I rewatched Signor Bava’s genre-defining Blood and Black Lace tonight, this being the film that’s generally agreed to be the starting point of the giallo film… not going to re-review, cos I did that once already on my old film blog, but I will provide some stills from the Arrow blu-ray I have. I have the comparatively disappointing old VCI DVD of it, and this was a much needed upgrade; this is one of the most visually stunning films of its era in whatever genre, with some goddamn extraordinary colours and lighting work. Click to expand to 1920×1080 (I haven’t shrunk any of these down from the blu).
Yeah. That’s the YT thumbnail for the Majority Report’s video about Edolf talking to the dickhead Jesse Waters from Fox. What a fucking amazing chyron that is, it sounds like Elon was promising to do it himself… and to be honest I wouldn’t be surprised if he did do it just to spite everyone who’s ever mocked him. But the really amusing thing about the interview was that he was actually talking about the sun eventually going red giant and engulfing the Earth—which it won’t do for a few billion years, it’s not exactly impending, but apparently that’s no reason not to start colonising Mars now—and Watters says about this being the first time he’s hearing this. And that, I daresay, is because he is in fact a dickhead like I said. Fuck me dead, you haven’t even encountered this idea before? How little attention have you paid to science until now? I mean, I’m hardly a scientician myself, but even *I* know, and have known since I was reasonably little, that’s the way everything is projected to end if we don’t expedite the process ourselves… fuckwit.
So this was interesting viewing. I was dimly aware at the time of a certain fuss surrounding the band Kula Shaker, something about their singer Crispian Mills holding some kind of dubious political positions, with that fuss not helping their career prospects, and the band splintering in 1999 after their second album did markedly less business than their first had done. I was never into them as such (really liked “Tattva”, though), and they fell so far off my radar that I was astonished to discover not that they had reformed, but that they’d actually done so in 2004. Good grief.
Anyway, our host Mr Hargreaves goes into the details of the affair, few of which I’d known about before. Brother Crispian did himself few favours by saying thing about having flaming swastikas on stage; he was and I presume still is deep into Hinduism so he has a particular relationship to the swastika as a result, and I understand that, but… well, if you talk about how great the swastika is to a primarily Anglo-European audience, they’re probably not going to consider that point. And so a Jewish journalist called Matthew Kalman, working for the Independent, decided to take Mills down.
So while KS were touring the US, Kalman wrote to him and asked him to respond to the accusations of him being kind of unsavoury. And Crispian sent back a long fax clarifying himself… whereupon Kalman chose to ignore what Mills had written and went ahead with the hit piece he’d evidently intended all along. But Hargreaves actually shows us the content of the fax and what Mills actually wrote, and the latter is pretty concrete about repudiating the far right; here are some screenshots from the video that you can enlarge:
Basically, therefore, Crispian Mills was a dickhead in the way he expressed himself, and he essentially admits as such. Of course, this assumes he was in fact being honest here and not just lying about abhorring the far right (I remember reading somewhere that even Ian Stuart Donaldson denied being a Nazi a few years before reforming Skrewdriver as an overtly Nazi band; someone evidently had his number well before that)… but I feel like he is, cos if he was stupid enough to say the things he did in press interviews, he probably would’ve been stupid enough to admit it in this fax if he were into Hitler. I’m willing to be charitable and assume Mills chose his words poorly at the time, and I think if he or the band in general were Hitler-happy, they wouldn’t have got away with coming back like they did; maybe their second phase has been less starry but it’s certainly been more enduring. (I can’t see that chud from Tau Cross bouncing back in any similar fashion.)
Interestingly, Kalman’s hit piece announced that it was drawing on the work of a small journal called Open Eye, citing its co-editor John Murray, without acknowledging that Kalman himself was the other co-editor of the thing (curiously, his Wiki entry also completely ignores it)… from what Hargreaves presents, it appears to have been a somewhat cranky left-wing conspiracy mag, and I just found that interesting, cos Kalman obviously wanted to expose Mills as a crypto-Nazi, but these days magazines of that alternative/conspiracy/counterculture sort seem more to lean right to varying degrees… indeed, I remember reading somewhere that Uncensored from NZ had actual Nazi-aligned funding behind it, which I don’t know if that’s true but I do find believable when I look at the front page of their site and see the Holocaust referred to with inverted commas around it. Also you can find them a lot more easily in newsagents now than you ever could’ve done with Open Eye and its apparently two-yearly publication schedule…
Also, David Icke gets referenced a few times, on account of Mills saying at one point that he doesn’t want to turn into him (a noble ambition, of course), but James Hargreaves keeps pronouncing his name as “David Ick”. And I love that. Not only had he somehow had the good fortune to remain ignorant of Icke until now, but “ick” is actually a pretty fair response to him as well…
So Mushroom Cock posted an AI picture of himself to his social media and, well, wow. Lots of people suddenly very angry with him that weren’t until now, even apparently non-Catholics. There seems to be some debate about whether or not he’s just trolling or does he actually think he should be Pope (wouldn’t be surprised to find that he does, obviously), and there’s equal debate about whether or not people should be offended either way or are they just being snowflakes, etc. And I do agree with Mr Hogan here:
Everything about him is an insult to someone or other, really. As a non-believer I’m finding it hard to be overly bothered by this, it just seems kind of par for the course with the dickhead, and if he hadn’t posted it one of his minions would’ve done. But at any rate he’s earning wrath and I’m all for wrath being aimed at him, including the wrath of the New York bishops’ conference… which is headed by one Timothy Dolan, who Trump himself more seriously suggested could actually be the Pope instead of him, and who is enough of a Trumpeter that he actually said Mushroom Cock “takes his Christian faith seriously” (and I’d love to know just what great reward he was paid to say that about someone who everyone paying attention knows believes in nothing except himself and money. And maybe tariffs). I think, however, this is going to strain the friendship… but then again, Dampnut will always have this clown:
