Sheet Music For Fireflies By Ron Pope

The fish that saved Pittsburgh is the original title of this amazing no less amazing and mythic film 1979. What had hitherto never heard of it? Dude, you're not fond of basketball, right? Music Basket was little more than an urban legend amongst the young who, in the early eighties, at the height of the first boom basquetbolistico in Spain, we jumped after the ball on any pitch street. Those were the days of Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, the mythical duels Lakers vs. Celtics ... and this movie was part of it all.

mythomania apart, we stand before a typical and topical sports comedy. Julius Erving, the legendary Dr. J, big star the basket during the decades of 70 and 80, plays Moses Guthrie, the worst franchise championship team. A random comment of his about his evil star, give one of the key team ball boy on the poor progress of the same: players are not astrologically compatible. The boy Moses convince you first, then the team owner to redo the same players astrologically compatible with Moses. Players must be all the zodiac sign Pisces.

said and done, then given a free transfer to the rest of the squad and, under the supervision of astrology, are called screening tests for applicants to join the team, which is have all sorts of quirky characters. The stars will decide which are the rarest of the rare, two identical twins, a crazy Indian, a deaf gamer magic, a reverend who abandons his flock in the middle of Mass to take the exams, a Muslim who always plays with his Bedouin scarf on his head, a local radio DJ, a veteran of Vietnam's crazy ... elected to the most bizarre team of the league: the Pittsburgh Pisces .

Image: Pittsburgh Pisces in the locker room, listening to the advice of the coaching staff.

Special mention also the coaching staff: a trainer that is not removed at any time the cigarette from his mouth, the coach who has no idea what that is basketball, and team owner who chose because passed through there, and above all, the official astrology, Mona mondieu. The quirky characters risión provoke their adversaries by jumping onto the field for the first time ... until the ball is in motion.

Let us be clear: this is a movie made by basketball fans for fans of basketball, so most of the footage is devoted to fantasy play: mates on his back, biting passes against board dribbling style paraphernalia globetrotters ... any game classic All Stars. Pisces revolutionize the championship, and with their precious game were planted in the finals, which will face the team of Los Angeles, which represents the majority of players dropped to build the new team, which come with a spirit of revenge. And if this were not enough, more problems: the final will compete in an unusual astral conjunction, a conjunction disastrous for those born under the sign of Pisces. And the astrology of the team has gone in such a decisive moment. Can Pisces overcome such adversity and win the championship? If you must know, you have to watch the movie.

Some highlights:

The decoration of the court in which to play the final. Authentic monument to kitsch seventies.

The soundtrack, brimming with funky seventies. To highlight the number of The Sylvers at halftime of the final.

The Los Angeles team, which actually is made up of leading players from Los Angeles Lakers at the time, with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to the head.

The various NBA players of the era, appearing throughout the movie make cameos.

Finally, a movie to spend time entertaining, without any pretensions. About especially if you like that basketball.

PS This article was originally written by 25 February, and fished for publication on this blog by 27 February, by a writer born on March 2. That does not say that we are not in sync with the plot of the movie.

article originally published on the site Mondofriki.com, on 25-02-2007

Granny Boobs And Thongs

Music Invasion the Body Snatchers

You will be the next ...




psychiatric manuals define Capgras syndrome as a disorder psychiatric in which the affected person believes that an acquaintance has been replaced by an identical double of everything. Good horror movie buff, upon hearing this description of a medical condition existing in reality, certainly not able to avoid a chill in his mind while the image is drawn in black and white, a giant bean pod playing a starring role in one of the most disturbing films of the genre. As you no doubt have guessed from the moment you start talking about double, let's talk about Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

