The most ambitious move to be a smashing success ever made

Upstream Color is hallucinatory tale that brilliantly opines on how the worm turns. Observations defying explanations rivet the viewer with a masterful examination of  faith, work, love and eternal legacy. Shane Carruth the genius behind Primer, once again proves he is the odds on favorite to be the 21st century's Orson Wells. Except Carruth operates with total independence and delivers even what the harshest critics would have to admit is a movie that if it were a painting would be a perfect collage of Picasso's best abstracts merged with Salvador Dali's illuminating but confusing narrative.

"In a recent interview with Elvis Mitchell on The Treatment radio show and podcast, Carruth said that he doesn't like to make films that can be easily reduced to synopsis. Films should go to the places that the written word, and other mediums, can't go. Otherwise, what's the point? Not coincidentally, it's a sentiment that can also be applied to science fiction as a genre."

 Although the movie was made on a shoestring budget it looks and feels as big as any blockbuster. Its unbelievable the mind-blowing cinematography was created with a $600  Panasonic DSLR. Carruth served as director, writer, producer, lead actor, cinematographer, editor, composer, casting director, production designer and sound designer, his romantic partners Oscar worthy performance is portrayed by Amy Seimetz. A cinematic force of nature in her own right. Saying this movie challenges the audience is akin to suggesting the origin of the universe is puzzling. What is art, what is culture, what is the meaning of life, I do not know how to define these things, but I know them when I experience them, Upstream Color is such an experience.

Triumphant total critical acclaim for this movie, do not miss it.

Tens Stars out of Five.

I do not like to put spoilers in my movie reviews. My purpose is only to promote the good and in a rare case identify the unworthy. Here are some spoilers.

This movie is like a Beatles or Bob Dylan song, its a prism that forces you to reflect your own light. I have added what came in on my wavelength, but I suggest you see the movie before reading.

The worm is advertising.
The pigs are the big corporations.
Pig headed choices, total burn.
The sounds are the well researched focus group tested mind control advertising has.
Even when the protagonist realize this they are still in love with the system because it is their only sense of immortality, not being able to reproduce on their own. Yes we are in love with our selves and easily manipulated by forces so much more clever and organized than we are.

I will always Love the Montreal Canadiens

For a sports fan every season that ends without a championship is not universally lamented. Your team could be a Cinderella who at the last minute was ditched by the fella.  Or maybe you won last year or the year before and the taste of victory remains fresh. My team lost beaten like the proverbial rented mule.

I am a little sad, and a little angry. Sad that every break went against them, and angry that the judicial system deserted them.  Overall I am content. After twenty years of watching players playing above their ability or at their ability and really watching the franchise stuck in a rut, we have some traction.  Geoff Molson deserves all the credit.  He made the tough choices, picked the right people and then stood back to see what may.

Montreal Canadiens have a young strong core, this playoff was only a bump in the road, and within two years they will find the suspension that is capable of carrying the load a parade down the usual route requires.

Pimp my Van

If you have to ask the price you cant afford it.($400,000). If I was a mogul this is how I would roll. Check out Becker Jet Vans,  Mercedes Sprinter vans armoured upon request.

What if a plane crashed and no one died.

The Laughing Squid has a great blog on this subject.

Power Toys

I grew up on a Ski Doo, and I exhausted myself of a Sea Doo.  I no longer have any desire to ride let alone own either. But I would love to try a Sea Breacher.  Expensive, yes same as a Porsche Boxter. Able to do about 5o MPH on the water and 25MPH underwater. You can only dive to five feet because there is a snorkel providing air to the engine. Not if I owned one, I would hook up some tanks and freak out.

Things that might save your life

Carefully consider flying the Dreamliner. Its my uneducated opinion that the logistics behind the construction and development of this plane open up the possibility of problems you do not want to be part of. On the other hand I have no reason to doubt when the FAA says its as safe as any plane they are not correct. In the end put your trust in the experts not the bloggers.

If you are in the vicinity of a IED explosion practise the basic rule out of the infantry handbook. Hit the deck, check your zero, that's what you are on top of, check your 5, everything within a five foot radius, then check your 25 radius. Then stay put. Many IED attacks are designed to capture those running from the first explosion. Carry a basic Emergency Defense Kit with you in public.

If you believe the fruit flys eat organic food.

Lady Thatcher Passes

I would say like a Kidney Stone in History. All that's left is the memory of the pain and the long and difficult rehabilitation.  Reagan and Thatcher, destroyed the Anglo Saxon middle class. To give them credit for the fall of communism would be as absurd as crediting Dwight Eisenhower and Harold Macmillan for ensuring its rise.

Imagine how much better the world would be today it Jimmy had his second term.