Em O Silêncio dos Inocentes descobrimos como ele faz. Em Dragão Vermelho descobrimos quem ele é. Agora, prepare-se para responder a mais intrigante das perguntas; por quê? O início da história do vilão mais cruel do cinema finalmente é revelado. Descubra a origem do ódio de Hannibal Lecter e seu desejo insaciável de matar.

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Como não sou lá muito esbelto, meu corpinho seria capaz de alimentar nada menos que 15 almas canibais famintas!

Fonte:veio do Asttro 

La agrupación se ha dado a conocer por sus tenebrosos rostros de latex, alegando que forman "parte integral de la identidad de la banda".

En Spinner.com además de explicar que las nuevas máscaras son más tenebrosas que nunca, algunas evocan figuras de terror como Hannibal Lecter y Pinhead, hay una galería con las mismas.

Vía: NME

Hari nih pagi2 aku dah tengok the making of Sepi.. waaa best cerita nih.. bila laa aku nak tengok... tak sabar nak tengok sebenarnya.. kalau boleh tak nak lepas..  :D

This morning @0900 aku ada class aka course to attend.. hmm ITIL . Aku tak sempat nak menelaah pun malam tadi.. semalam balik awal. tidur pun awal.. semalaman aku tidur...  hopefully my sleep yesterday night will pay off with full concentration in a class. Insya allah. hmm voice recorder.. kasi recharge skit.. semoga berjaya.. Course ini akan berlarutan selama 3 hari.. Friday @1700 aku akan sambut hari merdeka kedua aku.. errrr Firday exam..

probably Saturday or Sunday.. mak nak buat kenduri baca doa selamat kot.. hmm aku dah berniat.. hari tuh.. naik gaji.. exam tempat belaja pun dah pass, adik aku pun dpt sambung belajar.. kak Sila pun naik pangkat..hmm we are so blessed... Thanks Allah  :)

Minggu depan kena balik Ipoh.. nak hantar Fatihah pi Poly Ungku Omar.. pastu class aku start at 7 July.. huhuh class start balik.. syiok. .. haa banyaknya plan..

Petang nih aku nak pi library kat PJ.. nak extend date buku The Hobbit and Hannibal yang aku pinjam.. hmm probably boleh menelaah about ITIL sampai kul 9pm..

Good Luck Ekin..

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I grew up in Quincy, Illinois. I've seen the flooding. I know how devastating it can be.

The Midwest flooding has now consumed 5 States: Indiana, Wisonsin, Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri.

It has flooded thousands of acres of farmland and the damage will be in the billions of dollars. Thousands of homes and businesses were lost. I can just imagine the cost of farm machinery alone!

The majority of these people didn't have flood insurance. And for good reason. Cedar Rapids, Iowa going under water? No way.

(However, from what I can find it's still too early to predict recovery costs. Some are just saying they expect it to exceed Katrina/Rita.)

(And I do think it will surpass the Katrina aftermath).

100 and 500 year floods tend to pretty much occur in those time periods. Except for the fact that in some places the 100 year floods came 20 years apart ('72 and '93) and now in some places, the "500 year floods" occurred 15 years apart ('93 and '08)

And it's going to affect everyone's pocketbook - shipping on the Mississippi river has been shut down, thousands of acres of farmland, plus surplus crops destroyed. (You think food prices are high now? Just wait till the effect hits from this).

It seems FEMA in some areas told people in 1999 they didn't need flood insurance.

I think we can all agree now that if FEMA tells you something, either seek a second opinion, or do the opposite.

I understand FEMA is on the ground there doing their best.

Still, this is an agency not given its due by presidential administrations.

Major natural disasters (and not just in the U.S.) are now commonplace. Tornadoes, hurricanes, fires, floods, you name it. (Reports attribute the more violent nature of the weather to global warming). And many say the U.S. can expect a devastating earthquake like the recent one in China. Not "if", but "when".

We pump billions into Iraq but we're not even equipped to handle our own domestic disasters.

We seem to need an overhaul in our national approach.

Read more here.

UPDATE: Maybe FEMA is a bone in the ass - at least for the victims of Katrina & Rita. $85 million worth of supplies finally arrives today in Louisiana after sitting in a Texas storehouse for over 2 years! FEMA can't explain. Does this agency need to be completely overhauled?

Read here.

UPDATE JULY 7: CNN reports that VIctims are angry as hell. Who can blame them?

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Hannibal Lecter - Early life and murder spree

Hannibal Lecter was born in Lithuania in 1938 to wealthy parents. His father was a count, his mother a descendent of the famous Visconti family of Milan. In Hannibal he is said to be a cousin of the artist Balthus. He had a younger sister named Mischa.

When Lecter was six, a group of German deserters retreating from Russia shelled his family's estate, killing his parents and most of the servants. Lecter, his sister, and other local children were rounded up by the group of deserters to be used as sustenance during the cold Baltic winter. Mischa was killed and cannibalized, but young Lecter managed to escape. It is believed that this event would shape the rest of Lecter's life. Years later, he would come to see his nemesis (and obsession) Clarice Starling as a surrogate for his sister.

In Red Dragon, a character states that, as a child, he showed the first and earliest sign of sociopathic behaviour: sadism towards animals. As this somewhat contradicts his later characterization, fans have doubted its accuracy.[1] It should also be pointed out that to be diagnosed as a true sociopath, Lecter must fulfill at least two other requirements from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual's checklist; he shows only one: a lack of remorse over his actions. Another requirement is that sociopaths do not show emotion or love for others. Hannibal has shown a deep love for his sister Mischa and Clarice. The same character confides that psychologists have not yet found a label for what Lecter is.

