tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87741415818564072622024-03-04T21:50:43.752-08:00Wrong With AuthorityA podcast in which four white guys talk about anything and everything with all the authority their gender and skin colour confers upon them. But we're on the Left, so it's okay.Jack Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12577724856056106531noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774141581856407262.post-71158059142787525762018-12-03T15:31:00.000-08:002018-12-03T15:31:10.846-08:00Consider the Ray Gun, Episode 4 - 'Ender's Game' by Orson Scott Card (1985)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Wrong With Authority resurrects 'Consider the Ray Gun', the strand of Oi! Spaceman in which Daniel chatted with a guest about a book, usually classic SF.<br />
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<a href="http://wrongwithauthority.libsyn.com/podcast/consider-the-ray-gun-episode-4-enders-game-by-orson-scott-card-1985">HERE </a>is the triumphant return, featuring Daniel in conversation with Kit about Orson Scott Card's seminal 1985 SF novel <em>Ender's Game</em>, which they manage to find fresh angles on despite it being one of the most discussed books on the internet. <br />
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<a href="http://oispaceman.libsyn.com/webpage/category/Consider%20the%20Ray%20Gun">Here are the previous episodes</a>, by the way.<br />
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<br />Jack Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12577724856056106531noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774141581856407262.post-17558540164395738662018-11-12T11:41:00.002-08:002018-11-12T11:41:46.681-08:00Trumpism 3 - Drunken Trumpcast!<div class="copy-paste-block">
Daniel, Kit, James, and Jack unite for a
third in their sporadic 'Trumpism' series, in which the hellish
alternate reality we seem to be living in is the main point of
discussion. A huge sprawling talkfest
notionally focused on the recent mid-term elections. We hope you find
it as cathartic as we did.<br />
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(Kudos to Daniel for taking on the editing job on this one and getting it turned around in doublequick time.) <br />
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<a href="http://wrongwithauthority.libsyn.com/trumpism-3-part-1">Here is Part One</a>. It's two hours long. Kit is quite drunk. <br />
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Show notes: Introductions. Recounts.
Results. Democratic Establishment. Hope a difficult word. Generational
divide. Speaker Pelosi? Middle ground. Existential threat. The utility
of subpoena power. Pushing against norms. The Senate will kill us all.
Popular votes. Electoral reform. Constantly counting votes in Florida.
Voting rights for felons. Obstructionism. Daniel the Radical Centrist.
Hating Hillary Clinton for the wrong reasons. Suburban voters. Voting
and yelling. Queues as voter suppression. Ronald McDonald, ballot
official. A podcast dedication. Tucker Carlson terror attack.
Disappearing Caravan. Tucker Carlson drinking game. Hannity versus
Carlson. Wernher Von Braun. Talking points as apologetics. Beto versus
Raphael. Disorienting media. Beto's name. James O'Keefe or George Soros?
Gish galloping the news. Difference and continuity. Tonnage in
Afghanistan. Obama and deportation. Mollie Tibbets. Polling categories. A
cliffhanger on the Jim Acosta "assault."<br />
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notes: Institutional forces against fascism. "Violent extremism."
Climate refugees. Jack Graham has radicalized Daniel. The British Empire
and 9/11. The neoliberalism to fascism pipeline. Alex Jones joins the
'cast. The deep state. Dumbest online political pundit. Chrissy Tiegen
dunks on Jacob Wohl. Jack's Ben Shapiro impersonation. The appeal of
Jordan Peterson. Interrupted by the dog. Sargon Sargon Sargon. Right
wing safe space. Nine-eleven. Gore conterfactuals. Catalysts.
Neoconservatives and paleoconservatives. Libertarianism as blind alley.
Hayek versus Rothbard. Precarity and capitalism and intersectionality.
Ideological incoherence in voting. Hashtag Resistance Twitter and Jeff
Sessions. Sarah Palin. Misogyny is fundamental. Do we have
hate-listeners? The alterea Acosta video. Rescuing "doublethink."
Ideologically convenient hallucination. Sarah Huckabee Sanders retweets
Infowars. Conspiracy theorists. Preparing for climate change.
Nationalist Trump. The alt-right and the word "racist." Bell Curve Cliff
Notes. Intellectual honesty among Nazis. "Pioneer something."
Ideologically acceptable propaganda. Shoving a dildo up one's ass to own
the libs. "Peak Daniel achieved." Electoral minority. Ballot
initiatives and direct action. "Do we want to talk about Bernie?"
Doughnut theory. The need for a robust liberal press. The media doesn't
understand the internet. Not real capitalism. Capitalism and
environmentalism. The Luxury of Cynicism. Satire is useless. Worker's
movements with long-term perspective. Adorable little Nazis. PJW and the
Lee Harvey Oswald metaphor. Robert Bowers. UK versus US fascism.
Reaction. The need for left theory. Jack and Kit talk British political
history. The problematic Daily Show. An abrupt ending.<br />
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Christine Tiegen owns Jacob Wohl:<br /> <a href="https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/1058889766861557760">https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/1058889766861557760</a><br /> <a href="http://wrongwithauthority.libsyn.com/%20https:/twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/1058892394156875776">https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/1058892394156875776</a><br /> <a href="http://wrongwithauthority.libsyn.com/%20https:/twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/1058894043231346689">https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/1058894043231346689</a><br /> <a href="http://wrongwithauthority.libsyn.com/%20https:/twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/1058899676185817088">https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/1058899676185817088</a><br />
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Vic Berger IV threatened by Proud Boy:<br /> <a href="https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5b06de68e4b07c4ea1060e92">https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5b06de68e4b07c4ea1060e92</a><br />
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Jack Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12577724856056106531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774141581856407262.post-23146261435010797352018-11-12T11:37:00.003-08:002018-11-12T11:42:00.480-08:00Carter Before the Horse, Episode 1 - 'The Shining' (1980)<div class="copy-paste-block">
Yet another strand of WWA launches.
This time it's Carter Before the Horse. It's basically just Consider
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In this inaugural edition, James, Kit, and Jack watch Kubrick's <i>The Shining</i>, and say things about it.<br />
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<b>Beware Triggers</b>, because we talk about the film's themes, and they're not pretty.<br />
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Jack Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12577724856056106531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774141581856407262.post-10349585027059931932018-07-04T03:54:00.000-07:002018-11-12T11:42:15.967-08:00Wrong With Authority, Episode 9 - Anonymous (2011)This time, Jack indulges his unhealthy obsession with Anti-Stratfordianism, and forces James, Kit, and Daniel to watch Roland Emmerich's 2011 self-funded passion-project <i>Anonymous</i>.<br />
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<i>Anonymous</i>; 2011; d. Roland Emmerich; w.
