They Still Make Good Films These Days (Just Not In Hollywood) - #16

Just saw the German film Antibodies.





Norman Reedus is the very first character in the very first scene. Apparently he understands German, but he has no lines at all. If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would think it was some kind of plot to get the attention of Boondock Saints and Walking Dead fans. He is only in that one scene. Anyone looking for more of him will be disappointed, if that's all they are looking for.


The film itself is absolutely incredible. It will not disappoint anyone with any sensible interest in psychological thrillers. Some will compare this film to Silence of the Lambs. A cop questions the most prolific serial killer in "the united Fatherland" for help with an unsolved case.

I will go so far as to say it is an improvement on Anthony Hopkins' masterpiece.

So sayeth the King of Funny Faces.

Friday Night News Dump

Stillwater stabbing victim accused of keeping box of child pornography in basement

Published: Friday, June 22, 2012, 8:30 PM     Updated: Friday, June 22, 2012, 11:47 PM
By Seth Augenstein and Amy Ellis Nutt/The Star-Ledger 

STILLWATER — As murder victim Dennis Pegg was laid to rest at St. Joseph’s cemetery in Newton today, across town a defense lawyer for one of the accused filed an affidavit seeking to preserve Pegg’s belongings — including an alleged box of child pornography.

The request, submitted by attorney Daniel Perez, specifically cited a box containing "numerous Polaroid photographs of nude children and/or children involved in sexual acts."

Clark Fredericks, 46, has been charged with first-degree murder and two of his relatives claim he was molested by Pegg years ago when he was a Boy Scout and Pegg a troop leader. Robert Reynolds, 47, friend of Fredericks, has been charged with helping him kill Pegg and hiding evidence.

Perez’s request, according to the affidavit, was based on information provided to police after Pegg’s death by an unnamed individual (called "John Doe 1" in the legal notice), who says he, too, was molested by Pegg when he was a child.
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They Still Make Good Films These Days (Just Not In Hollywood) - #15

Norway's a good place they make films. Submarino, for example.



I love finding new directors.

This film has a Jim Jarmusch/Quentin Tarantino influence to it, in that the stories unfold in overlapping flashbacks similar to Mystery Train and Pulp Fiction.

There really isn't any comedy in this film, though. It's all tragedy. Some may call it slow, but I call it just beautiful.

I can't wait to see Mads Mikkelsen in Vinterberg's latest "The Hunt."

So sayeth the King of Funny Faces.

GWW: All those dangerous women-haters!

Sandusky Scandal Continues to Grow

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I was raped when I was 6. I didn’t tell anyone until I was 21. The reason my life fell apart after that was not because I was raped 15 years in the past. It was because either no one believed me, or they adamantly interfered with my ability to do anything about it. I was not able to claim my own power back until ten years later, but guess what? The statute of limitations on sexual assault on a child is 5 years after the victim’s eighteenth birthday.

I really don’t hate the pedophile who raped me. Sorry if that offends somebody. That’s how I honestly feel. I do have intense hatred for those who interfered with my expressed desire to get justice.

I couldn’t do it on my own. I was 21, sure, technically an adult: but I was terrified. Terrified! I had Asperger’s Syndrome. I was still being mentally abused by several people. My father had just been diagnosed with terminal Parkinson’s Disease which killed him. It was fucking chaos. If somebody, anybody else, who had any kind of authority in the institutions that I appealed to for help in those days had stood up and even just listened to me, really listened to me. The world would be a better place.

The world is the world. It is what it is. We have to accept it no matter what or we will kill ourselves. But it would be better if things changed the way Jimmy Williams in the above video and many other people this past week have been calling for.

Thank you for letting me speak.

Erik B. Anderson
The King of Funny Faces

PS - Thank you Goldie Taylor

Terror Directed at Everyone

"Evil is the process of a simulacrum of truth. And in its essence, under a name of its invention, it is terror directed at everyone." -Alain Badiou

The Death of Marat

One Year Ago Today the King of Funny Faces Got a Tattoo



It's a thin, one inch, teardrop shaped black stab wound under my right collarbone.



It looks like the wound in "Death of Marat" by David.



Enjoy the rest of this program about the French painter:

BBC's The Power of Art - David p4

BBC's The Power of Art - David p5

BBC's The Power of Art - David p6

Remember the 6 Percent!

Bullies are Not Welcome In New Jersey

Christie Signs Tougher Law on Bullying in Schools
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
Published: January 6, 2011

New Jersey on Thursday enacted the nation’s toughest law against bullying and harassment in schools, three and a half months after the suicide of a Rutgers University student drew national attention to the issue.

The law spells out a long list of requirements, including the appointment of specific people in each school and district to run antibullying programs; the investigation of any episodes starting within a day after they occur; and training for teachers, administrators and school board members. Superintendents must make public reports twice a year detailing any episodes in each school, and each school will receive a letter grade to be posted on its Web site.

The law, which goes into effect at the start of the next school year, lists harassment, intimidation or bullying as grounds for suspension or even expulsion from school. It applies to public schools, and portions of it apply to public colleges.

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“Other states have bits and pieces of what this New Jersey law has, but none of them is as broad, getting to this level of detail, and requiring them, step by step, to do the right thing for students,” said Sarah Warbelow, state legislative director at the Human Rights Campaign, a national gay rights group. Many states, she said, do not even offer the protections of the 2002 New Jersey law, which made it a crime to bully or harass on the basis of race, sex, sexual and gender identity or disability.

