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United Kingdom: Mom tosses her son out one month before his eighteenth birthday and dad picks him up the same day. It takes him a year to get into college and then the courts slow walk mom's child support obligation another year. She now pays a paltry sum while earning a middle class income.

2024.04.28 21:55 DougDante United Kingdom: Mom tosses her son out one month before his eighteenth birthday and dad picks him up the same day. It takes him a year to get into college and then the courts slow walk mom's child support obligation another year. She now pays a paltry sum while earning a middle class income.

United Kingdom: Mom tosses her son out one month before his eighteenth birthday and dad picks him up the same day. It takes him a year to get into college and then the courts slow walk mom's child support obligation another year. She now pays a paltry sum while earning a middle class income.
I'm not an attorney and this is not legal advice.
You wrote:
(Above)
Also excessive delays in establishing the obligation.
The absurd slow walking and grossly inadequate monthly payments along with the delays suggest a possible criminal conspiracy to deny the child and the father equal access to child support services. Possible.
Conspiracy
A conspiracy is an agreement where two or more people agree to carry their criminal scheme into effect, the very agreement is the criminal act itself: Mulcahy v. The Queen (1868) L.R. 3 H.L. 306; R v Warburton (1870) L.R. 1 C.C.R. 274; R. v. Tibbits and Windust [1902] 1 K.B. 77 at 89; R. v. Meyrick and Ribuffi, 21 Cr.App.R. 94, CCA.
https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/inchoate-offences
This alleged shameful abuse of the legal system may have involved several barristers:
"Reporting a concern
"It is our job to regulate barristers, their vocational and work-based training organisations, and the specialised businesses that we authorise to provide legal services to make sure that they maintain high standards of professional behaviour. To help us to do this, we need to know about any concerns you may have.
"If the concern is about a practising barrister or person we regulate who has been working for someone else You can tell us if you have concerns about a barrister who is not, or has not, worked for you, or about the place they work from (such as their chambers), or a legal services business which we regulate.
https://www.barstandardsboard.org.uk/for-the-public/reporting-concerns.html#Reporting%20a%20concenn
The slow walking of your request and insistence that you space out your requests so as to prevent the child support obligation from being effective may have been a deceptive means of intimidating you as a justice system participant.
Doing an act tending and intending to pervert the course of public justice[3] is an offence under the common law of England and Wales.
Perverting the course of justice can be any of three acts:
Fabricating or disposing of evidence Intimidating or threatening a witness or juror ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverting_the_course_of_justice
Which sounds like part of a pattern or practice of sexist discrimination:
Services provided by a public authority - taking legal action about discrimination
The law which says you mustn’t be discriminated against is called the Equality Act 2010. Discrimination which is against the Equality Act is unlawful.
If you’ve experienced unlawful discrimination by a public authority, like the police or local authority, you may be able to take legal action under the Equality Act.
https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumediscrimination-in-the-provision-of-goods-and-services/discrimination-in-the-provision-of-goods-and-services1/discrimination-in-services-provided-by-a-public-authority/services-provided-by-a-public-authority-taking-legal-action-about-discrimination/
Possible misconduct by a social worker:
Please note, if your complaint is about a social worker you need to complete the online concern form instead. Raising a concern about a social worker means giving us information about something a social worker did, or information about the social worker themselves.
Raise a concern about a social worker
https://www.socialworkengland.org.uk/about/contact-us/feedback-and-complaints/
Any false statements leading the court to secure the absurdly low payments or facilitating the slow walking of the obligation:
Perjury Act 1911
Perjury. (1)If any person lawfully sworn as a witness or as an interpreter in a judicial proceeding wilfully makes a statement material in that proceeding, which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true, he shall be guilty of perjury
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/1-2/6
All of which may be legal corruption:
LEGAL CORRUPTION
Legal Ombudsman The legal ombudsman deals with service complaints about lawyers, and has replaced the previous complaints organisations for the legal profession, including the Legal Complaints Service (for solicitors), the Complaints Commissioner for the Bar Standards Board (for barristers) and the former Legal Services Ombudsman. Please note that the Ombudsman is a service of last resort and you will need to have exhausted the internal complaints procedure of the legal institution that is the subject of your complaint before using this service.
Online: http://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/
Email: enquiries@legalombudsman.org.uk
Tel: 0300 555 0333
https://www.transparency.org.uk/reporting-corruption
And sex discrimination:
What is sex discrimination
If you're treated unfairly because you're a man or a woman, this is sex discrimination. It applies to men and women of any age and so it includes girls and boys.
https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/law-and-courts/discrimination/protected-characteristics/sex-discrimination/
If this impacts many similar people, possible basis for a class action lawsuit (Group Litigation Order) in the United Kingdom:
If this is pervasive discrimination affecting many people, it may be possible to pursue collective action using a Group Litigation Order:
Why don’t we have class actions in the United Kingdom?
Class actions are not permitted in the United Kingdom per se although we do have collective forms of litigation available such as “Group Litigation Orders”.
A Group Litigation Order (“GLO”) is an order under Civil Procedure Rule (CPR) 19.11 to provide for the case management of claims which give rise to common or related issues of fact or law (the “GLO issues”)[5].
https://www.emmlegal.com/publications/class-actions/
Please keep us updated.
I wish you the best of luck in your search for justice.
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2024.04.28 15:43 Best_Club_In_America "A"dded "C"onfidence Here ... Here's Some Added Confidence: How to Instantly Get the Strongest Grip in All Freemasonry (In Case Anybody Wants to Try Their Luck at Playing Antichrist)

Hey/"Hay" (rabbits love hay) mentally ill people ... do you know what year it is?

This is a clip from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC9v_EjM1mM, which is basically an executive summary of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dwarf_(Lagerkvist_novel)); in essence "some small fry" takes down an entire kingdom by opening his mouth up and telling everybody the truth

"Hay there ..."

\"Cat\" ... make a mental not of this for below

322: It's '88 ... time to what now? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVCxbzPmOQQ; '88 was a "Year of the Dragon" 🐉)

274 ("Twenty twenty four"): '88 ... time to what now? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVCxbzPmOQQ

"You can call it, "The Art of Fighting – Without Fighting": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RGju9NuoOU

"Associations" ...

\"Lee is Pem.\"

ILLUMINATI

The Knights Templar, Part 1:

Remember all that stuff about squirrels? Squirrels are NIM("ble")ROD-"ents/sent"; Nimrod was some African guy that you were introduced to way, way back at the beginning of this subreddit ("Named-Ri" is an occult anagram if you = just Ri-Members. "O = 15 = 1, 5 = A, E". Nimble rodents "skip steps and hate tires/rites" 😕👍

Here's a "babble-on" example of the same thing:

One day, several years ago, I happened to be in Manhattan around Rockefeller Center. Well, I'm not sure if it was exactly around Rockefeller Center ... 🤔 ... but it was close enough. A-N.Y.-way, it was night time and a happened across some screwed-up meth-head looking guy half-passed out on the sidewalk, mumbling to himself. Meth is also known as "speed". Mum is a word meaning "keep quiet" as in "Mum's the word". Mum also sounds like mom ... 🤔 ... or at least that's what they say in British movies, they're always like, "Me mum". I love British movies. I used to watch them all the time way back in the day on the IFC channel. IFC stands for "Independent Film Channel". Well, when it first started out, IFC played mostly foreign films. Then as it grew, it played both foreign and independent films. Independent films are called "Indie films" or "Indie movies". Which is weird if you think about it ... 🤔 ... because the word "independent" doesn't have the letter "i" in it. Well, technically it does, at the beginning. But where do they get the second "i" from for the word "indie" ... 🤔? Speaking of an "i and i" in the word "indie", this is a pretty chillax (chillax = "chill, relax" ... but if you think about it ... 🤔 ... it could be a reference to Vikings) album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE9h16eygg8 ... it has a song about Babylon in it. Or maybe it's in another album ... 🤔? A-N.Y.-way, I saw this pretty good movie with Kevin Spacey once called "Swimming With Sharks" on the IFC channel. But it's not a British movie. A-N.Y.way, there was a great line in it: "And now try to follow me, because I'm gonna be moving in a kind of circular motion, so if you pay attention, there will be a point!". A-N.Y.-way, it's like the opening to this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMZi25Pq3T8. But ComPTon is not in N.Y. ... 🤔 ... but they got plenty of drugs there. Drugs = Dr. 47 ... I'm 47. years old now, but I'm not a doctor. Although once a long time ago when I used to work at Starbucks some highly delusional lady I never saw before came up to me and started calling me "Our doctor". She kept on going, "THERE he is, THERE'S our doctor. I was like "OK, crazy lady". This was on the same day as ... 🤔 ... not sure if it was the same day, but give or take ... some guy who sounded EXACTLY like Alex Jones showed up and started talking really loud about how Starbucks is the Illuminati and that the star represents Venus. Venus is the planet of love. I'm not really into astrology, but I'm a Libra. That has something to do with Venus in astrology ... 🤔 ... anyway. I was also born in 1976, which is the Year of the Dragon in Chinese astrology. They have their own astrology system. Rihanna was born in 1988 which is another Year of the Dragon. Anyway, about that guy half-passed out on the street who "kept mum-bling to himself" ... "Bling-bling" is the sound shiny stuff supposedly makes ... 🤔 ... which is sort of strange because if you think about it, gold and diamonds and other shiny stuff don't make sounds. Anyway, if you use diamonds and gold, it's really tempting to not report it for tax purposes and "keep mum-bling to yourself". That relates to something way at the bottom of this post. Yeah so a N.Y.-way, I felt bad for this guy and asked him if I could get him some food. He was laid out on the sidewalk. Sidewalks have cracks. So technically, "he was on crack(s)". Crack is sort of like speed. Anyway, he goes, "No, just give me $20 for some crack". Crack is sorta like speed. I didn't think it was a good idea, but doubted he could find any crack around Rockefeller Center and besides he looked like he was ready to pass out. So decided to give him $20 so he could buy some food and something to drink when he woke up. To my surprise he sat up as soon as I gave him the $20 and started showing me this Naruto anime stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8U4qduygbs, but ... "you know" ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eijVAxRJLpA ... and then after he goes "and this, and this, and that" he was all like, "but listen – FUCK all that – all you gotta remember is this, this beats all the other ones". So technically, he wasn't lying when he said "Give me $20 for speed" ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-up ... confused.
Latin Kings are sorta like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFx6O4r3hGo – you know, like the Skull & Bones at Yale. Or like these guys:

The Knights Templar, Part 2:

\"Judo\"
\"Lots and lots of Judo\"
https://preview.redd.it/f2hsglued8xc1.png?width=957&format=png&auto=webp&s=b4a3e2d2d4cf361f7aaa4c7809a829f22514717b
https://preview.redd.it/ixxoo0jf18xc1.png?width=3840&format=png&auto=webp&s=ea8f1b5d1e13e027e3163c9ab461a32c73a9bc90

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov1vZWm5ThY ... juice

\"Of sound mind associations\" ... World Heroes 2 = fighting \"video game\" ... 😉 ... Street Fight = also \"video game\" ... Guile is character in Street Fighter who's in the Air Force so his background screen (not sure WTF it is now but originally) was on a \"airplane strip\"
https://preview.redd.it/6q4vgv2y18xc1.png?width=168&format=png&auto=webp&s=948294280d7cfc1f6e2b2de61b56981d01f37f67

"Garbage" ...

  • G ... ar "b" age? ...
  • G ... ar "B/2/TWO" age? ...
  • /G\ ... are T, W, "O/15/1, 5/A, E" age? ...
  • /G\ ... are T, W, A, E, age? ...
  • /G\ ... are we at age? ...
    • "Of sound mind" ==> "amSONIC" ... "a teen" sure "sounds" a lot like "18" ... 😉

"Cat"-"hol"-"I"-c ...

"free-"M"ay" ... "go ahead, son" ...

