zeds rantos

zeds descent into hell: (and loving it)

- So as not to polute the shitbox I will keep my crap here. sometimes it feel like its only my shit in the shoutbox, & I feel I have to post, just to keep it relevant. Otherwise its just gonna be no posts for 5 days and then no one feels like posting.
Im just drinking the 99cent liter wine (they raised the price, it used to be 95 cents and before that I remember 85 cents), soon it will be more than 1 euro for a litre of wine, FFS is there no god)
anyways enuf wine talk.
Anyways I feel good, I showed my daughter rain tonight, well it was fuck all rain. and she was scared, what is this stuff falling out of the sky ( for what its worth I think it only rained 1mm, but for here thats more than normal, normal is zero) , just wait until I show her snow.
I feel good cause the day after tomorrow is may, and thats the month I have to go to ukraine, and fuck am I looking forward to it so much.
I really cant convey why, and if anyone saiz its a way to die then they can fuck off totally cause they do not understand.
My philosophy is one only has one life, there is no afterlife, no matter what ever anyone tells you or what you read, thus this is it. So fucking make the most of it. Each day is special, each day is a gift.
Life itself is a fuckin gift, and as being one so lucky to be gifted this, it would be terrible to waste it.
One thing is certain is , I will die sometime in the future, thus live the best Life I can live.
Here I was thinking about my best days & for some fucking reason both days came back to dogs giving birth in my room the previous night. I think I can just compredhed a good start to the day. I dont even like dogs. Every moment is a gift. Think of that when you are lying on your deathbed in a hospital cunts.
truth be told I am scared. hell 3 kiwis have died there already, which I can believe, as we are nutcases in case you dont understand, why thats nuts its cause thats prolly 2000% higher than the number of people for the USA that have died per population, but I have no idea, look up the figures).
Im part yank myself, I think I'm 1/16 yank (since my grandfath from WW2 is from the US),
I will need to do a DNA test, we have to anyways, to see what my daughter is, She look like me, but her mother, I have no idea, I guess from eastern europe.

Microcosmic God, by Theodore Sturgeon

I just wanted to mention an interesting story that I have been thinking about lately. (There are a couple of YouTube videos up of people reading it out loud, by the way). First published n 1941, it's about a scientist who creates artificial life, and accelerates its development until he has his own little artifical creatures who evolve to become intelligent, then eventually they become smarter than humans. As AI develops, I think about that story sometimes. In some ways it just helps me to imagine the dangers and problems that could arise from creating things that are more intelligent than we are, and which may or may not be essentially sympathetic to us. Had to share.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcosmic_God

Deadwood, season 1

I think my original attempt to watch this show was a download on an old computer that eventually crapped out on me before I could finish, and I never picked it up again. Here I am finally getting past those first few episodes and I'm only mildly interested. I wasn't quite getting it until about episode 10, in which the events lead to Swearengen uttering the words, "We're forming a fucking government." Suddenly, it all comes together for me.

I loved how Farnum snapped at the chance to become mayor and suddenly thinks he's a big shot, but this is still Ian McShane's show. He's calling the shots, and he's got enough charisma to be a total asshole and still be likeable.

Brad Dourif is also fully charged as the doc, and Olyphant is always cool as that sheriff type. Solid show so far.

Pet Sematary Prequel

Supposedly this is coming out in October. Has anyone been keeping up with any kind of news reports on how it's going? Interviews, social media posts by the actors or crew, anything like that? I didn't really LOVE the 2019 one, but I would still watch a prequel, just to give it a shot. They have a pretty good cast.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14145436/

Bitch (2017)

I watched this weird drama on the Tubi earler called Bitch. A neglected and cheated on wife is hanging by a thread. Depressed and stressed out to the point of being suicidal. Her unfaithful, workaholic husband checked out a long time ago and is about as uninvolved/self-involved as a family man could be. He works and fucks co-workers and that's about it. The wife runs the family, takes care of the kids, who he may not even know the names of. This guy doesn't care about jack shit, but he's gonna have to learn how or at least pretend cuz the wife is about to go away for a while, eventually losing her identity as a human being all together. This wife and mother, more or less, reverts to that of a dog. In her mind, she is now a dog. She becomes feral and goes down into the basement to shit and piss everywhere, and possibly willing to attack anyone who bothers her. Meanwhile, the husband is automatically thrust into a world of a single parent, having 4 kids to take care of. He is quickly exposed as a clueless man child who doesn't understand how anything works.