John Orloff; starring Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson,
David Thewlis, Rafe Spall, Jamie Campbell Bower, Mark Rylance, and Derek
Jacobi; distributed by Columbia Pictures.<br />
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It lost about 15 million dollars.<br />
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Based on the wackiest version of the longstanding conspiracy theory that the plays of Shakespeare were secretly written by Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, <i>Anonymous</i> is both less entertaining and less plausible than the rest of Emmerich's films, including the ones about aliens and giant lizards.<br />
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It was 'controversial' at the time, in the sense that everyone who knew anything about Shakespeare both ridiculed and denounced it, especially its attempts to market itself via 'information packs' provided to schools.<br />
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In the process of telling his dreary, plotless, and confusing shaggy dog story, Emmerich encourages some of the finest Shakespearean actors of our time to make utter fools of themselves. Not that some of them need all that much encouragement. The whole thing manages to be simultaneously totally insane, quasi-fascistic, and profoundly dull... which is quite a feat, in its way.<br />
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None of us were terribly impressed, it's fair to say. But, in between Jack galloping off on his hobby horse for uncomfortably long stretches of time, we also delve into some of the interesting history and politics concerning Shakespeare, Anti-Statfordianism, and conspiracy theories generally.<br />
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<a href="http://wrongwithauthority.libsyn.com/wrong-with-authority-episode-9-anonymous-2011">Downloadeth here</a>.<br />
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<b>LINKS:</b><br />
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Jack has written a lot about Shakespeare in general <a href="http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/tag/tricky-dicky/">here</a>.<br />
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Here are some books which are either about, or touch on, this issue:<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Genius-Shakespeare-Picador-Classic/dp/1509822542/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1530540070&sr=1-1&keywords=genius+of+shakespeare"><i>The Genius of Shakespeare</i> by Jonathan Bate</a>. Has an entire fascinating chapter on the 'Authorship Controversy'. The rest of the book is periodically excellent too.<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Contested-Will-Who-Wrote-Shakespeare/dp/0571235778/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1530539986&sr=8-1&keywords=shapiro+contested+will"><i>Contested Will</i> by James Shapiro</a>. Brilliantly discusses the 'Authorship Question', not so much in terms of its actual claims (though Shapiro does address them) but rather as a phenomenon in itself, populated by fascinating people and deserving of study in its own right. Shapiro develops many insights about scholarship, history, literature, and politics.<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shakespeare-Dover-Books-Literature-Drama-ebook/dp/B00EHZESA2/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1530540012&sr=1-1&keywords=irvin+leigh+matus"><i>Shakespeare, In Fact</i> by Irvin Leigh Matus</a>. A legendary work of factual analysis. Forensic, witty, and merciless.<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B007UK9KG8/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1">Here's the Bill Bryson book</a> James refers too. Boasts an amusingly irritated final chapter on the 'Authorship Question'.<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shakespeare-Beyond-Doubt-Evidence-Controversy/dp/1107603285/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1530540042&sr=1-1&keywords=shakespeare+beyond+doubt"><i>Shakespeare Beyond Doubt</i>, Eds. Stanley Wells and Paul Edmondson</a>. A compendium of essays commissioned by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust as part of their assertive response to <i>Anonymous</i>. Scholar after scholar examines every aspect of the issue. The definitive single-volume demolition.<br />
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The SBT also created this bite-size pamphlet - <i>Shakespeare Bites Back: Not So Anymous</i> - summarizing the main issues at stake. Free to <a href="http://bloggingshakespeare.com/shakespeare-bites-back-free-book">download here</a>.<br />
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Speaking of online resources, <a href="https://shakespeareauthorship.com/">here's the Shakespeare Authorship Page</a>. Lots of links to lots of articles and essays.<br />
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The lecture excerpted in the podcast is part of a series by eloquent Shakespeare scholar and former actor Peter Saccio. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2YHLjE1Wh4&t=500s">Here's the full section from which the excerpt is taken</a>. <br />
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Leaving sanity behind, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFg8KcJyClE">here's the infamous Frontline documentary</a> to which Daniel refers.<br />
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(Be aware, anything and everything about Shakespeare on YouTube is infested with Anti-Strats peddling their bile and bibble.) <br />
<br />Jack Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12577724856056106531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774141581856407262.post-59649509055835237482018-06-03T04:18:00.001-07:002018-06-03T04:22:47.036-07:00Consider the Reagan, Episode 5 - Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)The top men of Wrong With Authority (James, Kit, and Daniel) consider the classic Spielberg/Lucas/Ford Reagan-era pastiche/adventurefest which introduced the iconic, failure-prone, whip-wielding, treasure-hunting, snake-hating, Nazi-slaughtering, ambivalent-about-Arabs, and possibly-guilty-of-statutary-rape Dr Indiana Jones, rollicking around in a universe in which all myths seem to be simultaneously true. Get yourself and your Nepalese drinking buddies set up, close your eyes, and let the wrath of Yahweh engulf your enemies as you... and I'm bored now. But you won't be if you listen to this episode. It's so good it'll melt your face off.<br />
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<br />Jack Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12577724856056106531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774141581856407262.post-5600349019253838282018-05-28T05:58:00.001-07:002018-05-28T05:58:41.620-07:00Consider the Reagan, Episode 4 - Die Hard (1988)Daniel the barefoot American must battle a team of eurotrash terrorists (i.e. Jack and Kit) in order to restore proper US values (but definitely no Japanese ones) in this, the latest in our series of commentaries on the Reganite cinema that shaped a generation or two.<br />