As usual, here playing warn that we uncover details of the plot of the film.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1956 directed by Don Siegel is based on a serialized novel written by Jack Finney in 1954, The Body Snatchers. Kevin McCarthy stars as Dr. Miles Bennell, a family physician in Santa Mira, a small town in California, a typical provincial place where nothing ever happens like that both the perpetrators of the horror genre. Fresh from a conference, Dr. Bennell will find a barrage of cases of people who seem to suffer from the condition that I highlighted at the beginning. In the small town also seems to float a foreign environment. However, it gives more importance, merely to divert these patients to a psychiatrist confidence. So the film takes place without too much upheaval, until you see the corpse. His face was expressionless

with fingerprints erased, the foreign body is found in the house of a friend of the doctor, and marks a turning point in the film. From its appearance, the tension will increase, especially given that the body is revived, and later the same doctor is another of these bodies in the basement of the house of his former girlfriend. It seems that the action breaks loose. But soon the figure of the psychiatrist to bring order. Everything has been an episode of hysteria. There was nothing particularly odd in the first corpse, and as the second, only existed in the minds of witnesses. With daylight, indeed, everything seems back to normal, and even patients affected by the strange syndrome begin to recover. But all is apparently clear. You are about to go on stage one of the protagonists, surely the most memorable icon of this movie: giant seed pods.

A round of applause for our guest of honor, please.

Indeed, when the doctor and his friends are celebrating what looks like to their problems with a very American barbecue in the garden, the doctor, while looking for something to kerosene to light the barbecue rebel for such a sin against the palate of its guests, the doctor is definitely a creditor of the just punishment of being assassinated and replaced by a double-discover the terrifying giant vegetables, and all are witnesses to how they sprout mysterious corpses. The doctor tries to give the warning, but all their efforts do not go beyond the operator of the telephone. That's when the story reveals that the double is not a paranoid delusion, but a frightening reality, and that these mysterious beings control the city.

From this is when the film overflows with an apotheosis of pure paranoia. No one is legit. Everyone can be part of the conspiracy. The characters are driven to a constant flight, as they witness and the double came out of the plant are preparing to invade the surrounding villages. In addition, they must struggle against sleep, it is precisely for this when copies emerged from the pods copied the memory of their victims and live. In the end, only the doctor will be pursued by all the people. The movie should end with the doctor Benell in middle of the highway, shouting "you will be next" to drivers who refused to stop, but this ending was too pessimistic for the production, which imposed a more hopeful end, which shows a fortuitous accident that the story that has received raving mad as the police have picked up in the middle of the highway was real and can occur at the alarm time.


Final spoiler.

Many people noted as a defect of this film that at no time explaining how phishers get rid of the original once the copy is completed. But for me this is not a failure but a success of the film. Trying to explain this could divert the psychological tension of the film to a gruesome scene and certainly not credible. And basically, what we care if the double break down, eat or simply buried in the garden to their victims? It is enough that the discreetly out of the way and continue with the story.

Undoubtedly the highlight of this movie is the feeling, the aura of pure paranoia that envelops the viewer. An impression that is far from being an innocent amusement. Do not forget that this film was released in 1956 and the McCarthyism , although gradually declining, was still in the memory. Thus, it is difficult to tell exactly double those devoid of emotion, ready to conquer first the city and then the world, are an obvious metaphor of the fifth column under the command of Moscow, brainwashed, to be discovered in time, before you turn into something inhuman. If you have to be alert, suspicious of your neighbors, your relatives ... could be zombies in the service of Red Power. Again, the Communists have come from outer space to tear a chill.

This movie has been made so far three remakes , a very decent 1977, by Philip Kauffman , another forgettable in 1993, by Abel Ferrara , and more Recent 2007, by Oliver Hirschbiegel . But it is certainly original, with its black and white and vegetable giant papier-mache, which has left a deeper impression on the fans of the genre. A movie that does not pass the time, and that even today, still inspire awe.

Just for today. I hope you have fun, and remember, always watch your neighbors. May not be what they seem ...

This article was originally written for the site on 28-03-2007 Mondofriki.com, and revised and updated with new data for publication on this blog

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Vampirella (film) War Games

There are moments in life where you feel the irrepressible temptation of getting into front and occiput a film whose effect on one's health is only comparable to a stab in the hypothalamus. Authentic blunders that make you think that there are directors who should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. Like this:

Vampirella comic mythical character, famous for being the superhero that more beer in these comics taught 70 to 80, is destroyed in this bizarre production of the Series B King , Roger Corman, directed by Jim Wynorski in 1996 . A film so tacky it makes your side look Xanadu Watch Kane. Before continue, I must say that I was wrong when I put 1996. Yes, I know that seems to be 1969, but no. This well written, I swear.

