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A friend of mine just got this movie, and I have to say it's interesting... the lead character seems obviously based on Jim Morrison... he says he's a shaman, does hallucinogens, spouts poetry, everything about this guy is very Jim Morrison. I like his character and dialog, but the story, directing, supporting cast and script leave a lot to be desired.

Overall the movie is rather slow, it sort of meanders for much of the film, feels disjointed and lacking a story I can get into or feel anything about. I'd say the script needed a complete rewrite because it's a complete mess.

The sad thing is there is a good movie hiding in there, just the pacing dilutes the story so badly that it's hard to sit through a lot of it. In the end the movie is very Jacob's Ladder in nature, but there's very little to connect with, and that's where the movie fails the audience.

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Except Morrison came from a privileged background. His father was a high ranking naval officer who ran the Gulf of Tonkin operation - you know the faked pretext that kicked off the Viet Nam war? He was in charge of it. A year before Morrison became an alleged "hippie freak", he was a straight-edged chip off the old block. Many believe his death was staged and that he may now occupy a high position within the military industrail complex!



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There's no way such a conspiracy could be kept secret, it's simply too fantastic to be true. It's more likely he in fact died in Paris. Just as those who try to prove the moon landing never happened, and many other silly notions out there.

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And some cave dwellers in Afghanistan pulled off 9/11? What about the Manhattan project (involving 130,000 people and kept top-secret for 4 years (1942-1946))? Everything the CIA does is secret and involves many thousands of people. What do you think they do with hundreds of billions in tax payer dollars? Play tiddlywinks? There are many improbable circumstances surrounding Morrison's death. But here's some details about his life you may not be aware of, that Dave McGowan dug up in his amazing series on Laurel Canyon (where the sons and daughters of prominent military families were assembled in 1965 to become leaders of the '60s musical counterculture. Virtually none of the musical legends of that period betrayed their families by making antiwar statements in their music, though they became associated in the public mind with the antiwar movement).

"Morrison essentially arrived on the scene as a fully-developed rock star, complete with a backing band, a stage persona and an impressive collection of songs; enough, in fact, to fill the Doors first few albums. How exactly Jim Morrison reinvented himself in such a radical manner remains something of a mystery, since before his sudden incarnation as singer/songwriter, James Douglas Morrison had never shown the slightest interest in music. None whatsoever. He certainly never studied music and could neither read nor write it. By his own account, he never had much of an interest in even listening to music. He told one interviewer that he never went to concerts, one or two at most. And before joining the Doors, he never did any singing. "I never even conceived of it". Asked near the end of his life if he had ever had any desire to learn to play a musical instrument, Jim responded, "Not really".

...In any event, the question that naturally arises (though it does not appear to have ever been asked of him) is: how exactly did Jim "The Lizard King" Morrison write that impressive batch of songs? I'm certainly no musician myself, but it is my understanding that just about every singer/songwriter across the land composes his or her songs in essentially the same manner: on an instrument, usually either a piano or a guitar. Some songwriters, I hear, can compose on paper, but that requires a skill set that Jim did not possess. The problem, of course, is that he also could not play a musical instrument of any kind. How then did he write the songs?

He would have had to have composed them, I'm guessing, in his head. So we are to believe then that a few dozen complete songs, never heard by anyone and never played by any musician, existed only in Jim Morrison's acid-addled brain. Anything is possible, I suppose, but even if we accept that premise, we are still left with some nagging questions, including the question of how those songs got out of Jim Morrison's head. As a general rule of thumb, if a songwriter doesn't know how to read and write music, he can play the song for someone who does and thereby create the sheet music (which was the case, for example, with all of the songs that Brian Wilson penned for the Beach Boys). But Jim quite obviously could not play his own songs. So did he, I don't know, maybe hum them?"

and there's much more about Morrison and the rest:

Inside The LC: The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon and the Birth of the Hippie Generation - Part I
May 8, 2008 - http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr93.html

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I think it's not that Jim originally wrote songs, but poems and writings and thoughts, and when he joined the Doors they helped mold these writings into songs.


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He claimed they were songs. From the same article - 'As Jim once acknowledged in an interview, he was not a very prolific songwriter. "Most of the songs I've written I wrote in the very beginning, about three years ago. I just had a period when I wrote a lot of songs."' None of the Doors were musicians yet the music had to come from somewhere.

Here is a pic of a very different Jim Morrison with Dad, a few short months before his "transformation" - http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr96.html



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SO what do you think? was Jim Morrison a product? The things he wrote, or are written in his songs, and American Prayer show a man who has great literary background. And the whole native american angle, etc... what is your take on all of this? The LSD, the music, the transformation, etc.

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I don't know, Kupot. By various accounts he had a broad intellect, was a voracious reader and a talented poet. It's the musical element that is suspect. I guess the military wanted to be sure that, if there was going to be a counterculture, their people would be in charge of it so that it couldn't turn against them.


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The problem with conspiracies are that they really give the people behind them more credit than they deserve.
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Yeah, that's the incompetence theory they like to push. They are extremely competent. They have supercomputers to figure the odds of every conceivable scenario and thousands of people with genius IQs working round the clock. There was nothing incompetent about 9/11, dozens of other documented conspiracies and many more we don't even know about. 9/11 went off like clockwork, complete with built in rabbit trails to keep investigators running around in circles for years. They leave nothing to chance. But it's very depressing to realize to what degree our reality is controlled and that is their greatest strength. Few will even dare to venture into the darkness, preferring to believe there must be some benevolent mommies and daddies somewhere watching over us, rather than acknowledge the terrible reality of ruthless pscyhopaths bent on establishing 'absolute control over every living soul'. You can't defeat what you are afraid to even visualize.




