Icebox Records » USA http://ibrecords.com Considering the sand blizzard...one grain at a time. Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:13:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Documentary http://ibrecords.com/2004/06/documentary/ http://ibrecords.com/2004/06/documentary/#comments Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:20:13 +0000 Jason Cooley http://ibrecords.com/?p=516 I’ve seen 3 documentaries in the past week, all excellent: Super Size Me (you know this one), The Control Room (about the Arabic television news network Al Jazeera), and last night’s Fahrenheit 9/11 (you definitely know this one, and contrary to what some suggest, it is definitely a factual document of our times).  I love documentaries.  Can’t get enough.  Documentaries are learning experiences, and for someone who fucking hated school, they are a godsend.  What I’ll say about 9/11 is that it made me very afraid, because there is a very good chance that evil will prevail and Bush will get reelected.  If he is, I can’t fathom where the world will be 4 years from now.

But about documentaries…they seem to be getting more and more popular.  Obviously 9/11 is a biggie, but I can’t help but wonder if the whole Reality-TV craze has helped ease the general public into actually finding these films interesting.  Because last I knew, the word documentary had a big boring PBS cardigan-wearing stigma around it.  ”It’s a documentary.”  ”Ewwwwwwwwwww.”  Now I’m imaging (with the help of the advent of the digital video camera age) a whole slew of documentaries coming soon, about everything you can imagine.  It’ll probably get pretty shitty…there’ll be movies about smelly socks and working in record stores…but I’ll bet there’ll be some good ones, too.  Just about anything is interesting if presented realistically (now the word real has a stigma to it…of gaudy fakeness).  Um…what the fuck am I talking about?  I don’t know.

Bought some records a few days ago.  Felt good.  Saw !!! last friday with Olsen and Gustav.  Also felt good (thanks Mia!).  Good good good.  (Trying to motivate myself into some postive thinking.  Is it working?  Nope.)

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