Cultural readjustment part I
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tcpipPolly's and Blue Velvet was fun. Quite a good cross-section of my friends (the aesthetes, the politicos, the techs and combinations thereof) in attendance.
Attendees included the erstwhile caseopaya absolutely beautiful in a little number from Gown of Thorns, the world's best tech, mr. brendan, the wonderful log_reloaded who was jumping up and down in excitement like a bibi, the most elegantly dressed grrrar and her companions (it was great to see her and log_reloaded meet again after years), lei_loo, who is looking just gorgeous and deserving special congratulations on getting those first steps towards joining mediciens sans frontiers, cvisors and friends, including catbiscuit whom I hadn't seen in ages, Claudine, a fellow Linux-hactivist type whom I hadn't seen since my days in the French Club at the Uni of Melbourne in circa 1995, Dr. Anitra Nelson and Comrade Frans (who has just opened a new bookshop "May Day" at 157 Sydney Rd Brunswick), Jenne from the Aboriginal Affairs Policy Committee, a pregnant KT (congratulations!) from our mutual refugee activist work (get a Quaker and a Unitarian together and see what happens), TY, the great cocktail waiter, Stean. And of course, I finally got to see the poster which Cameron from Blue Velvet splashed all over Sydney.
Having turned on the television and discovered that it is still utterly inane I have taken to watching some decent videos as cultural catch-up.
Victorian (and Michael Caine) double epics "The Man Who Would Be King" and "Zulu", the thoroughly disturbed and tragic "Heavenly Creatures" directed by Peter Jackson, "The Cube", a clever sf flick on a very low budget, although it would have even been better if they used a tesseract, and David Lynch's "Dune" which despite the sociological improbability is still worthy viewing. The best for the week however is Stanley Kubrik's "Dr Strangelove". a disturbingly plausible, ridiculous and dangerous scenario with Peter Sellers in multiple roles (any of my friends in the post-cold war age i.e., born post-1980, must see this).
One thing I have noticed is that people in wealthy, advanced, industrial nations are also superficial and insecure. I've seen a couple of instances in the past couple of days where people basically project being insecure by being catty, rude and in one instance downright violent towards others. It doesn't impress me one iota. In fact it saddens me a great deal as the promise of a modern, liberal, and democratic society is that we would be less insecure and more likely to treat each other with respect.
I'll ponder more on this one.
Why does a US government website need to tell people why they don't just nuke the hurricane. Are people really that stupid?
Attendees included the erstwhile caseopaya absolutely beautiful in a little number from Gown of Thorns, the world's best tech, mr. brendan, the wonderful log_reloaded who was jumping up and down in excitement like a bibi, the most elegantly dressed grrrar and her companions (it was great to see her and log_reloaded meet again after years), lei_loo, who is looking just gorgeous and deserving special congratulations on getting those first steps towards joining mediciens sans frontiers, cvisors and friends, including catbiscuit whom I hadn't seen in ages, Claudine, a fellow Linux-hactivist type whom I hadn't seen since my days in the French Club at the Uni of Melbourne in circa 1995, Dr. Anitra Nelson and Comrade Frans (who has just opened a new bookshop "May Day" at 157 Sydney Rd Brunswick), Jenne from the Aboriginal Affairs Policy Committee, a pregnant KT (congratulations!) from our mutual refugee activist work (get a Quaker and a Unitarian together and see what happens), TY, the great cocktail waiter, Stean. And of course, I finally got to see the poster which Cameron from Blue Velvet splashed all over Sydney.
Having turned on the television and discovered that it is still utterly inane I have taken to watching some decent videos as cultural catch-up.
Victorian (and Michael Caine) double epics "The Man Who Would Be King" and "Zulu", the thoroughly disturbed and tragic "Heavenly Creatures" directed by Peter Jackson, "The Cube", a clever sf flick on a very low budget, although it would have even been better if they used a tesseract, and David Lynch's "Dune" which despite the sociological improbability is still worthy viewing. The best for the week however is Stanley Kubrik's "Dr Strangelove". a disturbingly plausible, ridiculous and dangerous scenario with Peter Sellers in multiple roles (any of my friends in the post-cold war age i.e., born post-1980, must see this).
One thing I have noticed is that people in wealthy, advanced, industrial nations are also superficial and insecure. I've seen a couple of instances in the past couple of days where people basically project being insecure by being catty, rude and in one instance downright violent towards others. It doesn't impress me one iota. In fact it saddens me a great deal as the promise of a modern, liberal, and democratic society is that we would be less insecure and more likely to treat each other with respect.
I'll ponder more on this one.
Why does a US government website need to tell people why they don't just nuke the hurricane. Are people really that stupid?
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Date: 2003-09-24 12:34 am (UTC)