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You've gone from one extreme to the other, when neither are accurate.

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What two extremes did I go to?


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Oh, I see what you mean. It did sound like I backed off my convictions. Guess I wanted to acknowledge that some of those people from Laurel Canyon turned out to be great artists regardless of what brought them there, since I also have an emotional attachment to the music of that time. As this series makes clear though, the bands that came out of Laurel Canyon were largely manufactured, although the same has been said of the Beatles and all the major groups. Actually, there are foundations and institutes that plan and design our culture from top to bottom (Frankfurt institute and Tavistock, for instance). Theodore Adorno was a high intellectual and musical genius at the Frankfurt Institute who also happened to own all of the Beatles songs at the same time they were allegedly being written by Lennon and McCartney. It has been speculated that he wrote them, since many of these songs were highly advanced compositions and yet McCartney has admitted that he can't write music. They are not the kind of songs musically inexperienced 20-year-olds would come up with right on the heels of doing Chuck Berry covers, but exactly like something Adorno might have written, since one of his areas of cultural expertise was the science of how music affects emotion, about which he wrote highly erudite tomes filled with incredibly dense prose that is nearly indecipherable. Lennon also indicated in an interview toward the end of his life that the Beatles had been "used" in a cultural sense. So our culture has been planned from the beginning, as Alan Watt at cuttingthroughthematrix.com often talks about, or used to talk about (all his audio is free on his site) brilliantly and with vast knowledge. He was part of the music scene back then, a session guitarist and *ghost* songwriter - one of those uncredited people that wrote songs and played actual record tracks for bands that needed that kind of assistance, but his knowledge extends far beyond the music scene. Anyway, our controllers would never allow something as vital as culture to be left to chance. On the contrary, culture is the primary means by which we are gently shepharded (baaaa) in the direction the elite have chosen - that direction invariably being further mastery of their control over us. Even in the days of Plato, singers were required to be licensed for the same reason - control (singers couldn't just be allowed to go around crooning about overthrowing the emporer, now could they?) And that's what the so-called New World Order is all about - a new system of scientific control over humanity in which the attainment of "absolute control over every living soul" that Orwell warned us about (being an MI5 agent on the inside of things) has finally become a visible and achievable objective. Did I mention these people are crazy? The truth ain't pretty unfortunately. Anway, hope that makes my point of view a bit clearer.



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How is it "known" that this guy had all of the Beatles songs before they allegedly wrote them?



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Take a listen to this snippet from an Alan Watt interview - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCmFz58umQ

No, I mean that's not the kind of thing that would ever be made public. It would defeat the whole purpose of cultural social engineering if it were known that some old, bald guy was the mastermind behind the Beatles. I never said it was "known" but widely rumored. Ex-British Secret Service agent John Coleman, in his book "The Committe of 300" does claim to have seen the evidence that Adorno wrote the songs, and goes into it in depth. I think the stongest circumstantial evidence (and people are convicted on the basis of circumstantial evidence every day) is in the difference in quality between Beatles songs and post-Beatles songs written by Lennon and McCartney separately. There was a brilliance and sophistication of the pre-breakup songs that doesn't compare to anything post-breakup, imo. Adorno ran a music school in which many future rock stars attended including Frank Zappa. Every one that was chosen to attend eventually became a superstar. Try googling ("alan watt" and beatles) and you'll find a lot of fascinating stuff. If it doesn't float your boat, then sobeit. I've checked as many of his claims as it is possible to check and they have *always* panned out. Take care.



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I have an open mind... I'll check it out thanks :)

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your welcome :)


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Personally I'm not 100% convinced on either The Beatles or Jim Morrison, afterall, people do change, and find talents they never knew they had, or perhaps finally do something with them.

The audio from Alan Watt was anything but convincing. Where's the proof? That wasn't even circumstancial.

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That's just a five minute excerpt. He's done hundreds of hours of audio and written a few books on the big picture, what's really happening on this crazy planet. I thought it might interested you enough to investigate further but whatever.



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I didn't say I wasn't interested in delving further, just that what I've seen so far isn't enough to be convincing.



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The footage of the Apollo landings was not shot on the moon. So as to weather they went or not? Well they claim the footage proves they went. But since the footage is fake then isn't it likely the moon landings were fake to. I mean why would you need to fake all the footage and photographs of something that actually happened? Moon landings were fake, there is nothing to anyone needs to "try" and prove only people that realise the truth and those that don't.

Jim Morrison died of a heroin overdose on the toilet of a night club in Paris. His body was moved to the "official" place of death in the bath tub. His best work was way behind him at that point. Just thinking now maybe he wanted to die, don't really care. Love the music, it lives on.

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the lead character seems obviously based on Jim Morrison


I think you're wrong.

I mean "obviously based on"?! Not in your wildest imagination is this the case, the only obvious thing is you think it was.

The character himself may have entertained the druggy notion of being a shaman as he mentioned the word once in the entire film. I can only assume that is where such a wild assertion could come from.


everything about this guy is very Jim Morrison


"Everything... is very Jim Morrison", seriously what the hell are you smoking while watching this.


The character in this is aware of his behaviour. Most alcoholics are not self aware of their actions. Also he's not the only one taking drugs and drinking all the time. In the Doors Jim was the only one who did that. He would be so *beep* up he couldn't perform sometimes. Ray would have to do the singing at some shows.

No you're way off base saying he was "obviously based on Jim Morrison".







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I may have been high whlie watching this.

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