Synopsis:

We are on the planet Drakulon (original name, I do not deny) for thirty centuries. This planet is that rivers run a kind of substitute for human blood, which feed its inhabitants, all vampires, but peaceful. But a lousy criminal called, certainly not adivinaríais ever, Vlad, prefers sucking the blood from the jugular of his countrymen. At the time of going to trial, his friends presented at trial and charged to the entire court, presided over by the father of the protagonist (Talisa Soto ) and give the pyro in a spaceship that takes them to Earth for 30 centuries.

At this point the film jumps back in time to something that is supposed to be our immediate future, to introduce a kind of SWAT embroidered with crucifixes in their caps that are supposed to be a secret organization Slayer-in-command of the grandson of Dr. Van Helsing (Richard Joseph Paul ). The attack Vampire Slayer sort of lashing Mexican ranch where one of the friends of Vlad, that in the meantime has become Count Dracula monkey dressed in a striking fabric that looks like a plastic raincoat quite a hundred, and I have to tell them where he hides the count.

Currently Vampirella, who came behind Vlad, but technical problems had to do a stop of 30 centuries of anything on Mars, appears in what surely is the most tragicomic film . All that we adolescence during the 80 know how was the costume of this character, right? Well, for those who do not know, here's a sample.

What makes you horny? Well, in this movie ... yes.

At this point we must ask a question. Who was in charge of costume design in this film? Is the cousin Escriva eunuch? Looking for that photo I swear I've seen pictures of strange convention where more tailored pibas wore costumes and morbidity twice that ... thing?. Hell, we knew that the movie was crappy (Roger Corman expected no less) but it was supposed to compensate seeing plenty of chicha. But apart from a couple of appearances cortitos topless in one of the bad, nothing. But I can not go yet, we still have a lot of laughter to us.

Well, Vampirella and who does not like things he learns that Vlad, Count Dracula himself, this undercover ... as a singer in Las Vegas tacky. Roger Daltry invaluable in the role of the Count. Tears fall from the pure me laugh every time I think about it. Vampirella is presented in its action, it Camela, takes him to a quiet place, but when going to load, you see the crucifix on the cap and lashing them both. But when I brought to his headquarters, Vlad hypnotizes the driver of the van where they are, causing them to stick a pinnace, and escapes. Van Helsing junior takes to throw a pass at a Vampirella meantime.

Later the vampires kidnap the grandson of Van Helsing, and propose a change to the vampire that the crucifix on the cap are a prisoner. Vampirella must deliver the prisoner exchange, but the vampires give the prayer card scam and pyran. Vampirella are followed up by the Mexican ranch, where she's caught and locked in a dungeon with Van Helsing, after removing a serum that takes and takes as a substitute for blood. Without serum, Vampirella can not control his thirst for blood and blood sucking him Van Helsing, he hopes Vlad. To avoid this, Vampirella is chained with shackles to the wall and when you begin to notice the blood lust begins to writhe and scream. It is assumed that this scene is there to make morbidity, but the truth is that if you start out loud, is that you are not human. The great grandson of Van Helsing lets you suck a little blood (arm, sends eggs) to retrieve the forces, and escape. Then come the hats of the crucifix and together they manage to avoid the evil Vlad plan to darken the sky with a few satellites that release carbon, that vampires can hunt happily without fear of the sun. In the final fight, Vlad falls by lightning while fighting with Vampirella, and plunges on fire by a dam.

End of spoiler

strengths of this film:

special effects: the transformation the vampire bat is ... well, no words. The vampire becomes a shadow silhouette painted marker on the frame, it is growing into a small spot that goes away on one side of the screen. With two balls! Why spend four guys in a rubber bat, when we spend that money on sniffing glue?

fight scenes. That art, my god, that art! These movements ... this girl has a black belt, at least. Well, the final fight is slightly Curran. But there is that the warrior is a double (not a double, no, a double, look, mind you)

sequence Drakulon the planet. I did not know that vampires come from a planet that seems an airport.

Finally, an entertainment that will certainly make fans of the character fitted in righteous anger, but everyone else we preemitirá throw us a few laughs.

This article was originally published in the 04/20/2007 Mondofriki.com site ... and no, I have not yet recovered from the shock that caused me the film.

