A thousand and change anti-war protesters got jailed today and I get the sense that no one is really buying the narrative that Ukrainians are nazis who hate Russia on top of that we have information of some diplomats expressing their not discomfort but horror at the situation so its certainly a possibility we should consider, glad I'm not alone thinking about this.

Do you guys think there is any chance that Putin would get couped because of all of this? The decision is massively unpopular, Russians feel that their extended family are getting murdered because of nothing and also among his circle there was a reluctance on escalating . I saw this and it made me wonder, thoughts?

Thank you for setting me straight on LoGH, I now carry a little bit of guilt because of my comment on the animation (I watched it on youtube, hangover). I'll try to get the newer Blu-ray release, sounds really good.

Hi, I like space stuff too, have you seen Space Battleship Yamato 2199? Its a remake of a show from the 70's and its just wonderful, the first anime space opera to really hook me. I discovered it after being a little bit disappointed by the latest Expanse season and it made me enjoy it even more, the world building is really classy relying on indirect exposition, visual storytelling is ok and the soundtrack is just awesome, I love the battle theme in particular. I am near the end and was wondering if I should give LotGH another shot. I tried to watch it a couple of times but between the old animation and a slow start I moved on to other stuff. Or maybe its ok if I watch the remake, what do you think? I am looking for more sci fi besides everything that is well known.

Thanks a lot for filling me in! I'm glad you have the time to go through the paper, its really worth it and I think that it really nails how and why Adam works his aesthetic the way he does and it also has this really concise break down of AC's "social theory", extremely well informed and put together, I forgot to link to it yesterday, here .

In the end I'm glad that Adam decided to focus on Can't Get You Outside Of My Head because both the podcast and the book project seem to me like a compromise, maybe the book not so much I take that back because I was hearing yesterday the interview with Tim Heidecker where he touches the idea of editing as a form of writing and I remember he mentioned elsewhere that he was a big fan of John Dos Passos, so that might be extremely good if and when it comes. In the end all of this seems to me as a protomontage I would rather have the real shit.

I am sure that every episode is going to hit me right in the feels,I mean just the trailer, specially the song and the lyrics and how he chose where to cut to the girls dancing, just please listen to the song and read the lyrics:

You sit in your room, and you talk to the wall

You're feeling small but still have a ball

And you can't explain what's anyway in vain

And you paint your face and dress in black

Wear your shades and still can't express

The way you feel about a lousy fill

And you dance until the morning

All by yourself

And somehow you know

You're not alone

And you dance until the morning

All by yourself

And somehow you know

You're not alone

You're playing pool against yourself

And you look at your watch

At a quarter to twelve

And you still didn't win against yourself

You think it's time to quit the game

Maybe change your name and search for fame

And you still have a ball and you don't care after all

And they catch you hiding in a love affair

And you know again

You're not alone

And they catch you hiding in a love affair

And you know again

You're not alone

God ain't jive and I can feel his love

Run through the strings of my guitar

Just watch out and see what it's all about

And still I stand my foot in my hand

Talking to my wall and still don't care at all

Just having a ball

And heavy after all

I've borrowed your time I'm sorry I called

Forget what I've said

But remember

You're not alone

I've borrowed your time I'm sorry I called

Forget what I've said

But remember

You're not alone

I don't know why but this reached deep into me and set my soul on fire, I mean all of it the title, the images and the meanings that I feel I sort of know where he is going with, it was just a splendor for me. It had the same effect, but set to a thousand to that sequence in Bitter Lake where the guy is doing his surprisingly well-executed martial arts moves with runaway from Kanye blaring, it was so beautiful, same here but like with lonely utopian dreams. Now, considering considering that in the synopsis there is the disclaimer "And the films are told in a different way - they are an emotional history of what went on inside the heads of all kinds of people." Lets just say I am going to need the prep of Amber Tamblyn minus the vibrator.

Wow I didn't know that he had talked about writing a book or making a podcast, by any chance did he mention it in the Tim Heidecker interview? I can't seem to find anything about these projects. As you say its completely understandable he set aside everything else because holy shit he completed 6 films in the span of four years (If I remember correctly he had talked about this idea shortly after releasing Bitter Lake) and if we take Jon Ronson's word about it this film series seem to be his best yet . I really can't wait, the synopsis is just mouth watering. Have you read the paper Adam Curtis’s compelling logic: the tortuous corridor to the hypernormal ? I think you will find interesting, I am rereading that and also plan to read Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More in the meantime. Also, what do you think will be the release window for this? Seems extreme to me that they will drop the 6 films on day one, I sure hope so.