\"Lambskin\" aprons ... \"because the murder of baby lambs somehow = \"you're pure\"

Here's the original uncorrupted version:

https://preview.redd.it/4lnw80pjq8xc1.png?width=2800&format=png&auto=webp&s=105ec890319f97efd97c548d8cb21f3209bc64b4

Anyway, that's "one grip strong enough to tear masonic contacts apart" ... in this case, from society-at-large (in case anybody is "stupid" enough to offer any resistance).

But Judo requires the use of both hands, so here's another "R.I.P, /G" strong enough to tear masonic contacts apart ...

https://preview.redd.it/tkgwac5jb9xc1.png?width=684&format=png&auto=webp&s=0252f6f3f3b0cdbbc358899223c0a91a333420b2
\"Greetings Ma-\"sonic\" sister; did you know that there is an \"of sound mind\" joke that Freemasonic husbands and boyfriends absolutely never ever, under any circumstances, EVER tell in front of their girfriends, wives and daughters? You know the \"lion's grip\", Rite? Well – what do lions do? They \"RAWR\" of course. Did YOU know that in the \"me-RAWR\", the word \"daughter\" sounds like \"retwad\" ... which, if you're \"of sound mind\" enough, sort of sounds like ...? Pretty funny, right? Would you like to hear another funny joke you'll never, ever under any circumstances hear your Freemasonic boyfriends and husbands repeat in front of their girlfriends/wives and daughters? \"A teen, \"18\" ... like Sinatra said – \"It can happen to any of us\" Just thought you'd like to know. Have a blessed day.

Now on the one hand, "associations ... Stevie Nicks .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCGD9dT12C0" ...

But "technically", you're not lying - AT ALL. The reason husbands and boyfriends involved in Freemasonry never repeat those jokes is because either:

  • They know of them, but they never repeat them in front of their girlfriends/wives and daughters – because they're not suicidal ... 😕
  • They don't know of them, in which case, again – "they never repeat them in front of girfriends/wives and daughters" ... 🤷

So "technically", either way – you told no lies ... 🤫, "r" "u" /G\

"Cat"-"hol"-"I", "c" ...

"Stupid" ...

https://preview.redd.it/ysc30sy1r8xc1.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=019afc746da94e7e82623d672dfa8c7c3765749d
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327s to Ri-member:

Another 327 that recaps yesterday's post ... "Ri-members" ... "Absolute Confidence":

  • Jesus Christ is revealed on 4/19/24

Trust that a MASSIVE list of similar stuff is somewhere, but "https://tenor.com/view/no-time-busy-aint-nobody-got-time-for-that-gif-15753141"; here's just a few:

  • 500:
    • "A legit funny idea: Epstein videos "magically show up"
    • "LOL 😂: How the FUCK did the Epstein videos get online, MI6?!"
    • "I,AC: Can you IMAGINE Epstein videos got online in 2024? We can ..."
      • "I,AC: IMAGINE Epstein videos got online in 2024? We can ... can you?"
    • "Can you IMAGINE Epstein vids online in 2024 SIS/MI6? We can."
    • "... '24: Epstein vids just "magically pop up online", MI6"
    • "The Epstein vids cause global panic among "the elites" in 2024"
  • 340:
    • "Epstein videos uploaded online ... ROFL! 🤣"
  • 327:
    • "Epstein videos appear online, LOL! 😂"
    • "Imagine Epstein vids on net in 2024, MI6"
    • "... '24: OMG – the Epstein vids are online"
    • "Epstein vids appear online in 2024, MI6"
    • "LMAO 🤣 ... who uploaded Epstein videos?"
  • 276:
    • 2024 – Imagine Epstein vids on net

Here's an example of a Wikipedia article, just in case you've never used Wikipedia before and you're not familiar with it ... 🤷 ... who knows who's reading this and what your web-surfing habits are, right?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jailbait

Here is a Sade song that could be about James Bond ... 🤷: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TYv2PhG89A

Here's that productivity app that can help you all keep track of random ideas your crazy asses may have that nobody explicitly ever told you to follow up on and so nobody has any idea what the FUCK you're talking about when you say "you have it on good authority that there's a high likelihood of" whatever the fuck you delusional people think ... which nobody knows ... because nobody here is a mind-reader ... 😕

Here's another randum fact: typos happen.

Here's a randum fact: Nimrod was African.

Here is a funny American show centered around African Americans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boondocks_(TV_series))

Here is a picture of a clip from that show:

https://preview.redd.it/ds9v3rqw09xc1.png?width=400&format=png&auto=webp&s=88306bee33f54999dddf9306ff6a7a485ba28a47

Here is a song about relationship break-ups: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gUDMeIEMMI

"(C+a+l+l)" = (3+1+12+12) = (28) = (9+13+6) = "I'm 6" ... a good age where you can get away with childish, immature antics like dressing up for ... pretending you're Bruce Wayne or whatever ...

https://preview.redd.it/y6k5ol0ez8xc1.png?width=594&format=png&auto=webp&s=76d48d2e6cdb3c67faa176fe6246e1b04f199f50

Taylor Swift was a 🤗"e/2022/2024" deal around Super Bowl time this year ... here was her boyfriend from the Super Bowl, wearing a Jersey with the same number as the year Max Azzarello was born in ... must be a coincidence ... 🤷 ... right?:

Travis's Jersey # = year Max Azzarello was born; 87 = \"Serve meTruth Justice\"

Here is a funny Taylor Swift song with DMX, who is my favorite rapper and was a member of the Are You Orkidea? Ryders (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruff_Ryders_Entertainment) crew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPk0h2ECTdc

They don't sell Jerseys anymore (https://store.ruffryders.com/collections/jerseys), but here's what Ruff Ryder jerseys used to look like:

https://preview.redd.it/ziseyodt79xc1.png?width=813&format=png&auto=webp&s=91d3c43077715d00fc6c786b46b67572f588a6d6

Speaking of rappers, check out how confident Big Daddy Kane looks here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqPlF5Mn32M

  • If you have delusions of reference, you might look at the margin letters of that and think he's specifically encouraging you personally to review Bing's wallpaper selection of the day (above)

Here's a random bit of P.R. wisdom: "You're only as good as the LAST thing you're known for" ... 😕

Here are some random facts & websites:

At this point, you're probably all so highly-delusional you're starting to suspect this song is secretly referring to all of you personally https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxR30g-tr_A

Could be. You're definitely getting there fast. The "highly-delusional" part 😉 ... 😒 ... 😉 ... 🙄

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2024.04.28 11:09 Specialist-Juice-591 Extremadamente baja humedad

Extremadamente baja humedad
Hola banda, alguien mas se fijo que el clima en GDL esta extremadamente seco? Busque informacion en el internet, pero no salio ninguna noticia. Es todos los años asi?
Estamos a 4% de humedad relativa en el dia, algo parecido solo hay en el desierto de Sahara.
https://weather.com/es-MX/tiempo/horario/l/Guadalajara+Jalisco?canonicalCityId=2c0429afd28897d5f015f7ac3b978c3c567e7757de67d5b6e2cdf4ddda70240f
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2024.04.28 08:47 Altruistic_Try_9782 table

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2024.04.28 06:19 themusicfanman I’m The Music Fan Man • Infotainer’s Introduction

I’m The Music Fan Man • Infotainer’s Introduction

I’m The Music Fan Man • Infotainer’s Introduction

2021 12-28

Who I Am

Hi. I am The Music Fan Man. At the Music Or Lose It channel, I make various videos: commentaries; interviews; and reviews of songs.
It is my pleasure to be acquainted with you online. Feel free to ask me questions in the comments section.

What Sets Me Apart

I review songs from the perspective of an ordinary music fan. When I was getting into music as a teenager in the late 90s, I’d buy music magazines. I felt the reviewers wrote about music in a way I could not at all relate to. When I created Music Or Lose It in 2022, my goal was to discuss music in a manner I feel is utmost connecting. Rather than get into the technical details of a song I’m reviewing, I prefer to discuss how it connects with me personally. If a song reminds me of something personal, I can share that. For example, when I reviewed the song “The Actor” by Alt-J, I began crying while thinking about how drugs had impacted my life as someone who’s always been sober and drug free yet significantly impacted by family members’ addictions. Only I have my specific life experience that’s going to impact how I connect with a song.

First Music Memories

I remember having a cassette player and cassette tapes as a little kid. I had a Jackson 5 album. I’m unsure which one. I also remember having the 1984 album “Stay Hungry” by Twisted Sister with their song “We're Not Gonna Take It.” I must have been around 4 years old still living in southern California where I was born.
By the time I was of preschool or kindergarten age in the 80’s, my family had moved to northern California. We initially lived in a small town named Sutter. In either preschool or kindergarten, at school we sang a song as a group. The boys, in masculine kid’s voice, sang “Abraham Lincoln” and the girls would follow with “Gerrrrrrrrroge Washington.” Doing an online search I’m unable to figure out what that song was.
I remember being exposed to a physical record of children singing "On Top of Spaghetti." Doing research for this post, it appears to have been from the album “On Top Of Spaghetti” by Tom Glazer And The Do-Re-Mi Children's Chorus. I am concluding this because the Discogs website entry for this album shows a version of “Puff (The Magic Dragon)” was included in that album. At around that age, I remember hearing that song too. I feel like my parents must have gotten me a record player and that album. Then again, maybe it was just available at school.

When I Became A Fan Of Music

As a teen living in the Yuba-Sutter region, I remember my mother listened to a lot of FM radio. She also seemed to turn on cable channels VH1 and CMT which primarily aired music videos back in the 90s. There was a weekly show called VH1 Top 21. Click here to see a clip appearing to be from a 1994 episode. I must have started intentionally paying attention to music in 1991. I remember the eventfulness of the music videos for the album “Dangerous” by Michael Jackson. I also remember the 1991 video “I Can't Dance” by Genesis in which Phil Collins does parody of Michael Jackson dancing.

First Music I Bought Myself

The first music I bought myself was probably in cassette singles form, spending allowance money given to me from my parents. I was around age 12 or 13. Any one of the following 1993 songs could have been the first single I bought: "Another Sad Love Song" by Toni Braxton; "All That She Wants" by Ace Of Base; or "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" by Meat Loaf. I also remember owning the above-mentioned 1991 “Dangerous” album by Michael Jackson. I can’t remember if I bought “Dangerous” or if it was a gift to me.
I kept wanting a CD player so badly. Before my parents bought me a CD player, I bought myself my first CD. It was the 1993 self-titled album from a band named Dig. I eagerly wanted to own the album’s song “Believe.” I remember going to the mall at Yuba-City and buying it at the music store. It was the only song I enjoyed of the 12 songs from that album. “Believe” wasn’t very popular. By then I was watching MTV and they didn’t play it often. I especially wanted to own the song so that I could listen to it whenever I wanted to. It wasn’t until much later that I finally got a CD player sometime in 1994 or 1995. I was so happy!

