"Chuck Cunningham and his employer, the heartless, brainless National Rifle Association have chosen as their mission not guaranteeing the right to bear arms, because the Constitution already guarantees that, but the right to bear sorrow. Indeed they guarantee us the right to bear sorrow so enormous after events like the Tucson massacre... that the blood-soaked lobbyists refuse to allow us."

"Christina Taylor Green is not the last 9 year old girl who will give her life thanks to the work of Chuck Cunningham and NRA lobbyists."

I recommend you all forget about the Kubrick / Spielberg melodrama and go read the source material. Brian Aldiss eventually wrote three short stories about David. In fact, in a foreword titled "attempting to please" he talks about Kubrick, Spielberg, AI, etc. It's quite interesting. Here, let me type out a bit of it:

"So why was 'Supertoys' not filmed? [...] My belief is that he [Kubrick] was basically mistaken. Obsessed with the big blockbuster SF movies of the time, he was determined to take my sorrowing domestic scene out into the galaxy. After all, he had wrought similarly to great success with [Arthur C.] Clarke's story.

But 'The Sentinel' looks outward to begin with. It speaks of a mystery elsewhere, whereas 'Supertoys' speaks of a mystery within. David suffers because he does not know he is a machine. Here is the real drama; as Mary Shelley said of her Frankenstein, it 'speaks to the mysterious fears of our nature'.

A possible film could be made of 'Supertoys' showing David facing his real nature. It comes as a shock to realise he is a machine. He malfunctions. Perhaps his father takes him to a factory where a thousand identical androids step off the line. Does he autodestruct? The audience should be subjected to a tense and alarming drama of claustrophobia, to be left with the final questions, 'Does it matter that David is a machine? Should it matter? And to what extent are we all machines?'

Behind such metaphysical puzzles remains the simple story - the story that attracted Stanley Kubrick - of a boy who was never able to please his mother. A story of love rejected."

>> ^budzos:

I have to admit that passage was not well thought-out. "Dregs" was not a good choice of words at all as it has a very negative connotation attached, which was not intended. I should have used "disadvantaged" or something else that implies a low socioeconomic status and a lack of options (or the perception thereof). My bad, I should not have used that word. It certainly clouded my point.
Try reading what I said with your thumb over the word "dregs". My point was I get annoyed at the thought of a young person joining the military for a leg up in life, who ends up getting killed in some pointless conflict that is absolutely not about freedom (I didn't mis-speak about that, those "wars" are horse-shit), and then their corpse is part of some bullshit glee-club feel-good bonding. "Highway of Heroes"... wow real dignified... print it on a T-shirt why don't you (as if they haven't).
>> ^calvados:
Such hubris. Dregs of society, eh? Many of the best people I've ever met are from my 12+ years in the army reserves. I've met a great number of men and women who are selfless, intelligent, and thoughtful, and it's this abundance of quality people that has kept me onboard. These good ones have absolutely outnumbered the ones you'd call dregs.
Of course there are less desirable types in the military and I have met my share of them. And I agree that there is hyperbole in broadly referring to all our war dead as heroes (--I am sure that all or almost all of them would insist that they were not). But your rant is way off.



OK, I take a lot less issue with your revision, here. You do however seem to be suggesting that those who join up are going into it blindly, and I daresay that the average recruit's eyes are more opened to the horrible possibilities of war, and their own injury or death, than you evidently believe they are (especially those who join up after hostilities have already begun, as is the case now and as has been the case since early 2002 for Canada).

I do take issue with "glee-club feel-good bonding" and perhaps you will agree, again, that you are misspeaking here. What I see in the nation's response to a soldier's death in these times, exemplified on the overpasses of the 401, is a manifestation of sorrow and respect for sacrifice. Glee and good feeling are conspicuously absent.

That said, I agree that the specific name "Highway of Heroes" is reductive and borderline jingoistic. There is a stretch of Quebec's Autoroute 20 (from the ON/QC border to just west of downtown Montreal) which has been designated "l'Autoroute du Souvenir" (Remembrance Highway), marked with the familiar green/white highway signage and emblazoned with a poppy. I would actually have favoured that name for the stretch of the 401 in question. But as I indicated on another such submission about the HOH (http://videosift.com/video/The-Trews-Highway-of-Heroes), I am moved by and appreciative of the gesture, itself, of the renaming.

One more thing: remember that citizens were gathering on the overpasses to greet the fallen long before it was decided -- in 2007 -- to change the name of that stretch of road. It was, and is, a grassroots movement, not something cooked up by politicos.

You (and anybody, regardless of political stripe or opinion on the war) may well appreciate this CBC documentary, "We Will Remember Them" (Nov 2010), full streaming: http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/wewillrememberthem/video.html

Luckily it is on HBO

>> ^Drachen_Jager:

I don't think this will work as a TV series. The plot is too complex and depressing for a mainstream audience.


I know, and it preemptively fills me with sorrow.

>> ^alien_concept:

>> ^GDGD:
Do not say such things!
...
>> ^alien_concept:
Only just been given the first book which I'm two-thirds of the way through. Love it when I catch on late to an amazing book series, hopefully the new one won't be out 'til I finish the rest of them
brief promote


You know what's going to happen don't you? He's getting pretty old, at that rate he's going to die before he finishes

hah, the sorrow I had when I woke up this morning...

