Extreme world domination

Last night after going to the Art Park we came home and watched 24 Hour Party People. I'm rather fond of Punk and Dance music and well....music in general so I liked it. Wasn't the first time I had seen it but it had been a while.

"I didn't love Dave Chapelle's concert flick either. It would have been fine for seeing on video but I thought it was a waste of a movie ticket. "

Yuni, you seem so intelligent, I have a hard time believing that you couldn't figure that out BEFORE you saw the movie.

Although to be honest, I'm not much of a Chappelle fan. One of his shows can get a few laughs out of me, but I'm never bustin' up. I get bored by comics that dwell on race issues to much in their material, and he plays up to that a lot (although he does pull it off well sometimes). It seems like most non-white comics dwell on race actually and most of the time those kind of jokes make my eyes gloss over becacuse its all the same cliches in a way.

Its strange, this actually gives me a bonafide racial prejudice with comics, which I find kind of disturbing. There's been a few times when I found myself in the mood for some stand-up, saw a "Comedy Central Presents" slot on the programming, and actually found myself hoping that it was a white comic--how fucked up is that? For my own piece of mind, just so I know I'm not acting on a prejudice (and possibly in some way affecting some comics' life in some way becuase of that prejudice), I actually make sure that I watch and see if they start out with race jokes, and almost always find myself dissapointed and change the channel.

Although, I'll take "race comedy" over "blue-collar comedy" anyday. That stuff doesn't just make my eyes gloss over, it actually makes me worry that there are people that find it funny. "haha, farts and tits! Its funny because its true..."

woops, I meant to say:

...One of the people being interviewed throughout the movie (I think he was a philosopher of science), sat down with them, and spent two hours explaining to them why he thought it was unlikely that quantum mechanical phenemenon have anything to do with conciousness except in the most trivial sense (i.e. that EVERY physical phenemenon has to do with QM). Then they went back and cut the interview to make it look like he was agreeing with their premise that it does have something to do with conciousness.

As for What the Bleep do we Know? I like the movie but I have read a few articles now about the participants being upset over how their interviews were edited. To me that movie is just entertainment that makes you think but still it's entertainment. Not a lesson.

never read that stuff about Bleep. I don't surf as much as I could so I missed it. Yea, if they did that, it is unethical. Still enjoyed the hell out of it though. And Dr Fred Alan Wolf's book: "Adventures in the Quantum Universe" is flyy!