Monday, September 23, 2013
What crawled out from under the dome...
Under the Dome is horrible. It is a terrible show, that makes no sense and
hurts to talk about...so I won't.
Hot naked Chicks and Hot Naked Men do it agian...
Our social experiment was a rounding success! We posted an article called Hot
naked Chicks and Hot Naked Men with no nudity or explicitness at all. It has
consistently drove traffic to the blog. It was a deliberate attempt to have more
page views that has paid off every single day. So keep coming back pervs! We
love you here! You are welcome here! You have found a home here...and while I
give you no porn, stay awhile and laugh a little or do something productive like
contribute.
Monday, June 17, 2013
Telling you what to watch...Fathers Day Edition
Daughter Perpetual Supreme Benevolent Editor wanted to take her dad, me, the Perpetual Supreme Benevolent Editor to the movies for father’s day. Father’s day has to be the greatest holiday ever! It is a day that is recognized that Dad gets to do as he pleases and a day that the only major sport not on TV is the NFL (also known as the reason I do not watch sports on TV on Father’s Day.) It is a day to celebrate the fact that dads everywhere got to do the one thing all dads like to do with their favorite thing to do it with. Win, win, win! It’s like a giant Lonely Island video. Fathers Day Tribute Video
In honor of the day Daughter PSBE took me to a coming of age story about a boy who is abandoned by his father and raised by another man. The new father wants the boy to follow in the family tradition and become a farmer; a concept the boy thoroughly rejects. Instead he sets out to make his own way in the world. He winds up taking odd jobs and moving constantly. He has to keep moving as he can’t seem to mind his own business and keeps getting into trouble. Eventually, he sorts it out; falls in love and settles on a career. Unfortunately, his dad had passed away some years before and did not get to see that his son made good.
His real father was also dead and could not appreciate the man the boy had become. So without his fatherly guidance it is implied that the son is going to deal with his daddy/abandonment issues by being overprotective to everyone he comes in contact with. I think they intend a sequel but I could not begin to guess what else they could do with the story unless his girl rejects him?
To surmise the movie plot: troubled youth, boy makes good, impresses girl, redeems wrong done to step-dad, solidify legacy of real dad and checks on Mom; oh and takes shirt off once and awhile as he is a pretty big dude.
I almost forgot! He took down his Dad’s former friend who betrayed him all the while dooming all the people related to him by blood to destruction.
So yeah an OK flick. Go see Man of Steel
Update: I was asked why no spoiler alert...Seriously its Superman did you expect him to die at the end???
Monday, June 10, 2013
Global outreach....
1. we got bored with it
2. well...there really is only the one reason
So, we stopped; that is until today. We got a view from the Faroe Islands. Technically speaking they are a sovereignty of the Kingdom of Denmark and not their own country; they are mostly self sufficient. When we did this initially we liked to point out something interesting or unusual about the country. It seems to be a unique collection of traditions and culture that seems unspoiled by the modern age. Look for yourself Faroe Island. Having said that there is nothing that has jumped out at us besides the fact that we had never heard of it before. Even the fact that there are no McDonald's on the island counts as that special. Here is a list "TRIVIA". You can watch this video:
Telling you what to teach...
As avid watchers of the History Channel we think we have stumbled upon something. It’s a concept really, an idea. It could be possibly a revolutionary idea…
We should stop teaching history. I know, I know; I can hear you all right now. Possibly, some of you are butchering the quote "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". It is a valid point. This quote came from the philosopher George Santayana, and he is quite correct. There are two problems with this. One, we scarcely pay attention in school and by all accounts there are around 10,000 years of human history we need to study. Two, human memory and recollection is inherently faulty. Any police officer and death row inmate will tell you that eye witness accounts are the least reliable source. Historian’s standard of proof is the source is not reliable if it was not first hand. In Egypt, there have been arguments for the last 20 years about the age of certain monuments. Geologists are saying that certain rocks are older than we thought based on weathering patterns and environmental conditions. Historians are saying someone wrote on the wall that the monument is this old and that trumps science.
I say why worry about it. Seriously look at Earth History. Much of the world does not study history now. They have no global consciousness of what history is or means. The history most Americans are familiar with is mainly centered on European dominated geo-political adventures. There are other cultures ancient and just as large as anything the Romans had. Thanks to the movie 300 some of you have heard about the Persian Empire. No, this was not a great Muslim Empire as one youth suggested to me.
It went like this:
Stupid Youth: See, people are all upset about how Muslims are influencing the world but they have been around a lot longer than Christians!
Me knowing that Islam was formulated as a prescribed set of beliefs around 600 AD: What?
SY: The Muslims attacked Greece and were a much greater society than anything in Europe at the time!
Me knowing that the Persian Empire’s, also known as Media, religious affiliation was known as Zoroastrian and the Priests were call Magi and it was more or less a cult of Fire: …………….