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better not feel like a little game of chess ...?

In 1983 The Cold War was at its best, and Ronald Reagan, then president of the USA, referring to the now defunct Soviet Union as "Evil Empire." Expressions like "Star Wars" had become popular, and reflected a concern for the development experienced by military technology. The computer began to become popular thanks to machines like the beloved Spectrum, although personal computers themselves were still an exotic extravagance, and not used to meet in private homes, whether it was not that of anyone connected professionally with the computer. Internet was still a product of science fiction is beginning to establish the scientific basis. The same science-fiction, however, began to turn their eyes to the esoteric world, exploring its possibilities. War Games was one of the first incursions of the same gender.

War Games, directed by John Badham was probably the first film starring a hacker, and create the stereotype that would cut out these characters in the film. The film also draws on nuclear psychosis at the time. Matthew Broderick, one of his first starring roles, plays a madcap teenager, a fan of computers and video games that is about to trigger World War III.

note below reveal plot details.

The film begins with an introduction, in which we see two Yankee army officers receiving the fateful order to launch missiles against the Soviet Union. However, one of them hesitated at the prospect of committing genocide, and refuses to obey the order. Then the credits, while the image jumps to a meeting of staff. We learned that last scene was for a pop quiz that has resulted in a resounding failure: most of the officers it refused to obey the eviction order. The conclusion reached is that the human factor is a problem that has to be removed from the chain of command. It was therefore decided to replace the officers in charge of launching an artificial intelligence system that will obey the orders of the President and the General Staff did not stop to think. Note the detail that the film sibylline considered devoid of remorse to the latter. The military, let it clear from the beginning, nothing comes up well in this film.

The action jumps to introduce the protagonist, David (Matthew Broderick) at the time of receive a failing grade in biology, something that does not seem to worry too much. In effect, then we see how the juvenile offender falsifies his notes using his home computer, and step impress his girlfriend with his knowledge and his contempt for the law. Our protagonist then sees an ad for a videogame company, and with the intention of seeing them before anyone schedules a random telephone tracking of phone numbers in the area, with the intention of locating the company computer. One of the machines that scan detected on your answers with a list of games, so that our protagonist is sure to have located their prey.

To invade the system, David finds out who was the developer of the system, a Professor Falken and after investigating details of his life, guess the password. Then asks you run a program called "thermonuclear war." The problem is that the computer that has contacted is not a video game company, but the artificial intelligence system that now controls nuclear missiles, and the program has asked to run is a strategy game, but the program which calculates the most appropriate military response to a possible Soviet attack. David breaks the connection before they can reach you. The next day the news is brown which has got, but when destroying tests, the computer will call back to inform you that the game is, and will continue until there is a winner.

Clearly, the FBI just catching David, and bring him to the military where is the computer of yore. But when he was Assistant Professor Falk is doing him good cop, David takes an oversight to sneak into the computer again, and find out the current direction of the teacher, who was officially dead. Then he manages to escape, disguised in a group of tourists and later, accompanied by his girlfriend, shows up at the teacher (John Wood ) and manages to convince him to help them.

Professor Falken and David are presented in the complex control, and manage to convince the military that's all a fantasy and not to allow cyber counterattack. But at the time the computer takes the initiative, running a brute force attack against the code of missile launching. In a race against time to stop the machine before I get the code, she is forced to play a game of noughts and crosses herself. The machine begins to test combinations that always end in a draw, going into a loop. When you get the code, instead of launching missiles, begins to evaluate all possible conflict scenarios in search of a favorable strategy, Always reaching a final result of "push". Finally, finding no favorable solution, program execution aborts with a phrase that became famous thanks to this movie: "Strange game. The only way to win is not playing. "

End of spoiler.

details of this film to consider:

The way the hacker played by Matthew Broderick manages to sneak onto computers. Unlike other imaginative techniques used by pirates of fiction, Broderick's character in a consultation event sneak a post-it in which a user forgets the password is no longer recorded, and in another test (and succeeds) using the user name of the child. Precisely this kind of carelessness (leave the password written in an accessible place, or use a password easy to tell from someone aware of the privacy of the user) are responsible for a large number of malicious attacks in real life.

also the tactic of calling random phone numbers looking for a response from a computer was used by the hackers of the pre-Internet era, combined with tools like the mythical "bluebox" . In fact, the technique described in the film was renamed as "wardialing" hereafter due to the impact that produced it.

