The Cosmic Emporium

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A Short Film Drama


UNKNOWN CALLER

A man gets a scam call.

Donny is desperate to get his paper tax return sent off with the daily mail delivery. But he's frustrated by a skeptical mail carrier, who can't quite believe how unsavvy Donny is about the Internet -- which Donny still calls the "information superhighway" -- as well as his phone constantly ringing with an unknown caller.

When he gets a series of messages from phishers and scammers, he decides to give them a piece of his mind, calling them back to berate them for their nefarious schemes. But then he finds himself caught up in a surprisingly soul-searching conversation and realizes things are a little more complicated than he thought.

Directed by Nardeep Khurmi and written by Denzil J. Meyers (who also plays the leading role), this short dramedy has a lightness of touch that belies a much deeper inquiry into the humanity of the often faceless voices on the other end of those impersonal services and solicitation calls ...

The humor here isn't found in hitting punchlines, but rather in portraying the misalignment between a man and the fast-moving mores of contemporary life.

2021

9:36 min.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6irnBbVhcdE

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Meanwhile ...

#Networking

[Emil El Zapato]

yeah, when I was a student I worked as a telemarketer. It was the most forked up job I ever had next to holding road signs on highway construction. I was good at it and after awhile I could line people up for days. Hint: They couldn't see me, I sucked at personal sales, no one trusted me. I was sympathetic to people that cold called me for a long time and always volunteered my past experience. And then as technology would have it along came robocallers...End of story!

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#EyesWideOpen

Secret Cosmic Enemy Is Not Who You Think

| Dr. Steven Greer

Dec 6, 2024

History of UFO Disclosure - Are extraterrestrials a danger to humanity or a crafted illusion? Dr. Steven Greer explores what shape perceptions of alien life, suggesting orchestrated narratives may be used to support increased control.

10:37 min.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z18cpo6XOYg

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And speaking of ...


Drones, UFOs, or Something Else?
Why UFO Waves Keep Returning

Mysterious Universe Podcast

Dec 6, 2024

Recent unusual drone activity over New Jersey and other locations worldwide has sparked widespread interest in unexplained aerial phenomena. While this may seem like a recent development to many, themes of UFOs and strange aerial events have been recurring for decades. In this episode, we dive into these mysterious drone sightings and explore potential connections to high-strangeness encounters, including flying humanoids, winged creatures, and ghostly apparitions. Are these sightings the result of human-made technology, or is there something else at play, drawing attention for its own unknown reasons?

1:08:55 min.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GroXGtvUq3g

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So ...

Why Was Laurel Canyon Special?

When Joni Mitchell first came to Los Angeles, she was given a book by a friend that said, “Ask anyone in America where the craziest people live and they’ll tell you California. Ask anyone in California where the craziest people live and they’ll say Los Angeles. Ask anyone in Los Angeles where the craziest people live and they’ll tell you Hollywood. Ask anyone in Hollywood where the craziest people live and they’ll say Laurel Canyon. And ask anyone in Laurel Canyon where the craziest people live and they’ll say Lookout Mountain.”

So Joni bought a house on Lookout Mountain.

This was the sentiment among many in the late 60s and early 70’s seeking an alternative lifestyle in the Los Angeles hills. Not only was Laurel Canyon just a stone’s throw away from the Sunset Strip, it smelled of eucalyptus, acted as a reprieve away from the hustle and bustle, offered a groovy scene, and it was chock-full of characters.

That said, this scene wasn’t the first to have Laurel Canyon as its home base. In fact, in the early 20th century, when the area was first being developed, the Canyon attracted personalities such as Wally Reid, Harry Houdini, Bessie Love, and Errol Flynn. Then, in the post-WWII boom, the area began to welcome residents from the Beat Generation, with a couple of cool jazz cafes having popped up nearby.

But while the Canyon has lived a few lives, it was the late 1960’s / early 1970s that put Laurel Canyon on the map for all things creative, open-minded, and free-wheeling. Sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll, man.

by Taylor On A Trip

While out and about looking for Love street ...

Secret Hollywood History - The Doors, Stevie Nicks,
Frank Zappa, Joni Mitchell and More


grimmlifecollective

Dec 11, 2024

Join us as we explore the historic Laurel Canyon in Hollywood, California. In the 1960s and 1970s, Laurel Canyon was THE Hollywood music scene in Los Angeles. Laurel Canyon was home to The Doors, Stevie Nicks, Frank Zappa, Joni Mitchell and more. This video uncovers only a few of Laurel Canyons secrets.

27:54 min.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlGT41uQ_jE

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So ...

You Want To Be A Rock n Roll Star


THE BYRDS
1967

2:27 min.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMaJWESoZlk

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Check out the official trailer for 28 Years Later directed by Danny Boyle!

28 Years Later

Trailer #1 (2025)


Dec 10, 2024

2:15 min.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ammLRovn_GQ

Cillian Murphy shock as 28 Years Later zombie's identity revealed...
after fans went wild for actor's 'cameo'

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And speaking future prospects ...

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He blinded me with his science ...

