Science Fiction Non-Fiction: James McLean (Millennium)

"An interview with an actor appearing on Star Trek would be more about the show and the character than the artist behind the role. We wanted to make sure that the artists on Millennium Group Sessions felt they were being interviewed for who they were, not being treated as a teat from which the fan could suckle more information about their favorite show."

 

-James McLean on efforts behind generating a campaign to bring back Frank Black and Millennium properly through exhaustive research and an intelligent approach much like the series itself, Back To Frank Black: A Return To Chris Carter's Millennium-

 

Citing Star Trek in this rather salient point is just one of the many made regarding a comprehensive work on Millennium and all involved in a fantastic read from the reference quality work that is the publication Back To Frank Black: A Return To Chris Carter's Millennium (2012).  That full analysis is forthcoming.

Millennium Google Hangout With That Other Millennium Group

Millennium - it never looked so good.  If we could only turn back time.  We have that chance.

 

For those interested in all things Chris Carter and particularly his phenomenal series Millennium and the world surrounding criminal profiler Frank Black, be sure to check in on Saturday, June 29th at 10:00 AM EST for a Google Hangout session hosted and moderated by author John Kenneth Muir and featuring the stars of the Millennium Group Sessions themselves Troy 'The Boy' Foreman, James McLean, Adam Chamberlain and Brian A. Dixon.

 

 

The Google Hangout session will be streamed live via Troy Foreman's You Tube link here.

As many of you know, I had the pleasure of contributing to the book Back To Frank Black:A  Return To Chris Carter's Millennium.  The book is a fascinating journey cover to cover back inside the world of Millennium.  The material assembled for the book is nothing short of astounding.  The things you will discover will amaze. In fact, I have been working on a proper review of the book slated to be posted here sometime in 2013.

 

For those interested in all of the topics surrounding the dense, dark and mysterious world of Millennium be sure to post your questions to muirbusiness@yahoo.com.  Your questions will be posed to those intimately involved with the Frank Black Campaign, editors and writers connected with the aforementioned book, and those involved with Back To Frank Black itself.  This is your chance to have some fun within the Millennium playground.

 

I can't say enough about, not only regarding the substantive level of knowledge by those involved, but of the kind of wonderful people of which this other and real Millennium Group is comprised.  John, Troy, James, Adam and Brian will no doubt have plenty to offer you.

 

So this Friday, steer clear of seductive, beautiful women (even if this is who you are).

 

 

Make every effort to avoid escorting strange, alluring but beautiful women home.  In other words, stay alive and get a good night sleep.

 

 

And definitely do not go into your basement! How many times do we have to tell people that?

 

 

Join the group Saturday, June 29th at 10:00 AM EST!

 

 

They won't be horsing around.  (Okay, maybe a little.)

 

 

Kick back with a fresh pot of coffee! A single cup will do.

 

 

And join in for the explosive action-packed session!

 

 

The Google Hangout should be a blast offering wonderful insights into the terrifying world of Millennium, the ongoing campaign, the creation of the book and its many deeper investigations and much, much more.

 

Be there or never return.

 

Memo To J. Edgar Hoover: Flying Saucers Information Concerning (1950)

I've just finished a good long look at The X-Files Season Two, a full, whopping 25 episodes long.  How fitting a story connecting the FBI to Ufology should made headlines yesterday as I had just completed The X-Files, Season Two, Episode 25, season finale, Anasazi, which centers aspects tied to the very story making the news.  Anyone interested in all things Ufological would no doubt find interest.

Anasazi centers on the story of a computer hacker called The Thinker who taps into secret U.S. Government files including the mythic MJ-12 file (Majestic 12; codename assigned to a secret committee of scientists, military and government officials under the authorship of President Harry S. Truman in 1947 following Roswell -Operation Majestic Twelve) and the events surrounding Roswell, New Mexico.  Anasazi, suggesting the furtive group as an international collective, cleverly blurs the lines between fiction and non-fiction.  It ties the science fiction realities of Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully and the events of The X-Files, Season Two, Episode 5, Duane Barry directly to these elusive files.  Chris Carter was always masterful at weaving real life conspiracy mythology (?) with his own science fiction mythology and the events in yesterday's news are linked to the culmination of such ideas in the David Duchovny and Chris Cater-scripted Anasazi from Season Two.






















