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Fritz Lang's science fiction masterpiece, METROPOLIS (1927) is set in the year 2026. It depicts the disparity between the super rich elite and the burdened working class and the ways the rich will do just about anything to keep the poor poor and enslaved.

#film #cinema #movies #scifi #sciencefiction

https://youtu.be/gdtZv3XROnc?si=zHJtDgfX3ujiucb1

Metropolis (1927) Trailer #1 | Movieclips Classic Trailers

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Tucker Teague Mar 14

It's 2026 and there are still people making online videos where the image is basically looking up their nose as their face takes up the whole screen. Most of these people also seem to be older. Maybe it's a generational thing, idk. I'm not that young either but I would never want to subject any viewer to that kind of image of me. 😂

Tucker Teague Mar 10

I just learned that #author Dan Simmons recently died. May he rest in peace.

He wrote, among other books, the #scifi masterpiece, #Hyperion.

#ScienceFiction

Tucker Teague Mar 8

The next 3 – 10 US presidents are going to have an enormous mess to clean up (if that’s even possible, and it’s probably not) after this presidency is done.

Tucker Teague Mar 8

I find myself these days, 35+ years after college, rereading books I read back then (e.g. For Whom the Bell Tolls, On the Road, The Sheltering Sky, Tropic of Cancer, etc.), and finding that I not only still enjoy them, I’m finding them even better more interesting and deeper than I was probably capable of realizing as a young college student. #literature #books #reading

Tucker Teague Mar 4

This is a great overview of orchestral film music with special attention placed on the influences of Wagner’s music.

https://youtu.be/yy-jzIxaBpM?si=H67avr48JVThIJjl

#music #film #cinema #movies #FilmScore #StarWars #JohnWilliams #Wagner #Hitchcock #Composer

Wagner Society of Washington DC presents Dan Sherman: Wagner at the Movies

Dan Sherman gives a lecture on Richard Wagner’s powerful and unmistakable impact on film music. From King Kong and Vertigo to Star Wars and The Lord of the R...

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Tucker Teague Mar 2

I’m not sure there is a learning curve when it comes to the U.S. ruling class and the Middle East… bet l’m not really sure there is any learning going on at all. But who am I to offer any substantive wisdom?

An oldie but a goody from a couple decades ago: https://youtu.be/rw2nkoGLhrE

Madtv - Apple I-rack

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Tucker Teague Feb 27

Do we believe the Clintons?

“Saw nothing. Did nothing. Know nothing.”

I have zero trust in any of them.

Tucker Teague Feb 27

The real reason behind AI

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/jack-dorsey-block-layoffs-21944033.php

#capitalism

Tucker Teague Feb 25

Although there are antecedents and many other factors, it’s very likely that #Trump represents something like the end of U.S. #politics. There’s so much degradation, #corruption (happening for much longer than Trump), and the blatant unveiling of the capitalist/bourgeois “project,” that there might not be any going back. One might even argue that Trump is a kind of perverse “gift” for the #revolutionary left.