The Chill In A Thermal Lend

The deliberate 'Mental' abash,

against I am of every seen.

The lead to what has come to be,

offends the 'Rite' of liberty.

The product of 'An Affair'

I state,

"I know my paternal wealth, I am the spare"

Deeply seated,

I ride what's coarse,

for in this venue,

I ride with Force!!!

The more delivered,

the worse the case,

with each new look,

I crave it's source.

The Hunt?,

a preyed upon more.

Hide & Seek,

a dungeons 'Keep'

out came ugly and it is mean.

To only lead?,

the honesty of what?,

that abuse is real and I don't love?

The real appearance,

of whom?,

won't run.

Holding a hand,

hearing the sound,

a beating heart,

the impossible stands.

Will connection brake this rage,

proves to be not up to me,

for it is left to whom does use,

then turns from,

the source for fun.

So declare your words dear Sir Dark Lord,

the connection with your Self is torn,

the mirrored reflection of your more,

announces that your pain is scorn.

'cause if you Tour the World 'round,

you'll just be turned away with bound,

becoming the next chored display,

of what does never end this 'Play'.

Again I say there is a place,

where laughter's buried,

and grave in state.

So Peace in Concerts of what is real,

will simply be a trip,

surreal!!

Upside Down (film)

Upside Down 

(French: Un monde à l'envers) 

is a 2012 French-Canadian romantic science fiction film 

Written and directed by Juan Diego Solanas, 

Starring Jim Sturgess and Kirsten Dunst.

Review byPeter Sobczynski
March 13, 2013 

Have you ever idly speculated about how the visionary epic "Dark City" might have been changed if director Alex Proyas had been replaced halfway through by Baz Luhrman? Have you lain awake at night contemplating what one of Luc Besson's bombastic blockbusters might be like without the lucid narrative? Have you ever discussed with friends and loved ones what might have occurred if Lars von Trier had received notes from his producers on how to transform his notoriously depressing "Melancholia" into something more audience-friendly, and he perversely chose to follow each and every one of them to the letter?

If the answer to all of these hypotheticals is "yes," the bad news is that you have pretty much wasted a chunk of your existence on nonsense. The good news, speaking of nonsense, is that you no longer have to imagine what any of those things would be like because "Upside Down" is a film that does all of it and much more. Simply put, this is one of the craziest films to come along in a while and I can confidently say that anyone who sees it will either hail it is some kind of crackpot masterpiece or dismiss it as one of the silliest damn things they've ever seen. Either way, those planning on seeing it should make sure that the multiplex floor is clean because their jaws, if not their entire bodies, are likely to resting down there for much of the running time.

Remember how the sci-fi masterpiece "Metropolis" (1927) posits a world in which society has been literally split into two unequal classes? The rich, living in an impossibly luxurious city in the sky, ruthlessly exploit the resources and labors of the hardscrabble working class that dwells below ground in unspeakable poverty? "Upside Down" takes that conceit and flips it on its head by offering a vision of twin planets that are literally within shouting distance of each other — their respective highest mountain peaks almost touch — and which have gravities that pull in opposite directions.

Those on the upper planet are prosperous and comfortable while those on the lower planet are poor, miserable and fighting for whatever scraps they can glean from above, mostly in the form of bits of an anti-gravity metal that can allow one to pass from one world to the next without detection. This substance is zealously guarded by Transworld, the mega-corporation that connects the two worlds through the only building that could technically be described as a skyscraper both coming and going. By the way, if this all strikes you as being too preposterous for words, you might as well check out now because it only gets nuttier from here on.

After the requisite prologue explaining the premise, we meet two two attractive youngsters from the opposing planets — lower world Adam (Jim Sturgess) and upper world Eden (Kirsten Dunst) — as they spot each other from their respective mountain peaks and fall instantly in love. Alas, their idyllic zero-gravity makeout sessions are interrupted one day by guards from the upper world and while trying to get Eden back to her planet, there is an accident and it appears as though she has been killed.