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Main Topic: Die Hard (1988), with special guest Sharon, Kit's wife. Introductions. Dogme 95. Oscar talk. Has Sharon seen Robocop? Logos. Aspect ratio talk. Daniel gets things wrong. Establishments. White dudes talkin' about race awkwardly. John McTiernan is a creep? Touchscreen technology. Not Bruce Willis and the sequel to Commando. Cocaine. Trumpism metaphor. Sartorial talk. Passage of time. Recommending Wikipedia. Alan Rickman. Heist movie. Character development through action. Kit laughs at Preacher Rickman. Mitt Romney. "I read the article in Forbes." Sympathy for the capitalist. The threat of Japan. Filthy Jack. Playback settings. Genghis Khan tortures Mel Gibson. United Colors of Terrorism. Glasses and handball. Bruce Willis's Voyage of Pain. Manliness and Personal Protective Equipment. No PTSD. Not ripped. Everything is a satire. Rae Dawn Chong reference. Not by the book. Property rights. Miserable. Escalation, literally and figuratively. The black characters live. Doctor Who and Tango and Cash. Confined spaces. Just impossible enough. Air vents. Peter Weir tangent. Official shitkickers. Arnie's not funny. McClaine would have the best Twitter ever. Meeting. Media. Spousal abuse and fashion. McClaine needs a friend. Ready for prime time. Chicken Run reference. "I think we've found Donald Trump in this story." Vast audience. Not a cop, but a Man. Glib Theo, murderer. Is that Viggo the Carpathian? Opening an elevator with a fire axe. Terminator 2 reference. Howie Mandel reference. More cocaine. "I can handle this Eurotrash." Hans Gruber is not the greatest villain. "You know they'll kill you, right?" Ticking all the boxes. Galactica reference, Bane reference. Tucker. Bill O'Reilly hair. Johnson and Johnson, no relation. Robert Davi. Bill Clay and hypercompetence. Pre-VHS editing. Male bondage. Brokeback Mountain reference. Physically versus socially possible. "No, the other one." Sam Harris reference. "You mercilessly accept your wife's career!" Vietnam. Collateral damage. Mythbusters. Aesthetic shift. Cellophane. Al Powell's viagra. Worldbuilding. Lost Daniel. Wrapping Up.Jack Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12577724856056106531noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774141581856407262.post-72468073848651272512018-03-11T17:11:00.003-07:002018-03-11T17:14:11.893-07:00WWA Episode 8: BraveheartIt's Kit's turn again and, being a man of extremes, and having already given us the longest ever episode of Wrong With Authority, he now rocks up with the shortest. Of course, to <i>us</i>, 'shortest' still means 2hrs 20. They may take our wives (actually they most certainly may not), but they'll never take our ridiculously long running times. We have that much in common with Mel Gibson at least.<br />
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Yes, it's <i>Braveheart</i>... Mel Gibson's punishingly long, actual national politics-affecting(!?), and inexplicably Oscar-festooned 1995 Hollywood "historical" "epic" about a fictional Scottish peasant/superhero/christ who, rather oddly, shares a name with a well-loved figure from Scotland's real history. <br />
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So, my bonnie lads and lassies, get your kilts on, eat your haggis-flavoured shortbread, and paint your faces blue. Because it's time to listen to the wee Wrong With Authority bairns get medieval on <i>Braveheart</i>'s ass. (Actually one of us rather likes it and another of us is "meh".)<br />
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Braveheart (1995), directed by Mel Gibson; produced by Mel Gibson, Alan Ladd Jnr., Bruce Davey; written by Randall Wallace. Starring: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Catherine McCormack, Patrick McGoohan, Brian Cox, Brendan Gleeson, David O'Hara, Angus Macfadyen, Ian Bannen. Music by James Horner. Cinematography by John Toll. Edited by Steven Rosenblum. Distributed by Paramount and 20th Century Fox.<br />
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Winner of FIVE FUCKING OSCARS, including Best Picture and Best Director.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">* No, that's the right one. Don't @ me. </span>Jack Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12577724856056106531noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774141581856407262.post-58653978756595380582018-02-27T17:31:00.002-08:002018-02-27T17:31:42.115-08:00Consider the Reagan, Episode 3 - Ghostbusters (1984)Continuing our series of commentaries on movies that came out during the
Reagan administration, Daniel, Kit, and Jack sit down to watch the original <i>Ghostbusters</i> from 1984.<br />
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<a href="http://wrongwithauthority.libsyn.com/consider-the-reagan-episode-3-ghostbusters">Download here</a>.<br />
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<br />Jack Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12577724856056106531noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774141581856407262.post-78790215448851067762018-02-14T05:06:00.000-08:002018-02-14T05:06:50.857-08:00WWA Episode 7: Gangs of New YorkWrong With Authority returns, hosted by James this time, with an episode about Scorsese's epic historical crime drama <i>Gangs of New York</i> (2002).<br />
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This is a good one.<br />
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<b><a href="http://wrongwithauthority.libsyn.com/wwa-ep7-gangs-of-new-york">Download here</a>.</b> <br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_of_New_York"><i>Gangs of New York</i></a>, 2002, d. Martin Scorsese. Produced by Alberto Grimaldi and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/oct/11/the-allegations-against-harvey-weinstein-what-we-know-so-far">a rapist</a>. Screenplay by Jack Cocks, Stephen Zaillian, and Kennerth Lonergan. Starring Daniel Day Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Liam Neeson, Jim Broadbent, Brendan Gleeson. Based on the 1928 book by Herbert Asbury.<br />
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<br />Jack Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12577724856056106531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774141581856407262.post-70812752924585104152018-02-12T03:07:00.000-08:002018-02-12T03:07:40.482-08:00Consider the Reagan, Episode 2 - Blade Runner (1982)Continuing our series of commentaries on movies that came out during the Reagan administration, Daniel and Jack sit down to watch original <i>Blade Runner</i> (and then chat a bit about the sequel).<br />
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<a href="http://wrongwithauthority.libsyn.com/consider-the-reagan-episode-2-blade-runner">Download here</a>. <br />
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<b>Show notes:</b> Main Topic: Blade Runner. With Jack Graham and Daniel
Harper. Introductions and the obligatory Trump reference. Our histories
with the film. Commentary begins at 10:23. Distinctive logo. Ridley
Scott: complete bastard. Odd names. Daniel makes an Asimov reference.
The plusses and minuses of opening crawls. Industrial sublime. Skipping
the Voight-Kampf. Not the brightest Nexus-6, not the brightest Blade
Runner. Dick joke. William Gibson. Japanification. 80s special effects.
Racial slur. Noir voiceover. The Six Deadly Words. Tortured fan.
Non-developed characters. Replicant personalities. Chemistry. A
no-Deckard Blade Runner. Novel vs film and ethical philosophy vs
cardboard characterization. Visually influential. Retro-futurism.
Kipple. Freezing. Delicate Rutger. Frank Lloyd Wright? Impenetrable
apartment. "These must be people!" Leaning into cliches. Daryl Hannah.
Pris and JF. Deckard's photos. Huge in university.
Tick-tick-tick-tick-tick. Ethnic stereotypes. Phone booths and phone
calls. Implied sex show. Biblical metaphor. An actual detective. Diana
Cassidy's performance. Streetwear. Outmatched in combat. Quiet. Used
future in Our World. Jupiter orbit. Fashion choices. Gaff. Limp-wristed
slap. Booze and relationships. Ford's star power turned on low. Assault.
