Four Great Movies I Watched Tonight

[william_mac]

1. Cool Hand Luke

2. Singin' In The Rain

3. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

4. Easy Rider

All of these movies make me love America... I mean the REAL America. They also give me the bug to go back out and travel and live the life, which is why I shouldn't have watched them.

When I dropped out of high school at 17 I took off with $245 and an old 15 year old Ford Aeorostar van I called "The Blue Goose". It was blue. I traveled all over the southeast coast, and down west as far as New Mexico. You know, Charlston, Savannah, Mobile, the Delta, New Orleans, Austin, San Antonio... etc.

I would stop into cities and spend about 2 or 3 months (6 months in Savannah and New Orleans) and do these really crazy and hard labor jobs and live with some chick that was a friend of a friend of a friend. Then, I would break their hearts one day when I'd just get up and and leave to keep on traveling... I would never even tell them. I don't think I ever felt bad about it at the time.

I was doing it for no reason too. Maybe too much beat poetry, or stories in magazines, or pictures of the 60s. My tolerations were high and the drugs and booze were like food. All we wanted was a cool bar, with some cool blues, and a bunch of random weirdos around.

Really miss those days. Here I am in Atlanta. I'm writing for a magazine, I'm writing about politics, I'm painting for band covers, and I work at home. So I guess I've gotten what I wanted, but I'd much rather be out in the world not giving a shit. One thing is for sure, when and if I get my proverbial "big break" within the next year I'll be gone. I still have to make that cross country trip.

That is just a random thought. Anybody seen those movies? Man... those movies are great. I hate doing political short documentaries/journalistic pieces. I need to make some movies. I've written so many goddamned scripts, and I don't know what in the fuck to do with them. It's not like writing stories or articles, you can't just submit them places.

I've been wanting to make it out to Arizona, and then up the coast of California starting in San Diego all the way up to Portland, Oregon to live with the dropouts and losers, and then up to Seattle to stick with the dark shades.

Yeah. Can't watch these movies anymore.



-William
www.William-Mac.com

[28th kingdom]

I don't believe in America.

[william_mac]

I don't believe in America.

Way to crush the buzz pal. America is more than a government or a political system. There are states, and people in those states, and roads, and people along those roads. There are beaches, and lakes, and caverns, and a big open land ready to explore. There is a big wide open land predominantly untouched, and a great pioneering spirit still existent and untouched by corruption within those middle American locations. And, unless you're here, and you've gone away from the city and delved into the wonders therein, then you have no room to say.

Piss off with that kind of talk, especially with a post like this. Just piss off.



-William
www.William-Mac.com

[oceanwave]

i thought 'real america' was like, umm, native americans as opposed to adopted europeans?

:p ;)

btw, number 3, ace film

:)

[william_mac]

Old pictures. Too bad i'm always on the other end of the camera.

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There I am! Cocaine in New Orleans.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/weelboy/IMG_8341.jpg

Savannah
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/weelboy/IMG_8330.jpg


The Van
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/weelboy/IMG_8323.jpg

Playing on the streets in New Orleans for money
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/weelboy/IMG_8306.jpg

[william_mac]

South Carolina (Charlston)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/weelboy/06Photo_web.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/weelboy/Untitled-14.jpg

Why Austin is so weird:
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And... once more:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/weelboy/830974c9.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/weelboy/IMG_2126.jpg

In order to make extra money I would put on shows without any costs, and then I would charge money for tickets and we would net around 2 to 5 thousand. This is one of them... maybe 4 years ago, I think was 18 or something. I'm in the middle.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/weelboy/IMG_1418.jpg



OK, I'm done. Just putting some images to the words.



-William

[william_mac]

i thought 'real america' was like, umm, native americans as opposed to adopted europeans?

:p ;)

btw, number 3, ace film

:)

What are you talking about? Real America is the traveling America. We've been to plenty of Native American reservations actually. I lived for a month on a Cherokee Nation reservation in Oklahoma.