Ten years pass and Adam is now working in a dingy Transworld factory while attempting to devise a revolutionary beauty cream that harvests the rejuvenating power of pollen taken from pink bees (and you thought I was just kidding about things got nuttier?) when he is stunned to see Eden on television alive, well and also in the employ of Transworld. Adam then launches an elaborate plan to reconnect with his beloved that, if I have it correctly, entails using his beauty cream formula as a way of getting a job in Transworld headquarters and making requests for samples of the anti-gravity mineral that he will surreptitiously hide on his person in order to sneak up to the upper world and sweep Eden off her feet.

It seems impossible that a scheme as well-planned as this could possibly fail but it turns out that there are a couple of minor hiccups. For one thing, it seems that Eden's accident has left her with amnesia, so when Adam finally does get to see her, she has absolutely no recollection of who he is. For another, the anti-gravity mineral has a disconcerting tendency to burst into flame after about an hour of usage. Nevertheless, Adam continues to visit Eden in hopes of jogging her memory. But he finds himself in increasing danger once the Transworld executives finally realize what he is doing.

By all rational standards, "Upside Down" is one of the dumbest movies that you will see in your entire life. Right from the start, it takes its first giant misstep with a prologue that is meant to simultaneously set up the story and explain the physics of the twin world gimmick in ways that will more or less satisfy the average moviegoer or at the very least keep them from asking pesky questions about the apparent lack of orbits or how the twinned worlds can have sunrises, sunsets and the like.

Unfortunately, writer-director Juan Diego Solanas has made the bizarre decision to explain these details entirely through Adam's voiceover rather than, you know, showing us how it works. This is a bad enough idea on the surface but it sinks (rises?) even further through the dreadful line readings of Jim Sturgess, who is such a wispy twerp her that his character in "One Day" seems to display a Lee Marvin-like sense of gravitas by comparison.

There are plenty of other problems as well, and almost all of them are directly related to Solanas' screenplay. The twin-world concept is a premise is one that could inspire any number of fantastical stories so why waste it on yet another gooney "Romeo and Juliet" retread about two lovers from opposite worlds fighting to be together? And if you had to go the young-lovers route, why complicate matters by giving one of them amnesia and forcing the other to jump through hoops just to jog her memory. (To quote another movie coming soon to a theater near you, "Amnesia is bollocks!")

Furthermore, why would you not try to supply them with dialogue that didn't sound as if it had gone through Babelfish at least four different times and a conclusion that didn't make "Cannonball Run II" look like a model of Mamet-like closure by comparison? And if you still felt oddly compelled to press on down this particular path, wouldn't you at least make some kind of token effort to hire actors who could work up some kind of convincing chemistry between them?

Kirsten Dunst is appealing enough as Eden but due to her character's affliction, she spends much of her on-screen time smiling sweetly while struggling to understand what is going on around her. Jim Sturgess, on the other hand, is downright appalling throughout and spends most of his on-screen acting like a tool while the audience struggles to resist the temptation to bum-rush the screen punch him in his smug little mug. I don't want to suggest that Sturgess is completely useless — though I really do — but the great character actor Timothy Spall turns up in the key supporting role of a Transworld employee who takes Adam under his wing and though he only shares a few on-screen seconds with Dunst, he comes across as a far more convincing suitor than the ostensible romantic lead.

That "Upside Down" is one of the silliest movies ever made — did I mention that? — is a fact that I can in no way deny. And yet, I am often willing to overlook numbskull storytelling if the film in question is bold and stylish enough in other areas to make up for its narrative shortcomings, and this is one of those films. Virtually every moment is crammed to the gills with visual marvels ranging from an endless sea of office drones that one-ups the famous shot in the silent classic "The Crowd" to a grand ballroom with dancers twirling about on both the floor and ceiling to a stunner in which Adam escapes some flames that threaten to overtake him by jumping up into a nearby river.

