cahrizz

Hey pal. Hope you're doing well (both physically and metaphysically speaking, must cover my bases here).

Have a grand Xmas and one feck of a New Year.

That's some good writing there.

Totally feeling you on the several writing projects/ dealing with depression & the struggle. Took me a year to get my main character defined in my 85% putrid first 30 pages of my first draft of Viniculum. Doesn't help when subject matter clashes with diabolical acts committed in real life. Think I'm over that hump now given the scandalous neglect of the fresher incident compared to the previous one.

Damn, that doesn't seem more incisive than the previous comment...

1984 was years ago. Wouldn't mind going back. The 80's rules. Transformers, man. Transformers. Nothing will ever top Transformers.

Educate me, what's a bleeding truth? It can't be as offensive as what I'm thinking it is.

Yes it makes sense to segregate and separate prisoners. However the treatment they receive has to humane as stated by the Geneva Convention. Not to pick on the USA but if the only superpower flaunts this then that will encourage lesser nations to do so also and the convention itself becomes worthless. One way to win 'hearts and minds' is by demonstrating the laws of the land being upheld. What's the quote from Gangs of New York:... 'The appearance of the law must be upheld, especially when it's being broken.' The crazies in power have forgotten this. Years from now we'll feel the brunt from them aggrieved peoples, economic or otherwise.

See the simulated drowning bit in the film. Dick Cheney says there's nothing wrong with it. The Nazi's refused to do it because they found it 'inhumane'.

You must watch 'War on Democracy' by John Pilger. It's about what the USA have to South America over the years - like you mentioned. 'Breaking the Silence' is another one of his to check out. That deals with Afghanistan and 'the crazies'.

One thing about this period of history. There will be an active effort from our descendants to make sure it never repeats itself again.

One thing I've noticed in my years as a shithouse scrubber (don't laugh too hard, I work by myself, there's zero concentration involved and meet a lot of cool people) is that a piece of paper that says BA/MA Hons... whatever, is that there seems to be a large trade-off in sense. The little simple things in life that seem obvious are oblivious to these people. I look at these situations and can easily see me being one of them had I continued to uni. The days of me sitting down in a classroom and listen to people I'm paying for prattling on about shit I really am not interested in are dead. It's more rewarding learning about things oneself. The economics of the nation do not think so and discriminates against the solo way. But so what. As long as one is happy without directly harming others then that's all one should care about.

I've never seen anyone kicked out a classroom for questioning a teacher but I have heard of it. In high school my friend Kenneth in Maths when the teacher stated that it is 50-50 that a coin will land on heads or tails. Kenneth said that wasn't quite true -- what if it landed on its edge. Cue argument which the teacher couldn't handle and she ended up chucking him out of the class. Funny yet pathetic. Anyone who wants to be a secondary teacher without mixing it up in the grime of the real world (ie military, police, emergency services, etc) needs their head examined.

Where's that Top 5 Seagal films list?

Hockey? No. I live on a rock in the middle of the North Sea called Shetland. No hockey worth attending here. Just 11 hours in front of the idiotbox Sunday night for the NFL.

It is stunning to read of your experiences in Iraq. I'm shocked but not overly so to hear of the inflated figures in these explosions. I thought society would be above propaganda by now but we still cannot smell it when wafted in our faces. Anything to keep this adventure palatable.

It's fact the CIA tortures people or else why write up a manual - for a laugh? But it's commonplace, every corner of the earth, suspected or not, it happens. Of course there are merits to the action, no matter how despicable the method, but it's just heinous to see it applied in the wrong manner.

I'd love to hear about the people you helped.

I'm not for one second saying the US is alone in being guilty for all the world's sins. The UK has behaved shockingly. If I can point you to this here documentary. What's gone on here is right up there in terms of shocking behaviour. The worst of it is that it was a Labour government (when they were left-wing) that made it happen and New Labour (now centrist, arguably leaning right) that maintains the situation. Rancid. Utterly rancid.

An interesting site. Feckload of documentaries.

That Iranian dude makes me laugh, he really does. For such an educated man he really talks some crap. No homosexuals in his country. The holocaust didn't happen. What a tool.

Anyway Seagal films: The 5 you must see.

1) Under Siege (suspect you have)
2) Out For Justice (same here)
3) Urban Justice (his latest, so badass)
4) Hard to Kill (just because)
5) Out of Reach (saw this film just hours after putting the dog down on my birthday. Will bring a smile to anyone's face )

Craziness. Insanity.

Hope you're doing well.

Fuck Tung-Po too. 'Mylee, good fuck' - such filth.

It is my opinion that oil barons should receive the Keyser Soze treatment.

I'm now almost sure Bush was stuck in as president by the neo-con nobles (pardon the oxymoron) so they could present the public with a 'loveable' face while raping the fuck out of Iraq.

The Departed, Heat, The Usual Suspects, Seven -- best film out of the bunch?

back in drunk!

it didn't show up like it should have