So a one page memo, intriguingly connected to the often impenetrable world surrounding The X-Files, and Anasazi in particular, was released in April 2011 under the Freedom Of Information Act.  The memo is dated March 22, 1950.  The memo was directed to J. Edgar Hoover from a man named Guy Hottel, then head of the FBI field office in Washington D.C..



There's no shortage of myth and intrigue that surrounds the J. Edgar Hoover era.  In Chris Carter's Millennium (1996-1999), Season Three, Episode 14, Matryoshka, the writers, Erin Maher and Kay Reindl (look for an outstanding interview with those writers in the wonderful publication Back To Frank Black: A Return To Chris Carter's Millennium (2012) available from Lulu), intelligently weave the idea that Hoover was in effect a member of the secret society that was The Millennium Group. Millennium directly tied the then director of the FBI, Hoover, to the mysterious group.  The X-Files also explored its own mythology with Hoover directly linked to The X-Files, Season One, Episode 19, Shapes, when Fox Mulder suggests a similar case forty years earlier was in effect the first X-file opened by J. Edgar Hoover himself.  The Hoover connection is indirectly explored further in The X-Files, Season Five, Episode 15, Travellers.  Hoover was neck deep in it within the smartly-written confines of these wonderfully original sci-fi series at the hands of Chris Carter. Carter was so good at mythology-building it was sometimes difficult to determine what was truth and what was fiction, while remaining endlessly entertaining within a unique look and cinematography not revisited since the end of that impactful series.



So with The X-Files and Millennium directly linking the FBI to questionable and allegedly historical events, here we have the release of a memo with the subject header of FLYING SAUCER INFORMATION CONCERNING.

The memo reveals the recovery of three saucers 50 feet in diameter.  An Air Force investigator indicated there was a recovery of "three bodies of human shape but only 3 feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture." *// So why is the memo making news today?  The FBI commented recently in a blog post that "The Hottel memo does not prove the existence of UFOs."  The FBI noted the events in Roswell July 1947 took place three years prior to the memo.  The FBI sees no connection and further remarked, "It is simply a second - or third-hand claim that we never investigated."  Really?  Wow.  And the Federal government wonders why people are skeptical of its transparency.  It's no surprise The X-Files was so overwhelmingly embraced for nine seasons.



The FBI noted, "The FBI has only occasionally been involved in investigating reports of UFOs and extraterrestrials. For a few years after the Roswell incident, Director Hoover did order his agents—the request of the Air Force—verify any UFO sightings. That practice ended in July 1950, four months after the Hottel memo, suggesting that our Washington Field Office didn't think enough of that flying saucer story to look into it."  Incredible. The point here is do you believe?  Like Mulder, I want to believe.

The latest update in the questions surrounding the world of Ufology merely serve to underscore the intelligence of Carter's series and its importance culturally. The government continues to control the flow of information just as The Cigarette-Smoking Man claimed throughout The X-Files. What do we know today? It's positively fascinating when creative people are able to integrate the political and cultural realities within science fiction as Carter managed so seamlessly and brilliantly with The X-Files and to know that over a decade on that that truth is absolutely still out there.



I had planned on spending some time on The X-Files Season Two this year and still do, but have placed that on hold to look more closely at Season One for both Fringe and Falling Skies.  I'm not exactly sure how I want to approach The X-Files.  It's massive in scale, scope, artistic integrity and sheer number of episodes.  I have such immense respect for the series and anything else by Chris Carter I'll definitely take it season by season.  The X-Files is definitely a series I look forward to spending some time on, whether in shorter posts or lengthier posts has yet to be determined.

The Secret Society: Sons Of Anarchy

Man cannot live by science fiction alone.  Well, that's not entirely true, but it sounded good. Still, perhaps a self-respecting Sci-Fi Fanatic can step away now and again.

I'm endlessly fascinated by the secret society in its many incarnations be it the mafia, Skull And Bones, the Freemasons, Hell's Angels, and in television, the Sons Of Anarchy [2008-present], now heading into its sixth season with seven slated to be the last. Perhaps its the fringe-like nature of those groups and their existence and in some cases the application of that universe especially in science fiction-related film and television.

