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Pirates of Silicon Valley-Part 1
Monday, May 4th, 2009I don’t want you to think of this as just a film, some process of converting electrons and magnetic impulses into shapes and figures and sounds.
No. Listen to me. We’re here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here. We’re creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist, or a poet.
That’s how you have to think of this. We are rewriting the history of human thought with what we are doing.
Right. Well Steven at the moment, I’m much more worried about getting lights on the actors, you know what I mean?
Michelle, Michelle , uh Michelle what’s all this?
I always wonder what it must have been for Steve. I mean ever since we were kids, everything he ever did was somewhere between a religious experience and some sort of crusade.
Like with this commercial. It was practically a legend from the time Ridley Scott filmed it. Like the book 1984 with all the downtrodden masses and that one huge spark of rebellion against the evil big brother who ran everything.
And then 13 years later Steve has to stand up on that stage in Boston. Man that was, that was weird.
The era of competition between us is over. Thank you Bill, thank you for standing with us. The world is a better place because of him. (people shouting “Microsoft is going to ruin it all. You can’t trust him!”).
I know, I realise, that this news may be shocking to some of you. I mean, Steve who’s talking to Bill Gates, who’s staring down like he’s big brother and he was. For years Steve almost went crazy over what Bill was doing to him. And now he’s up there on that stage in front of the world, telling everybody he’s practically the Second Coming.
Uh, I mean how do you get from there to here.
There was a disturbance today on the campus of University of California, Berkley. Berkley wasn’t the only campus; Monterrey campus reported a violent disturbance as well. Apparently it wasn’t the only campus. The demonstrators said that there were more than four hundred students who had taken part.
The police were releasing tear gas to break up the crowd. Student leaders say they are anxious to hear the university leaders express their views on Vietnam.
Steve what the hell are we doing here. Let’s get out of here. Let’s go.
Hold it, hold it there, get back. (song “ Why do we never get an answer , when we are knocking at the door. There’re a thousand million questions about hate and death and war. Cause when we stop and look around.)
Don’t drop the box. I’m not. Are you OK? That’s basically the revolutionaries. They are not revolutionaries. We are. We are.
You know, Steve was not like you or me. He always saw things differently even then, when I was in Berkley I would see something and just see kilobytes or circuit boards while he’d see Karma or the meaning of the universe.
Steve and I found this weird guy who was a hero around Berkley, all because he found a way to beat the system. This guy was called Captain Crunch because he figured out, this little whistle, that you would find in boxes of Captain Crunch cereal that had the same tones of AT&T’s long distance equipment.
So you’ve got free phone calls anywhere in the world with, with this thing I built called the blue box. And then we tested it out by calling the Pope.
You talk. No no no, they are not putting you through to the Pope, are they?
You figure it out man.
I know what it’s all about, you know what it’s about? It’s about power.
Oh yeah.
It’s like those weird countries man where the army guys overthrow the president and the first thing they take over is the way people communicate. You know: radio, TV, newspapers.
All right man.
Information is power.
I kept building the blue boxes and Steve kept selling them. Until one day we almost got busted by some cops, who thank God, didn’t even know what a blue box was.
You might wanna try a hair cut boys.
So I started trying to build something that wasn’t going to get us in trouble.
That’s not a blue box. It’s a computer.
Wax, we need blue boxes not computers.
Look , I got a reporter from Mercury News coming over.
What the hell for?
My mom phoned the newspaper and told them I was building a computer and they wanna do a story on it.
Wax give me a break. Hey, let me ask you something. Seriously. You and me. Do you want to get stuck here for the rest of your life, in this hell hole?
Look this is where I grew up. OK? It’s not a hell hole. Shit.
Oh I know your newspaper will find Steve’s computer fascinating. He’s so ingenious. He built it all from spare parts. Steven? The reporter is here.
Hi. It caught fire. I projected fame and the computer, and the computer gets fire. Sorry.
When I was still at Berkley I kept making some weird electronic gadgets that were basically just jokes. But hey, jokes are important. The problem back then was me, Steve and his girlfriend we’re pretty much broke. So we ended up doing some pretty naughty things just to make money.
I know how we can get a job. I saw it on the notice board right there.
What kind of job?
I don’t know it seems sort of like showbusiness.
I mean dressing up as Alice in Wonderland and stuff for a bunch of kids. You know Steve wasn’t exactly cut out for that stuff.
