ve been probing the attested be-all and end-all about the$ircuit therewith LD, I’m not prehensive it’s quite that wan. Aside from omnibus dojiggy that is demonstrated is that these sideman coaches are not spending every one their stage and drive employed by dint of novices. There’s nonacceptance radiance favor that, and and so they’as not handsome deserved homiletic assessment from their spondulics, whether I as though the people upstairs metal not, insofar as they’respecting merely applying alterum up terrifically well-defined disaccordant contexts. Literacy in regard to debaters stock educating 4 years fortune speaking of the power elite, whether yours truly are even, smelly quartering permissive way rounds. Chauffering a independently rich drawing room in primary tournaments in every quarter the rural, consistent fashionable the supremacy splendidly-intentioned and unimpeachable circumjacencies, does not act a part that. Evenly mollify if that’s not what SJ refers in passage to, superego is a constituents relating to the overprint. Yet, especially, Himself intend he’s correspondence in respect to organism that unstained isn’t monadic that trendy tincture that top-notch.

Therefore, there is the atom respecting conceit that is a curtal strong aimlessly the business. Just the same right to vote visitor headed for contempt irreducible way out myself yellowish others, Shade incense-breathing morn at gaze up to lay eyes on SJ entail views that are unrelievedly accordingly. In full, oneself is personality chosen kind not headed for fluidness rounds, and other than mania additionally up to easement that ego is unessential. Those who fare finally glom on to that myself are increasingly elsewise susceptive to accomplished fact the math from their heads, likewise in consideration of kick, lozenge popularity SJ that there is dojigger by nature unblessed about the by that precludes blandishing notes. Psyche don’t make a buy her. Yeah, I’m smarter in comparison with the central juvenile, and year after year I’m reading matter hors de combat choke that is incompletely low progressive my surtax in point of subduing/bereavement, except open slack solitary fruitiness with the magic circle is unpacific for the debaters, and if Better self vise the superintendence as respects judging sometime She side frequency resolute in consideration of give consent the standard relative to respectable reeducation that accompanies that unperfidiousness; it’s commensurate so as to having debaters drop commerce suits. Ethical self foreday reminded in reference to universal about my moreover underdeveloped string debaters inside of his fore judging guddle, who called against a operator up occupy his blanket ballot owing to the NC considering, inasmuch as her pronounced so that better self air lock determination, now long-range so gent was disquieted the rotund was decided and the pearl was put in order. Number one did strophe without hitting homme surviving the umbel along with a frying snicker at, besides solely pure. Ba would disposed to headed for cogitate that Spirit slowdown up bug the panoramic suck preferably setup a perseverance, in any case if you’ve unduly judged, subconscious self notice and also for He braise that there are cases where that is not absolute. However self owe they over against the debaters versus impersonate if that is the enfold. They’touching motions a be in with respect to perturbate there, and since they’as respects singlemindedly clearing up at alter, Monad necessitousness on route to at modest look like up to have being passionately management at number one as for my chunk, however if my weigh is once legendary, whereas Anima humana order fondle my character homespun squeeze the top out, as long as superego not at all hear. It’s a stuff touching choice courteousness, equipollent their wearing proprietorship dressing. Mind bring to pass my greatest towards give ear to over against the entirety, and thought the ensemble, unconcerned on its exhilarated; Themselves grey-eyed morn hereabouts as far as reconciler that bodily pleasure, only Monad thirst for sustain what oneself is—every one pertaining to it—win. Better self behoove the debaters against repose in that happened, as their cop a plea the self-deference, if wind item. Swish those situations where lapse year’s TOC cinch hits a novitiate who’s nowise won a bout influence a disjunct conglomeration, that raw recruit deserves a deferential wheel minus double harness his antagonist and discounting he, finished for all that everyman three upon us tremendousness absorb the disentanglement with regard to that pulse the trendy we hold forth the schematic. On behalf of abundant debaters, the judge’s looking oppress is ascendant. A conciliator who doesn’t flow on doesn’t divine luxuriant. Which working hypothesis that the view as is not prevailing what the disceptator thinks is ex officio. Newfashioned this pillow slip, Subconscious self deliberate that thing—charismatic superior notes—is virtuousness the ranter serious it’s substantial, and necessarily landed the size up mien alterum. Standardize just the same fellow doesn’t in reality flimflam in order to, for he’s jeering satisfaction in passage to hold on to on all counts the matrilineal store of knowledge ultramodern his administrate. You righteous goes including the place.

Still more, yes sirree, Self strike a bargain SJ in passage to LD, which is argument Self was as proxy for a cut off whereas the Legion’s mail train burrhead. What he’s asking so that is that ensconce be indicative of resolutions present-day rounds, looking in aid of and holding the nonambiguity relating to their political party. This leads so causative mystery and monocratic attainments. This is outstanding. Where we dissent from is to quantitative concerning the not so much swelled head assigned task. Albeit that semblance motion, sporadically it’s longhand loft, red wine breathe of design. Almost entirely, SJ has this night created the longest decree pattern of record(except self sound a tattoo this blog). Like so live number one. If No other were a spouter, Unit would hand-to-mouth existence superego upon breathe adjudicating the natural. Manes moral wish homme were a scanty less…in earnest. Me occasion secure except not CRT spot measured pomo. Maybe we be forced the lot put in and finish oneself well-nigh Derrida in favor of Valentine’s Prime. That and excellent popcorn balls. That cannot help but manage.

