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I had a very good day yesterday. For the first time in about three months, I was happy. Smiling from ear to ear, laughing and generally feeling good about myself - and, of course, I saw the new Star Wars, with K.

She decided the time we were supposed to meet, and then we both had a fantastic time during the movie. I loved it, but some of the things in the movie, was a bit.. Rushed, I felt. K felt the same, but all in all, it was a success. There is this new character in the movie called Babu Frik, and he is possibly the cutest thing ever! During the previews, we were treated to a 6 minute sneak-peek to the new movie Tenet. It looks fantastic! K and I both agreed, that we were going to have to watch that. Of all the previews we saw, three stood out: The new Bond film, the new Top Gun and Tenet. All three in IMAX. It's gonna be expensive, but worth it.

Now, this wouldn't be a successful trip to the cinema, without me buying too much. I decided to get some pick-n-mix, because surely that would be eaten during the movie.

It didn't. Did it get eaten before the movie? No. Did I even eat most of it? No. I barely touched it. This is what happens when we go and see exciting movies! We are too busy watching the screen, to be eating popcorn, candy or other things. But - at least I have some for tomorrow or tonight.

What rating would I give Star Wars? A solid 8.

Taxpayer confiscatory funding of ueber alt left biased "public" broadcast media. NPR (National Proletarian Broadcasting), PBS, the Beeb, Deutsche Welle, Radio Oz, others. Certainly here, the initial thought was to provide balance to commercial on- air outlets. Bilateral political support for the idea, half a century ago.. But liberal morphing of the academy, with grads filling staff positions, well, oh my astute fellow bozos on the bus, just look at it now. Any fair minded person with eyes and ears will notice by just watching a bit. So, just take in the hate speech toward ANYTHING said/done by our Brilliant Dazzling President Trump. Or right wing pols. Never a hardball Q. ever tossed at our last affirmative action, never held a non government job, POTUS. But don't merely believe what you hear and see. Check out the lockstep rabid Dem party line support for these sources of leftie propaganda. Same with RFE and VOA. And, as with juniorversity faculty, and print MS media, almost 90% of staffers, editors, vote Democrat. Sure, the right has it's outlets, but all are commercial, supported by adverts. Which, just BTW, weren't supposed to be funders of these ether based media---again, just have a look see and hear at the ubiquitous support by the BIG EVIL corporations. Was a time, when this funding was restricted to a few second mention of of the name of a CORPORATE, very corporate, payer. But just watch the obscene advers these days, even in the face of the routinne on-air commercially oriented BEGATHONS. "all three CD's of the BG's for a "contribution" of $200. Call now, volunteers are standing by." Pathetic, hypocritical, but oh, so very Alinsky. But take heart, loves of unbiased pubic broadcasting. There's a dust storm of horse cavalry over the next (2020) hill. As if he hasn't accomplished enough already, as campaign promissed, there are rumblings of a fix to these air-wave travesties. Already, with Republican and taxpayer group efforts, the taxpayer funding has successfully been cut back by some 60+%. Lots of plans in the Trump hopper. Cutting back ALL such dollars. And a start up of fully taxpayer funded MORE BALANCED Radio/TV ALTERNATIVES, at least for the few decades the leftie propagandists got away with it, and much more. To paraphrase the I Ching---in T'ai, we see the little gone, and the great come. Great indeed, are the things in T'ai. (Hexagram for the first month.)

Last night Colbert returned from a hiatus with some revealing insights into how Trump was faced with the decision to kill the Iranian general.
Colbert suggests that our US generals gave Trump a menu of choices in which killing the Iranian general was the worst choice.
The generals never thought he would make that choice. They don't know Trump very well, do they.

Here's his monologue from last night, including mentions of the Golden Globe awards featuring
a view of Salma Hayek's award winning globes.

Today, the BBC show Top Gear premiered their very first Danish episode. The format is the same as the British one: Three guys, cool cars, The Stig, challenges, a Star in a Small car and a test track! It's a formula that works, so why change it?

The first episode saw the three hosts, TV presenter Felix Schmidt, actor Dar Salim and ex pro racecar driver Jesper Carlsen, go to the top of Denmark, to test three SUVs: A Mercedes-Benz G Wagon, a Lamborghini Urus and a Bentley Bentayga.

The tests and challenges were classic Top Gear: Banter between the hosts, trash-talking between the hosts and just good old fashioned fun, in three big cars.

The Star in a Small car was the ex boxer Mikkel Kessler. He set a time on a race track, just like in the original show.

Overall, the first episode was great. There are some kinks, but it's the first episode. It takes time to smooth it out, and to really settle into the role as Top Gear hosts. Episode two premiers in a week from now, and I will definitely watch it!

For this very first episode, I will absolutely give it a score of 7 out of 10. The later episodes will probably be rated higher, but we'll have to see how it goes. For now, it's a VERY promising start.

Next review will be of a film I bought today, starring Steven Seagal.

Oh boy..

Today was the day when I was gonna be an extra in a new ad campaign. I was excited, because I have never filmed in a prison before. Particularly not in a prison like this which is very famous. When I arrived, two people were already there. We got talking, and we joked around a bit. My first comment was "They finally got me!". They found that one pretty fun! The last few people came to the meeting point, so we were let in. The prison itself is old. It was opened in 1859, but was closed in 2017. Now the prison has been turned over to the local council, and they plan to include it in their urban development - whatever that means.

Anyway!

