Videos

[85 Day Jerk]

After nearly 2 years, I went back to the video vault and watched the animated short called "Bingo."  The first time I tried to play it, it would not work, so I just said the hell with it.  I did not realize back then that .ram files meant Real Player files.  I downloaded a Real Player from Rollingstone.com or some damn place that had corrupted a bunch of files so I never used it again for a long time.

Anyway, the pickleman was in town and dropped off some flyers and asked me if I had ever seen Bingo.
I had forgotten all about it.  After he left, I re-installed Real Player, set the preferences to only play Real Player files, then looked for the video vault on Gingers Anynonmiilly whatever site and the damn thing actually worked!  The animation is mind boggling in it's implications and I recommend it to everyone.  There was mention of this video a long time ago, and it got a lukewarm response.  Some of these videos are hard to play back unless you know what player to use.  Maybe some players cause a conflict with others, who knows?, but don't give up on these tid-bits like I did, or you end up missing out on some cool stuff.

[Froderik]

Thanks for the suggestion, Bob. I'll check that out sometime soon. You were getting at something with RealPlayer. It seems that it's picky about which version you run with which OS. For example, the latest version won't run properly with Win98SE. (I know this because a friend of mine was having trouble playing porno video downloads with it, and had me troubleshoot it for him. He paid me for helping him, since he was employed, and I was not...)

[JDavid]

I've seen that video.  I understand that it's about hammering a new false identity into someone's head, but is there a significance to us ex-clients beyond that?  

Why is the audience laughing in the beginning live stage version of it?

[Antigen]

I never saw the live version. The troupe is primarily a comic troupe, though, so they were probably laughing at whatever had just happened on stage.

There is possibly a connection to the cult. Greg and I had a romping good time debating whether or not the writer or someone behind that production had been in a Program. He was sure they had been, I was pretty sure it was just a commentary on the garden variety, public school, consumerism brand of brainwashing. So we went back and forth, digging into the names and such associated with the piece.

Turns out, there was a pretty compelling link. One of the members of the NeoFuturists had been in a band with a former Elan student. So there's a good chance that skit is actually about the Program. Then again, it might just have been about the asshole who had been in the program and what an obnoxious, overbearing prick he was. Or mabe something else. Neither the writer nor the players nor producer or anyone else who would know is telling.

I tried for years to live according to everyone else's morality.
I tried to live like everyone else, to be like everyone else.
I said the right things even when I felt and thought quite differently.
And the result is a catastrophe.

---Albert Camus

[85 Day Jerk]

Well J.David, I for one think that it is mostly nervous type laughter coming from the audience.  They are witnessing something that makes them feel extremely uncomfortable.  If they would have kept it rolling, I am sure you would have seen alot of nervous fidgeting, women rummaging through their purses and what-not, and a few may have suddenly felt the urge to get up and go use the bathroom.  I am 40 years old now, and run into former Straightlings occasionally, and most of them are extremely hessitant to speak of the program at all and this is like after almost 25 years for some of them.

Oh and by the way, this Avatar is better, the old one was kinda creepy.  I know mine is a little, but I want it that way.

[ This Message was edited by: 85 Day Jerk on 2003-07-13 15:12 ]