Lecter established a psychiatric practice in Baltimore, Maryland in the 1970s. He became a leading figure in Baltimore society and indulged his extravagant tastes, which he financed by influencing some of his patients to bequeath him large sums of money in their wills.

Lecter killed at least nine people before his capture, becoming known in the Baltimore area as "The Chesapeake Ripper." He had three other known victims who survived, including Will Graham, an FBI profiler who was Lecter's captor and who figures largely in the plot of Red Dragon. Another one of these, Mason Verger, figures largely in the plot of Hannibal.

Only two of the twelve victims are known by name in the books: Benjamin Raspail and Verger. Verger was the scion of a wealthy and influential family who controlled a meat-packing empire. Verger went through psychiatric counseling with Lecter after being convicted of child molestation. Lecter drugged Verger and suggested he try cutting off his face. Verger complied and, again at Lecter's suggestion, ate his own nose, feeding the rest of his face to two dogs. Lecter then broke Verger's neck and left him to die. Verger survived, but was forever confined to a life support machine.

Raspail was Lecter's ninth and final (known) victim before his incarceration. Raspail was a not-so-talented flautist with the Baltimore Philharmonic Orchestra, and it is believed that Lecter killed Raspail because his musicianship, or lack thereof, spoiled his enjoyment of the orchestra's concerts. Raspail's body would be discovered sitting in a church pew with his thymus and pancreas missing, and his heart pierced. It is believed Lecter served these organs at a dinner party he held for the orchestra's board of directors. Raspail claimed to have killed a man whose head was found years later in Raspail's rented storage garage in Baltimore, but Lecter suspected him of covering up for his former lover, Jame Gumb, who would later be involved in Lecter's life as the serial killer dubbed "Buffalo Bill."

The novels also mention a few details about Lecter's other victims. One, who initially survived, was taken to a private mental hospital in Denver, Colorado. Others include a bow hunter, a census taker, and a Princeton student whom he buried. Lecter was given sodium amytal by the FBI in the hopes of learning where he buried the student; he gave them a recipe for potato chip dip. His last three killings happened within nine days.

Lecter's cannibalism is thought to be a kind of revenge fantasy borne from watching his sister be cannibalized. He eats his victims because they represent to him the kind of low, bestial individuals who would desert their duty to their country and kill and eat a small child; he's not only getting back at them, but showing them he's better than they are by consuming them with exquisite taste, with gourmet recipes and fine wine. He feels that his victims — a child molester, an incompetent musician, a census taker rude enough to try to "quantify" him — are as inferior as the deserters who took his sister away from him, and so deserve to die.

Lecter is, at some level, a coward. As Starling put it: "You see a lot, don't you doctor? Why don't you turn that high-powered perception at yourself and tell us what you see? Maybe you're afraid to."

Lecter was caught in March or April of 1975 by FBI Special Agent Will Graham. Graham was investigating a series of murders in the Baltimore area committed by a serial killer, and had turned to Lecter for professional (and personal) advice. When Graham questioned Lecter at his psychiatric practice, he noticed some antique medical books in his office. Upon seeing these, Graham knew Lecter was the killer he sought; the sixth victim had been killed in his workshop and laced to a pegboard in a manner reminiscent of the Wound Man – an illustration used in many early medical books. Graham left to call the police, but while he was on the phone Lecter attacked him with a linoleum knife. After Lecter was arrested, Graham was briefly committed to a mental institution, and retired upon recovering from his wounds.

The courts found Lecter insane. Thus, he was spared prison and sent to the Baltimore State Forensic Hospital (later the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.) Many of the families of his victims pursued lawsuits against Lecter to have their files destroyed. The FBI investigated four more patients who had died under Lecter's care. He was nicknamed "Hannibal the Cannibal" in the National Tattler, a tabloid that also published unauthorized photos of Graham in the hospital after being attacked by Lecter. Another officer retired from the FBI after being the first to discover Lecter's basement. His electroencephalogram (EEG) showed a bizarre pattern and, given his history, was ultimately branded "a pure sociopath" by the hospital's administrator, Frederick Chilton (who was not a certified doctor). Ultimately, Lecter remained an enigma; he was far "too sophisticated" for most forms of psychological evaluation, especially considering the fact that he enjoyed staying abreast of all of the latest developments in his field: since he knew how the tests worked, no one could use them on him.

Lecter was a model patient until the afternoon of July 8, 1976. Upon complaining of chest pains, he was taken to the infirmary where his restraints were removed. He attacked a nurse who was then placing leads for an electrocardiogram (EKG) onto his chest, tearing out her eye, dislocating her jaw and eating her tongue. His pulse never went above 85 beats per minute. During the struggle with the orderlies, his shoulder was dislocated. Following the incident, Lecter was treated very carefully by the hospital staff. He was often confined to heavy restraints, a straitjacket and muzzle, and he was only transported when strapped to a hand-truck. A new administrator, "Dr." Chilton, was appointed. Chilton and Lecter's relationship was marked by mutual hatred; Chilton's mediocrity and inflated self-importance offended Lecter, who often humiliated his keeper, while Lecter's constant mind games and slipperiness infuriated Chilton, who punished him by removing his books and toilet seat. (Chilton once claimed Lecter saw him as his nemesis; this was clearly a case of projection.) At the end of Red Dragon, Lecter diagnosed this form of punishment as indicative of the damnation of society by half-measures. "Any rational society would kill me, or give me my books." By contrast, Lecter reached a mutual respect with his primary caregiver and warden, Barney Matthews, and the two often shared thoughts over Barney's correspondence courses.

