Mount Everest (Tibetan: ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ, Chomolungma or Qomolangma /ˈtʃoʊmoʊˌlɑːŋmə/ CHOH-moh-LAHNG-mə, "Holy Mother"; Chinese: 珠穆朗玛峰; pinyin: Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng; Nepali: सगरमाथा, Sagarmāthā) is the earth's highest mountain, with a peak at 8,848 metres (29,029 ft) above sea level. It is located in the Mahalangur section of the Himalayas. The international border between China and Nepal runs across the precise summit point. Its massif includes neighboring peaks Lhotse, 8,516 m (27,940 ft); Nuptse, 7,855 m (25,771 ft); and Changtse, 7,580 m (24,870 ft).
In 1856, the Great Trigonometric Survey of British India established the first published height of Everest, then known as Peak XV, at 29,002 ft (8,840 m). In 1865, Everest was given its official English name by the Royal Geographical Society upon a recommendation by Andrew Waugh, the British Surveyor General of India. Waugh named the mountain after his predecessor in the post, Sir George Everest. Although Tibetans had called Everest "Chomolungma" for centuries, Waugh was unaware of this because Nepal and Tibet were closed to foreigners.
Plot
Abigail is a typical teenager. When an angel tells her she's been chosen to have God's child, her first instinct is to look for a way out. Family and friends aren't much help: Mom is too fed up with her to listen, her stepfather can't understand her, her real father has moved on. And her boyfriend has begun to suspect her of cheating on him. Eventually she abandons her comfortable middle-class life for the streets of Boston, where she hooks up with a group of runaways led by the enigmatic Sultan. But just when a new kind of happiness starts to feel within reach, Abigail suddenly finds herself more alone than ever. Drawing on Dreyer, Godard and "Joan of Arcadia," Absent Father is a meditation on love, freedom, and the quest for grace in a complicated, often chaotic world.
Keywords: loss, reference-to-god, teenage-love, teenage-pregnancy, teenage-runaway
Not every parent can be perfect.
Abigail: Why would you think I'm anything special?
Angel: God doesn't WANT to punish you, Abigail.
Plot
Abigail is a typical teenager. When an angel tells her she's been chosen to have God's child, her first instinct is to look for a way out. Family and friends aren't much help: Mom is too fed up with her to listen, her stepfather can't understand her, her real father has moved on. And her boyfriend has begun to suspect her of cheating on him. Eventually she abandons her comfortable middle-class life for the streets of Boston, where she hooks up with a group of runaways led by the enigmatic Sultan. But just when a new kind of happiness starts to feel within reach, Abigail suddenly finds herself more alone than ever. Drawing on Dreyer, Godard and "Joan of Arcadia," Absent Father is a meditation on love, freedom, and the quest for grace in a complicated, often chaotic world.
Keywords: loss, reference-to-god, teenage-love, teenage-pregnancy, teenage-runaway
Not every parent can be perfect.
Abigail: Why would you think I'm anything special?
Angel: God doesn't WANT to punish you, Abigail.
Plot
Aliens appear at the UN and invite Earth to join the Galactic Federation, there is a catch though, Earth has one year to send a team of it's best fighters to represent the palnet in an unarmed combat tournament. The fate of the Earth depends on the tournaments outcome.
Keywords: action-hero, alien, beating, black-belt, blood, blood-spatter, boxing, brawl, brazilian-jiu-jitsu, capoeira
The UK's first sci-fi/action/martial arts feature film
Fighting for the planet
McCurdy: Have you heard about the trials?::Silvio Simac: Does a bear shit in the Vatican! What::Silvio Simac: do you think our chances will be::Silvio Simac: against the aliens?::McCurdy: Minimal::Silvio Simac: Chances of surviving and coming back::Silvio Simac: heroes?::McCurdy: Negligible... but it will be one hell::McCurdy: of a trip!::Silvio Simac: Where do I sign up?::[Mc Curdy and Silvio Simac lock hands in a handshake]
Comander X: Before the Alien visitors departed they left as gifts, items of their technology: The Towers were seeds that when planted in damp soil would grow within minutes into colossal structures using the elements that they found in the Earth.::[We cut to a helicopter view of Docklands now completely dominated by a colossal alien tower that dwarfs Cannery Wharf and the other surrounding buildings which are tiny in comparison, the base of the Alien building is over half a mile wide. COMMANDER X is obviously way over his head]::Comander X: They are apparently living organic metal structures... go figure!
Plot
As a surprise, two horse owners decide to ride their animals themselves in a steeplechase. But Bill Davidson's horse "Admiral" behaves weirdly, and falls hard after an obstacle. Bill dies from his injuries. His friend Alan York suspects the animal was doped by unscrupulous bookies and starts to investigate. He doesn't know how serious his opponents are, and that he's in danger to suffer the exact same fate as his friend!
