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Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix is good wholesome heathen entertainment. I enjoyed the scary parts and the special effects and the more scary parts, and the characters tirelessly keeping important secrets from Harry. I was impressed by the young actors who still manage to carry these movies with their earnest performances, especially Ryan Nelson who plays Slightly Creepy Boy.


















What the hell? That's the best they could come up with? They give other background characters names like "Parvati Patil" and "Professor Grubbly-Plank," but this kid is dubbed "Slightly Creepy Boy"? Where's the magic in that? I suppose it is better than being just plain creepy. And it's easier for the casting director to say "Don't worry son. Your character is only slightly creepy."
Well, that got me curious as to who exactly Slightly Creepy Boy was in the movie, so I image-Googled him.

































Hm. I guess it all makes sense now; that dude's not slightly creepy, he's REAL creepy. Look at his eye thing. Good thing he's standing a good 10 inches from that other kid, who I found out is billed "Somewhat Doubtful Boy." Yeah, I'd be somewhat doubtful, too. Although, as good as Ryan Nelson is, they probably should have given the part to Brian Peppers. You want slightly creepy??


owned!
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"Where's my headband?"

Seriously, now, why aren't there more bands doing what CSS is doing??



You don't often see security guards protecting the crowd from the performer.
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Alejandro Jodorowsky.



"Terrible things and beautiful things go together."



"The world is ill. We need to make therapy pictures. If art is not the medicine of society, it is the poison."




Discussing his preparation for The Holy Mountain:
"Because I wanted to know the mind of a master, I hired a guru. He came to teach me how to be a guru, and he gave me LSD."



"An artist needs to be free, not to do what others want... To be authentic."



Jodorowsky's films El Topo, Fando & Lis and The Holy Mountain have all be restored and released on DVD. I urge you all to see them, but keep your mind wide open.
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