SATURDAY NIGHT WANG CHUNG, MASSIVE ATTACK.

To live and die in LA, eighties hit by the now obscure seeming band Wang Chung. It's from the soundtrack of the movie with the same style, starring Willem Dafoe. While playing an impressing role, Dafoe's real breakthrough would have to wait a short while yet, until Platoon came out.





Then Unfinished Sympathy, a hit by the rather faceless group Massive Attack.





Hey, nite all.


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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010!!!

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AVATAR IS STINKING CRAP.

No, I haven't seen the movie. There is no need to for me, not after reading this Fjordman review in The Brussels Journal:

The hero is the U.S. Marine Jake Sully who has been sent to the planet-like moon Pandora because humans desire the mineral resources found of Pandora, which is inhabited by a race of tall, blue-skinned aliens, the Na’vi. They have a non-industrial civilization technologically inferior to ours but apparently spiritually richer and in perfect ecological harmony with the natural environment. The hero predictably falls in love with the native culture and connects with a native girl.

“Going native” is in itself not an original theme; it resembles Dances with Wolves, only with aliens instead of Sioux. Neither is the preference for pre-industrial civilization, which was after all shared by a good man such as Tolkien in his The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Tolkien had personally experienced the meaningless horrors of trench warfare during the First World War and this naturally affected his view of industrialized society. What is different about the movie Avatar is how it portrays whites as a bunch of raging monsters, something which Tolkien never did.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL Doorgunner alert!!!!! Marines? Check. Khaki choppers? Check. Doorgunners? Check. Jungle? Check. Gatling gun on steroids? Check. Avatar is not only an anti-white movie. What specific anti-white movie could it be? Anti-Byelorussian? Anti-Slovenian? Anti-Italian? Anti-Norwegian? Anti-Luxembourgian? Come on, what country could it be? The first one who knows it gets a Nobel Peace Prize. The second one a 1 million metric C02 ton carbon offset.

Basically, the white characters are portrayed as brutal, greedy and insensitive beasts who rape the environment and destroy other cultures with a smile in the search for profit. The main antagonist is the white Colonel Quaritch, a brute who hardly possesses a single positive character trait. The final climax of the movie is when he screams “How does it feel to betray your race?” to the protagonist while he is trying to murder him. Although a few of the white characters such as Jake Sully are portrayed in a more redeeming light this is only because they totally reject their own civilization and join the other team in the fight. In other words: the only good whites are the ones who utterly turn their backs on their own destructive and evil culture. As reviewer Armond White put it, “Avatar is the corniest movie ever made about the white man’s need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.”

Of course, back in the real world whites are among the most self-critical and least ethnocentric people on Earth, and have been so for a long time. Whites are also disproportionately represented in the environmental movement whereas many “diverse” Third World peoples couldn’t care less about the environment. But why let the truth get in the way of making a good anti-white movie? The fact that quite a few among the predominantly white audience cheered for this movie shows that anti-white hatred and stereotypes have become so widespread and accepted that most people cannot even see it, least of all whites themselves.

I was reminded of the last sentence in Fjordman's review when I read another one, dated December 15, by the NYPress's Armond White, who happens to be black:

Cameron’s superficial B-movie tropes pretend philosophical significance. His story’s rampant imperialism and manifest destiny (Giovanni Ribisi plays the heartless industrialist) recalls Vietnam-era revisionist westerns like Soldier Blue, but it’s essentially a sentimental cartoon with a pacifist, naturalist message. Avatar condemns mankind’s plundering and ruin of a metaphorical planet’s ecology and the aboriginals’ way of life. Cameron fashionably denounces the same economic and military system that make his technological extravaganza possible. It’s like condemning NASA—yet joyriding on the Mars Exploration Rover.

Meanwhile, in the real world... now that we are talking about technological civilizations greedily looting the earth's resources...

IN HIS office in Lusaka, Zambia's capital, Xu Jianxue sits between a portrait of Mao Zedong and a Chinese calendar. His civil-engineering and construction business has been doing well and, with the help of his four brothers, he has also invested in a coal mine. He is bullish about doing business in Zambia: 'It is a virgin territory,' he says, with few products made locally and little competition. He is now thinking of expanding into Angola and Congo next door. When he came in 1991, only 300 lived in ambia. now he guesses there are 3,000..."

[From The Economist, 'China in Africa', Oct 26, 2006]

And from Dambisa Moyo's book "Dead Aid":

"China has invested billions incopper and cobalt, in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia; in iron ore and platinum in South Africa; in timber in Gabon, Cameroon and Congo-Brazzaville. It has also acquired mines in Zambia, textile factories in Lesotho, railways in Uganda, timber in the Central African Republic and retail developments across nearly every capital city. However, oil is the gusher..."

Meanwhile, at the climate fest set up in the white capital Copenhagen, where white heads of states accepted the burden of the (phoney) CO2 guilt, and where the protesters and anarchists in the streets were also white, and where a lunatic Gordon Brown promised to cut the UK's CO2 emissions with 42% by 2020 (at the cost of 500 billion £), those same Chinese wrecked any possible deal... not that I cared much.

Note that the Chinese account for 40% of the total increase in oil demand since 2005, and for nearly the entire increase in global consumption of copper, tin and aluminium since 1998. Would the white girl with the sorry face below, photographed while anxiously listening to Baraka Hussein Mohbama's Copenhagen speech, be aware of that?





I doubt it very much.

But I bet that there's a real good chance she has seen Avatar by now. And cheered.


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