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Sunday, May 10, 2009
[Last copied article for now (from the Guardian); taking a few days break (I'll probably end up posting something tomorrow/day after, bit of an obsessive compulsion but mehhh) from posting while I catch on some emails and whatnot. Synchs up to the Veronicas post very nicely with some pertinent background related to them (identity confusion/loss of individual identity, psychic connection etc).]
The first thing Amie Curtis, 27, ever did without her sister Julie Stenner was get on a bus, aged 16: "It was really weird. I didn't have anyone to talk to." This extreme reliance on another human being is both the best and worst aspect of being an identical twin. "We're so close, I feel blessed to have that, but I wonder if I'd be more outgoing if I'd been on my own. We've never really needed to make friends."
Amie and Julie now have to cope with living in different cities, since Julie left their native Wales to live with her husband in Bristol. They hate being apart, but it has meant Julie thinking of herself as an individual for the first time in her life. "It's a conscious decision, forcing myself away from Amie. If I didn't do it now, I knew it would get harder. But it's been difficult."
For Peter Davey, 48, the bond with his brother Neil has grown stronger with age. "We often use facial expressions instead of words as we know each other so well. And our text messages constantly cross. It's small stuff really, but it adds up."
Neil broke his leg a few years ago, and woke one night in excruciating pain: he learned the following day that Peter had woken at exactly the same time, in agony. Is there a scientific explanation for this? "No, but a third of identical twins have experienced some sort of psychic event," [kind of freakish how much this synchs up to my post actually in my opinion] says Professor Tim Spector, who runs the department of twin research and genetic epidemiology unit at King's College, London. "Most scientists believe these are spurious, though - coincidences that are remembered and thus reinforced."
Twin research has looked mainly at the differences between pairs, but the new focus is on understanding why they aren't more similar. "Identical twins are clones," Spector says, "yet our experiments show they are genetically only around 80% similar. This means genes can actually change through their lives - we just don't yet know how."
All the twins he has worked with share one complaint - the loss of individual identity. Jo Cherrington, mother of one-year-old girls Alice and Lilly Granshaw, is doing her best to treat her daughters as individuals: "I'm going to encourage them to do different things." But Alice and Lilly are already a team. "They giggle in their own language. They don't have much interest in other babies, they're so busy with each other."
Some twins grow up as individuals from the start, often by circumstance. Jean Macpherson, 78, spent the first two years of her life in hospital with asthma. Then, aged seven, she was packed off to Switzerland for the air, leaving her sister Anne Mallinson behind. They were reunited a year later as war evacuees, sent first to Devon, then to Canada. But Jean got engaged at 22 and moved to Scotland with her husband, Sir Tommy Macpherson. In the last 20 years, as Jean and Tommy have spent more time in London, the sisters have grown closer, and now live just 500 yards apart. "We're very admiring of each other, and supportive," Anne says. "We feel lucky. Having my sister enriches my life."
Being an identical twin has its slapstick moments. Jean and Anne are often mistaken by their neighbours. "I've been kissed in the street by strangers," Jean says. And Amie Curtis once waved to her sister in a mirror during dance class, before realising she was waving at herself [...]. Is there really no way of telling her apart from her sister? She thinks. "We've got different tattoos."
Thursday, May 7, 2009
[More suggestive official merchandise further down]
Her powers include super-human strength, super-human speed, and the ability to interface directly with electronic devices and computers; she is also able to physically change her appearance between that of the blue-haired, ethereal-looking Cybergirl and the less conspicuous, mousy-haired Ashley, and can alter her clothing at will.
She was originally known as the Cyber Replicant Human Prototype 6000, the only one of her model to be built. Not only are her powers far and above that of earlier models, she has a much wider emotional scope than her predecessors. She ran away from her planet of origin in order to explore the beings she was modeled after, namely humans." In it, the twins (pictured in it above) played 'Sapphire' and 'Emerald' (this show will have certainly played into their programming), daughters of the Mayor who are huge fans of 'Cybergirl' but shun Cybergirl's real identity at school (all very Hannah Montana-esque).
They should have spelled 'Veronicas' with a k.
[Spot the cats below! (there are more than you think; note wrists + pin on front)]
Here we see the twins pictured with the seal of the President of the United States pin, perhaps an overt suggestion that they are 'presidential model' Monarch programmed sex-slaves.
In their videos duality is also symbolized as in one of them (image above) they both have a black/white striped shield/badge and also black/white hair.
The following Oz MTV Awards also had pyramid symbolism (black triangles), note one of the twins' cat-ears (a common theme throughout the post; they often perform wearing cat-ears as was the case at these awards).
Of course they are also MTV butterflies/angels, reading from their bible/programming script below (note hair alteration black/white duality).
Some more Veronicas shots here (skull and bones [one eyed], leopard etc].
They have the usual array of symbolic tattoos used to mark slaves, including suggestive ones made for a handler "My blood is red for you" on like a glass/fragmented-type heart thing, "Pure"...
Twin/Mirrored Bluebirds... pin-up girls with "Forever and a Day" written on paper entwining (snake/phallic symbolism) the girl. And some others.
It's all painfully predictable (there is a reason why it's all so formulaic [MK follows a specific formula in terms of it's programming ((it always goes without saying that these symbols are often used triggers))]), but they are also Barbie Dolls... (see top video where they each bite the head off a barbie also)
...And Monarch Dolls!
Three Little Kittens (Demi [=half, posted about on Demi Moore] Lovato Disney slave in the centre, daughter of a 'Diana' butterfly 'Diana Hart' + a country music artist).
Note the Mona Lisa with her face blocked out (and "Animals Australia" has dual meaning).
Click your heels together 3 times together and repeat after me, there's no place like home (ruby slippers above [there are tonnes more I haven't pictured]; also note the tiger print).
More skull and bones (blue on the black/white striped duality socks), ruby slippers on the other one + they're handcuffed (lots of stuff in various pictures that I haven't mentioned).
Like many of the young Disney slaves (Miley's Hello Kitty one pictured above [for the sex-kitten emphasis, originally posted here], Ashley Tisdale and Katy Perry are with them above, and speaking of masked kitty kats here is the obligatory sex-kitten mask + ears on the other twin below), one of the twins, Jess also had some "leaked" photographs which in the interest of being thorough I've posted below.
The latest leaked image of Jess Origliasso even has the checkerboard floor in shot (the above shot is obviously her, her management have plausible deniability as the top of her face is out of shot).
Let's see what products these twins are being made to sell to the kids; some I've already posted further up such as the duality checkerboard 'Girlz Only' sexually suggestive 'do not disturb' door handle sign, which goes with the bed cover set (note black/white/red colours, birds, the meaning of the word 'love' has long been being chipped away at [soon it will be meaningless]).
Kittens as you'd expect feature on their clothes, and skull and bones and whatnot.
Note the butterfly (+ usual stuff) below on the red/white striped top.
More suitable clothing for little girls, the below right black/white (black/white/red is a very symbolic colour scheme used by the Nazis, Murdoch's Fox News and such [I posted a lot on this in one of my earlier postings on the film 'The Bank Job']) striped dress has a red kitty-cat head pin on it.
The twins partying with Mickey (note one twin in black one in white, duality), some lovely imagery below too! (in particular, Bambie!)
