| Movies I've Seen |
[Jun. 25th, 2007|02:03 pm] |
FYI:
Whenever Jackie makes a joke about some movie I "haven't seen," it usually means I've seen it. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's when I'm re-watching a movie I saw five years ago and people think I'm just getting around to it.
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| Jackie Gone Wild! |
[May. 28th, 2007|08:00 am] |
Jackie's idea of a wild time is taking a seven-minute drive without me to the Meijer Fresh on Auburn, immediately thereafter calling the apartment from a pay phone even though she knows I'm taking a nap, shopping for about twenty minutes without buying anything, then coming home to wake me up for "hugs on demand."
Jackie Calls From Meijer, 142 KB
Transcript:
"Hey, baby, it's me. Um.... I need to get out more. I really do."
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| I Just Came Down With the Flu |
[May. 4th, 2007|07:32 am] |
08:00 AM Hitler's Managers: Ferdinand Porsche: The Engineer.
Ferdinand Porsche fought for his automotive technical innovations with unwavering ambition. But established car manufacturers thought many of his ideas expensive and impractical, so he turned to Adolf Hitler. The Volkswagen was their joint project. But his new car factory was then charged with providing vehicles for the German Army. At the peak of wartime production, two-thirds of the workforce were forced laborers. The factory also produced aircraft components, bomber engines, and the V1 (Vengeance Weapon). After the war, the 70-year-old Porsche spent six months in a French prison, which he felt was a great insult. He was never put on trial: in political and legal terms he was considered free from guilt. Workers on the first Volkswagens give accounts of the famous factory's construction, while forced laborers describe conditions as it was given over to munitions production.
TVPG
09:00 AM Hitler's Managers: Wernher von Braun: The Rocket Man.
Fascinated by explosives and fireworks as a boy, he dreamt of rocket flight to outer space. In 1969, Wernher von Braun's vision came true when man set foot on the moon. Only gradually has the sinister side of his life become known. He also constructed the infamous V1 and V2 missiles. When Hitler came to power, von Braun was just 20 years old. The only way to make this dream come true was to prove the military value of his rockets first. When WWII ended, von Braun surrendered to the Americans, who were very interested in the rocket scientist and avoided asking too many awkward questions. In the US, he became one of the most important proponents of the space program and moon missions. Former colleagues recall his distinctive leadership style, while concentration camp survivors regard him as an accomplice in Nazi atrocities.
TVPG
10:00 AM Hitler and the Occult: Hitler and the Occult.
Did Hitler's obsession with astrology, numerology, ancient runes, and German mythology enable his early brash moves and ultimately spell the Third Reich's doom?
TVPG V
11:00 AM Hitler's Family:
Nazi propaganda portrayed Adolf Hitler as a man minus family or private life. As a matter of fact, he kept in touch with his family--mainly to control them. There was shady half-brother Alois, a Berlin innkeeper who tried to profit from his name, and half-sister Angela, in charge of housekeeping at the Berghof retreat, who had neighbors chased away. His niece Geli, who called her uncle a "jailer", committed suicide. His "favorite nephew" was educated at an elite Nazi school. His sister Paula wanted to marry a surgeon and mass murderer. And his English-born nephew William Patrick, a playboy in Berlin, extorted money by threatening to expose family secrets. We present previously unknown documents and personal records and descendants of the Hitler family talk about living in the shadow of a dictator.
TVPG
12:00 PM Night of the Long Knives:
One of Adolf Hitler's most brutal and dramatic exterminations came half a decade before the sins of the Holocaust. The SA was Hitler's army of thugs, but the head of the SA, Ernst Roehm, was threatening Hitler's rule. On June 29th 1934, Hitler ordered the SA leadership to appear for a meeting at the Hotel Hanselbauer. Without warning, the SS burst in, beginning 48 hours of bloodshed in which 1000 of the leading SA, including Roehm, were rounded up and slaughtered. This murderous deed became an ominous warning of what was to come. It is the single most significant episode in Hitler's rise to absolute power, and the set the stage for World War and the Holocaust.
