'Tootsie' Pop Go Bye Bye

[Just Some Girl]

aiight, boychiks, off to bed. It's tiring being sober.


(sigh)

[matthew]

I just read a sci-fi script for a new Fox Television series (by James Parriot -- check out his credits!) to see if any of our writing or directing clients are right for it (they're not). but it cracked me up because one of the characters is named Goss (sans "e," though), and one of the characters literally refers to him as a prick.


ha HANH.

Well, I did have a signature on here or bio information listing my profession as "fool", and "the ass of horseytown"

Also, my life is relatively free of ecstasy.

[matthew]

Went to see this earlier today:

The World According to Monsanto

Largely information I was already aware of, but it served as a good refresher once you got past what my sister referred to as the "sexy French mom" clothing the director wore while she sat in front of her iMac doing Google image searches for the subjects of the different sections of her doc.


Playlist on Youtube


Intro:
CALL ME, WE'RE IN THE DE-REG BUSINESS - George H.W. Bush to Monsanto Scientist Who Complained to Him About A Herbicide They Have Had A Hard Time Pushing Through
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/oEZAnUd6PLk" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/oEZAnUd6PLk</a>

[Tripp]

That must be pretty cool living there and having these kinds of choices of movies to go see.

[captqitn]

CALL ME, WE'RE IN THE DE-REG BUSINESS   

[matthew]

That must be pretty cool living there and having these kinds of choices of movies to go see.

I cannot discern if that is sarcasm or not. The US makes some of the best documentary film out there, in no small part because there still remains incredible access to information (imagines spit takes and needles being pulled off the juke box records). There really is an incredible access to information in the US, and it is precisely why people must be controlled by other means, such as fake news, nationalism, fear, propaganda, entertainment, sports, and when it comes to politics: taking for fact what is claimed by the state; limiting the story of a scandal to the gossip; limiting the election process to personality, character, appearance, etc. If I lived downtown I believe I would spend an inordinate amount of my time seeing film.

As it stands I still live in the cultural wasteland that is the West Island (sometimes referred to as Waste Island), and I very rarely go see movies of any kind. These are the two theaters nearby:

Kirkland
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull  (G) [2:00] Premiere 6.9/10
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (G) [2:27] 2 weeks 8.4/10
What Happens in Vegas (G) [1:40] 3 weeks 8.3/10
Speed Racer (G) [2:15] 3 weeks 6.6/10
Made of Honor (G) [1:41] 4 weeks 7.8/10
Iron Man (G) [2:05] 4 weeks 9/10
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (13+) [1:40] 5 weeks 7.8/10
Sex and the City (13+) [2:15]
Laugh Out Loud Comedy Fest [2:30]

Dollard des Ormeaux
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull  (G) [2:00] Premiere 6.9/10
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (13+) [1:52] 6 weeks 7.8/10
Iron Man (G) [2:05] 4 weeks 9/10
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (13+) [1:40] 5 weeks 7.8/10
Made of Honor (G) [1:41] 4 weeks 7.8/10
Sex and the City (13+) [2:15]
Speed Racer (G) [2:15] 3 weeks 6.6/10
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (G) [2:27] 2 weeks 8.4/10
The Strangers [1:47]
What Happens in Vegas (G) [1:40] 3 weeks 8.3/10

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[Citizen_b0b]

That must be pretty cool living there and having these kinds of choices of movies to go see.

I cannot discern if that is sarcasm or not. The US makes some of the best documentary film out there, in no small part because there still remains incredible access to information (imagines spit takes and needles being pulled off the juke box records). There really is an incredible access to information in the US, ... If I lived downtown I believe I would spend an inordinate amount of my time seeing film.

As it stands I still live in the cultural wasteland that is the West Island (sometimes referred to as Waste Island), and I very rarely go see movies of any kind. These are the two theaters nearby:

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Israel  (G) [2:00] Premi 6.9/10
For Iron Marshall (13+) [1:52] 6 weeks 7.8/10
Man (G) [2:05] 4 weeks 9/10
Harold And The Purple Guantanamo Bay (13+) [1:40] 5 weeks 7.8/10
Mador (G) [1:41] 4 weeks 7.8/10
Speed Racer x and the City (13+) [2:15]

The Chronicles of Strangers (G) [2:27] 2 weeks 8.4/10

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Firstly, Thanks to matthew for posting this playlist; you rock. I'm sure someone must have noticed by now that although the series is drawing from "The World According To Monsanto" it incorporates many other documentaries, and has the stated purpose of ellucidating the modus of the transnational biochem oligopsony, in particular tracking it's always innovative and toxic use of intellectual property law as a tool for both market leverage and supply control. The original post of just the Monsanto vid was blocked due to copyright violation, which is nicely paradoxical. It was originally (ostensibly) made in France, and credits both Ire and the National Film Board of Canada for creation. Theories may abound about the personage of the narrator in the English "release", some of these may assert her to be "The AmenStop Lady", but no proof has been forthcoming on this.

Point is, it speaks to Mssr. Yuen Woo-Tripp's reflection on American Choice. This movie was made specifically for other countries' audiences, focusing on Monsanto as "an American transnational". It neatly flies through the potential tarpit around Agent Orange and tracks Monsanto's part in the current food shell-game as if the other 3 omnipresent heads of the Hydra aren't right there, spitting venom as always with their brother. Dow, Dupont, Beyer. Dioxin, aspartame, PCBs, GMOs. Owning life. Owning life as a turn-key, robotic factory franchise that even the shambling Beast will have to buy "bread" from.

So, choice... yes, we do have more. But our gateways are the same as those of The Great FireWall; 'coz as you can see, neither the French MiLF documentard or "It's A Small World After Monsanto, Et Al" are showing at the mall nonoplex. You have to go fish for the deeper half-truths, as always, everywhere.

A'ight, the crack pipe's empty, thnx again for running this; and if anyone wants more specific 411 just holla.       

[Moetown]

That must be pretty cool living there and having these kinds of choices of movies to go see.

I cannot discern if that is sarcasm or not.
 

My opinion is that it's not sarcastic.