Why we should go back to writing in runes
What are you watching?
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I didn't watch the whole video but seems interesting. I've had my runes read before
Why we should go back to writing in runes
Why we should go back to writing in runes
Re: What are you watching?
He hated Trump even though his brother turned out to be a schizophrenic pedophile.
Crumb (Terry Zwigoff, 1995) cartoonist Robert Crumb documentary
https://ok.ru/video/2010882312824
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Even Psychologists STUNNED by Gen Z’s Mental Health CRISIS
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Two radio shows that inspired each other in creating noir Detective comedy segments,
- The Prairie Home Companion by NPR (1974-2016) 'Guy Noir' in addition to 'News from Lake Wobegon' by Garrison Keillor (started in 1985)
- Firesign Theatre (1966–1985, 1993–2012) (with solo performances of Nick Danger - The Third Eye (a joke)
Info
https://thrillingdetective.com/2021/10/21/guy-noir/
'Guy Noir' started with NPR (1974-2016) but specifically began in 1985, and was something that only discovered around 2010 when it aired on a classical music station in Dallas (101.1) on Weekends (though I believe they might have just been replaying the mid 80s recordings now that I'm getting around to looking into it.)
Guy Noir (The Prairie Home Companion) 1985-1986 and 'News from Lake Wobegon' by Garrison Keillor
Though music comprises a lot of it, some episodes are more like a stage performances. A few notable tropes are "Lake Woebegone" that started with this series and was an idiom I was familiar with before having heard of the series (and for whatever reason it seems kind of difficult to come across the The Prairie Home Companion recordings, unlike other series.
A movie that was based on the series:
A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman, 2006) Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Woody Harrelson
I'm still trying to find some of the episodes I listened to, and when I came across Firesign Theatre I considered some of those might have been playing as well, though they tend to be sold on albums for a reason (since some of the material they do uses more mature humor.)
Even when the Firesign Theatre group had disbanded in the late 80s these performances were still being made and added onto as a solo gig, and when it regrouped, I believe that was when this video was made (circa 2008 possibly?) It seemed kind of took over after the Guy Noir radio show began, which would have inspired it.)
Firesign Theatre albums Internet Archive (and some more can be found on)
Nick Danger (10 minute video) The Third Eye a Detective character by Firesign Theatre, mostly known for radio performances.
I tend to assume the Guy Noir series was particular to the mid 80s, though I will look into it more. Some hints about this would be to research the Lake Woebegone idiom, which when looking into it, appears specifically in late 1985, in the segment by Garrison Keillor for 'News from Lake Wobegon.'
Revised the above and truncated this:
What it reminds me of (very 80s-esque
Alan Parsons Project - Don't Answer Me (1984)
Other Alan Parson's Project music videos
Alan Parsons Project - Stereotomy (1985)
Alan Parson's Project Eye In The Sky (1982)
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Sexpionage: How Cold War Spies Seduced Their Targets
Bibi (Benjamin Netanyahu) BLACKMAILED Bill Clinton With Lewinsky Tapes
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Philip K Dick speech (interpreter edited out) in Metz, France, 1977
Alternatively read for a summary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_You_Fi ... the_Others
Which decade had the most crazies?
Philip K. Dick, Curious Synchronicity by Modern Intuitionist (YT 2021)
Original video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF1HwrMx5Jk
And Robert Anton Wilson was just as crazy and dissociative, though I do believe the last video has some points about physics and time being a product of observation and not reality (though we experience time on a continuum of sensory experiences,) whether anything substantive can be ascribed to what he experienced, anymore than confirmation bias and apophenia (associating meaning to where their is none.) The fact he claims to believe he was experiencing what he wrote, is hypothesized from having written something based on common themes of what people experience in mundane everyday life, and then giving them more meaning than existed.
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3-hr film that's kind of difficult to find.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgino
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109900/reviews/
Giorgino (Laurent Boutonnat, 1994)
https://archive.org/details/a-1-t-00_20231108
It's worth noting that the lead actress was a singer who sang in a concert in 1989, and despite being successful, apparently the movie flopped.
https://archive.org/details/mylene-farm ... ncert-t-00
Similarly little known (4 hour nonverbal video series comprising of a hypochondriac who has fallen prey to the fear-based healthcare industry.)
Whispering Pines (Shana Moulton, 2002-2019)
https://archive.org/details/whispering- ... 28kbit-aac
Gosford Park can be found here
https://archive.org/details/@konstantin_cherganov
It will take awhile to go through this (though it seems like most of it kind of sucks if you are a cinephile.)
https://archive.org/details/@anjelsophia
Similar to how I'm not surprised this is a movie that was featured on Netflix. . . Though perhaps knowing it had John Malkovich, it might be surrealist.
Bird Box (Susanne Bier, 2018) Sandra Bullock, John Malkovich
1999 movie Being John Malkovich (though with hardcoded subs) generally holds up better
https://archive.org/details/being.-john ... .-yify-1-1
- The Prairie Home Companion by NPR (1974-2016) 'Guy Noir' in addition to 'News from Lake Wobegon' by Garrison Keillor (started in 1985)
- Firesign Theatre (1966–1985, 1993–2012) (with solo performances of Nick Danger - The Third Eye (a joke)
Info
https://thrillingdetective.com/2021/10/21/guy-noir/
'Guy Noir' started with NPR (1974-2016) but specifically began in 1985, and was something that only discovered around 2010 when it aired on a classical music station in Dallas (101.1) on Weekends (though I believe they might have just been replaying the mid 80s recordings now that I'm getting around to looking into it.)
