Ok, so I thought that the cover art looked like some sort of hipster band concert flyer. And my roommate said that Peter Sellers is awesome in it. It's a very dark comedy and Sellers plays 3 characters: the president, Col. Mandrake, and the titular Dr. Strangelove (a quirky ex-nazi, german in a wheelchair fighting his right hand). There's even a young James Earl Jones, if James Earl Jones was ever young. So the basic plot is that a high ranking nut in the military sends a bunch of bombers to bomb the crap out of Soviet Russia during the Cold War. The dark comedy borders on absurdity as the president attempts to stop the attack and learns of the Russian's "Doomsday Device" which is their failsafe. If attacked the device detonates and the world basically ends, the device cannot be disarmed. All the while Mandrake is attempting to get the code to stop the bombing from the crazed man who called for the attack. For a movie made in 1964 it was really, really fresh and I really enjoyed it.
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| Mandrake |
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| the President |
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| Dr. Strangelove |
So Libya is in a bad way. If Obama's address is anything to go by,we will be kinda policing it and kind of not. You know, the political hokey pokey, establishing a no fly zone and not deploying troops. It looks bad and I just hope that people survive and that as few people as possible get hurt. However, I also hope that Gadhafi will be forced to tone down the outfits.
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| Looking all high and shit. |
Recently, while watching PeeWee's Playhouse for the first time in nearly two decades I remembered the puppet band and how much I liked them, especially Chicky Baby, she was so cool. I watch it recently and I realize that Chicky Baby is a one-eyed bird, Cool Cat is a Persian with glasses on, not too wierd right? But dirty dog? He is the canine version of a jazz musician/smack addict, look at his eyes, jesus.
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| dirty, Dirty Dog |
That's about it for today.
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