Three And Above

Barry Lyndon (1975) Directed by :  Stanley Kubrick Written by :  Stanley Kubrick, based on William Makepeace Thackeray's Novel Starring:   Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson,  Leon Vitali, Patrick Magee Rating:   PG Release Date:   December 18th, 1975 Ryan O'Neal and his drunken entourage in  Barry Lyndon Image Source      Life is like Churchill’s famous description of the Russians following the conclusion of the Second World War; “a mystery, wrapped in a riddle, inside of an enigma.” Through the measurement of microwave background radiation we can ascertain the age of the universe; 13.8 billion years of age, how long humans have existed, ( around 200,000 years ), and we know how the vast network of nerves, veins, organs and bones make up the human body and somehow amalgamate into what we call consciousness. What does a single life mean, then in the grand scheme of things; when the whole of human life, everything we’ve created, thought about, loved, h

The Cost of Freedom: The Limits of a Digital World By Grant Kanigan Francis Barraud's painting "His Master's Voice," after which HMV was named      "I can't believe it, The way you look sometimes, Like a trampled flag on a city street, Oh yeah. And I don't want it, The things you're offering me, Symbolized bar code, quick ID, oh yeah I'm a 21st century digital boy, I don't know how to read But I've got a lot of toys, My daddy is a lazy middle class intellectual, My mommy's on valium, She's so ineffectual..." - Bad Religion, " 21st Century Digital Boy "       The news hit without subtlety, like a bag of bricks to the forehead; HMV is closing it's doors forever. Some might say it's just a store, a retail chain, or a big business in need of closing; out with the old, in with the new; all change is good change, the times, they are-a changin', and so on and so fort