Music Influences

Sometime around 1994 or 1995, I began listening to FM radio. I can’t remember my hometown’s local FM station call letters. I think it was nicknamed “Cool 104.” It appears not to exist anymore. The station played VH1-type pop music. I could also access Sacramento’s very popular KSFM 102.5FM which played rap, hip hop, and R&B. Most of all, I listened to Sacramento-based alternative rock station KWOD 106.5FM and their Shawn & Jeff Morning Show.
I started writing my own Top 20 Songs Of The Week countdown around this time. It was written on paper that I kept mostly for myself. I did this because too often I disagreed with the MTV, VH1, and CMT top 20 countdown selections. I also usually disagreed with the Billboard Hot 100 chart posted at the local music store. I am an only-child. I was a closeted-gay teen at a time when American society was still mostly unaccepting of homosexuality. I was awkward in junior high. That is when and where I awkwardly met a girl my same age. She became my greatest friend. We bonded over sharing music together. We became nearly inseparable. Despite having told her my secret of being gay during our teen years, we were both in denial. She became my wife at the age of 20 in 2000.
From 1994-1998 I made my own fictitious music awards show. It was hosted by me in 1994; my childhood friend Jeremy in 1995; a high school classmate named Angie in 1996; a coworker named Robert from my first job at Montgomery Wards (I unloaded trucks) in 1997; and lastly my parents in 1998. I initially used a broken, handheld cassette player. I’d watch all of the music award shows on TV and recorded the acceptance speeches onto blank tape. If any of the award shows’ winners matched my winners, I’d use those acceptance speeches. If not, the host of my award show would say something to the effect of, “They’re not here. I’ll accept the award on their behalf.” I also recorded live music performances from MTV and VH1 to use for my fictitious awards show. Later when I got my CD player, it also played cassettes and had a radio built in. Around 1996 I somehow figured out that my home’s cable could connect to the back of the CD player enabling me to record onto blank cassettes directly from MTV and VH1 broadcasts. Yet those recordings were staticky. I didn’t even own my first computer at this time. Recording the fictitious awards show was simply a hobby for my own enjoyment.
For a 1996 high school economics class group project, we had to make a commercial for a fictitious business. I led the group. We made a commercial for our store “Music World.” In the video I explained, “…when you go to Music World, you’re not gonna say ‘Can I find The Presidents of the United States of America CD?’ and they’re gonna tell you to go register to vote somewhere else.” Sometime in either 1996 or 1997, I discovered one of my school’s staff members had an unofficial class teaching students how to play music on a large speaker-system. He had some type of promotional CDs with all current songs available. If I passed his quiz regarding how to use the equipment, I was told I’d be allowed to play music for the school in the social areas during lunch. I passed the quiz yet somehow - I can’t remember why - the Lindhurst High School officials decided against allowing lunchtime music.
In 1998, for a required “senior project” research presentation class, I learned about publishing songs. I wrote a song with my later-to-be-wife. I was aided by a music teaching mentor. She was the wife of a science teacher from my high school yet she didn’t teach a class there. The song was titled “I Used To Be Insane.” It seems I no longer have a copy. Nothing ever became of it. I did however pass the class. California standards being as low as they are, despite mostly getting Cs and Ds, I graduated class of 1998. Regarding college, I only took one class in 2000. It was a public speaking class. I got an A.
The Music Fan Man In 1998
The Music Fan Man In 1998
I wanted to become a DJ on the radio at the local Cool 104 station or at Sacramento’s KWOD 106.5. Yet somehow I let the dream die. I became employed as security guard and never found the time to pursue my goal of being a radio DJ. In 2023 I made a radio newscaster demo. I intended to use the demo to apply to be a news reader or DJ for local station 1600 KUBA AM. I don’t remember if I ever followed through or not.
In July 2023 life took me in an entirely different direction. By then I had come out of the closet. On 07/05/03, I started the first LGBT group in the Yuba-Sutter region. By October, my marriage was over. I led the group until the end of 2007. In 2008 I became employed with the “NO on 8” campaign attempting to preserve the freedom to marry for Californian same-gender couples. This remains one of the largest political campaigns in United States history. This took me out of my hometown for the first time. I worked at the “NO on 8” headquarters at the Castro in San Francisco. Being from the small town Yuba-Sutter area, it was surreal to find myself working for such a high-stakes political campaign in a massive city. In October of 2008 I moved to the campaign’s Sacramento office. Prop 8 passed unfortunately. The good news is marriage equality eventually prevailed due to a 2015 Supreme Court ruling.
The Music Fan Man In 2008
In 2010 I made the bold decision to buy an SUV and live out of that. This was years before vanlife became trendy. I was renting a room in Concord, CA, while employed as a security guard. I was scheduled full time hours making decent money. Yet despite living modestly I was never able to save up money. Before moving into the SUV, I decided in the future I would live minimalist. Therefore I needed to transform my papers, photos, and home movies into digital files. I bought a cord to connect my VCR to my computer. The connection enabled me to transfer VHS-C home movies into MP4 files. The cord was part of a package that included a video editing program. This changed my life. I learned how to edit videos. In 2010 I began making political videos from the perspective of an independent. By 2011 I created my first channel on YouTube. Initially I was uploading political interviews and also vlogs about living out of my SUV. I kept up at it and ended up interviewing numerous famous people. Click here to see some screenshots of my celebrity interviews. Videos I made were featured by Huffington Post, The Advocate, and Good Day Sacramento.
The Music Fan Man’s Celebrity Interviews During The 10’s
By the end of 2017, I was in Los Angeles. I had been living out of my SUV on and off. My already-substantial medical conditions worsened. I had also become burned out covering politics. I then took a long hiatus for several years living very reclusively. During this time, I changed my political channel to Roadside Resident in anticipation of buying a van to live out of. Thereafter I made only a few videos updating my subscribers of my intent to upgrade from living out of a SUV to living out of a van.

When I Decided To Try Making A Living Enjoying Music

Around 2019 or 2020 (I guesstimate), I discovered music commentary channels Grady Smith and Professor of Rock. The more I watched their videos, the more I realized I wanted to make videos discussing music. The long-dormant wannabe radio DJ within me awakened.

Challenges

In the fall of 2020, I finally bought a van to live out of. I sometimes rented a room and I sometimes lived out of the van full time. In July 2022, I relocated the seldom active Roadside Resident channel to its own separate, new channel on YouTube – remodeling the existing channel with the premiere of Music Or Lose It. To summarize, my original channel from January 2011 showcasing my political interviews was briefly renamed Roadside Resident probably in 2019 (the exact date is uncertain). Then in July 2022 the channel was given a third embodiment: Music Or Lose It. Only time with tell if transforming my channel twice was a bad or good idea. In any case, it was such a joyous occasion to finally unleash the inner DJ inside of me in the form of a commentator, interviewer, and reviewer. Unfortunately, medical conditions hindered me from making videos on a consistently frequent basis. By February 2024, ailments necessitated returning to housing again.
My Music Or Lose It channel on YouTube struggled to get views after the July 2022 launch. In contrast, when I uploaded to my political channel back in 2011, my videos would automatically get lots of views. Back then I had a steady flow of new subscribers. YouTube then changed drastically becoming mostly corporatized. YouTube’s leadership seems intent on looping viewers to already-famous celebrities and “YouTubers” who built up their audience before the corporatization. I’ve watched tons of “how to succeed on YouTube” videos. Citing vague gibberish regarding algorithms, those videos are almost always unhelpful. There’s no meritocracy when audience reach is dictated by algorithms. The tools to build an audience as a no-name in a bedroom seem to have removed by big tech venues. At least my videos at the Music Or Lose It channels on Rumble and TikTok get a few thousand views.

What Keeps Me Going

I am encouraged to keep trying to succeed despite seemingly impossible odds. I see a vision of what Music Or Lose It can become and I love what I see. I visualize connecting music fans discussing wonderful new songs together. As I build up my success, I see an opportunity to uplift a lot of neglected music creators making human-uplifting, soul-moving music.

Moving Forward

I am presently seeking a standalone house to rent in Las Vegas. After moving in, I will get set up to film and podcast. Until day 1 of recording begins, I won’t get too excited. I don’t celebrate prematurely. If I can stay steady living where all my filming equipment is at one place, I feel hopeful I can regularly make Music Or Lose It videos.
What’s more, I have a bold idea to unite creators struggling to attain decent amounts of views/listens. After I get settled in the Vegas house, I will unveil the idea. In an era where big tech does so little to help lesser known creators, uniting into groups with a plan to attain success seems to be the way of the future.
The Music Or Lose It subreddit community was created in January 2022 and was dormant until October that year. This online community significantly expanded in 2024, hitting both the first 1k members milestone in January and then the first 2k members milestone in March. Also in March, just for fun, I began organizing a community vote for the Best Song Of The Month contest open to lesser known music creators. It is indeed a lot of fun. The subreddit community motivates me to keep going with my overall Music Or Lose It goals. I am tremendously motivated by the talented music creators who kindly share their personal art. I am especially inspired by the community’s thoughtful music fans who share their interesting perspectives in the comments section. I am a believer in "a rising tide lifts all boats" philosophy. In anticipation of a return to making Music Or Lose It videos, I am imagining how I can merge the subreddit community into my world of videomaking. I must figure out how to increase my viewership. I am confident I can do it. Videos about music superstars like Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, and Kanye West will get more views than a video about a lesser-known creator. That’s reality. Yet it’s my goal to figure out how to merge my video discussions about the superstars with discussions about the amazingly-talented yet lesser known creators I’m meeting at this musicorloseittv community.

The Wildest Dream

My goal is to earn a living making my Music Or Lose It videos. I want my music discussion channel to be as successful as Professor of Rock and Not For Radio Podcast. I hope to eventually have 1-2 cohosts. I want it to be a go-to venue for music entertainers when they're promoting new projects.
I grew up experiencing poverty more often than not when I was younger. I remember the monotony of eating rice and beans for dinner night after night for a long time. Around my teen years, my parents became more equipped to treat me to allowance. This enabled me to buy cassettes and CDs. Their generosity enabled me to become a music fan. Yet a clear path how to succeed was not provided to me. I graduated from high school with only Cs and Ds. Into adulthood, despite living out of a sports utility vehicle with serious medical conditions, I taught myself how to edit videos. I ended up interviewing very famous celebrities. At my best, despite being a no-name from a small northern California town, I was gaining notable media attention momentum. Despite so many odds being against me, I have persevered.
I am determined to keep persevering. I will do everything within my power pursuing the success I envision for myself. Just as I gave my all to unite people by creating community when I led the first LGBT group in my hometown, I will give my all to uniting lesser known creators chasing our dreams together.
Thank you for reading.

Favorites

• Song: Dirty Vegas - Human Love
2004, Lyrics
• Music Video: Airship - Algebra
2010, Lyrics

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Today's anniversaries are:
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2009
2010
2011
2015
2016
2017
2018
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Experts needed!
Can anyone tell me what these are? I found them between the pages in a book from my grandfather. Help me in the right direction on what they are and if these have any value. Thanks in advance
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2024.04.28 00:52 aasturi2 17, 19, 20, 26

17, 19, 20, 26
Started with the 17
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2024.04.27 23:30 SanderSo47 Directors at the Box Office: John Carpenter

Directors at the Box Office: John Carpenter
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Here's a new edition of "Directors at the Box Office", which seeks to explore the directors' trajectory at the box office and analyze their hits and bombs. I already talked about a few, and as I promised, it's John Carpenter's turn.
Carpenter grew up affected and bothered by the highly religious Bible culture of the deep south, and found cinema as an escape from the racism and politics around him. He began making short horror films with an 8mm camera when his father gifted him a camera and a projector before he had even started high school. He enrolled in USC School of Cinematic Arts, but would drop out during the last semester to make his first film.
From a box office perspective, how reliable was he to deliver a box office hit?
That's the point of this post. To analyze his career.

It should be noted that as he started his career in the 1970s, some of the domestic grosses here will be adjusted by inflation. The table with his highest grossing films, however, will be left in its unadjusted form, as the worldwide grosses are more difficult to adjust.

Dark Star (1974)

"The spaced out odyssey."
His directorial debut. It stars Dan O'Bannon, Brian Narelle, Cal Kuniholm and Dre Pahich, and follows the crew of the deteriorating starship Dark Star, twenty years into their mission to destroy unstable planets that might threaten future colonization of other planets.
Carpenter and O'Bannon started writing a script for USC. The film began as a 45-minute 16mm student project with a final budget of $6,000. To achieve feature film length, an additional 50 minutes were shot in 1973, with the support of Canadian distributor Jack Murphy (credited as "Production Associate"). O'Bannon's friend, John Landis, got them in contact with producer-distributor Jack H. Harris for distribution. However, Harris demanded 30 minutes of cuts. This is something that O'Bannon and Carpenter disliked, as "We had what would have been the world's most impressive student film and it became the world's least impressive professional film."
The film had a very limited theatrical run, and there are no box office numbers available. Carpenter and O'Bannon were unhappy that there were empty screenings and the audience not laughing with the jokes. But it found a cult following after they got famous for their later works. At the very least, their careers were starting.

Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

"A white-hot night of hate!"
His second film. It stars Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer, Tony Burton, Martin West, and Nancy Kyes. It follows a police officer who defends a defunct precinct against a relentless criminal gang, with the help of a death row-bound convict.
Carpenter had hoped to make a Howard Hawks-style Western like El Dorado or Rio Lobo, but when the $100,000 budget prohibited it, Carpenter refashioned the basic scenario of Rio Bravo into a modern setting. He wrote the script in just 8 days, and it included many references to Hawks' works. He filmed the movie in just 20 days, and he referred to this film as the most fun he has ever had directing.
There are no box office numbers available, although it was reported that it had poor sales. While it received initial mixed reviews, its reputation grew and it would become one of his best films. But he needed a hit if he wanted to continue in the business.

Halloween (1978)

"The night he came home!"
His third film. It stars Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P. J. Soles and Nancy Loomis. The plot centers on a mental patient, Michael Myers, who was committed to a sanitarium for murdering his teenage sister on Halloween night when he was a child. Fifteen years later, having escaped and returned to his hometown, he stalks teenage babysitter Laurie Strode and her friends while under pursuit by his psychiatrist Dr. Samuel Loomis.
After watching Assault on Precinct 13 at the Milan Film Festival, independent film producer Irwin Yablans and financier Moustapha Akkad sought out Carpenter to direct a film for them about a psychotic killer that stalked babysitters. He agreed on the $10,000 salary under the condition that he would write, direct and compose with complete creative freedom and asked his then-girlfriend Debra Hill to co-write it with him. They wrote it in just 10 days, with Hill writing most of the dialogue for the female characters.
The low budget meant that no big stars would appear in the film. Carpenter wanted Peter Cushing to play Dr. Loomis, but his agent refused with the low salary. Christopher Lee would turn down the role, although he would later deem this as the biggest mistake of his career. Yablans then suggested Pleasence. For Laurie, Carpenter wanted Anne Lockhart, but she was busy. He decided to get Curtis, feeling that publicity would sell itself by casting the daughter of Janet Leigh from Psycho.
The film enjoyed a huge success in theaters. It quickly became a word-of-mouth sensation, and earned $70 million worldwide, becoming one of the most profitable horror films ever. It received acclaim, and has been named as a huge influence on the slasher genre. It would spawn a franchise, although Carpenter would not direct another installment ever again.
  • Budget: $300,000.
  • Domestic gross: $47,274,000. ($226.4 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $70,274,000.

The Fog (1980)

"Bolt your doors. Lock your windows. There's something in the fog!"
His fourth film. It stars Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins, Janet Leigh and Hal Holbrook. It tells the story of a strange, glowing fog that sweeps over a small coastal town in Northern California, bringing with it the vengeful ghosts of leprous mariners who were killed in a shipwreck there a century before.
While visiting England, Carpenter and Debra Hill witnessed an eerie fog rolling over the landscape from a distance. Carpenter decided to tie the fog to a an actual event, the wrecking of the Frolic, that took place in the 19th century near Goleta, California. However, Carpenter hated the film after watching a rough cut, and realized that he needed to reshoot more scenes in order to compete with the increasing horror market. Around one-third of the film was filmed during reshoots.
Thanks to its low budget, it was a great box office success, making $21.4 million domestically. While initial reactions were divided, its reputation grew with time.
  • Budget: $1,100,000.
  • Domestic gross: $21,448,782. ($81.3 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $21,448,782.

Escape from New York (1981)

"1997. New York City is now a maximum security prison. Breaking out is impossible. Breaking in is insane."
His fifth film. It stars Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes, Adrienne Barbeau and Harry Dean Stanton. Set in the near-future world of 1997, it follows a crime-ridden United States, which has converted Manhattan Island in New York City into the country's sole maximum security prison. Air Force One is hijacked by anti-government insurgents who deliberately crash it into the walled borough. Ex-Special Forces and current federal prisoner Snake Plissken is given just 24 hours to go in and rescue the President of the United States, after which, if successful, he will be pardoned.
Carpenter started writing the script after the Watergate scandal, inspired by Death Wish. No studio wanted to finance it, but the success of his previous films allowed him to finally make the project happen. The studio wanted a big star, but Carpenter was interested in Kurt Russell. Russell wanted the role to help him avoid being typecast for Disney comedies. Carpenter struggled to film New York within the film's $6 million budget, although he still had cooperation from the city in shutting down 10 blocks. Certain matte paintings were rendered by James Cameron, who was at the time a special-effects artist, and who also served as the director of photography at some points.
Carpenter enjoyed another box office success, as the film made $25 million domestically. It also received critical acclaim, and helped elevate Russell's career.
  • Budget: $6,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $25,244,626. ($86.7 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $25,244,626.

The Thing (1982)

"Man is the warmest place to hide."
His sixth film. Based on the novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr., it stars Kurt Russell, A. Wilford Brimley, T. K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David, Richard Dysart, Charles Hallahan, Peter Maloney, Richard Masur, Donald Moffat, Joel Polis, and Thomas G. Waites. It tells the story of a group of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter the eponymous "Thing", an extraterrestrial life-form that assimilates, then imitates, other organisms. The group is overcome by paranoia and conflict as they learn that they can no longer trust each other and that any of them could be the Thing.
Producers David Foster Lawrence Turman approached Universal over adapting Campbell's novella. While there was an adaptation in 1951, they wanted something that would be more faithful to the source material. While the producers wanted Carpenter in 1976, Universal preferred the veteran Tobe Hooper instead. After Hooper failed to impress, and after the box office success of Halloween, Universal decided to hire Carpenter. This made The Thing his first film made under a big studio.
After Carpenter disliked the script drafts, he got Bill Lancaster to write the film. While he struggled in adapting the film, he made some changes. These included reducing the 37 characters to just 12, and choosing to open the film in the middle of the action, instead of using a flashback as in the novella. Lancaster aimed to create an ensemble piece where one person emerged as the hero, instead of having a Doc Savage-type hero from the start. Lancaster's original ending had both MacReady and Childs turn into the Thing. In the spring, the characters are rescued by helicopter, greeting their saviors with "Hey, which way to a hot meal?". Carpenter thought this ending was too shallow. He opted to end the film with the survivors slowly freezing to death to save humanity from infection, believing this to be the ultimate heroic act.
While the film was in pre-production, there was still no design on the effects needed for the Thing. Rob Bottin was assigned for the job, and he deduced that the creature had been all over the galaxy. This allowed it to call on different attributes as necessary, such as stomachs that transform into giant mouths and spider legs sprouting from heads. It required so much cooperation from the crew; it took 50 crew members to operate the Blair-Thing puppet. The team wanted the film shot in black-and-white, but Universal refused as they didn't want to risk losing television rights.
While Carpenter composed the scores for his films, he decided that the film needed an European musical approach. So he flew to Rome to speak with Ennio Morricone to convince him to take the job. By the time Morricone flew to Los Angeles to record the score, he had already developed a tape filled with an array of synthesizer music because he was unsure what type of score Carpenter wanted. Morricone wrote complete separate orchestral and synthesizer scores and a combined score, which he knew was Carpenter's preference. Carpenter picked a piece, closely resembling his own scores, that became the main theme used throughout the film.
1982 was a very tough time for horror, as Universal discovered that the audience's appeal for the genre declined by over 70%. But Universal was still having hope on the film, especially as they had a few successful test screenings. On top of that, the only competition was the still unrelease E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial, and they expected that film to appeal solely to kids. However, after one market research screening, Carpenter queried the audience on their thoughts, and one audience member asked, "Well what happened in the very end? Which one was the Thing...?" When Carpenter responded that it was up to their imagination, the audience member responded, "Oh, God. I hate that." After returning from a screening of E.T., the audience's silence at a trailer of The Thing caused Foster to remark, "We're dead."
And Foster's fears were right.
The film disappointed in its opening weekend with just $3.1 million, ranking #8 and behind the fourth weekend of Poltergeist. With a huge amount of competition that summer, it didn't have staying power at the box office, finishing with just $19 million domestically, marking a box office failure. But the bad news didn't stay there. Not only very few people watched it, but nearly everyone who watched it hated it. The film received insanely negative reviews on its release, and hostility for its cynical, anti-authoritarian tone and graphic special effects. Carpenter also saw repercussions to his career. He was attached to direct an adaptation of Stephen King's Firestarter, but Universal fired him after the poor reception of The Thing. His previous success had gained him a multiple-film contract at Universal, but the studio opted to buy him out of it instead. He also said that while he continued making films, he lost confidence.
As years passed, however, the film underwent through a re-appraisal. Once derided, the film found a second life as a huge milestone in the horror genre. It's now hailed as one of the greatest horror films ever made, as well as one of the most influential. Carpenter deemed it as his favorite film, although he lamented that it took years for the film to get the attention it deserved. He noted that his career would've been very different if the film was a success at first, although he also states he does not regret anything he made.
  • Budget: $15,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $19,857,465. ($64.2 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $19,857,465.

Christine (1983)

"How do you kill something that can't possibly be alive?"
His seventh film. Based on the novel by Stephen King, it stars Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky and Harry Dean Stanton. It follows the changes in the lives of Arnie Cunningham, his friends, his family, and his teenage enemies after he buys a classic red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury named Christine, a car that seems to have a mind of its own and a jealous, possessive personality, which has a bad influence on Arnie.
Carpenter was the first choice to direct the project, although he was working on two projects first. When those projects stalled, he agreed to direct. He said this was not a film he had planned on directing, saying that he directed the film as "a job" as opposed to a "personal project." This was because, after The Thing flopped, he needed something to maintain his career in Hollywood.
The film earned $21 million domestically, which was barely enough for the film to break even. It received a favorable response, although it didn't get the acclaim like his previous works.
  • Budget: $10,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $21,017,849. ($65.9 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $21,017,849.

Starman (1984)

"He has traveled from a galaxy far beyond our own. He is 100,000 years ahead of us. He has powers we cannot comprehend. And he is about to face the one force in the universe he has yet to conquer. Love."
His eighth film. It stars Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, and Richard Jaeckel. It tells the story of a non-corporeal alien who has come to Earth and cloned a human body in response to the invitation found on the gold phonograph record installed on the Voyager 2 space probe.
Carpenter was eager to shed his image as a maker of exploitative thrillers and make something new in his filmography. Despite receiving positive reviews, it barely passed its budget.
  • Budget: $24,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $28,744,356. ($86.4 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $28,744,356.

Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

"Jack Burton's is in for some serious trouble and you're in for some serious fun."
His ninth film. It stars Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun and James Hong. The film tells the story of truck driver Jack Burton, who helps his friend Wang Chi rescue Wang's green-eyed fiancée from bandits in San Francisco's Chinatown. They go into the mysterious underworld beneath Chinatown, where they face an ancient sorcerer named David Lo Pan, who requires a woman with green eyes to marry him in order to be released from a centuries-old curse.
While 20th Century Fox was struggling with the film's tone and script, they decided to hire Carpenter as he could film very quick, giving him 10 weeks of pre-production. It didn't help that the film was competing against The Golden Child, a comedy starring Eddie Murphy with a similar theme. Carpenter made sure to accelerate filming so that the film could open months before The Golden Child. Carpenter envisioned the film as an inverse of traditional scenarios in action films with a Caucasian protagonist helped by a minority sidekick.
The film received very positive reviews from critics. But that didn't translate to box office success, as the film made a disastrous $11 million domestically, which was worse than any of Carpenter's films. After the commercial and critical failure of the film, Carpenter became very disillusioned with Hollywood and became an independent filmmaker.
  • Budget: $25,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $11,100,000. ($31.6 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $11,100,000.

