Old fans who've always been at the movies

[rich]

Joseph

you should watch It Felt Like A Kiss, a neat little film by Adam Curtis (if
you haven't seen it already of course)

It Felt Like a Kiss tells the story of America’s rise to power in the
golden age of pop, and the unforeseen consequences it had on the world and
in our minds. Beginning in 1959, the show spotlights the dreams and desires
that America inspired during the ’60s, when the world began to embrace the
country and its culture as never before. But as this daring production
unfolds blending music with documentary...to face the dark forces that were
veiled by the American dream – a dream that ultimately returns to haunt us
all.


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:29 AM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>wrote:

> What a great post, Joseph!
>
>
> 2013/5/30 Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
>
>> The movie and the particular scene in the movie at the moment of impact
>> fits into Pynchon's writing history as something that would engage him. So
>> he moves the arrival of another bomb, this one directly connected to the
>> revenge of the colonized preterite, to L.A.,  the imperial center of the
>> dream factory., generator of the tricky Dick and of the Great BonzoGipper
>> 20 MuleteamRaygun bring down this wall and put up a wallmartman.
>>
>> The actual payback bomb took longer to arrive: after 50,000 suicides from
>> Vietnam, after fucking over Cambodia, Chile, Venezuela, Argentina,
>> Columbia, after theShah after El Salvador and Guatemala and Nicaragua and
>> Angola and the Congo and Nigeria, after all the glorious victories over
>> communism, over uppity nuns, over labor unions, over tomato pickers, over
>> banana growers and mineworkers, and folk singers,smart ass rag-heads, after
>> safely containing most of the niggers and having a good laugh at the uppity
>> bitches After consolidating the ragheads under our thumb, while innocently
>> strolling to the bank, the evil terrorists finally snuck one past us.
>>
>>  Is there something about Air Power/TV/film  that is particularly apropos
>> of the rule of a demigod? Do they all use color coded fear monitors? Are we
>> safe yet?
>>
>> On May 29, 2013, at 8:58 AM, Monte Davis wrote:
>>
>> > (Haven’t we?)
>> >
>> > Antwerp, 1944:
>> >
>> > “Nearly twelve hundred seats were filled in the Rex Cinema on bustling
>> Avenue De Keyser for the Friday afternoon matinee on December 15… [for] a
>> classic Western: The Plainsman, a Cecil B. De Mille melodrama starring Gary
>> Cooper as Wild Bill Hickok and Jean Arthur as Calamity Jane…
>> >
>> > “At 3:20 p.m., just after Gary Cooper learned of Custer’s death at the
>> Little Bighorn, a searing white light flashed across the auditorium as a
>> V-2 – unheard and unseen, launched from a new site in Holland – blew
>> through the roof… Recovery teams ultimately retrieved 567 bodies, more than
>> half of them Allied soldiers, Navy gun crews,  and merchant mariners...”
>> >
>> > Rick Atkinson, The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe,
>>  1944-1945
>>
>>
>
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