I had a real opportunity to delve into that world for the 2012 publication Back To Frank Black: A Return To Chris Carter's Millennium.  It was the perfect canvas to really delve into the subculture through the character of Frank Black, played by Lance Henriksen and his fragile alliance/relationship to the Millennium Group in the unforgettable, compelling and continually rewarding series Millennium [1996-1999] by Chris Carter.

Over Christmas I took in the first season of popular FX TV series Sons Of Anarchy. It's not a program I'll be writing about outside of this one post, but it was indeed dramatically fascinating television with the cameras, like a window, offering us a glimpse into a world outsiders would likely never get to see, regardless of some of the over-the-top drama.  It's not surprising the series draws comparison to the likes of The Sopranos [1999-2007], which was one of the best to explore the furtive world of the mafia family.

Like some of the best written series it takes time for reflection through the lead's narration of his father's ideals for the Sons Of Anarchy as a secret society.

"First time I read Emma Goldman it wasn't in a book.  I was sixteen hiking near the Nevada border.  The quote was painted on a wall - in red.  When I saw those words, it was like someone ripped them from the inside of my head.  'Anarchism stands for liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion, the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property, liberation from the shackles and restraints of government.  It stands for social order - based on the free grouping of individuals.'  The concept was pure, simple, true.  ... Ultimately, ... true freedom requires sacrifice and pain.  Most human beings only think they want freedom.  In truth, they yearn for the bondage of social order, rigid laws, materialism.  The only freedom man really wants is the freedom to be comfortable."

Of course, the irony for any group with a code is that there is no true freedom. Like any group whereby members are beholden to that family rule base, no one is ever truly free.  I recall the simple but true lyric of Mick Hucknall's To Be Free from the recording Blue [1998], when he sang, "To be free is to feel free and the first one is a myth."  That myth looms large.  Even society is governed by norms, social mores, laws - a whole host of guidelines.

The Sons Of Anarchy like many secret groups is steeped in myth and the belief that freedom resides within the family, which is in many ways likewise a prison.  The intelligent Frank Black ultimately rejected the secret family group in the series Millennium understanding freedom would be restricted and that strings would indeed be attached.   Of course Millennium cleverly infused the series with tropes tied to horror and science fiction, which made that series even more infinitely appealing.

In the real world-grounded Sons Of Anarchy, Katey Sagal's character informs the wife of one of Sam Crowe [the Sons Of Anarchy group/family] that she and the Sons Of Anarchy are family to them and they should turn to them and count on them.  This is a familiar refrain within this world echoing Millennium's this is who we are.  The secret society as family offers a fascinating window into another world or subculture that works primarily within the framework of society breaking with the established law and rules where required to maintain their own insular place in society.  If you ever enjoyed The Sopranos, Sons Of Anarchy is a worthy successor.

Honestly, the secret society as family is something of an endless fascination for me.  The mafia has always been a riveting arena for it and has certainly been popularized and to a great extent glamorized in television and film for decades.  It's not often one gets a glimpse into the world of the biker gang.  Sons Of Anarchy is flawless and infinitely enjoyable television like some bastard cross-section of The Sopranos meets The Shield, while creating something entirely fresh.  It's pure addiction for a pop culture junkie.

I would have enjoyed seeing this series before penning my chapter for the aforementioned book, This Is Who We Are: Secret Society And Family Redefined.  There are a few ideal quotes to lend even more weight to the arguments surrounding the case of the secret society as family.  They would have been perfect.  I had a similar reaction regarding the film We Are Marshall [2006] and the tragic events surrounding the death of 37 football players in 1970 and the strength of the football family outside of the nuclear family.  While not a secret society the simple parallel was effective when considering that kind of tight-knit fraternity.

Nevertheless, Sons Of Anarchy is as serious as a heart attack, definitely good fun for motor heads, but equally good fun for anyone looking for just plain great television [Breaking Bad].  It doesn't capture the mysticism or darkness on the level of something as poetic as Millennium, with that artistic flourish that Carter brought to the art form, but Sons Of Anarchy presents its harsh world with an equally uncompromising eye too.

Sons Of Anarchy, which immerses us in biker culture, may be an acquired taste or may not be for everyone.  I can't say.  For me, I purchased the series on Blu-Ray on a hunch that I would enjoy it.  I wasn't wrong.  It's a brilliant series and ranks as the highest rated series for FX since The Shield.

