Documentaries

[Mooncat]

Just saw Meet Me in the Bathroom and enjoyed it a lot. Some cool footage from the era, and some really eerie footage of 9/11. Good nostalgic timewarp too if you came of age in the early 2000s.

Much narrower focus than the book though, really only follows The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem, and Interpol, with brief touches on Moldy Peaches and Rapture.

[Born of Fire]

Watched the whole Ancient Apocalypse documentary series from Graham Hancock that's on Netflix. Entertaining. Just annoying that he says "proof of" and "proves" all the time. He'd be taken much more seriously if he replaced them with "evidence for" and "suggests". But then, genuine science hasn't really done a good job of getting people thinking in these kind of hypothetical rather than dogmatic terms either, so I can't really hold that against him too much. Anyway, very entertaining, and loads of interesting places in it.

Must give that a look. Always enjoyed listening to him on with Rogan. Obviously his observations are to be taken with a massive dose of salt but if nothing else it's good for at least letting the imagination run wild.

[Caomhaoin]

Watching Candace Owens/Daily Wire one about George Floyd and BLM.

No bombshells and Owens turns down the annoyingness. It's another side of the story, but it's hard to take her seriously considering all the stupid and ignorant remarks she has made since her road to Damascus conversion to conservatism in 2017 (even though I broadly agree with her on most issues).

The main question raised is whether Chauvin was fed to the lions to appease the mob, or if he caused Floyd's death. Obviously the implication here is the former. Jacob Frey, Biden, that Maxine Waters trying to influence the outcome and the medical evidence backs it up, but sher lookit another doc will have compelling arguments to the contrary.

Matt Walsh's one was more entertaining, he's genuinely intelligent and amusing. This one? The only thing funny about her is that her mere existence as a black conservative and opponent of BLM drives her political opponents to distraction.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I found this fairly excellent YouTube channel while looking up some stuff about the US' entry into WWI. They've been doing week-by-week breakdowns of the war and subsequent events as each week has hit its centenary over the last few years. In the mix, the Irish struggle is also covered, with a total of about 3 hours of stuff in 20-30 minute videos. Seems to be a US-based channel, so if you have an initial reservation over narrator accents (mea culpa), stick with it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEb_CfgX2Bw

[astfgyl]

Threw on the first few minutes of that to pick it up later sound

[StoutAndAle]

Just saw Meet Me in the Bathroom and enjoyed it a lot. Some cool footage from the era, and some really eerie footage of 9/11. Good nostalgic timewarp too if you came of age in the early 2000s.

Much narrower focus than the book though, really only follows The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem, and Interpol, with brief touches on Moldy Peaches and Rapture.

Reading that book by Lizzy Goodman that the minute - only noticed the other day that there's a doc.

Seems nobody at all has love for Ryan Adams - except Ryan Adams (and maybe Jesse Malin).

[leatherface]

Watched the whole Ancient Apocalypse documentary series from Graham Hancock that's on Netflix. Entertaining. Just annoying that he says "proof of" and "proves" all the time. He'd be taken much more seriously if he replaced them with "evidence for" and "suggests". But then, genuine science hasn't really done a good job of getting people thinking in these kind of hypothetical rather than dogmatic terms either, so I can't really hold that against him too much. Anyway, very entertaining, and loads of interesting places in it.

Must give that a look. Always enjoyed listening to him on with Rogan. Obviously his observations are to be taken with a massive dose of salt but if nothing else it's good for at least letting the imagination run wild.

I have his books somewhere, must dig them out. He wrote about this kind of stuff years ago but I don't remember people getting quite so annoyed about it.

[Carnage]

Anyone check Adam Curtis's new one, TraumaZone? Collapse of the Soviet Union through 90s Russia, all BBC archive footage without his usual narration, just subtitles. I think it's fantastic, really fucked up.

Watching this on BBC Four at the moment, 5 episodes in. Compelling stuff, complete madness how that country was (is) run.

[astfgyl]

Watched the whole Ancient Apocalypse documentary series from Graham Hancock that's on Netflix. Entertaining. Just annoying that he says "proof of" and "proves" all the time. He'd be taken much more seriously if he replaced them with "evidence for" and "suggests". But then, genuine science hasn't really done a good job of getting people thinking in these kind of hypothetical rather than dogmatic terms either, so I can't really hold that against him too much. Anyway, very entertaining, and loads of interesting places in it.

Must give that a look. Always enjoyed listening to him on with Rogan. Obviously his observations are to be taken with a massive dose of salt but if nothing else it's good for at least letting the imagination run wild.

I have his books somewhere, must dig them out. He wrote about this kind of stuff years ago but I don't remember people getting quite so annoyed about it.

I don't think anyone was annoyed at all but then I think they just didn't have the platform to tell me about it and they were every bit as petty and shit all along and many people were as annoyed as anything.

Ah well fuck em.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Just watched first ep of Attenborough's latest one, Wild Isles, all about wildlife in Britain and Ireland. Presumably he's not up for going too much further afield at this stage, and this may well be the very last one he makes, bless 'im. Excellent anyway, looking forward to catching the other eps.

[astfgyl]

He's sort of annoying me with the climate change angle all the time but I still like the cunt for all the years of pure wonderment he's given me. Must give this a watch I hadn't even heard of it or at least don't remember hearing of it and now I'm thinking I did hear of it

Edit: fuck I sound like Rumsfeld

[open face surgery]

I agree that the intense guilt trip is hard work.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

There wasn't so much about climate change per se in this one, compared to the Netflix series for example. But yeah, he will say stuff along the lines of "This amazing wildlife you're in wonderment over right now has had its habitat reduced by 80% in the last 60 years," or whatever. In fairness, there are few better living witnesses to the extent of human encroachment into animal habitats over the last century.

[astfgyl]

Human impact on habitats and climate change are two entirely different things to my mind.

First is real, second is a money scam

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

'Still', documentary coming soon about Michael J. Fox, his full life, career, and post-career with Parkinson's. Looks like it'll be great.

Also just started this one yesterday, The Shock of the New, an 80s doc series about the impact of technological advancement, etc., on art throughout the 20th century:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3ne7Udaetg&list=PLFtSvldL7Mh4ismj4BgH33pBR9hbtBkxz&index=1

Has now got me thinking aloud about the impact of the two world wars on the birth of heavy metal, an emblem of machinery and death "twisted into form", if you will.