Prince of Darkness (1987)

"Before man walked the Earth... it slept for centuries. It is evil. It is real. It is awakening."
His tenth film. It stars Donald Pleasence, Victor Wong, Jameson Parker, and Lisa Blount. It follows a group of quantum physics students in Los Angeles who are asked to assist a Catholic priest in investigating an ancient cylinder of liquid discovered in a monastery, which they come to find is a sentient, liquid embodiment of the son of Satan.
The film received mixed reviews, with some feeling the film did not accomplish its goals. But it was a much needed success at the box office for Carpenter.
  • Budget: $3,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $14,182,492. ($38.9 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $14,182,492.

They Live (1988)

"You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fall. You think they're people just like you. You're wrong. Dead wrong."
His 11th film. Based on the short story Eight O'Clock in the Morning by Ray Nelson, it stars Roddy Piper, Keith David, and Meg Foster. The film follows an unnamed drifter who discovers through special sunglasses that the ruling class are aliens concealing their appearance and manipulating people to consume, breed, and conform to the status quo via subliminal messages in mass media.
Carpenter acquired the film rights to both the comic book and short story and wrote the screenplay, using Nelson's story as a basis for the film's structure. Because the screenplay was the product of so many sources, Carpenter decided to use the pseudonym "Frank Armitage", an allusion to one of his favorite writers, H. P. Lovecraft. For the role of Nada, the filmmaker cast professional wrestler Roddy Piper, whom he had met at WrestleMania III earlier in 1987. For Carpenter, it was an easy choice: "Unlike most Hollywood actors, Roddy has life written all over him."
The film debuted at #1, although it dropped very quickly, it was still a small box office success for Carpenter. It received negative reviews for its social commentary, writing, and acting. However, its reputation grew with time, and it's now one of Carpenter's greatest films. And for having one of the best quotes in cinema history:
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum."
  • Budget: $3,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $13,447,978. ($35.5 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $13,447,978.

Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)

"Women want him for his wit. The C.I.A. wants him for his body. All Nick wants is his molecules back."
His 12th film. Loosely based on the novel by H.F. Saint, it stars Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah, Sam Neill, Michael McKean and Stephen Tobolowsky.
Saint's novel attracted the attention of Chase, who bought the rights even though the novel wasn't finished. William Goldman was assigned to write the screenplay in the mid 1980s, by which time Ivan Reitman was attached to direct. While Reitman liked the script, Chase (who financed it as his passion project) disapproved and he decided to leave. Wanting less comedy, Chase approached Carpenter over directing the film. While Carpenter preferred being independent, he agreed to direct the film, especially after Chase vouched for him to the studio.
The film was panned by critics and was another box office dud for Carpenter. Carpenter would go on to say that the production of the film was very troubling and vigorous. While also battling studio executives, Carpenter claimed Chase and Hannah were "the stuff of nightmares" and "impossible to direct". In 2023, he said:
"It gave me a chance to make a quasi-serious movie. But Chevy Chase, Sam Neill — who I love and had a longtime friendship with — and Warner Bros. … I worked for them, and it was pleasant. No, it wasn’t pleasant at all. I’m lying to you. It was a horror show. I really wanted to quit the business after that movie. God, I don’t want to talk about why, but let’s just say there were personalities on that film … he shall not be named who needs to be killed. No, no, no, that’s terrible. He needs to be set on fire. No, no, no. Anyway, it’s all fine. I survived it."
Mmm, I wonder who is that "he" 🤔
  • Budget: $40,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $14,358,033. ($31.9 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $14,358,033.

In the Mouth of Madness (1994)

"Lived any good books lately?"
His 13th film. It stars Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow, David Warner and Charlton Heston. It follows John Trent, an insurance investigator who visits a small town while looking into the disappearance of a successful author of horror novels, and begins to question his sanity as the lines between reality and fiction seem to blur.
The film received mixed reviews and was another bomb for Carpenter. But it has found some fans, who deemed it as an underrated piece of work.
  • Budget: $8,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $8,924,549. ($18.8 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $8,924,549.

Village of the Damned (1995)

"Beware the children."
His 14th film. A remake of the 1960 film, it stars starring Christopher Reeve, Linda Kozlowski, Kirstie Alley, Michael Paré, Mark Hamill, and Meredith Salenger. The plot follows a small town's women who give birth to unfriendly alien children posing as humans.
The film was another critical and commercial dud for Carpenter. The film also marked the last theatrical performance by Reeve, before his paralysis. Carpenter described the film as a "contractual assignment" that he was "really not passionate about" and stated that it is one of his least favorite films that he's made as a director.
  • Budget: $22,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $9,418,365. ($19.3 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $9,418,365.

Escape from L.A. (1996)

"Snake is back."
His 15th film. The sequel to Escape from New York, it stars Kurt Russell, Steve Buscemi, Stacy Keach, Bruce Campbell, Peter Fonda, and Pam Grier. When a terrorist brainwashes Utopia, the daughter of the President, into stealing a detonation device, Snake Plissken is assigned to find the device and the girl in Los Angeles.
A sequel was stuck in development hell for years. Unsatisfied with the drafts, Carpenter and Russell decided to write the film themselves, along with Debra Hill. Carpenter insists that Russell's persistence allowed the film to be made, since "Snake Plissken was a character he loved and wanted to play again." Carpenter credited that same enthusiasm with motivating Russell's work on the script, declaring "I used his passion to do the movie to get him to write more".
The film received mixed reviews, who deemed it as inferior to the original. While the film made as much as the original in North America and was his highest grossing film in decades, it also carried a higher budget, so it was another flop for Carpenter. Time was kind to the film, and is considered as a worthy follow-up. Carpenter himself says that he is proud of the film, and even says is better than the original.
  • Budget: $50,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $25,477,365. ($50.7 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $42,377,365.

Vampires (1998)

"Prepare for the dawn."
His 16th film. Based on the novel Vampire$ by John Steakley, it stars James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee, Thomas Ian Griffith, Maximilian Schell, and Tim Guinee. It follows Jack Crow, the leader of a team of vampire hunters. After his parents were murdered by vampires, Crow was raised by the Catholic Church to become their "master slayer". The plot is centered on Crow's efforts to prevent a centuries-old cross from falling into the hands of Jan Valek, the first and most powerful of all vampires.
After making Escape from L.A., Carpenter considered quitting as he stopped having fun with filmmaking. However, he was fascinated by the novel and set out to adapt it. After all potential actors turned down the offer to play Crow, he offered it to James Woods. Woods was interested in doing the film because he had never been offered a horror film before and wanted to try something new. The MPAA took issue with the film's over-the-top violence, threatening to give it an NC-17 rating unless some of the gore was cut. Ultimately, about 20 seconds of footage was cut from the film.
You can guess how it all went. Surprise surprise, another flop.
  • Budget: $50,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $20,308,772. ($38.9 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $20,308,772.

Ghost of Mars (2001)

His 17th film. It stars Natasha Henstridge, Ice Cube, Jason Statham, Pam Grier, Clea DuVall and Joanna Cassidy. Set on a colonized Mars in the 22nd century, the film follows a squad of police officers and a convicted criminal who fight against the residents of a mining colony who have been possessed by the ghosts of the planet's original inhabitants.
Broken record but you are right: another bomb. Carpenter stated he was intentionally trying to make the film as over-the-top and tongue-in-cheek as possible. He claimed he was trying to make a mindless and silly, yet highly entertaining and thrilling, action flick where "the universe allows its characters and plot points to be silly without becoming full-fledged comedies."
  • Budget: $28,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $8,709,640. ($15.3 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $14,010,832.

The Ward (2010)

"Only sanity can keep you alive."
His 18th and final film. It stars Amber Heard, Mamie Gummer, Danielle Panabaker, Laura-Leigh, Lyndsy Fonseca and Jared Harris. Set in 1966, the film chronicles a young woman who is institutionalized after setting fire to a house, and who finds herself haunted by the ghost of a former inmate at the psychiatric ward.
After Ghosts of Mars, Carpenter simply lost interest in filmmaking. In the meantime he had done two episodes for the anthology TV show Masters of Horror, and he said that the series reminded him of why he fell in love with the craft in the first place. Carpenter said that the script "came along at the right time for me", and he was particularly fascinated by how the film took place within a single location.
The film received a very limited run in theaters before hitting digital, so it became another flop and his lowest film ever. It also received poor reviews, and some lamented that this would be his swan song.
  • Budget: $10,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $7,760. ($11,115 adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $5,351,580.

Other Projects

As mentioned, he is also a composer, having scored nearly all his films. He also scored the recent Halloween trilogy, even though he didn't write nor direct anything.
Many of his films have been remade and he doesn't care in the slightest. He has said that they can do whatever they want as long as he gets paid.
“I love it, if they are going to pay me money. If they pay me, it’s wonderful. If they don’t pay me, I don’t care. I think it’s unfair if they don’t pay me. I think everyone should pay me. Why not? I’m an old guy now and I need money. Send me money.”

The Future

Carpenter has not directed another film ever since. He has said multiple times that he feels burned out by the industry and he is not interested in returning to the director's chair. He said he would only return for a new film under three conditions: it needs a reasonable budget, plenty of time to prepare, and time off for the basketball season and the playoffs.
He said he is content with his current lifestyle. What's that lifestyle? In his words, "Get up late, watch a little news, play a video game, watch some basketball, go to bed." Ain't that the dream?

MOVIES (FROM HIGHEST GROSSING TO LEAST GROSSING)

No. Movie Year Studio Domestic Total Overseas Total Worldwide Total Budget
1 Halloween 1978 Compass $47,274,000 $23,000,000 $70,274,000 $300K
2 Escape from L.A. 1996 Paramount $25,477,365 $16,900,000 $42,377,365 $50M
3 Starman 1984 Columbia $28,744,356 $0 $28,744,356 $24M
4 Escape from New York 1981 AVCO $25,244,626 $30,339 $25,244,626 $6M
5 The Fog 1980 AVCO $21,448,782 $0 $21,448,782 $1.1M
6 Christine 1983 Columbia $21,017,849 $0 $21,017,849 $10M
7 Vampires 1998 Sony $20,308,772 $0 $20,308,772 $20M
8 The Thing 1982 Universal $19,857,465 $0 $19,857,465 $15M
9 Memoirs of an Invisible Man 1992 Warner Bros. $14,358,033 $0 $14,358,033 $40M
10 Prince of Darkness 1987 Universal $14,182,492 $0 $14,182,492 $3M
11 Ghosts of Mars 2001 Sony $8,709,640 $5,301,192 $14,010,832 $28M
12 They Live 1988 Universal $13,447,978 $0 $13,447,978 $3M
13 Big Trouble in Little China 1986 20th Century Fox $11,100,000 $0 $11,100,000 $25M
14 Village of the Damned 1995 Universal $9,418,365 $0 $9,418,365 $22M
15 In the Mouth of Madness 1994 New Line Cinema $8,924,549 $0 $8,924,549 $8M
16 The Ward 2010 ARC $7,760 $5,343,820 $5,351,580 $10M
He made 18 films, but only 16 have reported box office numbers. Across those 16 films, he made $340,067,044 worldwide. That's $21,254,190 per film.