My flirtations outside of science fiction will certainly continue, but in keeping with the genre to end all genres, here's an enjoyable little Star Trek: The Original Series connection from the solid Sons Of Anarchy, Season One, Episode 4, Patch Over.  Not unlike Captain Kirk and Star Trek, Sons Of Anarchy is a complete bad ass all its own - an eventful escape into another world.

The Sci-Fi Fanatic BIG 10: Millennium

In honor of the publication of Back To Frank Black: A Return To Chris Carter's Millennium we look back at three seasons of Frank Black following a thorough investigation of Lance Henriksen's work specifically on the Chris Carter series Millennium. Millennium has led me to my latest BIG 10. I present The Sci-Fi Fanatic BIG 10, Millennium-style.

10. Beware Of The Dog [Season Two].

9. Sense And Antisense [Season Two].

8. Powers, Principalities, Thrones And Dominions [Season One].

7. The Beginning And The End [Season Two].

6. Monster [Season Two].

5. The Curse Of Frank Black [Season Two].

4. The Hand Of St. Sebastian [Season Two].

3. Midnight Of The Century [Season Two].

2. The Thin White Line [Season One].

1. Lamentation [Season One].

The Close Calls: There were probably a dozen that I would have happily placed on this list too.  Here are some of the close calls.

Force Majeure [Season One]/ Sacrament [Season One]/ Covenant [Season One] / Luminary [Season Two]/ The Mikado [Season Two]/ Owls [Season Two]/ Roosters [Season Two]/ A Room With No View [Season Two]/ The Fourth Horseman [Season Two]/ The Time Is Now [Season Two]/ Skull And Bones [Season Three]/ Through A Glass Darkly [Season Three]/ Omerta [Season Three]/ Borrowed Time [guests: Eric Mabius of Resident Evil/ Amanda Tapping of Stargate SG-1] [Season Three]/ Collateral Damage [guest: James Marsters] [Season Three]/ Matryoshka [with Barbara Bain] [Season Three]/ The Sound Of Snow [Season Three]/ Antipas [Season Three]/ Darwin's Eye [Season Three]/ Via Dolorosa [Season Three] and Goodbye To All That [Season Three].

It's clear to see, based on the top ten evidence above, that the serial, criminal nature of Season One and the mythology arc of the Millennium Group as a secret society in Season Two had the greatest appeal to me and the greatest impact on me personally.

I don't have to tell you, if you're a Millennium fan, that it's difficult to select just ten episodes from this series. Like many of the great series, even some of the weakest in the series offer something of interest.  Here is no exception. There's always something notable for one reason or another whether it be Henriksen's measured performance or the work of a particular guest. At the very least, Lance Henriksen is always at the center of each episodic storm and the creators did a splendid job of casting throughout its three amazing seasons. The series boasted regulars including the astounding Brittany Tiplady and Megan Gallagher, as Jordan and Catherine Black respectively, and Terry O'Quinn as Peter Watts to guests including Barbara Bain [Matryoshka] and the late, great Andreas Katsulas [Forcing The End; also featuring Martin Landau and Barbara Bain's daughter Juliet Landau] of Babylon 5 acclaim.

I will submit to you that Season Three was, hands down, easily the weakest of the three seasons for me personally. Still, Borrowed Time, Omerta, Skull And Bones, The Sound Of Snow and the series finale are true standouts.  Season One, as one writer put it that visited this site, seems to be the true essence of the series and that's thanks in large part to Chris Carter who established its direction.

Show runners James Wong and Glen Morgan steered Season Two, for better or worse, into a tangled web of secret intrigue and they generated something special, albeit controversial, in the process with its own tone and flavor taking the series in an unexpected direction. Season One and Season Two are so radically different from one another the departure can seem jarring at times, but its easy to respond strongly to both.

Season Three is an amalgamation of those first two seasons mixing police procedural with Millennium Group conspiracy and added a new character in Klea Scott as Emma Hollis that was not entirely successful in recreating the feel of either of those seasons for this viewer. A new direction is always intriguing, but Season Three was a strange fusion of the first two seasons and the addition of Scott and a new show runner and the subtraction of Gallagher created something unique in its own right. One could certainly argue its contrasts to the previous two seasons is what makes it so distinct. Despite the fact it lacked some of the power of those first two well-executed seasons, Season Three does have some impressive moments, which I've noted in the Close Calls. Obviously, I decided Season One and Season Two would receive the greatest representation from me in my BIG 10 and deservedly so. The BIG 10 is comprised of some real corkers!