I will be agonizing trying to find a way to sneak in to the stupid Iplayer for free and post the results here but nevertheless I really don't care much about them releasing the film series this way, just the fact that Adam Curtis can produce this with total freedom is amazing, we will always have torrents and whatnot.

This is a question just for the dudes, the bros, have you listened to this good shit? Its fucking beautiful

I wonder why AMLO is not up there, our mexican libs can't stop crying about it and they have been really funny since Biden won they regard that pathetic, marginal triumph as their own advent

Present day. Present time. Hahahahahahahaha

I love the aesthetic so much. Seriously I want to do a sequence by sequence breakdown of just how well everything is put together from sound to shot composition to montage its truly on a league of its own.

Just wanted to say that this made me want to revisit the series and oh my god it has been amazing, specially after getting cushbombed but not entirely because of that, the editing, composition is just chef kisses I even rewatched some episodes after finishing just to bathe again in its perfect execution it shot up straight into my top of the list. I can't wait to nag my friends and family to give it a watch an absolute masterpiece.

Antkind by Charlie Kaufman which is hilarious and beautiful, I'm so glad he made a come back this year.

I'm hoping Trump brings his deranged bisexual energy tonight lets gooooooooo

First!

Czechvault this is such a treat of a comment (saved), I had a nice substantial reply drafted in here but lost it stupidly and then work got in the way. I hope you get to see this and I apologize for being so late.

I think that most of our comrades in this thread, when thinking about a coup in Latin America, immediately think about Chile instead of Brazil which serves as the perfect example of a soft coup with their anticorruption campaign which turned into a vehicle to jail Lula on trumped up charges coordinated by their DA and judge Moro and supported by the US. I was thinking about what could happen in Mexico with this frame in mind, more of a legalistic battle than anything else. All in all, I now see that it is highly unlikely for either a soft coup (?) or a hard coup to be actively promoted by the US thanks to the reasons you and others have expertly laid out. And to be perfectly honest this administration is very mild making some economic elites pay their taxes is not the resurrection of a communist project so, as you say, what would be the reason? And yet there is still a dynamic that keeps bothering me, and one that I would like to bounce off with you.

In short, I'm thinking about this process as a soft coup that doesn't ultimately depose AMLO but in turn shapes the opposition into something . We see all of the tactics in that playbook being deployed right now, economic pressures (withholding private investment), relentless political attacks (from governors to feminists -which is your take on radical feminists popping out all over human rights offices?), financing of local far right groups, defamation and straight up disinformation in some media outlets (Reforma) and some social mobilization. Then we add to that the president trying to commit harakiri by removing his presidential immunity in the context of a supposed series of trials against the heads of previous administrations and I get this feeling that things could get dicey (I think that Gerts Manero doesn't have the balls or the capacity to really go after the ex presidents).

Presently all of the opposition parties continue to live in a state of crisis ridden with corruption scandals, this has lead the conservative opposition to exercise their diminished power in media as you say, the courts and propping up a comedic and anachronic far right group. So the question is, don't you think that the economic elites are going to support more aggressively the emerging far right? There was a hint in your comment that they support him now but won't in the future, isn't this the way they will likely go? We should also consider that yes AMLO has oligarchic support, not completely in the bag but the most influential appear to be quite at home with his admin, but the minigarchs are the ones rustling the leaves, I'm watching closely Claudio x and Gustavo de Hoyos.

I have been hooked on Tim's content since I stumbled into his Dragon Quest review, I love this guy.

Thank you thats a really enlightening take, makes sense. I think that I'm being a little bit paranoid because some emerging far right groups are openly calling for a coup trying to get sponsors but you are right reading it geopolitically they would go for Maduro. I would also like to add that even if some soft power was lost with Trump it was just in the realm of what the US used to represent to some people over here but in the end the relationship is the same, Trump turned Mexico's national guard into a overpowered border patrol and so I think that functionally nothing has changed con el cheto en la casa blanca

Nice I was going through Trump's speech just now trying to find that reference

Did you find it? Its near the end of this stream ReTHUGLICAN NAtional CONvention: Night 4 when the opera guy is singing but they don't say much, nobody besides Brace wanted to dunk on the breadtubers he started to describe which sucks because he was about to talk about Thought Slime as well and got cut off

When is he going to die? I'm tired of being edged like this