Two of my favorite things on one t-shirt! You can order it here.
Category: These Are Those Things
That inspire, that I like, and that I hope you feel the same about
But What IS Mingering?
If I had to pick one thing and one thing only that truly moved, inspired me, expanded my mind, and moved my feet, I would hand that golden stature to the greatest soul superstar you never heard of: Mingering Mike.
More Godard Trailers
You have to love the music in the MASCULINE FEMININE trailer:
His Old Is Always New
For awhile Jean Luc Godard made films so fresh that, now –40+ years later — they still seem fresher than virtually anything anyone else is making.
And here’s BAND OF OUTSIDERS trailer:
Okay, so Adam Curtis does not incorporate the personal the way Chris Marker does. And he’s not as funny as Mr. Moore, but his films are so full of ideas each one is a couple weeks worth of conversations. The guy also works archive footage like no other. It all started for us with THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES. It took forever for it to come to video here but now you can order it. And Netflix got it as of Aug 5th this year.
Or you can watch it courtesy of the Internet Archive:
Naomi Wolf might love America and what it once stood for more than you. She certainly is passionate, and she certainly is doing a lot to attempt to preserve our freedoms. She also makes a good argument that we are on the precipice of losing all that we have come to love. This past Saturday she was on the radio and declared “A coup has taken place!”.
It will make you say “wow”. But can we act? Get rid of our collective sluggishness? She does make a case that the time is now or never.
She plans to put up a tool kit on her website:
myamreicaproject.org
but the tool kit is not up yet, but the trailer for her film is
endofamericamovie.com
The film is available on DVD come Oct 21st.
In her radio interview, Ms. Wolf highlights how Representative Brad Sherman said in Congress that representatives were told in told in private that martial law would have to be instilled if they did not pass the bail out plan. You can see him state this below.
I am glad we live in a world with Fainting Goats. I am even more glad we live in a land where we can have a whole festival for them.