As Frank Black slowly greys over the course of Season Three one can't help but wonder what additional wisdom he might have brought to a renewed Millennium. If you haven't seen Henriksen's work on this particularly strong series you're missing out. It's a pleasure. The first two seasons, in particular, had me riveted.  New viewers are in for a rich viewing experience.  For fans of Henriksen, the work of Chris Carter or the series Millennium I hope you'll find time to support the efforts behind the new book, Back To Frank Black: A Return To Chris Carter's Millennium.  It's available and the time is now.

The Book

From Back To Frank Black!  The Book, Back To Frank Black: A Return To Chris Carter's Millennium, is ON SALE Now.

THE TIME IS NOW. 512 pages. Fifteen exclusive interviews. Twelve in-depth essays. One incomparable hero and an enduring legacy. The culmination of four years of the Back to Frank Black campaign, over a year in the making by its editors and contributors, the unique and long-awaited tribute to Chris Carter’s Millennium is now available from Fourth Horseman Press. 

Back to Frank Black is currently available directly from Fourth Horseman Press’s distributor, Lulu. The hardcover retails at $44.99 and the paperback at $28.99, with all profits from sales to be donated to Lance Henriksen’s nominated charity, Children of the Night. 

If you would prefer to order via your in-country Amazon store or Barnes & Noble, these links will go live over the coming week or so as the volume is made available to booksellers across the globe. We will provide details just as soon as we have them, so stay tuned for this and much more in the coming days and weeks. For more news as we have it, keep watching Back to Frank Black on Facebook and Twitter. For more from the publishers, visit fourthhorsemanpress.com, read their blog, and sign up for their feeds on Facebook and Twitter.

Up next:  The Sci-Fi Fanatic's BIG 10: Millennium.  Stay tuned.

Lance Henriksen: Androids, Aliens & Gunslingers: Profile Of A Serial Actor

In honor and anticipation of the upcoming book Back To Frank Black: A Return To Chris Carter's Millennium, and the folks over at Fourth Horseman Press, to be released soon this post is in dedication and support of the effort over at Back To Frank Black. It is also a tribute to the work of a prolific character actor, an actor whose journey culminated in one of the finest performances of his career and in one of television's great characters - the road to Frank Black. The book's focus is on the character Frank Black and the series Millennium and thus the actor who embodied the spirit of that series, Lance Henriksen.

In the run up to that exciting Millennium publication, we look at the journey of character actor Lance Henriksen through images.

This entry has been a work in progress and finally it is ready and not a moment too soon, because the time is near. This is a look at Henriksen's career and the many wonderful highlights along that road to Frank Black and beyond. Some are true standouts for me personally.

Watching those early seasons of The X-Files again recently, it was clear to me that Millennium had the benefit of a learning curve by Chris Carter as a production. Millennium had the benefit of roughly three years of The X-Files to its credit before moseying out into an unsuspecting world with a series that seemed to be perfect in execution and tone. Creators, producers and writers were able to get their feet wet on The X-Files and establish and finesse the rhythm for that series before climbing into the world of Millennium. Millennium was the recipient of those growing pains because it is nearly flawless on almost every level as a production, a heady, atmospheric mix of crime drama, horror with just the right touch of science fiction possibilities.

Further, Chris Carter and his team did a remarkable job casting each series. The young aesthetic of The X-Files cast plays into its raw power. The casting of David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, as Special Agent Fox Mulder and Special Agent Dana Scully respectively, is inspired. They were young and clearly still learning on the job. The two demonstrated themselves as outsiders within the FBI. This energy and dynamic really plays out beautifully over the course of nine seasons. The young cast is given the chance to learn and grow and we, the viewers, mature with them.

Conversely, Millennium had the benefit of a veteran presence in Lance Henriksen. This was a seasoned actor who clearly had seen a thing or two. There was a confidence and experience to his grizzled character and Henriksen channeled that vibe naturally, effectively and via an appropriately mature calm for the Millennium series.

