A documentary about how homeless people are being exploited to fight or perform ridiculous stunts for money and beer. One of the stunts is plucking one’s own teeth—I cannot even begin to imagine that.
But wait—can you even start to fathom that some people are profiteering from this arrangement?
Why does this happen? Think Jackass. [...]
So, Richard Gere kissed Shilpa Shetty in front of an anti-AIDS campaign crowd (watch; RealPlayer format).
Did you watch as he progressed, from kissing the hand, to embracing, to… whatever? And how long he stayed there? Do we need to rationalise the kind of feelings that may be induced when a man kisses a woman—in such [...]
Every afternoon, there is a man in the street who sells candies, and good candies they are, which attract many customers. But you also know that when night falls, he sells another type of ‘candy’, which attracts a group of customers as well—he is a drug trafficker.
Question: If you had a child, would you [...]
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Everyone must watch this! (UPDATE: I’ve watched it 3 times and still find it funny!)
Robert Newman’s History of Oil (45 mins)
Totally hilarious stuff, but with a serious message at the end about the state of our world’s energy source — oil. Robert is extremely witty! I especially loved his impersonation of Tony Blair. I [...]
UPDATE (10 Nov 07): I see that many of you reached here from an email page. Just curious: why?
“Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising’s Image of Women” by Jean Kilbourne
An eye-opening presentation on how women are featured in advertising. The words that come to mind are “pervasive”, and then “normalisation”. Indeed, the practice of advertising [...]
“The Trap: What happened to our dream of freedom” by Adam Curtis
Watch this documentary to see how, in history, people’s lives have been screwed up again and again, due to rulers trying to control the people they rule. How sad.
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It’s not me; it’s the principle. And you will do it with joy, or not do it at all.
From Gandhi (1982)
This is the film Singapore’s censorship board doesn’t want people to see. It’s the story of opposition politician Chee Soon Juan, who has been imprisoned twice for championing democratic change in the city state. The censors declared it a “party political film” and it was pulled from April 2005’s Singapore International Film Festival line-up after [...]
Away from melancholic Besame Mucho, and back to my usual indie self.
Leaves has been podrocking my world! I first fell in love with “The Spell” which I heard over Last.fm; now I’ve *obtained* the whole Angela Test album and am loving “Shakma” too!
The Spell:
Shakma (Drunken Starlit Sky):
Leaves seems to me to be a mix [...]
Bésame,
bésame mucho
como si fuera esta noche
la última vez
Bésame, bésame mucho
que tengo miedo a perderte
perderte después
I love you, and you only. And I’ll always guard myself well for you.
