Niall Ferguson’s Empire Of Boredom

I thought that since I wrote the damn things, I’d post some of the essays I stitched together over the past year. This rather rushed one is about the historian and pundit Niall Ferguson, specifically his series on the British Empire. Ferguson has a taste for authority but I have to say, having recently watched [...]

before the law.

The introductory sequence from Orson Welles’s 1962 film adaptation (with Anthony Perkins as Josef K) of Franz Kafka’s novel The Trial. Although I love the film and this opening animation, Welles’s booming and emotive voice is far from the restrained internal one I imagine when reading any Kafka. It seems more like Welles is commandeering [...]

***..survivalist seeds: what will you eat after store shelves go empty?!?

A ‘newsflash’ advert from survivalistseeds.com, a company which sells non-gm, NWO-free heirloom seeds to people interested in self sufficiency and preparation for the imminent Apocalypse['s]. The histrionics of the narrators voice (not to mention the hard selling content) along with the use of hard stereo pan delay effect which sounds as if the voiceover artist [...]

…bullhorning the zombies.

A screengrab from the website of Mark Dice, author of The Resistance Manifesto, along with The Dating Book out on the streets.

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An excerpt from an interview with broadcaster, film maker and all round impassioned theorist of the [a] New World Order Alex Jones as he drives through Austin, Texas with a bullhorn. It’s from Greencine’s regular podcast series at the SXSW fest in Austin… There’s just been a film made about Jones, called New World Order [...]