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Re: Obama Rips McCain for Singing "Bomb Bomb Iran"
Well done! McCain had this coming for a long, long time, I'm extremely glad Obama respectfully scolded him in front of the whole nation. Although I was half expecting the straight talk express to deny he'd ever sung such a thing, I imagine his blood pressure shot up instantly about fifty digits.
By: niktemadur
Re: Monty Python: History of the Joke
No offense, but did you think of posting it here on M&C?
Quickly, let me tell you where I'm coming from: for two years, I ran the movie department in a non-profit cultural center. In Mexico. Every week, before the main feature, I ran Monty Python episodes in chronological order, in English with English subtitles. A small but faithful Python audience developed, I had to rerun the whole series again!
BTW, the legal concept 'fair use' is quite broad in Mexican law, there's been no entertainment lobbyism quite as harsh as in Washington.
Anyway, c'mon luclonde, now you know: share the stuff, please post the Python, M&C is a filter for an endless stream of internet information - your filter.
Quickly, let me tell you where I'm coming from: for two years, I ran the movie department in a non-profit cultural center. In Mexico. Every week, before the main feature, I ran Monty Python episodes in chronological order, in English with English subtitles. A small but faithful Python audience developed, I had to rerun the whole series again!
BTW, the legal concept 'fair use' is quite broad in Mexican law, there's been no entertainment lobbyism quite as harsh as in Washington.
Anyway, c'mon luclonde, now you know: share the stuff, please post the Python, M&C is a filter for an endless stream of internet information - your filter.
By: niktemadur
Re: Dudley Moore & Peter Cook - Frog And Peach
Peter Cook may be the funniest man I've ever come across. It seems to me now that half of John Cleese's career was devoted to catching up with Cook, while never daring to cross several borders this man delineated. Cook is off the hook!
Cook? Hook? Hey, I've made a funny! Hey, spam_vigilante, how about uploading some Foghorn Leghorn cartoons? I'd do it, but Looney Tunes is part of your domain.
Cook? Hook? Hey, I've made a funny! Hey, spam_vigilante, how about uploading some Foghorn Leghorn cartoons? I'd do it, but Looney Tunes is part of your domain.
By: niktemadur
Re: Derek and Clive - The Horn
Note to the mods: I believe this should be filed as "Swearing", an option not available while submitting a link.
I would never have thought that, in this day and age, I'd watch some seventies comedy footage and find that it surpasses current comedy in the outrageousness scale all across the board. This is like the Monty Python version of Andrew Dice Clay.
Pioneers such as John Waters come to mind in this clip.
I would never have thought that, in this day and age, I'd watch some seventies comedy footage and find that it surpasses current comedy in the outrageousness scale all across the board. This is like the Monty Python version of Andrew Dice Clay.
Pioneers such as John Waters come to mind in this clip.
By: niktemadur
Re: Richard Dawkins: Sincerely Hallucinating
Absolutely. How many of us have ever had the courage to disarm the religious argument with such a simple, point-blank statement: "I do not doubt your sincerity, but you are hallucinating".
As the religious puff their chests in outrage at never having been confronted with candor such as this, their historical free pass is revoked, taboos are shattered and reason can only grow stronger.
This is one powerful bit of video right here.
As the religious puff their chests in outrage at never having been confronted with candor such as this, their historical free pass is revoked, taboos are shattered and reason can only grow stronger.
This is one powerful bit of video right here.
By: niktemadur
Re: Jack Cafferty Tells Us How He Really Feels about Sarah Palin
Cafferty calling it like it is, while Faux News will laud the Alaska governor's little discussion with Couric as "a brilliant performance", which of course Faux viewers will never bother to see, as they seem to like their opinions predigested by others and never mind the facts, their minds are already made up on the matter, at the core it's all about God, guns and gays.
Damn, I wish it was the first Wednesday in November already, so we could get this grotesque circus out of our lives.
Damn, I wish it was the first Wednesday in November already, so we could get this grotesque circus out of our lives.
By: niktemadur
Re: George Carlin on Politically Incorrect, Pt 1 of 2
Dweeb next to Carlin? Corporate shill is more like it, because otherwise he'd be an ignorant dumbf***, and that would be insulting, quite possibly Politically Incorrect as seen by those ready to take offense at the drop of a pin, but then again, that's the name of the show, isn't it?
Hey EVILMindD, you have a V-8 which you use responsibly, but are you not the exception, instead of the rule? A friend of mine restored a 1954 Cadillac to its' original glory, takes it out only on weekends for a spin, and that's super cool. However, check out most used car lots across the USA, and you will find massive numbers of SUVs that nobody wants to buy, and those are just the ones that used car lots bought before they said "enough". Now owners of those beasts are stuck with them, as no one wants to buy them.