" aww shit, I actually said that "

your a good sport.

then again. and Honestly with sorrow, the tags I ridiculed where from years past, the things I said where of the time past, null and void are many things. Time washes away most ignorance. BUT ... always the but.. but nothing, I am tired. let it go.

In reply to this comment by chicchorea:
Enoch my friend, I am sorrowed to relay that the song is a *dupeof http://videosift.com/video/Nightmares-on-wax-Les-Nuits-1999.

Not happy.

Nonetheless, thank you for the turning onto.
>> ^kymbos:

No worries, it was an injustice that just could not stand.
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In reply to this comment by kymbos:
Crazy. This deserves a promote
thanks man!!



ah well..i feel bad that kymbos wasted a PP.
eklek posted it first which is not surprising,he has an immense archive of obscure music.
i duped it...sighs...

Enoch my friend, I am sorrowed to relay that the song is a *dupeof http://videosift.com/video/Nightmares-on-wax-Les-Nuits-1999.

Not happy.

Nonetheless, thank you for the turning onto.
>> ^kymbos:

No worries, it was an injustice that just could not stand.
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In reply to this comment by kymbos:
Crazy. This deserves a promote
thanks man!!

The look on the Booze industry shill at the end of that segment was just pure awesomeness. I swear I think he shit his pants. Prolly went to go drown his sorrows with some booze.

Verse 1:
Hey there Keanu
It's about time that someone said it
But your picture makes us feel sad
God I hope that you read Reddit
Yes I do
Cause all my posts are just for you
I swear it's true

Verse 2:
Hey there Keanu
Don't you worry about the pigeons
Have your lunch alone in sorrow
Boy that sandwich looks delicious
Close your eyes
Pictures of you are no surprise
This karma's nice

Chorus:
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's Reddit sympathy
'Whoa' is what you say to me
'Whoa' is what you say to me
It's what you say to me

Verse 3:
Hey there Keanu
I know times have been real hard
But with some upvotes from my friends
We'll steer that bus between the cars
We'll have it good
You know kung fu it's understood
I just got wood

Verse 4:
Hey there Keanu
My photoshop skills have no limits
If all the shops with cats I did of you
Would help to lift your spirits
I'd shop it all
I'd even shop you with Ron Paul
That park's too small

Chorus:
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's Reddit sympathy
'Whoa' is what you say to me
'Whoa' is what you say to me
It's what you say to me

Bridge:
You give so much with all your heart
Some motorbikes just for a start
But I'd work with you for very little pay
We don't need to stop this bus
There is no spoon what's all the fuss
And Mountain breeze is such a trippy name
Keanu I can promise you
That by the time we get through
The Reddit memes will never ever be the same
And you're to blame

Verse 5:
Hey there Keanu
Eat your lunch and don't you miss me
One more week and we'll be done with you
Please don't think that we're unhappy but it's true
Circlejerk won't know what's left to do
I can't imagine someone new
Hey there Keanu here's to you
This one's for you

Chorus:
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's Reddit sympathy
'Whoa' is what you say to me
'Whoa' is what you say to me
It's what you say to me

[redacted]

How about this myspace embed?

<font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#999999">
<a rel="nofollow" style="font: Verdana" href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=31346361">Bob Dylan - Man of Constant Sorrow (1963) WBC-TV

<a rel="nofollow" style="font: Verdana" href="http://www.myspace.com/i12bdylan">Kern ( I Want to Be Dylan ) Little | <a rel="nofollow" style="font: Verdana" href="http://vids.myspace.com">MySpace Video</font>

I figure if you can ever find the video you want on a site that is not youtube it's a lot less likely to go dead

Tis fixed, milady.

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*dead ~ oh please fix, I love this one

See Infant Sorrow's other music video: We've Got to Do Something

I've been shot right out the sky
Navigating miles high
I'm just a ray of sound
Yeah look what I found
On my brand new journey into sound
I know you'll find piece of mind
On my punk paste race into space
I'm the silver surfer hearin' lucifer
Lay on the ground and nobody dies
Paradise is the place where the devil does his damndest
I'm the catalyst
A psychedelic twist
Like a dynamite reefer
I'll make you sweat and curse
As we travel at magnificent speeds around the universe
Lets travel at magnificent speeds around the universe
I'll keep travelling
Chasing the shadows
This ain't a game
We're coming by stealth
You know I got wealth
Brain carnage self

Speeding neck and neck with my own vision
Real clean incision
We'll be dancing frenzies
Slaughters visions
I'm a hot wet dripping psychedelic incision
Zeroes pure vision
This is stranger than fiction
A greater addiction
We'll never wish to never recover
I'm a skunk of a different stripe
And tonight
I'm gonna take flight
I'll take you on a journey into tomorrow
And together we'll banish all pain and sorrow.


I'm just a ray of sound sound
A ray of sound
Just a ray a ray a ray a ray a ray of sound
I'm just a ray of sound sound
A ray of sound
A sound sound sound sound a ray of sound