Hannibal Lecter - Helping the FBI

During his stay in the hospital, Lecter would help with two FBI cases. Graham came out of retirement in 1978 to help out with the "Tooth Fairy" case and, while at a dead end, he went to Lecter for help. Lecter "helped" by sending a coded message to the killer, Francis Dolarhyde, to kill Graham and his family, resulting in Graham being permanently disfigured. Five years later, Jack Crawford (incidentally, not the Director of the FBI) sent FBI trainee Clarice Starling to Lecter. Starling thought she was there for a class assignment, hoping to get Lecter to take a questionnaire, but she ended up getting him to help her in the Buffalo Bill case. In both of these instances, Lecter used word play and subtle clues to help Graham and Starling figure it out themselves. It is his relationship with Starling, equal parts antagonism and seduction, that most of the books revolve around. Harris based the Lecter-Starling relationship on the "consultations" between FBI profiler Robert Keppel and serial killer Ted Bundy, in which Bundy offered to help the FBI track down the Green River serial killer.

Gumb's latest kidnappee was Catherine Martin, daughter of Sen. Ruth Martin. Lecter told Chilton he would reveal Buffalo Bill's real name to Martin and was promptly flown to Memphis and held at the Shelby County Courthouse. During his stay in Memphis, Lecter lied to Martin, giving her the fake name "Billy Rubin." (Bilirubin is a pigment found in feces, the same colour as Chilton's hair, Lecter's hint that the name was fake; the movie changed the name to "Louis Friend," an anagram for "iron sulfide" - fool's gold.) Starling then visited Lecter at his makeshift cell, and he gave her some final clues before making a bloody escape, killing two police officers during the ordeal. He escaped by making a 'mask' from the face of one of the officers.

After plastic surgery and the removal of a distinctive sixth finger, Lecter relocated in Florence, Italy. Lecter avoided reconstruction of his nose to protect his unctuous enjoyment of fragrances. In Florence, he took the pseudonym "Dr. Fell," a reference to the Tom Brown translation of Martial's epigram "Non amo te, Sabidi" ("I do not love thee, Doctor Fell / The reason why, I cannot tell.") As Dr. Fell, Lecter's dazzling charm won him the recently vacated position of museum curator. Lecter murdered the previous curator.

Hannibal Lecter - Winning Clarice

Hannibal's identity would be discovered by Florence detective Rinaldo Pazzi seven years after his escape from Memphis. Pazzi’s career had peaked with his capture of the serial killer “Il Mostro,” who had slaughtered numerous couples in the fashion of Botticelli’s “Primavera.” His social standing had skyrocketed until the case was reviewed and the man accused of the murders was acquitted. He faced an instant and public shame reminiscent of the nadir reached by a previous Pazzi who became notorious for attacking a Medici. Pazzi saw chance for social redemption when he realized the identity of Dr. Fell. Pazzi was initially conflicted, vacillating between his desire to regain his social status and his hunger for the compensation he knew Mason Verger would provide. Ultimately, he chose the latter.

Pazzi struck a deal with Verger to get Lecter alive so that Verger could feed Lecter to wild boars. In his efforts to capture Lecter, Pazzi inadvertently informed Lecter of his insight. After killing Pazzi, Lecter went back to the United States. Both Verger and Starling would hunt him, hoping to get to him before the other. Lecter ended up being captured by Verger's men, but escaped once again, taking the wounded Starling with him and convincing Margot Verger (Mason's sister and a former patient, whom Mason had raped when they were children) to kill her brother. Lecter left a voice message claiming responsibility for Verger's death.

Lecter kept Starling in total isolation during the next few months, subjecting her to various brainwashing and conditioning techniques. His main goal was to systematically replace Starling's memories and personality and make her believe she was Lecter's deceased sister Mischa. After breaking Starling down, Lecter kidnapped her nemesis, Paul Krendler, who was trying to discredit her, as a final test. At the rented home that Lecter was living in, Lecter performed a lobotomy on Krendler and carefully prepared and shared his brains with Starling while Krendler was still alive.

However, Lecter's plan to brainwash Starling ultimately failed, as he utterly underestimated her strong will; Starling refused to have her own personality sublimated, mocking his efforts to turn her into his sister. Then, in the novel's most surprising moment, she took off her shirt and offered her breast to Lecter. Lecter accepted her offer and the two became lovers.

The couple then vanished. Lecter's former caretaker, Barney Matthews, spotted the two in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2000. It is stated that Starling was able to use her new found charms (founded due to Hannibals hypnotic drugs and suggestions) to tame Lecter's darker impulses and literally domesticate the serial killer, with the two living an affluent lifestyle. They are left dancing happily in Buenos Aires with the suggestion we should leave the lovers as a chance meeting might prove to be quite fatal.

The ending of Hannibal, with its fan service type ending regarding Starling and Lecter becoming a couple, sparked much controversy. Harris wrote an alternate ending for the film adaptation: in the new ending, Lecter didn't try and brainwash Starling, and the infamous dinner party where Paul Krendler's brain was served took place days, not months, after the death of Mason Verger. The police tracked Lecter down, and, in order to buy time, Starling handcuffed herself to Lecter. In the film's climax, Lecter grabbed a meat cleaver and prepared to chop off Starling's hand to escape. She was defiant, so Lecter tested her: he asked her to beg him to turn himself in to the police and renounce his murderous ways. Starling refused, and Lecter thanked her for not disappointing him; he then chopped off his own hand so he could escape. The film ended with a scene from the middle part of the novel, where Lecter was on a plane and gave some food from his personal lunchbox to a child sitting next to him. While the novel made it clear that Lecter gave the child liverwurst, the film heavily implied it was left-overs from Krendler's brain.

A propos Polaków...
I jak my mieliśmy do cholery wygrać?

Ale teraz koniec o Euro 2008. Przyjdzie jeszcze na to czas.