My point here is that without regulation, as a large number of people have no vision, the pattern is splurge-crisis-whine, whereas with regulation, the pattern is whine-whine-whine, and as long as crisis is not there, as long as the Arctic Ocean is not foaming methane (it's happening RIGHT NOW), well fuck the whiners, you know?
Adam Curtis said it very succintly in The Trap (and I paraphrase): People will whine about taxes, elect the person who will slash them, and three years later will whine over BBQ and chardonnay about the state of infrastructure. Reagan started with the politics as focus-group thing, and government has been in a particular kind of downward spiral since then. The people simply do NOT know better, and the plutocrats will take full advantage of that.
It should not be about the individual right to own a monster truck that takes up two parking spots, but about what kind of world we're going to leave to our children, when we selfishly abuse it with technology... no, strike that, corporate retrograde product.
While watching this segment, Maher mentions how people will wake up when gas costs three bucks a gallon. Well as we all know, it's up to four bucks, and we are seeing the genuine electoral threat of four more years of the same policies. The boiling frog effect is in full force, and has learned nothing. In legal circles, it's known as willful ignorance, and will earn no sympathy whatsoever.
Anyway, there it was in this amazing segment, everything the corporate shill said was wrong, seven years later the chickens have come home to roost many times over. Some knew the current administration would fail, though none could have predicted just how spectacularly. And still the press calls the McCain-Obama race as too close to call. Jeez...
Hey EVILMindD, you have a V-8 which you use responsibly, but are you not the exception, instead of the rule? A friend of mine restored a 1954 Cadillac to its' original glory, takes it out only on weekends for a spin, and that's super cool. However, check out most used car lots across the USA, and you will find massive numbers of SUVs that nobody wants to buy, and those are just the ones that used car lots bought before they said "enough". Now owners of those beasts are stuck with them, as no one wants to buy them.
My point here is that without regulation, as a large number of people have no vision, the pattern is splurge-crisis-whine, whereas with regulation, the pattern is whine-whine-whine, and as long as crisis is not there, as long as the Arctic Ocean is not foaming methane (it's happening RIGHT NOW), well fuck the whiners, you know?
Adam Curtis said it very succintly in The Trap (and I paraphrase): People will whine about taxes, elect the person who will slash them, and three years later will whine over BBQ and chardonnay about the state of infrastructure. Reagan started with the politics as focus-group thing, and government has been in a particular kind of downward spiral since then. The people simply do NOT know better, and the plutocrats will take full advantage of that.
It should not be about the individual right to own a monster truck that takes up two parking spots, but about what kind of world we're going to leave to our children, when we selfishly abuse it with technology... no, strike that, corporate retrograde product.
While watching this segment, Maher mentions how people will wake up when gas costs three bucks a gallon. Well as we all know, it's up to four bucks, and we are seeing the genuine electoral threat of four more years of the same policies. The boiling frog effect is in full force, and has learned nothing. In legal circles, it's known as willful ignorance, and will earn no sympathy whatsoever.
Anyway, there it was in this amazing segment, everything the corporate shill said was wrong, seven years later the chickens have come home to roost many times over. Some knew the current administration would fail, though none could have predicted just how spectacularly. And still the press calls the McCain-Obama race as too close to call. Jeez...
By: niktemadur
Re: One Leg Too Few
It's worth noting that a few years after this wildly popular stage in their careers, which included playing lead roles in hit films such as Bedazzled, Moore and Cook subverted their fame by recording some of the filthiest, most vulgar and profane comedy ever put on vinyl, under the pseudonyms Derek and Clive.
By: niktemadur
Re: Monty Python: History of the Joke
Holy cow, where did this come from? This is NOT a classic sketch, this is a thing so rare that many hardcore Python fans (myself included) have been in the dark for years even about the existence of it.
There's the German episodes, there's the comedy albums, there's the pre-Python days with Palin, Cleese, et al (even Peter Cook) on the BBC... and then there's this.
Consider my mind as blown, I shall submit an application in your name for a lifetime, non-revocable geek card.
There's the German episodes, there's the comedy albums, there's the pre-Python days with Palin, Cleese, et al (even Peter Cook) on the BBC... and then there's this.
Consider my mind as blown, I shall submit an application in your name for a lifetime, non-revocable geek card.
By: niktemadur
Re: Peabody and Sherman
"Now here's something you're REALLY going to like!" - Rocket J. Squirrel
By: niktemadur
Re: TED Talks: Redefining the Dictionary
Every so often, my wife and I get into arguments about how I "invent" words to describe the... um, indescribable.