Guy Noir (The Prairie Home Companion) 1985-1986 and 'News from Lake Wobegon' by Garrison Keillor
Though music comprises a lot of it, some episodes are more like a stage performances. A few notable tropes are "Lake Woebegone" that started with this series and was an idiom I was familiar with before having heard of the series (and for whatever reason it seems kind of difficult to come across the The Prairie Home Companion recordings, unlike other series.
A movie that was based on the series:
A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman, 2006) Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Woody Harrelson
I'm still trying to find some of the episodes I listened to, and when I came across Firesign Theatre I considered some of those might have been playing as well, though they tend to be sold on albums for a reason (since some of the material they do uses more mature humor.)
Even when the Firesign Theatre group had disbanded in the late 80s these performances were still being made and added onto as a solo gig, and when it regrouped, I believe that was when this video was made (circa 2008 possibly?) It seemed kind of took over after the Guy Noir radio show began, which would have inspired it.)
Firesign Theatre albums Internet Archive (and some more can be found on)
Nick Danger (10 minute video) The Third Eye a Detective character by Firesign Theatre, mostly known for radio performances.
I tend to assume the Guy Noir series was particular to the mid 80s, though I will look into it more. Some hints about this would be to research the Lake Woebegone idiom, which when looking into it, appears specifically in late 1985, in the segment by Garrison Keillor for 'News from Lake Wobegon.'
Revised the above and truncated this:
Spoiler
Show
Nick Danger - The Third Eye (a joke not in reference to psychic abilities though I might have overlooked some tongue-in-cheek reference to it; the irony is most likely that he clearly has no super powers) was a Detective character by Firesign Theatre mostly known for radio performances (but even in live performances it was practically designed for it.) Even when the group had disbanded in the late 80s these performances were still being made and added onto as a solo gig, and when it regrouped, I believe that was when this video was made (circa 2008 possibly?) Most of it seemed to start after the group disbanded temporarily, so they kind of took over after the Guy Noir radio show began, which would have inspired it.)
I know I've heard the Nick Danger character before when listing to a classical music station around 2011, where they would sometimes diverge from regular programs, but there was also another one that was very similar (but I also recall some Detective character named Dick (Richard) Doucet ("due-kay"? almost sounds like a combination of decay and dookie, but that might have been the villain?)
Initially I was starting to wonder if it became in vogue with The Alan Parson's Project - Don't Answer Me, since Dick Tracy kind of stopped being relevant, and the only other Detective with a trench coat might be Deckard from Blade Runner, however, it was always kind of a popular trope about Detectives were considered a mythologized profession (akin to how Men in Black are tropes of the FBI and are popularly shown as dressed the same,) and usually trench coats were worn by people even until the late 80s in an attempt to appear fashionable (or Burberry would make you believe they are still popular, though only if you are walking around when it's drizzly. . . Thanks to Trump and global warming, we are due for an Alligator Alcatraz and an economy more suitable for shirtless hillbillies, since all manufacturers overseas will refuse to participate in our glorious cultural revolution. . .)
I know I've heard the Nick Danger character before when listing to a classical music station around 2011, where they would sometimes diverge from regular programs, but there was also another one that was very similar (but I also recall some Detective character named Dick (Richard) Doucet ("due-kay"? almost sounds like a combination of decay and dookie, but that might have been the villain?)
Initially I was starting to wonder if it became in vogue with The Alan Parson's Project - Don't Answer Me, since Dick Tracy kind of stopped being relevant, and the only other Detective with a trench coat might be Deckard from Blade Runner, however, it was always kind of a popular trope about Detectives were considered a mythologized profession (akin to how Men in Black are tropes of the FBI and are popularly shown as dressed the same,) and usually trench coats were worn by people even until the late 80s in an attempt to appear fashionable (or Burberry would make you believe they are still popular, though only if you are walking around when it's drizzly. . . Thanks to Trump and global warming, we are due for an Alligator Alcatraz and an economy more suitable for shirtless hillbillies, since all manufacturers overseas will refuse to participate in our glorious cultural revolution. . .)
Alan Parsons Project - Don't Answer Me (1984)
Other Alan Parson's Project music videos
Alan Parsons Project - Stereotomy (1985)
Alan Parson's Project Eye In The Sky (1982)
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Sexpionage: How Cold War Spies Seduced Their Targets
Bibi (Benjamin Netanyahu) BLACKMAILED Bill Clinton With Lewinsky Tapes
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Philip K Dick speech (interpreter edited out) in Metz, France, 1977
Alternatively read for a summary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_You_Fi ... the_Others
Which decade had the most crazies?
Philip K. Dick, Curious Synchronicity by Modern Intuitionist (YT 2021)
Original video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF1HwrMx5Jk
And Robert Anton Wilson was just as crazy and dissociative, though I do believe the last video has some points about physics and time being a product of observation and not reality (though we experience time on a continuum of sensory experiences,) whether anything substantive can be ascribed to what he experienced, anymore than confirmation bias and apophenia (associating meaning to where their is none.) The fact he claims to believe he was experiencing what he wrote, is hypothesized from having written something based on common themes of what people experience in mundane everyday life, and then giving them more meaning than existed.
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3-hr film that's kind of difficult to find.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgino
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109900/reviews/
Giorgino (Laurent Boutonnat, 1994)
https://archive.org/details/a-1-t-00_20231108
It's worth noting that the lead actress was a singer who sang in a concert in 1989, and despite being successful, apparently the movie flopped.
https://archive.org/details/mylene-farm ... ncert-t-00
Similarly little known (4 hour nonverbal video series comprising of a hypochondriac who has fallen prey to the fear-based healthcare industry.)
