Ronin

The film not the masterless Samurai's of feudal Japan.

Thats the one i mean :D

Anyway, i'm sitting here at my computer a little bored when i decided to channel surf the movie channels to see if anything worth watching was on, and as usual, nothing worth watching was on, you pay a premium with Sky to receive these movie channels, theres like 20 of them, and there is rarely anything worth your time, sure the classic channels and film four sometimes give you a viable option, but the main Sky Movie channels, mostly all shit, mostly all the time.

Ronin was released in 1998, it cost $55 million to produce and earned the studio $240 million in revenue, WHAT THE FUCK, you mean an American film, with a good script, dialogue, acting and a good story actually earned nearly 6 times its production cost. Well stone me.

Why is it that when a film like this comes out, and does really fucking well at the box office, which lets face it means nothing with regards to weather a film/movie is actually any good, all it tells you is how many people went to see it and how much money it made. But its clear these days that the Hollywood studios don't really care if the product is good or not, but only if it makes a lot of money.

Good film always make a decent amount of cost, weather it waits for the DVD/BR release or not. I don't mind the usual summer blockbuster bullcrap, they usually have decent action scenes and as long as you don't take them to seriously or think your going to see Gone with the fucking wind your in for an entertaining evening. Its just so much of this shit comes out every year you wonder if studio bosses are even listening to their audience and not just their bank balance.

Lest use an eMail conversation i had yesterday with a friend about Zombies. He sent me an eMail about 'The Walking Dead', he didn't like it. I didn't find it that bad, but my point is this, Zombies are now, the in things, we have Zombies coming out of our ears and the quality is just getting worse with every Zombie film, The Romero classics, are just that, Fucking Classics, and they shall always be Classics, not so much the more recent Romero Zombies film, but Night, Dawn and Day, fucking classics. WEre seeing them everywhere and i'm getting kind of bored with it, Shaun of the Dead could be the start of all this, a good Zombie based movie gets released and now everybody wants to be a fucking Zombie, arms raised head cocked to one side, glazed look in their eyes, walking slowly towards to grunting of croaking "braaaaaiiiiiiiinnnnssssss".

Hollywood will always just vomit out what ever is popular because they know people will go see it, money money money. Its the Gordon Greco school of film making, only make what you know for sure people will want see. Lets pick another small, almost indie Robert DeNiro film 'Insomnia' underrated and yet another great performance not just by DeNIro but also by Robin Williams, who's serious acting is always far better then his comedy acting.

Hollywood it would seem don't like taking a chance on a new idea very often, but when they do, we see the kinds of films that should be coming out of Hollywood.

Yes, Hollywood makes more money then all other film industries. Yes Bollywood does make more movies the all other industries. But fuck tons of money and 800 movies a year do not mean your going to make a classic. look at Avatar, it will never be a classic, it'll always remain as that movie thats on the tele around christmas and new years, it'll be watched and forgotten, quickly. I've seen it once and since then i've had no interest is seeing it again. And everyone i now who has seen it and likes it always say the same thing when asked "What was so great about it" they always say "The CG was fucking awesome". Yes, yes it was, the CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) was outstanding, but CGI does not make a good movie/film, Toy Story 3 is a prime example of this, 100% CGI, but it also has and outstanding story, and interesting characters, that alone should tell your that that, is what makes a good movie/film and that is what will make it an all time classic. Toy Story (1,2,3) will live on as classic films do to the stories being told and the great characters. Not the great CGI. The same thing goes for 3D, and if you read my shit, you know how much i fucking hate 3D. But at least CGI serves a purpose in cinema. But CGI should never be the selling point of the movie and always go unnoticed.

So to recap. Films and movies should rely on good scripts, good characters, and a good story. And the big hollywood blockbusters should only ever be regarded as mindless entertainment and never be seen any other way and never try to be anything else, for they are just a fireworks display. look at the shiny shiny.

Legs...

I entered a Hipstamatic contest, to win something like 8 Awesome Hipstamatic t-shirts.

This is the photo i entered;

I do like this pic, not just because i took it, of my legs, but because using Hipstamatic can turn any half decent picture into a work of art.

The T-Shirts i could win;

I would look fucking awesome in these shirts, i really would :D

Go HERE and underneath the photo, you can "vote" via Twitter or Facebook. Basically you tweet it or like it (FB)

SO please go so i can look awesomesauce this summer in my new t-shirts :D

Reply to an eMail from MBNA...

