Sergio

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[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 2 points 59 minutes ago

Yeah... reminds me of a very valuable lesson I learned during my college years.

[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Guatemala is awesome. The countryside is beautiful and the people are descended from one of humanity's major civilizations, the Mayans.

I realize OP is only half-serious, but they still come off as really ignorant.

[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, I didn't realize that when I first heard it. I guess that's why it's a punishment. If they just hung a tiny parakeet off his neck, it wouldn't be much of a punishment.

[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

If it's not in a song by Sabaton or Iron Maiden, it ain't real history.

[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Yeah, I didn't really like the genre for a long time either, until I was in a place where I kinda needed it.

[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 24 points 14 hours ago

Most people hate school. Even the "smart kids", what they really like is learning or knowledge, not school.

[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I see it as an example of cozy slice-of-life. Kind of like Azumanga Daioh but in a deli with a bear and a plant.

[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

Rufus Sewell! Later played John Smith in Man in the High Castle.

[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

much more fun than a plain flawless mirror.

yeah agreed! Back in the day I used to generate text for fun with n-grams and I never went higher than bigrams bc it was boring without those unexpected disfluencies. I thought of it being like an electric guitar, you want it to sound a little raw.

[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago

But Latin is the classy part of English. That's why "fornication" is not profane but "fucking" is. The first is descended from Latin (via the Norman conquest of England by William the Conqueror) and the second is descended from Anglo-Saxon (who were the conquered.) Everyday, the Romans still rule.

[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

One of the recurring tactics of the Persian dynasties which Rome often warred with was simply to withdraw behind natural barriers inside of the Persian Empire.

Persian Empire sounds like a bunch of cunctators.

[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)
 

A big thank you to all the Lemmy instance admins. We only really notice them when things go wrong. And every time something goes wrong, that means all the other admins had to perform superhuman feats so that sort of problem didn't happen to them.

 

Now it's time for part 3!!?!

The film involves gutter punks who take the anti-establishment message with extreme seriousness and tune out society completely. Spheeris talks to homeless teenagers living on the street or squatting in abandoned buildings in Los Angeles that go by the names of "Why-Me?", "Hamburger", "Troll", "Eyeball", "Squid", and others. ... Performances by four bands were filmed: Final Conflict, Litmus Green, Naked Aggression, and The Resistance.
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The film premiered at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Freedom of Expression Award. It was screened at the Cannes Film Festival and the Chicago Underground Film Festival, where it received a jury award. However, it never went into general release and was not available on VHS or DVD until the release in 2015 of a box set containing all three films on DVD and Blu-ray. This was partly due to Spheeris refusing to relinquish the rights to the first two parts of the trilogy in order to enable the third to be released. According to an article by Laura Snapes, "there was little demand to see such a depressing movie, and the few distribution offers that Spheeris got required her to hand over the rights to the first two movies, which she refused to do".[4] Decline III was also released separately via streaming video.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decline_of_Western_Civilization_Part_III

 

The film is about an advanced American defense system, named Colossus, becoming sentient. After being handed full control, Colossus' draconian logic expands on its original nuclear defense directives to assume total control of the world...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27456829

!gothindustrial@lemmy.world has been resurrected from the dead!

Frequent posts and a new set of mods, focusing on music of "all things industrial, goth, EBM, and noise."

 

A Town Called Bastard (also known as A Town Called Hell on DVD and Blu-ray) is a 1971 international co-production spaghetti Western. It was shot in Madrid with Robert Shaw, Telly Savalas, Stella Stevens and Martin Landau.[2][3][4]

It was released on blu-ray on 18 August 2015.[5] The film was retitled A Town Called Hell for US release as the word "bastard" was thought offensive.[6]

Plot

In 1903 Mexico, a small town is presided over by a tyrant who commands a grizzled outlaw and his men. Also in town is a priest with a violent past, who has abandoned his clerical duties. ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Town_Called_Bastard

link to the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9i-T1aV9pI (NOTE: the sound volume is a bit low on the voices)

 

24 Hour Party People is a 2002 British biographical comedy drama film about Manchester's popular music community from 1976 to 1992, and specifically about Factory Records. It was written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and directed by Michael Winterbottom. The film was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival[3] to positive reviews.

It begins with the punk rock era of the late 1970s and moves through the 1980s into the rave and DJ culture and the "Madchester" scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The main character is Tony Wilson (played by Steve Coogan), a news reporter for Granada Television and the head of Factory Records. The narrative largely follows his career, while also covering the careers of the major Factory artists, especially Joy Division and New Order, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column and Happy Mondays.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Hour_Party_People

link to the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aQCDjX8zgo

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