I never know.
What I’m getting into.
These movies.
In the hopper.
And then spit out by a sort of roulette.
That I forget.
Anything I might have known.
And mostly I don’t want to know.
I just want to “pull the trigger” on these films.
Give it a try.
Try to watch it.
And boy did I find a doozy. A masterpiece. A truly special film.
Bound by Flesh is a documentary currently streaming in the U.S. on Netflix.
It was directed by Leslie Zemeckis.
Wife of Robert Zemeckis.
Now.
There are a couple of things which slayed me concerning this film.
First, is San Antonio.
My town.
The boring shithole in which I live.
A place so lifeless, so meaningless…that one must comb through the relics hoping for some shard of redemption.
Yes, Robert Johnson recorded here.
But he also recorded in Dallas.
And that was it.
So we have that half distinction.
And Pola Negri lived here.
We are very honored by that.
And Wings was made here. The first film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
But none of these things helps me to get up in the morning (or the middle of the day).
The 15-or-so years I lived in Austin, I had the legend of Sterling Morrison to give me hope.
Guitarist with The Velvet Underground.
Doctorate in medieval literature from UT-Austin.
And the Hole In The Wall was my sort of Mecca…because Sterling had played there.
But San Antonio has been an unmagical destination of return.
These past five (?) years.
But I say with utmost honesty…with absolute sincerity.
The story of Daisy and Violet Hilton has helped me.
These Siamese twins.
So beautiful!
I mean, really: the two most beautiful girls you’ve ever seen.
And so The Smashing Pumpkins start to make sense.
That time at the Sunken Gardens Theater.
When I was but 17.
And they were touring Siamese Dream.
And my ballet classmate magically pirouetted out on stage.
“How the hell did you get up there?,” we asked her on Monday morning.
It was all magical.
The venue.
The Sunken Gardens.
But now it makes sense.
Siamese Dream.
Daisy and Violet (hereafter to be reversed) lived in San Antonio.
Their (by all accounts) evil manager Myer Myers (what a fucked up name!) built a huge mansion on Vance Jackson (that’s a street here) with the money he skimmed (or ladled) from his cash cows.
The freaks.
Violet and Daisy.
One of the best films I’ve seen in the past years is Violet & Daisy.
With my favorite working actress (Saoirse Ronan) and the very-fine Alexis Bledel.
So we shall go with that.
Violet and Daisy.
Indeed, all throughout this documentary, a prominent curator from the Witte Museum (our old, yet newly-renovated…reopening repository here in San Antonio) gives her articulate insights into the life of Violet and Daisy.
[that curator, incidentally, is the excellent Amy Fulkerson]
Ok…so the twins lived in San Antonio.
Great.
But what else?
Well, it was their route.
Talk about circuitous.
Born in Brighton, England.
Home of Nick Cave.
Hell, home of Jonny Aitken (hi Jonny!) last time I checked.
Interestingly, the twins next big locale change was to Australia.
Which is to say, their life was like Nick Cave in reverse.
And Cave would certainly gravitate to this sort of story.
Dark.
Freak shows.
Carnival midway.
Vaudeville.
[and the death of minstrelsy…{think Emmett Miller}]
Burlesque.
[and the death of vaudeville]
Drive-ins.
Hell…Violet and Daisy were in Freaks by Tod Browning!
Yeah, the guy who directed Dracula starring Bela Lugosi.
But as with many show business stories, this one turns sad.
And yet…as Ms. Fulkerson makes clear, the Hilton twins never gave up.
They had an indomitable spirit.
It may be cheesy to reference, but it reminds me of one of U2’s finest songs (off the very-fine War album).
“Two Hearts Beat As One”
Sure…Violet and Daisy didn’t stay in San Antonio.
They eventually moved on to New York.
And finally to Charlotte and environs.
But their story is so damned inspiring!
And to think that they graced my town 🙂
That they had their trial in 1931 (?) down at the red brick courthouse.
That Myer Myers got what was coming to him.
Which brings us to a parallel point.
To something I haven’t covered in a LONG time.
Pizzagate.
Or Pedogate.
Most of all, the John Podesta scandal which WikiLeaks unearthed.
First, I’d like to salute all the people who turned out in D.C. on the 25th to advocate for missing children.
We’re talking kidnapped, trafficked, raped, killed children.
And there is a very disturbing “video” of which I was just made aware today thanks to the ever-vigilant reporter David Seaman.
Said video is more sound than image, but it is purported to be a recording of John Podesta beating a child at Comet Ping Pong in Washington, D.C. at a Heaving Breathing show.
Heavy Breathing is one of the bizarre bands (including Sex Stains) which played at this “family” venue run by James Alefantis.
Simply put: John Podesta’s cryptographically verifiable emails on WikiLeaks seem to point to him being AT BEST a pedophile, and at worst a violent child molester possibly involved in Satanic ritual sacrifice of children.
I’m not making this shit up.
Go read the emails for yourself.
Do some research.
It is the freakiest shit on the planet.
Look at it too long, and you want to vomit (while beating the crap out of Podesta).