Krótko o filmach. Z racji mojej nieodpartej chęci na dobry thriller – zasmakowałem w klasyce gatunku. „Milczenie Owiec” i „Hannibal” to dwa filmy warte obejrzenia. Znakomity Anthony Hopkins i jego genialna kreacja. Świetna Jodie Foster w „pierwszej części”, ponieważ w kontynuacji nie wystąpiła.

Muzyka w tym czasie to The Stone Roses i John Lennon. Rzecz jasna polecam pierwszą płytkę Iana Browna i spółki, jak i koncert w Blackpool 89’. Świetna sprawa.
A wracając do Lennona to składanka „Legend” jest bardzo ciekawą propozycją.

Dziś krótka nota, w związku z brakiem odpowiedniej weny twórczej :D A na koniec przygnębiający teledysk, jeden z lepszych jakie widziałem...

Mine would definitely have to be The Silence of the Lambs, although its ending is rather weak.

Some of the best:

The Silence of the Lambs

The Godfather

The Godfather Part II

GoodFellas

American Beauty

Citizen Kane

The Sixth Sense

DIrty Harry

Crash

Airplane!

The Naked Gun

The Exorcist

Jaws

The Omen

Rosemary's Baby

Psycho

Como Agua para Chocolate

Annie Hall

Se7en

Dr. Strangelove

La Femme Nikita

The Breakfast Club

Cabaret

Casablanca

Gone with the Wind

Carrie

Chicago

La Vita e Bella

Pulp Fiction

Rear Window

Babel

Pan's Labyrinth

Taxi Driver

The Wizard of Oz

West Side Story

 

I also stumbled upon the genre of medical thrillers, thanks to Michael Palmer. The combination of medicine, science and suspense makes an awesome read. Looking for more medical thrillers, I discovered Tess Gerritsen. Gerritsen is one of my favorite authors because of the rich characters she creates, normal and flawed people who are interesting because of it. She writes from the point of view of killer, detective and medical examiner equally well. I especially like medical examiner Maura Isles' character because she must deal with death on a daily basis, and yet is likable as a woman with insecurities like the rest of us. What I most like about Gerritsen is that she fully develops the autopsy scenes to give the reader medical details not found in any other thrillers I've read except for the work of Kathy Reichs.

Reichs's series is fascinating in its detail. How Tempe Brennan can discover the age or race of a skeleton and more from just bones. Tempe's character is also fully developed. Reichs does not, however, write from the killer's point of view. Her pov character is always Tempe. But it works for the series. Reichs also uses humor to lighten up the heavy topics Tempe deals with, which makes an entertaining read. I like BONES, the TV series loosely based on Reich's books. I say loosely because Television Tempe is completely different from the alcoholic divorcée with a twenty something daughter from the books.

In terms of humor, JA Konrath is the king. I discovered his detective series with star Jack (Jacqueline) Daniels after reading one of his short stories in a thriller anthology edited by James Patterson. I bought WHISKY SOUR, read it, and then bought the next three books. I laughed my way through all four books, one right after another. I didn't want to stop to sleep, eat or work. Konrath's is the only series I read straight through like that. He doesn't skimp on the details. One killer drove nails into the bones of his victims, one peeled off the victim's skin, all while the victims were alive. One scene that sticks in my memory is when one of the killers put razor blades into candy bars. The resulting scene after a detective bit into the razor blade was both graphic and humorous. The humor lightens the story and works with the graphic scenes in this series. I've preordered the fifth Jack Daniel's book and can't wait to read it.

Lucas Davenport is my favorite detective. I love John Sanford's PREY series. In the introduction to RULES OF PREY Sanford said, "Cops don't act like Lucas Davenport--they'd be fired or even imprisoned if they did. They aren't rich, they don't drive Porches, most could give a rat's ass about fashion. Lucas Davenport does all of that. ... he's a cross between a cop and a movie star. I wanted him to be a star. I wanted him to be different. I wanted him to be a mean, tough cop that women liked." Sanford succeeded. Davenport is a star. He's gruff, mean and yet he's likeable and sexy. But more importantly, John Sanford’s writing is stellar. I'd rank him with literary writers. He is a former Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, and it shows in his writing. He also draws from his experiences as a newspaper reporter, the dead bodies and crime scenes he witnessed ground his novels in reality.

I like David Baldacci for the same reason, the way he can string words together. I am in awe when I read his novels. His recent works are political thrillers that are well researched, interesting and powerful. His latest, THE WHOLE TRUTH, explored one possible scenario for the return of the cold war.

I would be remiss not to mention James Patterson. I like detective doctor Alex Cross almost as much as Lucas Davenport. The African-American psychologist detective raising several children alone in DC makes for great reading. The Cross novels are page turners. Patterson's works may lack the depth of Gerritsen and Sanford, but I can always count on him for a good thrill.

I have only mentioned some of my favorites writers. There are many others, like Diane Chamberlain, who does a fantastic job writing about the interrelationships between people. I am happy to have such a vast selection of great literature to choose from.

Here's to summer reading and staying cool. Temps should reach the triple digits in Raleigh this afternoon. I can't think of a better way to spend the afternoon than sitting in the air conditioning with a good book.

Slimy William Kristol and his NY Times editorial yesterday on the Obama's "failure" to mention military service in his Wesleyan commencement speech. Apparently, Kristol can outdo himself.

Thankfully, there was a way to get the bad taste out of my mouth.

A dose of Obama hotly suited (How is it that the Burberry suits keep looking better and better on him?):

That and my other hero, Stephen Colbert, telling students in his Princeton commencement speech: "You can change the world. Please don't do that, OK? Some of us like the way things are going now."

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Hans Zimmer es un reconocido compositor de Bandas Sonoras de Hollywood, Estados Unidos. Durante la trayectoria de su carrera este ha logrado cultivar varios premios Grammy, Oscar y Golden Globe.

