i'm sure many of you have already heard about the australian guy who slept with his daughter and locked up their six kids in the basement. his oldest daughter got sick and was taken to the hospital some time ago and was found to have organ failure. nurses were very suspicious and called the police who uncovered the crime.
so this guy slept with one of his daughters. together they had seven children, six of whom survived. he kept all the children along with his daughter (their mother) locked up in the basement. none of the children had ever seen the outside and supposedly their only access to the world was a television. the guy's wife (daughter's mother) apparently had no idea any of this was going on.
the children have since been freed and kerstin (the daughter/granddaughter of this guy who was taken to the hospital) says that she wants to see the ocean and go to a robbie williams concert. i'm not really sure what to make of this story. first, i hesitate to believe that the mother didn't know that her husband was having sex with their daughter who was locked up in the basement. On the other hand, it's hard to imagine why she wouldn't do anything if she had known. who can say? i sure can't and won't ever really know the truth.
i will say this though. this guy is one sick sick fuck. he may be literally sick in the head for all i know. and i'm not one to start spewing out nasty stuff about him especially if he has some sort of chemical imbalance. but this is one of those things that just should never never ever happen. it boggles the mind. it makes you question our humanity in general.
people might be turned of by this story, but i find it uplifting. it makes me happy reading about this girl who is finally getting a chance to start her life. it just happened to start 18 years too late.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
spike lee versus clint eastwood
i just heard a story that spike lee and clint eastwood were in a war of words. the story goes that during the cannes film festival when lee was promoting his new world war 2 movie about black soldiers, he criticized eastwoods two wwII movies, flags of our fathers (eh) and letters from iwo jima (pretty good) by saying that they didn't properly portray african americans during the war.
apparently, lee never watched the movies cuz he would have realized that letters from iwo jima was about japanese soldiers. anyway, after the criticism, eastwood told lee to "shut his face", which for some reason didn't go over well with spike. spike then went out to say someone like, this isn't a plantation and eastwood is not my dad. pretty much calling him a racist. spike toned it down a little bit later.
i'm going to have to agree here with eastwood, spike should shut his face. i like spike, i like his movies, love that he's a knicks fan, but he's an arrogant and in my opinion, incredibly stupid human being. he's the type of person who only cares about his causes and gaining power for what he cares about. he doesn't really care about creating a positive force in society, in my opinion. if he did, i doubt he would be shooting nike videos for his corporate idol, jordan. that's just my take on that.
but it's also apparent in his movies. like scorsese says about himself and spike, they make movies from their own experiences. i get that and there's nothing wrong with that. so how can you go out and criticize someone else for doing the same thing. clint is white and was making a movie about these white dudes (and one native american) who plant a flag on iwo jima. does spike think that he should have replaced one of the white guys for a black dude? just for equality's sake?
i'll say this... just cuz you make great movies, great songs, great art or whatever doesn't mean you have any opinions that anyone really wants to hear. you're not smarter than other people. you're opinions aren't more "enlightened" than anyone else's. it doesn't mean that you aren't either, i'm just saying. so to spike: keep making your movies, keep making a mockery of yourself on the knicks sidelines and shut your face cuz that's how most of us like it.
apparently, lee never watched the movies cuz he would have realized that letters from iwo jima was about japanese soldiers. anyway, after the criticism, eastwood told lee to "shut his face", which for some reason didn't go over well with spike. spike then went out to say someone like, this isn't a plantation and eastwood is not my dad. pretty much calling him a racist. spike toned it down a little bit later.
i'm going to have to agree here with eastwood, spike should shut his face. i like spike, i like his movies, love that he's a knicks fan, but he's an arrogant and in my opinion, incredibly stupid human being. he's the type of person who only cares about his causes and gaining power for what he cares about. he doesn't really care about creating a positive force in society, in my opinion. if he did, i doubt he would be shooting nike videos for his corporate idol, jordan. that's just my take on that.
but it's also apparent in his movies. like scorsese says about himself and spike, they make movies from their own experiences. i get that and there's nothing wrong with that. so how can you go out and criticize someone else for doing the same thing. clint is white and was making a movie about these white dudes (and one native american) who plant a flag on iwo jima. does spike think that he should have replaced one of the white guys for a black dude? just for equality's sake?
i'll say this... just cuz you make great movies, great songs, great art or whatever doesn't mean you have any opinions that anyone really wants to hear. you're not smarter than other people. you're opinions aren't more "enlightened" than anyone else's. it doesn't mean that you aren't either, i'm just saying. so to spike: keep making your movies, keep making a mockery of yourself on the knicks sidelines and shut your face cuz that's how most of us like it.
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