WITHDRAW.

Sooooo not in this class anymore.

Sooooo happy.

Sooooo not gonna lose sleep over it anymore.

disjointed thoughts on ‘do the right thing’.

In 1999, the film was deemed “culturally significant” by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
-from the Wikipedia entry on Do The Right Thing.

WELL OBVIOUSLY, U.S. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

I think that Wikipedia quote there sums up my feelings towards the movie. It is culturally significant. If a big name director is writing about racial conflict in a believable, relatively unbiased way, of course it’s gonna be significant.
In a way, it made me nostalgic for the summers of my youth in California and Pennsylvania where it was too hot to be inside or outside and everyone was just hangin’ out on their porches.
It’s unsurprising that all the heat in Bed-Stuy caused a riot. I wonder if the same events would’ve taken place if the movie wasn’t set on the hottest day of the year.
Spike Lee is hardcore. He wrote, directed, produced and starred in the movie. How often do people do allll that for a non-indie movie? I don’t feel like there are many multi-taskers [to that extent] out there, making successful movies. So yeah, wow, great job, Mr. Lee.

Do The Right Thing is believable and stylish and makes a point. Actully, on second thought, I think it makes quite a few points. Race will always be an issue. It’ll always be hard to really believe in your police force. And, of course, doing the right thing is always important.

watching ‘under review’.

They’re talking about the origin of the band name.

According to Urban Dictionary: Joy Division 

1. A great band.
2. What the Nazis called female prisoners who were kept alive to be prostitutes for the German army.

I love the way people with English accents say ‘nazis’. They pronounce the ‘a’s more, so it sounds like “gnat-sees”. 

Also, the casting director for ‘24 Hour Party People’ sucks though I love Tony Wilson. 

/rant on the Manchester music scene in the late 1970s. 

jazz blurb.

“For him she planned sugar in his motor, scissors to his tie, burned suits, slashed shoes, ripped socks. Vicious, childish acts of violence to inconvenience him, remind him.”

Alice’s revenge is the kind of revenge you have upon someone you really love. Of course you don’t kill them. That’d be counterproductive. There’s little suffering in killing. But to constantly remind them of their wrong-doing – that’s how someone really suffers.  To find ways to let them know every day, multiple times a day, just how bothered you’ve become by whatever wrong they committed.
It’s dramatic and it is childish and it will frustrate whoever you’d do it to, but they’re the ones with the ripped socks and every time their toes poke through the hole and hit the inside of their shoe, they’ll be thinking of you.