A thousand and change anti-war protesters got jailed today and I get the sense that no one is really buying the narrative that Ukrainians are nazis who hate Russia on top of that we have information of some diplomats expressing their not discomfort but horror at the situation so its certainly a possibility we should consider, glad I’m not alone thinking about this.

Do you guys think there is any chance that Putin would get couped because of all of this? The decision is massively unpopular, Russians feel that their extended family are getting murdered because of nothing and also among his circle there was a reluctance on escalating . I saw this and it made me wonder, thoughts?

Thank you for setting me straight on LoGH, I now carry a little bit of guilt because of my comment on the animation (I watched it on youtube, hangover). I’ll try to get the newer Blu-ray release, sounds really good.

Hi, I like space stuff too, have you seen Space Battleship Yamato 2199? Its a remake of a show from the 70’s and its just wonderful, the first anime space opera to really hook me. I discovered it after being a little bit disappointed by the latest Expanse season and it made me enjoy it even more, the world building is really classy relying on indirect exposition, visual storytelling is ok and the soundtrack is just awesome, I love the battle theme in particular. I am near the end and was wondering if I should give LotGH another shot. I tried to watch it a couple of times but between the old animation and a slow start I moved on to other stuff. Or maybe its ok if I watch the remake, what do you think? I am looking for more sci fi besides everything that is well known.

Thanks a lot for filling me in! I’m glad you have the time to go through the paper, its really worth it and I think that it really nails how and why Adam works his aesthetic the way he does and it also has this really concise break down of AC’s “social theory”, extremely well informed and put together, I forgot to link to it yesterday, here .

In the end I’m glad that Adam decided to focus on Can’t Get You Outside Of My Head because both the podcast and the book project seem to me like a compromise, maybe the book not so much I take that back because I was hearing yesterday the interview with Tim Heidecker where he touches the idea of editing as a form of writing and I remember he mentioned elsewhere that he was a big fan of John Dos Passos, so that might be extremely good if and when it comes. In the end all of this seems to me as a protomontage I would rather have the real shit.

I am sure that every episode is going to hit me right in the feels,I mean just the trailer, specially the song and the lyrics and how he chose where to cut to the girls dancing, just please listen to the song and read the lyrics:

You sit in your room, and you talk to the wall

You’re feeling small but still have a ball

And you can’t explain what’s anyway in vain

And you paint your face and dress in black

Wear your shades and still can’t express

The way you feel about a lousy fill

And you dance until the morning

All by yourself

And somehow you know

You’re not alone

And you dance until the morning

All by yourself

And somehow you know

You’re not alone

You’re playing pool against yourself

And you look at your watch

At a quarter to twelve

And you still didn’t win against yourself

You think it’s time to quit the game

Maybe change your name and search for fame

And you still have a ball and you don’t care after all

And they catch you hiding in a love affair

And you know again

You’re not alone

And they catch you hiding in a love affair

And you know again

You’re not alone

God ain’t jive and I can feel his love

Run through the strings of my guitar

Just watch out and see what it’s all about

And still I stand my foot in my hand

Talking to my wall and still don’t care at all

Just having a ball

And heavy after all

I’ve borrowed your time I’m sorry I called

Forget what I’ve said

But remember

You’re not alone

I’ve borrowed your time I’m sorry I called

Forget what I’ve said

But remember

You’re not alone

I don’t know why but this reached deep into me and set my soul on fire, I mean all of it the title, the images and the meanings that I feel I sort of know where he is going with, it was just a splendor for me. It had the same effect, but set to a thousand to that sequence in Bitter Lake where the guy is doing his surprisingly well-executed martial arts moves with runaway from Kanye blaring, it was so beautiful, same here but like with lonely utopian dreams. Now, considering considering that in the synopsis there is the disclaimer “And the films are told in a different way - they are an emotional history of what went on inside the heads of all kinds of people.” Lets just say I am going to need the prep of Amber Tamblyn minus the vibrator.

Wow I didn’t know that he had talked about writing a book or making a podcast, by any chance did he mention it in the Tim Heidecker interview? I can’t seem to find anything about these projects. As you say its completely understandable he set aside everything else because holy shit he completed 6 films in the span of four years (If I remember correctly he had talked about this idea shortly after releasing Bitter Lake) and if we take Jon Ronson’s word about it this film series seem to be his best yet . I really can’t wait, the synopsis is just mouth watering. Have you read the paper Adam Curtis’s compelling logic: the tortuous corridor to the hypernormal ? I think you will find interesting, I am rereading that and also plan to read Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More in the meantime. Also, what do you think will be the release window for this? Seems extreme to me that they will drop the 6 films on day one, I sure hope so.

I will be agonizing trying to find a way to sneak in to the stupid Iplayer for free and post the results here but nevertheless I really don’t care much about them releasing the film series this way, just the fact that Adam Curtis can produce this with total freedom is amazing, we will always have torrents and whatnot.

This is a question just for the dudes, the bros, have you listened to this good shit? Its fucking beautiful

I wonder why AMLO is not up there, our mexican libs can’t stop crying about it and they have been really funny since Biden won they regard that pathetic, marginal triumph as their own advent

Present day. Present time. Hahahahahahahaha

I love the aesthetic so much. Seriously I want to do a sequence by sequence breakdown of just how well everything is put together from sound to shot composition to montage its truly on a league of its own.