Questions to wrap up your weekend

[sabotabby]

Everyone's sick of talking about the stupid cartoons (although I have a new-found confidence in gaybortion, which is way better than any of them and also has never caused a riot. So hah!), so let's talk about more interesting subjects.

Baby Godwin is a sad panda.

Rumsfeld compared Hugo Chavez to Hitler.
Then Chavez said that Bush was worse than Hitler.

[Poll #667317]

(Hat tip to roter_terror and springheel_jack.)

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Also, OCAP and Uprising are doing joint movie nights and are looking for recommendations for movies to show. They must be fun (that means no didactic documentaries, kthnx) and political in some way. Until the spring, exceedingly long movies like The Battle of Algiers cannot be shown because Uprising has no heat.

La Haine, They Live!, Life and Debt and The Harder They Come have all been recommended, and I'm being told to quash any suggestions of Bread and Roses. (Heh.)

Personally, I recommend this political movie.

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Marinetti thanks everyone for the birthday wishes and fealty. He is now passed out in the living room.

Comments

[ex-melimeli728.livejournal.com]

lol! i say to meself, what does it mean, baby godwin is a sad panda? she is just being silly.

and then i understood. hah! sad hah. oy. ow.

[ex-melimeli728.livejournal.com]

"I think Hitler would be like a suckling baby next to George W. Bush,"

!!!! (in the sense of, hee!)

well, i think rumsfeld wins for nuance, im sorry. but lol again.

[ex-melimeli728.livejournal.com]

Bread and Chocolate! at the end its sad and funny. chickens and sandwiches. you'll see.

[sabotabby]

Oh, that looks good. I like chocolate better than roses.

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

Hard to beat that one!

Land and Freedom? Bit obvious I guess. Les Mis? Is there a film version? Motorcycle Diaries? (OK, ok, everyone's already seen it.)

I do worry a little about Chavez making the most of the prospect of US invasion and Bush is teh Hitler and buying lots of new weapons and creating a million-person army and so forth. Even for the good guys, that sort of thing is a great way of instilling unquestioning obedience in a population. Mind you, the US under Bush really might invade, if only out of frustration that they don't have any good way of invading Iran. And 1,000,000 Kalshnikovs will cause the Americans a lot more trouble than the Spanish fighters they're buying that'll be vaporised before they leave the ground.

[sabotabby]

People keep giving me looks when I recommend Spanish Civil War movies. (I also suggested The Devil's Backbone for Halloween...)

And I haven't seen The Motorcycle Diaries. It's the #1 question I get asked when I wear my Che t-shirt, though.

I doubt he'll do that. Although I don't think it would hurt, other than being a likely waste of resources. I mean, who is Chavez going to invade, really?

[seaya.livejournal.com]

The Les Mis film version is very very bad. Very bad.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Mind you, the US under Bush really might invade

You don't seriously believe this, do ya?

[finding-rowan.livejournal.com]

La Haine is a truly awesome movie, in my humble opinion. I qatched it in my French Cinema and Society class.

[finding-rowan.livejournal.com]

*Watched even.

[earthlingmike.livejournal.com]

Bush was also elected legally.

[sabotabby]

I hear there's some debate about that.

[aaronfreed.livejournal.com]

So was Hitler.

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

"which is way better than any of them and also has never caused a riot"


>>>>>> Aw c'mon, that just means you're not trying hard enough! lol.

But seriously, I've heard really good things about an American documentry called Why We Fight, though I haven't seen it myself.

[sabotabby]

What's it about?

[seaya.livejournal.com]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079815/

This movie rocks.

Very little plot, but people do take the power back. Heh.

[sabotabby]

I've heard of it and heard it was good. I'll suggest it.

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

Try Claude Faraldo's utterly fantastic and original Themroc, or (possibly a more controversial choice) Makavejev's unforgettable W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism. Thing is, I doubt whether Blockbusters will have them.

Oh, and avoid _anything_ about the Spanish Civil War. Trust me.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Kenneth Brannaugh had an okay one... :P

i'm confused

[ironed_orchid]

Why does the cow have an udder and a penis?

Re: i'm confused

[sabotabby]

I don't know. I noticed that too, though, and it looked like he was peeing through his udder.

Maybe he was a gender revolutionary as well.

Personally, I recommend this political movie.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Cow Tse Tongue!! Best pun in the entire thing.

Re: Personally, I recommend this political movie.

[sabotabby]

That was the point at which I needed to share it with the class.

[lovableatheist.livejournal.com]

Ma 6-T Va Craquer. French hip-hop movie showing poor kids fighting cops. Great riot scenes at the end. Kind of like La Haine, but not as good. Just more violent, but you have to wait till the end to get the goods.

1900>/i>.
Only if you have 4 to 6 hours.

[sabotabby]

Oh, I'm dying to see 1900, but imagine sitting in what used to be a fish shack, on uncomfortable chairs, with no heat, surrounded by crusty punks, for the length of that movie.

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

Well, the internets says (http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=hugo+chavez&word2=adolf+hitler) Hugo Chavez kicks Adolf Hitler's ass hands down.

[sabotabby]

It's the reincarnation of Googlewars, but bigger and better!

You have just made me a very happy woman.

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

Bush kicks his ass too. Poor Hitler is now the bitch of a neoconservative (http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=george+w.+bush&word2=adolf+hitler). LOL.

[sabotabby]

PWNED.

(Speaking of which: Ahahahaha!

I recommend The Fox and the Hound

[roter-terror.livejournal.com]

I was supposed to watch La Haine for my French history class last semester.

I never did. \m/

Re: I recommend The Fox and the Hound

[roter-terror.livejournal.com]

This cow song is impressive.

Speaking of Chavez ...

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

I just got this in my mailbox:

PLEASE POST WIDELY

Dear friend:

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Go to the website and click on "send your letter now." In the subject line, type BUY CITGO or CITGO FUELS DEMOCRACY--BUY IT Delete the text in the message box Write your own message telling Pres. Chavez that you are buying Citgo in solidarity with the Venezuelan Revolution; that you appreciate the 45 million gallons of diesel fuel Citgo has made available at subsidized prices for thousands of low income Americans; that you oppose U.S. govt meddling in Venezuela's affairs; and that you support Venezuela's right to choose its own way.

Fill in your name, email address, etc and send.

LET'S REVERSE THIS RIGHT WING PLOY TO UNDERMINE VENEZUELA PROGRESS FLOOD PRES. CHAVEZ WITH E-MAIL MESSAGES OF SUPPORT