Keywords: based-on-novel, car-crash, crooked-cop, dog-racing, donkey, donkey-race, female-nudity, horse, horse-race, jockey
Ok, here we go
I confess I wasn't perfect but you're old enough to know
When good times fade to bad, it leaves fear and desperation
Bestowed upon my mind
I lost sight of the mountain
Horizon fades away
Darling, darling, I, oh I'm trying but my
Reasons are falling down, the slopes of Everest
Too steep to slow my fall
'cause you know I can't stand when we crawl
I promised you paradise and I won't stop till I find it,
God knows I need you now
Pretended not to care but is it so hard to believe,
I only wanted you to want me
I lost sight of the mountain
Horizon fades away
Darling, darling, I, oh I'm trying but my
Reasons are falling down, the slopes of Everest
Too steep to slow my fall
'cause you know I can't stand when we crawl
Darling, darling, I, oh I'm trying but my
Reasons are falling down, the slopes of Everest
Too steep to slow my fall,
Climbed up way too high to hear my call
I shout darling, darling, don't fall by the wayside now,
You shroud my sky but you never ever told me why
So welcome to nowhere, the wilderness where you belong,
Everest your only friend
But I'll still be your bearing, on a compass I thought was broken,
Haven't heard from you for days — what went wrong?
We waited for you in the dark for much too long
Well, can't you see it in my face? I like the way it's been
Whoa, whoa, I need to let you go
You never do it baby, you know I know
Whoa, whoa, I can't sleep anymore
It's true, I used to dream of black and blue
? anger in my mind,?
Wondered all the time myself, "What could it be for?"
Well, tell me what you love, you loathe, and you can live without it
Or maybe we could fuck all night and you'll forget about it
This time we know
I will be alone.
Ever wonder why
I don't even try?
Whoa, whoa, I need to let you go
You never do it baby, you know I know
Whoa, whoa, I can't sleep anymore
It's true, I used to dream of black and blue
Whoa, whoa, I need to let you go
You never do it baby, you know I know
Whoa, whoa, I can't sleep anymore
It's true, I used to dream of black and blue
This time we know
I will be alone.
Ever wonder why
(music: arcwelder lyrics: w.graber/s.macdonald)
(scott's part - there is a completely unrelated bill's part as well)
The thing that gets me down
On the second time around
Is I left but now
I'm back in the same place
Shoot an arrow through my heart
Tie an anchor to my cart 'til
I've lost my sense of self to self-efface
The business end's grown cold
Cause you're not allowed to be old
And I'm rooting for a horse that never pays
And I take it out on me
Repeat my history
And waste the time that no one can replace
My subjects stay the same love and work and fame
You could set your clock to follow my retrace
So here I am again
Unhappy where I am
But too afraid to stare me in the face
from the depth of the pacific
to the height of everest
and still the world is smoother
than a shiny ball-bearing
so i take a few steps back
and put on a wider lens
and it changes your skin,
your sex, and what your wearing
distance shows your silloutte
to be a lot like mine
like a sphere is a sphere
and all of us here
have been here all the time
you brought me to church,
cinder blocks, flourescent light
you brought me to church
at 7o'clock on a sunday night
and the band was rocking
and the floors were scrubbed clean
and everybody had a tambourine
so i took a deep breath and became
the white girl with the hair
and you sat right beside me
while everybody stared
and through the open window
i think the singing went outside
and floated up to tell
all the stars not to hide
cuz by the time church let out
the sky was much clearer
and the moon was so beautiful,
that the ocean held up a mirror
as we walked home we spoke slowly
we spoke slow,
and we spoke lowly
like it was taking more time
than usual to choose
the words to go
with your squeaky sandle shoes
like time is not a thing
that's ours to lose
from the height of the pacific
Twining our life together
Climbing up our Everest
Raising my eyes I wonder
How you feel your emptiness
So let me provide you with a smile, a smile of
happiness
So let me provide you with a smile, a smile of
happiness
Close your door
Crying over it
Close your door
Crying over it
Close your door…
…have you ever been alone?
Shining the light I tire
Climbing up our Everest
Setting aside my anger
Watching you with innocence
So let me provide you with a smile, a smile of
happiness
So let me provide you with a smile, a smile of
happiness
Close your door
Crying over it
Close your door
Crying over it
Close your door
Crying over it
Close your door
Crying over it
Crying over it
Crying over it
Crying over it
Crying over it
Crying…
I hear things I try to say
Echo back to me the opposite way
Everything I've read spinning round my head
Lets escape to where the air is cold & thin
Oh, I might have believed in a miracle once, Everest
Oh, I might have believed though I'm feeling deceived
and for all I care
I don't wanna know
Ghosts are dancing round the mime
Haunted by the sense of passing time
Dreamers know the way to survive the day
They'll escape to where the air is cold & thin
Oh, I might have believed in a miracle once, Everest
Oh, I might have believed though I'm feeling deceived
and for all I care
I don't wanna know
All the film has been exposed
In my photographic memory I suppose
When it rains it pours, screaming through the doors
All the pain & pent up eyesores I recall
Oh, I might have believed in a miracle once, Everest
Oh, I might have believed though I'm feeling deceived
and for all I care
I don't wanna know
Oh, I might have believed in a miracle once, Everest
Oh, I might have believed though I'm feeling deceived
and for all I care
I don't wanna know