I have no idea what machinations were used to achieve the sights that we see — I presume a lot of CGI was involved and it appears as though a lot of practical effects may have been included, too — but the result is often stunning and I would gladly take just a couple of the images shown here over anything in most recent blockbuster epics. (This is the kind of film where you could just pause the eventual Blu-Ray at any given moment and just study the image as one might a painting.)

Additionally, while Solanas may not know how to write a story, he knows that the best way to approach it is with a bold and unapologetic attitude that finds him swinging for the fences every time. Granted, his batting average may not be perfect (especially in the first and final innings) but asused to be of the great Cubs slugger Dave Kingman, he may hit or miss but when he's at the plate, he's never boring.

My guess that it is the kind of obvious enthusiasm Solanas demonstrates as a director is what convinced smart people like Dunst and Spall to sign on, even though the script must have read like gibberish to them. (Sturgess, on the other hand, presumably signed on because he knows that the only reason he gets offered scripts is when the producers are too cheap to meet James McAvoy's quote.)


Maybe the best way to appreciate the film is to bring your iPod and cue up some music to listen to — maybe that fantastic new David Bowie album — while letting the stunning visuals wash over you. That way, you will still be able to experience the best things it has to offer and — who knows? — depending on your choice of musical accompaniment, it might even make more sense than the sound-synched movie.

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http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/upside-down-2013

Their Words Left Acts Of Real Scars

The "Scars" I see upon my own,

the stripes the testify to what I've known,

reality is an uncomfortable zone,

the 'live' to what is shown.

So bluntly speaking,

who will save?,

no one cares to know the name,

of the persons who suffer blame,

all because it's over and done....!!,

now the guilty just go have fun.

The damage does sum,

it's on the back,

it's scarred in fact,

the reason of,

Love?

I would not know,

I was not there,

all I say, is that I stare.

What is left of what I see,

stands so strong in front of me.

Each day I think,

why was this done,

who applied, who beat my ....!!

Should you be privy to this act,

I state with brief and artful tact,

the life you beat, the life exact,

will never bend to your Rack.

The quote of a biblical note,

comes to mind for such a find,

"Spare the Rod, spoil the Child"

with such a Verse,

do you feel my reap!!

Don't worry or fret,

I never bet,

but in this value of a measured set,

I don't forget the buckled let,

the scars I have,

internally met.

So go about your life and know,

everything or 'It' will show,

not for difference in this I slow,

but for the indifference that you stow.

The words of self come from stealth,

there is no heavenly flow in welts,

I root for Satan and every low,

'cause in the end you still will know,

the abuse is still your blame,

'cause on your watch,

you dealt such blows it's scarred and shows.

Without repose I state to thee,

the count is multiple upon such deed,

the rod, the cane, the levity,

by no mistake it was not me.

I understand the time it took,

to come and say hello don't look,

but in this end of never-ending,

the pain I feel is just beginning.

I Have Always Loved Tetris And Now It Shows...

Tetris May Treat PTSD, Flashbacks

Robin Nixon, LiveScience Contributor   |   April 25, 2012 12:46pm ET

LONDON — A seemingly trivial task – playing a particular video game– may lessen flashbacks and other psychological symptoms following a traumatic event, according to research presented here at the British Psychology Society Annual Conference.

Researchers are now corroborating what some trauma sufferers have happened upon by chance: Focusing on a highly engaging visual-spatial task, such as playing video games, may significantly reduce the occurrence of flashbacks, the mental images concerning the trauma that intrude on the sufferer afterward.

Flashbacks are considered by some to be the central hub of symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), researchers Lalitha Iyadurai and Ella James of Oxford University explained to LiveScience. They are invasive, unpredictable distress signals that can make everyday activities difficult. The jarring mental images also may trigger or exacerbate other symptoms associated with PTSD, including irritability, anger, poor concentration and sleep disorders.

Reducing the occurrence of flashbacks is therefore likely to relieve post-traumatic suffering while leaving the actual memories of the trauma in place, they said.