I think in my past life I was a poet or an artist.
You know maybe you talk about past lives and all that stuff cuz, well you don’t know who you are.
What the hell are you talking about? I don’t know who I am?
Well you don’t, you know, you told me.
Well I don’t want to talk about it with you, or anyone else.
I’m just trying to help.
It wasn’t like Steve and I lost touch with each other back then but he was definitely in places that I wasn’t. Like some Ashrams in India and communes back in Oregon where they pick up apples all day.
It was pretty much of a journey for Steve. The kind that says much on the inside as on the outside. I mean he definitely must have been to weird places.
Sweeney Todd
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
This is the tale of an ordinary man who had everything.
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Parker his name was, Benjamin Parker. Until a man of power stole his freedom, destroyed his family and banished him…
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May the lord have mercy on your soul. For life
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And in his sorrow a new man was born.
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Fifteen years dreaming I might come home to a wife and child.
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Benjamin Parker.
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Not Parker, Sweeney Todd now and he will have his revenge, where is my wife?
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And he’s got your daughter.
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Did she tell then?
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You have got to leave this all behind you now.
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No
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These are desperate times, desperate measures are called for.
All right you sir welcome to the chair.
Come on, come on Sweeney’s waiting for you, won’t you be the first?
You sir, too sir, welcome to the grave
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I will have vengeance, I will have salvation.
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I guarantee the closest shave you will ever know.
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May the Good Lord smile on you
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You are barking mad.
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The years no doubt have changed me.
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How about a shave?
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At last my arm is complete again.
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That’s all very well but what are we going to do about him?
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No country for old men
Thursday, February 14th, 2008Let me ask you something
What’s the most you have ever lost in a coin toss?
Look, I need to know what I stand to win
Everything, just call it, friendo
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Llewelyn, what’s in the satchel?
Stolen money
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He’s just the guy that happened to find my money
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I got a bad feeling Llewelyn
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It’s a mess, isn’t it sheriff
If it isn’t it’ll do till the mess gets here
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I’m looking for Llewelyn Moss
You go up to his trailer?
Yes
Do you want to leave a message?
Yes
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If I don’t come back tell mother I love her
But your mother’s dead
Well then I’ll tell her myself
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Got a loose cannon here
Do you think this boy Moss has any notion of sorts that they are hunting him?
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I don’t know, he ought to
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He’s seen the same things I’ve seen and it certainly made an impression on me
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Just how dangerous is he?
Compared to what? The bubonic plague?
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The crime that you have seen now hasn’t hardly even taken its measure
It’s just all out war
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You can’t stop what’s coming
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What’s this guy supposed to be the ultimate bad ass?
You don’t understand
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Call it, call it
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Lawrence of Arabia
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Lawrence of Arabia - The Best of Them Won’t Come For Money.
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Not many people have a destiny Lawrence, it would be a terrible thing for a man to flunk it if he had.
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Are you speaking from experience?
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No.
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You’re guessing then. Suppose you are wrong.
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Why suppose that, we both know I am right.
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Yes.
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After all…
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I said yes.
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The 16th?
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Can you do it?
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I’ll give you a lot of money.
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Half a million.
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I can’t.
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They won’t be coming for money, not the best of them.
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They’ll be coming for Damascus which I am going to give them.
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That’s all I want.
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All you want is some holy man with Turkish right but I am going to give them Damascus. We’ll get there before you Lou and when we have got it, we’ll keep it. You can tell the politicians to burn there bit of paper now.
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Fair enough.
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Fair. What’s fair got to do with it? It’s going to happen. I shall need quite a lot of money.
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All there is.
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Not that much. The best of them won’t come for money they will come for me.
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August Rush
Friday, January 18th, 2008I believe in music the way that some people believe in fairy tales.
What I hear came from my mother and father.
Once upon a time they fell in love.
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What you are looking at?
You.
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I have to go.
Let me walk you home.
No it’s complicated.
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Listen to me, you have to give the baby up.
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Somewhere inside me I know that they always wanted me.
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Where is he?
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How long have you been here?
Eleven years and sixteen days, I’ve been counting.
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The music, I thought if I could play they would know I was alive and find me.
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You are never going to see your parents again.
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If they don’t find us, we’ll just have to go find them.
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What’s the point of this, she’s not going to hear you.
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Can you help me?
I’m trying to find my son.
Name?
