Essential Reading 8/24/07
Interview with Edward Landler, who is finishing up a documentary on Watts Towers that he's been working on for 15 years.
Jeremy Beaks recommends a list of pre-code talkies. "More than the Bible, Americans' concepts of right and wrong were instilled by Walt Disney, Frank Capra, William Wyler and so on. It's a fascinating legacy, one that's probably beneficial and pernicious in equal measure."
Cinebeats has a great list of cool foreign (mostly genre) films that I'll be trying to see in the future.
Simpsons quotes now showing up in the OED.
A report on film restoration as of Jan. 1, 2150.
So there's this conservative think tank called Family Security Matters that has several prominent "mainstream" conservatives on their board. They also have some horrifying extremist shit published on their website. They've tried to wipe out the evidence of it, but it's been saved by Google cache. Read the jaw-dropping fascist diatribes that have been salvaged here (suggesting Bush nuke Iraq, dissolve congress and the courts, and name himself President for Life), and here ("The very least that must be done to halt the Hispanic invasion is the mass enslavement, or execution, of the invaders, which must be followed by an American invasion of Mexico to enforce American language and values upon the Mexicans"). Fun reading.
Max Roach, 1924-2007:
Check this one, too.
Jeremy Beaks recommends a list of pre-code talkies. "More than the Bible, Americans' concepts of right and wrong were instilled by Walt Disney, Frank Capra, William Wyler and so on. It's a fascinating legacy, one that's probably beneficial and pernicious in equal measure."
Cinebeats has a great list of cool foreign (mostly genre) films that I'll be trying to see in the future.
Simpsons quotes now showing up in the OED.
A report on film restoration as of Jan. 1, 2150.
So there's this conservative think tank called Family Security Matters that has several prominent "mainstream" conservatives on their board. They also have some horrifying extremist shit published on their website. They've tried to wipe out the evidence of it, but it's been saved by Google cache. Read the jaw-dropping fascist diatribes that have been salvaged here (suggesting Bush nuke Iraq, dissolve congress and the courts, and name himself President for Life), and here ("The very least that must be done to halt the Hispanic invasion is the mass enslavement, or execution, of the invaders, which must be followed by an American invasion of Mexico to enforce American language and values upon the Mexicans"). Fun reading.
Max Roach, 1924-2007:
Check this one, too.
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