Idiocracy – why does Sarah Palin come to mind?

idiocracy fox news in the year 2505

Bananas in the Falklands has a list of things she wants to do, but due to the retarded nature of cinema distribution means that films that appeal mean that films probably wont get seen if they are on this list on account they are not as commercial as say dancing with smurfs*, or the latest disney film hogging at least two screens one for normal and the other in 3d .

Recently Bananas was reminded of a film that appealed a long time ago, and never made to a cinema, and i found it easily available on dvd.  That film is Idiocracy (imdb: tt0387808).

The film’s premise is what happens if america went dumb? Naturally you need a time machine device, and two people from now to show up and let the comedy rip.

The result is genius on both a low brow (thick people) and high brow values (like environment,politics etc).  Bananas laughed during this film and as such must be deserving of 5/5 bananas.

There is both great sarcasm and low comedy both to be found in this film, a bit like Sarah Palin.

* a prize if you get the title

Ali Dizaei crook in policeman costume.

Somehow the many issues of the Metropolitan police and a crook should not really surprise us residents in London zoo.

One might think that if corrupt officers like Ali Dizaei exist then how much crime is directed by the police to start with, after all if you can pay to get your honour crime (my blog) ignored it does rather subvert the whole point of having either laws or policemen whatever there colour or religion.  After all if the police from say Pakistan can ignore crime (my blog) and profit from it, why should we not expect them to to do it in England as well?

Blindsight, Peter Watts

Mr Watts cant go too wrong by quoting Suzanne Vega.

isbn: 9780765312181, an interesting hard sf book.

3/5 bananas

Something to do with apple juice [nsfw]

The alpha male and the new television (a rather long tale of woe).

The alpha male of the monkey house here in the zoo decided on a trip to camdem to buy a flat screen tv (our previous sets are best described as boxes).  While on the subject of old tv’s in which you now need a phd in setup of the various devices associated with them to make actually work in the way they be ’supposed’ to.

Bananas in the Falklands groaned inwardly at the announcement by the return of the alpha ape with box and thought.

oh shit this will end in disaster.

Disaster it has ended in, but please let me explain.

The humble television has evolved from recieiving two channels to multiple channels, add the invention of video/dvd and blueray  along with surround sound and garbage like that means most of your tv is a plumbers nightmare round the back.

If any gold scart whack job a/v enthusiast says bluetooth (my blog) is the solution i will send all the betas round to beat the shit out of you and sick that gold plated scart cable where the sun does not shine.  The er room should be most amused by your explanation of how theres a scart socket up your arse and that some apes did it to you and it was not a sex game. Anyhow i digress.

The monkey house has a dvd/video combi thing made by Philips .  With the new flatscreen crap only the video works, the dvd has no sound so with one piece of kit its a bust, so i have to put the existing setup minus the flat screen ‘bought for a good price’ back again in it’s pre-flat screen state.

A 14 inch video/tv unit is what we use to used to record stuff on, also it is pretty simple for the alpha ape to record the asbos playing football on. (its a male thing) Twelve days later it packs up – so no easy way to record stuff this is great no ?

Fortunately we have a spare video made by sony, it is retrieved and i inform alpha male that we have no spare scart cables to connect to the flat screen since there all in use – alpha is eventually sold a gold cable in John Lewis – which nobody needs – do heed the warning above.

Only trouble no sound and if you turn the flat screen off no record either.  Hey its good no ?

I discover that using your phd in tv setup it can record but it requires.

1. set date and time on video
2. set channel
3. set date and time
4. on tv set guide and timer
5. on video enable timer
6. pray

However that’s way beyond alpha’s abilities , and i also might screw up something too, if say theres a decent film on say at 3am which is more average than you might think.

You see the point of this? If you have then well done, if your retarded then note the tricky nature of trying to record something. Notice I have not even mentioned duo tuners.  Clearly if the producers of tv, and makers wish that consumers to avoid recording stuff there nearly there.  The problem then is why bother with this shit at all and go use a computer.

The alpha male has commanded me to sort this shit out.  Sod that.

Here is something i do not get why are gold (expensive) scart cables so crap ? I never had any problems with bog standard scart (metal) connectors.   Remember about your visit to er room (or a&e) with the cable up your arse should wish to defend it.

Caprica starts….

Caprica (the ‘original’ pilot my blog) aired on tv last week with a revised pilot (added scenes sigh so im out of date wrong version something) , but lon fridaythe series started to air after some changes to its production team.

william at a pyramid game revision to pilot

The revised pilot edit seems make it a little more accessible, and more oh its on another planet with effects like the moon,fly bys over the planet, and new title sequence, it also emphasizes the other languages rather than just be a set based show which one could accuse the original pilot of being that.

The new scene with adama snr (lawyer in bsg) and his dead daughter also added some key dialogue and helped move things on, rather than the one on one speech saying ‘this is wrong’ with no background.

So an improvement over the dvd.

The season 1 start seems a bit strange and it felt like one of the female leads got changed (its been a long time since the dvd), and it has a go at the obl question (also handled in bsg on baltars planet [season 3 start], we will have to see where the writing goes on that.

Theres an interesting mix of life to be found complete with vintage citroens and provided that the writers and actors handle the trinity thing ok, and dont go and do a star wars prequell on battlestar i think it might be worth a go.

madam with madam robot

Madam robot, mobsters and stuff means theres something here, provided that is that the road to war (only 58 years to go). So there is plenty of time to screw things up.

Dollhouse ends

Harry Lennix (the actor who was echo’s handler, and head of security) should be given kudos in the role in both seasons as well as Enver Gjokaj who had a rather shaky start is also another great actor.

It got very fast toward the end. Oh well at least it had a go at some of the issues even if some rupert murdoch idiot decided it was ‘worth’ putting in a graveyard slot.

Perhaps it is best that Dollhouse is ending though.  It proves that tv land cannot handle ‘weird’ stuff in a decent time without interference and one dimensional characters like the alpha male saving the universe who do that until the worlds been saved so many times you think that the bosses would be a bit more competant.

Epitaph one (my blog), is used heavy and it felt ‘Angel’ like with the zombies and fighting on occassion, things got resolved and wrapped up.   For the best I think.

Jeff Bezos goes amazon over the itampon.

itampon by steve jobs

He has done it before, banning gay books, now he is  ‘now’ having a tantrum over the kindle.

Shame as both have drm, but quite entertaining though.  Clearly both Jobs and Balmer dont want anybody buying anything.

Somehow i think its time to find a new book store, when you start holding hostage books and publishers its time to let the nazi not have your money, or Jasper Fforde’s books (wait for that) are not fiction.

I think theres going to be a book burning on monday at amazons offices worldwide.  Worked for the nazis.

baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa (welcome to airstrip 1)

Failed Geography

It is surprising to note that Tony Blair giving ‘evidence’ to the chilcott iraq enquiry seemed ok with

• claiming that new york is part of england
• anything america does is good
• even though there was no wmd, or bin ladin or a circus of performing midgets he would go and do it all over again, because america is right.

Go read Craig Murray (see blogs i read) and ponder why the english even bother to vote and have politiciains at all when the president of america is really in charge.

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Snuff, Chuck Palahniuk

isbn: 9780224082464, has an ‘interesting’ cover.  Wry, observant and just what you expect from Mr P.

An interesting wade into Miss Chong land (my blog).

5/5 bananas