The Verdict

Not reliable. Not even close.
Well, he ain't known as a cult filmmaker for nothing. Carpenter didn't get the respect and appreciation he deserved at first, so he was often struggling to find an audience in theaters. Despite so many bombs, studios continued financing him, which is a welcome surprise. At least, he got to see that his once-reviled works are now an influential and beloved part of cinema. Now, as he puts it, his career would look far more different if The Thing wasn't a commercial and critical dud in its initial release. We can't theorize, for we don't know this kind of what if. But Carpenter built an impressive and memorable filmography, even if his later works represented some of the worst films he made.
And look, he is content with retirement. Playing video games and watching the NBA sounds like a good deal for anyone.
Hope you liked this edition. You can find this and more in the wiki for this section.
The next director will be Danny Boyle. One of Britain's most important directors.
I asked you to choose who else should be in the run and the comment with the most upvotes would be chosen. Well, we'll later talk about... Robert Zemeckis. He was one of the biggest filmmakers, now it's a surprise if he makes a hit.
This is the schedule for the following four:
Week Director Reasoning
April 29-May 5 Danny Boyle It was a long wait, but 28 Years Later is finally happening.
May 6-12 Wes Craven A horror legend.
May 13-19 Clint Eastwood Great actor. Great director.
May 20-26 Robert Zemeckis Can we get old Zemeckis back?
Who should be next after Zemeckis? That's up to you.
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2024.04.27 18:48 PrincessBattery Are these worth anything? ( Apologies for my lack of knowledge in coins )

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2024.04.27 17:19 Spacebirdies GC2N6WC

https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC2N6WC
Hi! I have been trying to solve this one but keep getting stuck a few of these clues.
Nitrogene, Eu, 1/360, Number of oxygen atomes in sulphate, Number of balls in Atomium. Elektronegativity for Li, Oxidation number for oxygen in O2(g), pH in a neutral solution
Otto Fischer, -273C, Number of Nobelprise that Marie Currie obtained, 32F, 1/360, H2O. Number of valence electrons in Vanadium, Number of carbon in Bensen, Number of Swedes that obtained Nobel prise in chemistry until 2010
The ones I can't figure out are these specially: Elektronegativity for Li Oxidation number for oxygen in O2(g) pH in a neutral solution
When I Google I get the numbers 0.98, 0 and 7 but that doesn't work for the coordinated. Can someone help me out?
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2024.04.27 15:02 My-Last-Hope Why aren't negative numbers included in Even/Odd numbers here?

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2024.04.27 09:58 WWE_Network_Bot This Day in History: 04/27/2024

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2024.04.27 05:54 Cosminion Survival Rates: Cooperative vs. Conventional

Survival Rates: Cooperative vs. Conventional (59/66)
Region Coop Conv +/- Period Years Source
Alberta 90.9% 63% 27.9 5-Year 2000-2005 Balta
Alberta 90.9% 63% 27.9 5-Year 2001-2006 Balta
Alberta 89.5% 63% 26.5 5-Year 2002-2007 Balta
Alberta 90% 63% 27 5-Year 2003-2008 Balta
Alberta 100% 63% 37 5-Year 2004-2009 Balta
Alberta 84.6% 48% 36.6 3-Year 2005-2008 Balta
Alberta 78.6% 48% 30.6 3-Year 2006-2009 Balta
Argentina° 89.51% N/A N/A Variable 1990-2015 Vieta
Argentina° 97.55% N/A N/A Variable 2010-2015 Vieta
Belgium 80% 68% 12 5-Year N/A Cera
Belgium 74% 68.7% 5.3 5-Year N/A Ku Leuven
Brazil
B. Columbia 66.6% 39-43% 23.6-27.6 5-Year 2000-2010 Balta 2
Canada 77% N/A N/A 40-Year 1972-2012 Richards
Canada 74.9% 48.2% 26.2 3-Year Around 2008 Richards
Canada 62% 35% 27 5-Year Around 2008 Richards
Canada 44.3% 19.5% 24.8 10-Year Around 2008 Richards
Finland
Germany 0.1% 1% N/A N/A 2005 ILO
France
France° 75% 60% 15 4-Year 1987-1991 Pérotin
France° 82.5% 66% 16.5 3-Year N/A CECOP
France° 66.1% 50% 16.1 5-Year N/A CECOP
France° 77% 66% 11 3-Year Around 2009 Oxford HB
France° 63% 50% 13 5-Year Around 2009 CECOP 2
France° 70% 50% 20 5-Year Around 2008 ILO
Italy° 87% 48.3% 38.7 3-Year 2007-2013 CICOPA
Italy° 92.59% 59.1% 33.49 7-Year 1985-1992 EURICSE
Italy° 83.18% 62.7% 20.48 5-Year 1989-1994 EURICSE
Italy° 80.56% 62.7% 17.86 5-Year 2001-2006 EURICSE
Italy°
Mondragón° 97% N/A N/A 30-Year 1956-1986 Whyte
Mondragón° 80% 55% 25 5-Year Around 2011 Co-op Law
Norway
NYC° 67% 50% 17 5-Year 2014-2019 WTFY19
Portugal 97% 80% 17 5-Year ~1995-2007 Monteiro
Portugal 84% 45% 39 10-Year ~1995-2007 Monteiro
Portugal 63% 20% 43 50-Year ~1995-2007 Monteiro
Québec 64% 35% 29 5-Year Around 1999 MEDIEQ
Québec 46% 20% 26 10-Year Around 1999 MEDIEQ
Québec 62% 35% 27 5-Year Around 2008 MEDIEQ
Québec 44% 20% 24 10-Year Around 2008 MEDIEQ
Québec** 51% 47% 4 5-Year 1980-1995 CA Gov
Québec** 40% 30% 10 10-Year 1980-1995 CA Gov
Québec^ 62% 30% 32 5-Year 1960-1995 CA Gov
Québec^ 53% 18% 35 10-Year 1960-1995 CA Gov
Québec^ ^ 84% 40% 44 5-Year 1960-1995 CA Gov
Québec^ ^ 67% 20% 47 10-Year 1960-1995 CA Gov
Québec" 75% 40% 35 5-Year 1960-1995 CA Gov
Québec" 44% 20% 34 10-Year 1960-1995 CA Gov
UK 84.8% 41.7% 43.1 5-Year 2009-2014 UK Coop 1
UK 81.9% 41.4% 40.5 5-Year 2010-2015 UK Coop 1
UK 80.4% 44.1% 36.3 5-Year 2011-2016 UK Coop 2
UK 72.1% 43.2% 28.9 5-Year 2012-2017 UK Coop 3
UK 75.7% 42.4 33.3 5-Year 2013-2018 UK Coop 4
UK 83.3% 38.4% 44.9 5-Year 2016-2021 UK Coop 5
UK 77% 43% 34 5-Year 2012-2017 Study
UK° 65% 44.1% 20.9 5-Year 2011-2016 Study
UK° 56% 43.2% 12.8 5-Year 2012-2017 Study
UK° 70% 43% 27 5-Year 2014-2019 Study
UK* 96% 44.1% 51.9 5-Year 2011-2016 Study
UK* 91% 43.2% 47.8 5-Year 2012-2017 Study
UK* 96% 43% 53 5-Year 2014-2019 Study
UK°° 95% N/A N/A 22-Year 1992-2014 Plunkett
UK°° 99% 41% 58 5-Year 1992-2014 Plunkett
Uruguay° N/A N/A 29% ~11-Year 1997-2009 Burdín
US° 25.6% 18.7% 6.9 6 to 10-Year 1950s+ Institute
US° 14.7% 11.9% 2.8 26+-Year 1950s+ Institute
°Worker Cooperatives' Survival Rates Only
*Consumer Cooperatives' Survival Rates Only
^Forestry Worker Cooperatives' Survival Rates Only
"Agricultural Producer Cooperatives' Survival Rates Only
°°Community Shop Cooperatives' Survival Rates Only
**Worker-Shareholder Cooperatives' Survival Rates Only
^^Student Consumer Cooperatives' Survival Rates Only
Alberta: 63% figure retrieved from Canada's government website.
Germany: 1% of businesses were declared insolvent, while the figure for cooperatives was less than 0.1%.
Uruguay: LMFs have a 29% lower hazard rate than conventional firms.
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2024.04.27 05:27 One_Chemistry4116 Found Footage Friday

Yesterday: V / H / S (2012) Exists (2014) The Last Exorcism (2010) REC (2007)
Today: Gang Tapes (2001) Willow Creek (2013) About to start Grave Encounters (2011) rn
Grateful for the overwhelming on demand content. I’ve only spent $4 so far.
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2024.04.27 04:47 Frequent_Cycle4744 KÝ ỨC MỘT THANH NIÊN HÀ-NỘI VỀ NGÀY 30-4-1975 (Phạm Thắng Vũ)