Please guys, don't start putting anything like politics into this or anything. It's just silly and stupid. I mean... if I met a lot of the people on here in real life and they talked like they do, then I would kick their ass. Not you Oceanwave... just, a lot of people on here. The dumb fucks.



-William
www.William-Mac.com

[oceanwave]

What are you talking about? Real America is the traveling America. We've been to plenty of Native American reservations actually. I lived for a month on a Cherokee Nation reservation in Oklahoma.

Please guys, don't start putting anything like politics into this or anything. It's just silly and stupid. I mean... if I met a lot of the people on here in real life and they talked like they do, then I would kick their ass. Not you Oceanwave... just, a lot of people on here. The dumb fucks.



-William
www.William-Mac.com

no worries man, i know where ya coming from...

btw, dumb fucks like to fuck dumb

;)


oh and the european thang? sorry...was jus bein tongue in cheek, as you know...

and as willy mac says, no politics here please, but celebration of freedom of 'movement' which is, i feel, the essence of this thread...discovery without boundaries

[william_mac]

OK LAST ONES I SWEAR.

Mobile, Alabama

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Mobile
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Dauphin Island, Mobile
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[oceanwave]

OK LAST ONES I SWEAR.

nahh keep em coming mate...

ie, bump this thread every so often with yer pics, it's nice to see the world through the eyes of another

:)

...samanvaya...


{edit} btw love this pic..

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/weelboy/IMG_1418.jpg

the guy, to the left, slouched with a ciggie in his mouth?

is that tommy chong, from cheech and chong fame?

;)

[william_mac]

nahh keep em coming mate...

ie, bump this thread every so often with yer pics, it's nice to see the world through the eyes of another

:)

...samanvaya...


{edit} btw love this pic..

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/weelboy/IMG_1418.jpg

the guy, to the left, slouched with a ciggie in his mouth?

is that tommy chong, from cheech and chong fame?

;)

Hah hah. No, that's Daniel Walters, or as I call him "Dirty D". He's a wino traveling brother, who is real savvy on the marketing side of things and puts together a lot of shit for me. He's in South Africa right now. His friend actually just got killed there. I knew the guy, although I can't remember his last name for the life of me, his first name is Eddie. He was at an internet cafe spending the night when several folks came in and beat him to death and stole his money. Sad story. Especially since they were reporting on the AIDS epidemic there.

"Funny ol' world, ain't it?"



-William
www.William-Mac.com

[oceanwave]

Hah hah. No, that's Daniel Walters, or as I call him "Dirty D". He's a wino traveling brother, who is real savvy on the marketing side of things and puts together a lot of shit for me. He's in South Africa right now. His friend actually just got killed there. I knew the guy, although I can't remember his last name for the life of me, his first name is Eddie. He was at an internet cafe spending the night when several folks came in and beat him to death and stole his money. Sad story. Especially since they were reporting on the AIDS epidemic there.

"Funny ol' world, ain't it?"



-William
www.William-Mac.com

sorry to hear that man, but if his spirit is as strong as i feel it is...

then he's having the last laugh

*raises glass* to eddie

[william_mac]

sorry to hear that man, but if his spirit is as strong as i feel it is...

then he's having the last laugh

*raises glass* to eddie

Yeah, Eddie was a good guy.

Check this video out. This is one of the ones they worked on, it shows a glimpse of the trip to 20 countries on 5 continents in 90 days. If you start at 1.16 (although I recommend watching the entire video) you'll see how stupid the white people in South Africa are towards their own AIDS epidemic. It will show you first hand how much Apartheid has really been abolished. HAH. What a laugh.

World Trip (ThePassport.org) (http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=979158721&channel=959004830&lineup=-1)

[lemonique]

Thank-you for that video William_Mac!
Eye opener!

Lemonique

[cleft_asunder]

America is fucking beautiful, except for all the man-made shit. I really like Native American's.

[william_mac]

Thank-you for that video William_Mac!
Eye opener!

Lemonique

I've been to a few of those locations with the team. When I got back, and when I watch the videos again today, and in anything I do I guess... I just randomly start crying. Daniel told me he found a name for it, he calls it "compassion fatigue".