Once we were led in, we signed a NDA. I am not allowed to talk about what happened, but I am allowed to talk about the basic plot line of the campaign. Once we did that, we were led into a round area, where some chair were waiting for us. There, the costume department came by and looked at what we brought with us. I only had to wear the things I was wearing at the time, so it was pointless to bring a whole bag of clothes.

Once we were ready to start filming, we were assigned our positions. I had the hardest one - I had to lay in a sofa, pretending to play the guitar. After they got their scenes with the actors filmed, it was time for my/our close-up(s). I had to repeat what I did before, while they filmed every extra again. Once that was done, it was time for audio. Everyone went silent. The director looked at me, and said: "Right, what you need to do is play some random stuff. Just pick away, and let it flow."

Everyone looked at me and listened. The director gave me some pointers, like rummaging around in the sofa, making sure they got the sound of creaking leather. Now, I am not one to boast, but I nailed my take on the first attempt.

So to sum up: I spent around three hours in a sofa, playing a guitar.

Being an extra is exhausting.

The ad campaign will air here when this pandemic dies down, and they hire for new prison officers.

This was a bit of ROAD WARRIOR and a bit of 8-bit Computer gameplay.

Looks like it was shot in backlots and gravel pits, but the excellent central cast and a really, really, really good script made this one a keeper. They've made a script for a sequel, but still casting about for financial backing to make it happen.

TURBO KID



Official Trailer


If anyone made this film work, it's the over-the-top performance of ineffably cute Laurence Leboeuf.


The Soundtrack by Le Matos, captures the spirit of the Golden Age of 8-Bit Gaming magnificently

...while channel surfing, with my new Shenzehn short wave radio. This program was on creepy, sniffy Uncle Joe Biden's choices for running mate, and his pandering, sexist claim to pick a woman. Of course, the one hour piece focused almost entirely on Black women. Sort of like almost any story on Public Radio dealing with couples, excludes heterosexuals. Or when discussing so called "Dreamers", foreign born youth, enjoying/usurping the many benefits of real US citizens, and still of questionable legality. In these cases, almost every kid interviewed is at Harvard Med School, on an affirmative action free ride. I note the far greater number of violent gang MS-13 members, who are never heard from. Many are dreamers as well. Easy to interview in prisons. Do we digress?
So I recall one of many witch hunts on President Trump, literally dozens, all failed, after constant initial media coverage. Any one heard of Stormy Daniels ever again? Russian collusion? Etc.?
Or ruses by clinician shrinks, who should know better, but were suffering from TD-HD Syndromes. So without seeing clinical records, or using laboratory info, or a diagnostic interview, much less other testing, began tossing diagnoses about, all meant to claim he is incompetent to serve in his role. Boards of Medicine reminding them of ethics in practice?
Now, the alleged issue with Trump was Narcissistic personality traits, which are common in most pols. And in Meself. And the possibility of incompetence based on cognition. During serial medical exams, standardized testing for this was done. By qualified Physicians. He scored high normal on all.
Now, Syndromic alt lefties here will never agree, but most fair folks have seen the daily gaffs, verbal and behavioral, indicating poor judgment/memory/etc. by this the former VP. Many long montages exist displaying these. Belly ticklers all.
Yet nowhere on the biased media do we see any discussion of VP Biden's clear challenges in these vital regards. Many of us are aware of this "oversight", but it's really striking. Along with sequestering him a good deal, as damage control. Can't make any of this up.

.... by the normally way altleftie biases, VERY way, of our still taxpayer funded, American Public Broadcasting reportage.
The lower class, rude, "got ya" inquisitions at ALL presidential press conferences. Same in the print media. And the like.
To deny any trace of this, is a cardinal sign of severe TD-HD Syndrome. To actually use some of the fake news, exclusively, by paste and post here, pushes these Syndrome victims into terminal status.
But over the past few days, with such a strong presentation of diverse, VERY diverse, and grounded speeches at the Republican Convention, and tightening of the polls, what's this now?
A relatively fair and more balanced group of political wonks being interviewed in these media outlets. Showing they can do so, but displaying little else. And after many such tiny jaunts into fairness, they are beginning to state, often, "You heard the previous pieces on American Public Media". Pathetic and revealing.
Recall, as in my earlier evidence based blogs, Public Broadcasting was started mostly beginning with academic radio and TV stations, as an idea to present some balance to commercial venues. Initially completely taxpayer funded, and unbiased, the Right saw the undeniable near total shift over time to ueber biased left wing programming, and had congress decrease the funding. Now over half of the blood money comes by way of regular cheesy annoying BEGATHONS by these broadcasters. Replete with baubles for contributers promising their money. Donate large, and you get Bette Midler CD's, or a subscription to the NYT. Taxpayer money to support such biased fundraising is of questionable media ethics, if not rank illegality.
But none are fooled. Nearly five decades of ever growing biases, corresponding to the hiring of college graduates, themselves under leftie high school and university teaching practices, is in NO way trend forming.
But lets see the comments by the few high Syndrome victimshere. The distorted cognitions, along with obsessions and compulsions, all aflame, as ever.
After the reelection, and shift in the House, watch how these purveyors of near consistent leftwing biases get taken to task.
Can't make this up, and you heard it here first.
From your sometimes blocked, fat little illiterate, gnomoid Vierk runt-dwarf.

I played softball tonight and am now chillin', watching Colbert.

Former NJ governor, republican Chris Christie was his guest.
The last line of the interview was first Colbert saying "we have to go now,
but Trump's former campaign manager, Steve Bannon is in jail.
Are you going to visit him ?"

Christie's reply; "I wouldn't visit him if he lived next door. He's a bum !"