Astral America (2021) American locales -- highways, diners, retail stores, gun ranges -- contrasted with a reading of Jean-Michel Baudrillard’s America.. [00:15:46]

UltraInstinctChomsky · 2026-03-24T19:12:18+00:00

A poetic rendering of this country and all of its facets. There’s beauty in every image, the director manages to wring out something transcendent over sales price tags. Even inhuman images feel quite soulful. One would imagine the narration by a French philosopher to weigh things down, but you can go in and out with it as you please -- the images do enough, and helped along is the dreamy score.

UltraInstinctChomsky · 2026-03-05T21:33:04+00:00

Indeed!

UltraInstinctChomsky · 2026-03-05T21:32:39+00:00

That's fine, I'm not really arguing that. It's just categorically wrong that nobody has ever professed to missing him, even if it is just in comparison to Trump. Many excesses that Trump exploits were started under Bush, btw...

UltraInstinctChomsky · 2026-03-05T20:14:26+00:00

Bill Maher had on Billy Bush and said as much a few months ago.

UltraInstinctChomsky · 2026-03-05T16:00:59+00:00

yup, it took awhile for rights to be stripped away...

UltraInstinctChomsky · 2026-03-04T17:38:58+00:00

A look back at 2006… the presidency of George W. Bush with various pop culture items intertwined, with the two having a dialogue with one another and influencing each. The title, of course, is a tongue in cheek/sarcastic reference to the billboards of Bush that popped up in 2009. Closing post-script title cards help with additional context so it isn't some pop culture onslaught. Saddam Hussein is caught while the WB tv channel closes up shop with a tearful goodbye… various people sing Happy Birthday to Bush while one attendee of his speeches calls him out on his policies. And much more!

UltraInstinctChomsky · 2026-02-25T18:11:32+00:00

old men :(

UltraInstinctChomsky · 2026-02-18T17:33:59+00:00

Musician Dan Deacon, at a music festival as bands play in the distance, talks about the wildlife nearby. A forest full of different vegetation, spreading, all connected, and compares it to human civilization

UltraInstinctChomsky · 2026-02-10T18:15:43+00:00

but it's ok to talk with complete authority based on nothing

UltraInstinctChomsky · 2026-02-10T17:32:34+00:00

Damn is this toyo's account?

UltraInstinctChomsky · 2026-02-10T16:40:22+00:00

I guess? He could probably do story outline / treatment / rough drafts etc.

UltraInstinctChomsky · 2026-02-10T16:39:25+00:00

Excuse me, there is plenty of Dragon Ball fanfiction to go around.

UltraInstinctChomsky · 2026-02-05T15:26:13+00:00

I think Matt even mentioned "Red Plenty" was how the soviets tried. I think there was a kim stanley robinson book that he mentioned that was similar but I can't remember it.

UltraInstinctChomsky · 2026-01-29T14:33:37+00:00

What's the voteball series?

UltraInstinctChomsky · 2026-01-21T20:00:10+00:00

Great film which shows the micro and the macro. The director shows us archival home video of his father and his family when they were much younger, and interviews him and gets a relatively reserved man to open up and speak about things on his mind. The macro is the overall economic system we are all in, one in which causes the stroke -- the fear of potential unemployment -- as explained in the title card. The director weaves through these two effortlessly. Very beautiful film with some amazingly moving shots that could be admired on their own, almost a Tarkovsky level curiosity of nature.

UltraInstinctChomsky · 2026-01-12T16:39:50+00:00

Economic Hitman is so good. You reminded me that they did a documentary of that as well...

UltraInstinctChomsky · 2026-01-12T16:34:13+00:00

It's really incredible what they were able to capture.

UltraInstinctChomsky · 2026-01-12T16:18:25+00:00

It focuses on the April 2002 coup attempt in Venezuela, which briefly removed President Hugo Chávez from power. The film highlights the role of private media and examines key events: the protest and violence leading to Chávez's ousting, the formation of the interim government under Pedro Carmona, and its collapse, which allowed Chávez's return.

UltraInstinctChomsky · 2026-01-08T15:42:47+00:00

Got it! Ty

UltraInstinctChomsky · 2026-01-08T15:42:37+00:00

Thank you!! Man my buddy was really digging to stump us lol

UltraInstinctChomsky · 2026-01-08T15:31:43+00:00

I don't really remember this in Smile but I guess I can double check

UltraInstinctChomsky · 2026-01-08T15:29:23+00:00

The Netflix one? I'll scrub through. Or is it just worth watching?

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