Zimmer nació en Frankfut, Alemania en el año 1957. Este inició su carrera musical tocando sintetizadores y teclados con varias bandas locales como Helden y Krisma. En los años ochenta trabajo con, Stanley Myers, un compositor de filmes. Alcanzó su hito como compositor en el año 1988, con la composición de la banda sonora de Rain Main, por la cual fue nominado a un Premio de la Academia.

Desde aquel entonces, Zimmer ha estado componiendo música para grandes filmes de Hollywood. En el año 1995 recibió su primer premio Oscar por Mejor Banda Sonora de un Filme para la película animada El Rey León.

This Land - El Rey León

Chevaliers de Sangreal - EL Código DaVinci

Vide Cor Meum - Hannibal

Now We Are Free - El Gladiador

    Orginalmente chamado de Bakerloo Blues Line, este grupo inglês surgido em Birmingham é mais uma dessas obscuridades musicais que só contribuem para que o garimpo ao passado seja fonte interminável para descoberta dos bons sons... santa naftalina! Com único registro homônimo de 1970, o Hannibal era formado por Alex Boyce (vocal), Jack Griffiths (baixo), Bill Hunt ( Hammond e french horn ), Adrian Ingram (guitarra), John Parkes (bateria) e Cliff Williams ( saxofone e clarinete ) e chegou a excursionar ao lado de bandas clássicas como Black Sabbath e Free.

    Combo musical de difícil classificação, está mais para a corrente jazz fusion, mas tem levadas folk e progressivas, arranjos criativos e quebradeira total nos andamentos, lembrando em algumas passagens Raw Material ( outra pérola obscura ) ou Van Der Graaf Generator. São 6 músicas e gosto de todas. Seção rítmica impecável, oportunos fraseados de guitarra de Adrian Ingran, tecladeira e metais afiados... Os destaques são as faixas “Look Upon Me”, “Winter” e a instrumental “Bend for a Friend”, que já valem qualquer investimento. Tenho o cd, mas a procura pelo vinil tem sido intensa ao longo dos anos. Quem sabe um dia coloco as mãos nessa bolachinha... Raridade!  

TRACK LISTING: 1) Look Upon Me - 6:33 / 2) Winds of Change - 7:26 / 3) Bend for a Friend – 10:27 / 4) 1066 – 6:28 / 5) Wet Legs – 4:44 / 6) Winter – 8:06

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The audition was held at the Burbank REI.  I chugged a couple of Pabst before.  Here is a picture of me getting ready:

I called a bunch of the other actors out.  I screamed at them "I ain't gettin' on no plane!"  They seems scared enough and probably choked during their audition.

When it was my turn to audition I NAILED it.  There is nothing more poetic than faking getting shot, making my way up to the top of their climbing wall and yelling "Hannibal!!!"

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It was in the late spring of 218 BC when Hannibal left New Carthage on his journey to Italy. On his way north he navigated his way through fierce tribes in the Pyrenees and reached the Rhone River before the Romans could impede his advance. Hannibal then maneuvered down the Rhone Valley toward the Alps where the little-known, but crucial, ski trip took place. The ski trip was a turning point in their travels as it boosted the morale of Hannibal's elephants and infantry who were always up for some fun.

It was at Heidi's Ski Resort where Hannibal, 38,000 infantry, 8,000 cavalry, and 37 war elephants took a few days out of their hectic schedule to relax, enjoy each other's company, and hit the slopes. Made of beech, the skis the men fashioned were rudimentary, yet very sturdy. Hannibal was said to have gone down the Double Black Diamond trail - unfortunately, his abilities to ski were unpolished after navigating elephants for several weeks. His generals, Pomilio and Corinsimus were able to dress his wounds incurred by coarse tree bark, and then they took him up one last time to the ski lift. He chose the Blue Square trail the second time.

In the picture above you will notice the different routes taken by Hannibal, his men, and elephants during the three-day ski trip. The cost was $15 per man, and each was responsible for renting his own equipment.

After Hannibal left Heidi's Ski Resort he arrived into northern Italy near modern Turin. Following a series of victories for Hannibal, the war in Italy ended in a stalemate. However, Hannibal remarked until the day of his death that he enjoyed the trip very much and would do it again if he could. His favorite painting from the trip is one of him with General Pomilio flying down the mountain, while carrying a small child to safety.

Once there was a little Quaker girl named Dorothea Payne, or Dolly for short, down in Hanover County, Virginia. She grew up and married John Todd, who soon died, and then she married a little man named James Madison, who later became President of the United States.

As our First Lady she was famous for her tact, and in my opinion she never displayed this quality to better advantage than when she put completely at ease a young man who was so excited at meeting her that he tried to cram a teacup into his pocket. Nobody seems to know what happened to the young man afterwards, but I fear the worst. You guessed it--this is Dolly Madison's birthday. She was born May 20th, 1768.

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When these people, who are presently known generally as Huns, first appeared in southern Asia in present day Russia, as well as the new Republics formed to the south from the old U.S.S.R., after its dissolution, they were a very distinct people, according to appearance, from all the other resident tribes which bordered upon the lands of Scythia. They were shorter in height, possessed broad, thick shoulders, and thick necks. Their faces were swarthy and described by a Roman (Priscus) as "lumpish." They had eyes which were likened by this same Roman to "pin holes." They scarred a son's face at birth, not with the intention of making them fierce-looking (which seems to be common amongst warriors), but to teach them even before their first milk that they must learn to deal with wounds. One must focus first upon killing the enemy. There will be time enough after the battle, if one survived, to tend to wounds.

