Shiver 'Me Timbers!

I just watched King Kong, and in the middle of thinking what a wonderfully understated masterpiece of modern cinema it was, deserving as it does to be held up there with the likes of Lord of the Rings, Matrix, Donnie Darko and 300 (I picked the last one because, although it's a trigger happy slashfest, it's the finest example of it's genre which includes Sin City, V For Vendetta and The Spirit) - Andy Serkis is Kong. Andy Serkis, the guy who plays Gollum in the aforementioned Tolkien trilogy - does he play EVERY CGI CHARACTER?!?

I mean, with Hollywood monopolies as ridiculous as Jennifer "Rachel Green" Aniston's stranglehold over the romantic-comedy industry, we shouldn't be surprised that Peter Jackson hired an old friend - but it just came as a novel shock. I hope that in the near future we can expect to see Andy taking up roles in the next Alien/Predator shockflick, doing what he does best, chewing up puny humans and hurling them off cliffs. Now, did I mention my boycott on politics? If not, I vowed myself to keeping out of any discussion as it makes me seem pretentious and stuff; especially since I can't argue cohesively. But, the recent trash talk going on about the NHS got me really annoyed. I mean, for a serious human being with a footing in sanity, how can you link the system of paying fixed-rate taxes for a nationwide, non-discriminatory health service available at any time and for any treatment to the words "death panel"?

But then I forget, the majority of people who watch Fox News do not have a grounding in reality, and the propaganda vomit-tube that is Fox is determined to widen this gap between the accepted humanitarian norms of the day and sheer madness. Really - how can these people claim to be true Christians whilst they advocate a system that makes profit from keeping people alive - and spurns people who can't pay? It's like this is all a nefarious middle-class scheme to slowly kill off the poor and turn all the run-down neighbourhoods into large estates of Hampshire-esque parkland. And it all seems to be in the sake of rejecting socialism - a dogma formed by people who only wanted to emancipate people from the shackles of poverty and an idea soiled by McCarthy in the ultra-right, hide-behind-your-picket-fences fifties. Mr Beck, this is not 1987, and you are not Steven Seagal. Logic defies your arguments.

Ok? Rant over. That felt good, like the first cigarette of the day. In the meantime, I have offically joined the Pirate Party UK, so I do get a political badge of sorts - but they want policies implemented that are so obscure that I'm sure not to get into a nasty shouting match with anyone. They're more relevant than you think - after all, Sir David Getty said that "intellectual property will be the oil of the 21st century". And sharing is caring. If you haven't looked at the website yet you won't know what I'm on about. The link is here.

So, the conclusion of this blog is hence: there are a lot of silly, bad men in the world, King Kong is great, and I'm an actual pirate. Bye.