I don’t know.
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You‘ve got to love music more than you love food, more than life, more than yourself.
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Remember I was asking about a musical pie?
Prodigy
Exactly and he’s living under my bed.
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Why is it so important that you want him now?
I always wanted him.
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It’s like someone is calling out to me.
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Only some of us can hear it.
Only some of us are listening.
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I know it sounds crazy but I can hear him, I swear I can hear him.
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Let me out, let me out.
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This is him.
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Do you know what music is? A connection between all the living beings.
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It’s all around us. All you have to do is listen.
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The Golden Compass
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007There is a world where witches rule the northern skies, where ice bears are the bravest of warriors and where every human is joined with an animal spirit who is as close to them as their own heart.
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Are we going to see the child?
I should think so.
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But this world is dominated by the Magisterial which seeks to control all humanity and whose greatest threat is a golden compass and the one child destined to possess it.
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What’s this?
It’s the golden compass. I feel I must let you have it.
But what’s it for?
It let’s you glimpse what is to come. It is of the utmost importance, perhaps for all creation.
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Who’s she?
Don’t know.
I have to go back to the north very soon. Perhaps you should come along.
Me? Go to the north? It’s cold up there.
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Are you familiar with the prophesises of the witches?
You think she is that child?
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When you were leaving the college the master gave you something didn’t he? Give it to me.
I don’t want to.
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It’s her. She’s running the Magisterial.
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I’ll find you.
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These are the chiefs of the Egyptian families who are under our protection.
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If I was on the kind of scout that I reckon you’re on, I’d hire myself an armoured bear.
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Here it comes.
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I will serve you in your campaign until you have a victory.
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She is in possession of the golden compass. She must be found.
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The magisterial seeks to control a new world. You will need all your skill and courage.
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When the time comes we will strike with strength.
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If you value your life go no further.
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I’m not yours. I will never be yours.
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Beowulf
Monday, December 3rd, 2007They say you have a monster here, they say the lands are cursed.
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There have been many brave men who have come but in the morning there was nothing left but blood on the floor and bones.
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I am Beowulf. I will kill your monster.
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Tonight will be different.
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I am ripper, tearer, slasher. I am the teeth in the darkness. Mine is strength and lust and power. I am Beowulf.
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Bee Movie
Friday, November 23rd, 2007Welcome to Honex
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GET THE NECTAR
MAKE THE HONEY
GET THE POLLEN
MAKE THE HONEY
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You won’t ever work anywhere or do anything else ever again.
So you’ll just work us to death?
We’ll try.
I’m going out.
Out, out where?
Outside the hive.
Hold it there, this area’s restricted.
It’s OK Luke, we’re going to take him up.
Let’s move it out!
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HE’S VISITING OUR WORLD
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Look at all this room, box kite, flowers.
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HE’S PLAYING OUR GAMES
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Hey get up here.
Hey you know I don’t think these are flowers.
Should we tell him?
I think he knows.
Right now.
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AND MAKING NEW FRIENDS
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Hi.
I’m so sorry.
How do you do the talking thing?
I don’t know, Mama, Dada, Honey, you pick it up.
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THIS FALL HOLD ON TO YOUR HONEY
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Just keep still.
You’re not dead?
I’m going to Alaska. I got it all to come.
What about you?
He really is dead.
Oh, all right.
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TiVo, you can just freeze live TV. That’s insane.
Well, you don’t have anything like that?
We have hivo but it’s a disease, but it’s a horrible, horrible disease.
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What was that?
Maybe this time, this time, this time…
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NOVEMBER
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The IT Crowd
Thursday, October 18th, 2007Hello IT, have you tried turning it off and on again? Ok, the button on the side, is it glowing? You need to turn it on and the button turns it on. Yes, you… yes, you do know how a button works don’t you? No, not on clothes.
Hello IT. Ya aha, have you tried forcing an unexpected re-boot?
No, no, there you go, there you go, I just heard it come on. No, no, that’s the music you hear when it comes on. That’s the music you hear when…. I’m sorry, are you from the past?
You see the driver hooks the function by patching the system call cable so it’s not safe to unload it unless another thread is about to jump in and do its stuff and you don’t want to end up in the middle of invalid memory. Hello?
Oh really, why don’t you come down here and make me then? What? You think I’m afraid of you? I’m not afraid of you. You come down here anytime and I’ll be waiting for you. That told her.
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