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An unhealthy interest in current events...
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I have an unhealthy interest in current events, all of them, from Epstein to Iran and everyone, everything in between. I check the news - 5 or 6 different sites, at least a couple of times a day.
As a result of all this doom scrolling my Facebook feed is filling up with short-to-long clips of Pundits giving their take. From the educated Senator Warren, others, the eminent Professor Jiang, and Meidas Touch (I'm getting over them, this guy spends all day, every day for the past year and some promising the end is nigh and yet here we are), then another one that promises to show some Senator flustering Bondi in "32 Seconds" only the whole twenty minute clip is this guy going on about it and yet never do I see said Senator flustering Bondi. And then there's a peculiar one, that covers all sorts of things from the Iran War to what a great leader Carny is (and he is, his speech in Australia just recently made me want to give him a hug) and all sorts of things in between. The narrator, appears to be Asian, the background is always random, paintings, watercolours, and while he gives "insightful" analysis and updates regarding current events he's a bit off, he looks sideways, random eye glitches, the voice is flat and without accent, and he's got too many channels, too much going on, and I realize this is just a AI generated video with an AI generated person using a AI generated script culled from the previous days events...
But this robot sure loves Carny.
Crazy days we're living through.
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And since I've been working on my painting, consulting YouTube for trips and techniques (and one - buy good watercolour paper, the Dollorama stuff isn't worth anything, try and paint wet on wet and the paper lifts off with your brush) I'm also getting a lot of those artist "reveals" where they turn around and show you their painting.
Of course this interests me, but only for a bit - some are very competent, but their subject matter - still-lifes, landscapes, generally the kind of decorative stuff you find in people's houses that have more money than taste. And so even that has wound it's course, a hundred or so of those and I have yet to see anything inspired - talent, yes, buckets of it, inspiration? Well, not on Facebook.
Lip-Syn Battle
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This, Saturday night, sold out, a somewhat "bogus" event but everyone from town was there to cheer on their friends, and there were a couple of good acts.
In any event, like it or not you have to show up.
Nomad: In the footsteps of Bruce Chatwin - Werner Herzog
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Since I've read everything by Bruce Chatwin and greatly admire Werner Herzog this was a natural.
It didn't disappoint.
Into the Inferno - Werner Herzog
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This was one of those rare films I wished I'd seen on the Big Screen. Like an Imax.
Werner Herzog does a tour with Vulcanologists to some of the world's active volcanoes, spectacular footage of people looking into the abyss of fire, and in so doing ends up digging up 100, 000 year old Hominid remains in Ethiopia, to North Korea, where the people believe their race was born from Paektu Mountain near China (and a long digression into the cultural heritage), then returns to Vanuatu where the people worship their volcano as a portal to John Frum - the Melanesian Cargo cult that is trying to bring back the American troops and their cheap chewing gum and trinkets...
Like most of Herzog's work it digresses beautifully, and while it would claim to be an investigation into the volcanoes it's also so much more...
Five Stars.
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