Like any good Pagan, James (Bevel E on his Youtube channel), who is one third of the Mjolnir at the Movies crowd, believes in activity, as opposed to Christian passivity, and particularly in the divine activity of creation. Both his artisanry and Pagan religiosity are brought together in this short demonstration on creating a wooden runic pendant. The finished product is superb and James is far too modest for his own good in the video. Please subscribe to his channel, as he has a great sense of humour in his videos and I'm sure we can expect a lot more good stuff coming from him in the future.
It's over to James for this one, who proves himself far more adept at computer graphics than Neil and I. Using stills from the films, James takes a look at the aesthetics - and
lack thereof - of the Matrix Trilogy, paying particular attention to the
Matrix Reloaded. What do the aesthetics signify and what is their purpose? Please subscribe to the channel and also to James' channel, which can be found here and which also has some great content he has created alone.
It might have been described as a postmodern tragi-comedy. Instead of a flawed king, we had Jack Sen, the man who would be king, a figure made both ridiculous and yet plausible. As with all postmodernist theatre, it lacked the great truths of the Ancient Greek stage, but it was theatre nonetheless and the personae involved were actors playing parts. Among the supporting cast were the overbearing mother Faye Lowley, like a postmodern Olympias to Jack Sen's Alexander, but more....well....lowly, and the interviewer and presenter Alice Levine, like a Jewish chorus whose wisdom and commentary are false. Indeed, it ought to come as no surprise that many falsehoods and lies were perpetrated during Channel 4's "Sleeping with the Far Right", which we will now expose, as well as delving into the purpose of what the documentary was meant to serve.
Over a year ago now, super middleweight and light heavyweight boxing champion Andre Ward retired undefeated at the age of 33. Whatever one might think of his dirty tactics and lack of entertainment value, there is no doubt he was extremely good at his craft and his opinion as a pundit is valued and respected. He is also half-caste, but this ought to have no bearing on how we view his insight into boxing, for he obviously has an honest perspective - in contrast to the LDBC. LDBC stands for Lion's Den Boxing Community. It is a collection of Youtubers of and for Negroes of the Black Lives Matter variety and comprises channels like Thaboxingvoice, Worldbreaker Fighting and Blue Blood Sports TV. The bias shown towards black fighters and their monocular view of bouts and politics both within and outside the sport are as exaggerated as they are unsurprising. It is in this spirit in which LDBC Youtuber Barbershop Conversations approached Andre Ward to berate him about his views on heavyweights Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder.
Mjolnir at the Movies is back as Neil, James and David take on the Mad
Max film franchise, especially the reboot Fury Road in which Max no
longer seems to be the star. Is George Miller cashing in on the name in
order to sell us a steaming turd? Can Mothers' Milk save us from toxic
masculinity? Did Charlize Theron adopt her child to match her leather
sofa? All these things and several explosions and car chases guaranteed
in another action-packed installment….
In this three-part video series, we visit Stift St Peter in Salzburg, which is a multi-faceted monastic complex dating originally from the end of the seventh century after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and founded by St Rupert. What a good place, then, to talk about how and why Christianity swept through the Roman Empire, replacing the various forms of Pagan worship. In the first video, we talk a little about the edifice itself, before examining a text by the Roman historian Sallust, writing before the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, whose De coniuratione Catilinae presents a good picture of the moral vacuum in Rome, which Christianity would come to fill, and the reasons for it. Strangely, or perhaps not so, Sallust also seems to be describing the present day....