That’s level one.
The emails.
Level two is/are the tentacles.
It involves Hillary.
Why was Hillary seemingly covering for Laura Silsby in Haiti?
In other words, why was the Secretary of State (Clinton) interceding for an American woman who had been convicted of child trafficking in Haiti?
You can read the story.
Likewise, certain of these Clinton emails are on WikiLeaks.
There are the “after ‘wheels-up'” statements.
But then we get to James Alefantis.
This motherfucker…
No, actually…if he was fucking mothers that would be somewhat socially acceptable.
Be it appears that his establishment IS INDEED integral to unraveling the pedogate ring.
To sum up, it appears that American “elites” (both Democrat and Republican) have a certain predilection for little boys and girls.
Some of the elites are also heavily immersed in occult practices.
Hillary is one of these.
Larry Nichols confirmed that Bill Clinton told him specifically of Hillary’s monthly jaunts to California to participate in a witches’ coven.
As I’ve mentioned before, Hillary would not have been playing second fiddle at such events.
And if that seems farfetched, we can point to the Bohemian Club (aka Bohemian Grove) [also in California] and their yearly opening ceremony called “the Cremation of Care”…at which they perform a “mock” sacrifice of an infant in the shadows of a giant (40 ft-tall?) statue of Moloch.
This is the meeting that has drawn (and continues to draw) the likes of Kissinger, Ted Turner, Reagan, Nixon…and so many more “elites”.
But let’s back up one level.
James Alefantis is a “bad (or sick)” person.
Ok, I couldn’t help it.
More accurately, he’s a sick, sick person.
His Instagram was archived.
And, as David Seaman correctly points out, it fetishizes the sale and abuse of children.
[this is where Violet and Daisy come back in…because they had no one truly looking out for them]
But let’s move laterally for a moment.
The sickest of the bunch might just be Tony Podesta, John’s brother.
This guy’s art collection is like a pedophile’s dream.
But also a Satanist’s dream.
The art that Tony Podesta (and his former wife Heather) collected (and presumably still collect) is some sick fucking shit!
So when you start to tie all this stuff together, John Podesta’s coded (not encrypted) messages made public by WikiLeaks start to take on a very ominous tone indeed.
But the video I alluded to can be found with a simple Google search of “John Podesta Skippy video”.
Yes, even the woeful Huffington Post (I refuse to italicize that crap publication) wrote about John Podesta’s bizarre alter ego years ago: Skippy.
As stated, to my eyes, the video shows very little.
But the sound is of the utmost importance.
Unfortunately, with my highly-trained ear (I advanced a year in ear training classes in one day of university) I am not hearing what other researchers are hearing.
HOWEVER, it seems that someone is fucking with John Podesta.
And I can’t help thinking that is, in general, a good thing.
In other words, someone has “the goods” on Podesta.
The video, incidentally, ostensibly has a child (a horrifying sound…like Lou Reed’s Berlin to the nth degree) begging “John” and (not-quite-alternately) “Skippy” to stop the beating.
I will say this.
I do believe it to be a genuine article.
But in my honesty, I do not hear the words “John” nor “Skippy” at any point.
Yet, I believe it is John Podesta beating a child.
And I believe the general outline of pizzagate/pedogate to be true.
And so, dear friends, we owe it to children to remain vigilant.
Sexual abuse ruins lives.
It is very likely that Podesta (and his brother) himself (themselves) was (were) abused.
It doesn’t excuse their actions.
But it goes a certain distance in explaining them.
However, the occult (which has a direct tie-in to Marina Abramovic…again, verified in WikiLeaks emails) aspect is really hard to fathom.
It’s so bad that I don’t want to fathom it.
But we can’t ignore it.
We can’t be afraid.
We can’t just roll over and die.
I’d rather be wrong about Podesta than for a single child to suffer rape or torture or death at the hands of sadistic monsters.
So there you have it.
That’s how a Pauly Deathwish review goes.
Buy the ticket. Take the ride.
As Hunter S. Thompson said.
I will tell you when a film sucks.
And I will tell you when a film is great.
And I will also tell you when something in the world is fucked up.
The nightly news and the morning paper won’t say “fucked up”.
And, somehow, that explains why they are truth-neutered.
But I ain’t got nothin’ to lose.
My life sucks.
And my life is beautiful.
But I’m down here at the bottom.
On the killing floor, as Howlin’ Wolf sang.
The abattoir blues, as Nick Cave sang.
I ain’t so deluded as to think that lying will get me a better life.
I’m sick of lies.
I’m too old to care.
Go ahead, kill me.
It doesn’t matter.
I’ve got no career for you to ruin.
And I understand the high bar for libel of public figures.
So go ahead, John Podesta: keep comparing us to Sandy Hook truthers.
Yes, by the way, Sandy Hook was fake.
But you’re not weaseling out of this one.
You’re caught.
So let that Raskolnikov guilt sink in.
A thousand times worse than death.
You are a sick, sick person.
I hope I’m wrong.
But I don’t fucking think so.
-PD
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