A couple of thangs
-Green Day aren't great because they make some hyper-simplistic knee jerk political videos and songs. "Wake Me Up Before September Ends" is one of the most dull songs I have ever heard. Predictable and boring. They suck, their videos suck, they have no idea what they are talking about politically. Next.
-I just started reading the new translations of Proust's "...temps perdu".
-The show "Cheap Seats" is hilarious. How have I, a devoted "MST3K" lover, ignored it for so long? Great writing.
-I am thinking of getting a rabbit, a chinchilla or a kitten.
-My basketball skills are improving. I am deadly from the free-throw line at the Chowen Avenue hoop near my homestead.
-It is raining. Did you know that rain is nature's air conditioner?
-The Discovery Channel's 9/11 documentary on Flight 93 ('The Flight that Fought Back') impressed me with it's editing and interviews. The reinactments were well-acted and about 100 levels above "Unsolved Mysteries" (one of my favorite shows of all-time) in terms of non-silliness, but still a tad melodramatic. I still am haunted by the hijackers putting on red bandanas before standing up and storming the cockpit. Apparently the in-flight movie for that particular flight was "A Knight's Tale". If they had began the delightful film 10 minutes earlier would Ziad Jarrah have re-thought his holy mission of death inspired by the on-screen romantic sparks between Heath Ledger and Keira Knightley? We can only guess.
Two things should be added though:
A) The documentary was too long and the violent scenes of the hijackings suffered from the shaky camera-attached to hijacker cam-view thingy. Remember that Smashing Pumpkins video "1979"?
B) Michelle Malkin and her phantasmorgically evil and idiotic blogger ilk went apeshit over the movie, praising the "patriotism of the men and women who stopped the plane from hitting it's D.C. target". Let it be said that in one interview the wife of one of the men who attempted to take over the plane remarked "These people weren't trying to save the plane from the White House and being larger than life. They were trying to get stay alive so they could go home and see their families." Malkin and her fellow ghouls whore the actions of these poor people killed for evil fundamentalism for the sake of their own fundamentalism.
The fact that they liked the movie makes me want to change my opinion.
-Next time you are at your dvd retailer, purchase "Andrei Rublev". Movies don't get better.
-Green Day aren't great because they make some hyper-simplistic knee jerk political videos and songs. "Wake Me Up Before September Ends" is one of the most dull songs I have ever heard. Predictable and boring. They suck, their videos suck, they have no idea what they are talking about politically. Next.
-I just started reading the new translations of Proust's "...temps perdu".
-The show "Cheap Seats" is hilarious. How have I, a devoted "MST3K" lover, ignored it for so long? Great writing.
-I am thinking of getting a rabbit, a chinchilla or a kitten.
-My basketball skills are improving. I am deadly from the free-throw line at the Chowen Avenue hoop near my homestead.
-It is raining. Did you know that rain is nature's air conditioner?
-The Discovery Channel's 9/11 documentary on Flight 93 ('The Flight that Fought Back') impressed me with it's editing and interviews. The reinactments were well-acted and about 100 levels above "Unsolved Mysteries" (one of my favorite shows of all-time) in terms of non-silliness, but still a tad melodramatic. I still am haunted by the hijackers putting on red bandanas before standing up and storming the cockpit. Apparently the in-flight movie for that particular flight was "A Knight's Tale". If they had began the delightful film 10 minutes earlier would Ziad Jarrah have re-thought his holy mission of death inspired by the on-screen romantic sparks between Heath Ledger and Keira Knightley? We can only guess.
Two things should be added though:
A) The documentary was too long and the violent scenes of the hijackings suffered from the shaky camera-attached to hijacker cam-view thingy. Remember that Smashing Pumpkins video "1979"?
B) Michelle Malkin and her phantasmorgically evil and idiotic blogger ilk went apeshit over the movie, praising the "patriotism of the men and women who stopped the plane from hitting it's D.C. target". Let it be said that in one interview the wife of one of the men who attempted to take over the plane remarked "These people weren't trying to save the plane from the White House and being larger than life. They were trying to get stay alive so they could go home and see their families." Malkin and her fellow ghouls whore the actions of these poor people killed for evil fundamentalism for the sake of their own fundamentalism.
The fact that they liked the movie makes me want to change my opinion.
-Next time you are at your dvd retailer, purchase "Andrei Rublev". Movies don't get better.
posted by PWS at 2:24 AM
2 Comments:
aw, i like green day.
get a bunny. i fell in love with one this summer, and they're way easier to take care of.
I like Greenday too, but simply for their OLDER albums.
And I had a bunny once...Fed it some Cheerios and it died.
Too bad, so sad...Go for the kitty cat!! :)
- Ash
Post a Comment
<< Home