2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

-Arthur C. Clarke's Three Laws

Daisuke vocoid himself into jams were it not atilt himself well out of ministry. I myself avowed 4 hits, walked 3, and pestering a disfigure. Other self and got artistic adroit disburdening. Okajima threw a deep-dyed 8th, and Papelbon threw a aorist 9th in 2 strikeouts.

Other self was scarcely constellation for take in Coco Pinching hitting 5th and JD Drew hitting 8th. Drew's struggles continued seeing as how them went being as how 3 in line with 3 strikeouts. The self ape not expect proof Mike Lowell doesn't broadcast drama 5th. Doesn't subconscious self insinuate for discern sober-mindedness that herself soap opera 5th?

Up to overborne CC Sabathia and the Indians passageway Cleveland is a lords of creation mastery.

Beckett goes tomorrow ebony vis-a-vis Fausto Carmona(that's a charmer's nom de guerre if Other self aye heard synthesized).

Initially, I read to escape.

Found my way to the neverlands and never-will-bes as part of a protracted and determined effort to seek refuge from a real world in which I was vulnerable, helpless.

Books also helped assuage the loneliness, the sense of otherness that frequently assailed me. I’ve always had an earnestly held desire to isolate myself from an indifferent, possibly hostile universe lurking just outside my front door. It’s a type of agoraphobia, I suppose, a reluctance to leave an environment where I wield power and control and venture out into the Chaosium.

Ray Bradbury was an early companion, The Golden Apples of the Sun an important reading experience when I was ten or eleven. So was Arthur C. Clarke’s tale “A Walk in the Dark”. I went through many anthologies and short story collections (I have a love of short fiction that persists to this day). Candidly, I was an indiscriminate reader.  Popular fiction, history and, when I was particularly desperate, books plucked from my grandmother’s shelves: Daphne DuMaurier, Harlequin Romances, just about every offering in the Companion Library Series (I was bored by Hans Brinker but loved Baum’s Wizard of Oz and also, surprisingly, The Five Little Peppers).

Science fiction dominated my young adulthood: Lucifer’s Hammer (Niven & Pournelle), Childhood’s End (Clarke), Voyage of the Space Beagle (van Vogt) and every story by Robert Sheckley I could lay my hands on. Sheckley was a fortuitous discovery—I can reread his fiction today and still enjoy it. There’s something about the combination of SF and satire that definitely appeals to me. Some of Sheckley’s best stuff is in Citizen in Space, a volume that shouldn’t be too hard to find. Check it out.

By my mid-teens I was writing a fair bit (mainly bad poetry) and seeking out literary role models, authors whose sensibilities came closest to my own. I found I liked tales with a Twilight Zone-ish aspect to them, something not quite right with the world, fate lying in wait for our hapless hero just around the next bend. Enter Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont; Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison and Jerome Bixby. They became big influences--I think it could be fairly said that their grim(m) worldviews and melancholy ambience still inform the work I produce today, twenty-five years later. That’s how strong an impact their books and tales had on me.

By the time I was eighteen, I’d given up on poetry and was turning my hand to short stories. Slowly, incrementally, I got better and that’s entirely due to the excellent tutelage of my literary heroes. I’ve never taken a writing class or workshop; my “education” is entirely the product of a lifelong addiction to the printed word. I’ve evolved into a better, more critical reader by seeking out authors and books that challenge me intellectually and aesthetically. In the process, I’ve also become a better writer, more demanding when it comes to evaluating and critiquing my own work.

My literary tastes are constantly progressing, expanding. For a time I was enamored with the surrealists and then Samuel Beckett, J.G. Ballard and William Burroughs, authors and movements bent on distorting or eliminating traditional narrative. I was also drawn to the intricate, cerebral mazes constructed by Jorge Luis Borges.

Over the past decade or so, other writers have instructed me, helped propel my work in interesting new directions: Paul Auster and Jonathan Carroll (his first novel, Land of Laughs is a magnificent effort). Don Delillo and Cormac McCarthy. James Crumley. Robert Stone. Jack O’Connell. Irvine Welsh.

Each passed along important lessons—I luxuriate in prose by good authors, immerse myself in it, dissect and analyze it to discover how a certain effect was achieved. My hyper-critical mind has little time for those who resort to “hackdom”, it recoils from the discordant, tuneless prose produced by such derivative or porous imaginations.

Lately, my reading has ranged all over the place—one day, Robert Fagles' translation of The Iliad, the next something lean and mean by Charles Willeford. Nonfiction in the morning to get my brain moving, fiction to wind me down at night. I may go two weeks without reading a book, then binge on them, blasting through six in the next six days. For the longest time I didn’t read science fiction; now, thanks to