Floating Mountains...

[Doctor Rock]

When you have commercials winking at you that they know what they're saying is bullshit and it's part of the joke, how can you respond?  It creates cognitive dissonance. 

What cognitive dissonance?  Commercials are bullshit.  If they tell you what they saying is bullshit, it only makes them even more bullshit.  The irony is just another sales technique, like dancing bimbos and fast editing with loud voiceovers. 

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

Great article in the Science Times today about the men who sold the moon (to paraphrase Heinlein).  Madison Avenue was selling the idea of space travel.  Look at these beautiful space-age ads...

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/03/09/science/space/20100309_SPACE.html

[Doctor Rock]

Great article in the Science Times today about the men who sold the moon (to paraphrase Heinlein).  Madison Avenue was selling the idea of space travel.  Look at these beautiful space-age ads...

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/03/09/science/space/20100309_SPACE.html

And vice versa: space age, or jet age images were used to sell stuff.  The name Stratocaster was intended to evoke images of then new jet-aircraft technology.  These days, when I open a copy of the Scientific American, there are loads of adverts that use images associated with ecology, often paid by companies that aren't known for their concern for the environment.   It's complete bullshit, of course. 

[Doctor Rock]

When you have commercials winking at you that they know what they're saying is bullshit and it's part of the joke, how can you respond?  It creates cognitive dissonance. 

What cognitive dissonance?  Commercials are bullshit.  If they tell you what they saying is bullshit, it only makes them even more bullshit.  The irony is just another sales technique, like dancing bimbos and fast editing with loud voiceovers. 

Yes, and it still works on people's minds.  It disarms them somewhat.

Sometime ago, a friend of mine proposed we see a movie showing at a local rep house that compiled prize winning commercials.   I went: "wait, you want me to pay to watch 90 minutes of commercials?"

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/9I2tEybYDu0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/9I2tEybYDu0</a>

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

Some movies I've seen recently....

Black Dynamite!

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/6-wqmnJrOFM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/6-wqmnJrOFM</a>

This is about as pitch perfect as period spoofs get.  You will believe you are watching an old blaxploitation movie.

It's hard to recommend this movie above such authentic classics as Coffy, Foxy Brown, Black Caesar, Hell Up in Harlem, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, Superfly, The Mack, Slaughter, so many others...even I'm Gonna Get You Sucka is better than Black Dynamite as spoofs go.

BUT if you dig those kinds of movies, then you should definitely check out BD, because it does deliver the goods.

It's great to see a perfect vehicle for Michael Jai White.  He can't act, so he gets to be terse, laconic, and kick a lot of ass.  There's some great martial arts for the MJW fans.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

The Box

<a href="http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/3128773/metacafe.swf" target="_blank">http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/3128773/metacafe.swf</a>

A perfectly good Richard Matheson story ruined.

This is Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko, Southland Tales) on his best behavior.  I really think this is him trying to make a mainstream hit.  It's told linearly and there are no left-field music videos.  But his eccentricity still comes through.  This is a stupid movie full of nonsense.  There are some creepy things that don't make sense and are never explained...things to pad out a thin and ludicrous plot.

This is also Richard Kelly at his most dull.  If you think Donnie Darko and Southland Tales are boring, you ain't seen nothing yet.

The best part of the movie is the wallpaper in the house.  I think he's trying to channel Almodovar with the set decoration.  All the period detail is very nice.  Much like with Black Dynamite, I felt like I was in the '70s.

Frankly the movie LOOKS good.  I'm beginning to think Kelly can direct, but he needs a writing partner now.

[captqitn]

On the movie tip.

Why the hell doesn't NetFlix have the original Red Dust?

I'm new to them, are they not good with old movies?

i mean, its Victor Fleming for chrissakes.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

I don't think Red Dust has ever been released on DVD.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

Set your DVR, Cappy.

April 3 at 9:00AM.  Red Dust is on TCM.

[captqitn]

Set your DVR, Cappy.

April 3 at 9:00AM.  Red Dust is on TCM.

I dont miss cable too much.   But when I do, it stings.

[Tripp]

Just dropped S____ off at the airport.. She should get in to LA about 6:30 this evening.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

Tripp is sad.

[Tripp]

now I have to make the coffee.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

Hey, Cappy, have you checked out the Forbidden Hollywood DVD collections from TCM?  If you're into pre-code stuff and Harlow, this could be the ticket for you.

Volume 1 has Jean Harlow a movie called Red-Headed Woman that is supposedly "the raunchiest movie [she] made at MGM (though not as raunchy as her scenes in Howard Hughes' 1930 Hell's Angels)...the film's air of breezy ribaldry even allows the star a casual flash of bare breast. "

http://www.amazon.com/TCM-Archives-Forbidden-Collection-Red-Headed/dp/B000I2JDF8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1268163968&sr=8-1