WATCHING:
Fahrenheit 9/11
Michael Moore

Is this biased? Yes. Does it just portray one side of the story and attempt to belittle the other side(s) of the story? Sure. Does it dwell on just one part of a bigger story? Yep.

Is it exceptionally well done? Yes. Are the clips presented misrepresented? No.

Should this movie infuriate the World? Yes.

Yep, this it your standard Moore film, but an interesting examination of one facet of the war in Iran: His take on just why we invaded liberated Iraq.

Why?

It’s the OIL, stupid.

Agree or disagree, the movie raises a lot of points that are difficult to push aside, and – as I’ve mentioned – it’s done very well. Over the top at times, too maudlin at times, but that’s my bias.

Lot of facts that are hard to ignore behind the curtain of Moore’s ham-handed handling of some aspects of the film. Watch. Discuss. Be informed.

All movies

This is not an exhausive list, but just some things that have occurred to me recently.

I don’t care about:

The Olympics

While I’ve felt this way for some years, with the Olympics firing up again it just brought it to the forefront of my (little) mind.

Why the apathy? I don’t know exactly; it’s a number of factors:

• Since the whole pretense of the Olympics as venue of amatuer athletes has gone the way of all sponsorship, it’s hard to get excited about drama behind an individual getting there and all that. Sure, the Eastern Block countries went this way long ago – and the U.S. and others were fraudulent in their own ways – but now it’s just another Super Bowl. Super Bore is more like it.
• As I gotten older I follow sports less and less. So that’s an issue to deal with.
• I read a comment on a blog somewhere to the effect that the Olympics became less interesting with the end of the Cold War. I think that’s true, to a degree – the “us” vs. “them” competition added a charge to the the event, at least for the U.S. and Soviet countries. Remember the 1980 “miracle” hockey team?

Network TV – or much TV at all

It’s summer, and time for all the summer reruns, test programs, special programs (the Olympics and shows such as “America’s Funniest Game Show Bloopers” or what have you).

There isn’t much to watch, and – frankly – I don’t miss missing whatever I’m not seeing. Know what I mean?

Current Pop Music

Just haven’t been listening to the radio recently, and when I do – there’ s little to listen to.

How many more times do I have to hear “that” song by Nora Jones (i.e., any song; they all sound the same) before I slip into a permanent coma?

I’ve had the radio on for a couple of hours so far today; right now the first interesting song played is on right now: A Led Zepplin song from the 70s or so. (A nice song from Modest Mouse before that, however – I’ll give you that).

Or maybe I’m just grumpy…