I spent much of the last week watching most of the Ken Burn's film 'The War'. His 14+ hour take on WW2. I saw around ten of the 14+ hour series. Learned a lot. Now I want to see the last 4.5 hrs.
Also a while ago I got to watch the fifth season of MadMen which ends in the spring of 1967. I liked the series. Creative how they turned everyone into each other in the last season, like they took on each other's roles in how they learned or not to deal with the circumstances over time ...
Someone pointed by accident to the availability of one of those '60's cult classics, seemed somehow to act as a decent capper or coda or bookend to the series of madmen... Up on hulu for now, totally fits in the psychotronic world, the reflected-image view
Have you ever seen the movie "Mondo Hollywood"? 1967. written, produced, directed by Robert Carl Cohen, 2 hours
equal parts cut-up, 'classic', corny and creepy, this delightful documentary is surprisingly prescient in its typical examples of influential trends: they did a good job picking examples of people who were doing things that became dominant trends over the last fifty years. For better or worse.
in the news:
- Julian Assange still sits in the Ecuador Embassy in London ... UPDATE; also, Pussy Riot still goes to a work camp, for two years; Kevin G did a lot of work on the whole Assange story over the last couple weeks
- Sheldon Adelson was gonna spend that money anyway... too bad since the Mississippi is especially muddy this yearbecause of the drought, for one thing and it would be real great to transport all that backed up cargo to where it's supposed to go, to market, somehow...
- Iceland steered away from austerity in economics and everyone stands up and cheers - at least somebody got it right
- Krugman finds a way Romney will repeal current cuts giving dividends that amount to prior insurance and doctor co-payment giveaways
- "The Self-Destruction of the 1%" by Chrystia Freeland for the NYTimes, Oct 14, 2013 [edit: found and put here 21feb2013]
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