So there you have it. Now if I didn’t have a background in ancient history I would not have been bothered by his inane diatribe. It wasn’t his fault, it was mine. Really who is to say I am right? I wasn’t there.
Back to my point, there were great ancient empires in Africa and China that most people do not know about. And what does it matter? We not only ignore ancient history we ignore recent history and we ignore our own personal history. And we keep pounding away at the world making a little progress here and there and yes repeating mistakes. If we spend little to no time studying history we can devote our effects to science and language. We can stop worrying about who was better and who was right. People do not have to carry on their shoulders the weight of atrocities conducted hundreds of years ago.
When our children are born we should take every effort not to tell them about the past and only focus on the now and training for the future. Motivations and actions of people will no longer be held to a standard of who came before but just jugged on their own merits. Another reason to abolish teaching history is intellectuals study the disastrous policies of the past and think that they are smarter than the people who came before and with their superior intellect they can make Fascism, communism, and ism work where others have failed.
So stop teaching history, the history channel stopped showing it. And if not showing historical shows on the History Channel can work (like not showing music on Mtv) I think we can ignore it all together.
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Friday, June 7, 2013
A moment of Binary Zen...
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Telling you what to watch...
Now You See Me
The Mrs. and I were in the mood for some
cinema. You see we were celebrating our 17th anniversary
and there is nothing better than to sit in a dark room with
strangers. As we were both Will Smith fans we really wanted to check
out his new movie After Earth. Now as this is State Controlled Media
and it is our job to tell you what to watch and not the other way
around, we rarely listen to the average movie goers reviews. We do
listen to professionals though. And when you see “Quite simply,
this is one of the worst films of 2013” Chicago Sun Times and
“Surprise — this bad dream is for real.” St Louis Post-Dispatch
it gives you pause. So entertained by the negativity we decided to
see what the people thought and their sentiments ranged along the
same lines. While doing this we saw a lot of positive buzz for “Now
You See Me” from the average person. The critics were giving it 5
out of 10 and the people were going 7. So we settled in on this
movie.
The cast was great. Jesse (I play the
same character in every movie) Eisenberg, Mark (shave
already)Ruffalo, Woody (I give believability and likability to any
character I play) Harrelson, Dave (the lesser known and possibly more
talented and charming) Franco, Morgan (could you read the phone book
for me) Freeman and Michael (Same as Morgan) Cain. The female
character was flat uninteresting and played wooden by whatever her
name was. She was so unlikable it wasn't worth the time to look her
up. I am tempted to go over the plot as I have seen many discussions
amongst the professional and amateur reviewers alike. I will not do
this. The plot is meaningless. The beginning was fast paced and like
any good magic show the misdirection was enough to trick you into
thinking you are watching a decent movie.
A third of the way through it, the
movie slowed down enough for me to start thinking. The last thing you
want is the Perpetual Supreme Benevolent Editor to have time to
think. After 5 minutes of nothing happening I realized I hate this
movie. The big reveal at the end shows how the magicians robbed banks
and did their tricks. This only reinforced me hating this movie. The
magicians simple tricks to robbing banks were so complicated and
convoluted that it would have been more difficult to do than digging
through the concrete and steel reinforced walls of a bank vault with
a plastic spoon. That is how impossible it all was.
Every person who rated this 7 or higher
(as of this writing it is an average 7.5 on most sites) and every
critic who gave it 5 or higher (all scales out of ten) are missing
the point. Who cares about the plot holes and the fact magic tricks
are easy to do in a movie when there is no real effort involved! The
movie was plain stupid! The big reveal at the end sucked the life out
of everything you just watched. And don't even get me started on the
motivations of the magicians in the first place. Their goal was to
become so well known they can NEVER be seen in public again and steel
millions of dollars and not keep any of it. S-T-U-P-I-D.
Damn you Will Smith for not making a
better movie so we didn't have to watch this steaming heap!
I think I just got Played by M. Night
And he really didn't make a movie and it was all a trick to get me to
see Now You See Me...
Thursday, June 6, 2013
A Binary for those who love Binary
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Bad Movies
(and We are not talking about Cameron Diaz movies)
Mrs. PSBE and I went to see a movie
called “Now You See Me” to celebrate our 17th
anniversary. This is not a review of that move. (I liked it, then
hated it.) Then last night We sat down for family movie night and
watched “Life of Pi” (good flick if a little sappy). These movies got me thinking so no, this is
not a movie review but a critique of the movie industry as a whole.
More good movies have been coming out lately; and by good we mean
entertaining, not thought provokiing, not art, ENTERTAINMENT. The
Acadamy awards still suck, but that is for another day. Cinema is on
the verge of being ruined by a technology meant to enhance the
viewing pleasure. It is making modern films almost unwatchable.
Years ago, I was a mild fan of Brittney
Spears. (insert mocking here, I'll wait)...........Done Yet?