Accordiing to historian Arthur Koestler in his THE THIRTEENTH TRIBE, these Huns wore their hair in long, never-cut fashion, unwashed, but sometimes colored a reddish shade, not given to baths, and using a sort of "howl" when attacking on horseback. As a matter of fact, the Huns rarely if ever changed clothes, letting the clothing wear and/or rot off. This, too, if accurate, might have been a strategy for victory, as it would be another sort of "weapon" of war to use against the enemy. One should not overlook uncleanliness as a tool of war. However, one supposes that over time, developing some relationships with Rome and Constantinople, they may have improved somewhat in the matter of toilet care and clothing.

To continue on this subject so as to demonstrate the use of uncleanliness and the utility it provides of a psychological kind, I recall a description in a text I puchased years ago, relating to prison life in Leavenworth FCI. There was an unruly inmate in his cell. I cannot recall with certainty but he may have set a mattress on fire or caused a flood besides making a noise nuisance. At any rate the decision was made to send correction officers into his cell to subdue him. According to the text, the matter was very distasteful, as the inmate was naked, armed, and had smeared his own refuse all over his body. Consider the edge that such a warrior might present if multiplied by tens of thousands.

The Huns were not the only fierce warriors in the area bordering Scythia (and everywhere else they resided), but they did appear on the scene with advantages. Not only did they appear fierce (and ugly), but they were outstanding horsemen. They seemed to exist upon spoils of warfare, eschewing farming and herding in any sort of settled fashion. For them, as a strategy for living well, their taking from others was the most sensible approach, so long as others went to the trouble of producing food and craftswork, as well as collected & tended herds. For at this time the Huns chief source of wealth were two: 1) newly born sons and 2) other peoples's property.

Attila arrived on the scene as the leader prior to 445 A.D. He was aided by his brother, Bleda, who was himself formidable, and they formed a sort tandem leadership. Sometime after 445, Attila murdered Bleda. The Huns fought with all the other tribal groups, either subjecting them or causing them to flee either to the west and north or into the Roman Empire's boundary. By 445 A.D. Attila was the undisputed leader of not only the Huns, but united all the non-Hunnish tribes in his "area of influence" under him. Generally, they paid tribute and existed in a sort of feudal relationship with Attila's Huns. Toward the end of Attila's rule, the Western Roman Empire at Rome had been reduced to virtually a slave state. It seems likely that many rich Romans may have transferred their property, as well as themselves, to the far western reaches of the Empire, such as it now was.

I suspect that Attila may have heard rumors of wealth there. That may have been his primary motivation for leading his armies westward.

Tribute was highly prized by Attila. He generally remained at peace with other kingdoms, including the Roman Empire--East and West, so long as they met Attila's demands for tribute. The immense accumulation of wealth also allowed Attila to bestow generous gifts to key people among his Huns, as well as the various tribal leaders, whose people he has subdued. Attila and the Huns did not seem too interested in cultural trappings, as was to be found in other adjacent kingdoms. He certainly seemed to "dig" power. Wealth was an aspect of power. He almost certainly preferred the pleasure of seeing the mighty kings of the world paying him tribute than the gold and silver, per se. This was a taste of sadism, which would suffice until he road again into battle.

Yet, over time, even the fierceness of the Huns may have begun a slow, barely noticeable waning. With conquest as the Hun's motivation and the gaining of spoils the "fruit" of and justification for conquest--a sort of "body count" (or "booty" count), a softening of the Hun spirit must have occurred and been noticeable particularly to the older warriors. This may have weighed on Attila's mind.

After all, Attila himself could look about and see that his army included a lot of Germanic and Slavic warriors. He had taken a wife from one of the Germanic tribes, after first killing her father, who was a tribal king. There were marriages between the Aristocratic women of the Eastern Roman Empire. Among his ordinary Hun troops, there must have been many occasions when Germanic or Slavic women were taken as one of their wives, especially as the general wealth of the Huns under Attila increased and "trickled down." After all, when a man feels that he has the money he will take a wife, If he has considerable money, he takes more than one.

However such things unfold, it does have the effect of slowly changing a people. By the standards of Rome both Slavic and Germanic tribes might well seem to be "barbarians." Yet, by this time much of the Roman fighting soldiers were of Germanic descent. Rome, itself, had changed by its diversity from the early days of the Roman Republic. Change may be good or bad, according to the eyes of the beholder. The only thing certain is that it is no more the way it was.

Consider: "But as Gibbon showed, and as Roman historians themselves recounted at the time, all this changed during the period of the Empire--and because of the Empire. In the course of building a vast multi-ethnic and multi-cultural empire the old Roman stock was wasted on the battlefield, and citizenship came to be extended by degrees to include not only freed slaves but the majority of the peoples of the conquered cities, however alien these were in blood and values. Roman armies had to be filled with mercenaries, and not only did Rome die for want of Roman stock, but it also died for want of the spirit of loyalty and sense of common values that cannot be found in multi-cultural societies."   [THE TEUTON AND THE ROMAN, abridged & condensed from Charles Kingsley's by R. Peterson, p.8]

Note: This is a truth certain and has been utilized as strategy even in our time, as seen in America's immigration policy and its negation, as well. Policy is the necessary fruit of some degree of premeditation. Likewise, the destruction of policy or the substitution of re-interpreted, antithetical policy is premeditated. It bespeaks enemies within, whether by means of a "Trojan horse" or "home grown" or a combination of the two. The peril is that these enemies rule.

The strength of the Western Roman army had passsed into German hands, but the strength of Attila remained with his Huns. Oddly enough, the "show down" between the West Roman Empire and the Hunnish Empire of Attila occurred much to the west of both. In the Hun "rainbow coalition" of forces were East Goths, Slavs, and a batch of other non-Hunnish people. These people generally admired Attila as a great warrior, and felt that they would be participating in a great victory with much spoil. It had been so in the past.