Whispering Pines (Shana Moulton, 2002-2019)
https://archive.org/details/whispering- ... 28kbit-aac
Gosford Park can be found here
https://archive.org/details/@konstantin_cherganov
It will take awhile to go through this (though it seems like most of it kind of sucks if you are a cinephile.)
https://archive.org/details/@anjelsophia
Similar to how I'm not surprised this is a movie that was featured on Netflix. . . Though perhaps knowing it had John Malkovich, it might be surrealist.
Bird Box (Susanne Bier, 2018) Sandra Bullock, John Malkovich
1999 movie Being John Malkovich (though with hardcoded subs) generally holds up better
https://archive.org/details/being.-john ... .-yify-1-1
Re: What are you watching?
The first live on-scene 9-11 report was done by these guys (this was in July.)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Oliver
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Ryan_(reporter)
In the Wink of an Eye aka Kisapmata (Mike de Leon, 1981) Philippine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kisapmata_(film)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0221322/reviews/
This is currently free on Epic Games, and seems like a cross between 16 bit consoles and PC-98 graphics (sort of an Earthbound city of Fourside during it's Moonside sequence, a bit of Chrono Trigger during the future sequence, Shadowrun. and random RPG games on the PC console that I should have mentioned sometime in the past and there should have been some soundtracks I posted.) Admittedly the games doesn't put me at ease watching it and looks a bit clunky, though I've been considering adding it just to eventually try out.
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Thailand Truth Talks https://www.youtube.com/@ThailandTruthTalks
I suspect the same person is behind this video, and claims to tell stories (though drags on a bit, so unless you like watching random walking scenery of Thailand, this can get a bit too boring. It reminds me of the Reddit stories that use AI voices and take excruciatingly long to summarize and get to the point (so what people mistake for good storytelling is an intentional indirect approach that could save you 20+ minutes if they simply told you a key detail to find out what they are talking about and save you that time.)
Horror "catfishing" stories and how people are scammed (though reading some of the comments, it seems like a dime a dozen.
Inside Thailand Stories
https://www.youtube.com/@InsideThailandStories
One of the comments: "Paradise? The Garden of Eden had only one snake. Thailand has thousands offering you to take a bite."
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The rise of vacuous Conservatism (and the desire for people to exist vicarious through vapid and meaningless memetic response to the "culture" that it evokes.)
If only. . .
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A crazy amount of films, though of the few that are above 200-300 mb in size (considered the bare minimum) only a few are perhaps worth considering (and most of it is probably fringe conspiratorial content. . .) I would only recommend them on account of them being unique or pretty to difficult find)
https://archive.org/details/movies_20220921
Jack the Ripper (Jess Franco, 1976) Klaus Kinski, Lina Romay, Josephine Chaplin
John Wick 4, Chapter (Chad Stahelski, 2023)
Jag Mandir - Ecc Priv Theat Maharaja Udaipur (Werner Herzog, 1991 )
Marquis de Sade Justine (Jess Franco, 1969) Maria Rohm, Klaus Kinski
Moby Dick (Mike Barker, 2011) Ethan Hawke, Gillian Anderson
Mondo Cane 2 (Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi, 1963)
Morituri (Bernhard Wicki, 1965).Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner (WW2)
Quest For Fire (Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1981) Ron Perlman, Rae Dawn Chong
Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou, 1991)
Rolls Royce Baby (Erwin C. Dietrich, 1975) Lina Romay (I would put this in a folder with Russ Meyers films. . .)
Yellowbeard (Mel Damski, 1983) Graham Chapman, Peter Boyle, Cheech and Chong
Zardoz (John Boorman, 1974) Sean Connery
I tend to think the Simpson's Rainier Wolfcastle (Arnold Schwarzenegger) version of McBain was more noticeable than Christopher Walkens's movie from 1991 ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102422/ )
I guess they didn't want to create a Walken character for the Simpsons.
In reference to the name spelling in the Bratwurst commercial:
WÜRST01 by Fritz Schnackenpfefferhausen
The McBain movie spliced together (without the Bezos reference in the last video)
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Documentaries about operation Gladio (best to search the name on it) and other stuff:
Gladio (3 part series) 1992, BBC - Timewatch S11 E9-11 and posted by a Serbian anti-capitalist website Klasna Solidarnost ( https://klasol.org/class-solidarity/ )
https://archive.org/details/@internetarchive_913871
I believe QAnon nonsense was devised to discredit and compartmentalize how people perceive certain aspects of sexual exploitation (and if people understand it from an international perspective, it might be the case that both sides of politics in the USA could be complicit, and that some people "take it for the team.")
(recent) Is the Catholic church headed into a new era of secrecy over child sex abuse?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchd ... s-michigan
And partly why it seems to persists with the 'Conservative' movement (Evangelicals and religious groups along with MAGA shitheads)
Trump supporters report higher levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissism
https://www.psypost.org/trump-supporter ... arcissism/
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Alice's Restaurant (Arthur Penn, 1969) Arlo Guthrie's
I remember seeing a music documentary called Festival Express (Bob Smeaton, 2003) 1970 about a Train Music Tour Canada, where he shows up briefly, and it kind of hallmarks the closing of an era after Woodstock, culminating in the death of Janis Joplin. Alice's Restaurant is kind of vapid, and seems to be more about the privileged entitlement mindset that cultivated the hippy culture (though still something to reminisce about, as it's a time that few were actually privy to, and many try to evoke and emulate (ergo, the 1980s tried to resurrect some of the phenomenon
Another documentary that reflects this is Laurel Canyon (LA Pop-Rock) A Place in Time Revisited (Alison Ellwood, 2020)
A non-music related movie features Christian Bale from 2002
https://ok.ru/video/2135166880283
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This appears to be a Russia Times Episode of a series: https://rtd.rt.com/series/black-lives/
Black Lives: Truths by George Sarsekov
I know of the Baltimore abandoned 'Old Mall' (it's supposed to be one of the oldest malls in the world, but every building is shuttered,) from an urbex exploration, where something closed down around the 1970s and still had much of the interior. Apparently the drugs introduced caused people to not favor shopping there, to where it just became run down. Without opportunities, people will ensure the area around is won't prosper.
