“There is definitely a place for movies like Journey to the Center of Time. I really believe that if it weren’t for astonishingly bad movies like this, it would be harder to really appreciate the good ones. I also, on the other hand, wonder what the people were thinking when they were making movies like this, because no one makes famously bad movies deliberately, do they?
At any rate, the movie starts out with a whole dialogue of scientific mumbo jumbo. A lot of it went right over my head because I have no background in science, but I don’t think much of it makes sense anyway, because would a movie like this really make a serious argument about the logistics and technical aspects of time travel? I doubt it, because their destination, as you know, is the “center of time.” Whatever or wherever or whenever that is.
Early in the movie they describe their destination as “the balance between past and future,” which until now I had always assumed to be the tenuous and fleeting place known generally as “now.”
But not in this movie, here there are enormously complex time travel experiments being conducted using enormously simple equipment. It’s not long before we are given the bizarre explanation that this is a $14 million project to create a satellite that can show pictures taken 24 hours ago. Is that how much $14 million buys? 24 hours? That’s really too bad. Maybe that’s why most people can only afford surveillance cameras. The cheap, boring time-travel- less ones. No one makes movies about those!
Then again, for all the cardboard simplicity of the lab, they did have a hydraulic lift built in to raise and lower people about 18 inches from the upper platform to the lower platform. A more frugal team would have installed the two stairs, but maybe these guys weren’t quite sure what to do with all that money.
There is a scene about 30 minutes into the movie where the crew, under a surprisingly effective 24-hour deadline, finally manage to conduct a successful experiment using the, ah, temporal displacement device they have been working on, and they are all shocked to see, on the characteristically 1970’s oval-shaped big screen TV in front of them (and after more than a minute of pictures of galaxies, b-roll, and random head shots), what one of the scientists describes as “the test area. Time central!” I’m glad they knew what they were looking for, the rest of us may have reached the center of time and passed it on by without even knowing to stop!
But soon they notice that they’ve opened a window through which they can see 5000 years in the future, so I reckon it’s going to be a good idea to stop about then. But soon we learn that it’s a window that matter can pass through, so it’s not going to be long before some silver guys in shiny jumpsuits mosey on into the lab and say come with us if you want to live.
They say that good science fiction movies, especially time travel movies, show us the future to comment on the present. This is a bad science fiction movie, but it still makes sure to comment on the present, specifically man’s seemingly endless capacity and drive to kill each other in war. Even super-advanced future-people can be killed by man’s “primitive” nuclear weapons!
The last third of the movie seems to consist of nothing but seemingly endless montages shown on that video screen, mostly of modern wars, and yet there’s still only enough here for an 82 minute movie. And don’t miss the hilarious hand-to-hand combat scenes! Classic!!”
Right … my attitude to 60s pop is mixed … I rarely return unless via a current day reaction video and that was the case with these below. Thereafter, via word association football, certain artists who were curiosities for different reasons … well, they do intrigue.
First one up was a curious group of whom one of the reactors asked … why on earth could they not just give themselves a simple band name? There are two good versions … one on stage, with the singer trying to crack a whip, not shooting a pistol, the second below.
What on earth were they up to? It was in bleedin’ Suffolk of all places, real Rio Grande, no? Part of the British Invasion of the 60s. Frightening thing for me was … I was around … yikes!
Second curiosity was P.P. Arnold who was there at the right time, mixed with all the right people of the time, had a pretty powerful voice, was promoted by people such as The Small Faces, was liked by Tina Turner … so why on earth is there a dearth of good material online about her and why did she “never quite make it big”?
An unworthy thought was that she put it about a bit too much, as a groupie might … check out her Wiki entry … her lovelife started at fifteen. She also had an attitude of a sort of pouting, resentful kind and maybe white audiences didn’t take to it. Plus her voice was not quite Tina Turner, plus she was not managed well … headstrong?
Whatever … this was quite a song in the day, I remember it coming out of the transistor radio quite often.
We were spoilt back then.
The thing with this last one was the dancing or attempts to do it. Thinking back, I was never part of such a scene (sigma forever?) but I did go to a few and remember once even attempting rock n roll with her, a decade out of date.
As mentioned earlier, there are things going on with some ladyfriends just now and they’re hitting Moosh for one. Still, we have a large back catalogue, so you’ll not be starved of Moosherama.
9. Thank goodness there are still some wags left
8. Good idea? Not?
7. Why this Sveta piece
… but the other I buried?
Short answer is that there are certain people in this country it’s best not to directly attack, a bit like the Black Nobility over there or the Scottish Rite here.
6. Steve at 1279
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a) VPNs in France are the next on the agenda. Banning social media for those under 15: “Yes, VPNs exist, but if this legislation allows me to protect a very large majority of children, we will continue.”
b) This behavour is on the rise in France – mass rapes by teenagers in the basements of blocks of flats.
c) Image is more important than violence ! “We are not in a cutthroat France or a Clockwork Orange…”: Laurent Nuñez, Minister of the Interior, acknowledges a “rise in violence”….
d) Here is one group who will not be in my Will. In an internal document dated December 13, exclusively revealed by L’Incorrect, the APF France Handicap association calls on its members to maintain no ties with parties described as “far-right”…..
(0543) Morning all, good sleep, need a cuppa. Item 1 below will also be at OoL and Jstack, linked on X. (0644)
2. Quora fills a Readers Digest type function
… and most just goes through my inbox here but now and then something appears to repost. This is a cobstant thread … anything Beatles … some academic in London.
