The Black Vault

Her name is Lilac....and she's the wildest cat I've ever owned...smart as a button...and rangy. Gets into everything...clever....and yet she can learn. But you can't let her get away with anything....little stinker. But she's clean...and constantly bathes.....so she's staying...for good.

Abandon all hope...ye who enter here


Supposedly what is inscribed above the entrance to hell

That's in Dante's Inferno
isn't it?

What's your point, AlphaOmega?

beachcomber wrote:

Abandon all hope...ye who enter here


Supposedly what is inscribed above the entrance to hell

That's in Dante's Inferno
isn't it?

What's your point, AlphaOmega?

There was a point to the original post that started this??

AlphaOmega writes,

There was a point to the original post that started this??

no...but NativeAlien is a well-known doomstruck crank with symptoms of Willie Nelson Syndrome (breaking down doors instead of using the key, even though he has the key in his pocket, when he hasn't got any pot to smoke.)
I thought you were going sinister on us too, in proper BV fashion, when you posted what you did.
I did peruse the link you provided on Stan Kubrick, and - have you seen A Clockwork Orange lately? I reviewed that film recently, and understood something about it that I didn't "get" the first time: It's not so much about Alex's penchant for mindless violence and love for Beethoven as it is Mind Control. When he's forcefully programmed away from his baser proclivities with the meme "You see, when we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea", and he shows signs of political correctness and social acceptance, the writer who his gang stomped in a home invasion, killing his wife in the process, refuses to forgive him, and continues to rail against him in print -- which the writer's political rival The Director uses against him to defeat him in the next election. It was all a set-up to gain power.
By the way, Anthony Burgess, the author of the book, based it on a real experience he had endured years before. The story was autobiographical.

Well, my cat has totally disappeared....not a whisker. Don't know if she ran outside or not....or is in the basement. She was getting used to us...came when called....ate, everything....I've looked and banged in every nook....she's just poof, into the ethos. I'm so bummed. UPDATE: Cat turned up...not outside....wild as a hare....little monster!!! At least she won't be freezing in 15 degree weather outside...yay!!

Q,
Glad Lilly turned up.
That would have been fricken awful if she hadn't.
Usually the more independent ones do when they get hungry enough.
She is really a pretty cat.
I love "naughty" cats. they can be pretty destructive, thou8gh. tearign into everything.
I have door molding ruined from that and oh, the couches I have gone through.

My poor old things are just senile at this point. The ones I have left. One of them is peeing everywhere. I'm riding it out, though. He only has a few more months left, at lmost, I think.
My babies!! (even though they are not babies, but really senior citizens) They are dropping like flies!!!


BC and Alpha-Omega,

Clockwork orange always reminded me of "A Boy and His Dog", in a way. Similar themes.
Convert ot the social norm.
The irony of both movies being that the 'nice' society was just as awlful' (if not more) as the bad guy is was trying to reform. The difference was that the 'bad' guy was honest with himself about his badness, but the scoiety lies to itself and claims it's evil is for 'the greater good'
"Convert" That Rush song, "Subdivisions" comes to mind.

It was based on a real event? creepy.
But then I think of old those 'scared strait', shock programs that 'troubled teenagers' are sent to. The ones that like outward bounds, or basic training. That's all very mind controlish, when you think of it.
(designed to break one's spirit/personna, to rebuild it/fill it with/as..whatever)
I figure the parents of those kids are either truly desparate or just total a-holes.

Stanley Cubric facinates me. More than his movies. He was very autistic-like.
I saw a biographical documentary on him that was so good.
http://amazon.imdb.com/title/tt0278736/
He really had a thing about visual art. How things looked visually. He was kind of obsessed with that. "The look" of things. You can see that in his movies. That's why they are so scenic and clever visually as well as clever mentally. You can tell how much he liked how peopel would get so caught up in their roles in life. Eyes Wide Shut comes to mind , "I'm a doctor" and society's hypocracy.
So many of his movies seem to just want to say, "people are such fakes and really so horrible, deep down inside"
A reoccuring theme was people trying to look all controlled on the surface, as they secretly fell apart.
How we all act so domesticated, but it's bs, we're faking, feral animals faking it.

I think cats like to confuse Humans ...it's said that when a cat knows a person doesn't like cats, guess who it is they feel they must go to - and rub up against their legs?

In Clockwork Orange, the part where the gang of thugs invades the writer's home and causes mayhem and injury to him and his wife was autobiographical for Burgess, the author. That part really happened, but the rest I don't know about.
Good point, Bionic.
The writer character in C.O. was trying to expose the evil of The Director's mind control "rehabilitation" program, became obsessed, and wound up in the loony bin in the movie, thus removing the threat to The Director and ensuring his political position.
The book was impossible to read with dialogue like "There we were my droogs and I, at the moloky milk bar, viddying the malcheks and pondering the possible ultraviolence that this night would bring."
Mind control? In the movie, the strange beauty of Kubrick's visuals and the theme of wanton destruction combined was a mind bender in itself.

The author was the one who'se house was broken into?
Yah know, I think I heard tha tbefore, come to think of it.
The story started out as a revenge fantasy and evolved from there?
Maybe..probably?

This video is very C.O.-ish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Papa_qi7evU
(I love this video..FYI)

there's a new drug circulating among the Hollywood elite that enhances creativity and imagination by a 100 fold ...its endearingly and respectfully called Kubrick....its allegedly alien in origin ...a gift to Kubrick from the Aliens on the dark side of the Moon....however, it has 2 strange side effects...you're in a constant state of terror and sexual arousal.

you're in a constant state of terror and sexual arousal.

pfft...
that's my 'normal' (or not so normal) state of being

nice to see a post from you mister..hope you and yours are well.
How'se that novel coming along?(I assume there's gotta be a novel)