Whether the Russia Times news has an agenda (which people like Abby Martin seems to believe) I still consider it relevant.
Night Moves (Arthur Penn, 1975) Gene Hackman
Joint Security Area (DMZ) (Park Chan-Wook, 2000)
The Cincinnati Kid (Norman Jewison, 1965) Steve McQueen
https://archive.org/details/@seaddos_dos
The uploader has a ton of Eric Rohmer films (which are well reviewed, but are a specific kind of French romance genre)
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/eric_rohmer
The titles of the films remind me of Yasujirō Ozu (1903–1963.)
Though really, a more accurate comparison to the style of films is Richard Linklater (specifically the Ethan Hawke films)
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrit ... _linklater
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_trilogy
I kind of forgot, in addition he did a 7 minute music documentary
Woodshock (Lee Daniel, Richard Linklater, 1985) Austin TX
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More films:
The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973) Elliott Gould, Sterling Hayden
Mikey And Nicky (Elaine May, 1976) John Cassavetes, Peter Falk
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The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang, 2005) Taiwanese musical (with adult themes. . . trust me on this.)
Full film (contains nudity) https://archive.org/details/the.-waywar ... 005.dvdrip
(I also can't help but think of Trump and his "pred-elections.")
One of the songs took some inspiration from the song by Tennessee Ernie Ford, 'Sixteen tons' ("and what do you get," not to be confused with Sixteen Candles. . .) about coal miners being exploited by the company store (where they are "enslaved" and controlled by it without much reward) and incorporate the central theme of water (and it's product of "labor") through the symbol of watermelon. The city neglects the people and they don't have running water, but they still force themselves to commit to a government by idolizing it, in the same way that water is used symbolically to represent their devotion to the basic needs for survival. The idea, that the hyper-normalization of propaganda and fantasy representing those basic necessities creates alienation to the point of escapism, and disassociation from normal functioning development. While idolizing the system that gives birth to restraint and inability to connect (plumbing) the people experience the inability to function as a society. I don't want to spoil the ending but it truly reflects the alienation and inability to perceive the disconnect from one's actions and addictions (or predilection for impulse,) and that people, instead of valuing human life would rather exploit it while appearing outwardly professional; while being voyeuristic.
An interesting review reveals the basis of the film (basically the Director came into the theater and gave commentary to why the film was left uncut, on the basis it was a redeeming social critique of pornography (but also perhaps government.) It is worth noting that it still required approval from China for the film industry.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445760/re ... _ururv_c_2
I mostly wrote the above before reading the below, though it kind of expounds on the gist of it, such as the mediation between Taiwan and mainland China (who would insist on a "One China" policy) while the parts of Taiwan adjacent to the coast of Hong Kong has been known to blare out messages on a loud speaker system, as well as disused structures previously used in time of war converted into a museum exhibit that could potentially be repurposed as their original function, as a reminder of ongoing hostilities between the two countries, similar to how the DMZ divides North and South Korea.
The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang, 2005)
https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2023/cte ... iang-2005/
The Neosurrealist Musical and Tsai Ming-Liang’s the Wayward Cloud
https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/ ... ogin=false
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Trump saying he would invite a teenage girl on his plane any day in front of a live audience (a drop in the bucket for him.) https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16i6BmUjzL/
Wellness grifters taking over society (including RFK JR.)
And the political climate reflects the same egregious nonsense with how the job market operates.
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Life is Sweet (Mike Leigh, 1990)
This will be available on Epic games for free on August 7 (though averages a rating of 70%)
It's clearly in the spirit of Road Rash.
I remember seeing a music documentary called Festival Express (Bob Smeaton, 2003) 1970 about a Train Music Tour Canada, where he shows up briefly, and it kind of hallmarks the closing of an era after Woodstock, culminating in the death of Janis Joplin. Alice's Restaurant is kind of vapid, and seems to be more about the privileged entitlement mindset that cultivated the hippy culture (though still something to reminisce about, as it's a time that few were actually privy to, and many try to evoke and emulate (ergo, the 1980s tried to resurrect some of the phenomenon
Another documentary that reflects this is Laurel Canyon (LA Pop-Rock) A Place in Time Revisited (Alison Ellwood, 2020)
A non-music related movie features Christian Bale from 2002
https://ok.ru/video/2135166880283
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This appears to be a Russia Times Episode of a series: https://rtd.rt.com/series/black-lives/
Black Lives: Truths by George Sarsekov
I know of the Baltimore abandoned 'Old Mall' (it's supposed to be one of the oldest malls in the world, but every building is shuttered,) from an urbex exploration, where something closed down around the 1970s and still had much of the interior. Apparently the drugs introduced caused people to not favor shopping there, to where it just became run down. Without opportunities, people will ensure the area around is won't prosper.
Whether the Russia Times news has an agenda (which people like Abby Martin seems to believe) I still consider it relevant.
