Nonculture

Back a few posts ago (find it yourself), I mentioned that a small dream of mine was that somebody would do a retrospective on our current failure of a President.  I thought Michael Moore might wind up at the helm, but apparently Oliver Stone has already been filming “W”, which covers G-Dub and his fascinating fumble to power.

In Stone’s words, the film asks: “How did Bush go from being an alcoholic bum to the most powerful figure in the world?” 

http://www.slate.com/id/2188423/

 So, kind of, in a way, I can relate to Bush.  Because I’m an alcoholic bum too.  And apparently I could be president as well.  I should look into that.

Slate goes on to say that the script is uninspired – and they review it at the link above.  But, I don’t care if it’s uninspired, because it inspires me nonetheless to watch it and probably even buy the DVD even though I decided months ago not to buy DVD’s until Blu-Ray prices came down…and until I got a Blu-Ray player.

Oliver Stone making this is a bit more bonus than I expected, because Stone doesn’t pull punches and gets more attention across party lines.  Aka, the Republicans might not dismiss it right off the bat, like they would if Moore had made one.

Admittedly, looking through quotes from the script, it looks weak.  Really weak.  Hopefully it’s tweaked during production.  The latest news from production is that 2 of the actors got in a fistfight at a wrap-up party, then the cops showed up and tased the shit out of Wright while he already lay prone in the street and called him the “N-word” (it’s being filmed in the south).  Meanwhile, Brolin got a face full of mace for offering no protest at all.  Allegedly, of course.  Regardless, that is some high drama.  Hopefully the fight was just carry over energy from all the high drama that will be W, and wasn’t just two drunk, spoiled actors playing grab-ass. 

On a side note, I was on the way to lunch today with some coworkers, and one of them said “too bad we can’t impeach Bush, it’s too late.”  I said it’s not too late – at least we can show, just for historical posterity, that we weren’t bad Americans for the whole 8 years…just for 7 ½ of them.  So, there are lots of people out there who still think it would be a good idea .  And some of them are even Republican, tax-paying, hard-working, “patriots”.

Some fun related links:

Bush schedules a pep talk about the economy at the same time the Fed Chairman does…interestingly they have different viewpoints.  Coincidence?

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=176740&title=headlines-its-the-stupid-economy

Bush tours the U.S. to survey his disastrous presidency

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/bush_tours_america_to_survey

Oh January 2009, where art thou.

Photo is from maroonedinmarin.blogspot.com…in case they want credit.