“The unconscious is the larger circle which includes within itself the smaller circle of the conscious; everything conscious has its preliminary step in the unconscious, whereas the unconscious may stop with this step and still claim full value as a psychic activity. Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.”
George Orwell (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950)
” Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. “
Recently released from a mental hospital, The Mad Butcher Otto Lehman (Victor Buono) is still seriously unhinged. With a healthy appetite for good meat and pretty women.
Otto resumes his profession as “the best butcher in Vienna” while obsessing over Berta, a sexy neighbor who loves undressing in front of her window. But when Otto’s nagging wife Anna threatens to have him recommitted to the hospital, Otto strangles her, then grinds up her body and sells it as a string of delicious sausages.
With his meat treats the hit of Vienna, Otto continues to grind people into sausage links, when friends and relatives start asking questions about Anna’s disappearance, they too start ending up in the butcher’s display case.
The words “Buon appetito” (Enjoy Your Meal) appear over the final shot, a close-up of the sausages made when Victor Buono falls into the meat-grinding machine. After a few seconds, the letter “O” is added, changing the caption to “Buono appetito.” (Good Appetite)
The plot for The Mad Butcher appears to be inspired by the grisly real-life case of Fritz Haarmann, the so-called “Butcher of Hanover” who abused and murdered a number of young boys in the early 1920s. Haarman then dismembered his victims and peddled meat from their bodies; selling it as black market pork in the streets of Hanover.
Friedrich Heinrich Karl “Fritz” Haarmann was convicted and found guilty of 24 murders and executed on April 15, 1925
(October 25, 1879 – April 15, 1925)
(Fritz Haarmann being led into court in December 1924)
Haarmann was executed by guillotine. His last words before he was beheaded were: “I repent, but I do not fear death.”
“You’re ghostin’ us, motherfucker. I don’t care who you are back in the world, you give away our position one more time, I’ll bleed ya, real quiet. Leave ya here. Got that?”
A frozen turkey vulture fell out of the South Dakota skies on Tuesday – after its wings become iced over as it was flying through a severe blizzard.
The unfortunate bird landed with a thud on the porch of Sioux Falls pastor Adam Weber, sat straight upright and then made to hide under a table on the decking. ‘My wife was making breakfast, and she suddenly yelled, “Adam! A large bird just fell out of the sky!“
Officials with the service told Weber that they couldn’t offer any real assistance and that he should monitor the bird.
‘I felt bad for the guy, I really did, ‘I hope he’s alright.’
The Animal Control Officer said numerous people have been complaining about the presence of the birds, as her office received more than 20 reports between Monday and Thursday alone. ‘Everybody in the world is calling them in,’ she said. ‘People are creeped out.’
A Sioux Falls Animal Control officer told the Argus Leader that when wild birds are covered with ice, they are unable to roost in trees and will stay on the ground until they thaw out and storms pass.
Incredibly, this wasn’t the first frosty bird to land on Weber’s house. A second turkey vulture fell from the sky onto his roof, but hasn’t moved and appears to be dead.
The area has suffered extreme weather over the past week – with heavy snow fall causing disruption to the whole state. Turkey vultures regularly migrate from Canada and the north of the USA to South America – sometimes hundreds of thousands of them fly at the same time – in one of natures great sights.
Dylan by Ralph Steadman
Sigmund Freud (6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939)
George Orwell (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950)