Have aliens visited Earth?

| Adam Frank

Adam Frank is an astrophysicist studying star systems and the search for extraterrestrial life and alien civilizations.

Lex Clips

About
Adam Frank fell in love with astronomy when he was 5 years old and the affair has never cooled.

Late one night in the family library, Adam found the keys to the universe sketched out on the covers of his dad’s pulp-science-fiction magazines—astronauts bounding across the jagged frontiers of alien worlds, starships rising to discovery on pillars of fire. The boundless world of possibilities on those covers became the one he was determined to inhabit.

Later, the love for astronomy transformed into a passion for the practice of science itself when his father’s simple explanation of electric currents and sound waves turned the terror of a booming thunderstorm into an opportunity to marvel at the world’s beauty. He is now the Helen F. and Fred H. Gowen professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester.

For many years Adam was a leading expert on the final stages of evolution for stars like the sun and the formation of powerful jets when stars first form. His computational research group at the University of Rochester developed advanced supercomputer tools for studying how stars form and how planets evolve. His current work focuses on life in the Universe, the search for “technosignatures” of other exo-civilizations, along with climate change and the “Astrobiology of the Anthropocene.” He has also carrying out work on the physics of life through studies via an information theory perspective.

A self-described “evangelist of science,” Adam is committed to showing others the beauty and power of science, and exploring the proper context of science in culture. His last book Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth received praise from The New York Times, NPR and Scientific American. He has written two other books, The Constant Fire: Beyond the Religion and Science Debate, and About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang.

Adam’s newest work is The Little Book of Aliens.

Dec 23, 2024

3:36 min.

A quickie ...

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EsaDRt9l38


Oh and there's lots more ...




Full Interview Here

OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
1:58 - Planet formation
7:08 - Plate tectonics
14:30 - Extinction events
18:41 - Biosphere
21:39 - Technosphere
25:53 - Emergence of intelligence
32:06 - Drake equation
36:20 - Exoplanets
39:04 - Habitable zones
42:06 - Fermi Paradox
51:04 - Alien civilizations
1:00:32 - Colonizing Mars
1:12:48 - Search for aliens
1:29:13 - Alien megastructures
1:35:19 - Kardashev scale
1:40:32 - Detecting aliens
1:47:14 - Warp drives
1:53:21 - Cryogenics
1:56:39 - What aliens look like
2:05:24 - Alien contact
2:16:29 - UFO sightings
2:28:14 - Physics of life
2:54:05 - Nature of time
3:10:29 - Cognition
3:14:53 - Mortality

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#Sharing

“The World's Ultimate Wind-Up Merchant?”
Graham Hancock on Pyramids, Atlantis & God

Piers Morgan Uncensored

Dec 23, 2024

British author and journalist Graham Hancock has had a number of pejorative terms affixed to his name; chiefly among them are pseudoarchaeologist and pseudohistorian. But Hancock doesn't claim to be in possession of any special knowledge; merely that he is fascinated by the questions science and history struggle to answer. His vast knowledge on the intricacies of the Egyptian pyramids, to his mind, only makes one more sure that we don't fully understand them.

Piers Morgan holds Hancock to account, who in turn, deftly backs up his position that humanity has much more to learn. They discuss history, God, spirits and more.

01:00 - Introduction
02:25 - Can anybody disprove Graham Hancock?
06:00 - The Great Pyramid of Giza theory
09:45 - Graham's levitation 'suggestion'
13:30 - The existence of Atlantis
18:30 - Challenging mainstream archaeology
22:30 - "What was there before nothing?"
24:45 - Do you believe in dragons?
27:00 - Hancock's alien encounter
31:50 - Hancock's one mystery he'd love to solve

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZdV_5VzAuE

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#Love reign o'er Me ...

Everybody in the western world knows about Tommy, The Who's rock opera featuring the deaf, dumb and blind boy who sure plays a mean pinball.

The Who made another rock opera a few years later, the story of Jimmy the Mod (a movement in Britain in the 60s). Many fans of The Who consider Quadrophenia to be the band's greatest album.

Quadrophenia: Can You See the Real Me?

About

In his home studio and revisiting old haunts in Shepherds Bush and Battersea, Pete Townshend opens his heart and his personal archive to revisit ‘the last great album the Who ever made’, one that took the Who full circle back to their earliest days via the adventures of a pill-popping mod on an epic journey of self-discovery.

But in 1973 Quadrophenia was an album that almost never was. Beset by money problems, a studio in construction, heroin-taking managers, a lunatic drummer and a culture of heavy drinking, Townshend took on an album that nearly broke him and one that within a year the band had turned their back on and would ignore for nearly three decades.

With unseen archive and in-depth interviews from Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Keith Moon, John Entwistle and those in the studio and behind the lens who made the album and thirty page photo booklet. Contributors include: Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Ethan Russell, Ron Nevison, Richard Barnes, Irish Jack Lyons, Bill Curbishley, John Woolf, Howie Edelson, Mark Kermode and Georgiana Steele Waller.


Director
Matt O'Casey
2012

1:09:19 min.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaETQJDElf4