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Broken Social Scene: Meet Me In the Basement
Saturday, July 17th, 2010
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Civilization
Saturday, June 12th, 2010
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Mr. Smith Goes To Washington!
Saturday, June 12th, 2010
I’ve always liked the name of this film but I never got around to watching it until now.
The scene above is Mr. Smith’s first day as a senator. The day before he was a youth scout group leader somewhere in the middle west. He has no idea how he’s really gotten there– at this point anyway. It’s a quality ride up to this point and it just gets better and better. The dialogue is great. The cast is excellent. I usually cant handle the acting of that period without laughing at it but the actors are spot on.
Jimmy Stewart is the man. This man can really act. He fought in WWII. He fought to get into WWII because he was too tall and underweight. He became a general, did a little more acting, and smuggled a yeti hand out of India in his wife’s underwear. Jimmy Stewart went on Johnny Carson and read a poem about his dog that died and he cried on national television. Jimmy Stewart is the man.
This movie is, to say the least, timeless. Whats going on in 1939? The exact same thing that’s going on in 2010.
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A Stroke of Insight
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
This will make you happy. It’s a speech from a brain scientist who suffered a stroke. This sounds horrible, yes, but it ends well. It ends very well. We could all use a stroke perhaps.
Thanks to Julie at sunpuddle.net for this gem.
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The Merchants of Cool
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
This covers the media machines (specifically MTV circa 2002) and how they find cool, isolate its prime ingredient, repackage it for the uncool masses, effectively make it un-cool, and start all over. It’s kinda funny to see the MTV execs telling you exactly what they’re doing. If their audience could only listen to some of these execs they’d have stopped watching immediatley. Of course, they probably knew their audience well enough to know that no kid would never think to watch PBS on a Sunday evening in 2002.
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Synchronized Dancing
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
I think everyone should learn this and begin busting it loose in public spaces. The potential locations and applications for it are amazing: parties, events, museums, wallstreet, wallmarts, the list goes on…..
Think of it like this: With enough people learning this dance we could start random outbreaks of dancing in the streets. Allow me to present a 7 part proposal as to why this is awesome:
1. It’s fun to dance
2. You don’t have to worry about looking like a fool because everybody is doing the same silly dance.
3. Imagine the random people watching who wouldn’t yet be in on it, their minds? – - blown.
4.It could easily turn into a party.
5. It genuinely creates that moment in musicals where everybody suddenly seems to know the words and steps and harmonies to a city wide dance.
6. It is the antithesis of politics.
7. Synthesized synchronicity. (I’d imagine for most adults this is much easier to catch on to than true synchronicity.)
This could be anything to everyone. This could be a street performance to midwestern city tourists. This could be performance art to the aesthetically selective.This could be attention K-Mart shoppers entertainment. This could be afternoon cardio to a bored housewife. This could be the good shake everyone needs now and then to just get happy.
I’ll tell you what this definitely is : It’s a group of people coming together as heroes for five minutes then disappearing just as quickly as it all started.
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