I should be more rigid because I stray from the language, she says. I enrich the language by taking English words from Latin and Greek origins and reconfiguring them into Spanish, I say. Oh yeah, we live in Mexico, and the words I invent are nowhere near Spanglish, the words I invent sound like they could be in the Diccionario De La Real Academia Española (Dictionary Of The Royal Spanish Academy), the Castillian equivalent of the Oxford Dictionary.
A friend of ours, a poet, agrees with me, but my wife, who studied Languages in College, just doesn't get my POV. Well then, I'm going to show her this video, so she can see how the theories of her schooling are rigid, therefore flawed, according to Ms McKean, in cheery and eloquent way.
My point is, excellent post.
I should be more rigid because I stray from the language, she says. I enrich the language by taking English words from Latin and Greek origins and reconfiguring them into Spanish, I say. Oh yeah, we live in Mexico, and the words I invent are nowhere near Spanglish, the words I invent sound like they could be in the Diccionario De La Real Academia Española (Dictionary Of The Royal Spanish Academy), the Castillian equivalent of the Oxford Dictionary.
A friend of ours, a poet, agrees with me, but my wife, who studied Languages in College, just doesn't get my POV. Well then, I'm going to show her this video, so she can see how the theories of her schooling are rigid, therefore flawed, according to Ms McKean, in cheery and eloquent way.
My point is, excellent post.
By: niktemadur
Re: Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain
Yes, I detest animal cruelty, but it slipped by me with this one, because I was wary of nudity and bodily functions. On closer inspection one can see that the scale model being blown up was likely not empty. If the clip must go, it must go, and no more Jodorowsky in the future.
Jodorowsky was living in Mexico City at the time, then and now an aggressive, crazy f***ing place with a pre-hispanic bent, sometimes reflected in the local art (as in this case). Having been to the second largest city in the world many times, there's some stuff I've seen and heard about that I'd rather had never drifted into my awareness.
Thanks White_Wolf, you made me see things from a different perspective, even as it was in front of my nose.
Jodorowsky was living in Mexico City at the time, then and now an aggressive, crazy f***ing place with a pre-hispanic bent, sometimes reflected in the local art (as in this case). Having been to the second largest city in the world many times, there's some stuff I've seen and heard about that I'd rather had never drifted into my awareness.
Thanks White_Wolf, you made me see things from a different perspective, even as it was in front of my nose.
By: niktemadur
Re: Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain
Factoid: the film was partly financed by John Lennon, but his manager Allen Klein bought the full rights, had a nasty fight with director Jodorowsky, and the upshot was that the film was shelved for more than thirty years, bootleg copies going for hundreds of dollars if you could find one.
The Holy Mountain, along with Jodorowsky's previous feature El Topo, was finally remastered and re-released theatrically at the tail end of 2006, in a month-long, sold-out double feature engagement in New York and Los Angeles.
I am hesitant to put any more clips here in M&C, since most of the film is most definitely NSFW, in a major way.
The Holy Mountain, along with Jodorowsky's previous feature El Topo, was finally remastered and re-released theatrically at the tail end of 2006, in a month-long, sold-out double feature engagement in New York and Los Angeles.
I am hesitant to put any more clips here in M&C, since most of the film is most definitely NSFW, in a major way.
By: niktemadur
Re: Barry Lyndon: Kubrick's Eye for Detail
Almost twenty years ago, my friends were bored silly by Barry Lyndon even as it mesmerized me completely. Something about Kubrick resonated deeply, so I took the time and effort to track down his remaining films I had not yet seen, and with the exception of Killer's Kiss (in the most memorable location, a tiny movie theater in Paris), every one of his works has been a revelation.
Nowadays, whenever I meet anybody who admires Kubrick's work and loves to talk about it, conversation just flows, it's almost like a lithmus test for me (but not really). In fact, I took my then-girlfriend to see 2001 in one of those big old theaters, she loved it, and here we are now, married. Coincidence?
Anyway, keep the Kubrick comin', boys! :D
Nowadays, whenever I meet anybody who admires Kubrick's work and loves to talk about it, conversation just flows, it's almost like a lithmus test for me (but not really). In fact, I took my then-girlfriend to see 2001 in one of those big old theaters, she loved it, and here we are now, married. Coincidence?
Anyway, keep the Kubrick comin', boys! :D
By: niktemadur
Well, Palin did recite Faux News talking points over and over, so the Faux audience got to hear from her what they've been hearing for years, which is to say, she pushed all the brainwash buttons.
Heck, she's part of the Faux audience, reads no newspapers, etc, she actually believes the crap she spews, so it was more of a group reinforcement therapy in full effect.
Something else to take into consideration, the bully pulpit known as Faux always finds ways to skew and fudge data towards a certain slant.