Reverse Mirror. Broken biology. Another more interesting story. Human
images. Oversignified chess. Owls. Tyrell the CEO. Father fucker.
Science is real. Gore. Bradbury. Pointless sequences. Ineffective
police. Clever Pris. Shoe leather. Worse ways to die. Life force leaving
the body. Twenty-three minutes of climax. Why is Deckard doing this?
Psychopathic Roy. Human or boogeyman? Growth at the end. Leonine. Sky.
Watch him die. Is Gaff a replicant? What are the stakes? Critical.
Broken aesthetics. Happy endings. Wrapping Up, and moving on to 2049 at
2:07:50. Some ambition. Clever Force Awakens. Describing the plot. Evil
Blind Genius Things. Relations between replicants and holograms.
Interrupted by a dog. Narrative. Joi/K/Mariette love scene. Sexualized
subservient images. Heuristic. Open relationship problems. Iron Man
moment. Bond villain Jared Leto. Old Deckard. Lived history. Off-topic
onto JJ Abrams. Underwhelming. A second Asimov reference. Wrapping Up.<br />
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Jack Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12577724856056106531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774141581856407262.post-45501094663054285082018-01-03T09:20:00.001-08:002018-01-03T09:26:03.497-08:00WWA Episode 6: Inherit the WindWe're back, with a proper WWA episode. Daniel's choice this time: <i>Inherit the Wind</i>, Stanley Kramer's 1960 drama loosely based on the Scopes Monkey Trial. (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inherit_the_Wind_(1960_film)">Details here</a>.)<br />
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<a href="http://wrongwithauthority.libsyn.com/wwa-ep6-inherit-the-wind"><b>Download WWA6 here</b></a><br />
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Fictionalized. Quality female characters. Familiarity breeds contempt?
Chimpanzee casting. Didn't fall in love. Connected to Mississippi
Burning. Cartoonish Brady. Brady's wife. Sexism of 1925. Pronouncement
dialogue. Golden Age acting. Comic relief. Unforgiving role. The One Man
Who Can Think. Educating the rubes. McCarthyism. Flouting conformity
and Great-Man-ism. Village Atheist. Blacklisted screenwriter and HUAC.
Slavish attachment to the USSR. At last, a Trump reference. And Nixon.
Fans sponspored by the funeral home. Perspiration necessary for a proper
courtroom drama. Bigwig motives. Old Time Religion Uber Alles. Lynching
sequences. Black actors. Talking about civil rights without talking
about civil rights. Mencken. Brady's hypocrisy. Not William Jennings
Bryan. Classism and the American South. Ditto for British regional
accents. Legitimate resentment. Not even Hollywood Poverty. The
"respectable poor." Scopes and eugenics. Scientism and Social Darwinism.
Nasty Nietzsche. Sociobiological implications in Darwin's followers.
Kit brings us back to the film for a moment. Rachel Brown's impossible
choice. "Just fucking listen." Western heroine thing. Darrow calls
Bryan. Interlude. Facts not feels. "If you're explaining, you're
losing." Williams Jennings Bryan and his place in history. Bryan's
presidential runs and the gold standard. No left in American history.
Radicalism of the gospels. New Atheists revised history. Defending
Dawkins? Arguing against the book. The history of the religious right.
Aftereffects of the trial. Inherit the Raging Bull. Two colonels?
Eugenics and evolution. Moral systems. Christianity is revolutionary.
Origins of creationism vis a vis fundamentalism. Luther and divisions in
the WWA crew. The Klan. Hitchens on King. "White With Authority."
Evolution in American schools. Using theology for political purposes.
Non-binary thinking. Bill Nye. The Universal lot. Good American
monkeys. Adapting the play. H.L. Mencken the Nazi sympathizer. Wrapping
Up. Next time: Gangs of New York.</i><br />
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This time it's another Footnote, featuring just Daniel and Jack chatting about their mutual writing obsession at the moment: right-wing pissballoons. <br />
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<br />Jack Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12577724856056106531noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774141581856407262.post-49913738163463771642017-12-03T15:12:00.001-08:002017-12-03T15:12:14.276-08:00Trumpism 2: Electoral BoogalooA year (or so) ago, the unthinkable happened. So, of course, we podcasted about it.<br />
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That was <a href="http://oispaceman.libsyn.com/discussing-trumpism">this</a>. <a href="http://wrongwithauthority.libsyn.com/trumpism-2-electoral-boogaloo">This is now</a>.<br />
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This time, Daniel has called Kit and Jack back to the WWA recording bunker, joined by James too this time, to talk about what it's like to have lived a full year since Trump 'won' the 2016 US Presidential 'election'. <br />
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<i>Show notes: Main Topic: Trumpism At One Year. Introducing the band.
Non-productive news obsession. Alabama and purity. James praises his
co-hosts. Corbyn and the soft left. <a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheResistance?src=hash"><s>#</s><b>TheResistance</b></a>.
Misplaced catastrophism. The first few weeks. John McCain. The roles of
the two parties. Kit's personal and political issues. Don't watch the
news. Obligatory Batman reference. Bush and some weird shit. The
Republicans and Obama. Activists. Discipline. Factionalism and the ACA.
High floor in polls. "This is fine." Easy versus hard. New normal in
global capitalism. The bumbling chessmaster. Scarmucci. Pizza-eating
billionaire. Republican Dave. Mocking the empty suit. Form and content.
Natural charisma. "No-drama Obama." The 2016 primary bullshit.
Homeopathic socialism. "Gary Hart Would Have Won." Women's march.
Drifting left on social issues. Obama was Republican enough. Back to Roy
Moore. Hating pedophiles or women more. Mendacious media and epistemic
closure. Elephant. C-span typography problems. Daniel's guess for 2020.
Intermission: turd-miners. What has Donald Trump done well? American
imperialism and nascent fascism. Trump and Charlottesville. Twitter as a
direct connection to the base. Trump and the media. The spectacle of
wealth. Impossible to ignore. A plurality, not a majority. Foreign
policy and American politics. Never anti-war. Non-ideological. "Lot of
killers." Trump as comedy. Adam Sandler billionaire. Steak and classism
and tiny hands. Trump and mental illness. Trump versus previous
presidents. Crisis? Sorkin. Bullet. Lucky. Conniving versus reckless.
