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4月11日 8002 - The Union of Jesusists Producers, movie workers, look here! The most kick ass script ever! The second episode: 1月31日 I Can Change - by Obama, Hillary, Edwards ... and Saddam A parody of "I Can Change" by Saddam (featuring Satan) from "South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut". Just sick hearing these people repeating the word "Change" again and again, like "Conservative" from the other side four years ago. Even John Kerry said he was a conservative! What really should change? This politics of "empty rhetoric"(Obama's comment on Bush)! 8月2日 Highly educated misfit Bottom row, from left, Yeardley Smith, Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, Nancy Cartwright and Pamela Hayden. It's a pleasant surprise to see how TIME use South Park to open an introduction to the Simpsons: In episode 607 of South Park, Butters, in his guise as Professor Chaos, dreams up a host of insidious schemes—blocking out the sun, decapitating a South Park statue, selling the town a monorail—only to be told that these had already been spun out on a certain animated TV series. "How come every time I think of something clever," Butters asks, "The Simpsons already did it?" The episode was a tribute from one cadre of cartoon geniuses—South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone—to another, earlier one: Matt Groening, James L. Brooks and their team of highly educated misfits, who developed Groening's crudely drawn one-minute Tracey Ullman Show vignettes of a chinless yellow family into a half-hour sitcom, nay, a veritable comedy cosmos that this fall begins its record-breaking 19th season on Fox. But what really caught my eyes, is the term "highly educated misfits". Of course, the word "misfit" is used as a commendation here, kind of appreciation of their original creativity and unbound imagination. But just like any success story, this term has a lot of unhappy endings behind its glorious ring of light. And I am not going to name any here. Two other eminent examples of highly educated misfits are, of course, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. I happened to find today that they are much younger than I thought. In short, they have been running South Park for several seasons at my current age. Here is an example of how they misfit, or fit, into Oscar:  6月14日 Lil Bush kicks ass! Think Colbert is outrageous? Or South Park? You should check Lil Bush! It premiered yesterday in Comedy Central, but you can find more episodes in YouTube. However, I refrained from watching them. So let's just talk about the first episode. Though the real hero in that episode was probably Lil Cheney. He murmurs like wolf (where's Lil Wolfowitz?), eats animal alive and sucks their blood, drives a tank in Iraq and kills people, runs into girls' bathroom and stalk them......but that's all OK, compared to the "Mrs. Robinson" type affair he had with Babara Bush, and was completely sucked into her body, until he was born again by an abortion! And hey, anyway does it surprise anyone that Cheney is the real hero in the Bush episode? 5月2日 Motorcycle Diaries First I have to reveal how retarded I am. ---- I didn't realize this movie is about Che Guevara until the last minute of it. (which is consistent with the fact that I didn't realize the underground princess tale is probably only an illusion of Ofelia until the last minute of Pan's Labyrinth) This is partly due to my stolidity to foreign names. I skipped all the names in the caption automatically, not to mention the names "Fuser" and "Ernesto" further estranged me from that famous name. But that's exactly why I enjoyed this movie. I didn't watch it as a youth biography of a revolutionary icon, but as two ordinary people's journey to explore a continent with enthusiasm, curiosity, and hope to have some fun. Yes that young man might seem too idealistic and innocent, but for God's sake, he was only 22, well-educated, and an Argentinian! And after all he did try to seduce (or be seduced by) a beautiful woman when her husband was nearby but drunken. I did feel some phoniness though, by the last scene of swimming across the Amazon river. But, now that I know that was Che Guevara, the guy who abandoned high rank government position for a highly dangerous guerrilla war in which he was eventually killed, that scene is not phony at all. It's compassion, one of the most noble human emotions that nowadays people are shy to exhibit even if they have. But of course, compassion is also one of the most noble human emotions that have been, is, and will continue to be terribly abused as the excuse of hate crimes, intentionally or unintentionally, in which Che himself contributed a good part, and still remains one of the biggest inspirations. But that will be too big a topic for me to discuss here ---- or, as you know, the truth is, I don't have the capacity to discuss this topic to a satisfactorily convincing degree. And finally, two more pictures:   |
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