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History snapshot with 60 minutes archives : before we all went nuts

60 minutes archives

now that xy is on a history lesson trip, here’s a great snippet into the past

before the world lost their mind – and when there was still some hope for peace

they try and make is sound complicated but its really not…

there is a land that 3 religions find sacred. they once all lived together on the same land. they can do so again. if you just stop the dehumanizing language of racism and hate and fucking with one another until one side goes mental. rinse repeat. you have to stop demanding the entire place for yourself, and using civilian terror tactics to win. we need a fair and just mediator as these people have been unable to make peace for 75 years and the way its going there is none in sight. finally, not that there is a god, but if there was one for all you delusional people, no one god gave this land to any one people. if you believe that i gotta a book that gives me everything you got. finally lets be fair, be nice — if you are in charge, find a way to live together and stop calling it a “religious state” for just one of the 3 faiths, or split the land 3 ways or make it a UNESCO world heritage site with no one government ruling it. i’m no politician but you guys are fucking up the entire world over this shit piece of land 90% of us don’t care about… by dd

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what is wrong with the palestinians?

a pretty IDF soldier checks our reporter

a deeply personal documentary, dena spends a day in hebron retracing the footsteps of her father, who was born and raised in hebron. our reporter is given a tour by a kind hearted Israeli IDF ex-soldier. it is a look at life before october 7th massacres in the palestinian west bank territories which was and is not controlled by hamas

while these stories of human suffering can be heart breaking, i hope you can see there are good and righteous people everywhere including the IDF which you may believe to be harsh as they defend their country. there are also so many israeli’s who have stood up against the collateral damage that is the killing of innocent woman and children and do not support netanyahu. as long as there is hate and bigotry on either side there will be no peace and both governments are guilty of not delivering that to the good people of each side.

finally this can not be watched without a bit of history on how this country came to be and why. “how israel was created“

please educate yourselves by reading and watching multiple sides of the same story and judge for yourself. everything is biased, some are more biased than others. I find these to be factual and fair, but that is me.

if you watch this and you feel hatred in you, you are falling for the trap that is set for us all. understand your world and know that no one people can be all bad or good. there are good people and bad people in every country and culture. if this makes you hate all jews know that you have succumbed to oldest of racist means. you can condemn an act of a government or a group but to assign that guilt to their family and neighborhood and all such people is what we all must condemn. by xy

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OCTOBER 2023 PICKS – movies to watch out for

 

around the office it’s not uncommon to hear the phrase “great things don’t come out every [expletive] fucking year”, often followed by “if you’re lucky, once in a decade – but, i mean, it’s a [expletive] fucking miracle if a generation produces one great thing”, and then maybe an hour and a half lecture on godard or kali malone.

here below are three good movies.

 

killers of the flower moon, scorsese

 

priscilla, coppola

 

anatomy of a fall, triet

 

go see them, one might make the cut to great. who knows? by lsd

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Hallows-eve-come-knocking-into-the-night movies

halloween special suggestions

titane 2021 directed by julia ducournau

the witch 2015 directed by robert eggers

suspiria 2018 directed by luca guadagnino

the lighthouse 2019 directed by robert eggers

goodnight mommy 2015 directed by veronika franz severin fiala

movies for you and your friends to be even more scared than you already are. very spook-k-k-k-ky zoinks scooby! –by lsd

 

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some food for thought in these testing times: is anti-zionism = anti-semitism?

watch israeli historian and political scientist ilan pappe (jewish) debate journalist for jerusalem post melanie phillips (jewish)

and british born reporter and oxford graduate mehdi hasan (muslim) debate knesset member einat wilf (jewish)

since all middle easterners have been silenced and equated to “animals”, branded “incompetent, ignorant, uneducated and never to be believed”… it is nice to hear these words from 3 out of 4 speakers of jewish decent and one oxford graduated “muslim brown boy” that just maybe you can “half-believe”.

what is terrorism?

2014 gaza war – operation protective edge death tool – democracy now PBS

regardless of the bios, this is an interesting debate with some factual historic background to help you sort out your own thoughts. in this age of misinformation and propaganda please always research facts from several opposing sources in order to reach a best guess scenario. somethings of course, require no research – occupying, locking and controlling a people is wrong, kidnapping innocent civilians, killing the elderly and defenseless citizens is also outright wrong and all of them should be condemned. and while self defense is warranted to bring the perpetrators to justice, bombing an entire neighborhood, or schools, or a high-rises is no-way to justify getting a mass shooter inside. “collective punishment of civilians to achieve a political goal” is wrong and by definition is terrorism – no matter who partakes in that.

the troubles did not begin on oct 7th as many would like us to believe. the blood shed and oppression and resistance and terrorism has been going on for more than 75c years. our stance remains: condemn all collective punishment/terrorism no matter who partakes in them

bring the perpetrators to justice (*sometimes they are a group, sometimes they are a state)

free all hostages including wrongful detainment of political prisoners inside israel

stop the war and especially stop the killing of civilians – needless to say jewish, christian, or muslim… but especially atheists

negotiate a “just” peace with equally strengthened parties and an unbiased judge (meaning not the U.S.) to reach a two state solution or a one state with equal rights.

 

finally zionism is an ideology like communism, you can surely be against communism but not racist towards russians, or chineses who were communist or some of the founders of communism who where jewish. this is a mafia style gag order, routed in zero rational or reality.

