most people in the states heard about george carlin, and it’s likely that they even have listen to some of his stuff. i had too, but i never really passed beyond few dirty words jokes. those are somewhat funny, but nothing to write home about. then i got a bit more of his stuff when i was checking references in zeitgeist movie.
wow, there is some serious and really deep stuff, open minded critical thinking mixed with cynical humor.



so i dig deeper. it turns out there is tons of his videos are available on youtube and google video.
you can of course go to georgecarlin.com and order his entire work retrospective on dvd too.

here's my favorite bits (at youtube):
about saving the planet
about american system
about “pro-life” and abortions
about religion and ten commandments

and those are the parts of several his bigger shows (here is a couple at google video):
video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-8683046848311681223&hl - 63 min
video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-7068677712290004125&hl - 74 min
etc. etc.

lots of dirty language and jokes, but very much to the point even when it is gruesome

a guy (who goes by name Peter Joseph, but I am not really sure that it is his real name) made a movie - zeitgeist, it is a 2007 non-profit web documentary film hosted at google video, it is 116 minutes long and it is free.
he is not a professional movie maker, not a professional historian, as far as i understand he is just a guy, who decided to do something about things that he cares.

I first heard about it in july, and it was a lot of discussions at the time, but I never got to write about it then, yet recently I was talking about it a lot and thus I decided to make an entry.
according google’s statistics it was watched more that 6 million times, but you can watch it in parts and on youtube as well, yet there is very little talk about it in the mainstream media.



the film has 3 parts, and for me they look really related, yet many people claim that those are three separate subjects. maybe.
nevertheless, it has lots of facts, and even if you do not believe in their accuracy, it still has a lot to make you think and reevaluate your believes. not that many films can claim that.

i do not want to force you to watch the entire 116 minutes, but if you care to talk about it you should, and if not, i can suggest you to watch just the first part
the greatest story ever told

part 1

the entire movie can be watched at the official website zeitgeistmovie.com
or at google video video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5547481422995115331&hl=en

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bill maher is so damn good.
he is the guy with common sense and humor, and he is not indifferent.
i pretty much on the same boat about politics, religion, health, legalization, diets etc.

he is a comedian and even though he is bashing republicans more, he is not really a partisan and for me (being liberal libertarian) is pure pleasure

http://youtube.com/results?search_query=bill+maher&search=Search
youtube has tons of flics with him

last night in my dream i saw road, lots and lots of roads. symbolic.
it rains today, and i like it. self inflicted sleep deprivation again.
i like listening the lyrics in songs, and music makes me happy.

finally i know what i want to see in a movie-theater. but i don’t have anyone to go with me.

for breakfast (i actually almost never eat breakfast) i made myself egg “venetian style”. ah, heavenly yammy.

at the boat renting place, clerk looking at the boat in the lake and says in loud speaker
- boat number 99, you are getting too far, please come back, boat number 99, you are getting too far, boat number 99, you are getting too far
the other clerk says
- but we only have 70 boats
- boat number 66, you are okay over there?

excellent visual comparison of german and chinese culture
http://www.adinochang.com/archives/chinese-culture-versus-german-culture.html

also, subject of screen font rendering on macs comes up in conversations a lot
in june joel had a good blurb about it
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/12.html
read it and you’d get the basic idea

many russian bloggers talk about starbucks coming in moscow. common, what’s the fuss? i can get why mcdonalds was such an attention grabber in 90s or pepsi in 80s, that was still soviet times, but now it moscow there are so many outstanding cool coffee place. what gives?