I’ve had bugger all to say about the Australian election cos, frankly, I am still sick of politics and that includes our own; very little about the local carnival over the last few weeks has been that exciting, and I was mainly just waiting for the whole nonsense to be over and done with…
Also sprach the Graun
…which, remarkably, it was, surprisingly early; Antony Green was calling it for Labor by about 8.30 and, as you may see above, the potato-faced cunt lost his own seat before 9pm. Even Dickson is sick of his shit. Apparently this is the first time this has ever happened to a leader of the opposition here, similar to the Canadian election the other day where their opposition Conservatives got walloped and Pierre Poilievre, the party leader, lost his seat… which has led to an absurd situation there where another Conservative MP who just won his own seat again is standing aside to let PP run again in a by-election… which seems ridiculous cos, you know, they just HAD an election and the people of this other district voted for this other guy, not him. I don’t think this will work for him in the way he thinks it will…
This time last year I didn’t think Albo would see more than one term and Dutton would be PM by now… but the latter was fool enough to align himself with Mushroom Cock (just look at that silly cow Jacinta Price with her MAGA hat), and I think much as Poilievre’s association with Drumpf cost him dearly in the end, Dutton’s did the same for the Coalition and for himself; I suspect this was less a vote for Labor and more a vote against the Libs. But, having said that, credit where it’s due—Albo is now the first PM since J. Howard in 2004 to win successive elections, and he did so with what appears to be quite a swing to Labor as well; as of 11pm the ABC reckons Labor has 86 seats to the Coalition’s 40.
Just don’t blow it now, Anthony. Get back to being the “I just want to fight Tories” guy you were in opposition and haven’t really been in government. I wanted more of that from you in the last three years and you didn’t really give it. Still, the important thing is Peter Dutton is not the PM, and hopefully will never be a political force again.
So there you, that was Australian democracy for 2025, and I carried out my own civic duty this afternoon at Matraville Primary. They had democracy sausage which they don’t always have there…
…but I was more excited by democracy doggo (I had hot dogs at home that I’d already paid for so just had one of those when I got back). His/her face is a bit blurry cos he/she was moving about a fair bit (look at the similarly active tail wagging) and it was hard to get a proper photo, but a charming and pleasing sight nonetheless and perfectly happy to be petted and paid attention to. My legs have been killing me ever since, but the day has been satisfying.
This… atrocity is being held by Mike Waltz, the US’ national security advisor. At least, that was his job until Mushroom Cock fired him from that position because of his part in Signalgate. Remember that? The daily and continual stream of bullshit emanating from American politics makes it so hard to remember sometimes… but yeah, it was Waltz who inadvertently got the guy from the Atlantic into Pete Hegseth’s Signal group chat about bombing Yemen, so he’s the one suffering as a result… rather than Hegseth who, remember, was the one using an unsecured chat app for what should’ve been classified information in the first place. This is what you get for participating in cringy propaganda for God Emperor, evidently.
The Financial Review is actually kind of sad about this:
Waltz was arguably one of the least unqualified nominees for Trump’s cabinet. That’s not saying much when the field included a Fox News host such as Hegseth or conspiracy theorists such as, well, several of the others.
Still, Waltz is a Green Beret with four Bronze Stars and a record of bravery in Afghanistan, as well as a former Congressman who, before he kissed Trump’s ring, spoke with moral and strategic clarity against the dictatorships in China, Russia and Iran, and for their victims, from the Uighurs to the Ukrainians. […]
At heart a hawk in the Republican tradition of Ronald Reagan, he became lonely in the administration as the isolationist and imperialist America-First wing, personified by Vice President J.D. Vance, grew stronger.
Waltz, who would have loved to counsel the president on staring down the Kremlin in Ukraine or Beijing in the Taiwan Strait, instead found himself, say, standing next to Vance at an American base in frigid Greenland, trying not to look forlorn as the vice president delivered an unsubtle hint to one of America’s closest allies, Denmark, to hand over its Arctic territory to the US.
When Waltz tried to hire like-minded experts at the National Security Council, he found his choices blocked by MAGA blowhards who know nothing about foreign policy.
Why don’t I feel sorry for him, then? I mean… look where the “Republican tradition of Ronald Reagan” got the country. And, frankly, look where it’s got him. Perfectly respectable military and political career to Drumpf toady. He could’ve not brought this on himself.
Yeah. That’s the YT thumbnail for the Majority Report’s video about Edolf talking to the dickhead Jesse Waters from Fox. What a fucking amazing chyron that is, it sounds like Elon was promising to do it himself… and to be honest I wouldn’t be surprised if he did do it just to spite everyone who’s ever mocked him. But the really amusing thing about the interview was that he was actually talking about the sun eventually going red giant and engulfing the Earth—which it won’t do for a few billion years, it’s not exactly impending, but apparently that’s no reason not to start colonising Mars now—and Watters says about this being the first time he’s hearing this. And that, I daresay, is because he is in fact a dickhead like I said. Fuck me dead, you haven’t even encountered this idea before? How little attention have you paid to science until now? I mean, I’m hardly a scientician myself, but even *I* know, and have known since I was reasonably little, that’s the way everything is projected to end if we don’t expedite the process ourselves… fuckwit.
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