The video-links only thread

[Jeff]

John Keel on UFOs and Mothman, 1994 and 1999

[annie aronburg]

The 2012 Enigma by David Wilcock

[Jeff]

Standard Operating Procedure trailer ("Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.")

[compared2what?]

Ray Charles sings "Ring of Fire" on The Johnny Cash Show

One man's hell is another man's heaven. The take-away: It might at least be worth considering pussy as a possible conduit to eternal bliss. But, you know. Only if you like ecstatic spiritual transcendence.


Jocko Homo (original version) - Devo

I don't know about anyone else. But I hadn't seen this in so long that I might as well never have seen it, so utterly different is my understanding of the world now than it was then. Shine on, America!

Mickey Mouse: Runaway Brain

For Hugh, who probably knows it already, an Academy-Award-nominated short of Evil Mickey from 1995, with some arguable foreshadowing of 9/11, plus references to Pearl Harbor, issues of race, sex, mind control, and the power of whatever Mickey personifies (or mouse-ifies) to release and recall monstrous forces as if they were, collectively, merely a toy on a string, fully en suite.

It also oddly prefigures the first movie in the Spiderman franchise. And that is odd, since Spiderman was quite a bit later and at another studio.

Be that as it may.

[Jeff]

Gore Vidal on Eugene McCarthy, Robert Kennedy, the presidential election and pretexts for war (CBC Television, 1968)

[American Dream]

The Occult Experience now on Google Video, is a 1985 documentary featuring footage of such occult figures as Anton LaVey, Selena Fox, Michael Aquino, and H.R. Giger.

May Be Triggering!

[American Dream]

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

[slimmouse]

excellent little poem Ive just heard on Channel 4s '3 minute wonder' slot.

"Ive been listening to the wrong radio station"

http://www.channel4.com/fourdocs/film/f ... p?id=65565

[Brentos]

Richard Hell & the Voidoids, Blank Generation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUU85sOxZ78

MC5:

Looking at you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p759HunDnoM

American Ruse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcuGVqrzGhg

Kick out the Jams:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gVaqoLMNpM

Ramblin' Rose:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cg0qJ-i ... re=related

[Brentos]

"Counts of the Netherworld" (Bill Hicks)

A Channel 4 UK series in 1993 which Bill Hicks was working on before his untimely death in 1994.

These clips show the real potential of this series, which was sadly curtailed by his death. Good humor & strong thinking. I think if Bill lived, he would be a serious intellectual force nowadays. This shows him maturing, but keeping his sense of humor.

Manifesto:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZithywkNrE

Bill talks about the NRA, Guns, Dick Cheney and predicts the War on Terror in the Middle East & the war in South America, all in 1993:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SenpcjD51mE

[Brentos]

sorry for replying to myself again, but I forgot about this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGCxbhGaVfE

I don't usually follow Ben Stein (or most mainstream crap) in general, but I'm looking forward to this.

[compared2what?]

Incisive commentary on the Cold War:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_75DrsfAQo

It's all true.

[compared2what?]

When intelligent people used to talk thoughtfully on television in response to stupid questions:

Martin Luther King on Malcolm X

Malcolm X on Martin Luther King

Oh, hey. Where'd the thinking go?

Farrakhan on Malcolm X

Guess it got preempted for sex, death, and synthetic emotional catharsis. Shame about that.

Occupying the middle ground in '75, unlikely as it might seem, Geraldo Rivera:

"Good Night America," first broadcast of the Zapruder film

[compared2what?]

The Films of Paul Thomas Anderson

Whose genius is so literally awe-inspiring that it cannot adequately be described, merely noted. Plus, every one of his features is more Rig-Int than meets the eye at a casual glance.

I just hope that this skillfully edited tribute hasn't caused him to have a loss-of-artistic-control-induced seizure from which he might never fully recover. He shot his first two movies before he had even turned 27, IIRC, and I'd like to see him have as long a career as he's entitled to for that achievement alone.

[Jeff]

Iraqi child refugees forced into prostitution

Buster Keaton/Bob Dylan

"To Spring"