To Whom it may concern,

Email Reference Number: ********

I've tried to "log in" and, as i can't even remember registering an account online, that didn't go well so i figured i'd reply to this eMail and hope that this reaches the correct person.

As of September 17th 2010 i have been unemployed, and right now am struggling to find work, my current bank balance is approximately £153, which must pay for utilities and living expenses, i receive £130 every 2 weeks from my Job Seekers Allowance (The last was this Monday 16th May), so as you can see my financial situation isn't great.

In the eMail (Below) i was told that i've missed the last 3 payment, but my bank receipts say i paid £100 on the 2nd of April. Yes i'm fully aware that my minimum is £150, but if i did pay the full amount i'd be filing for bankruptcy.

At the beginning of the year (2011) i had two rather long and as it turns out pointless conversation with a representative at your office, we discussed my current situation and he tried to help me out by reducing my minimum to £100 a month, but that would have turned the then short term problem into a very long one, a problem i was hoping to avoid by finding work, but as that hasn't happened it soon looks like that problem is going to happen sooner rather then not at all. As it stands i am still spending most of my free time, when not cleaning this house to please the owners, looking for work and as i've said, it looks to be far more difficult then i first anticipated.

Of course once i start working again and gain a monthly paycheck i will continue to pay my monthly bills, usually in the past i've paid more then my monthly minimum, why? because i am so desperate to pay it off, i NEED to clear this credit card because in the 8 or 9 years i've had it, 90% of that time has been nothing but stress i just don't need, in my personally view credit cards are EVIL in the wrong hands, and the wrong hands are 99% of the worlds population. Its true.

Anyway. Your records should show that i've always paid my bills, while i've had employment, and i've been unemployed 3 times since having this card. Your records should also show that, 2004/2005 - 2008 - and now, your records should show that i couldn't pay the full amount, but every time i gain employment i was back on form and paying my monthly due.

Now, this is the longest i've been unemployed, and my financial situation is the worst its ever been. I stopped my Payment Protection Cover a year ago, because, in the past (2004/2005 - 2008 unemployment periods) they didn't help, i was paying them 50 - 60 pounds a month and they were refusing to help me. So a year ago i decided to terminate my contract with them. I mean why bother giving them money if they can just refuse to help me when i need them most (My views on insurance companies are not for this eMail) How was i to now i'd be sacked later that year, i was having a great year at work.

My job search continues as i fall deeper and deeper into a depression due to my financial situation, i have plans, in fact its a two year plan, but with no monthly income that plan is pointless, which in turn feeds my decent into a depression, and this credit card situation isn't helping. 

At the start of the year, when i spoke to a loverly man about this at your offices, twice, i was told, by him, that i've been a great customer who always paid on time and usually more then i needed to. All i ask for now is time. Time to find work and put this problem right. Of that you have my word. If you choose to take it.

Over the last few months i have thought about breaking the law to make money, because thats just how bad i need to clear this card. As of yet, i have not.

Sorry for the length of this message but i felt i need to explain as much as i could. Weather or not you listen, agree, disagree or ignore it, is up to the reader(s).

Thank you.

Yours Sincerly

Jason Fisk

I'm a Nerd [01001110 01100101 01110010 01100100]

Yes i am.

Last night i spend at least some time trying to figure out how number and letters (Upper and lower case) correspond to Binary, one's and zero's.

Binary is a set of 1's and 0's in blocks of 8. And each character corresponds to a number, like this;

128 - 64 - 32 - 16 - 8 - 4 - 2 - 1

So from 00000000 to 11111111 there are a total of 256 combinations.

All numbers in binary begin with 0011 then its just a matter of making the number 0 to 9 with the next 4 digits. 1 for example is 0001 and 5 is 0101. So the number 9 would be 00111001. First 0011 to till us its a number, then 1001 8 + 1. for double or triple digit number, or more, you just at another block for each individual number. So 194 would be 00110001 00111001 00110100. first the number 1 then 9 then 4. A large number then, 123,123 would be 00110001 00110010 00110011 00101100 00110001 00110010 00110011. 7 blocks because 00101100 corresponds to the , so a number between 1 million and under 1 billion would have 2 , in it.

Letters, start with 0100 or 0110. 0100 = upper case and 0110 = lower case letters. Using the same system as the number, all you need is to make between 1 and 26.

