Category Archives: Film & TV
Is this good government?
Probably not but let’s remember the whole point of being the government.
The Zen Diaries of Gary Shandling
Inside Amy Schumer: The Universe
A welcome reminder that The Universe is as aware of me as I am one of my blood cells.
Understanding Technology (Time Bandits)
Annihilation
Based on Jeff VanderMeer’s best-selling Southern Reach Trilogy. I read the first book in the trilogy and found it… disturbing. Didn’t feel a pull to read the other two. The film is directed by Alex Garland who did Ex Machina, 28 Days Later, two films I enjoyed very much (if one can claim to enjoy 28 Days Later).
Old movies stars dance to Uptown Funk
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Has Oscar written all over it.
Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash coming to Amazon Prime
“Snow Crash will be a one-hour drama. A product of the early 1990s, it’s set in a failed state that used to be America, where the corporations run everything. It too has a vast artificial location, but this time it’s the Metaverse, Stephenson’s extrapolation of a VR-enabled Internet. Hiro Protagonist—an on-the-nose name if ever there was—is a hacker and pizza delivery driver for the Mafia who comes into possession of dangerous file, Snow Crash, which sends him on a rabbit chase.”
Amazon commissions three new sci-fi shows: Lazarus, Snow Crash, and Ringworld
The Vietnam War
Watched the first episode (of 10) of The Vietnam War, a film by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick. It clearly showed how world events and U.S. politics resulted in our involvement and how badly we fucked things up. I kept thinking, “Why don’t I know this?” But it was current events or much of my early life and filtered through the media propaganda machine. I don’t expect to fully understand any important event until Ken Burns and his collaborators have time to make a documentary.