A movie made 30 years ago that perfectly describes the situation today about television, news, and the main stream media. It resonates louder and sounds truer today that it did when the movie was made.
"You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale... and I won't have it!Is that clear?You think you merely stopped a business deal.That is not the case.The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country... and now they must put it back!It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity. It is ecological balance!You are an old man... who thinks in terms of nations and peoples.There are no nations. There are no peoples.There are no Russians. There are no Arabs.There are no Third Worlds. There is no West.There is only one holistic system of systems!One vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multi-variant, multinational dominion of dollars!Petrol dollars, electro dollars, multi-dollars.Reichsmarks, rins, rubles, pounds and shekels!It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet.That is the natural order of things today.That is the atomic, and subatomic, and galactic structure of things today.And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature!And you will atone!Am I getting through to you?You get up on your little 21-inch screen and howl about America and democracy.There is no America.There is no democracy.There is only IBM and ITT, and AT&T, and Du Pont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon.Those are the nations of the world today.What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state? Karl Marx?They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions and compute price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, like we do.We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale.The world is a college of corporations... inexorably determined by the... immutable bylaws of business.The world is a business, Mr. Beale."
1976 Battle of the Network Stars; Bob Conrad goes apesh*t over a technical call and has it out for poor old Mr. Kotter, Gabe Kaplan! This is vintage 70's tv at it's best, you know when there was only 3 networks, disco replays, smoking joggers, girls running without bras, and don't forget the insane amount of racist jokes when they were PC.
A collection of Japanese skaters from Overground Broadcasting a film by The Far East Skate Network. Mostly made by Takahiro Morita http://fareastskatenetwork.com/BUY IT!
go to http://www.cngroovies.has.it to download all these groovies, plus their songs! http://www.springmanrecords.co /springman/aspx/cat_info.aspx?CatItemID=4One of my favorite groovies by one of my favorite ska/punk bands ever. The song is "Jabberjaw" by the band Pain, which can be found on their Jabberjaw EP or their Jabberjaw 7".Want more info on the band? Check out the amazing Springman Records label at www.springmanrecords.comFind Pain and other effing amazing bands that will deff rock your face off.
Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths in the US, but receives extremely little federal funding to support research efforts. Dr. Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon professor who has pancreatic cancer, has joined efforts with the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network to urge the federal government to provide critical funding to speed the cure for this horrible disease.