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BREAKING – Film Director Ken Russell Has Died.

Published November 28, 2011

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HE DIED PEACEFULLY IN HIS SLEEP. READ HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY AGAIN RECENTLY. DISGUSTS ME HE COULD NOT GET A FILM MADE IN THE LAST 20 YEARS. HIS CINEMA HAS MARVELOUS. HE WAS EASILY AS GOOD AS KUBRICK BUT NEVER GOT THE ATTENTION OR CREDIT HE DESERVED. SO MANY OF HOS FILMS ARE AMAZING. ‘CRIMES OF PASSION’, ‘THE DEVILS’, ‘WOMEN IN LOVE’. ‘TOMMY’, ‘the music lovers’ ‘THE ABC OF BRITISH MUSIC’ FOR TV…..OH DAMN MOST EVERYTHING HE MADE AT SUCH A STRONG LOOK AND MOOD AND A COMPLETENESS ABOUT IT. AND HIS FILMS ON THE GREAT COMPOSERS ARE JUST UNBEATABLE. WE PLAYED ‘LITZOMANIA’ AT ONE OF THE 24 HOUR MOVIE MARATHONS. IT STILL WORKS AS TOTALLY BAT SHIT CINEMA. THE PERFORMANCES HE GOT OUT OF ACTORS WERE INCREDIBLE. OLIVER REED, GLENDA JACKSON, VANESSA REDGRAVE ALL DID SOME OF THEIR BEST WORK WITH RUSSELL. SOME MANY JAW DROPPING BRILLIANT SCENES. WE WILL NEVER SEE HIS LIKE AGAIN. SO SAD, BUT SO MANY GREAT FILMS TO WATCH NOW. AND AT LEAST SOME PEOPLE WHO HAVE HEARD OF HIM NOW WILL

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Happy Birthday Bruce Hopkins.

Published November 25, 2011

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SIGH. I ADORE BRUCE. LOTS. AND LOTS. WHEN I FIRST MOVED TO AUCKLAND DECADES AGO, I WAS WORKING IN A K ROAD BAR THAT WAS TOTALLY SKANKY AND I HAD LOST MY……HUMANITY/EMPATHY/THE ME IN ME. SO ONE DAY ONE OF OUR PATRONS WAS BEATING THE HELL OUT OF SOMEONE AND WE WERE WATCHING AS IF THIS WAS NORMAL, ACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOUR. BRUCE, WHO I HAD SEEN DANCE WITH LIMBS DANCE COMPANY STOPPED ON HIS WAY TO THE MERCURY TO STOP THE FIGHT, AND THEN BERATE US FOR OUR AWFUL BEHAVIOUR. IT CHANGED ME. IT MADE ME REALIZE THAT CRUELTY WAS UNACCEPTABLE. THAT WE HAD TO BE TRUE TO OUR OWN MORAL CODES. THAT I COULD BE A BETTER PERSON.

DECADES LATER I WAS ON THE RED CARPET FOR ‘LORD OF THE RINGS – THE TWO TOWERS’. RED CARPETS ARE REALLY SCARY AND I FELT WELL OUT OF MY DEPTH. BRUCE WAS OF COURSE THERE WITH HIS SON AND TOOK CARE OF ME. I SOON HIT MY STRIDE. HE WAS PLEASED BY THIS.

BRUCE, YOU ARE THE MAN. HONEST, FULL OF ENERGY AND EVERYTHING I ASPIRE TO BE AS A MAN. KNOWING YOU HAS MADE ME A BETTER PERSON AND MAKES ME STRIVE EVERY DAY TO BE……HAPPY AND COMPLETE.
LOVE YA MAN. X. OH, AND HE IS ALSO REALLY SEXY.

OH HE DOES THE OVERNIGHT SHIFT O0N RADIO LIVE WHICH CAN BE HEARD ALL AROUND THE WORLD. THE STATION IS THE WORST KIND OF CRAP MEDIA, BUT HE GIVES IT SOME MUCH NEEDED CLASS AND HUMANITY.

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One Reason I Will Always Support The ‘Occupy’ Participants.

Published November 17, 2011

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EMERGENCY REQUEST from Occupy Together: “To all allies and occupations. Especially those in the northeast and mid Atlantic. We have reached a turning point in our movement. In 2 months, local actions and occupations have spread across the world. This is amazing and essential for this movement. However, On November 17th, in less than 48 hours, we are calling on as many of you as possible to join with us in NYC. This is the center of the empire and we have called for it to be shut down. Now, Just 48 hours before our planned actions we are under attack. We need you here with us in NYC. This is a crucial moment, please show solidarity by coming to the empire. Imagine what tens of thousands of people in the streets around Wall Street looks like. Now help make it happen.”
By: Thomas Fitzgerald