Night Moves (Arthur Penn, 1975) Gene Hackman
Joint Security Area (DMZ) (Park Chan-Wook, 2000)
The Cincinnati Kid (Norman Jewison, 1965) Steve McQueen
https://archive.org/details/@seaddos_dos
The uploader has a ton of Eric Rohmer films (which are well reviewed, but are a specific kind of French romance genre)
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/eric_rohmer
The titles of the films remind me of Yasujirō Ozu (1903–1963.)
Though really, a more accurate comparison to the style of films is Richard Linklater (specifically the Ethan Hawke films)
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrit ... _linklater
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_trilogy
I kind of forgot, in addition he did a 7 minute music documentary
Woodshock (Lee Daniel, Richard Linklater, 1985) Austin TX
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More films:
The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973) Elliott Gould, Sterling Hayden
Mikey And Nicky (Elaine May, 1976) John Cassavetes, Peter Falk
*************************
The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang, 2005) Taiwanese musical (with adult themes. . . trust me on this.)
Full film (contains nudity) https://archive.org/details/the.-waywar ... 005.dvdrip
(I also can't help but think of Trump and his "pred-elections.")
One of the songs took some inspiration from the song by Tennessee Ernie Ford, 'Sixteen tons' ("and what do you get," not to be confused with Sixteen Candles. . .) about coal miners being exploited by the company store (where they are "enslaved" and controlled by it without much reward) and incorporate the central theme of water (and it's product of "labor") through the symbol of watermelon. The city neglects the people and they don't have running water, but they still force themselves to commit to a government by idolizing it, in the same way that water is used symbolically to represent their devotion to the basic needs for survival. The idea, that the hyper-normalization of propaganda and fantasy representing those basic necessities creates alienation to the point of escapism, and disassociation from normal functioning development. While idolizing the system that gives birth to restraint and inability to connect (plumbing) the people experience the inability to function as a society. I don't want to spoil the ending but it truly reflects the alienation and inability to perceive the disconnect from one's actions and addictions (or predilection for impulse,) and that people, instead of valuing human life would rather exploit it while appearing outwardly professional; while being voyeuristic.
An interesting review reveals the basis of the film (basically the Director came into the theater and gave commentary to why the film was left uncut, on the basis it was a redeeming social critique of pornography (but also perhaps government.) It is worth noting that it still required approval from China for the film industry.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445760/re ... _ururv_c_2
I mostly wrote the above before reading the below, though it kind of expounds on the gist of it, such as the mediation between Taiwan and mainland China (who would insist on a "One China" policy) while the parts of Taiwan adjacent to the coast of Hong Kong has been known to blare out messages on a loud speaker system, as well as disused structures previously used in time of war converted into a museum exhibit that could potentially be repurposed as their original function, as a reminder of ongoing hostilities between the two countries, similar to how the DMZ divides North and South Korea.
The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang, 2005)
https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2023/cte ... iang-2005/
The Neosurrealist Musical and Tsai Ming-Liang’s the Wayward Cloud
https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/ ... ogin=false
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Trump saying he would invite a teenage girl on his plane any day in front of a live audience (a drop in the bucket for him.) https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16i6BmUjzL/
Wellness grifters taking over society (including RFK JR.)
And the political climate reflects the same egregious nonsense with how the job market operates.
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Life is Sweet (Mike Leigh, 1990)
This will be available on Epic games for free on August 7 (though averages a rating of 70%)
It's clearly in the spirit of Road Rash.
Re: What are you watching?
Gavin Newsom
https://www.youtube.com/@LookingGlassUniverse
Based on https://ai-2027.com/
The case for AGI by 2030 https://80000hours.org/agi/guide/when-will-agi-arrive/
Shrinking AGI timelines: a review of expert forecasts https://80000hours.org/2025/03/when-do- ... to-arrive/
Worth noting that AI is also a bubble (even if it achieves things like AGI, it will still be something that won't always generate a profit. If anything it would be funneled into government infrastructure and data monitoring, which might be beneficial when handling an economic bubble. . .)
Economist Warns the AI Bubble Is Worse Than Immediately Before the Dot-Com Implosion
https://futurism.com/economist-ai-bubbl ... -implosion
AI bubble is worse than the dot-com crash that erased trillions, economist warns — overvaluations could lead to catastrophic consequences
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-indus ... nsequences
I can remember sniffing money when I was little, without realizing a lot of the smell probably came from being handed between a stripper's butcheeks. When the adage is that a significant portion has traces of drugs; little do people think of "crack."
I'm reminded of this South Park episode called 'Hummels & Heroin' (which is a brand I noticed with my step-grandmother, who forced her grand nephew to keep in his room which reminds me of the movie Problem Child. If I'm not mistaken, he had this particular one in his room along with some other figurines just like it https://www.antiquesnavigator.com/d-346 ... urine.html and possibly this set
He turned out to be somewhat autistic in nature (though as far as I know was only ever prescribed Ritalin which is just another word for meth.)
I was thinking of the Clown Motel in Tonopah NM and how creepy it looked, after reading an article about the current state of the world:
An epidemic of stupidity, and its danger to society and democracy
https://www.centreformalepsychology.com ... -democracy
Trump’s White House Was ‘Awash in Speed’ — and Xanax
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/p ... 234979503/
Secret of Winner Narcissists: Stupidity (with Daria Zukowska, Clinical Psychologist)
https://vaknin-talks.com/transcripts/Se ... chologist/
https://www.youtube.com/@LookingGlassUniverse
Based on https://ai-2027.com/
The case for AGI by 2030 https://80000hours.org/agi/guide/when-will-agi-arrive/
Shrinking AGI timelines: a review of expert forecasts https://80000hours.org/2025/03/when-do- ... to-arrive/
Worth noting that AI is also a bubble (even if it achieves things like AGI, it will still be something that won't always generate a profit. If anything it would be funneled into government infrastructure and data monitoring, which might be beneficial when handling an economic bubble. . .)