Being the self-absorbed prick that he is, he feels sorry for himself and despises the wife for disrupting his life, but after losing his career is eventually forced to do some soul searching, coming to the conclusion that he has no real identity or personality, but also finally realizing how he has come off all these years and how damaging his lack of caring has been to everyone. This once selfish, oblivious prick makes a legit transformation into a genuinely good guy who gets enthusiastic about being around his children and desperately wants to help his wife stop being such a bitch so they can finally be a real family. 5/10

Bud Light Boycott

This is some funny shit. And when I say funny, I mean facepalmingly stupid. They partnered with some trans guy/girl/thing and they're getting a lot of backlash for it. Because bud is a man's drink! No beers for queers!

On one hand, they should have known rednecks would take offense, but on the other hand... who gives a fuck? It's still the same old shit I never bought even when I drank like a fish.

Does the dog die?

This question gets asked about pretty much every movie that has a dog in it. Nobody cares if the human dies. Kill all the people you want, but if you kill that dog, I can't watch. Not just dogs either, pretty much any animal. Or any mammal, anyway. I can't remember anybody complaining about the death of a fish or a reptile off hand.

Seems weird, doesn't it? I mean, we are humans. It feels like the death of a fellow human should upset us more, but it doesn't. Maybe it's not that way for everybody, but it certainly is for me. I get upset just seeing an animal in a horror movie, because I know there is a 95% chance it will die. I have to keep telling myself "it's just a movie" to get through it. The people though? Fuck 'em.


Why is that? In the past I may have tried to come up with excuses. But let's be real here. The reason is obviously because I like animals a lot better than people. I'm not going to deny it anymore. Now I'm not saying I hate people across the board. There are some good ones. But no animal has ever done anything to hurt me the way a human has.


Yet for some reason, I eat animals, but not humans....🤔

Dare I Say, The Marvels...

... looks kind of interesting.

I still won't watch that shit though. I can't even get excited about James Gunn's Guardians 3. Or new Daredevil. Or Deadpool 3, since they hired She-Hulk writers. Brie Larson is hot though.

Elm Street 2 and Amityville 2

There are some plot similarities between these two 80s sequels. Both are about families moving into a house with a haunted history that ends up possessing the teenage male of the bunch. Both guys hear voices and have sexual hang-ups too. Jesse is a closet homosexual and Sonny has incestuous feelings toward his sister. Also, the fathers are both assholes played by cool actors.

NoES2 is more of a haunted house movie than you might initially realize. Besides the gradual possession, it's always hot inside. The AC never works and birds explode. After this movie, I'm pretty sure the house was featured in at least 1 or 2 episodes of the show, but would quickly be deemed too haunted to live in and thus existed mostly as a decayed dream figment until Lori move in for FvJ. It was still never depicted strictly as a haunted house, considering Freddy's spread was never confined to just that house, but rather the titular Elm Street (and part 6 proves that bit isn't even a firm rule).

I guess I can sort of understand why Amityville 2 changed the DeFeo family to the Montellis. They wouldn't want to sympathize the actual killer and bank off a real family's misfortune, but I'm not sure the sequels ever really acknowledged the Montellis, nor Sonny's fate.

I was wondering what ever happened to Jesse after NoES2 also. He's never featured in any sequels outside of some non-canon comics, and the actor believes he's alive, but in what state? I guess that's another thing the two have in common: lack of closure. We never know what happened to these guys after their movies, despite there being a bunch of sequels after that could have mentioned something. Also, both movies are not set in the years they were made. And both movies were also written, directed by, and starring human beings, as far as I know.

D&D: Honor Among Thieves 2023

I was into the video games in the early 2000s. Swords and sorcery always seemed cool to me, but then I'd go and watch something like Lord of the Rings and get bored as hell. Game of Thrones didn't do it for me either, so maybe the genre just isn't meant for cinema? Suffice to say, I went in with low expectations, but what a pleasant surprise. I have no complaints about this movie.

For all the nerds out there, this movie has it all. The locations, the races, the beasts, the classes, the spells, dungeons, (fat) dragons, traps, parties, quests, undead, and probably some other stuff. They packed a lot in here and it's fun. Not long and boring like LotR. Not royalty drama like GoT. Fun.

I was actually considering skipping this one with the idea that it would be another CGI shit show, but... yeah, there is CGI, but there are some cool scenes. I loved the druid's shapeshifting escape. I also loved all the portal stuff they did, because that's also a great fuckin' game.

Chris Pine strikes me as a cool guy. He reminds me of Jack Burton here, in that he's the main guy, but he's pretty worthless in the party. He is the glue that binds the team, but everyone else is clearly better than he is, and that makes him relatable to an inept tool like myself.

Medieval fantasy finally done right.

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