Empire. Russia. Predictions. Wrapping Up. "Old Man Trump."</i><br />
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Oh... Jack is sorry for his mic problems by the way. His generous patrons just paid for a Blue Yeti, so hopefully the situation will soon be resolved.<br />
<i><br /></i>Jack Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12577724856056106531noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774141581856407262.post-10124004313866659182017-12-01T16:16:00.000-08:002017-12-01T16:16:49.045-08:00Consider the Reagan, Episode 1At long last, here is the first episode of a new strand of 'Wrong With Authority', in
which we (sadly we were Murphyless this time, but we expect to be fully Jamesed-up in future episodes) record commentaries on the movies that shaped and
misshaped us, movies released between the first inaugurations of
Ronald Reagan and George Bush the Elder.<br />
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This is 80s pop culture we're talking about pilgrim, so expect sickness.<br />
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time, we mcfly backwards and forwards through time in a shitty car to
discover that the deep psychological structure of America's
understanding of its own history is best viewed through the prism of the
oedipus complex. <br />
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Who'd have motherfucking thought it?<br />
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Jack Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12577724856056106531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774141581856407262.post-56362549151310065682017-10-18T15:10:00.003-07:002017-10-18T15:12:46.280-07:00Notes on What We Do HereHello fans, Jack here to make an announcement of sorts.<br />
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The original plan was that Wrong With Authority would just be a new podcast, in which the four of us - me, James, Kit, and Daniel - talked about movies about historical events. But we find ourselves chronically unable to stick to one thread and format. As some of you may have noticed, this site changed somewhat a little while ago. This was done to reflect the fact that 'Wrong With Authority' had obviously already become something wider than was originally intended... what with commentaries and footnotes and Drunken Whocasts, etc. WWA even played host to a Shabcast, one month when bandwidth over at Pex Lives was running short.<br />
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'Wrong With Authority' is now effectively something akin to the banner under which we do all sorts of things. It could even be seen as our 'band name'. But we're still releasing podcasts called 'Wrong With Authority' which are about movies about history, and intend to continue to do so. So what's going on?<br />
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Well, we'd like you to think of Wrong With Authority as being both our 'overall' name <i>and</i> the name of the podcast strand we do about movies about history. It's a bit like when a band releases an album with the same name as the band. Except that we're going to keep doing it over and over.<br />
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But we're also planning to have other podcast strands under the overall umbrella of Wrong With Authority, so to speak. We've already kindasorta begun doing this, as you'll have noticed. I mean, James Whale's <i>Frankenstein</i> isn't based on a historical event, is it? We could do <i>Bride</i> as a WWA one day... but only the bit at the start.<br />
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Am I overthinking this, do you think?<br />
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Anyway, here's the point: the Wrong With Authority podcast will continue, as will the Drunken Whocasts, and they will be joined by another strand which we're going to call Consider the Reagan.<br />
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Eagle-eyed readers will remember that 'Consider the <i>Ray Gun</i>' was/is an occasional strand of Oi! Spaceman, in which Daniel chatted with a guest about a book - usually SF. Consider the <i>Reagan</i>, by contrast, will usually feature all four of us (or at least two of us) doing a commentary on a film released between the inauguration of Ronald Reagan as president and the inauguration of his successor - a limit we set for ourselves in amused awareness of its spurious rigour. The idea is for us to revisit the films of the 80s that shaped us as kids. Our ages converge just enough that this will work - to some extent anyway. Think of the <i>Superman III</i> bonus episode of Watching Robocop With Kit Power as the pilot.<br />
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The first official episode of Consider the Reagan will be along soon, and will feature myself, Daniel and Kit talking over <i>Back to the Future</i>. The next episode of Wrong With Authority will be along soon too, and will feature the entire gang talking about <i>Inherit the Wind</i>, the classic Stanley Kramer drama from 1960 dramatising a heavily-fictionalised version of the Scopes 'Monkey Trial'.<br />
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We appreciate your patience and enthusiasm as we thrash out the exact contours of our increasingly overcomplicated nest of projects. We're still having fun. We hope you are too.<br />
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Yours in historical inexactitude,<br />
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Jack<br />
<br />Jack Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12577724856056106531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774141581856407262.post-67443572825437205072017-09-11T02:44:00.002-07:002017-09-11T02:45:34.250-07:00Footnote #3: Frankenstein (1931)Welcome to Wrong With Authority Footnote 3: Watching <i>Frankenstein</i> with
James Murphy and Kit Power!<br />
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James and Kit were lucky enough to find
themselves in the same room at the same time recently, and decided to
just do what came naturally - i.e. break out the recording equipment and
record a podcast (mind out of the gutter, you). So we sat and watched
1931’s <i>Frankenstein</i>, and recorded the resulting conversation, which we
present here, warts and all, for your listening enjoyment.<br />
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It’s probably best to treat this as auxiliary material to accompany
<a href="http://wrongwithauthority.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/episode-three-shadow-of-vampire-gods.html">WWA3</a>, where we discussed <i>Gods And Monsters</i>, though this should stand
alone as a fun discussion of the movie.<br />
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Also, <a href="https://machinemean.org/2016/03/02/universal-monsters-in-review-bride-of-frankenstein-1935/">here's something Kit wrote about <i>Bride of Frankenstein</i></a>.<br />
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Jack Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12577724856056106531noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774141581856407262.post-59786500463418899812017-08-30T17:33:00.001-07:002017-08-30T17:33:28.794-07:00Footnote #2: George RomeroAnother Wrong With Authority 'Footnote' episode, this time featuring Daniel and Kit talking about George Romero (who probably died recently or something... I'm losing track), most specifically <i>The Crazies</i> and <i>Martin</i>.<br />
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Main Topic: George
Romero, specifically The Crazies (1973) and Martin (1977). Imposter
syndrome. Critical distance. Ground Zero artist. Chutzpah. Often great
without being good. Actors. Casting. Race in Night of the Living Dead.
The Shield. Changing dialogue. Moving on to The Crazies. First the 2010
version. Justified. Crazies as a thematic sequel. Gun control. Vietnam
in Pennsylvania. Survivalist Armageddon. Representations of the
military. Hero entrance. Spark of genius. Ableist title.
Oversignification. Adaptation of an art film. Irrationalism as
overarching theme. Immune survivor. The love triange. Father/daughter
rape scene. Cozy horror iconography. Incestuous. Parallel narratives.
Gas masks. Back to the Future. Trapped in a gym. Bleak George. Nuclear
cynicism. Personal malice. The poison isn't the bacterium. Subversive
art. Romero the hippie. Romero and the moneychangers. Moving on to
Martin. One long rape scene. Censorship. Kit's history with Martin.
