Watching Movies Alone with crumbsroom

I think a better title for this movie would have been Wang Briefs.


This kid needs to put on some pants. I know I paid two dollars, but enough is enough.

I'm going to show you something, but don't be terrified.

Music to lose hockey games to

It's been two days and I can't get that stupid song out of my head.*


I will concede defeat to Crumbsroom, but will warn anyone else interested in the movie that they may suffer the same fate.*

In these end of times we are living in, I always eventually win.

Everybody's got something to looooose
Everybody but you!


Dance with me, dance with me
Come on and dance with me dance with me.
Dance with me dance with me
Come on, dance with me, dance with me.

A lot, sadly.
A shocking number of actual health-care workers at my hospital refused the vaccine and I work at the flagship hospital of the largest and most advanced health care system in my state.
It's startling, disconcerting, frankly maddening.
It would make a good movie, to stay on topic.

Wait, is Joe Rogan an anti-vaxxer?!!!

I learned last night that my radiologist cousin does not intend to get vaccinated. So I guess her children aren't either.

Not quite, but a little adjacent. He's spent the last year sowing doubts about all matters of mitigation, the severity of the disease, the efficacy of masks, "government tyranny", etc. He recently got push back for suggesting that healthy young adults don't need the vaccine, ignoring or ignorant of the vascular nature of the virus which has a number of still-uncertain long-term health issues for survivors. We're now learning about direct DNA damage to cells. Rogan's fanciful and somewhat Darwinian attitude about the immune system ("what doesn't kill me makes me stronger"), which is pretty much irrelevant to this particular unprecedented virus, dovetails with a lot of standard anti-vaxx dogma. To be fair to Rogan, his response to this push back was to say "I am not a respectable source of information" (which maybe Spotify should consider as an advertising slogan), which is on the nose, but he's shown himself to be far more sympathetic to the covid-deniers than the medical experts, and clearly he has a huge influence.

I'm glad that you're enjoying my demos.

Jeez, less than two weeks to submit the top foreign language film list. Anyone finished theirs? This is going to be brutal.....

I have a rough draft. It’s about 30 films yet, so I need to ponder which ones get kicked to the curb before I finally submit it.
*sigh*
There’s a fair bit I’m afraid I’m going to cut and then regret it immediately after submitting it.

I already submitted mine. I didn't find it too hard to assemble it, overall. I first used my favorite's list as a guide, which filled up the first half of it or so and then I looked at some GOAT lists I regularly frequent to help me fill up the remainder of it.

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lol completely forgot about this.


Uh...


1-25. Disco Dancer

That's a drag.

I got my first vaccination about three weeks ago, the day before the Canadian government stopped issuing it due to increased likelihood of bloodclotting, which I was more amused by than anything.


There is also a slowly growing anti-vax sentiment here (unsurprisingly growing along side of the increase in QAnoners spouting all sorts of embarrassments on Facebook) but not as pervasive as it seems to have become south of the border.



And even though I do sort of like Joe Rogan with a shrugging kind of acceptance, and think it isn't always a bad thing to have open dialogue with all sorts of fringey people, the guy has clearly always had a used diaper for a brain, so him keeping the door open for all sorts of really dumb conspiratorial thinking is hardly out of character.

I will concede that Rogan is the world's foremost authority on hosting Fear Factor. I'm less interested in his opinions about other topics.

He reminds me of that one friend you have that watched a documentary once and condescendingly drops facts from it into every future conversation whenever possible. So many times one of his guests will be mid-sentence only to be interrupted with Joe's "did you know the Mayans invented that?" or whatever. Followed by an unnecessarily long tangent about that thing he once read about the Mayans, as the guest politely waits to get back to his original point.

I don't hate the guy, but I also don't understand how his opinions came to be so important to so many people.

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Don't under estimate the power of pointlessly dropped factoids. For those who kinda don't know much about stuff, it can sure sound impressive when someone starts rattling off the chemical composition of DMT.



I do also think there is a lot to be said for how he made his success on his own terms and was never beholden to others on who he could talk to or what he could say. And there is some legitimate value in this distinction. But, unfortunately, to far too many this alone translates as 'truth'. I guess it hasn't dawned on them that people can still lie or be stupid on their own individual, uncompromised terms. The interference of corporate interests into our thought pool is hardly the only concern out there in discourse. There are endless ways for garbage thoughts and misleading arguments to be spewed and echoed back by every person out there only half listening.


And in regards to things being spewed, it seems I will now have to track down every available movie by the Polonia Brothers (Hallucinations). I finally watched something that was nearly as bad as Rambling Man, but still better enough to shame my fourteen year old self for another couple of generations.

Considering they started making movies when they were teenagers and were likely working with minimal budgets the whole time, it is crazy how many they turned out.