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Right Angle: Backstage [10-08-2019]

Blue Thunder meets a Dodge Dakota on Pimp My Ride as Bill Whittle, Stephen Green and Scott Ott meet for their weekly pre-production meeting for Right Angle, produced by the Members at BillWhittle.com. It’s a pitch-fest where they kick around topic ideas for the other four shows they’ll co-host this week. Thank you to our Members for your passionate devotion to this cause.

Right Angle: Backstage [10-08-2019]

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21 replies on “Right Angle: Backstage [10-08-2019]”

If there was a continent sized garbage island, the Chinese would have declared it their garbage, announced a 12mile exclusion zone and a 200 mile economic zone around it. And then try and build an airbase on it.

I was really happy w/ the depiction of Joker in the TV show Gotham. The kid who played him was really good. I thought the only slightly filled in backstory worked. He got just enough but not too much screen time. And the tricks they used to bring him back from the dead were clever enough.

Our post modern world is nearly as follows:

If you are politically in the center or right, the left will search out even trivial errors or make them up if need be. They will claim you are evil to the core and can do nothing right ever again.

If you are on the political left, all you need to have is something called “good intentions” and you are forgiven by the left and good to go. The intentions don’t really have to be “good”, you only have to claim you have them. The consequences of your actions are held to be irrelevant in any case.

Interesting point about the artist’s work and their personal life. Where I work we have a couple of paintings by Caravaggio. He murdered a guy and spent his later years as a fugitive from justice. I’ve yet to meet anyone who objects to the presence of his masterly paintings. We have a painting by one of Caravaggio’s followers of Sleeping Cupid, of course it’s not meant to be a human child, Cupid is a ‘god’. Nevertheless, in reality it’s a picture of a butt nekkid toddler in some studio in Naples with a couple of wings stuck on him. If a modern artist did it as a photographic study they’d be in gaol before the prints were dry. Again, no one comments in this.

In contrast, the Jacksons were one the acts at our music festival this year and a number of our visitors were angry, as if by hosting his siblings somehow meant we were condoning the crimes Michael Jackson was accused, but never convicted of.

Is it just the passage of time that makes these things acceptable? I think it partly stems from the weird modern liberal idea that any celebrity, sports icon or public figure must be above reproach and a “role model” This is fast becoming a blog post, so I’ll wrap up by saying that excellence in human endeavour (especially art) rarely comes from totally balanced individuals.

Funnily enough, I was just discussing Caravaggio with a friend as an example of this, though in the more narrow topic of religious art.

What we are witnessing is an active effort to destroy American Foreign Policy by leaking and spinning information. The sources and methods being used is the real story. Too bad there isn’t a press left to cover it.

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