It's one of my favourite films I first saw it when I was about 14 in a Moviedrome season on BBC2 introduced by Alex Cox. And I got a bit obsessed with it all during my teenage years ... it's the kind of film that can haunt you, so evocative Umm ... so what's your second favourite film?
mmm so true! I still watch it when my mood takes me. hmm.. tough... I'll go the cowards way out and say Blade Runner, just as atmospheric and, lets face it, a classic. There are so many other films I like, Sci-Fi (Alien, 2001, Logans Run, Dark Star), Japanese and Chinese (Jet Li stuff, Prodigal Son, Akira etc.), European (La Haine, Baise Moi, Das Boot) Australian, plus lots of obscure animation, the weirder the better, but very little modern Hollywood stuff, it just bores the shit out of me.
Jerimiah Helpman, the ghost in the machine.... woooOOOooo lol Sam Lowries late father in Brazil. You'll have to watch it man
I feel that we are observers, one of a rare set of evolutionary events which conspire to make us fully aware of our surroundings. By means of instruments capable of observing what we can't see, we can deduce that our solar system exists and it's dimensions, movements and positions etc. There is nothing on our world to suggest stars are not holes in the night sky, only through major instrumentation are we able to prove this physically. If we weren't here, who would attempt to take all these measurements and create the image we have today of our surrounding environment, from the minutest molecular structure to cosmic scale structures to eleven dimentional space theorys. It all amazes me and doth make me say "wow", who needs a deity or a set of rules when "wow" will do! Honestly we are a rare thing, you know the saying "if a tree falls and no-one is there does it make a sound?"? Would the universe fully exist if there is no-one to really witness it's vast fractaline beauty? Meaning of life: Observe, live a little, reproduce (the fun bit) and go wow occasionally... or die trying!
Wouldn't you say that the point of observing the universe is to determine that if a tree does fall in a forest and nobody's around to hear it, then it will make a sound? In that observation leads to general rules through which we can understand the way things work and make predictions on what will happen given a certain set of circumstances. This is based a question I found in an online ethics test a while back: 10 people you don't know will die somewhere in the world, unless you choose to die in their place. What would you do? 1000 people you don't know will die somewhere in the world, unless you choose to die in their place. What would you do? 10,000 people you don't know will die somewhere in the world, unless you choose to die in their place. What would you do? The people you could save will never know you, never know your choice, never thank you and there's no opportunity for flashy heroics. Either you drop down dead or they do....
Hmm, kind of, but we can see trees with our own eyes, we couldn't see the scale of our universe until our instrumentation and mathematical methods were good enough. I am saying that we can visualise our surroundings without ever actually seeing any of it, amazing! I am concentrating on the end, as oposed to the means, although the means are the fun bit! I'm an all or nothing kind of guy, I choose life!
What would be the best way to go? And how would you like to be remembered? How do you think you would be remembered?
q1: Head on collision with a tanker on a bike. Flames! I would like to point out here that I am single. I recon if I had kids and all that I would probably drive alot slower, thereby increasing the fade away factor! q2: As a crazy fool q3: As a crazy idiot!
What style of music do you enjoy playing most? I noticed that you said you enjoyed being a drummer...
Complicated rock, 5/4 beats and ozric style madness! I have done all sorts though, from gong to hardcore to shuffling low beats, it's all good!