Toxic masculinity. Sympathetic murderer/rapist. "Involuntary celibates."
Amplas and vulnerability. Ducking syndrome. Romantic vampire myth. "The
Moffat Effect." Unreliable. Are the murders real? Dreamlike. Fantasy
seduction. Misogynist men. Dehumanization. Butchery. Adult material on
developing brains. Porn and existentialism. "How bad can human nature
get?" Intimate. Black and white sequences. Innocent versus good. Coming
to adulthood. Understanding the ending. The one he didn't do. Sleeping
teenagers. Virtuoso middle. Stumbling Daniel. Walkie-talkie. Guillotine.
"Fuck the New Atheists." Ambiguity. The priest portrayed by George
Romero. Impurity and the mark of the outsider. Reinforcing stereotypes
and The Bad Seed. Monsters as postmodern construct. Wrapping Up.<br />
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<br />Jack Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12577724856056106531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774141581856407262.post-57267342617208753722017-07-27T02:22:00.000-07:002017-07-27T05:22:59.245-07:00Episode Five: Mississippi BurningWrong With Authority, the podcast where four white guys talk about movies based on real historical events, returns... and this time we're talking about <i>Mississippi Burning</i> (1988), a travesty of the story of three civil rights workers - Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman - who were murdered in Mississippi in 1964 by the Klan/cops/state government (all essentially the same thing at that point).<br />
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<b>Beware triggers</b>. We're talking about vicious racism, hate-motivated
violence and murder. At one point in the episode, one of us reads out
part of a historical document which contains the n-word. We believe the
context justifies its inclusion, but please be aware that it's there. Jack made the decision to not bleep it out, and takes responsibility. Also, we mention rape a couple of times - because it was an integral part of both Jim Crow and slavery. <br />
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The film focuses not on the Civil Rights workers, or the struggle, or the African Americans oppressed by Jim Crow (American Apartheid), but rather on the subsequent FBI investigation. It portrays the FBI as a heroic organisation bursting with concerned liberals, but also as solving the case via maverick vigilante violence. Systemic racism is effaced. In other words, according to Mississippi Burning, black people are invisible, or are passive and cowardly; Civil Rights workers are foolhardy victims; and the problem is neatly solved by a benevolent establishment going righteously outside the law to punish the bad guys - bad apples who are bad because they're just inbred hicks.<br />
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With this episode, we're all acutely and especially aware of the structural flaws inherent in our show... i.e. we're all white guys. This episode is, nonetheless, an attempt to grapple with the fact that WWA has, up til now, been heavily white-centric. But we're inevitably going to underperform here. We in no way wish to talk over PoC who are talking about issues like this. We'll be happy to hear input and criticism.<br />
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[Jack here to add a personal note: I deliberately chose <i>Mississippi Burning</i> to address the overpowering whiteness of our subjects to date... which shows a fair bit of privilege and privilege-blindness on my part because a) <i>Mississippi Burning</i> isn't about African Americans, as mentioned... in fact, it is a film that thieves an African American story from African Americans, and b) I unthinkingly chose a story about African Americans suffering, and which portrays them as passive victims. I'll try to do better in future. I can only hope our <i>critique</i> of this film on these terms stands for something.]<br />
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<u>Some Links To Things Menioned in the Episode:</u><br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Invention-White-Race-Oppression-Control-ebook/dp/B00I75F9P6/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1500983991&sr=1-2&keywords=invention+of+the+white+race"><i>The Invention of the White Race</i></a> by Theodore W. Allen.<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001QOGJBI/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1"><i>We Are Not Afraid</i></a> by Seth Cagin and Philip Dray.<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Not_Your_Negro"><i>I Am Not Your Negro</i></a><i> </i>- new documentary about James Baldwin.<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_(film)"><i>The 13th</i></a> - documentary based on <a href="http://newjimcrow.com/"><i>The New Jim Crow</i></a>. <br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_the_Right_Thing"><i>Do The Right Thing</i></a> - Spike Lee's classic.<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butler"><i>The Butler</i></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl0ie2ehLI">The Garrett video Jack mentions.</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-gerolmo/mississippi-burning-reconsidered_b_4859179.html">Here's the article written by Chris Gerolmo</a>, <i>Mississippi Burning</i> screewriter.<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Called-Henry-Roddy-Doyle/dp/0099284480"><i>A Star Called Henry</i></a> by Roddy Doyle.<br />
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<a href="http://pexlives.libsyn.com/shabcast-20-the-gospels-of-jack-and-james">Shabcast 20</a>, in which Jack and James talked religion, etc. <br />
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<u>Some Links to Other Interesting and Connected Things:</u><br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Chaney,_Goodman,_and_Schwerner">Here's information about the real case upon which the film is loosely based</a>.<br />
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Here's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaBiC7OkkM0"><i>Neshoba</i></a>, a documentary about the case.<br />
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While searching for the bodies of Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman, the FBI found the bodies of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Cold_Case#Moore_and_Dee_murders">two other black Mississippians murdered by the Klan</a>, Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee.<br />
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<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/20110301/ku-klux-klan-history-racism">Here's a history and overview of the Klan</a>, from the Southern Policy Law Centre.<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hooded-Americanism-History-Klux-Klan/dp/0822307723/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501157426&sr=8-1&keywords=hooded+americanism+the+history+of+the+ku+klux+klan"><i>Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan</i></a> by David M. Chalmers.<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/At-Hands-Persons-Lynching-Paperbacks-ebook/dp/B000XUBEKC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501157300&sr=8-1&keywords=at+the+hands+of+persons+unknown+the+lynching+of+black+america"><i>At The Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America</i></a> by Philip Dray<br />
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<a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/08/fbi-cointelpro-new-left-panthers-muslim-surveillance/">Here's some info about COINTELPRO</a>, the FBI's covert criminal conspiracy to infiltrate, attack and destroy the American Left, and particularly African American leaders and the Civil Rights movement.<br />
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<a href="https://socialistworker.org/2016/11/03/revolutionary-legacy-of-the-black-panthers">The Black Panthers and the FBI's war against them</a>.<br />
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Here's <a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch31.htm">Marx talking about the role of slavery in the rise of capitalism</a>.<br />
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<i>Mississippi Burning</i> (1988), d. Alan Parker; screenplay by Chris Gerolmo. Starring Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, Stephen Tobolowsky, R. Lee Ermey, Michael Rooker, Gailard Sartain, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Kevin Dunn, and Badja Djola.<br />
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"How long will we have to wait before Hollywood finds the courage and
the integrity to tell the stories of some of the many thousands of black
men, women and children who put their lives on the line for equality?" - Coretta Scott King, partner and widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jnr.<br />