Iyadurai stressed the new research does not suggest a video gamecan instantly cure PTSD, but that it does suggests alternative treatments for the symptoms.

Innovative treatments

To test their idea, researchers asked subjects to view a disturbing film — an admittedly poor but sufficient simulation of real trauma. Within six hours of viewing this film, the period during which memories are thought to be consolidated for long-term storage, test subjects were randomly assigned to one of three tasks: answering trivia; playing Tetris, a 1980s video game that involves optimizing visual-spatial cues; or engaging in nothing in particular.

Over the following week, subjects who had played Tetris reported experiencing significantly fewer flashbacks of the film than the others did. (For reasons that are unclear, those who answered trivia actually had the most flashbacks.) The finding supported previous research onTetris therapy.

When played immediately following exposure to trauma, "the Tetris game had a protective effect," lead researcher Emily Holmes, a professor at Oxford, said. She and colleagues hypothesize that the visual-spatial demands of Tetris disrupt the formation of the mental imagery involved in flashbacks.

Follow-up work by James and colleagues is exploring whether Tetris may help trauma sufferers even after the memory has been sealed into long-term storage. In this work, the researchers are asking subjects to recall the traumatic film a day after viewing it, stimulating a process called "memory reconsolidation," during which the memory is re-formed in the brain. Subjects are then asked to play Tetris during the reconsolidation period and to count the number of flashbacks they experience in the following week.

The results of this research could prove critical to therapy conducted long after a trauma has been experienced.

Video games as therapists?

It may seem trivializing to suggest that something like playing a video game could have a long-term impact on PTSD and other serious psychiatric disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder that involve unwanted mental images. And researchers are unsure of the mechanisms involved and do not know if their preliminary results would transfer to humans in real-life scenarios.

But Holmes pointed to another trivial act that is now considered an unmatched lifesaver.

"Hand washing was once laughed at, too," she said during her presentation, referring to common habits that existed pre-germ theory. Since doctors started washing their hands before surgery and, more generally, since people have started washing their hands after using the toilet, stopping the spread of pathogens, countless lives have been saved worldwide. 

In other words, it is possible that simple visual-spatial exercises, as exemplified by Tetris, could have a significant impact on some psychological disorders and that someday, when the mechanism is known, the current research will be recognized in hindsight as obvious.

As for whether we should, today, be equipping soldiers with Tetris games to play immediately after battle, Holmes told LiveScience, "Not until we do clinical trials first."

Follow LiveScience for the latest in science news and discoveries on Twitter @livescience and on Facebook.

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http://www.livescience.com/19894-tetris-treat-ptsd-flashbacks.html

I Forgot I Wrote To.....Dear Past, You Cannot Stop The Unstoppable!!

Dear Past,

Confront Me!  

Destroy my present Life.  

Leave me quietly at day light, 

return to remind me at sundown.

Don't bother others with questions.

Keep it real with flashbacks.

Exhaust me from sleepless nights.

Make my dreams, Nightmares.

Do you miss me when I forget you?

Are you lonely with just the old friends you have?

Is your pain to singular when I am gone?

Don't you love the silence?

Bring it all.

Don't leave one memory behind.

Invite comments and judgments from past offenders,

to be the audio, to the video that runs in my head.

Tell immediate family to dump it all on me.

Isn't that the job?

You told me so.

Forgetting nothing is important.

Making the flashback live it is so useful.

Thanks.

It irons it all out so well, so vividly for me.

Do I call the men I see?

How about the women?

Are the orgy's still in your repertoire?

Just curious how much further we must go down the lane before we say Adios,

to the other.

I know the ugliness you must have to live with,

when will you give it up?

I mean, really, get real past,

I'm tired, your tired,

you are a worn out record.

Oh, I am so sorry.

I had no idea.

Keep me close,

I will speak on your behalf,

yes, until the end.  I swear.

Love Always,

The friend you will never need,

Me

(originally written in 2011)