Bạn đang ở đâu? Làm gì trong cái ngày 30-4-1975? Có thể ngày đó là ngày chào đời của một em bé (mà giờ đây em bé đó đã con cái đầy nhà), hoặc là lúc chấm dứt sinh mệnh của một con người như trường hợp của Trung Tá Cảnh Sát Quốc Gia VNCH Nguyễn Văn Long. Tất nhiên người đó không thể ngồi kể cho chúng ta nghe về những giây phút… lịch sử khi đấy nhưng bạn bè, thân nhân bên cạnh vẫn có thể kể lại. Võ Văn Kiệt, một lãnh tụ Việt Cộng khi hồi ức lại cái ngày lịch sử này đã nói: “ 30 tháng Tư năm 1975 có hàng triệu người vui thì cũng có hàng triệu người buồn “. Bùi Tín, một cựu sĩ quan CS Bắc Việt trong Ủy Ban Liên Hợp Quân Sự Bốn Bên (ICCS) đã chua chát: “… tự hổ thẹn từng cao ngạo vô duyên về chuyện vào dinh Độc lập sớm, xế trưa 30-4, vớ vẩn, lạc điệu cả, cá nhân lầm lạc, ngộ nhận hết “.
Bài dưới đây là tâm tình của anh H, một người bà con trong họ đã kể cho nghe, PTV chép lại.
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Trưa ngày 30 tháng 4 năm 1975 tôi đang ngồi trong căng tin của nhà máy Hoá Chất Việt Trì thì tai nghe những tiếng la hét ầm ĩ vui nhộn từ phòng thông tin của Công Đoàn nhà máy. ” Thắng rồi… Ta thắng rồi… Dương Văn Minh đầu hàng rồi… “, tôi bỏ dở cốc nước chè và cùng vài người chạy vội ra xem chuyện gì. Một nhóm công nhân đang vây chung quanh anh Minh, thư ký Công Đoàn cho biết tin vừa nhận được qua đài Tiếng Nói Việt Nam là quân ta đã chiếm được Dinh Độc Lập, bắt Dương Văn Minh phải tuyên bố đầu hàng. Nghe vậy, những tiếng hét lớn vui mừng một lần nữa lại vang lên. Những ngày trước đây, kể từ sau trận đánh vào Buôn Mê Thuột, Đoàn Thanh Niên Lao Động Hồ Chí Minh của nhà máy đã làm một áp phích lớn vẽ bản đồ của 44 Tỉnh miền Nam Việt Nam Cộng Hòa và dựng nó gần cổng ra vào. Trên tấm áp phích đó, cứ mỗi khi được tin quân ta giải phóng thêm tỉnh nào thì lập tức tỉnh đó được vẽ một lá cờ Đỏ sao Vàng ngay. Tôi đã thấy càng lúc càng nhiều lá cờ Đỏ sao Vàng xuất hiện trên tấm áp phích chỉ trong một thời gian ngắn đến nỗi phải hoài nghi, dù không nói ra mặt. Bây giờ, điều nghi ngờ đó đã thật rồi, mừng quá đi. Thôi từ nay là hết chiến tranh và những thanh niên miền Bắc sẽ không còn phải xuôi Nam chiến đấu trong chiến trường B nữa. Và điều quan trọng tôi sẽ gặp lại người cha ruột đã xa cách gia đình tới 21 năm rồi. Hôm đó, như để cùng chào mừng với niềm vui lớn của đất nước, trừ những khâu cần phải vận hành máy chạy liên tục còn tất cả các khâu lao động trong các phân xưởng và các phòng ban khác được ban lãnh đạo nhà máy cho nghỉ việc sớm để mang tin vui về cho gia đình biết. Tôi phóng nhanh xe đạp về nhà báo tin cho mẹ tôi biết ngay tin vui này.
Về đến nhà, dắt xe vào trong, chưa kịp khoe tin thì mẹ tôi đã nói: ” Sao nay con về sớm vậy? Bộ đội vào tới Sài Gòn rồi con biết chưa? “. Tôi trả lời mẹ là đã biết, được nhà máy cho về sớm định kể mẹ nghe đây. Mẹ tôi ngồi ở bàn sát cửa sổ như đang suy nghĩ điều gì. Tôi cởi áo đi ra giếng nước sau nhà múc nước tắm sau đó quay trở vào mà vẫn thấy mẹ tôi ngồi yên tại chỗ. Tôi bước lại bên bà, hỏi: ” U sao vậy? ” và đặt tay tôi lên trán bà, tiếp: ” U cảm hay sao nói cho con biết với “. Nhưng bà nhìn tôi, miệng cười mỉm, trả lời:
– Không con. Mẹ khoẻ mà… có điều mẹ đang nghĩ về thầy con thôi. Không biết thầy con bây giờ trong đó đang như thể nào?
Nghe thế, tôi đi mở cái tủ gỗ gụ cũ, lục lọi rồi lấy ra tấm ảnh đen trắng chụp chân dung cha tôi đã cũ, ố vàng. Quên nói, mẹ tôi thường gọi cha tôi bằng Thầy và tôi gọi mẹ bằng U. Trong ảnh, một người đàn ông mặc bộ đồ trận rằn ri, ánh mắt nghiêm nghị, đứng cạnh lề đường một khu nào đó trong thành phố Sài Gòn của miền Nam. Tấm ảnh này là tấm duy nhất, gia đình nhận được từ cha tôi, khi hai miền Nam-Bắc còn liên lạc được bằng thư từ.
Cha tôi, một chiến binh trong lực lượng Dù thuộc quân đội Liên Hiệp Pháp. Những ngày cuối cuộc chiến năm 1954, đơn vị ông được máy bay thả xuống tiếp sức cho căn cứ Điện Biên Phủ đang bị vây hãm để không lâu sau đó, căn cứ nầy lọt vào tay bộ đội Việt Minh. May mắn thoát chết, bị bắt làm tù binh rồi ông được trả tự do và theo đơn vị quay về Hà Nội. Những ngày cuối của Hiệp Định Geneva, ông đã cho người về quê Sơn Tây đón mẹ con tôi lên để cùng ông vào miền Nam nhưng chuyện không thành, ông phải theo đơn vị vô Sai Gòn trước. Thực ra chuyến đi ra Hà Nội khi đó, đoàn người làng có hai mẹ con tôi đã bị cán bộ Việt Minh lừa đưa vào tạm trú trong khu rừng vắng. Khi đoàn người được phép ra khỏi rừng thì thời hạn di cư đã qua, gia đình bị chia cắt từ đó lúc tôi mới được gần một tuổi.
Hai mẹ con quay trở về Hà Nội sống trong gian nhà của ông ngoại tôi. Là dân thành thị, mẹ tôi biết cắt may quần áo rất khéo và nhờ cái tài này mà bà đã nuôi tôi ăn học. Tôi được nghe kể là các cán bộ đã tìm bà để đặt may quần áo cho họ rồi khi các Hợp Tác Xã May Mặc giải thể, bà đã tìm mua sở hữu thực thụ được một máy may cũ và nhờ vậy mà cuộc sống đỡ vất vả so với nhiều người khác. Tuổi ấu thơ của tôi gắn liền với thành phố Hà Nội từ những làn sương mờ buổi ban mai trên mặt Hồ Tây, mùi không khí đường phố quyện với lá cây sau các cơn mưa rào. Những buổi trưa mùa Hè, trốn mẹ đi chơi, tôi cùng chúng bạn kéo nhau lang thang vào vườn bách thú, quanh bờ hồ hoặc trèo lên những cây bên vệ đường để tìm bắt các chim non trong tổ. Có khi rình ném đá vào nhà hàng xóm buổi nghỉ trưa để rồi cả bọn ù té chạy khi chủ gia mở cửa ra nhìn. Khi tuổi lớn hơn, tôi mới nhận ra những khác biệt giữa mình và các bạn đồng trang lứa mỗi lần nghe chuyện chiến tranh về miền Nam. Có những buổi sinh hoạt chung mà người phụ trách không cho tôi tham dự. Lúc đó, tôi cũng không hiểu tại sao? Có khi về hỏi mẹ thì bà chỉ nói: ” Thôi con, họ không cho thì về nhà với mẹ “.
Rồi những năm chiến tranh lan ra miền Bắc. Máy bay Mỹ ném bom nhiều nơi và ngay ở cả Hà Nội nữa. Những đợt bom chùm tuốt từ trên mây rải xuống đã phá huỷ nhiều khu phố lớn. Cảnh người chết mất xác trong các đống gạch vụn cùng lửa khói cháy nghi ngút khiến ai cũng sợ. Đành phải kéo nhau đi sơ tán về các miền quê cho an toàn. Hai mẹ con tôi về quê nội trong một làng ở tỉnh Sơn Tây cũ. Đây là vùng bán sơn địa có ruộng có vườn cùng các núi đồi rất đẹp. Trong làng có nhiều đứa thiếu niên trạc tuổi tôi và tôi rất muốn làm bạn cùng chơi với chúng nhưng họ không thích tôi ra mặt. Trẻ em đã vậy mà người lớn cũng nói xấu, dèm sau lưng mẹ tôi mỗi khi họ gặp mặt nhau trên đường hoặc trong phiên chợ. Tôi đành kết bạn với mẹ thôi, không ai khác.
Đến tuổi trưởng thành, thấy nhiều thanh niên xung phong vào bộ đội, tôi cũng giơ tay xung phong nhưng bị cán bộ trong Ban Tuyển Quân từ chối. Tuổi thanh niên, hình ảnh người lính với cây súng cuốn hút tôi lắm nhưng họ không nhận thì đành chịu. Về kể lại cho mẹ tôi biết, bà chép miệng nói làm sao họ cho con vào bộ đội được rồi trách khẽ: ” Có mỗi một mình mẹ mà con định bỏ đi sao! “. Tôi rất chật vật khi xin một việc làm. Đơn gửi tận tay nhiều nơi mà không hề có chút hồi báo làm tôi buồn. Không lẽ thân đã lớn lại cứ để mẹ phải nuôi mình mãi nhưng đi xin việc không ra. Tôi có lúc nhủ thầm chắc số mình đến phải làm ruộng nhưng ruộng, nhà cũng không có. May mắn làm sao, mẹ tôi tình cờ gặp lại một người bạn học cũ với bà năm xưa khi còn trẻ. Người này nay là một cán bộ cao cấp và nhờ sự giúp đỡ của ông ta, tôi đã vào làm việc trong nhà máy Hoá Chất Việt Trì. Rồi cũng nhờ ông ta giúp mà tôi mới được công đoàn nhà máy phân cho một phòng nhỏ trong khu tập thể. Tôi đưa mẹ lên đó cùng sống chung.
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Hai tháng sau cái ngày chiến thắng, mẹ tôi về lại Hà Nội để dò hỏi tung tích cha tôi. Trong họ hàng bên nội, có người vào miền Nam công tác và qua đó đã tìm được các thân nhân theo các địa chỉ cũ năm xưa. Khi quay trở lại miền Bắc, người bà con này gặp bà và cho biết các tin tức về cha tôi. Theo đó, ông là một sĩ quan quân đội cao cấp của chính quyền miền Nam và đã phải bị học tập cải tạo. Thêm một tin nữa, ông đã lập gia đình khác và có được hai người con gái. Quay về nhà, mẹ tôi cho biết tin và khi kể chuyện, không hiểu vì nghĩ đến việc học tập cải tạo rồi liên tưởng những cảnh tù tội của cha tôi năm xưa lúc bị bắt làm tù binh hay vì cám cảnh thân phận mà mẹ tôi khóc rất nhiều.
Tôi dỗ mẹ đừng khóc nhưng rồi tôi cũng khóc theo mẹ.
Mẹ tôi rất muốn đi vào miền Nam ngay để biết thêm các tin tức về cha tôi nhưng khi đó giao thông hai miền còn khó khăn lắm, vẫn còn hạn chế chỉ ưu tiên cho những cán bộ đi công tác. Đường xuyên Việt nhiều nơi phải sửa chữa và đường sắt nhiều vùng đã mất hẳn từ lâu. Chiến tranh bao năm trời đâu phải một sớm một chiều thông đường ngay được. Cơn háo hức vào miền Nam để tìm gặp cha tôi cùng gia đình riêng của ông cũng dần nguôi ngoai trong lòng mẹ tôi. Tôi vẫn tiếp tục đi làm, cũng không hề nghĩ là có ngày mình đặt chân vào miền Nam và thành phố Sài Gòn. Đó là nhà máy Hoá Chất Việt Trì tổ chức một cuộc họp lớn có sự tham dự của cán bộ Tổng Cục Hóa Chất từ trung ương về chủ trì. Theo đó, nhà nước cần khá đông cán bộ và công nhân viên trong ngành xung phong vào tiếp quản các nhà máy hóa chất ở miền Nam. Tin về một xã hội miền Nam đói nghèo, lạc hậu do chính miệng những bộ đội miền Bắc từ chiến trường miền Nam trở về phục viên kể lại trong các tháng trước đã làm con số người xung phong chỉ đếm được trên đầu ngón tay. Ai cũng sợ khổ, sợ phải xa gia đình để đến công tác trong vùng đất đói nghèo đến nỗi cả bát ăn cơm cũng còn thiếu. Không ai chịu tình nguyện xung phong nên lãnh đạo nhà máy phải họp và xét hoàn cảnh riêng từng người một để chỉ định bắt buộc. Tên tôi đã được họ chọn, đành phải chuẩn bị hành lý để theo đoàn vào Nam dù tôi không muốn.
Đường sắt vẫn chưa sửa xong, chúng tôi 18 người ngồi nằm chung với hành lý trong chiếc xe tải Molotova cũ kỹ của đoàn xe vào miền Nam. Trên xe tuy mệt nhưng có cái thú ngồi ngắm cảnh hai bên dọc đường. Chúng tôi qua nhiều vùng, địa danh trước giờ chỉ nghe tên trên báo trên đài. Hố bom, cầu sập, đường bị bóc từng tảng nhựa, các khu dân cư, chợ… xuất hiện đây đó dọc theo các đoạn đường xe qua. Ở các vùng xa thủ đô, người dân lam lũ, nghèo khổ, thiếu thốn lộ rõ trên ánh mắt, quần áo và khung cảnh sống. Miền Bắc quê hương xã hội chủ nghĩa còn như vậy thì miền Nam bị kềm kẹp chắc chắn phải nghèo, thiếu thốn ghê gớm. Tất cả cũng do chiến tranh, do đế quốc Mỹ reo rắc mà ra… , người đi chung trên xe kết luận.
Xe vừa vào địa giới miền Nam, chúng tôi đã bấm tay nhau nhìn khung cảnh mới. Một khung cảnh khác lạ với miền Bắc. Nhà cửa, người dân cùng các công trình đô thị như cầu, đường… gần các trục lộ giao thông trông đẹp và văn minh hơn hẳn. Đi rồi nghỉ ngơi rồi đi tiếp cho đến khi đoàn xe đến được khu công nghiệp Biên Hoà. Có quá nhiều nhà máy tại đây. Đoàn 18 người chúng tôi nhìn ngang nhìn dọc từng dãy nhà máy trong khu vực này và tuy không ai nói với ai nhưng đều trầm trồ trước nền công nghiệp miền Nam. Rồi chúng tôi được phân công vào công tác trong một nhà máy có cái tên VICACO. Một nhà máy sản xuất chất Sút (NaOH) từ muối biển và cả Acid Chlohidric (HCL) nữa. Một nhà máy bề ngoài trông rất nhỏ mà không ngờ bên trong lại lắp đặt các máy móc tối tân, sản xuất được các hóa chất với sản lượng, hàm lượng độ tinh khiết rất cao gấp nhiều lần so với cùng công nghệ tại miền Bắc. Chúng tôi ngạc nhiên và ngầm thán phục trong bụng. Nhìn những công nhân miền Nam đang lao động tại đây rồi sau đó làm việc chung với họ, tôi mới thấy người dân miền Nam khác xa người dân miền Bắc. Kiến thức chuyên môn và xã hội của họ hơn hẳn chúng tôi. Kỹ sư hơn hẳn kỹ sư, chuyên viên hơn hẳn chuyên viên của miền Bắc gửi vào và ngay cả lực lượng công nhân cũng vậy. Một sự rụt rè, cẩn thận từ lời ăn tiếng nói tự nhiên nẩy sinh trong đoàn tiếp quản chúng tôi. Ai cũng sợ người trong nhà máy VICACO này biết trình độ thực sự của cả đám. Sợ họ cười, nỗi lo chính trong lòng vì dầu gì mình cũng thuộc phía người chiến thắng. Về nằm nghỉ trong dãy phòng mà được biết trước đây là chỗ dành cho công nhân ngủ qua đêm nếu phải ở lại tăng ca, tôi suy nghĩ xã hội miền Nam không hề lạc hậu về công nghệ về con người… như lời nói trước giờ vẫn được nghe. Ngay cả trong buổi họp khi chọn người vào tiếp quản, cán bộ ngành Hóa từ trung ương cũng đã khẳng định như vậy khi động viên cán bộ công nhân viên tình nguyện. Những căn phòng nghỉ nào cũng đầy đủ tiện nghi từ các trang bị như bàn ghế, giường ngủ, quạt trần nhà, phòng vệ sinh, đèn chiếu… Ở đây, trong chỗ khép kín của khu công nghệ còn được như vậy thì trong thành phố Sài gòn chắc chắn phải rất đẹp. Tôi cũng chưa nghĩ mình sẽ ra sao khi tìm gặp được hai cô em gái tôi, thật khó tưởng tượng.
Rồi một ngày tôi theo đoàn vào làm các thủ tục công tác trong một toà nhà mà Tổng Cục Hoá Chất vừa tiếp quản nay trở thành trụ sở của Công Ty Hóa Chất Cơ Bản miền Nam mới thành lập nằm gần chợ Bến Thành. Lần đầu tiên trong đời tôi biết đến thang máy khi lên một phòng tuốt trên tầng thượng. Khi làm xong các giấy tờ và thủ tục tạm trú, chúng tôi được phép thoải mái đi thăm phố xá sau lời căn dặn của một thủ trưởng:
” Các đồng chí phải bình tĩnh trước mọi tình huống, luôn nhớ chúng ta là kẻ chiến thắng, phải đánh giá chính xác những gì trông thấy ở xã hội miền Nam “.
Ngay từ lúc còn ngồi trên xe buýt, nhìn cảnh vật dọc theo đường và khu phố dẫn vào Sài Gòn tôi đã thấy vượt trội nhiều lần so với thủ đô Hà Nội. Một vẻ bề ngoài sáng sủa, văn minh lộ ra từ cách phục sức, sinh hoạt của người dân miền Nam. Giờ đây đi bộ trên các con đường trong khu trung tâm thành phố mới thấy bản thân tôi, một người dân miền Bắc quá sức lạc hậu, nghèo nàn… từ bộ cánh (quần áo) trên người cùng vẻ luống cuống như dân quê lần đầu ra tỉnh. Tôi rõ ràng xa lạ với các tiện nghi đang được người dân trong thành phố này sử dụng. Bên vệ đường và trong các cửa hiệu sang trọng đầy ắp hàng hoá thật đẹp và mới lạ lần đầu chúng tôi được thấy. Ai có tiền cứ việc vào mua thoải mái khác hẳn với cảnh chen chúc để chờ được tới lượt mua số hàng ít ỏi như cảnh thường thấy ở các khu phố ngoài miền Bắc. Phố xá thì thôi, những tòa nhà to đẹp thấp thoáng sau dòng xe gắn máy chạy hối hả trên đường. Khung cảnh y như ở nước ngoài, một người trong đoàn chúng tôi nói nhỏ cho nhau cùng nghe. Tôi bối rối ngắm nhìn các cô gái miền Nam nói chính xác là cô gái Sài Gòn đang dạo bước trên đường. Họ đẹp quá sức, như tiên… từ dáng điệu, mái tóc, y phục mặc trên người và nhất là khuôn mặt của họ lộ rõ vẻ sung túc đài các so với những nữ cán bộ trẻ trong đoàn chúng tôi. Tôi mỉm cười, nghĩ thầm hai cô em gái tôi trong này cũng vậy.
Tôi âm thầm tách ra khỏi đoàn để tự mình đi theo ý muốn. Rảo qua nhiều con phố Sài Gòn rồi thấy mỏi chân, tôi lấy can đảm bước vào một hàng nước thật đẹp gần một giao lộ lớn, có tên là Cafe Minirex. Chọn một bàn sát khung cửa kính trong suốt có thể nhìn rõ người đi bên ngoài, tôi quan sát chung quanh. Bàn ghế, các bình hoa, quầy thu ngân, khách cùng vách tường trang trí cảnh một rừng cây thật đẹp… thật không khác một tiệm ở nước ngoài trong phim ảnh. Chợt một người hầu bàn bước đến, gật đầu chào tôi rồi niềm nở hỏi:
– Thưa ông, ông dùng chi?
Trời ơi! Người hầu bàn này quá lịch sự khi tiếp xúc với khách hàng thật khác hẳn với cung cách của mậu dịch viên trong các tiệm ăn ngoài miền Bắc. Tôi lại nghĩ, hay ông ta biết tôi là cán bộ chế độ mới qua quần áo mặc trên người nên xưng hô như vậy? Tôi gọi nước uống và ngầm để ý xem sao. Nhưng không, bất cứ có khách nào vào quán, người hầu bàn này cũng một cách tiếp đón như vậy. Rất tự nhiên, lịch sự mà không khúm núm hoặc hách dịch.
Một thay đổi đã đến trong lòng tôi mà tôi biết điều này cũng sẽ đến với bất kỳ người nào từ miền Bắc xã hội chủ nghĩa khi đặt chân vào miền Nam ở thời kỳ đó. Sài Gòn hay nói rộng ra cả miền Nam của chế độ Việt Nam Cộng Hòa không phải là một xã hội lạc hậu, nghèo nàn, đói khổ, đầy rẫy cảnh người bóc lột người như bao lâu nay người dân miền Bắc được (hay bị) báo chí, đài phát thanh Hà Nội… mô tả về con người và xã hội của chế độ Ngụy quyền – tay sai đế quốc Mỹ. Đây là mô hình của một xã hội văn minh và người Việt nào được sống trong xã hội này quả thật may mắn hơn sống ở xã hội xã hội chủ nghĩa tại miền Bắc. Một xã hội như vậy lại vừa bị người bên phía chúng tôi cướp mất đi. Tiếc thay!
Phạm Thắng Vũ May 01, 2010. (Viết để nhớ lại ngày 30-4-1975.) Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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2024.04.27 02:39 WickedWizard127 [US-MI] [H] Xbox 360, Wii, PS3, GameCube, PS2 titles, and Super Mario Advance PayPal G&S [W] PayPal G&S Metal Gear Solid Essential Collection (PS2), Ratchet & Clank titles

