...not that there's anything wrong with that, rofl. WWP ~ Today, Huffington Post's lead article (only the splash page) on the Air Force's discontinuation of "Don't Ask Don't Tell" is accompanied by a still Of Tom Cruise from "Top Gun". The headline has since changed from "PREPARE FOR TAKEOFF" to "MAVERICKS", but how long before it reads that classic line from Closet episode of South Park? "WERE SO SUED".
Oh well, so much for all that street cred you've been trying to build up since your little couch incident. All wiped out in one picture posting.
Also, as mentioned in the thread: lol! perfect timing with the green light for Top Gun 2. So I thought it fitting do drag these past TOP GUN movie clips out of the archives.
Top Gun 2: Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Quentin Tarantino: Gay Top Gun
Tip of the 'ol thruster nozzle to: Django, Johnny Thunder and RightOn.
WWP ~ We learn from our friends across the pond (because for some odd reason, BBC doesn't want us yanks to see these) that the BBC is still pumping out promos for their upcoming Panorama/Secrets of Scientology episode that'll air (over there) on Tuesday, 28 September @ 2100 hrs.
Reporter John Sweeney's last investigation into the Church of Scientology resulted in an explosive confrontation with church officials. This time, in a Panorama Special, one of those officials has turned whistleblower to help him reveal the dark secrets of the church, which boasts Hollywood A-listers Tom Cruise and John Travolta among its devotees.
John Sweeney's Secrets of Scientology Promo#2
Panorama - Scientology and Me [original]
If you're curious as to what all the hub-bub is about, through the magic of Google video, the original has been archived in a non-diced-up version:
(14 May 2007) John Sweeney investigates the Church of Scientology, endorsed by some major Hollywood celebrities, but which continues to face the criticism that it is less of a religion and more of a cult. Some former members claim the Church uses a mind control technique to put opponents at a psychological disadvantage. During the course of his investigation, Sweeney is shouted at, spied on, visited in his hotel at midnight and chased around the streets of LA by strangers in hire cars.
BBC's Sweeney's back in town, and he's picked up a few tails it seems. This next eagerly anticipated addition to BBC/Panorama series is reportedly airing BBC1 28th Sept 2010 9pm in the UK. I'm sure it'll be hitting the tubes shortly after that.
Score ~ SubGenius: 2, Scientology: 'the big donut' WWP : Rev. Modemac tips us off to a post by Rev. Zapanaz, who has a run-in with a couple of body routers in Washington state.
There was a big parade in Seattle last night, the Seafair parade. I hadn't really meant to go to it, I asked a lady out, but I did it b email and just before the time i planned to meet her, so I knew it was 50/50 if I would hear back from her.
Anyway so I went downtown so I would be there in time in case it did work out, and didn't hear from her until later. But then I looked up and all the streets were blocked off and there's this parade going down the street. So what the hell, I decided to walk along the parade route and bar hop. I like crazy crowds.
So I am walking through this crowd and enjoying myself, when this guy approaches me with an arm load of pamphlets. Immediately I wonder what he's selling.
He is a clean-cut, good-looking bright young guy. But with a bizarre element, he has this absolutely hideous glittery gold necktie on. It isn't just bad, it's bizarre. More clownish than like something a country-western singer would wear.
So he starts giving me his spiel, I see his pamphlets, SCIENTOLOGY in big friendly letters on the cover. Oh dear, one of them.
So first I give him a Church of the SubGenius spiel. I don't remember exactly where I took it, but I was on a roll, telling him about how J.R. "Bob" Dobbs has come to bring us back the slack which THEY have taken away, and all that kind of thing. I remember at some point I pulled out a picture of "Bob" from my wallet and showed him and said "DON'T YOU FEEL IT? THAT'S "BOB"!"
Anyway so he laughs and says "but that's all a joke, right?"
So I say "SO IS YOURS, MAN"
"Wake up, cult-boy. Don't you know L. Ron Hubbard just made all that stuff up to rook the gullible? There's nothing there."
He is non-plussed. "I can only speak from my own experience, but my own experience is it works. You can't knock it until you now what it's about."
"Sure", I say, "but the parts that work aren't original. Like take auditing for example ..."
He seems a little surprised that I know what auditing is. "You know about auditing?"
"It's really just a rewarmed form of meditation."
"I've done meditation," he says.
"And auditing is basically the same thing, isn't it? You know, you learn progressively to reduce your automatic reaction to stimuli and external circumstances."
He rephrases this in some minor way which doesn't really matter, I say "sure".
Then he says something about The Tech, the Scientology "technology".
I say "they just made some science-fiction-looking toys to make you feel like you have some super-advanced technology but what you're actually DOING is the same as what people have been doing for thousands of years."
He is really on no firm footing now. He says "but, the Organization..."
And see, at that point, I know I got him. Because he isn't disagreeing with any of what I'm saying. He's just trying to come up with something else, some other tack to salvage his religion.
"The organization is a cult, dude", I say, then walk away. He is standing there looking after me.
I think from the internet, I have gotten good at this kind of debate.