…to peace and collaboration of all humans, and to everyone standing up to bullies, on the playground and on the world map – amen and dog bless america. by xy

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century of the self: adam curtis

sigmund freud (and his american nephew, edward bernays)


century of the self – adam curtis

leave it to adam curtis to set the records straight. the story of the relationship between sigmund freud and his american nephew, edward bernays. bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take freud’s ideas to manipulate the masses. he showed american corporations how they could make people want things they didn’t need by systematically linking mass-produced goods to their unconscious desires. bernays was one of the main architects of the modern techniques of mass-consumer persuasion, using every trick in the book, from celebrity endorsement and outrageous PR stunts, to eroticising the motorcar. his most notorious coup was breaking the taboo on women smoking by persuading them that cigarettes were a symbol of independence and freedom. but bernays was convinced that this was more than just a way of selling consumer goods. it was a new political idea of how to control the masses. by satisfying the inner irrational desires that his uncle had identified, people could be made happy and thus docile. it was the start of the all-consuming self which has come to dominate today’s world. originally broadcast on 29th april 2002. by uh

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The Third Memory | P. Huyghe | Dog Day Afternoon

 

 

 

 

 

attica ! attica !

 

that sort of thing. we’ve all seen it.

last ditch effort, pleading to the hopeful crowd.

intertwine compassion and grey rage.

you get it..

 

they say.. anyway. it is pierre huyghe, the french video art and performance art gem, that delves a bit deeper into what was an otherwise the closed shut case of the cultural moral evaluation regarding john wojtowicz that al pacino cementing with his portrayal of the character sonny wortzik, under sydney lumet’s ever expansive eye, sought to advocate for. and many other kinds of alike sentences could bore us further.

 

 

i love the movie, it’s a masterpiece. and huyghe’s the third memory pushes ever more sensitively into the person. an incredible feat of subtle and delicate nature.

how the piece is intended to be shown.

what remains, and is available online, is nothing of the sort.

it’ll have to do.

 

a process of making out what has been taken out. by lsd

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Here’s the scoooop… Lescop ‘La Foret’

ok who wants to practice their french? and if not… there are subtitles in english. nice little track and video. now go practice.

Un coup de feu dans la nuit

Une douleur glaciale qui s’élance

La Foret soudain qui frémit

Puis s’installe le silence

 

Tu te tiens là assourdie

Tu prononces la sentence

Le deuxième coup est parti

Et fait bientôt la différence

 

Dans la Foret je te retrouve à l’heure opportune

Un rendez vous improvisé sous la lune

Sourires crispés, situation compliquée

Je sens ton souffle qui me frôle le coup

Un pistolet chargé me caresse la joue

Tu me dis “cette fois c’est moi qui joue”

Dans la foret la première détonation raisonne

Un coup de feu puis deux, mon corps qui frissonne

Puis doucement s’écroule

 

Plus rien, plus un bruit

Personne n’a rien vu par chance

Pour moi maintenant c’est fini

Et tout le monde s’en fout, tu penses!

 

Te voilà maintenant qui t’enfuis

Tirant ta révérence

La foret de nouveau frémit

Et je profite du silence

 

Dans la Foret je te retrouve à l’heure opportune

Un rendez vous improvisé sous la lune

Sourires crispés, situation compliquée

Je sens ton souffle qui me frôle le cou

Un pistolet chargé me caresse la joue

Tu me dis “cette fois c’est moi qui joue”

Dans la foret la première détonation raisonne

Un coup de feu puis deux, mon corps qui frissonne

Puis doucement s’écroule–

 

Lescop ‘La Foret’ lyrics & music © LESCOP and POP NOIRE RECORDS produced by johnny hostile , filmed by jehnny beth – by ars

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quarantine days: Lust & Sound in west-berlin

if you can remember the 80’s, you probably weren’t there!

music, art and chaos in the wild west-berlin of the 1980’s

sex

politics

and a fuckin good time – a film by jörg a.hoppe, klaus maeck & heiko lange

see the LF preview above

nick cave and the naughty seeds ; )

the walled-in city became the creative melting pot for sub- and pop-culture. before the iron curtain fell, everything and anything seemed possible. this documentary film is a fast-paced collage of mostly unreleased film and tv footage from a frenzied but creative decade, starting with punk and ending with the love parade, in a city where the days are short and the nights are endless. where it was not about long-term success, but about living for the moment – the here and now. we need another city like berlin! a must see film if you can get your hands on it.     by dd

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film sound and film editor walter murch: the sound of cinema from kubrick to coppola

the talented mister ripley: with matt damon as tom ripley, jude law as dickie greenleaf, gwyneth paltrow as marge sherwood, cate blanchett as meredith logue, and philip seymour hoffman as freddie miles

stanley kubrick’s 2001 space odyssey

sight & sound: the cinema of walter murch – a good film directed by jon lefkovitz for anyone interested in cinema, film editing and sound editing

the godfather with al pacino

given your ass will be positioned at home and under quarantine, here’s something worthy to watch. all the great films are somehow mentioned in here from carl deyer to michelangelo antonioni… watch it here (see clip above) or see it on vimeo – approved by dd but suggested    by rb

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quarantine watch list #3: an iranian vampire cult film “a girl walks home alone at night”

saw this years ago but was just talking about it tonight

its def worth a 2nd watch – trailer: “a girl walks home alone”

directed by ana lily amirpour

the dealer

produced for just under $57K and filmed, not in iran, but rather in the town of taft in s. california. if you haven’t seen it, do give it a try… “a girl walks home alone” was directed by ana lily amirpour, 2nd generation iranian, born in margate england, and grew up in california.  the film professed as “the first iranian vampire western” by its director is quite dark and funny… it premiered back in 2014 at the sundance film festival and it is quite a trip… especially the floating scenes of the vampire on her skateboard.  by pr

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