The scene where the protagonist escapes camouflaged among a group of tourists on a tour by a high security military bunker may seem laughable. However, this type of guided tours for morbid tourists actually existed at the time of the film, but do not know if they having got today (would not surprise me, really).

Although the film it may seem even a little gullible today to actually caused quite a stir, and even some panic at the time it premiered. In short, a good movie to see first hand the fear of atomic force at the time of the Cold War, and distrust that prevailed then to something that today has become ubiquitous, the world of computers.

This article was originally written for the site Mondofriki.com, and published on 24/04/2007

Doujin Dragon Ball Z Bulma

Kevin Spencer

Beware of these, which are dangerous

No doubt some day the English fans of animation art should raise the pay for a monument to the charge of that area of \u200b\u200bthe Catalan regional television, TV3, for their outreach gender. Not content to expose the brains of young audiences to ragweed as Dr. Slump, Bobobo or Sinch, TV3 has also worked the field of adult entertainment. Thus, while the bulk of the English public discovered thanks to the film's theatrical release and subsequent broadcast of the television series South Park, there is life beyond the Simpson, the regulars of the dawn of this channel and we explored the next stage of this route, the unspeakable series Kevin Spencer.

Kevin Spencer is a Canadian. Like all good geeks addicted to cartoons, you have seen the aforementioned South Park, and know that can expect from the Canadian humor. Well, let me warn you that you have been told not even half. Let me introduce you to the Spencer family, the worst human remains ever drawn.

Kevin Spencer is an adolescent child of a dysfunctional family more than survive on government aid and to any other skullduggery doubtful anything illegal. Percy Spencer, father of Kevin, when not in jail, looking for something to get drunk. In his travels alcoholic accompanying his friend Charlie, always, of course, that has not previously caught up too much alcohol his wife Anastasia, which often happens every time he returns home after a season behind bars, moments dedicated to pursuing his best friend with the good intention to blow the brains out.

Percy Spencer is certainly a gem of a father. Beside him, Homer Simpson is a great man of society. Usually refers to his son as "the moron", and no doubt hat the snuff. No wonder the father and son share jail cell in more than one episode.

inveterate smoker, alcoholic, addicted to cough syrup and sniffing solvents, diagnosed as a sociopath, Kevin does not say a word ever. We know your thoughts by the voice of the narrator, and above all, Allen, goose magical, invisible friend Kevin, who constantly encourages the most ultraviolent vandalism.

Along with the Spencer family, contain a number of effects. We talked about Charlie, a friend of Percy and his wife's lover. Marty is also the grocer who provides alcohol to the family, and Afroman and Pornoman, well-known porn stars, of which Spencer Anastasia is an ardent fan.

Another point that deserves comment is the drawing itself: naive, extremely minimalist, almost completely static, more reminiscent of a flash animation than a traditional cartoon. That style contrasts so childish drawing Gross tremendously with the stories told, and the foul language than the protagonists.

In short, if you want to enjoy as a dwarf, see everything that South Park did not dare to tell your brain and severely punished, so you can not lose under any circumstances.

article was originally published on the site Mondofriki.com the 21/05/2006

What Happens If Rack Nd Pinion

The Rock Odyssey (Rock Odyssey)

difficult, almost impossible to find today, this special studies Hanna Barbera for ABC of 1987 contains about two hours interpretations of the famous artists of animation factory inspired some of the most famous songs of the decades of the 50, 60, 70 and 80. Two hours in which the artists of the famous factory strung psychedelic music video after music video, and spectacular images.


music, I think it goes without saying, is not original. Are recreations, performed by musicians of legendary hits of the decades mentioned. Interpretations, so yes, very good and respectful to the originals. But without doubt the most impressive are the images that accompany the music. Images that transport you to a dream world, psychedelic, in which music, as the narrator repeatedly reminds us, a talking jukebox machine, the original version with the voice of Scatman Crothers, says it all.