You know, it all gets so overwhelming. All of this. You just wish sometimes that you have all the money in the whole world and you could just give it to everybody. Or... something. I don't know. I've devoted my whole life to these truths, and I find myself wishing I was working in a cubicle and had a bitchy wife, hah hah.



-William
www.William-Mac.com

[william_mac]

America is fucking beautiful, except for all the man-made shit. I really like Native American's.

Yeah. You know, there are only so many cities in the whole of the United States. There are the big ones like New York, Atlanta, Miami, Houston, L.A, San Francisco, Seattle, and Chicago.

But, those places are just a few. The rest of America is virtually untouched, and desolate with beauty. And, really, only New York City and L.A are the REALLY big cities that everyone wants to go to. The rest of the cities I mentioned above, especially Seattle, Chicago, and San Francisco, they're beautiful and endeering and full of down-to-earth people.

I wish that America didn't have such a bad wrap. I mean, we're all inherently open without dispute, and love everyone within our midsts. It's always these crazy politicians and radicals that get all of the media... that's like less than 1% of the population though.

My sadness is that we aren't educated. We're so big and self-consumed, that we don't care a lot of the times.



-William
www.William-Mac.com

[graflok]

1. Cool Hand Luke

2. Singin' In The Rain

3. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

4. Easy Rider

All of these movies make me love America... I mean the REAL America. They also give me the bug to go back out and travel and live the life, which is why I shouldn't have watched them.

Yeah, America. Where a guy can get rich on one drug deal and then get blown
away by a hick with a goiter.


When I dropped out of high school at 17 I took off with $245 and an old 15 year old Ford Aeorostar van I called "The Blue Goose". It was blue.

I had a van just like that. I called it "The Blue Van."


I traveled all over the southeast coast, and down west as far as New Mexico. You know, Charlston, Savannah, Mobile, the Delta, New Orleans, Austin, San Antonio... etc.

... Marseilles, Casablanca, Beirut, Shanghai ...


I would stop into cities and spend about 2 or 3 months (6 months in Savannah and New Orleans) and do these really crazy and hard labor jobs and live with some chick that was a friend of a friend of a friend. Then, I would break their hearts one day when I'd just get up and and leave to keep on traveling... I would never even tell them. I don't think I ever felt bad about it at the time.

That's really hilarious. Did you steal any money out of their purses before you left?


I was doing it for no reason too.

No shit?


Maybe too much beat poetry, or stories in magazines, or pictures of the 60s.

Or, Rice Crispies, or Princess phones or steel belted radials ...


My tolerations were high and the drugs and booze were like food. All we wanted was a cool bar, with some cool blues, and a bunch of random weirdos around.

Yeah, regular weirdos are, like, so predictable, man.


Really miss those days.

Those salad days. Those halcyon days. Those days of wine and roses.


Here I am in Atlanta. I'm writing for a magazine, I'm writing about politics, I'm painting for band covers, and I work at home. So I guess I've gotten what I wanted, but I'd much rather be out in the world not giving a shit. One thing is for sure, when and if I get my proverbial "big break" within the next year I'll be gone. I still have to make that cross country trip.

Yeah, wind in your hair, bugs in your teeth, crabs in your crotch ...


That is just a random thought.

Don't worry. I'm sure it'll pass.


Anybody seen those movies? Man... those movies are great.

Yeah, I think some people saw those movies.


I hate doing political short documentaries/journalistic pieces. I need to make some movies. I've written so many goddamned scripts, and I don't know what in the fuck to do with them. It's not like writing stories or articles, you can't just submit them places.

I can think of a place you can submit them.


I've been wanting to make it out to Arizona, and then up the coast of California starting in San Diego all the way up to Portland, Oregon to live with the dropouts and losers, and then up to Seattle to stick with the dark shades.

Good idea. Bon voyage.

[william_mac]

Yeah, America. Where a guy can get rich on one drug deal and then get blown
away by a hick with a goiter.



I had a van just like that. I called it "The Blue Van."