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Quote of the Day

"A family can act as gangsters, offering each other mutual protection against each other's violence. It is a reciprocal terrorism, with the offer of protection-security against the violence that each threatens the other with, and is threatened by, if anyone steps out of line."
   -R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience.
    New York: Random House, Inc., 1967. p89

They Still Make Good Films These Days (Just Not In Hollywood) - #9

Example #9: Mother



Outsanding Film! Awesome! Bravo!

So Sayeth the King of Funny Faces!

They Make Good Films These Days (Just Not In Hollywood) - 8

Example #8: The Secret In Their Eyes



A Great Combination of Several Genres, this film has it all: Mystery, Romance, Political Intrigue
It doesn't get much better than this.

So Sayeth the King of Funny Faces!

They Still Make Good Films These Days (Just Not In Hollywood) - #7

Example #7: Cropsey

I don't know what is scarier: the images of the mental patients from inside Lakewood State School, the idea that somebody must be responsible for the disappearance of seven children between 1972 and 1987, or the way all the police and family members look like they are lying twenty years later.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Teen admits to Lakewalk beating role

Teen admits to Lakewalk beating role
Duluth News Tribune - July 02, 2010


A 16-year-old Duluth boy told a judge on Thursday that he took part in the May 20 beating that left a University of Minnesota Duluth student unconscious on the Lakewalk.

Markus Lee St. Clair admitted to a charge of first-degree assault that was brought against him in a juvenile delinquency petition. In exchange for that admission, a charge of first-degree aggravated robbery was dismissed by the St. Louis County Attorney’s Office.

St. Clair is one of four juveniles to be charged with beating Dash Johnson, and the first to admit to his role. The juveniles are accused of stealing Johnson’s wallet and cell phone. Johnson, an Arden Hills, Minn., native, had just finished his junior year at UMD, where he was majoring in communications. He had been working as a host at Little Angie’s in Canal Park and as a student intern with Visit Duluth.


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Why wouldn't they say "Teen boy admits to Lakewalk beating role"?

Teen girl accused in beating my cousin

Teen girl accused in beating, sexual assault appears in court
Duluth News Tribune - June 12, 2010

A 17-year-old girl accused of taking part in beating University of Minnesota student Dash Johnson unconscious on the Lakewalk last month, and using a shampoo bottle to sexually assault an 18-year-old woman two days later, appeared in St. Louis County District Court Friday to determine if there is sufficient evidence to support the charges against her.

Julie Ann Isham, who turns 18 on June 20, is charged with first-degree assault and first-degree aggravated robbery in the May 20 beating of Johnson, who suffered traumatic brain injuries. Isham is charged with first-degree criminal sexual and third-degree assault in a separate incident on the 1300 block of East Fourth Street on May 22.

Isham and a 16-year-old girl are accused of striking the victim of the sexual assault 20 times in the head and face. The young woman suffered a broken nose and broken facial bone.

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Sixteen-year-old charged with attempted murder in Lakewalk beating

A 16-year-old boy who allegedly continued to kick and stomp on the head of Dash Johnson after his three accomplices withdrew from the beating has been charged with attempted first-degree murder of the University of Minnesota Duluth student.

More: http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/170739/

Four held in Lakewalk beating

Four held in Lakewalk beating
Investigation of another crime led authorities to four teens suspected of beating Dash Johnson unconscious.
By: Mark Stodghill, Duluth News Tribune

Four juveniles — three 17-year-olds and a 14-year-old — have been taken into custody as suspects in the May 20 beating of University of Minnesota Duluth student “Dash’’ Johnson, who was left unconscious on the Lakewalk.

Sgt. Mike Ceynowa, supervisor of the Duluth police Violent Crimes Unit, said evidence that investigators gathered at a sexual assault scene led them to the people involved in the savage beating of Johnson, a popular 21-year-old UMD communications major who just finished his junior year.

While investigating a rape case, Investigator Jared Blomdahl noticed some dried blood on a pair of shoes in the residence where two or three juvenile males and two juvenile females were allegedly involved in the sexual assault, Ceynowa said.

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Who left Dash for dead on Duluth's Lakewalk?

Dash is my uncle's wife's sister's son. Somebody stomped on his head and left him for dead on a Duluth sidewalk.

Who left Dash for dead on Duluth's Lakewalk?

Twenty-one-year-old UMD student Walfrid David Ashlie “Dash” Johnson was beaten unconscious and robbed of his wallet and cell phone while walking alone on the Lakewalk early May 20. His family is looking for help in finding his assailants.

By: Mark Stodghill, Duluth News Tribune. May 28, 2010
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University of Minnesota Duluth student “Dash” Johnson stood out among 300 people interviewed this spring for jobs at Little Angie’s Cantina and Grill, allowing him to land a job as a host at the Canal Park restaurant.

“Of all the mass interviews we conducted, he by far had the biggest personality,” said Matt Baumgartner, Little Angie’s service and beverage manager. “He lit up the room. He’s a wonderful, wonderful guy with a lot of personality. This is extremely unfortunate.”


Twenty-one-year-old Walfrid David Ashlie “Dash” Johnson was beaten unconscious and robbed of his wallet and cell phone while walking alone on the Lakewalk between the Fitger’s complex and Leif Erikson Park about 12:47 a.m. on May 20.

Johnson’s cousin, St. Paul police officer Charlie Anderson, came to Duluth this week seeking the public’s help in trying to identify the assailants.

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Go Charlie!