A strange confluence of thoughts and actions:
1. Thought: “Yay! I love Netflix! How did I survive without it???”
2. Next thought: “Tonight Triumph of the Will arrives. Hooray!” [Uhm – hooray?] Yes. Hooray!
3. Going to watch it this evening in a feng shui-ed environment with a Roman foot bath and a peaceful rock fountain and a sauna – a laser sauna – and tea and some kind of home-cooked meal from an island country.
As we watch Triumph of the Will.
I cannot speak in defense of this. It’s just flat out what is going on right now.
“in a feng shui-ed environment with a Roman foot bath and a peaceful rock fountain and a sauna – a laser sauna – and tea and some kind of home-cooked meal from an island country.”
I half expected you to end that sentence with “…and a llama tied up on the terrace.”
Yes, I am flying to Morocco for the evening. Talk to you tomorrow!
Does it have subtitles?
JFH – hahahahaha
Yes, it does. And sometimes you kinda wish you DIDN’T know what they were saying.
“A RACE MUST KEEP ITS BLOOD PURE” … etc.
I’ll write more about it later – I’ve only seen images from it, not the whole thing … It is absolutely gorgeous, a great documentary – but also so creepy. You start to feel your mind go numb after a while … with all the pageeantry. You start to lose sense that you are looking at individuals – they are all so neatly lined up and there are so goddamn many of them. Which, of course, is the point.
But to watch Hitler speak … wow. It’s creeeeepy, and very effective.
An ugly and yet gorgeous piece of work.
And I watched it with my feet in a stone foot bath. As I ate a traditional meal of rice and beans and beets and other … shit I have no idea what it all was. It was yummy. And I watched it after hanging out in the infrared sauna for a while, to warm up. I don’t know why I find these incongrous details so amusing, but I do.
“Ahhh, let us relax, unwind, and watch a documentary of racial hatred!”
Hermes: We can’t take on Mom! Her company is large, and evil! We’re small, and neutral.
80’s guy: Switzerland is small and neutral – we’re more like Germany, ambitious and misunderstood.
Amy: Sure, everyone wants to be like Germany; but do we have the pure strength of will?
Sorry – maybe it’s the feng shui, but this reminded me of one of my favorite Futurama bits.