Then, just a half a block later on, I run into another one. Same bizarre hideous gold tie, same armload of pamphlets. This guy is older, and kind of bitter-looking, compared to the young bright clean-cut lad from earlier.
[continued at >>>groups.google/alt.slack]
SubGenius Commercial [1991]
Film maker Douglass Smith directed this 1 minute SubGenius ad, which was originally shown on music video networks. It was written by, and stars, Rev. Ivan Stang. Stang is co-sub-founder of The Church of the SubGenius, the infamous UFO-sex-death cult from Texas, based on the Slack teachings of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs.
ARISE! Chapter 01 - Instructions
Ane chapter clipped from a new 25-chapter revised version of ARISE!, The SubGenius Movie. ARISE! Directed by Cordt Holland and Rev. Ivan Stang, written by Stang, narrated by Dr. Hal Robins; it was first released in 1988.
Who's Watching The Store? On the surface, this may look like another trespass/assault case in Riverside County, California. It's not just any case. This one involves Anonymous protesters and the litigious Church of Scientology.
It's been shuffled around between four different District Attorneys since 10/26/08. In the middle of all this foot-dragging, someone, not clear as to who, destroyed key evidence submitted to the Hemet Police. [full document list: part 1, 2, 3]
The Back Story Over at WWP, a thread archives the beginning of all this desert protesting drama [photos and videos from that day]: "Sunday October 26, 2008 here in Southern California. I have concluded a telephone call with Anons [anonymous protesters]. This is my initial understanding of what happened. These Anons were picketing Gold Base [Scientology's International Headquarters] at Gilman Hot Springs near Hemet (and Palm Springs, CA).
Among the picketers was Anon Orange. His vehicle was parked down Highway 79 a little (opposite the mock Scottish castle Golden Era Studio, I think) where a Scion [Scientologist] security vehicle parked and for about 20 minutes several Scions were behind Anon Orange's vehicle. Anon Orange went over to investigate. The Scions ran into the bushes. Anon Orange followed. The Scions jumped him. Anon Barb followed too. The Scions jumped her and she fought back. Apparently there is video footage [see below]. The Riverside Sheriffs arrived and Anon Orange has been arrested on a charge of trespass."
The Gold Base 'Dog Pile' Video From the posted video's description: This is a video AGP edited for AnonOrange's arraignment in Riverside County. In it you see an early Gold Base protest. This is the heart of scientology's global empire and, as you see, they defend it! This is the FIRST internet posting of this beating with the footage Orange took just seconds before being beaten for four minutes. I think you will be shocked at what little it took to get that beating. Other footage has been seen before but the pope went to the source material for higher quality. What the video doesn't show is cultists messing with the car and orange being forced off the road onto their property by a cult vehicle.
Oh, What A Tangled Web We Weave The story above is just the tip of the iceberg when comes to Riverside County and Scientology. In fact there's so much fodder over at WWP's Gold Base Situation Room - a mixture of fact, speculation and innuendo along the lines of county corruption, police payoffs, mysterious deaths, secret organizations, false arrests, voter fraud and nepotism. There's enough for a budding screen-writer to concoct the next cineramic production of Fargo. Just located in the desert instead of the frozen tundra. Oh, and sans the wood-chipper. It would practically write itself.
Saw these two movie trailers over at YouTube trailersnowhere near each other, but thought it would be interesting to list and view them together, since they both have to do with the same subject. FOOD. Oh, and your dollar. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs According to Sony, this will be the most delicious (animated) event since macaroni met cheese. Inspired by the beloved childrens book, the film focuses on a town where food falls from the sky like rain.
Food, Inc. Filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that's been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, insecticide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of e coli--the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually.
Back to the Future meets Stargate SG1, sort of. The trailer for "Hot Tub Time Machine" has been provided by MGM using the film's recently-released red band trailer. Debuted first at San Diego Comic Con 2009, the restricted promo video traces back to the year of 1560 to recall which notable people had thought of the idea of time traveling, before presenting the four main characters.
The time-travel comedy follows a group of burned out 30-something best friends, John Cusack (War Inc,Con Air), Rob Corddry (Daily Show, Semi-Pro), Craig Robinson (Pineapple Express, The Office), and Clark Duke (Sex Drive, Superbad), who've drifted apart since high school.
Trying to relive their younger years once again, they take a trip to Pine Valley Lodge, home of their most cherished teenage memories. After a night of vodka and Red Bulls in a hot tub, they find themselves sent back to 1986. Now, they have the opportunity to relive their fun-loving past. Or is it as fun as they remember it? One of Craig Robinson's lines: "We're stuck in the eighties, how'm I supposta' getta job?!".
Red Band Trailer Possibly NSFW: language.
Borrowing from the comments at popwatch, I think they'd make pretty good movie poster critic fodder: • "Craig Robinson + coke + rapid recap of Terminator time-travel rules = hilarity." ~ John • "I've determined that Clark Duke is brilliant at playing characters like Dale & whoever this guy is..." ~ Laura Oh, and let's not forget an important fact about this film, "...based on a true story...", lol.