Duchovny and virtual unknown Anderson work wonders with the material on The X-Files and the length of that series allowed its strengths to truly shine. The shorter length of the Millennium production was a truly fortunate recipient to find the strength of a professional out of the gate like the shoulders of Lance Henriksen. The risky Millennium couldn't afford to get it wrong. It was the immense talent of Henriksen that was the core of the series grounding it through the transitions to each season as showrunners took Millennium into different, sometimes controversial, but exciting directions.

The strengths of Millennium's storytelling craft can be traced or drawn from some of the procedural exercises of The X-Files. Chris Carter's Fire and Glen Morgan & James Wong's Beyond The Sea certainly reflect the roots and seeds from which these creators would draw upon and take much deeper with Lance Henriksen at the Millennium helm.

But beyond the fantastic work provided by Lance Henriksen for the unforgettable Millennium series he has played key characters in a number of film roles before and after. These are Henriksen's highlights over the course of a varied career. This is by no means a complete filmography as his career has been vast and varied and, sadly, rather easy to miss at times. The title is meant to be fun. Lance Henriksen: Androids, Aliens & Gunslingers: Profile Of A Serial Actor.

Lance Henriksen Selected Filmography:

Dog Day Afternoon [1975]

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind [1977]

Damien: Omen II [1978]

The Visitor [1979]

Piranha II: The Spawning [1981]

Nightmares [1983]

The Right Stuff [1983]

The Terminator [1984]

Jagged Edge [1985]

Savage Dawn [1985]

Aliens [1986] "Right before we shot it, I went up to Jim and I said, 'Rather than just a casual demonstration, what if I put my hand over Bill's hand as I do this?' Jim said, 'That's a good idea.' So we did it... That one act tells you everything you need to know about Bishop. I put my hand on top of Bill's, because I was protecting him. Bishop wouldn't hurt a fly. He wouldn't hurt anything that's alive." "Aliens was a figurative rebirth into the world of acting, as well as a game-changer in his off-screen life."

Choke Canyon [1986]

Near Dark [1987] Jesse Hooker, "Held [the family] together like my alcoholic grandfather held the family together."

Deadly Intent [1988]

Pumpkinhead [1988]

House III [1989]

Survival Quest [1989]

Johnny Handsome [1989] "His strength as an actor is that there's such clarity in his emotions. He's got a wonderful ability to tap into his emotions, and to transmit everything he's going through - the anxieties, the anger, the happiness - so clearly. So you don't feel like you're watching a guy act; you're watching real emotions." [Walter Hill]

Hit List [1989]

The Pit And The Pendulum [1990]

Stone Cold [1991]

Jennifer 8 [1992]

Alien 3 [1992] "The actor was was... disappointed with the film's nihilistic ending, which seemed to him like an insult to the mythology created by the first two films."

Delta Heat [1992]

Excessive Force [1993]

Man's Best Friend [1993]

Hard Target [1993]

No Escape [1994]

Felony [1994]

Gunfighter's Moon [1995]

Aurora: Operation Intercept [1995]

The Quick And The Dead [1995]

Dead Man [1995]

Powder [1995]

Mind Ripper [1995]

The Hills Have Eyes III [1995]

Dusting Cliff Seven [1996]

Millennium [1996-1999]

The Day Lincoln Was Shot [1998]

Scream 3 [2000]

The Mangler 2 [2001]

The Untold [Sasquatch] [2002]

Mimic 3: Sentinel [2003]

AVP Aliens Vs. Predator [2004]

Into The West [2005]/ Supernova [2005]/ Hellraiser: Hellworld [2005]/ When A Stranger Calls [2006]/ Abominable [2006]/ Pumpkinhead 3: Ashes To Ashes [2006]/ Pumpkinhead 4: Blood Feud [2007]

Bone Dry [2007]

Appaloosa [2008]

Pistol Whipped [2008]/ Alone In The Dark II [2008]/ Screamers: The Hunting [2009]/ Slammin' Salmon [2009]/ The Penitent Man [2010]/ The Genesis Code [2010]/ Scream Of The Banshee [2010]/ Good Day For It [2011]

The Witches Of Oz [2011]

Beautiful Wave [2012]/ The Arcadian [2012]/ Monster Brawl [2012]/ It's In The Blood [2012]

Quotes extracted from the book Not Bad For A Human by Lance Henriksen and Joseph Maddrey.