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Random thoughts..mainly about books
Aug. 25th, 2021 09:52 pm1. If you cannot find a pattern or design in reality, the universe or nature - it does not mean it is not there. It just means "you" can't find it.
[My reaction to a description or blurb on Richard Dawkins book about Evolution (entitled "The Blind Clockmaker" - great title by the way, half tempted to steal it) and his thesis that the randomness of evolution proves there is no design in the making of the world. This is an issue I have with people - how do you know life is random? Just because you perceive something as random, doesn't make it random. Our perceptions aren't necessarily truthful. Our minds do lie to us. No, what you perceive as random doesn't mean a thing - just that you don't have the ability to comprehend it, doesn't mean its not there. Don't feel bad no one else does either. The great flaw in human thinking is thinking that we know or understand things absolutely - ie. the human "ego". Suffice it to say - I dislike Dawkins. I believe in evolution, I just have issues with some of the nitwit who study it.]
2. Hee Hee...I Need a Himbo - one of the few parody songs that actually worked for me.
3. I was hunting through the audiobook sale. Scored two - Anne Leckie's Ancillary Justice - which my brain refuses to read, so I'm thinking maybe it will listen? And Nelson Mandela's Favorite Folk Stories - all proceeds go to the kids in South Africa (which makes me kind of wish I got it at full price), read by various vocal talents that I will not recognize, because everyone tends to sound the same to me for the most part.
4. I'm about two thirds of the way through the audio book "Chins That Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Star, by Bruce Campbell". This book is rather good. He goes into detail about various movie shoots - really showing how unglamorous and painstaking the profession truly is, not to mention how many people don't get recognized for the jobs they do. Also shows how assinine the directors and stars of these pictures can be.
He tells a story about how Sam Rami has to work to get Gene Hackman to deliver a scene, manipulates a top character actor, and how his friend John Cameron drove himself nuts trying to get Sharon Stone to get her mark. This was the Quick and the Dead. Bruce said it was a tough film to make.
Also goes into detail about the hazards of making a television series, and how relieved he was when Brisco County, Jr was cancelled - because he could finally sleep.
Irreverent at times, but also blatantly honest.
One of the better audio books I've listened to. I rather like the actor bios. I'm going to try and get Michael Caine's next, also I want Hillary Clinton's Lessons Learned - the Hard Way - about her time as Secretary of State.
[My reaction to a description or blurb on Richard Dawkins book about Evolution (entitled "The Blind Clockmaker" - great title by the way, half tempted to steal it) and his thesis that the randomness of evolution proves there is no design in the making of the world. This is an issue I have with people - how do you know life is random? Just because you perceive something as random, doesn't make it random. Our perceptions aren't necessarily truthful. Our minds do lie to us. No, what you perceive as random doesn't mean a thing - just that you don't have the ability to comprehend it, doesn't mean its not there. Don't feel bad no one else does either. The great flaw in human thinking is thinking that we know or understand things absolutely - ie. the human "ego". Suffice it to say - I dislike Dawkins. I believe in evolution, I just have issues with some of the nitwit who study it.]
2. Hee Hee...I Need a Himbo - one of the few parody songs that actually worked for me.
3. I was hunting through the audiobook sale. Scored two - Anne Leckie's Ancillary Justice - which my brain refuses to read, so I'm thinking maybe it will listen? And Nelson Mandela's Favorite Folk Stories - all proceeds go to the kids in South Africa (which makes me kind of wish I got it at full price), read by various vocal talents that I will not recognize, because everyone tends to sound the same to me for the most part.
4. I'm about two thirds of the way through the audio book "Chins That Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Star, by Bruce Campbell". This book is rather good. He goes into detail about various movie shoots - really showing how unglamorous and painstaking the profession truly is, not to mention how many people don't get recognized for the jobs they do. Also shows how assinine the directors and stars of these pictures can be.
He tells a story about how Sam Rami has to work to get Gene Hackman to deliver a scene, manipulates a top character actor, and how his friend John Cameron drove himself nuts trying to get Sharon Stone to get her mark. This was the Quick and the Dead. Bruce said it was a tough film to make.
Also goes into detail about the hazards of making a television series, and how relieved he was when Brisco County, Jr was cancelled - because he could finally sleep.
Irreverent at times, but also blatantly honest.
One of the better audio books I've listened to. I rather like the actor bios. I'm going to try and get Michael Caine's next, also I want Hillary Clinton's Lessons Learned - the Hard Way - about her time as Secretary of State.