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Posted on 08.30.10 by Rob Levy @ 11:51 pm
It's Monday. And Rob Levy showed up and threw some music at me (Widge) to throw at all of you. If you enjoy what you hear/see here, then use the links and snag them from our Amazon store, would you? That helps pay for things like therapy. And coffee. Which in our world...is the same damn thing. 
File Under: Music Monday
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Posted on 08.30.10 by Widge @ 5:48 am
 It's Monday morning. And that means you could wander into work with no preparation whatsoever, to be beset upon by the demons that make up the work week. But why would you do that? Instead, use a little bit of horrid surreality and inoculate yourself against the chaos that is to come. It will get your brain ready. And it only hurts for...well, depends on how long the videos last. This session we'd like to talk about rap. When executed well, it can be a solid classic. But when used for the wrong reasons it can terrify and stupefy. Exhibit A: a rap performed by all-stars of the musical genre in 1989. On one hand, you have to commend them for trying to stand up for an environmental cause that they appear to believe in. On the other hand, it's hard to take any video seriously in which people are dancing like...that. The...inclusion of Kid n Play doesn't help matters.
File Under: Mental Sorbet
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Posted on 08.29.10 by ScottC @ 5:30 pm
  Film: Written by: Frédéric Fonteyne, Marion Hänsel, Philippe Blasband based on the novel by Madeleine Bourdouxhe Features:
Released by: Koch Lorber Films My Advice: Rent It Elisa (Devos) is living the working class dream in 1930s rural France. She has a good husband named Gilles (Cornillac) who works at the factory, lovely twin girls and a another baby on the way, and a nice house outside of town. But something, or someone, is going to disrupt this domestic bliss. Elisa senses that Gilles and her sister Victorine (Smet) are getting too close. She soon discovers that Gilles and Victorine are having a torrid affair. Elisa is devastated, but she loves Gilles and doesn't want to love him. She is even there for Gilles when he is upset when Victorine ignores him. So is Elisa's love stronger than her pain?
File Under: DVD Reviews
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Posted on 08.27.10 by Widge @ 6:36 am
Open the window, Mark, and let it in: another episode of Weekend Justice. Engineered by experts to escort you from the work week in the most chaotic manner possible. Please note: this podcast is profane, definitely oversexed and potentially underdeveloped. It is wrong and unsafe. You have been warned.  Agenda:
File Under: Podcasts and Weekend Justice
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 Humans and their thinking, autonomous creations have had a rough relationship for a long damn time and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (T:SCC) was looking to change that, right around the time it got canceled. I've gone off at great length about what I call the twin heads of this relationship, namely "the Pinocchio Complex" and the "Frankenstein/Shellian Syndrome" (again, 1 here, 2 here, 3 here, 4 here, 5 here, 6 here, 7 here, 8 here, and most recently 9 right here ). Pinocchio Complex stories are those where the creation wants to be a "Real Boy," and, in the end, to some degree or another, gets to be. In Frankenstein/Shellian Syndrome (F/SS) stories, the creation may start out wanting to be real or it may start out confused or with a clear purpose--but the hubris of the creator is shown and she is forced to try to destroy it, ultimately being destroyed by it. This last has been around at least since the ancient tale of the Golem created by a Rabbi to wipe the land clean of those who would oppress and kill Jews, and that really speaks to the age of this feeling, in humanity.
File Under: Stimuli
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