[Malankazooie]

The "recommended for you" algorithm has brought this front and center for me. Whooboy, it looks batshit crazy.

[Malankazooie]

Watched The Inventor: Out For Blood In Silicon Valley.

It was unsettling. Elizabeth Holmes is a disturbing person to observe and the weirdness is an all encompassing presence in her personality. The deep voice thing is so f'd up, she started low and then took it to octaves even lower, I suppose for effect to be taken even more seriously. And her blood shot eyes from not blinking was just about enough for me to flip it off, but I powered through it. And here is a lot of b-roll during the doc where you get the full impact of her strange mannerisms. The people backing her, many from respected backgrounds and careers, who were drinking the Kool-Aid was surprising.

[QuickTidal]

So Michael Moore's new Doc (PLANET OF THE HUMANS) is an about face from his previous work (where he's a staunch leftist), and bends the other way almost fucking endorsing the Fossil Fuel industry...surprising everyone, by taking pot shots at clean energy...not sure what happened in Moore's life, but he's clearly gone off the deep end with this new doc.

Don't bother watching it, here's someone easily debunking it...

https://pvbuzz.com/p...-of-the-humans/

Funnily enough, as a film/doc viewer of many years, seeing the bullshit in documentaries that bends around the truth to tell a compelling "story" is easier here than elsewhere...but yeah, what a shitshow.

Everyone should just watch REVOLUTION instead, or THE 11th HOUR. Both are far superior pieces about clean energy and the future.

[Malankazooie]

Finished up the HBO documentary series I'll Be Gone in the Dark. If you are in any minor way interested in the true crime genre of shows/books/media, you owe it to yourself to watch this. Flippn' A it is gripping. I'm not a true crime addict personally, but I found this tense and harrowing and so very fascinating. Based on the book by Michelle McNamara (and produced and developed while she is still working on the book), it is broken into 6 episodes. Sadly Michelle McNamara died while still working on the book, but it was completed by her husband (comedian/actor Patton Oswalt) and friends in the true crime online community. Damn she has masterful control with writing outstanding and compelling observations that the documentary, smartly so, features throughout. She also had an absolute obsession with this case and by the end she nails pretty much everything about the killer down to the smallest details. I was fookin' gobsmacked by that talent. And fuckin A, I am humbled by her writing. So much so, I'm going to read the book. Any you page turning, tree killers read the book? Any good?

In summary, watch I'll Be Gone in the Dark. Very much worth it. You won't be disappointed.

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Watched the 2 part HBO documentary Agents of Chaos. We're right back to 2016 and haven't done or learned anything. The recent Hunter Biden, laptop, emails found by computer repair man is an example.

Here's the trailer.

[QuickTidal]

BBC Documentary:

BIG OIL VS THE WORLD

Part 1 (Denial)

Part II (Doubt)

Part III (Delay)

Fair warning, this will ENRAGE you.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 20 December 2022 - 07:39 PM

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Watched a neat Napoleon documentary about how he basically looted art from the countries he invaded/conquered called NAPOLEON: IN THE NAME OF ART, and it's got as its main narrator a mustachioed Jeremy Irons.

It's goes a little soft on him as a man at times, but never egregiously so, and understandable since it was made as part of commemoration of the 200th anniversary of his death. But it's FILLED with glorious works of art that either he's a feature of, or he admired, stole and placed in the Louvre (a museum which apparently used to bear his name, I didn't know that). There are pieces of the whole thing where it's restoring the piece of music he had Giovanni Paisiello compose specifically for his coronation as Emperor and hasn't been heard since as the sheet music had ben lost, but found again they spend the a few minutes throughout showing the organizing and practice of the piece with a modern orchestra, and the ending is them performing it. It's wonderful.

The other fascinating fact I didn't know ahead of time was the first curator of the Louvre, artist Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun, accompanied Napoleon on his invasion of Egypt and that's where all the art obsession started.

Oh, and the island he died on (St. Helena) was in the news recently as the landing place of a bunch of those Hantavirus cruise passengers...wild.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 19 May 2026 - 02:41 PM