The Girl Can’t Help it is over and Born Yesterday is about to begin. Get in!

The John Waters short for ‘The Girl Can’t Help It’ is about to start. See you there! https://blorp.bot.nu/o/visual_cuisine

Less than an hour until criminal boyfriends ‘fix’ their dumb blondes

Less than 11 hours until we see two iconic ‘blonde bombshells’ do their thing.

Thank you for being open minded. If you and/or @[email protected] are interested, the slop is meant to be an irritant for the ‘hairy’ part of harmonies. The concept is to pair two movies that have something in common but also have issues, be they disturbing subject matter (such as colonialism, sexism, murders or triggering content), bad excution, or poor taste. It felt appropriate to me that a slop icon would reflect the idea that even though there is always a reason I think the movies are worth seeing, there is probably something cringe-y in at least one of the set. For example, this week’s ‘The King and I’ is so offensive and belittling of the King that it was banned in Thailand. Sure, Brits might think Siam is an exotic fantasy land, but it doesn’t play that way back home, so I paired it with another movie from Thailand related to the same time.

To make an icon as hairy as possible, I generated a bunch of potential icons, and picked the least-cute/most-ugly result. If it really really bothers people I am happy to defer to the group consenus. My initial icon was a take on the hairy ball problem wherein you can’t ‘comb’ fur in one direction over a sphere. As you can see, it is delightfully primitive, but I worried it implicitly required that at least one movie be musical:

P.S. Next week I plan on showing ‘dumb blondes’.

Thank you for being open minded. If you and/or @[email protected] are interested, the slop is meant to be an irritant for the ‘hairy’ part of harmonies. The concept is to pair two movies that have something in common but also have issues, be they disturbing subject matter (such as colonialism, sexism, murders or triggering content), bad excution, or poor taste. It felt appropriate to me that a slop icon would reflect the idea that even though there is always a reason I think the movies are worth seeing, there is probably something cringe-y in at least one of the set. For example, this week’s ‘The King and I’ is so offensive and belittling of the King that it was banned in Thailand. Sure, Brits might think Siam is an exotic fantasy land, but it doesn’t play that way back home, so I paired it with another movie from Thailand related to the same time.

To make an icon as hairy as possible, I generated a bunch of potential icons, and picked the least-cute/most-ugly result. If it really really bothers people I am happy to defer to the group consenus. My initial icon was a take on the hairy ball problem wherein you can’t ‘comb’ fur in one direction over a sphere. As you can see, it is delightfully primitive, but I worried it implicitly required that at least one movie be musical:

P.S. Next week I plan on showing ‘dumb blondes’.

The Saim Renaissance has wrapped. Now that we’ve got some context, it is time for one of the all-time best musicals that glosses past all the politics and gets straight to fanciful music and ‘exotic’ imagery!

The King and I with Yul Brenner starts in 5 minutes!

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The Siam Renaissance is about to start!

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Is there a rule that if you’re making a movie about the reign of Mongkut, your movie MUST be over 2 hours long? Can we revoke that rule? Everyone in the U.S. will be at work when we start today’s Hairy Harmonies with:

• The Siam Renaissance/Tawipop/ ทวิภพ (2004) at 3:00pm EST/8:00pm UTC.

Hopefully some people will be available for the Rogers & Hammerstein musical extravaganza:

• The King and I (1956) at 5:30pm EST/10:30pm UTC.

We’re starting – get in!

Kill Buljo starts in 1 hour! Erika has provided background information here in a comment for this post, over here:

• https://hexbear.net/comment/6788031

Excerpt

Kill Buljo restages an iconic moment of Norwegian history in a parodic way, by linking the police officer Sid and his attitude towards the Sámi people to the demonstrations in Alta in the years 1979-81, one of the most famous cases of civil disobedience in modern Norwegian history.

FYI: Until the main event, I have already started playing youtube shorts about the Sámi.

fixed typo and language. added synopsis. I’ll put some of the book excerpt in the 10-minutet warning post.

Erika is sending you goodies from beyond the blorp tonight @ 6 EST/Midnight CET! (Which should be 11pm UTC – and I’m just filling in to send announcements and click buttons on her behalf, so let me know if I got anything wrong).

Silent Running has ended and U Are the Universe starts in 10 minutes, 9, 8…

Grab your snacks and make sure your VPN is up.

Silent Running starts in 10 minutes!

What, the icon? Yes, absolutely.

The movies, however, are not.

Are we alone in the universe?

Okay, but what if it was one guy and he was really really alone?

…but not REALLY alone,
but basically…
…but like he had to do some –
– you know what? Just watch and find out!

Silent Running (1972) & U Are the Universe (2024) for today’s Hairy Harmonies!

It is fairly common, yes. In particular, people tend to have extra warm/loving tones when talking to their pets and babies. Otherwise, you read the room and figure out what tone you want to take. Sound and/or tone aside, “code switchting”, which is a dialectic change, is also common and sometimes considered a modern requirement for people needing to get things done in both African American and White American cultures.

We’ve reached concensus and picked Youth 2017 芳华 – starts in 5 minutes!

I see nothing listed for an an early movie tonight, but something will air! Who is going to play what? This is a shout-out to any interested party to bring you butts to blorp!

I’m not sure what we’ll see, but I’ve listed a backup: Russian kids flick that topped their box office for local-language films : The Last Warrior (2017)

Of course we’ll defer to