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"It was unfortunate that it was so narrow in scope that it did not show
one black role model that today's youth who look at the movie could
remember." - Myrlie Evers-Williams, partner and widow of Medgar Evers.<br />
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"a film that used the deaths of the boys as a means of solving the murders and the FBI being heroes." - Carolyn Goodman, mother of Andrew Goodman.<br />
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"... the image that younger people got (from the film) about the times,
about Mississippi itself and about the people who participated in the
movement being passive, was pretty negative and it didn't reflect the
truth." - Ben Chaney Jnr., brother of James Chaney.<br />
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"[a] terribly dishonest and very racist [film that] distorts the realities of 1964" - Stephen Schwerner, brother of Michael Schwerner.<br />
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- via <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Burning">Wikipedia</a><br />
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<span class="st"><span class="f"></span><i>¡No Pasarán!</i></span>Jack Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12577724856056106531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774141581856407262.post-24440744576555379102017-05-29T14:58:00.000-07:002017-05-29T15:03:11.154-07:00Footnote #1: ZodiacA little extra treat for our devoted listeners. A bonus 'mini' episode (by which I mean it's only 2hrs 40), featuring just Daniel and Jack talking about the 2007 David Fincher movie <i>Zodiac</i>.<br />
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As usual, watch out for SPOILERS and TRIGGERS. <br />
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We may occasionally produce irregular 'footnote' episodes such as these. <br />
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The so-called 'Zodiac' was a serial killer who haunted San Francisco and its environs in the late 60s and early 70s, and who was never caught or identified. The movie is based on Robert Graysmith's best-selling book about the case, and purports to tell both Graysmith's own story and to (maybe) unmask the killer. Listen to find out what Daniel thinks about these claims.<br />
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This episode is a compliment to a forthcoming episode of the <a href="http://tmbdos.podbean.com/">They Must Be Destroyed On Sight!</a> podcast (on which Daniel is also a co-host), which will also look at <i>Zodiac</i>, probably from a different standpoint. Be sure to check that out, along with TMBDOS generally.<br />
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<i>Zodiac</i>, 2007, directed by David Fincher, written by James Vanderbilt, based on the book by Robert Graysmith. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jnr., Mark Ruffalo, Elias Koteas, Donal Logue, Chloe Sevigny, Brian Cox, and John Carroll Lynch.<br />
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Episode Notes:<br />
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<i>Main Topic: Zodiac (2007). But first, a thirteen minute
riff on superhero movies. Token. Is Jack the Zodiac? Aren't we all the
Zodiac? Unsolved mysteries. "Curtain rods everybody." Not to interrupt.
Jack projects. General thoughts of the film. Fincher as director.
Quality pastiche. Empty. JFK versus Zodiac. "The look." The radian
theory. Pattern-seeking behavior. Marrying Chloe Sevigny. No social
turmoil. Daniel pours a beer. Misogynist Zodiac Killer. Daniel projects.
DNA. The guilt of Arthur Leigh Allen. Lingering fascination with
history. Ferrin and the painting party. Two previous victims. Avery's
discovery of a possible Zodiac victim. Missing evidence. Evidence
presented by the film. 1978 letter not real. ALA lived near the IHOP?
Ferrin trying to get weed. Ferrin's humanity. Inaccuracies in the
opening sequence. Verisimilitude. Fake docudrama. "Graysmithed." A
Current Affair. Toschi the camera hog. Searching the trailer. Not a good
guy. The Dick Cheney joke doesn't land. Graysmith is always wrong. An
aside about Steven Knight. Paranoid Graysmith. Fleischer as Vaughn.
Papering over mistakes. Gay porn. Alt-right and the serial killer. The
trailer search. Why the fascination? Displaced interest in history.
Prickle and salaciousness. Puzzles and connections. Storytelling as
justice. The ciphers. Serious droopy. Escalation. Earlier victims? Paul
Avery. Handwriting. Ambidextrous. Seven versus Zodiac. Figures of
intense anxiety. Looking for a black guy. Johnnie Cochran reference.
Daniel pours another beer. In the past. Pitiful. Pepe the Zodiac.
Infodump education. Murderous retail. Police files. Siding with
Graysmith. Wallace Penny/Penny Wallace. Reading Graysmith? Faces in the
dark. Gay Ellroy. The ending. Graysmith the hero. The poster. Wrapping
Up.</i>Jack Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12577724856056106531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774141581856407262.post-68655590422588923932017-04-30T07:42:00.000-07:002017-04-30T10:00:37.022-07:00Episode Four: The Wolf of Wall Street & The Big ShortWrong With Authority returns with the last episode in our first cycle, this time hosted by Kit. It's a two-part episode this time, because... well... it's a long one. But please stick with it, because it's a great show and we're all proud of it. And we sweated blood over it. Seriously, it's been a bastard, this one. It's our Apocalypse Now. A huge, bloated monster that has left a trail of nervous breakdowns in its path.<br />
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As ever, beware spoilers, and also beware triggers. (Seriously, this one contains discussion of scenes of sexual abuse, domestic violence, drug use, racism, etc.)<br />
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<i>The Wolf of Wall Street</i> (2013), Martin Scorsese's biopic of human garbage con-man Jordan Belfort, based on his two autobiographical book-type objects. Written by Terence Winter. Starring Leonardo "Sprout-Face" DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Jonah Hill, Rob Reiner, Joanna Lumley, and Kyle Chandler.<br />
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<i>The Big Short</i> (2015), the fictionalised movie version of Michael Lewis' book about how and why the financial crash of 2007-08 happened, and the gaggle of Wall Street guys who saw it coming, and heroically set about profiting from it. Directed by Adam McKay, and written by McKay and Charles Randolph. Starring Christian Bale, Steven Carell, Ryan Gosling, Marissa Tomei, Melissa Leo, and Brad Pitt. And featuring celebrity cameos from Margot Robbie, Anthony Bourdain, Selena Gomez and, er, Richard Thaler.<br />
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<br />Jack Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12577724856056106531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774141581856407262.post-38976272926730451852017-03-02T08:48:00.000-08:002017-03-02T08:48:12.455-08:00Episode Three: Shadow of the Vampire & Gods and MonstersWrong With Authority is back from the dead, hosted by James this time, with an episode looking at two movies about the creators of classic horror cinema.<br />
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<i>Shadow of the Vampire</i> (2000) i<span class="st">s the fictionalised story of genius director F.W. Murnau, actor Max Schreck, and the making of classic silent horror <i>Nosferatu</i>, but with a twist...</span> <br />
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Directed by <span class="st">E. Elias Merhige, written by Stephen Katz, and starring John Malkovich, Willem Defoe, Caroline McCormack, Udo Kier, Eddie Izzard, and Cary Elwes. </span><br />
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<span class="st"><i>Gods and Monsters</i> (1998) is the fictionalised story of the last days in the life of James Whale, the director of classic Universal horror films, including <i>Frankenstein</i> and <i>Bride of Frankenstein</i>. </span><br />
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<span class="st">Directed and written by Bill Condon, based on the novel <i>Father of Frankenstein</i> by Christopher Bram, and starring Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave and Lolita Davidovitch. </span><br />
Jack Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12577724856056106531noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774141581856407262.post-86832756832157744922017-01-30T11:24:00.002-08:002017-01-30T11:24:51.675-08:00Episode Two: A Beautiful Mind & The Imitation Game<div class="copy-paste-block">
This time, Wrong With Authority covers
two movies about mathematicians! 'A Beautiful Mind' (Russell Crowe as
John Nash) and 'The Imitation Game' (Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan
Turing). High-octane excitement! Sex! War! Espionage! Madness!