What sent them west?  To the south were inviting riches but they were in the possession of a rather powerful kingdoms. The Eastern Roman Empire was still a force to be reckoned with. Further south beyond rugged mountains were Assyrians and their allies, who sometimes put pressure themselves in northerly martial salients, which were exploratory in nature.

The paying of tribute by these kingdoms had more appeal to Attila. The west was possessed by Germanic tribes with whom Attila had many skirmishes and pitched battles. Although the East Goths were substantially annexed, subdued and tribute-paying tribes, they were not all paying. Some were trouble-makers from Attila's point of view--even cheeky. Attila had a fierce temper. He may have been angered by Goths further west, and the issue had become personal. Even the greatest generals are subject to vain imagings.

From Attila's point of view the Goths were just a batch of squabbling tribes, as likely as not to fiercely fight one another as anyone else. He may have had considerable experience manipulating this tribal trait. If so, it would have lent to him considerable confidence that he could recruit and use German against German.

The Tribes of Israel had often fought amongst themselves. For some people, it is almost a trait and marker.

Consider: "Germanic Angles and Saxons and Jutes, Danes and Norsemen pressed on the borders of the decaying, no longer truly Roman, empire, and conquered and settled the British Isles. Germanic Francs conquered Gaul, and thereby changed its name to France. Germanic Burgundians established a separate realm west of the Rhine, which later became incorporated into France. And Germanic Goths destroyed Rome, and held Italy for a while, before their place was taken by the Germanic Lombards in the north, and by Germanic Normans, as a thin ruling nobility, in the south....But one weakness particularly worked against the Germanic peoples of that day, as it has done through the generations down to this present century. Although loyal to their own individual nations, the Germanic peoples could never seem to develop a sense of racial loyalty that would span petty national jealousies. Conquering the vast multi-ethnic population of latter-day Rome and the Western part of the once-powerful Roman empire, the Germanic victors were themselves eventually destroyed by their willingness to fight each other.

"When the Goths lost Italy, it was because of the persistent readiness of German nations to war against each other...."   [THE TEUTON AND THE ROMAN, supra, p.9]

I believe that Attila saw that trait in the Goths, just as Tiglath-pileser of Assyria saw it among the Israelites, when he invaded the Northern Kingdom "in the days of Pekah," taking away Reubenites, Gadites, the half-tribe of Manasseh, as well as the tribes of "Asher, Issachar, and Zebulun, and distributed them in and on the borders of Assyria, where he built cities."  [MISSING LINKS DISCOVERED IN ASSYRIAN TABLETS, E. Raymond Capt, p.67] There were other Assyrian kings and Babylonian, too, who saw this weakness. Would the Israelite people ever have been defeated if they were united and walked in ways pleasing to the Most High? No likely. The same might have obtained for the East Goths, and certainly for all the Goths.

What the Goths were like is often issued as fancy in the guise of thoughtful speculation. "Their language has been happily preserved to us in Ulfilas' translation of the Scriptures. For these Goths, the greater number of them at least, were by this time Christians, or very nearly such...He had translated the Bible for them, and had constructed a Gothic alphabet for that purpose. He had omitted, however (prudently as he considered) the books of Kings, with their histories of the Jewish (sic) wars. The Goths, he held, were only too fond of fighting already, and 'needed in that matter the bit, rather than the spur.'"  [THE TEUTON AND THE ROMAN, supra, p.37]

I personally suspect that the real reason that Bishop Ulfilas omitted the Book of Kings is that the Roman Catholic Church realised that the parallel between Goth and Israelite would not be missed. This ignorance would serve the interests of those who desired this vast pool of people to focus their religious faith to the shaping hand of Rome. Nor is this cover up limited to Rome, but is common today, which is why one sees the Israelites described as "Jews." This is strikingly dishonest practice which calls into question the ethical and moral grounding of all religious figures who do so.

There is no anti-Christian burden born by the critic of the Roman Catholic Church. Plotting was no more uncommon in Rome then, than it is today in the "high politics" of the Federal American Empire. Consider:

"And what if he discovered (or thought that he discovered) that the Catholic Clergy, with Pope John at their head, were in the very same plot for bringing in the Emperor of Constantinople, on the grounds of religion; because he was persecuting the Arian Goths at Constantinople, and therefore would help them to persecute them in Italy?..."  [THE TEUTON AND THE ROMAN, supra,p79]

Around 450-451 A.D. Attila found himself in a puzzling state of mind. He had an urge to punish the Eastern Roman Empire at Constantinople and at the same time an urging from Honoria, Valentinian's sister, to save her at Rome. Although the Roman adventure was temptingly easy, relatively, it could wait. Almost by impulse, Attila headed west, instead. I say that only because I don't know the real reason. Yet, surely there were reasons.

Attila's army flooded into Gaul. With him were many Germanic warriors. As they headed westward, the alarum must have gone forth, carried by hundreds of couriers, rallying the various Germanic tribes to this new threat. One can imagine some housewife demanding: "Thoric! Where are you going? You promised to cure the hides, fix the roof, salt the venison," and on and on. And he replying: "I go fight Attila!"

Be that as it may, the forces gathered for the great test. Consider:

"At the great battle of Chalons, in the year AD 451, he (Attila) fought it out: Hun, Slav, Tartar, and Finn, backed by Gepid and Herule, East Goth and Lombard, against West Goth, Frank and Burgund, Roman and the Bretons of Armorica. Aetius shewed himself that day, as always, a general--the Marlborough of his time--and conquered. Attila and his hordes rolled away eastward, and into Italy for Rome.