This work is shrouded in legend. Apparently, ABC, frightened by the disturbing images, did not dare to broadcast it, and since this theory yet published. Is very little information on the Web is about, and without exception it classifies as unprecedented for sale to the public. However, it has been issued occasionally by television from outside the USA. English television was issued in 92 or 93, not remember now exactly, and that time is the recording, VHS tape, which I keep as gold cloth, and on which I rely to write this article.

Truth is not surprising that shocked the moral yankee. The suggestions, thinly veiled, the other two entities, along with the rock, make up the most famous trinity of our time, especially sex and drugs, are continuous. Many of the animations that accompany the music, especially in the chapter devoted to the 60, only understandable by basing the filter of psychotropics. Even in a scene you can see two "sugar cubes" sailing by the river blood of one of the characters, just before one of the most amazing sequences in the film, which accompanies the performance of "Purple Haze." Who does not realize at that moment that we are talking about LSD, honesty is not going the whole movie. In short, a masterpiece that has hitherto remained closed to the general public, except one who had the luck, the way I did, you can see it in a television broadcast at odd hours just advertised. A real shame.

This article was originally published on the web Mondofriki on 10/12/2005. The accompanying images are frame captures of the television broadcast referred to therein.

Is It Safe To Fly After Atrial Fibrillation

Recreation

Undoubtedly, the early years of the 80's were glory years for the comic industry in Spain. They were years that saw the light of mythical magazines, which, along with a new batch of local illustrators, also appeared to startled españolitos that just came out of the dark night of Francoist censorship the cream of underground comic and author of beyond our borders. Almost all of them fell to the sector crisis that ensued in the 90's. One of the most mythical header was 1984, a publication devoted to science fiction of the legendary and now defunct publisher Toutain. It was in its pages in 1982, where the Argentinean Horacio Altuna, draftsman, and Carlos Trillo, writer, presented a series that came out of all molds: The last recess.


plan if we were in gafapasta pedantic, we should compare this work with the Golding novel "Lord of the Flies. The latter consists of twelve stories recreational autoconclusivas that run in a post-apocalyptic classic. A doomsday weapon, which was not further explained that its effects, has killed a person who had passed puberty. In the world there are only children, abandoned to their fate. Children who will grow up all at once, to survive.

Invariably, these children fear always grow, because the duration of the effect of the bomb, growing up means dying, make the same mistakes of their elders, without any compromise on cruelty, in a ruined city filled with the corpses of those who have not survived, and was eventually forced to leave (leave a dead world to build a new, all very symbolic, if I may say.)

The story is told in a strict black and white, with more black than white, and Altuna shines in the urban panorama, Introducing deserted streets, full of papers flying and trash strewn oppressive creating an environment that reinforces the feeling of helplessness of the characters moving through them.

In short, a masterpiece that Altuna released in our country, and that all good genre fans undoubtedly will enjoy. The only downside is that since the argument, the reader (mostly male) may not enjoy the legendary author of that domain as a drawing of the female anatomy is concerned. But you know, you can not have everything in life ...

Article originally published in the 11/01/2006 Mondofriki site

An Item Worth Immense Value In 200 Years

Last Grave of the Fireflies (tremendísimo melodrama)

sure you have the kleenex handy before pressing the play button ...

worm in my capacity as antisocial and pancartero defender radical ideas incompatible with our ever benevolent Western consumer society (I'm being ironic, is it me shout a lot?) I had occasion to see several films of denunciation, of not giving concessions to the viewer, on these miseries in our world who prefer to turn the face. That is why I consider your stomach enough to face with one of the movies that drag black legend in the world of cartoons, Grave of the Fireflies. A great movie, no doubt, and also one of body which will leave you worse if you manage to stay the course, which few people get. If you are from natural depression, stay away from this film, and above all, under no circumstances, if you have small children, never let them see it. Not movie for all audiences, much less ...


Grave of the Fireflies, Isao Takahata director , the prestigious factory Ghibli, based on a novel by Akiyuki Nosaka , released in the year 1988, is undoubtedly the hardest movie I've seen in my life. If you are old enough that your father has ever said that "a war is what you need to pass to you, so that you remove as many fads and manias "and want to know what he meant, just to see this movie. 93 minutes of the worst miseries of mankind, without a moment's respite to the viewer, and no savings qualms about showing pictures and lurid situations.