A = 01000001

a = 01100001

Z = 01011010

z = 01111010

Of course special characters have other combinations, but i haven't looked into them, and i'm not likely to, in fact i'm done thinking about how Binary corresponds to numbers and letters.

Reasons why we should weaponise Darwinism ~#1~

Yesterday i finished my eleventh week of going to a Gym. Thats 3 times a week for 11 weeks, so that 33 Gym sessions. Plus 2 bus rides for each session, to and from the Gym, that 66 bus rides, and until yesterday 'd never had a problem.

Yes this blog is going to be about dirty urban pikeys (British Slang).

So i waited at my bus stop as i usually do, this part was, of course as boring an uneventful as it usually is, which is fine by me as i'd just finished a kick ass gym session, relaxing is on my mind for the next few hours, and sitting on a bus ignoring the world feels great right about now.

I use my Oyster card to "pay" for my ride, £1.20p and i move to the seat i usually sit at, second row on the right past the back doors, window seat, not very comfortable, but then none of them are. I start to relax.

Then about 5 minutes into a 30 minutes bus ride three "Pikeys" get on board, already i can till these guys are gotten be asshole because they are taking forever to deal with the process of paying, i'm still unclear if all three actually paid.

Anyway the first, who it would appear is the "Alpha" of the three walked to the back of the bus with his fishing gear took one look at me and said "Alright mate, i know you, you used to chase us around the flat about 10 years ago" I had no idea what the fuck he was talking about, the others seems to follow suit, i have no idea weather they were just putting me on or what, but some details like where this supposedly happened were correct, The flat behind my house. But ten years ago i was 23 and not chasing kids around the flats, as he didn't use my name i got the feeling that he may of recognised my face, but confused it with someone else's. He was drunk after all, at 7pm.

The three pikeys sat around me and started to talk to me, so i just went with it, i didn't know them, then and i didn't want to know them now, but what could i do.

After much loud, loutish behaviour the two bigger one, not to say they we're any bigger then me, just bigger the the little third guy, anyway, one of their big ass bottles of Stella went flying across the bus, hitting some poor guy on the head, at this point i'm just hoping that the other people on this bus don't actually think i'm "with" them, they fall onto another poor guy sitting across from us, he quickly gets up and moves away, Next, after the two twats hug and make up, and i mean that literally, the "Alpha" sits back down next to me and slaps the poor guy in front on the head, the guy who was hit by a flying beer bottle, and why did he get hit, well because he was black and these fucks we're clearly racists.

When they first sat down i didn't think anything of it at first, i thought it was just bolster, three fuckwits trying to act "hard" on a bus, i was told that, because i'm a "Friend" i'm ok, but if i were black i'd get shot, the little one made his hand into a gun shape and flicked it up as if he'd just fired it.

The poor guy infront of us, took it like a man and with dignity, clear he has more dignity in his little toe then either one of those pikey wankers, but as he got up to leave the bus the heckled him, "Don't take it personally mate, its not your fault your black, just go home and hang yourself with that rope" it was at this point i wished that i either missed this bus, they didn't get on, or i had the balls and or skill to take them on, all three at once.

After that things seemed to chill out for a bit, then the dumb fuck on the back seat simply decided to break a seat, he pushed, with his legs on the back of it and bent it forward, why, because his mate ("Alpha") was sitting in it.

They seem to like causing trouble, and damaging public property because they can and because no one, me included, tills them otherwise, if we did what would happen to us? most likely a ride to a hospital.

People like this DO NOT FIGHT FAIR, even though the "Alpha" might step in first, once the fight has begun, the other two will jump in, especially if the "Alpha" gets into trouble, then it no longer a for fight. So, how do you fight these people? easy, you fight dirty and you try to end it quickly. Then leg it. The "Alpha" may start the fight, but all three will jump in, then when its over and done, they seem to get confused. Later, they might say "I kicked your arse" "I beat the fuck outta you" they seem to forget quickly that it did take all three to finally kick your arse.

After this, i started to think about Darwinism and if we could weaponise it, we wouldn't have these pikeys around for long.

Someone commented on my Vlog yesterday thats it most likely Socio-Economic, poor families are more likely to break the law, and at least enjoy doing so. Maybe that true we are products of our environment after all.

And after this what did i want to do? Kill them, i even planned it out. Does that make me like them or worse?