"That is the Hunnenschlacht; 'a battle,' as Jornandes calls it, atrox, mulitplex, immane, pertinax. Antiquity, he says, tells of nothing like it. No man who had lost that sight could say that he had seen aught worth seeing.--A fight gigantic, supernatural in vastness and horror, and the legends which still hang about the place. You may see one of them in von Kaulbach's immortal design--the ghosts of the Huns and the ghosts of the Germans rising from their graves on the battlenight in every year, to fight it over again in the clouds, while the country far and wide trembles at their ghostly hurrah. No wonder men remember that Hunnenschlacht. Many consider that it saved Europe; that it was one of the decisive battles of the world."   [THE TEUTON AND THE ROMAN, supra,p.51]

Perhaps this is a bit romantic and overstated, yet it was the beginning of the end of Hunnish westward salients. There have been many massive battles fought in world history. "Who's the number one warrior" has been as big an issue for men throughout history, as it is today in college and professional sports. You got to be a "football hero" to get a date with a "beautiful doll," probably had its dim birth as a concept in the conquering warriors of old who took whatever woman they wanted. The modern version is merely a "gallantized guise" for the "spoils of war."

One version of the unexpected death of Attila involved a "taken" wife. Maybe it is true. There certainly would be justice accorded him from his "spoil" personally, as well as being a symbol of justice due the endless number of women who fate was to be a spoil of war. Consider:

"But Attila was not ruined...Over and above his innumerable wives, he seized a beautiful German girl whose father he had killed. When his people came in the morning, the girl sat weeping; but Etzel, the scourge, lay dead in a pool of gore. She said that he had burst a blood-vessel. The Teutons whispered among themselves, that like a free-born Teuton, she had slain her tyrant..."  [THE TEUTON AND THE ROMAN, supra, p.52]

Given the alleged appearance of the Huns, it doesn't seem reasonable that a Goth would be physically attracted to him. Still, he may have had "animal magnetism" which would completely undue the average woman--Goth or otherwise. If the German lass has a cruel or brutal father, Attila might be a welcomed relief. One doesn't know. Still, on average I believe that it is unlikely that she would have had feelings for this man, who, afterall, killed her father. Faking tears of remorse and mourning may have been a precaution against sudden and merciless death at the hands of his lieutenants. Mourning becomes a woman in these circumstances.

Without the great, fierce Attila leading them, the days of grand sovereignty by the Huns over their coerced allies were numbered. He must have been a truly great general, possessed of some of the instinctual and inductively acquired battle savvy that Alexander the Great had. Was he ever tutored by Hunnish scholars, so to speak, on the art of war? No one knows. Given the culture, there seems to be limits to the possibilities. I would guess that he was a great athlete, as was Alexander the Great. No one will ever teach the battle schemes of Attila at some military college or other. He may even be held in derision. Yet, through the force of his personality and warriorship, he became a great historical figure, and briefly united under him fierce, quarrelsome and disparate tribes of people, who somehow fought as a team successfully. This is rare. That it ended soon after his death signifies the extraordinary power he wielded.

And the end? Consider: "And then the hordes broke up. Ardarich raised the Teuton Gepids and Ostrogoths. The Teutons who had followed Attila, turned on their Tartar conquerors, the only people who had ever subdued German men, and then only by force of overpowering numbers. At Netad, upon the great plain between the Drave and the Danube, they fought the second Hunnenschlacht, and the Germans conquered. Thirty thousand Huns fell on that dreadful day, and the rest streamed away into the heart of Asia, into the infinite unknown deserts from whence the foul miscreants had streamed forth, and left the Teutons masters of the world. The battle of Netad; that, and not Chalons, to my mind, was the saving battle of Europe.

"So Rome was saved; but only for a few years. The decadent Valentinian rewarded Aetius for defending Europe, by stabbing with his own hand in his own palace, the hero of Chalons;..."  [THE TEUTON AND THE ROMAN. supra, p.52]

The figure in "thirty thousand Huns fell" seems almost Biblical.

Many men love war. The thing they love in times kills not only them, perhaps, but their people's prosperity certainly. Men such as Alexander the Great and Attila start their conquering ways on the backs of their own fierce warriors. In time deaths take a toll on the original human stock which provided the great leader his victories. Substitutions must be made which are as close as possible to the originals. As this is not possible, the quality of the fighting force loses, as cohersive spirit is lost. Different people from different cultures will not think alike. In times this will result in increasing dysfunction. Internal disputes will mount. The great leader will have to spend much more time making peace within his array of soldiers, then in preparing thoughtfully where he is going next and why he is doing it and what good results should flow from the decision. In short thinking ahead becomes secondary to bandaging internal disputes. This is true then, and it is true now.

Must people are not aware that in Vietnam, the incidents of "fragging" was 100% black American troops dropping a grenade (or similar deadly weapon) into a white 2nd lieutenant's tent (or that of 1st lieutenant, captain's, or major's). No doubt white sargeants were killed the same way. Others may have been shot "accidentily" or otherwise, out in the field or jungle. In the brigs racial strife was common, resulting in more than one pitched battle within these confines. Was the defeat of the U.S. effort in Vietnam doomed by the military's diversity? Will the well-trained U.S. force which is a citadel of diversity prevail in Iraq? Hard to say. In Vietnam the enemy was homogeneous, and the U.S. lost. In Iraq the enemy is more diverse, including Kurds and other ethnic groups. This was why it was difficult to rule by anyone other than a "strongman" such as Saddam Hussein. When the U.S. then killed the agent of stability there, Saddam, and substituted a "democracy," instability was the new king.

If the U.S. can find another Attila to place over the Iraqi citizens, none will dare to complain. Attila was a man who knew how to deal with diversity. America is led by people who imagine thay do. John Lennon is their songbird. Help! I need somebody!

Downnlaced, 2008.