“He said that after the Let It Be experience, he was quite sad that it ended like that and he was surprised to get a call from Paul saying the Beatles wanted to record another album and they wanted him (George Martin) to produce it.
During the recording of Abbey Road, there was a feeling it might be the last album, but it was by no means certain – John had recently proposed an album with 4 tracks each for John, Paul and George and 2 for Ringo “if he wants them”.
However, a few weeks later John announced he was leaving the band – the other Beatles didn’t know whether to believe him (he’d recently announced he was the second coming of Jesus but forgotten all about it the next day!) however, In Feb 1970, John appeared on TV performing Instant Karma with a group of other musicians – that made Paul in particular realise that John was serious – and that was probably the moment that George Martin knew that the Beatles wouldn’t be recording together as they did before.”
Uh huh. As with Jim Morrison and his increasingly lost soul thing, shaking his fist at God etc., the one in the Beatles involved in the legend of urinating on nuns below was John, the one who went off the rails was John (to an extent George with his Maharishi bollox), the one shot was John. The most self-destructive was John … horrible new wife etc., way he had treated Cynthia … in my eyes, it was odds on, just as with François-Marie Arouet way back in France.
The essential difference, esp. with the Jesus Christ crack, was that he was the only one in the four openly hostile to God, just as with the original fallen angel. The others were just searching for the lost chord. And the most interest aspect for me, stretching back 2000 or so years, was how the most blinkered and obtuse were those supposedly intelligent, intelligentsia … yet so soul-dumb at the same time.
1. There’s most certainly mischief afoot online
… which was always odds on. The two latest in my sphere are Toodles and Moosh. Toodles attempted to write a reply to Steve, about family and friends I presume … just disappeared it did. Sometimes it can be intended by the good side, not just the mischievous techie goblins, elves and gremlins. Thing is, it could be absolutely anything, from the provider to the platform to the device to the person using it … we’re all of us under the hammer right now.
There are some golden rules. One is not to click on anything which just appears, however innocuous it seems … I was nearly tricked last night into installing something here. I suppose I’m mid tech savvy, very much front end, knowing some things about backend … knowing what not to touch is one step on that journey.
Looking at Moosh … a new account just appeared, using her images but I’m not sure it’s her, there was no indication from her own site, plus she has enemies, as many of us do. I’ll check that out a bit later. Latest for me is one of Elon’s developers, so he says.
I found this too … interesting, suspected as much:
Combining something my techie mate said about the evolution of devices … with a Happy Days observation about “jumping the shark” … the driving force behind any new “thang” is the creator, the innovator, those about him too, decades ago.
Gradually, it becomes apparent that nothing much has really changed … and why should it? Why fix that which ain’t broke? But the tech company mindset is “change for change’s sake”, staying “relevant”, unlike MTV, also a payroll of developers, all wishing to show off, earning brownie points.
So, inevitably, lesser techies are in there and the company fears losing market share. It becomes about profit … just that. Meanwhile, technically, they just have to “jump the shark”. It’s not unlike the imperative an addict feels.
Back to these two ladies … yes, easy meat for those wishing to stop them. Plus Roob, and to an extent Julia. Me? Semi-easy meat, obviously there are ways around me too. Having access to backenders does alter the equation, plus a cautious mindset helps, learnt over time. Plus a partly detached attitude, realising that anything potentially worthwhile will always bring out the stoppers.
Tomorrow’s post at OoL will be about something which was on X about health … thought it might be of interest. Have a good weekend, chaps and chapesses.
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To all our readers … Moosh has been hacked … please instead use the attached handle for her and operate from there, ok?
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21. Fractured families
Miles had this to say (see sidebar, IYE):
“I am getting reports, from readers, of their families exploding, as society as a whole explodes. We know it was all pre-planned, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. The events in the news are staged and astroturfed, but these smaller, more personal events are all-too-real. Society is being fractured on purpose, to keep you fighting your friends and family over these manufactured issues, so that you don’t ally against the governors. It was bad enough during Covid, fighting over vaccines and face masks and distancing, but it may be worse now, with families splitting over every new fake event in the news—just as they want us to. It has continued to accelerate after Covid.”
An episode I’ve kept back to sparingly use … the only one where Liz the secretary/PA is elevated to female protagonist … it was leading up to the death of Cross (not in this episode). Yes, I avidly watched the series back in the day.
(1255) Afternoon all … the most fab beef and veg soup brewing/distilling, cod and chips later for dinner … cunning plan is this polit-post, then an episode of Callan (if it works), then whatever. (1321)
20. Mixed feelings about this Amelia
… the way she’s being used. For example, she came out saying that Nigel would lead us out of the troubles … whaaaa? She or her creator must have woken up and so we have this:
Hmmmmm, the mention of Rupert is good but the image is that same tired old woke feminazi girl warrior, supergirl better than any man. Yuk. I’m a great fan of Joan of Arc, plus Xer Sophia, plus all the warrior gals for us … but in context.
Context? I can just hear DAD grumbling, “Bloody AI, not even real!”
True, and yet it is affecting ladies, inspiring them to come out with anti-wokery. Now shirley that’s not a bad thing … even Katie seems into it:
Screenshot only
19. Moosh corner
Wonderfully composed photo.
18. The childless woke left
… let it not happen to us.
17. The crooked Omar
16. Quite liking being nonplussed
… as to how best to use UHC-WP. As a primarily textual archive? Undoubtedly, for our patrons. To unassumingly bury a news item now and then, not even signposting from here? I’m thinking yes, for those on their toes.
