PREMIUM FISHER

My name's Matt Fisher. I'm a comedy type in New York City. I believe that a thing not worth doing is not worth doing well.
If we stop making movies THIS BUS WILL EXPLODE!

If we stop making movies THIS BUS WILL EXPLODE!

the-overlook-hotel: A recent article in The Telegraph claims that media mogul Simon Cowell worked for a time as a runner at Elstree Studios, including a stint on The Shining, where he purportedly buffed Jack Nicholson’s prop axe. The claim is made by Cowell’s half brother, Tony, who sad the family lived close to Elstree Studios.

the-overlook-hotel:

A recent article in The Telegraph claims that media mogul Simon Cowell worked for a time as a runner at Elstree Studios, including a stint on The Shining, where he purportedly buffed Jack Nicholson’s prop axe. The claim is made by Cowell’s half brother, Tony, who sad the family lived close to Elstree Studios.

claireayoublaughingatthings:

chrisgriswold:

herajika:

creepyabandonedplaces:

Holy Land USA
Waterbury, Connecticut 

Holy Land USA was once an 18 acre Bible-themed park located in Waterbury, Connecticut. The park had about 40,000 visitors a year until it closed in 1984 for renovations. Holy Land USA never opened back up again due to the death of owner John Greco in 1986. It has been abandoned ever since. The abandoned acres of the theme park have been watched over by groups of nuns for decades, but the place keeps getting more and more creepy as the park continues to deteriorate. 

On top of the vandalism and eeriness the park gives off, a teenager was murdered on these abandoned grounds in 2010. Since then police records have shown that the amount of trespassers have been decreasing which just means abandoned Holy Land USA is as creepy and deserted as ever.

I LOVE ABANDONED AMUSEMENT PARKS!

WHAT

WATERBURY REPRESENT. 

theofmoviestills:

~~~~~CINEMATIC PARALLELZ~~~~~

Garfield: The Movie | Peter Hewitt | 2004

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1974

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I really love how Garfield: The Movie paid tribute to Fassbinder on Ali: Fear Eats the Soul’s 30th anniversary. Peter Hewitt = AUTEUR

The real government power that’s been revealed in the NSA mess is the broad assumption by the American population that they have no control over what the government does. Think of the Tea Party— a tiny coalition of dirt-poor Americans have undone most of the civil rights movement, made it legal in several states to murder people who make you uncomfortable, decimated the government’s ability to provide basic services, and elected dozens of candidates who couldn’t run a VCR.  How did they do it? By voting in primaries and off-year elections and being willing to abandon incumbents. If you treat the government like it’s an army of alien overlords, then of course power will centralize. If they thought there was an electoral angle in it, politicians would be crawling over each other to burn down the NSA. But they trust that come November the conversation will be about birth certificates and Mormon underwear or whatever. If they thought they’d lose your vote over it, they’d sod the moon.

The real government power that’s been revealed in the NSA mess is the broad assumption by the American population that they have no control over what the government does.

Think of the Tea Party— a tiny coalition of dirt-poor Americans have undone most of the civil rights movement, made it legal in several states to murder people who make you uncomfortable, decimated the government’s ability to provide basic services, and elected dozens of candidates who couldn’t run a VCR. 

How did they do it? By voting in primaries and off-year elections and being willing to abandon incumbents.

If you treat the government like it’s an army of alien overlords, then of course power will centralize. If they thought there was an electoral angle in it, politicians would be crawling over each other to burn down the NSA. But they trust that come November the conversation will be about birth certificates and Mormon underwear or whatever. If they thought they’d lose your vote over it, they’d sod the moon.

If You’re American, The Wiretapping Is Your Fault And Your Responsibility

I don’t approve of US government wiretapping. No one does. That’s why the outrage about these “revelations” is so maddening.

If half of the politicians who are whining about Verizon and PRISM worked to end these practices, they would end immediately. Those efforts would enjoy near universal support. But no one does, because as they (AND YOU) practice American politics, it’s more useful to have a gripe than to have your way. The party in power won’t relinquish wiretapping privileges because it doesn’t want preventable terrorist acts to occur on its watch, and the minority won’t work to prevent wiretapping because it’s a handy rock to throw when you’re on the losing side of an actual political debate (nb: austerity, health care, gender equality, immigration). 

I know that these intrusions have been happening for more than a decade. I’ve known about Verizon’s complicity since it began. BECAUSE I READ THE FUCKING PAPER. AND HONESTLY I USUALLY JUST SKIM IT. The Verizon record dump was carried out with FISA court approval, every member of Congress was briefed on it from Day 1. Members of the Intelligence Committee have themselves had access to the records in question. The cat has never been even slightly in the bag. 

So anyone feigning surprise at this point is either a victim of self-imposed ignorance or, much more problematically, just committing political shenanigans. And they trust that those shenanigans will be effective because the American public is too proud to acknowledge its indifference and not nearly proud enough to demand change. 

If you don’t enjoy the fact that American governance has devolved into a game of political football, refuse to be the ball.