Equations! Inexplicable impromptu pen-giving ceremonies!<br />
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This being Daniel's episode, effort has been put in, which means there are show notes:<br />
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<strong>Main Topic: <em>A Beautiful Mind</em> and <em>The Imitation Game</em>.</strong> <em>Mathematics,
male homosexuality, and mental illness. Three. Four Oscars. A Woody
Allen digression. Synopsis. Content Warning. Spy movie. Boringly.
Serious Oscar Bait. Drained of challenge. Not about John Nash. The Sixth
Sense Thing. Twenty. Positive. "Shit's about to get real." A Dick
recommendation. Cure with love. Fucks it up both ways. Not about math.
Willpower and medication. A personal failing. A proper ubermensch.
Medication and mathematics. Unaging little girl. Amorous. Visceral. Bird
in a cage. Low tactics. Nicer. Transformed details. Illegitimate.
Studio interference? Sincerity. Exactly two black people. Crowe's
performance. Trousers and briefcases. Crowe versus Bale. Save the cat.
Lesser mortals and charm. Mainstream audiences. Hogwarts. Attempting to
explain the Nash equilibrium. Adam Smith was wrong. "Well, actually..."
Nash's reaction to the film. Alicia Larde. The Phantom. If John Nash
were black.... Anti-semitic? Preordained. An extended riff about pens. A
Philip Glass Interlude. Moving on to The Imitation Game. Alright.
Biopics kinda suck. The "Fuck Your Machine" bullshit. Epic fail.
Ideologically opposed to fun. Writing ourselves into history.
Midwesteners feel icky. Progressive and tolerant. Tumblr fodder. The
inverse Nash equilibrium. Cumberbatch skeptic. Sheldon. Moments. Not
neurodivergent. Gas masks and tissues. Barely closeted. 20% effort.
Factual errors. William Goldman. Sidetracking onto Boogie Nights.
Foundational WWII. A Ghost in the Machine. Secrecy. Not a traditional
marriage. Implication of treachery. William Tutte. Swords into
plowshares. "The lovely girls." Glorification. Burning of books.
Cryptonomicon. German infallibility. Believing the hype. Jack has no
thoughts. Big picture Cold War. Reaganesque machismo. "Nothing to eat
but guns." Keystone Kops and intelligence operations. "It is now."
Mornington Crescent. Double consciousness. Autism as alibi. Different
people. Non-dualist, non-vitalist. Christopher. Capturing human
intelligence in a machine. Indictment. Next week on the Alan Turing
show. Nice but then. Commodities. Clever. Fake tits. Different people.
Joan Clarke, physicist. Always more interesting. Forever World War II.
Platonic and nontraditional friendships. The Easy Rider ending. Suicide?
A damp squib. Reaching for a reference. As crazy as Stone. Snowglobes
and superbrains. Why sanitized? Keeping Calm and Carrying On. Finally,
Trump. Also, the USSR doesn't exist anymore. Old intelligence. The cold
shoulder. Manpain. Churchill and moral ambiguity. Because fuck Isaac
Newton. Wrapping Up</em><br />
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Jack Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12577724856056106531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774141581856407262.post-29387824060127769862016-11-20T14:04:00.003-08:002016-11-20T14:04:47.600-08:00Episode One: Murder by Decree & From HellThe very first episode of a new podcast looking at movies about historical events, and how full of shit they are<i>.</i><br />
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Your hosts are, in alphabetical order: <a href="https://twitter.com/_Jack_Graham_">Jack Graham</a> (of <a href="http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/author/jack/">Shabogan Graffiti</a>), <a href="https://twitter.com/danieleharper?lang=en-gb">Daniel Harper</a> (of <a href="http://oispaceman.libsyn.com/">Oi! Spaceman</a>), <a href="https://twitter.com/jMCm1916">James Murphy</a> (of <a href="http://pexlives.libsyn.org/">Pex Lives</a>), and <a href="https://twitter.com/KitGonzo?lang=en-gb">Kit Power</a> (of <a href="http://talkingrobocop.libsyn.com/">Watching Robocop with Kit Power</a>). We do other stuff too.<br />
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This opening episode looks at the two movies telling the Masonic conspiracy version of the '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper">Jack the Ripper</a>' murders, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079592/"><i>Murder by Decree</i></a> (1979) and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120681/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1"><i>From Hell</i></a> (2001).<br />
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Download or listen >>><a href="http://wrongwithauthority.libsyn.com/episode-1-murder-by-decree-from-hell">HERE</a><<<.<br />
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Obviously <b>SPOILERS</b> and <b>TRIGGERS</b> abound. You'll enjoy our discussion more if you've seen both movies, and you won't enjoy it if you're distressed by talk of misogynistic murders. Take care of yourselves.<br />
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If you like it, please tell everybody you've ever met. <br />
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Also, you might like our unofficial pilot/s, the two-part podcast we did on the Oliver Stone movies <i>JFK</i> and <i>Nixon</i>, <a href="http://pexlives.libsyn.com/shabcast-24a-the-bay-of-pigs-was-his-rosebud">here</a> and <a href="http://pexlives.libsyn.com/shabcast-24b-through-the-looking-glass-without-a-paddle">here</a>.<br />
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