Zeitgeist!
Published November 10, 2011I hear a lot of people talking about this movie ‘Zeitgeist’ lately. In fact, I’d better call it a documentary, because that’s what it is. I saw it and I certainly can recommend it to all people who want to know a little more about this world we’re living in, a little more than mainstream media tell us.
However, this doesn’t mean I believe all the point of views that are presented in this documentary by Peter Joseph. I also acknowledge that there are probably some inaccurate facts presented in this movie. But the good thing about this kind of things is that they make you think about all kinds of stuff, they remember you to stay critical at all times. So if you want to check it out, go ahead, cause you can see it at youtube as well as google video, just search for ‘zeitgeist’.
The documentary basically contains of three parts. The first part is a scientific approach of religions and all links between them. The second part is an alternative look at the events of 9/11, with of course an important role for the US Government itself. The last part treats the world of banking and how the big players in this field are trying to create one world government.
Just to make you curious: here’s a video of A Perfect Circle covering the great John Lennon song ‘Imagine’, which was used as an introduction to the movie.
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Leave a commentI can’t dodge the ladies…
Published June 13, 2011…in poker that is. Another nice deepstack tournament on Pokerstars and contrary to the tournament last time, I had a very good start on this one and I was able to build a big stack early on in the tournament.
I was convinced of the fact that luck was definitely on my side this time when I received the pocket cowboys in the following hand:
I was of course very happy to see the raise in early position. It was a decent raise (four times the big blind), so I put him on a very good hand. This is perfect for me, unless he has AA. But he only calls my reraise, so I know he doesn’t have the rockets. BUT: the guy on the button also calls my strong reraise, so he must also have a good hand. So I definitely don’t like the Queen on the flop, as QQ is within range of both players now.
The button calls my continuation bet and maybe I must have figured QQ is prolly the only hand he can hold on this dry board (AQ would have been a loose call preflop). So maybe I make a mistake by throwing it all-in on the turn. Maybe the Queen just didn’t have to flop…
Let’s conclude with another great movie I saw this week: Beautiful People. This movie was released in 1999 and is all about one of the most cruel wars we have witnessed in the past 50 years: the Balkan wars. Brilliant thing of this movie that it actually doesn’t show much of the war itself, but the story is brought from the point of view of all kind of different people living in Great-Britain. Go watch it!
Lucky *******
Published May 4, 2011Played a tournament on Pokerstars yesterday, had a pretty good time. Till the cruelty smashed me in the face. I was playing a very solid game but was a little unlucky on catching my draws. But no problem, still had some 20 big blinds to play with.
But somebody was annoying me at the table for quite a long time already. He was raising my big blind all the time from the cut-off and I didn’t really find a hand to make a stand with. So when I got the AJ on the big blind, I was waiting for my friend to raise:
I got him exactly where I wanted him to be: as a 27% dog with all my chips in the middle. Then the guy hits the three outer and I don’t fill up to a flush. Some cruelty…
I saw another good historical movie btw the other day: Thirteen Days. The movie is all about the Cuban missile crisis and although it’s featuring Kevin Costner, probably the worst actor I ever saw, it draws a very good image of what cruel things could have happened to our planet without some reasonable guys like Robert McNamara. If you’re interested in the Cold War era, this is definitely a movie for you. Especially the issue with the two letters Chroestjev sent to Kennedy is very well portraited in this movie.
Good mooooooorning Vietnam!
Published December 29, 2010Hi poker fanatics and readers of all kinds of cruelty in the world. I wanted to see a movie the other day and my friends had told me a lot of times that I HAD to watch the movie ‘Platoon’ some time. So when I finally found the time for it, I decided to give it a go.
In fact I liked it very much and it got me starting to think about the way the American people tried to deal with the Vietnam trauma. I already saw movies like ‘Full Metal Jacket’ (duh^^) and ‘Apocalypse Now’ of course, and this one fits perfectly in that company. Hollywood seemed to play a very important role in processing the things that happened in that terrible war. They have all one thing in common: they represent the American soldiers as naïve, young guys who were fighting a war without knowing where’s it was all about. Besides: the ennemy is portraited as very cruel and being everywhere. In this way, Hollywood tried to clarify why soldiers went mad and commited the cruelties they did.
Of course Full Metal Jacket is the best example here, as it literally shows that it’s possible to create ruthless killers out of innocent young boys. But you can also take it too far: Rambo. Those movies are just trying to recover the wounded feeling of national pride by actually declaring that the US had in fact WON the war…
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