Economist Warns the AI Bubble Is Worse Than Immediately Before the Dot-Com Implosion
https://futurism.com/economist-ai-bubbl ... -implosion
AI bubble is worse than the dot-com crash that erased trillions, economist warns — overvaluations could lead to catastrophic consequences
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-indus ... nsequences
I can remember sniffing money when I was little, without realizing a lot of the smell probably came from being handed between a stripper's butcheeks. When the adage is that a significant portion has traces of drugs; little do people think of "crack."
I'm reminded of this South Park episode called 'Hummels & Heroin' (which is a brand I noticed with my step-grandmother, who forced her grand nephew to keep in his room which reminds me of the movie Problem Child. If I'm not mistaken, he had this particular one in his room along with some other figurines just like it https://www.antiquesnavigator.com/d-346 ... urine.html and possibly this set
He turned out to be somewhat autistic in nature (though as far as I know was only ever prescribed Ritalin which is just another word for meth.)
I was thinking of the Clown Motel in Tonopah NM and how creepy it looked, after reading an article about the current state of the world:
An epidemic of stupidity, and its danger to society and democracy
https://www.centreformalepsychology.com ... -democracy
Trump’s White House Was ‘Awash in Speed’ — and Xanax
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/p ... 234979503/
Secret of Winner Narcissists: Stupidity (with Daria Zukowska, Clinical Psychologist)
https://vaknin-talks.com/transcripts/Se ... chologist/
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Re: What are you watching?
From 1933-34 Leni Riefenstahl would create propaganda films and had an unfinished movie script that would eventually use Gypsies from concentration camps in 1944 who it's believed were offered freedom for assisting with the production of the movie (whether by convenience to try and protect themselves or due to her slight indifference or nonchalance, they were doomed to their fate) and the film was confiscated before it's release by the French for the Nuremberg trial, where it would eventually be released in 1954. She wrote the script in 1934 and it's generally assumed it was filmed in 1944, but the only other project aside from the propaganda movies that were directed and completed during Hitler's lifetime was the Olympiad in 1938.
Tiefland (Lowlands) (Leni Riefenstahl, 1954) (1934 story, 1940-44 filmed)
People speculated that the wolf in one of the scene, or even one of the towns named after a wolf in Germany after the war ended, were something of a symbolic tribute to Hitler (but it's generally assumed their was no connection, or the basis for the name was an historical reference to a coat of arms for the castle it was based around.) It also was one of the symbols that the Nazi's cultivated for their allure, but I believe the wolf also dies in the movie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfsangel
(1936, 1938 released) Olympia Part One - Festival Of The Nations and Two - Festival Of Beauty
3hr documentary before the time of her death (2003):
The Wonderful Horrible Life Of Leni Riefenstahl (Ray Müller, 1993)
I tend to think the glorifying of people like Hitler and not feeling particular empathy for the victims is eerily similar to what is happening with Trump. Most all the "good Nazi" or "friends of Hitler" benefactors were really just self-serving opportunists who exploited prison labor probably with the full knowledge that giving people inspiration for something like the Brownshirts to Nazi SS movement made them complicit in the deaths that followed (even if some of their work by some accounts seems even less nationalistic in comparison to modern Olympics, who nevertheless took a great deal of inspiration from what Germany started in 1936.) Knowing what a full-blown psychopath Trump is, it wouldn't be too shocking if his thinking that if farmhands don't work and starved to death wasn't just a rhetorical device for being an "essential worker;" and that when the Terminator robots arrive will determine the full extent of their work performance.
One of the reviewers for the documentary comes to a similar conclusion (that she was disingenuous) while also suggests some books and her autobiography. https://www.amazon.com/Wonderful-Horrib ... iewsAnchor
Leni Riefenstahl: A Memoir (1987)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/319682.A_Memoir
biographies—
Leni: The Life and Work of (Bach),
L.R: A life (Trimborn),
L.R.: The Seduction of Genius (Rother)
Her documentaries
Victory of Faith,
Triumph of the Will, and Olympia
movies
The Holy Mountain (Arnold Fanck, 1926) Leni Riefenstahl
Tiefland (Lowlands) (Leni Riefenstahl, 1954) (1934, 1940-44)
The Blue Light (Leni Riefenstahl, Béla Balázs, 1932) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6wnEGQhmQ4
White Hell of Pitz Palu (Arnold Fanck, G. W. Pabst, 1929) Leni Riefenstahl - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ8B4VH-5gk
I think she is a narcissistic sociopath (and I wouldn't trust a single thing she says, just like Albert Speer was complicit and was not as innocent as he liked to pretend to be.)
