"YOU'VE GOT A RIGHT TO BE STUPID. DON'T ABUSE THE PRIVILEGE" Just got back in from watching Nine Queens - pretty damn good but I still think the best scam movie has got to be House of Cards. Tomorrow we are off to see the manga Metropolis which is double-billed with Blade Runner - going to give that one a miss though as I've seen it perhaps one too many times - blasphemy? not really - I was talking about this with Bruce earlier in the week and we both think that the original cut is simply much better than the bastardised director's cut that has replaced it as the standard. I have both copies and have watched them back to back on more than one occasion and the film really loses out not having Harrison Ford's voice over. As a kind of follow up to the citizen spies thing I mentioned a while back and the official website have a look at this article here: this concerned citizen is just the kind of guy who would be signing up to spy on his fellow neighbour but the real scary thing is (as if it weren't scary enough having people freely signing up to a police state) why would he just stop at a phone call to show his patriotism when he has access to automatic weapons? I discussed the American military's overeaction a few weeks ago - remember when they carpetbombed that wedding in Afghanistan because some guests had fired rifles in the air... yet back on American soil we have some nut with a machine gun intentionally trying to shoot down aircraft and he gets to defend himself by saying he was justified after the events of September 11th - that is so fucked up. He's just the kind of guy that insists 'guns don't kill people, people kill people' well maybe someone should have pointed out that even post 9-11 aircraft don't necessarily kill people either. Fuck - we've got a lot of really dumb morons living in the UK but thank fuck they don't have the 'god given right' to bare arms... every argument over 'Big Brother' would end in a massacre... Mike is blogging to: The Day the Earth Stood Still soundtrack by Bernard Herrmann