Notice: a sleepless contnuacion plot details.

It's only the beginning of the movie shows you what's coming up. We see a beggar who dies lying in a train station, the indifference of the sweepers, who just commented "another one is dead" before continuing with their work. From here, the film tells the life of this anonymous beggar. We learned that had a name, Seita, which once had a happy life until the war take everything. By attending his mother's death in a bombing, which also lose their home and everything they had. We'll see how with her younger sister leave home to live with relatives, who despise the young orphans as a burden. We will witness the miseries of war, famine, cruelty of man against man. We'll see how the protagonist is forced to become a vagabond and a thief, as he learns of the death in combat of his military father, and finally as assisting the starvation of his little sister, now in full post-war, all narrated no pity for the actors or the audience, ending to see this monumental drama thinking that the world is a bucket of shit and life is meaningless. In short, a tremendous work of complaint that will surely make you a bad time, no matter how seasoned you think you have the stomach. A few guys

leaders of the dog world this movie I would put them in continuous session, duly tied to chair the one where they placed the star of A Clockwork Orange, to see if they knew so it's worth a comb ...

Simpsons Bart Hits Homer With Chair Bath

Censorship future brings us


First they came for those who download music and movies from the Internet. And I do not download or music or movies from the Internet, I said nothing.
Then they came for those with websites and blogs with links to downloads. And I had no website or blog with no links to downloads, I did not speak.
Then they came for those with websites and blogs in which they spoke ill of Ramoncín, Teddy Bautista or SGAE. And since I did not speak ill of Ramoncín, Teddy Bautista or SGAE, I did not speak.
Then they came for me. And then there was no one to say anything.


First, that Martin Niemöller forgive me for this caricature of his famous words. And once ordered the obligatory apology, what good is it going? Well, if you live in Spain as the author of this blog, the thing is clear, is the so-called Law Sinde. So-called because it is not law, but a section brashly placed in another law more broadly, the Law of Sustainable Economy, which theoretical intention, moreover, is not to protect intellectual property rights, but to articulate the steps to get us out of crisis. But as opening a debate about what specifically would first unpopular, they tested well, and if school, school.

If you live in any other country, no matter, because if your government was not such recent legislative initiative are probably already thinking about it. Unless you're Brazilian, of course, because there seems that this issue is on a different course , more in line with the century in which we live. What a great country, by the way, despite all its flaws and problems, Brazil. First you stand up to the pharmaceutical and led the movement for free generic patents. The corporate world will deal with pirates, but they persevered and eventually triumphed. Now I stand up openly to the mafias that seek to control the culture and distribution, just as the rest of the world follow their vain attempt to protect a market dictated that technology has rendered obsolete. Anyway, at least some realize that century we live and act accordingly. What if people like Sinde out, even travel in proceedings would use gas and light for light.

But back to the topic at hand, and the phrase Niemöller, the issue is at stake is more serious than just the innocent act of downloading a song sneaking Internet to pay a fee to a pair of singers passed fashion have made this their only income. It affects, however, our freedoms. The right not to be treated as criminals for using a technology. Then we can talk about whether it is ethical or not subject to exchange files copyrigth. Personally, as a fan of underground culture, when I remember the days before the P2P, the fruitless searches at flea markets and thrift stores, I can not more to say nice things about what some call, too lightly, piracy. But that did not talk about here, but as we try to sneak some censorship by the back door.

Because that is what this act of censorship. That we follow like sheep consuming corporate culture that we packaged as fashion: the best-selling fashion, singer fashion, fashion movie ... had always worked well, and so would still work if the technology had not put a powerful tool in the hands of the average consumer, enabling you effortlessly explore other markets, other areas of culture. That, in addition to obviously lose a lot of money to those that every season we launch the product fashion, scary. Frightens those who want transit culture in safe paths. They do not want to read the populace according to things, according to see movies, listen to according to singers. So far, the counterculture was known only to the minority that paying attention to minority channels. But technology has enabled the start counter infiltralse without control (because one day we should talk about what happens when the counter is tamed by corporations) in the cultural mainstream majority. And that, make no mistake, scared. Frightening.