lots of animated gifs for your delectation.
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Anyone seen this? It looks GOOD.
(flashing & related visuals warning)
Iâm currently binging this show.
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Iâm still binging on this and will continue with âFernwood 2Nightâ and âForever Fernwoodâ.
The series has aged extremely well. I think I mentioned before I didnât watch it in my youth (past bedtime/parents not thinking I should watch it), but I was aware of it, as I did pay attention to what was going on media-wise, due to my incredible curiosity.
This specific episode was aired on 2/23/1977. And even though itâs a parody/satire (which I wouldâve recognized at 12-going-on-13 from reading MAD magazine & watching MPFC, among other things) itâs based on the truth of the moment. Iâm kinda glad the folks didnât let me watch it - it wouldâve scared me (like reading about the Manson Family did just four years earlier did) to find out that kind of organizing was going on.
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Oh.
So far this is great!
Seriously, I think I was a singer on the Keith Circuit in a former lifeâŠyou know the kind I mean: Too good to be a never-was, but not good enough to become a has-been.
And the idea of a world without radio, movie theatres, and television holds a strong fascination for me.
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Iâve been watching clips from a documentary maker who interviewed and did surveys of a bunch of people in the 60s. What people around town thought of the Vietnam War, what it was like for the veterans to come home from it, what it was like to be growing up as a kid during the Civil Rights movement, what parents thought of the youth back then, etc.
Some of them are just straight interviews from 1968 or whatever, others have the guy who made the films narrating them in the present tense and talking about how things have changed and what things were actually like (in hindsight) vs what the people he talked to thought they were like at the time.
Some really good stuff here. I can definitely recommend:
- Blunt Vietnam Vet Marine Tells You Exactly What Happened To Him
- Brutally Honest Vietnam Veterans Debate The War In 1968
- These Teenage Baby Boomers DIDNâT Rebel In The '60s. They Were Rich & Privileged
The titles sound like clickbait, but the clips are real film of my parentsâ generation, and to me fascinating.
Next up for me is He Reveals What 1950s âRealâ Men Thought & Felt & Did & Didnât Do. An Ordinary Man Speaks His Truth
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This is the most captivating dance Iâve ever watched. It is simply a feat of endurance and beauty. I watched it twice - performed by a man and then a woman in the lead.
I think the way this works is that a principal dancer comes into a city, trains the corps de ballet in those parts, and then they put on a performance at the end of the training period.
Iâd love to find out more about this work. I am putting this version here because the quality is much better, but if you are interested in seeing the woman perform the lead, her name is Sylvie.
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Oh. Dear.
I used to not like OW, but then I read the first volume of the 3-vol. biography of him by Simon Callow and it made me see him in a new light. And then I read âMy Lunches with Orsonâ, a book of lunchtime conversations between director/writer/actor Henry Jaglom from the 1980s (which I highly recommend). I wish I couldâve known him; someone who didnât resist change, who embraced it, but was constrained by those who thought/think that only the formulaic is profitable.
(plus, the doco title is what I think about myself in regards to my art, lol)
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Young Gandalf?
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My fave is #20 - whatâs yours?
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Just finished this:
If the above sounds interesting to you, I humbly suggest you look for a different show. If, however, youâd like to watch a 6 episode miniseries that ignores its A plot for at least three quarters of its runtime in favor of juggling a handful of unrelated B and C plots that get hastily and conveniently resolved in the last episode, while resolving the main mystery in approximately the least satisfying way possible, then this show is for you!
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Sounds like itâs ripe for a Dark Corners reviews on YouTube.
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i quote #19 and #5⊠often. letâs just put it that way.
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Iâm finally watching âColumboâ from the very beginning - âPrescription Murderâ.
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Heâs so young.
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I knowâŠand played the character up till 2003!
The first one was so weird to watch, he hadnât gotten the characterâs look, quite yet.
Addendum: I know what it was: His hair was too styled, and he wasnât rumpled enough.
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Just listen to himâŠdidnât Maurice LaMarche do a great job of voicing him on âFuturamaâ?
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I adored him on âMatch Gameâ when I was a kid, and as the antagonist in âLidsvilleâ! No idea what homosexuality was about, and didnât care. Acceptance and trust in nearly anyone.
and then i hit puberty.
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