While I would happily watch All That Jazz, The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Godfathers 1 and 2, The Spirit of the Beehive, Blazing Saddles and a few others again and again, Picnic at Hanging Rock remains my favourite film.
The mysterious, rather troubling side of southern France in general, and of parts of Languedoc in particular, have long intrigued me, even if I take most of the stories and rumours to be well-spun tales rather than documented truth following the historical method.
In August 2009, on the way to visit Peyrepertuse, we skirted around the imposing mountain at Bugarach, itself now an increasing focus of mysterious rumours.
Sometimes it is all too easy, if we can only break entrained patterns, to do something different and original.
Where I stand on conspiracy theories:
Climate Change
Reasons to not be sceptical:
Anthropogenic global warming appears to be scientific fact
Crop Circles
Ailsa and I visited several circles in 1992.
Turin Shroud
Why it may not be authentic.
Supersense looks at why we believe the "unbelievable" and our habit of looking for patternicity (the human tendency to find meaningful patterns in meaningless noise).
Current global crises are awakening interest in alternative world fora that focus on social as well as economic factors.