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| "Bobby" |
[Apr. 12th, 2007|06:24 pm] |
I liked Repo Man just fine, and much of the acting here in Bobby was pretty good (see my comments about Lindsay Lohan later in this post), but, overall, this is the kind of movie that (when I'm in a mood) strikes me as retarded liberal-propaganda trash.
Assuming you're a simple-minded partisan ... yes, I would have voted for Bobby Kennedy; no, I'm definitely not one of these middle-class, Michigan wannabe-tough-guys who, despite our current economy, is too stupid to know that the middle-class tends to get economically fucked over by the right wing; and yes, I found the movie entertaining and worth watching. I'm simply saying that—even though I watch movies primarily to be entertained—it's nevertheless hard for me not to be put off by the slightest hint of comic-book, political (feel-good) hypocrisy. "Heroes do exist, and they are all liberals. If only Bobby would have been elected instead of killed, everything would be be okay" ... and no hippie would ever again get arrested for selling LSD (or for appearing in horrible movies like The Guardian or mindless television shows that don't appeal to anyone beyond the age of twelve like that one 70s show, I forget what it's called). Beyond news footage, Bobby appears in Bobby only for a few seconds, and at a distance; we are to assume he is like a god, "there" in spirit throughout the entire movie, watching over the rich and poor, the black and white (the Estevez and Sheen...), feeling their pain with them and secretly coming up with ways to make the world a better place. As if politicians like Johnson and Nixon get out of bed in the morning just to get people killed and make the world worse. I don't buy it—and like I said, I would have voted for "Bobby" but I would have seen him for what he was: not a comic book hero who just happened to have been real (and born mega-rich), but a lesser of the evils.
Oh yeah—one more thing that irks me about this movie (and about white liberals in general, and about a whole lot of black males). Supposedly black women are not worth talking to unless they resemble gorgeous white models.
In addition, I can blame this film for introducing me to someone I have been trying not to know anything about since I first heard her name on the Web some years ago: Lindsay Lohan. I don't know if any of you idiots take Jackie seriously when she says we don't watch enough television or news to know who people like that are, but she means it, and until the Bobby end credits we had no idea it was the infamous Lohan who played Froto's girlfriend. (What's worse, since we didn't know who it was, I, anyway, was thinking, "She's not a bad little actress—neither snobbily good-looking nor intelligent enough to be offensive.)
Whoever you are, wherever you are, if you believe in anything at all besides how shitty the human species is, fuck you and fuck your politics.
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| Does She Seem Right To You? |
[Apr. 5th, 2007|06:51 pm] |
If you-know-who keeps using the Jubal Early line, "Does that seem right to you?" it will make me never want to have sex with her ever again, and therefore her act of refusing to have sex with me now will become—well, another catch-phrase she likes to use that's even less sexy in my mind, because it's French: de trop (pointless; in excess; absurd). Point being, she won't have sex with me only because I want to have sex with her.
I like Richard Brooks a lot (I know him from 84 Charlie Mopic, The Hidden, and Law & Order) but I really don't want to have sex with him (or, for the record, any man).
By the way, we both think he was a little cooler than "The Operative," and we both think people who like The Operative better are high schoolers who haven't seen any of the world yet.
This is my obligatory LJ post for this month. Everyone suck a dick.
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| Eva Green Boobs |
[Mar. 16th, 2007|07:38 am] |
They're back online, as long as I don't look at them. (Which I won't, really.)
Why are they back online? Our retarded websites are retarded and need all the help they can get.
http://www.tier8.net/eva-green/
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| UH OHS :0P |
[Mar. 10th, 2007|05:18 pm] |
SOMEONE IN A BAD BAD CWAZY MOOOOOOOOOOOOD
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| I Did Not Know That: Joe Estevez |
[Mar. 6th, 2007|10:44 pm] |
This is the ridiculous-sounding sort of thing I pull out of my ass and tell Jackie over and over for a half hour until she believes it's true; then I tell her I'm lying and she's retarded. In this case, though, it's true:
"If you think you recognize Martin Sheen's distinctive voice in a voice-over, it could be his brother, Joe Estevez. He has done voice-over work for many commercials and television."
http://imdb.com/name/nm0261724/
This is unrelated, but I hate those fucking Intel commercials beyond anything I can describe here.
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