ContraSOLa: Life

Κυριακή 19 Ιουνίου 2011

Video: The world is like a ride in an amusement park - Bill Hicks [in Kinetic typography!!!!]

The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question, is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey -- don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride..."

And we... kill those people.
"Shut him up."
"We have a lot invested in this ride. Shut him up. Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and my family. This just has to be real."

Just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter because: It's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one.

Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defences each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.

Κυριακή 22 Μαΐου 2011

Video: From the film ERASERHEAD [1977] - IN HEAVEN Everything is Fine

Eraserhead is a 1977 American surrealist film written, directed, and produced by David Lynch.
Eraserhead polarized and baffled many critics and movie-goers, but has become a cult classic. In 2004, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the U.S. Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Lynch has called it a "dream of dark and troubling things" and his "most spiritual movie."
Eraserhead
The dream: Frazzle-haired Henry has a difficult time coping with the strain of fatherhood. (If you saw his baby, you'd understand.) Lying on his bed, he drowsily fantasizes about a woman living in his radiator, singing a song with the cheery title, ''In Heaven, Everything Is Fine.''
Dr. EW says: ''Ze puffed-out cheeks of the radiator woman are filled with ze empty promises of your mother. Tell me about her.''