Fascinating Narcissism by Ian Buruma
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2007/0 ... arcissism/
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This uploader has some classics just like Frankenhooker (which is generally considered best to just skip to 55 minutes in.)
https://archive.org/details/@calypso_s_dream
Frankenhooker (Robert Martin, Frank Henenlotter, 1990)
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One of the films that inspired Leni's career in entertainment was seeing a poster for Mountain of Destiny (Arnold Fanck, 1924) (Der Berg des Schicksal) in which she contacted the Director, featured here (along with many other videos circa 1924)
https://archive.org/details/1924_20240909
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Before Hoover, William McKinley was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz in part due to tariffs (while in Congress he created the Tariff Act of 1890, aka McKinley Tariff) and was killed as a President in 1901 (elected with the help of Andrew Carnegie who was vehemently anti-union as indicated by the Homestead Strike of 1892 when he left the country and let his subordinate handle the union protest activity, despite initially appearing to be a pacifist, and funded McKinley's election campaign where he would continue to enact tariffs.) Leon knew/believed McKinley was favoring the wealthy and that his tariffs would ultimately benefit Gilded Age Robber Barons, whom he believed were responsible for him being let go from a factory in 1893 as the economy crashed. Of all places he was shot (and eventually would die from infection) was the Pan-American Exposition (which was kind of pro-business exposition of technology and innovation.) And of course this is one of the reasons that the US government always feared Anarchist and Socialist ideologies, because it's believed he was radicalized by Emma Goldman (someone who grew up in Russia supporting Bolshevism but soon became resentful of how people cling to government institutions to become monsters themselves, and became an anarchist,) even though they warned other anarchists about the extremism that Leon Czolgosz was capable of and wanted to distance themselves from him before he even decided to buy a gun.
President McKinley implemented steep tariffs to protect industry. Did they work?
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/21/nx-s1-53 ... -they-work
Three Times Tariffs Triggered Depressions in American History
https://medium.com/lessons-from-history ... 5fbb3cf92c
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https://archive.org/details/twin-peaks-into-the-night
Cease and Desist notification from Paramount (posted after that was uploaded)
https://x.com/BlueRoseTeamTP/status/1947376795507912953
It also seems to have some MacOS .bundle file that can't extract to the folder, so if you run it it will function from the .exe file, but seems to be tied into how the .bundle functions for the text, so it has an error message for "no translation file" or something, where their would normally be English text. Not sure if their was a different version for Windows, but it does seem to have compatibility issues despite being able to play some interesting collages of footage from Twin Peaks (and for some weird reason you can find a cameo from the X-Files, so it might have been a gag on the series and how mysteries are involved with Detective work.)
**************************
Near the end he kind of reminded me of J.F. Sebastian.
I'm a bit surprised she was oblivious of the Lucent connection to Martin Eberhard (his college roomate was the founder of the company and I believe he helped with some of the design.)
Interestingly enough, a man that designed a stealth camper trash dump also tried out the Cybertruck. . .
https://youtu.be/exWKlZWo2kA
https://youtu.be/gEHs1ASWRUs
And this is happening. . .
Scorned by Customers, Tesla’s Unsold Cybertrucks Will Be Destroyed With Missiles by the US Army
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/sc ... eb1f&ei=10
Money well spent. . . 33 Tesla Cybertrucks (allegedly chosen for durability. . . and resistance.)
Using:
AGM-114 Hellfire cost $130,000-160,000 per unit
AGM-176 Griffin $385 million Raytheon contract
GBU-69 SGM cost $150,000 per unit
GBU-39B are $40,000 per unit
***************************
I started watching It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (S1 E3) and it had themes similar to this:
This is basically the inverse of the Lolita movie, involving a young student and a female teacher twice his age.
All Things Fair (aka Lust och Fägring Stor) (Bo Widerberg, 1995) Marika Lagercrantz
https://ok.ru/video/2135613639334
And though I was looking up another movie prior, I suspect ok.ru banned my IP. . . because I noticed it only works using a VPN, and it doesn't show up as being blocked on down or not for the US (nor the VPN.)
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The Terrorizers (Edward Yang, 1986)
Taipei Story (Edward Yang, 1985)
The difference between Taiwan and mainland Chinese films (and perhaps less-so Hong Kong) is night and day. This looks like it could have been made 20 years prior. It's still kind of decent, though compare it to Kwaiden or something similar from Japan. The Matroska file should be much more detailed though.
Green Snake (Tsui Hark, 1993)
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Seaspiracy - Documentary 2021
This does get pretty weird (the emoji thing was kind of interesting.)
Tiefland (Lowlands) (Leni Riefenstahl, 1954) (1934 story, 1940-44 filmed)
People speculated that the wolf in one of the scene, or even one of the towns named after a wolf in Germany after the war ended, were something of a symbolic tribute to Hitler (but it's generally assumed their was no connection, or the basis for the name was an historical reference to a coat of arms for the castle it was based around.) It also was one of the symbols that the Nazi's cultivated for their allure, but I believe the wolf also dies in the movie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfsangel
(1936, 1938 released) Olympia Part One - Festival Of The Nations and Two - Festival Of Beauty
3hr documentary before the time of her death (2003):
The Wonderful Horrible Life Of Leni Riefenstahl (Ray Müller, 1993)
I tend to think the glorifying of people like Hitler and not feeling particular empathy for the victims is eerily similar to what is happening with Trump. Most all the "good Nazi" or "friends of Hitler" benefactors were really just self-serving opportunists who exploited prison labor probably with the full knowledge that giving people inspiration for something like the Brownshirts to Nazi SS movement made them complicit in the deaths that followed (even if some of their work by some accounts seems even less nationalistic in comparison to modern Olympics, who nevertheless took a great deal of inspiration from what Germany started in 1936.) Knowing what a full-blown psychopath Trump is, it wouldn't be too shocking if his thinking that if farmhands don't work and starved to death wasn't just a rhetorical device for being an "essential worker;" and that when the Terminator robots arrive will determine the full extent of their work performance.
