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Whoa. For once, I've actually been able to sit back and relax once up here and away from NYC. Not even worrying so much about what COULD possibly be happening that MIGHT be disastrous for me back home.

Good.

So, a morning Random Ten from the iPod now at 20,766 songs, 72.32 gigs:

1. "I'm Allergic to Flowers" - The Jefferson Handkerchief - Pebbles Volume 3 - The Acid Gallery
2. "My Way of Loving You" - Wallace Collection - Laughing Cavalier
3. "I Am" - Molesters - Plastic 7"
4. "Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole" - Martha Wainwright - Martha Wainwright
5. "Eloise (Hang On In There)" - William Bell - Soul of a Bell
6. "Get Back" - Laibach - Let It Be
7. "On the Road Again" - Andy Prieboy - ...Upon My Wicked Son
8. "Town Talk" - Ken Woodman & His Picadilly Brass - That's Nice
9. "You Were Born for Me" - The Tunespinners - Oceanic Odyssey Volume 09
10. "Baby, Baby Don't Cry" - The Miracles - Hitsville U.S.A., The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971

Meanwhile, a couple of links from our Rotten Sons of Bitches Department . . .

toddalcott, as always, writes something smart, in this case about Katrina, two years on, and what he's learned about the government as a result.

And shortly after Alcott's opinion piece, I was led by Jason Grote to a lovely piece of investigative journalism by Matt Taibbi that just seems to confirm all of Alcott's (and my) worst suspicions about the Administration's view of its job not to be the steward of this country, but to enable its cronies to loot as much from the Treasury and taxpayers as possible during their stint, and then get the hell out of Dodge and leave the mess to be cleared up by others. Depressing and enraging.

Some pertinent lines from a film noir (I forget which one) that I quoted in WGW/WGW:

THOMAS ARNOLD, the gangster-businessman: When I spill a drink on the carpet, the maid cleans it up for me.
NED DALEY, the honest private eye: When you spill blood, your lawyer is expected to do the same.
THOMAS ARNOLD: Exactly.

And from the Department of Cheering You Up After That Department, imomus has let me know that you can find the entire (hysterical) series The Japanese Tradition on YouTube. I have one of them on videotape, "Sushi," with an English-dubbed soundtrack -- which, frankly, I think increases the deadpan humor of the "trying to educate foreigners about our ways" -- but it only seems to be up on YouTube in Japanese with subtitles, and here it is:

There are more in the series, which I haven't watched yet, but I'm glad to know they're all there. Judging from the comments on them I see at YouTube, a LOT of people don't get the joke, and are confused or angered by them. Berit has often commented on how well the British and Japanese do this kind of deadpan humor that so many in the USA don't get (though judging from some of the comments, it's Japanese who are angered by the series - "Don't tell lies about us!"), and Momus, in his piece on these, makes the excellent comparison to the British Look Around You series. Well, I like them. A lot.

Also, from toddalcott again, a cheering-up link that made my morning, and will serve for this week's Friday Cat Blogging In Absentia, HERE.

Enjoy.

A few little somethings to not be ignored.

First, HOORAY, Astroland has been spared for another Summer at Coney Island.

Second,

imomus, aka Momus, has, to my delight, embedded three sections of John Berger's TV series Ways of Seeing in his journal. You can also just find them on YouTube through a search like THIS ONE (though the last two things that come up there aren't actually the Berger, but just refer to it).

The sharp, excellent book that was produced as an adjunct of the TV series was one of the first texts I had as a film student at NYU/Tisch, and has been quite important to me ever since (as well as a fine lead-in to Berger's denser works). The book is still just an approximation of the series - Berger laid it out specifically as a TV presentation, and it works much better in that format. We saw the first (maybe the second, too?) episode also during that first term at NYU, but that's the only time I got to see the preferred form of Berger's presentation (in 16mm projection). Unfortunately at the time we saw it, my professor, Daniel Kazimierski, had been made a little sensitive by previous students' reactions to the film, and warned us that it was "very 1970s" in style and that Berger's shirt and hairstyle were now out-of-fashion and "amusing." As a result, much of my class erupted in unfounded guffaws whenever Berger appeared onscreen in the fashion of a man of his age in early 70s London.

Which, in fact, only proves several of Berger's points about context and perception.

In any case, like Momus, I also hope that more of the series, if not the whole damned thing, makes it to YouTube.

Oh, and did I ever mention Look Around You here? If not (or even if so), here's the first episode:

And HERE's a search that will let you find the rest.

Oh, and I see you can now find Posh Nosh at YouTube as well:

HERE are the other episodes of that - Berit and I saw it as a filler piece on Buffalo PBS while we were up in Canada at New Year's.

Okay, enough videos. Other business -- I've been trying to get the Gemini CollisionWorks online presence somewhat down. We still don't have our own webpage, with archives, photos, reviews and the like (it's coming . . . sometime), but we have these things:

BLOG: http://collisionwork.livejournal.com/
PHOTOSTREAM: http://flickr.com/photos/geminicollisionworks/
STORE: http://www.cafepress.com/collisionworks
(now with brand-new Ian W. Hill's Hamlet and World Gone Wrong gear!)
MYSPACE: http://www.myspace.com/geminicollisionworks
LINKEDIN: http://www.linkedin.com/in/geminicollisionworks

Use as you like. Thanks.

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