Napple suggested that my life is like that of the character Jules in Pulp Fiction but I don't want to agree.
Yes there was the first responder on my own with neighbour's gardener incident on 4th April 2020 that caused a huge change in my career, the start of my pilgrimage as an actor and comedian.
Yet that was not a situation where my life was in danger and it wasn't "out on the highway"
In Pulp Fiction the character Jules is a killer, a sociopath who I think has a distorted belief in God and the consent of that God to kill, he is a "righteous killer", quotes from.the Bible.
Jules infers that his "miraculous survival" is a message from the God he already believes in to dramatically change his behaviour, he will obey God's command "not to kill"
Jules has a desire to be "good with his God" before his miraculous survival
Jules and Vincent are two characters in a Morality story.
Jules infers a message from.his God and obeys
Vincent ignores the message and is killed.

I am ambivalent about "being good with the Christian God"
I do not see great value in being a faithful believer in that God
The existence or non existence of the Christian God is an interesting question but not of the importance to me as it is to Jules
If my near death incident was a message "not to sin" then I chose to disobey that night

My Dashing Ducati has six gears, there's not much point in selecting 6th gear at speeds of less than 110km/hr

Major, et alia.

The unique Mitchell drives a vehicle with a first gear and a clutch!

The Manilius scholar, A E Housman, who wrote of the Tree,

'Loveliest of trees, the cherry ... ' also penned a poem, ending

' ... Mithridates, he died old.'

These little shocks R good 4 the heart.

The Mossad of today are not the Mossad of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s.
The Chinese spooks are still subjecting me to low level telephone harassment.
I am unimportant, an irrelevancy.
I will not go gently into that good night, I will rage against the dying of my lights
Chasing the next role. Grandpa in "Planet Caravan"

This whole thread is like that bit in Pulp Fiction where Jules has a total change of character after almost getting shot.

MajorMitchell wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 07, 2024 1:31 am

On Monday I will telephone the Israeli Embassy in Australia with a message.
Pay the family of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom* $Aus 10 million within 28 days.
* Zomi Franckom killed by IDF in Palestine

Haven't you had enough trouble with the law MM? I'd be more scared of Mossad than the Chinese...

MajorMitchell wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 07, 2024 1:31 am

On Monday I will telephone the Israeli Embassy in Australia with a message.
Pay the family of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom* $Aus 10 million within 28 days.
* Zomi Franckom killed by IDF in Palestine

Quite the abrupt change of topic, no? Seems like it deserves a thread in the politics subforum.

On Monday I will telephone the Israeli Embassy in Australia with a message.
Pay the family of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom* $Aus 10 million within 28 days.
* Zomi Franckom killed by IDF in Palestine

Acting in films is one way to defy my mortality.

The bit that gets me confused is why am I still.here?
Is it just so I can telephone my 98 yo Aunt Meg in her Aged Care bed?
She's been ready to cross the River Jordan for a few years yet she is still alive.

All the guys I used to ride with, dead & scattered in the wind
The only people left alive I occasionally see who.knew us back then were on the periphery and they don't ride motorcycles these days, they look.after grandchildren etc

One way to Sydney in less than 14 hours (or back) was an epic ride

"I am a night rider baby, where I ride there's no coming back unchanged"

I had that line before the Mad Max movie came out.
I nearly got work with Grant Page, went to an interview with him before first Mad Max movie, but thought Grant was going to want a lot and not pay enough
He also didn't explain the exact nature of the work
He would have been in his 30s
I was about 22yo and blew him.off,

My saying goes back to when we rode Honda 750cc and Kawasaki 900cc roadbikes from Adelaide to Sydney in the late 1970s & 1980s.
A ~1,500km trip there & another 1,500 km back and we'd try and do it in 12 hours or less
You were good if you could do it in less than fourteen hours

And just as Kestas had planned, we traveled far beyond the reach of men on machines. And the Road Warrior? That was the last we ever saw of him. He lives now, only in our memories...

Mad Mitch - Road Warrior

Thank.you dipbro brainbomb

My role in How to Summon a Demon
Cult leader

Weird night in Adelaide
Saturday has been strange.
I drove to the southern suburbs of Adelaide, Onkaparinga Hills to buy a second hand medieval helmet for $Aus 175 Sat afternoon.
Saw a neighbour out watering her garden, elderly lady, hadn't spokento her for quite a while, stopped to have a chat, ended up cleaning her bird bath then went to Onkaparinga.
On the way home, the long climb up Willunga Hill, near the top I pass a Ute, it's loaded with firewood, blue plastic tarp, ropes and a load binder have come loose, trailing behind the Ute.
So I blow car horn as I go past the slow ute then stop in safe spot just over the top of the hill, wave the guy in ute down, he stops, gets out, sees the hazard, thanks me, then asks me if I believe in Jesus....



Then about midnight tonight at home I get a telephone call from a Texan who I met during Adelaide Fringe Festival, given him a note with my contact info & the film title

and has just seen the short film Formosus the Mystic and the Witch on YouTube and found my telephone number and called me to say that he really liked the film

Just finished film shoots and sound recording of extra dialogue for a short film titled How to Summon a Demon

..traffic ahead of me & went into race mode

Fkn auto correction

There has to be more to my not being killed than just:
Luck
Being an experienced motorcycle rider on a damn good Italian motorcycle
Then there's my behaviour after the big scare.
The adrenalin rush,
I didn't stop, from that intersection going north the road drops into the river valley of Hindmarsh River a winding climb then a steep winding climb and the undulating run through to and over Mt Jagged then a flat straight into Mt Compass.

So I settled mentally in the run through the river valley and caught up to traffic ahead if me answered went into "race mode" & rode fast.

Yet I wasn't killed.
Came very close to.it, bit wasn't killed
Why?

Daytime, my helmet is white, leather jacket is white, Ducati is bright yellow, headlight on.
It was a dumb mistake that nearly killed me