One of the reviewers for the documentary comes to a similar conclusion (that she was disingenuous) while also suggests some books and her autobiography. https://www.amazon.com/Wonderful-Horrib ... iewsAnchor
Leni Riefenstahl: A Memoir (1987)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/319682.A_Memoir
biographies—
Leni: The Life and Work of (Bach),
L.R: A life (Trimborn),
L.R.: The Seduction of Genius (Rother)
Her documentaries
Victory of Faith,
Triumph of the Will, and Olympia
movies
The Holy Mountain (Arnold Fanck, 1926) Leni Riefenstahl
Tiefland (Lowlands) (Leni Riefenstahl, 1954) (1934, 1940-44)
The Blue Light (Leni Riefenstahl, Béla Balázs, 1932) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6wnEGQhmQ4
White Hell of Pitz Palu (Arnold Fanck, G. W. Pabst, 1929) Leni Riefenstahl - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ8B4VH-5gk
I think she is a narcissistic sociopath (and I wouldn't trust a single thing she says, just like Albert Speer was complicit and was not as innocent as he liked to pretend to be.)
Fascinating Narcissism by Ian Buruma
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2007/0 ... arcissism/
********************************
This uploader has some classics just like Frankenhooker (which is generally considered best to just skip to 55 minutes in.)
https://archive.org/details/@calypso_s_dream
Frankenhooker (Robert Martin, Frank Henenlotter, 1990)
***************************
One of the films that inspired Leni's career in entertainment was seeing a poster for Mountain of Destiny (Arnold Fanck, 1924) (Der Berg des Schicksal) in which she contacted the Director, featured here (along with many other videos circa 1924)
https://archive.org/details/1924_20240909
********************************
Before Hoover, William McKinley was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz in part due to tariffs (while in Congress he created the Tariff Act of 1890, aka McKinley Tariff) and was killed as a President in 1901 (elected with the help of Andrew Carnegie who was vehemently anti-union as indicated by the Homestead Strike of 1892 when he left the country and let his subordinate handle the union protest activity, despite initially appearing to be a pacifist, and funded McKinley's election campaign where he would continue to enact tariffs.) Leon knew/believed McKinley was favoring the wealthy and that his tariffs would ultimately benefit Gilded Age Robber Barons, whom he believed were responsible for him being let go from a factory in 1893 as the economy crashed. Of all places he was shot (and eventually would die from infection) was the Pan-American Exposition (which was kind of pro-business exposition of technology and innovation.) And of course this is one of the reasons that the US government always feared Anarchist and Socialist ideologies, because it's believed he was radicalized by Emma Goldman (someone who grew up in Russia supporting Bolshevism but soon became resentful of how people cling to government institutions to become monsters themselves, and became an anarchist,) even though they warned other anarchists about the extremism that Leon Czolgosz was capable of and wanted to distance themselves from him before he even decided to buy a gun.
President McKinley implemented steep tariffs to protect industry. Did they work?
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/21/nx-s1-53 ... -they-work
Three Times Tariffs Triggered Depressions in American History
https://medium.com/lessons-from-history ... 5fbb3cf92c
*****************************
https://archive.org/details/twin-peaks-into-the-night
Cease and Desist notification from Paramount (posted after that was uploaded)
https://x.com/BlueRoseTeamTP/status/1947376795507912953
It also seems to have some MacOS .bundle file that can't extract to the folder, so if you run it it will function from the .exe file, but seems to be tied into how the .bundle functions for the text, so it has an error message for "no translation file" or something, where their would normally be English text. Not sure if their was a different version for Windows, but it does seem to have compatibility issues despite being able to play some interesting collages of footage from Twin Peaks (and for some weird reason you can find a cameo from the X-Files, so it might have been a gag on the series and how mysteries are involved with Detective work.)
**************************
Near the end he kind of reminded me of J.F. Sebastian.
I'm a bit surprised she was oblivious of the Lucent connection to Martin Eberhard (his college roomate was the founder of the company and I believe he helped with some of the design.)
Interestingly enough, a man that designed a stealth camper trash dump also tried out the Cybertruck. . .
https://youtu.be/exWKlZWo2kA
https://youtu.be/gEHs1ASWRUs
And this is happening. . .
Scorned by Customers, Tesla’s Unsold Cybertrucks Will Be Destroyed With Missiles by the US Army
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/sc ... eb1f&ei=10
Money well spent. . . 33 Tesla Cybertrucks (allegedly chosen for durability. . . and resistance.)
Using:
AGM-114 Hellfire cost $130,000-160,000 per unit
AGM-176 Griffin $385 million Raytheon contract
GBU-69 SGM cost $150,000 per unit
GBU-39B are $40,000 per unit
***************************
I started watching It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (S1 E3) and it had themes similar to this:
This is basically the inverse of the Lolita movie, involving a young student and a female teacher twice his age.
All Things Fair (aka Lust och Fägring Stor) (Bo Widerberg, 1995) Marika Lagercrantz
https://ok.ru/video/2135613639334
And though I was looking up another movie prior, I suspect ok.ru banned my IP. . . because I noticed it only works using a VPN, and it doesn't show up as being blocked on down or not for the US (nor the VPN.)
********************************
The Terrorizers (Edward Yang, 1986)
Taipei Story (Edward Yang, 1985)
The difference between Taiwan and mainland Chinese films (and perhaps less-so Hong Kong) is night and day. This looks like it could have been made 20 years prior. It's still kind of decent, though compare it to Kwaiden or something similar from Japan. The Matroska file should be much more detailed though.
Green Snake (Tsui Hark, 1993)
******************
Seaspiracy - Documentary 2021
This does get pretty weird (the emoji thing was kind of interesting.)