... Marseilles, Casablanca, Beirut, Shanghai ...



That's really hilarious. Did you steal any money out of their purses before you left?



No shit?



Or, Rice Crispies, or Princess phones or steel belted radials ...



Yeah, regular weirdos are, like, so predictable, man.



Those salad days. Those halcyon days. Those days of wine and roses.



Yeah, wind in your hair, bugs in your teeth, crabs in your crotch ...



Don't worry. I'm sure it'll pass.



Yeah, I think some people saw those movies.



I can think of a place you can submit them.



Good idea. Bon voyage.

What's your problem?



-William
www.William-Mac.com

[oceanwave]

Yeah, Eddie was a good guy.

Check this video out. This is one of the ones they worked on, it shows a glimpse of the trip to 20 countries on 5 continents in 90 days. If you start at 1.16 (although I recommend watching the entire video) you'll see how stupid the white people in South Africa are towards their own AIDS epidemic. It will show you first hand how much Apartheid has really been abolished. HAH. What a laugh.

World Trip (ThePassport.org) (http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=979158721&channel=959004830&lineup=-1)

good video

http://www.davidicke.com/forum/images/icons/icon14.gif

[graflok]

What's your problem?


What's your solution?

[william_mac]

What's your solution?

For what? You have to be a tad bit more clear, hah. I don't know what in the hell you're trying to talk about. But, as of current, it just sounds silly and shallow.



-William
www.William-Mac.com

[tinmenace]

1. Cool Hand Luke

2. Singin' In The Rain

3. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

4. Easy Rider

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/weelboy/7a442bd3.jpg





Ok, I hope someone let him know that his fly had flewn and that the cuckoo was trying to tell the time (like a sundial :eek:)

Lordy! Poor guy.

Poor guys in general...this is a gift and a curse, isn't it :D

[graflok]

For what? You have to be a tad bit more clear, hah. I don't know what in the hell you're trying to talk about.


Tinny will be along in a moment to explain everything.

[william_mac]

Tinny will be along in a moment to explain everything.

Wow wow wiggle woggle wazzie woodle woo.



-William
www.William-Mac.com

[william_mac]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/weelboy/7a442bd3.jpg

Ok, I hope someone let him know that his fly had flewn and that the cuckoo was trying to tell the time (like a sundial :eek:)

Lordy! Poor guy.

Poor guys in general...this is a gift and a curse, isn't it :D

Well, he was just sleeping out there in the middle of the street with a giant boner. I don't know what the deal was. I video taped it, walked right up to him and took pictures. People were walking by staring at him, and he never woke up. I think about 3 hours later we came back and that man STILL had a boner and was STILL asleep. I thought he might be dead or something, but he was breathing.

I just don't understand how you could have a boner that long while asleep. He just of gotten hopped up on Viagra, I don't know! Strannngggeee.



-William
www.William-Mac.com

[stickylolly]

William great video !! thanks for the pics as well .... I have enjoyed this thread ... good luck to you x

[synergy777]

i know its not arty etc, but alien versus predator, has a great pyramid. and a foxy chick, with great cgi.

[william_mac]

i know its not arty etc, but alien versus predator, has a great pyramid. and a foxy chick, with great cgi.

Hey man, I'm a movie lover. You kidding? Foxy scantily clad women, aliens competing with each other over who gets to hunt and kill more humans.... foxy scantily clad women... sounds great.

I write a lot of scripts, and my favorite movies are old classic B level Sci-fi movies and horror movies. In my mind those are the loftiest and most truthful movies. I can't begin trying to explain that mentality to most people, they just don't get the underlying messages. As a script writer myself it's easy to understand the writer's thinking. These old B sci-fi and horror movies (including all of the slasher flicks starting in the late 70s to now) are not only some of the best comedies, but they hide these amazingly obscure nuggets of truth in one piece of dialouge somewhere and you're like "holy shit... I never thought about that" and then someone's liver gets cut out, or the naked chick who said it is just murdered by a psycho transvestite.

Have you ever seen "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!"



-William
www.William-Mac.com