Inappropriate Conversations

Film Year 2008

Waltz With Bashir, Milk, Synecdoche, New York, The Dark Knight, among others.

Film Year 1920

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Mark of Zorro, Way Down East, The Scarecrow, among others.

Film Year 2009

Up, The White Ribbon, A Serious Man, among others.

239: Film Years

The next podcast I post will be a new short-form considering movies by year. I'm not replacing Inappropriate Conversations or Walk The Earth, just adding something new. The starting point will be Film Year 2009.

Different Drummer: Charles Tashiro

Note: the first half of this episode raises questions about the consequences of a recent Supreme Court decision, and I don't know the answer for how this will impact governing in the United States. By my reckoning, things certainly could get very ugly. Consequences are not bound by our lack of accountability.

Walk The Earth 60

Whether reaching out in love to LGBTQ+ people is following Christ?

Past episode: Walk The Earth 54

238: Sliding Gently into Third

Is "Shut up and kick" the correct response to recent statements by Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker? Was that the correct response in recent years to USA soccer star Megan Rapino?
That, and the "Shut up and dribble" replies to Lebron James, were just as wrong regardless the type of questions or comments being spoken into microphones.

Having said that, it is completely unacceptable to suggest that counter arguments to ideas raised in a public speech are out of line. If a celebrity like an athlete wants to start a conversation, then shutting down that conversation as contrarian push-back is, at the very least, hypocrisy. Only one instance of free speech is being defended in that situation. 

Granting that commencement addresses are among the worst forms of public speech, let's have an inappropriate conversation about ironic notions like "staying in your lane" and extend it a bit. I'll bet we can take Butker's commitment to boldly challenging false assumptions in a direction where his supporters would surely insist that "You shouldn't be allowed to say that!"
Such is freedom of speech.
 
Different Drummer: Steven Stapleton
 
Nurse With Wound list of musicians and influences
 
NWW - Terms and Conditions Apply
 
NWW - The Sylvie and Babs Hi-Fi Companion

237: Viewing Close as a Passenger

Feeling challenged in more than one way, I'm recommending the 2022 movie Close as one of the best films in years. It directly reminded me of a past Inappropriate Conversations podcast with Mark Greene as the Different Drummer. His work, and the director of Close, directly refer to this episode's Different Drummer, too. 
I was reminded of my childhood, at the same age as the central characters in the film, and a sense of disconnection that came from a change in school districts.
I also was challenged by how our defense mechanisms seem to presume something inappropriate (directly or indirectly incestuous) might make an unwanted appearance in the plot of a film like this. I don't blame the filmmakers. It's more the way our society is driven to sexualize, seemingly, everything, even when nothing of the sort is going on. 

Different Drummer: Niobi Way

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