#underdown

[lunacy-loon]

How's life?

Wip so far but yeyyeye

[roughridingrednecks]

Underdown

[raynbowclown]

Beat the Devil

John Huston’s Beat the Devil stars Humphrey Bogart as Billy Dannreuther, the front man for a group of swindlers stranded in an Italian port town, scheming to take ownership of uranium-rich land in Africa. Also stranded is a naive British couple, Mr. and Mrs. Chelm (Edward Underdown and Jennifer Jones). Flirtations and a web of lies ensue among the group, testing romantic loyalty and allegiances…

[screenshothaven]

Beat the Devil (1953)

[deep--dive]

Bite my tongue Swallow the pain A bit disturbed by these displays Now we've got nothing to say Life is too precious to waste...

Give me one reason to take the breath we breathe for granted Hold it in so long that you forget to say Give me one reason to remain confined within the fences Stuck here with you and my Soul on Display

Life is too precious to waste...

from GRAN TURISMO 7 Original Soundtrack (2022)

[mariocki]

Man on the Run (1949)

"Don't touch it! Leave that for the police. Ain't you ever heard of such things as fingerprints?"

"Hark at him! Who's been filling you up with that stuff?"

"A gentleman by the name of Dick Barton."

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Jim Underdown

Published: Jan 11, 2023

Ask the Atheist

Is it true the late pope was buried in multiple caskets?

R. Tarsi,

Egg Harbor, WI

No one who’s ever been to – or even seen pictures of – the Vatican should be shocked that former Pope, Benedict XVI, was buried in three (that’s right three) different coffins. St. Peter’s Basilica, with its gold accoutrements, bronze columns and doors, and priceless art is the very definition of excess, so why chintz on the pope’s funeral? Vows of poverty be damned!

[ Inside St. Peter’s ]

Jesus (had he ever lived) would have been appalled at the garishness of it all, I’m sure.

When I first heard about the triple coffins, I was incredulous. What? They’re going to chop this guy up and spread him around?! Holey moley! What kind of messed up ancient ritual is this? Are they punishing the guy for resigning before the Grim Reaper could get him? Is he finally going to get his just due for being in the Hitler Youth in the 1940s?

[ List of popes in St. Peter’s ]

I grew up Catholic for a bit and have heard plenty of their wacky ideas over the years – transubstantiation, limbo, the trinity, to name a few – but hacking a guy up seemed extreme even for the Catholic Church. They must be splitting the body up to send it on tour to raise money was one of my early thoughts.

Then I read that the coffins would be nested inside each other like those Russian Matryoshka dolls – which is a bit less gruesome but still excessive. Ok, that does make more sense… than dismemberment.

Here’s how it went.

The first box was made of cypress and, along with the pope’s body, contained bags of gold, silver, and copper coins. The cypress symbolizes humility – you know, of the guy who’s being buried in 3 caskets as a part of a multi-million dollar funeral.

I’m not making this up.

The second box was made of lead and had a skull and crossbones carved into. Ok, that’s actually kind of cool. But lead? The guy who carved the decorations into the lead will no doubt soon follow the pope to the pearly gates… or at least have some cognitive issues. I’d bet Superman sleeps in a similar sarcophagus – probably with his “S” logo on it instead of the skull and crossbones.

The third box was made of elm which evidently represents dignity, and housed the other two caskets. To reinforce the humility theme from box #1, the elm coffin was sealed with gold nails, which any carpenter – even Jesus – would tell you won’t do jack to hold it shut. Gold has terrible tensile, compressive, and yield strengths compared to a common steel nail. Not to mention they’re expensive as hell…

Each of the coffins was sealed with wax and wrapped with silk ropes. Surely the wax will keep grave robbers from all those coins. Again… tensile strength people! Are there no engineers on the Vatican payroll?

If they actually told us about the 3-casket extravaganza, what are they not telling us?

I wonder…

Was he buried in three pairs of underwear under his robes – one Jockey™, one Mormon, and one Orthodox Jewish – just hedge his bets to get into heaven? Those ought to help him get through the pearly gates, though St. Peter will ask him about the Hitler Youth thing. And God is very detail-oriented, you know.

Did each of his hands have 3 pinky rings on it – all perhaps donated by guilt-ridden Mafiosi over the years?

How many of the 135 Swiss Guards will it take to carry that heavy-ass triple load down to the catacombs?

I also wonder if the money bags made it all the way to the tomb. I sorta hope one of the workers palmed the coins before that casket got sealed up. Seems like a waste to bury perfectly good money with a guy dressed in silk and ruby slippers.

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Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin was far less obscenely ostentatious. And the UK is actually real. For a former CEO of a corporation selling imaginary treatments for imaginary diseases, and imaginary travel to imaginary destinations...?

[bookcoversonly]

Title: The Key In The Lock | Author: Beth Underdown | Publisher: VIKIN (2022)

[eemoo1o-kuroo]

Why. Is this not. On Spotify.

[randomlygg]

[lunacy-loon]

The bby of the gang! she just a baby! (one that can rip your face off)

[mostlybritishactors]

Edward Underdown

[screenshotingmonstercinema]

[gbhbl]

EP Review: Chemical Storm - Digital Dementia (Self Released)

Six years after the release of their debut, Kent thrashers Chemical Storm awake from their slumber to bring us their brand new, self released EP, Digital Dementia. A six year wait for new music is a long time to wait for any band, never mind just after a debut, but even more so when that debut was as well received as Doomed From Day One was. You would have been forgiven for assuming Chemical…

[deep--dive]

I reach for something And came back with nothing I know there's something out there Proving I need to be I dreamed of being Somewhere where no one knows my name Lying in the wait of something Caught between the Sun and the Moon

I'm gonna surf my soul Yes, I'm gonna show them all today High up on the break And I'm gonna surf my soul today

Is this blood or is this power? In this day, the twilight hour Bring me food, bring me water This is how; this is now Love me more and love me harder In this night, the witching hour Kiss me now, kiss forever This is how; this is now

from Gran Turismo 4 Original Soundtrack (2010)

[mariocki]

Man in a Suitcase: Night Flight to Andorra (1.30, ITC, 1968)

"You know we're not in this for kicks by now, don't you?"

"I heard a story about Buck, whoever Buck might be, something about taking me behind the sheds and murdering me."

"Ha. Well, old Buck watches a lot of TV, ma'am."