2007aug24. Super Freak-Out Friday Free Day. Use the length/existence of Friday Free Day to inversely gauge how much I’m working.
The Century of The Self
(1
2
3
4)
[4 hrs total].
The history of public relations vis-a-vis the application of Freud’s
theories on the unsuspecting masses. This is 100x better than previous
sentence sounds. It’s a must-see. From the 1928 PR stunt to get women to
start smoking through the first banana republic, EST, etc to
Clinton/Blair’s shared playbook.
“Here you see a very female aspect of Guinness.” “Add an egg.” I
could not stop laughing and cringing
while watching this.
The Great Happiness
Space
[1 hr 15 min].
Documentary on Japanese Host bars. This is like Japan’s hostess bars but
whereas hostess bars are places for high-rolling businessmen to enter into
high-priced transaction-based false deluded relationships with multiple bar
employees, Japan’s host bars are places for mainly high-priced prostitutes
to enter into high-priced transaction-based false deluded relationships
with multiple bar employees. Needs like 10-15min of cuts.
This Film is Not Yet
Rated
[1 hr 37 min].
Director releases private detective unto the wholly-unneeded MPAA to
determine who’s actually rating the movies, then submits the movie to the
MPAA for review.
Flight of the Conchords: A Texan
Odyssey
[41 min].
This Flight of the Conchords band is the same Flight of the Conchords band
that has a cable-based television show also called Flight of the Conchords.
I have stayed at the swanky Four Seasons Hotel of Austin which is a “key”
location in the documentary, at least in the first ten minutes of it. I was
there earlier, not when this was happening. Not earlier as in between then
and now, earlier as in before the documentary was filmed. Not just
before, much earlier, actually. The pool’s bathroom was tricked out with
hygienic things you don’t usually see in a bathroom like cotton swabs and
combs inside a jar of blue liquid. A man gave me a towel. I wore a bathrobe
at one point, but not in the bathroom. Perhaps the room’s bathroom, just
not the pool’s bathroom.
Eddie Izzard: Definite Article [46 min]. There’s a bit wherein he discusses learning French via audiotape but luckily there’s German subtitles, so if you’re monolinguistic like me you can feel dumb in two languages.
Some things I haven’t seen or have seen before in other formats at other times in other places: Ong Bak, Daft Punk, Mean Girls, Princess Mononoke, Richard Feynman – The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, His Girl Friday.
Other small things.
Minilogue/Hitchhiker’s Choice
Pan-kun travels in the city with his trusty
sidekick.
A very large rubber
duckie
which is fun!
Tex Avery: Symphony in Slang
Jessica the Hippo. [via
boingboing]
Old but essential: J Otto Seibold’s
Mixulator interactive mixin’
experience thing.
Spoon: Don’t You Evah featuring Keepon
Earl Scruggs, Steve Martin, etc: Foggy Mountain
Breakdown
