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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
While watching "Mad Men" I felt fidgety and often anxious and I couldn't figure out why. But one of the commenters here put it in words "I need to say that I found "Mad Men" to be an extremely honest trip back to the late Fifties/early Sixties of my youth." Yes, a trip back to my youth which was filled with anxiety. Now that I understand that I can ignore the show with no remorse. Although, I will say that it was cool to see Angel's son all grown up.
I also enjoyed the pilot of "State of Mind" very much, while "Burn This" is good fluffy entertainment. And thanks for the heads up on the new Spike show. I've seen the ads but thought it was for a theater movie.
The last season of The Wire was incredible. They tackled a hard subject to do, one that instantly invokes a million melodramatic cliches. The dominant storyline for the season was about streaming violent kids towards success in a school system. Again nothing could be predicted on ths show and it managed to be funny and gripping and real. I was sure the show would get nominated for writing or technical achievement or acting or something this time. Are the Emmy voters not getting screeners of The Wire? What else compares to it exactly?
By saying it should be required viewing for any Pussycat Dolls tryouts you opened up the door to a whole slew of groups that probably should be required to see it. Let me suggest one: the whole American public so they can see what the republican party is trying to turn us into. Contrary to popular opinion, these people are still obsessed with dragging America kicking and screaming back to the days when women knew their place and men were the sole bread winners. I live in the bible belt, trust me, this stereotype is still true. Couple that with the overwhelming corporate greed required to make ads for crap you know is harmful and may not even believe in, and you have a perfect example of the modern marketplace.
I also loved "Mad Men," although I have to wonder if it's really just a Republican fever dream.
And if Draper is concealing a wife and kiddies in the 'burbs, I hope to find out how he's managed to do so while rising to the heights of Mad Ave. I thought a Sweet Wifey and 2.4 Adorable Tykes were the keys to the kingdom for execs in the 50s.
I loved how Draper comes fresh off winning the tobacco account to a discussion of possibly repping Dick Nixon. Hey, what's next - the NRA?
John from Cinncinnati is beyond the thought processes of most people, a sad statement on unevolved humanity. People who cannot see beyond their waking life and think that that is all there is to existence, will never get it. Here's hoping all their unconscious minds open up and gain some insight into life. I'm glad David Milch's did and tried to express something few people seem able to.
I am not in any sense a huge fan of the show, but I do appreciate what he's trying to create within these confines.
Anyone out there who watches the show and recognizes what is happening in it, and has a story to tell themselves which would be incredibly difficult to put into understandable language, it is good you are here.
You have cable (which is expensive; get a DirecTV or Dish Network instead). You have many channels available. It's true what Bill Maher said; five are good, ten are shopping channels and the rest are in Spanish. But concentrate on those five channels.
If you get a TiVo with your dish, you can set it up to record movies and shows you like. It will even try to predict what shows you like depending on what you watched. It can capture some odd delights through this process. With a bit of technical prowess and a good computer, you can even save those programs on DVD and watch them when you want.
(I could also tell you to learn something about your computer and Bittorrent, so you can get movies and programs the megacorporations don't want you to see...but it would be wrong.)
It is a shame that Hollowwood doesn't make movies for intelligent people. They're cutting their own throat. They're also ruining our nation; if we aren't brought together by mass media, we'll all turn into a bunch of feuding mini-nations like the former Soviet states. But as far as your personal entertainmetn and enlightenment, you can find remarkable alternatives if you look. There are even movies available only on DVD, produced by the individuals that make them, that you can locate on web sites like Film Threat. They are NOT all slasher, stupid comedy or moron CGI movies. You have to dig, but that's also a joy; think of it as digging through a junk shop and finding the occasional diamond.
I want to reiterate and agree with a few points: Where is Battlestar Galactica? Man, I love that show. I can't even find it anymore, is it still on? Why oh why do they ignore Weeds? Is it the pot theme? Looking fwd to checking out Mad Men now.
This is one critic I can completely agree with. I don't think this has happened before but I'm turning into a big fan ( of a critic? ). You had me at Dirty Dancing. A summer by the lake, cold drinks and dancing with Patrick Swayze you say? I don't even dare dream of it anymore. Is there such a place?
>And if Draper is concealing a wife and kiddies in the 'burbs, I hope to find out how he's managed to do so while rising to the heights of Mad Ave. I thought a Sweet Wifey and 2.4 Adorable Tykes were the keys to the kingdom for execs in the 50s.<
Draper isn't concealing his wife and kids. He's playing that time-honored, still-played game of "country wife, city spice." He's got the Sweet Wifey in 'Burbs to hold down the domesticity fort and give him a respectable front--and Sexy-Career-Woman in City to get loose wit' and really talk to. Like many men of that era, he's getting to have it both ways. Though it's already looking like SCW knows the score and refuses to let him turn her into Second-Wifey--and that SWIB is gonna be realizing real soon she's the living embodiment of that awful 60's song, "Wives and Lovers" (which features the immortal advice-to-wives, "Day after day, there are girls at the office and the men will always be men, Don't stand him up, with your hair still in curlers, you may not see him again.") :)
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
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