I'm zipping around the basement like a fucking horsefly. CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND is probably the one of the best "studio" films I've viewed of late. My tastes are so EXACT and what kind of nutrition I seek from a film is so SELECT that I pass through movies like cotton swabs in a hospital. Breast, Guns, Slickness, Irony, yadda....I can't really squeeze that much out of those things. They don't get the harbour ports open, if ya catch the drift.
We get to see so little of the brighter side of fame and fortune in this beast. We get plates of torment, paranoia, personal hell. God, I can't ask for more from a film. Does that put me in the same rollercoaster car as Chuck Barris? Are my receptors for human emotion as dead as this man? How many other catalysts in the distraction industry have these kinds of demons? No, not just the burden of a supposed career as CIA hitman, but the doomed voyage through life looking for love and understanding. What do you do if you can't understand these things? Buncha chinese fireworks popping off in the old noggin. I just can't shake the mastery of Sam Rockwell. I completely empathize with this character.
Some thoughts on television and the present course of human history. Do you think television is zooming closer to what we actually are inside? The dawn of television has people as shopping mall cutouts facing little or no issues. Each decade has been more provacitive in terms of content. Some say that it's the CONTENT that is causing some of the present plagues. Maybe it's just an impartial eye. The wider the lens and the closer it gets to what we really are, the images become more horrifying. Some of us Reading Rainbow types certainly like to demonizing this box. A day doesn't go by where I analyze some piece of entertainment and denounce most of my findings. This little Chuck Barris opus has me rethinking some of that shit. In as much as the media moguls think they control the content and delivery, maybe it's really just a window. Is television the clock that we can tell humanitys hour upon? Sex, violence, lies, deception, cruelty, love, winning, losing, perfection, damnation. The more the television programming digs into PEOPLE the closer we are to the end of days?
Man, it's fun to think about!
SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
Lyrics Born
Teenage Fanclub
Tom Waits
Clinic
Oxbow
Donovan
The Oxes
Keep all of that in mind when things like BUMFIGHTS pop up. Or maybe a cartoon that features a hamster crawling up a guys ass. I'm not making a judgement on this material whether its good or bad. What do we do when all of our secrets and demons are there for everyone to see??? That's what I'm afraid of. Having nothing left to mine in the cave. Scary stuff, indeed.
We get to see so little of the brighter side of fame and fortune in this beast. We get plates of torment, paranoia, personal hell. God, I can't ask for more from a film. Does that put me in the same rollercoaster car as Chuck Barris? Are my receptors for human emotion as dead as this man? How many other catalysts in the distraction industry have these kinds of demons? No, not just the burden of a supposed career as CIA hitman, but the doomed voyage through life looking for love and understanding. What do you do if you can't understand these things? Buncha chinese fireworks popping off in the old noggin. I just can't shake the mastery of Sam Rockwell. I completely empathize with this character.
Some thoughts on television and the present course of human history. Do you think television is zooming closer to what we actually are inside? The dawn of television has people as shopping mall cutouts facing little or no issues. Each decade has been more provacitive in terms of content. Some say that it's the CONTENT that is causing some of the present plagues. Maybe it's just an impartial eye. The wider the lens and the closer it gets to what we really are, the images become more horrifying. Some of us Reading Rainbow types certainly like to demonizing this box. A day doesn't go by where I analyze some piece of entertainment and denounce most of my findings. This little Chuck Barris opus has me rethinking some of that shit. In as much as the media moguls think they control the content and delivery, maybe it's really just a window. Is television the clock that we can tell humanitys hour upon? Sex, violence, lies, deception, cruelty, love, winning, losing, perfection, damnation. The more the television programming digs into PEOPLE the closer we are to the end of days?
Man, it's fun to think about!
SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
Lyrics Born
Teenage Fanclub
Tom Waits
Clinic
Oxbow
Donovan
The Oxes
Keep all of that in mind when things like BUMFIGHTS pop up. Or maybe a cartoon that features a hamster crawling up a guys ass. I'm not making a judgement on this material whether its good or bad. What do we do when all of our secrets and demons are there for everyone to see??? That's what I'm afraid of. Having nothing left to mine in the cave. Scary stuff, indeed.
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As far as T.V. goes... Sheeesh. It's garbage in my opinion. I mean you can pick out some great stuff out there but it usually gets cancelled or you gotta have cable to get it. I love 'the Simpsons', but I think mainly because it pokes fun at all the things that make our society or culture so rediculous. It's a genuine and clever show. I hate reality shows. I don't like shows like 'Trading Spaces' or 'Queer Eye'. Shows that tell us how we're supposed to look or act according to the sponsors. It's bullshit. However there are some rediculous shows out there that are worth watching as well. I can't really sit here and tell you what is good and what isn't because we are all turned on to different things and we all have different senses of humor and so on. But I think is easy to spot garbage. And it's everywhere.
Prodding negative reactions out of people, or out-n-out horrifying them, seems to be a strong direction of current TV: Fear Factor, that Shannen Doherty show, Crank Yankers, and Boiling Points (this new candid-camera MTV show where people annoy people and if they sit there and take it for enormous periods of time, they win money).
In defense of reality TV (well, the only defense I can really coem up with for them), sitcoms are (as the British say) bog-boring in a major way.
If I watch TV nowadays, it is The Daily Show, a Conan or SNL recent rerun, some Book TV on C-Span... I like to catch Nigella Bites as Nigella Lawson is one of the most beautiful women on the planet... I would still watch The Osbournes, but it was a more interesting show when they weren't all "stars." I could ramble on but it boils down to-- I still channel-surf sometimes, but rarely find anything.
Oh, and lastly, I think the best sitcoms on TV are The Andy Griffith Show and Leave It to Beaver. More wholesome? Maybe, but, more importantly, just more funny than whatever's on now.