All prices include USPS Ground Advantage shipping, combined shipping is also available & preferred! I can also do local meets in the Mid-Michigan area if you're nearby. Feel free to make offers!
[W] these pieces of Metal Gear Solid Essential Collection (PS2):
MGS1 Disc 1
MGS2 Manual
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All games will be tested prior to sale.
*Any games $8 or less are B1G1*
GameCube (Buy all for $90)
Egg Mania $17 Pics
Super Monkey Ball Adventure $24 Pics
Super Smash Bros. Melee $58 Pics
GBA
Super Mario Advance $17 Pics
Xbox 360 (Buy all for $95)
007 Legends (LOOSE) $10 Pics
Battlefield 4 (LOOSE) $5 Pics
Call of Duty Black Ops (POOR CASE, NO MANUAL) $8 Pics
Call of Duty Black Ops 2 (POOR CASE, NO MANUAL) $13 Pics
Dead Island (GOTY Platinum) $6 Pics
Gears of War 2 (NO MANUAL) $6 Pics
Guitar Hero World Tour $10 Pics
The Last Remnant (LOOSE) $8 Pics
Lego Batman (NO MANUAL) $5 Pics
Lego Star Wars II The Original Trilogy (Platinum Hits) (NO MANUAL) $7 Pics
Marvel Ultimate Alliance & Forza 2 (NO FORZA DISC) $9 Pics
Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Universe $9 Pics
Nascar 09 $9 Pics
Ninja Gaiden II (NO MANUAL) $8 Pics
Prey (DISC + MANUAL) $6 Pics
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II (UNLEASHED 1 CASE) $8 Pics
Superman Returns $12 Pics
Table Tennis $7 Pics
Two Worlds (NO MANUAL) $6 Pics
Wii (Buy all for $120)
Medal of Honor Vanguard (LOOSE) $5 Pics
Big Buck Hunter Pro $16 Pics
Boogie (NO MANUAL) $5 Pics
Excitebots: Trick Racing (LOOSE) $7 Pics
Guitar Hero 3 (2 Available, one doesn't close properly) $13 each Pics
Just Dance 2014 $9 Pics
Kirby's Epic Yarn (NO DISC) $8 Pics
Mario Sports Mix (LOOSE) $20 Pics
Mario Super Sluggers (LOOSE, MAY NEED RESURFACED) $20 Pics
Mario Super Sluggers (Nintendo Selects) (NO MANUAL, MAY NEED RESURFACED) $25 Pics
Neighborhood Games (LOOSE) $5 Pics
Nerf N-Strike (LOOSE) $5 Pics
Nicktoons Attack of the Toybots (LOOSE) $5 Pics
Nicktoons MLB (NO MANUAL) $6 Pics
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End $5 Pics
Spore Hero $6 Pics
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (NO MANUAL) $5 Pics
Star Wars Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels (LOOSE) $5 Pics
uDraw Studio: Instant Artist (LOOSE) $5 Pics
Wii Fit $5 Pics
Wipeout: The Game (NO MANUAL) $5 Pics
Zumba Fitness $5 Pics
PS3 (Buy all for $40)
Battlefield 4 $5 Pics
Borderlands 2 $5 Pics
Cabela's Outdoor Adventure $10 Pics
Crysis 2 (Limited Edition) $5 Pics
Homefront $6 Pics
Madden NFL 13 $5 Pics
Mortal Kombat $9 Pics
Rock Band Track Pack: Classic Rock $15 Pics
UFC Undisputed 2010 (NO GAME) $5 Pics
PS2 (Buy all for $190)
Ben 10 Alien Force (CASE IN POOR CONDITION) $7 Pics
Call of Duty 2: Big Red One (Collector's Edition) $7 Pics
Chaos Wars (CASE ONLY) $6 Pics
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory $10 Pics
Enthusia (NO MANUAL) $12 Pics
Fight Club $11 Pics
Guitar Hero 3 (LOOSE) $5 Pics
Just Cause $10 Pics
Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance $14 Pics
Myst 3 Exile (LOOSE) $5 Pics
NCAA Football 2003 $6 Pics
NFL GameDay 2002 $9 Pics
NFL GameDay 2003 (LOOSE) $5 Pics
NFL GameDay 2004 $9 Pics
OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast (NO MANUAL) $42 Pics
Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc $16 Pics
The Simpsons Road Rage $11 Pics
The Simpsons Skateboarding (NO MANUAL) $14 Pics
Splinter Cell (Greatest Hits) $6 Pics
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory $9 Pics
Superman Returns $8 Pics
TMNT (Greatest Hits) (NO MANUAL) $8 Pics
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus (UNOFFICIAL COVER, NO MANUAL) $13 Pics
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06 (CASE ONLY) $5 Pics
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4 (NO GAME) $6 Pics
X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse $14 Pics
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