Right-Wing mentalists make films
http://film.guardian.co.uk/festivals/news/0,11667,1311295,00.html
"Quit whining about Hollywood, quit threatening these meaningless boycotts, get into the market of ideas and fight for what you believe. There was just such a shortage of films and documentaries that represented a conservative world view. For some reason, conservatives don't go into film. They don't tend to be artists. I don't know why. That's just a tendency."
Hubbard has been described by the media as a wealthy Dallas attorney, although he isn't. He's from Arkansas, not long out of law school, and has done various jobs, including restaurateur and schoolteacher. He told me he and his wife slept on a $200 futon from Wal-Mart. Ellen Hubbard did not seem happy he told me this.
The Hubbards set up the festival - mainly, they say, with money from family and friends - after going to an arthouse cinema one night and being faced with a choice between Michael Moore's Bowling For Columbine and Frieda, a film about Frieda Kahlo - "a film about a communist artist," as Hubbard put it. "Neither of those films reflected our world view."
- two small points: people who have right wing politics don't usually become artists because they have little interest in the world, beyond what it can do for them. They generally disapprove of philosophers and academic-sounding talk (cf George Bush in the White House and General Astray, the fascist general in the Spanish civil war). On the other hand, Hitler painted.
Secondly, Hubbard doesn't like films which do not reflect his 'wordlview'. This may also help to explain why right-wingers don't make many films. Look to your worldview and you may find the problem. Besides which, Hubbard has made clear that he feels that all entertainment and art he consumes must coincide with his political viewpoint. What a stupid bastard! Did he watch the Freida film? Salma Hayek's very good in it. She bares her breasts a few times, and they're very nice, Jim. How does that fit with your worldview, dickhead?
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Equinox (Review of the summer)
Summer is officially over. It's been a right classic this year, stretching from a weekend in a monastery to a new job (and cracking staff party in posh-o Barcelona nitespot).
Albums we've listened to in the sun:
1 The Libertines / The Libertines - "Oh no, you've got it the wrong way round".
2 Rolling Stones / Exile On Main Street - thumping classic "I'm drifting through the days at lightning speed."
3 David Bowie / The Singles Collection - unparralelled genius "Time and again I tell myself, I'll stay clean tonight." and "Don't you wonder sometimes___, 'bout sound and vision?"
4 Scissor Sisters / Scissor Sisters - the road to Tarragona "You're only coming through in waves."
5 Outkast / Speakerboxxx-The Love Below - Glam Hip hop "...and crash into a ditch."
Movies we've watched with the air conditioning on full blast:
1 Fletch
2 Starsky and Hutch
3 Fahrenheit 9/11
4 Shaun Of The Dead
5 Anglian Alan - not actually a movie, but should have been.
Books I've sat out reading:
1 A Million Little Pieces
2 Everything Is Illuminated
3 The Confessions + Les Miserables (at last I actually read both! (twat))
4 Various Flashman stories
5 Money
So yes, it's been a wild, Vice City style summer with abandoned bars, 5am factories and dodgy bouncers all the way.
Now it's Red Lion time.
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I gots a new job…
...but given that it's with the same company, there's no bithing about the last job. I'm still an agent, only now I deal with plans rather than entry.
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Project for the new American century
Hmmmmm... they say that Cheney (revolting) and Wolfowitz (utterly disgusting) are behind this. Key message: we must control everything, and ensure that space is fully militarised.
This on the day that I read that Condoleeza Rice telephoned the mayor of San Francisco on September 10th 2001 to warn him not to fly to New York the next day. Not sure if that's true, but it makes me feel sick (just in case).

Incidentally, today is Catalunya's independence day.
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Iraq's Flag
Does anyone remember the controversy over Iraq's new flag? You may remember that a new design was 'introduced' but has never been seen since.
The Wikipedia, as always, has the definitive answer to the question of what happened to the flag.
Interesting that the flag remains essentially the same - albeit with a few superficial changes. Let's hope that Iraq itself doesn't go the same way!!
New Iraqi flag:

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Shifting sands of corporate serfdom
For the past year I've been working for a major computer company as outsourced labour with a consulting firm in Barcelona. Several months ago, we were informed that Accenture had won our contract with the computer firm, and would be moving the project to Prague.
We were warned that eventually, we'd be made redundant - as our project here wound down. Aside from a couple of sackings and resignations, there has been no major wave of redundancies... but it seems that this evening will see the first.
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