So What's the Big Deal??
"Ladies & Gentleman of the Academy, tonight is when we come together in an attempt to invest enormous significance into what is essentially a non event!" Okay, enough kidding around, now onto the joke! The above purports to be a leaked list of tonight's Oscar winners "Mickey Rourke, Heath Ledger, Kate Winslet, Amy Adams, and Slumdog Millionaire". Heath Ledger seems to be a safe enough bet. People have been expecting that ever since the late actor's untimely death from a drug overdose at the tender age of 29. 29 is a hidden 11 for Gary Bell fans, and other conspiracy theory aficionados. Gary Bell has made his ideas on the late Mr Ledger clear in many of his controversial Saturday night radio broadcasts - Ledger was a blood sacrifice for the Illuminati! He also claims that Ledger was the illegitimate son of Sir Lawrence Olivier, and there for of the 'fallen' bloodline -like Angelina Jolie (Jolie is reputed to have been born with a pig's tail, which is the 'real' reason she refuses to do nude scenes. She could have it surgically removed, but as a descendant of the Biblical Cain, it's a mark of honour!). Bell makes a compelling, if not convincing argument. The high and mighty do seem a bit 'inbreed' - Jolie, Madonna, and Hilary Clinton are distant relatives, while Brad Pitt shares some common ancestors with Barack Obama. I always attributed that more to old fashioned nepotism than some occult conspiracy. Hollywood's avid interest in alternative New Age spirituality might also seem to lend fuel to the fire of Bell's inflammatory premises. Then again idle ego trippers will grab onto anything that lends them some self importance.
Self importance, reinforcing personal identity through competition (sublimated violence), and the validation of mediocrity, is what the awarding of those little golden phallic shaped idols is all about. Alternative mythology like The DaVinci Code may well be part of the whole ego trip. Once your brains have been scrambled from drugging, wild sex, and constant flattery you might be ready to believe in anything. Still let's remember that believing in stuff ain't what Hollywood Babylon is all about. It's about getting rich, being hailed as the most important person on the planet for making a film about a superhero that was based on a kids comic, and about screwing attractive young people not necessarily of the opposite sex (Yeah Mickey Rourke - the rumours about your casting couching your way back onto the A List are getting around). It's also about being photographed wearing really gaudy clothes while you're trotting across the red carpet! So let's not make more of it than it is - however tempted indulging in tin foil hat thinking might be. Oh yeah, occasionally the Oscars are about discovering some new personality who just might have something, like Frieda Pinto. Clint Eastwood is already talking about putting her in a new movie (that's bad news for Jolie -Clint had puffed her up in public when The Changeling came out, but Big Lips seems to have disappointed him. Now he seems through with her, and so is the rest of Hollywood I predict. Don't look for her to carry home any Oscars tonight!). Now if any one has mythic dimensions, it's Pinto!
The Academy Awards spells 'Watch a Seedy Drama'
The fight for the hearts and minds of people is essentially misguided and ultimately pointless. As Napoleon once said "People are more concerned with their interests than their rights". Or as the Marine Corp more succinctly puts it "Get them by the balls and their hearts and minds will follow!" If the Illuminati is using Hollywood to condition the minds of the public, then they'd better be able to get a refund! Now if you're talking about the Federal Reserve then you might get me to half believe that they were some how involved with the John Kennedy Assignation. People will make all sorts of strange plans when money is involved, and that's only human history. When it comes to Hollywood occultism, or backward masking in heavy metal albums, then let's stop and remind ourselves that this is only show business. No one takes show business seriously, least of all the entertainers. That's why celebs are always trying to muscle in on politics, and why they pretend to care about the rain forest - to give themselves more credibility. It's also why they turn out with bells on when ever anyone decides to hand out some chrome plated statuette. Let's save the X Files routine for the real villains - America's Shadow Government!!
Spaced Out Sunday!
Speaking of SHADO government, take a break from celebrity ego tripping with some genuinely fun escapism, & classic Brit Sci Fi series UFO!
The only conspiracies taking place in film studios are on TV - & 40 years ago! Oh yeah, and here's a real leak - Slumdog Millionaire Online!!
PS. My own personal brush with magic last came in the form of a flamboyant young man who promised to remake my entire decor through 'the magic of interior design'. I was asked to look at some swatches and visualize how much better my apartment might be with a new colour scheme. I'm told that light blues and whites will create an illusion of space and openness that could completely change my entire life! Now if that isn't magic, then what is?? In fact the spell wasn't broken until he quoted me an estimate. Looks like it's gonna be dingy neutral earth tones for a little longer.
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