Anyway, I enjoyed her first album that
is until the PSBE brother-in-law pointed out that Ms. Spears had a
groan/moan/throatclearing sound she made before almost every line of
music she sang. After he pointed it out, I no longer could listen to
her music without hearing it. Why do I bring this up? Because I am
about to do to you for movies what he did to me for Britney. If you
would like to go on enjoying your movies stop reading now.
You were warned. 3-D is killing the
movies. I do not watch a lot of movies in 3-D. I really like the
modern High-Def movie screens and killer surround sound that theaters
have. So I tend to notice, or have noticed that movies are not
geared to take advantage of my preferred viewing habit. It is even
more prevalent when I watch movies at home on a much smaller screen.
The perspective in modern film is pointed right at you. Many movies
are made with the 3-D effect in mind therefore they need things to
fly at you. Swords, balls, tigers (Life of PI I'm talking to you)
something/anything to make the 3-D genre viable. If you are watching
a movie in 3-D that really shouldn't be in 3-D it helps make you feel
less guilty about paying to much to see it; however not needed or out
of place it seems. Once you realize what they are doing it takes you
out of the moment and the film can be lost to you.
It is really agrevating when you are
watching a movie in the theater that was clearly meant for 3-D (most
animated movies that come out now, I am talking to you) that has one
sight gad after another that the movie either runs to long or any
sense of a story gets interrupted for the sole purpose of launching
something at the audience. Want proof? Look for this:
It happens a lot now. It is a cheap way
to get the 3-D moment to the viewers. AS much as I hate the constant
pointing at me and the lack of cinematic perspective there is
something even more insidous and vile happening.
When a movie is in 3-D and has no
business being in 3-D. It was not designed nor intended by the film
makers to be in 3-D. The studio head says, “hey this is a block
buster movie we have to release it in 3-D!” I have one question,
have you ever seen 3-D glasses? It looks something like this:
No matter what you do the glasses
darken the viewing experience, and if you are going to see a film
that is DARK it can make the screen a little hard to see. If the movie is not rendered for 3-D and it was a cheap cash grab by the studio or the theater doesn't have the equipment to show the movie correctly (Goodrich Quality Theaters, I am talking to you) then it takes away from the experience rather than adding to it. Then you
wear glasses for three hours for no reason. Unless...
Still that is not the worst part. The
movies that have been released or re-released (talking to you Star
Wars!!) that have no potential for good 3-D experience. In fact some
movies can have as little as 20% of the film in actual 3-D rendering.
Next time you watch a 3-D movie lift up your glasses. The blurrier
the picture the more 3-D effect is being used. Sometimes you can lift
your glasses and the picture is perfectly clear (Star Wars, Toy Story
3)! The clarity and depth you are seeing at that moment is being
enjoyed by all the people one theater over in High-Def 2-D for a
fraction of the cost.
AN I am stuck watching a movie with things pointing/flying at my face for no good reason.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
You searched for What…
This last month some poor unsuspecting people searched for
something that is not this blog and wound up here anyway.
Bellow are our favorite searches that brought people into SCM:
real mole people
30 rock from the sun
naked men
naked chicks blogspot
and the PSBE’s favorite:
olivia wilde in time scene
So no matter how you got here, Welcome!
Telling you what to watch...
Django: Unchained
So, we at State Controlled Media have been watching a lot of cinema these days. We like movies, we don’t have to have a reason to watch one but on this particular night the Perpetual Supreme Benevolent Editor and Mrs. PSBE had a date night. We had a romantic dinner (WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT’S ALL WE GET FOR $50!!?!?!) and decided to go see a movie about a man who was so desperately in love with his wife that he would doing anything to get her back after being separated by forces out of their control. (at least that is how I described it to the wife.)
So we get to the theater and the inevitable happens. I have to pee. I make my way to the men’s room (Still waiting on the private facilities just for the PSBE) to do my business. It was flooded. Not with a stream of anxious men hoping to recycle the big $8 soda they drank in an efficient manner in order to go back to the movie they are missing. No, it had a waft of standing water mixed with urine, spit and maybe discarded chewing tobacco (at least we hope the brown floaty stuff was tobacco). There were only two options, pee right there on the bathroom floor turned pseudo toilet or trudge in use the urinal and burn my shoes.
My feet squeaked on the way back to my seat. I forgot to burn my shoes, and now I can’t remember what pair I wore. SCM headquarters is contaminated…
Django Unchained stars this guy:
No This Guy:
He is held captive by a white Hitman who makes him do his bidding:
No that’s not right. The guy in Django can act.
Listen, it was a great movie that made white people squirm at the blatant racism being thrown in their faces and making people feel something in a movie is a good thing. It was a gross movie but after the theater bathroom I was unfazed.
So go see it. (P.S. Leonardo DiCrappro dies in the movie and that is also always a good thing)
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