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Permalink Reply by traumcave on January 11, 2012 at 2:18am

the whole thing

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Permalink Reply by heretherebealiens on June 7, 2012 at 6:06am

Hey there, those of you who still hang round here.

 

About two weeks ago I was travelling a little bit and after ten days I found myself severely sleep deprived, out of cash, and ridiculously adventurous, on my way back – at a bus stop with the last bus long gone, and nothing but my backpack and my determination not to call my flatmate to drive me home once again. So I had to sleep on a bench and since I had no music with me, I took out the book I had taken from an awesome hostel in Dresden – “Girlfriend in a Coma”, by Douglas Coupland.

At this particular time and place, I found it quite entertaining and I kept reading to fill the hours from 1 to 5:20 a.m. You know how your eyes feel dry and your life is a bit surreal at times like these, on a Sparkasse bench in a town that may or may not be the suspiciously boring lair of a low profile serial killer...

So, I read on and on, chocolate and cell battery almost gone, about a bunch of friends who are a bit miserable in their adult lives and with total apocalypse pending and what not. Until:

Life became very cha-cha-cha. “My, oh my,” Hamilton would preen verbally, “aren’t we just the niftiest, coolest, hippiest, groovies, sexiest, most of with-it, and most happening people we know?”

“Yes, Hamilton, “we would reply as androids. “You certainly are.”

Then came word that Fox was filming a series pilot in Vancouver, one of dozens filmed here annually. Phone calls were made and shortly Pam, Hamilton, Linus, and I wound up working on a new show in which conspiracies, be they alien, governmental, paranormal, or clerical, impacted on the lives of everyday people.

These visitations would in turn be investigated by a male detective who has belief in the paranormal and a female detective who has her doubts. It was a simple formula, but one that resonated with us.

 

Yeah, I was laughing out loud by the end of the paragraph above; here is some more, for those of you who know how it is at moments like these:

After a few weeks, Tina introduced Hamilton and Linus to the world of special effects at an FX house across town called Monster Machine. Their eyes lit up; within a week, they left Fox to score jobs with Monster Machine, entering a sub-world of flash pods, latex limbs, buckets o’blood, and blue screening. Their combined explosive and electrical knowledge was impossible to refuse. [...] their specialties were latex body molds and convincing explosions. Pooling their skills, they helped create aliens, zombies, vampires, Mafia-shot corpses, humans in all states of decay, mummification, terror, and explosion. They travelled frequiently, usually to California to take courses with the masters, and returned to Candada with Ziploc bags full of smuggled, tissue-wrapped German ceramic eyeballs.

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A strong memory of that early period of TV production of bodies: bodies on gurneys, bodies in boxes, bits of bodies, bodies bleeding, dummy bodies, alien bodies, bodies embedded with artificial components, bodies slated to vanish, bodies popping out of bodies, bodies just returned from the beyond, and bodies set to explode.

[...]

I began to think about other issues – about leadership, about who was in charge of the world and who was not. Like many people, repeated exposure to paranormal situations caused me to develop those niggling little feelings that certain truths were being withheld. UFOs seemed silly, but then there was a little bit of me that said maybe.

 

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Pedro Octavio on June 10, 2012 at 7:09pm

and deep throat (44 sec)
traumcave said:

the whole thing

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Permalink Reply by Pedro Octavio on June 20, 2012 at 8:08pm

X3 coming soon U.S.A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=YW08Y...

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Permalink Reply by traumcave on August 9, 2012 at 12:47pm

After 40 Years, U.S. to Clean Up Agent Orange in Vietnam

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/10/world/asia/us-moves-to-address-ag...

MULDER: They've done it before. D.D.T. in the 50's, Agent Orange, germ warfare on unsuspecting neighborhoods.

SCULLY: Yes, but why, Mulder? Why would they intentionally create a populace that destroys itself?

MULDER: Fear. It's the oldest tool of power. If you're distracted by fear of those around you, it keeps you from seeing the actions of those above

- „Blood“ 1994

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Permalink Reply by traumcave on August 9, 2012 at 1:02pm

 You mean in a sense of outrage like the reaction to the Kennedy assassinations or M.I.A.s or radiation experiments on terminal patients, Watergate, Iran-Contra, Roswell, the Tuskegee experiments, where will it end? 

1x16 E.B.E.

 

MULDER: They've done it before. D.D.T. in the 50's, Agent Orange, germ warfare on unsuspecting neighborhoods.

SCULLY: Yes, but why, Mulder? Why would they intentionally create a populace that destroys itself?

MULDER: Fear. It's the oldest tool of power. If you're distracted by fear of those around you, it keeps you from seeing the actions of those above

- „Blood“ 1994

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Permalink Reply by traumcave on October 11, 2012 at 6:43am

https://twitter.com/BFI

http://instagram.com/p/QnCApRG9zh/

Martin Landau at

The 56th @BFI London Film Festival

 

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Permalink Reply by Spooky_Phoenix on October 21, 2012 at 7:50pm

Saw a car or a truck with the letters 'CGB' as part of it's license plate, first thing that came to me was the name of CSM :). Kind of made me chuckle a little bit.

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Permalink Reply by traumcave on April 2, 2013 at 12:28am

This was on the radio today

Aimee Mann - One

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