Been watching her music video reactions for some years … the lady with the strange eyes and laid back manner … just discovered … duh … that she wears glasses.
Anyway, some years back, quite a few American football fan types played a youtube of AFL downunder football … the AFL must have released it in the US … they were all male reactors, so this is a surprise for a girl to be doing a football reaction … this seems to be a new one the AFL has put out:
She asks at the end who’s everyone’s favourite team? Well here’s one contender:
Don’t forget to change your clocks and watches tonight.
a) Polish MP Grzegorz Braun walked into a court house to give evidence in a case. Only to find a Christmas tree with “LGBT” baubles, he grabbed the tree drags it outside and throws it in the bin.
b) If an uninsured Russian rust-bucket goes down off your coast causing massive environmental damage and loss of life, it will be easy to point the finger of blame.
c) Ban on new thermal cars in 2035: France calls for “flexibility”.
d) The euro has been a catastrophe for weaker, more exposed economies; in the case of Hungary, it would take away….
Might be best to run the film earlier at 1234, as I’ve a fairly torrid two hours coming up, phone off.
Review:
“More historical curiosity than entertaining science fiction film, “Destination Moon” is a must see for those interested in the evolution of the genre and the political climate of the early cold war years. Don’t expect any cheap thrills or exploitation elements. There are no aliens, no monsters, and no hot women. Instead it presents a detailed speculation of what they thought it would be like to go to the moon in a rocket-ship.
Despite looking like a massive version of a Von Braun rocket from WWII, the speculation about the problems faced by the engineers and crew of such a product are surprisingly accurate and must have been fascinating viewing back in 1950. Both the rocket and the moon are considerably more realistic than the old “Flash Gordon” stuff.
Like another science fiction classic “Them”, “Destination Moon” is loaded with political references conveying a not so subtle distrust of the federal government. But the two films convey the same message from polar opposite perspectives. “Them” placed the blame for its giant mutations on reckless atomic bomb testing and portrayed the federal response to the crisis as clueless until assisted by local law enforcement and an eccentric university scientist.
“Destination Moon” has a hawkish perspective, with unidentified fifth columnists sabotaging America’s early space program. Fortunately, selfless patriotic industrialists come to the rescue and finance a successful private enterprise program to claim the moon for the United States.
The deliberately low-key documentary style is relieved by the last minute addition of space novice Joe Sweeney (Dick Wesson) to the crew. With a Brooklyn accent (his first view of earth from space elicits a desire to know who is pitching for the Dodgers that day) Sweeney provides both comic relief and an excuse for the expect members of the crew to expound in layman’s terms about the details of space travel. I couldn’t help thinking of “Dark Star’s” Sgt. Pinback whenever Sweeney began to whine about not belonging on the mission.
Another concession to the unsophisticated 1950’s audience has the project leaders making their pitch for financing through a special Woody Woodpecker space training film. The skeptical fowl and his two audiences receive their indoctrination at the same time. “Destination Moon” must have infused the nation with a sense of wonder and faith in what the free enterprise system could achieve because it is actually listed as an event in NASA’s chronology of the history of space travel.
It is likely that the producers were more successful with this upbeat message than with their attempt to spread fear and promote a space race. Although considerable effort is made to sell the audience on the military value of the moon nothing very convincing is presented in that regard. Ironically, much of the actual space race a few years later would have a military purpose.
“Destination Moon” has two moments of suspense. The first is when Charles Cargraves (played by Warner Anderson) exits the ship in space and drifts away once his magnetic boots lose contact with the ship. Since Cargraves is the ship’s designer, it seems rather implausible that he should forget this but no more so than his constructing the ship out of heavy steel. The second is when they botch the landing and must lighten the ship to have enough fuel to return to earth (of course we 21st century viewers knew the thing was too heavy as soon as we learned about the magnetic boot thing).
Science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein teamed with producer George Pal to put “Destination Moon” into production. They soon learned that Kurt Neumann was working to release “Rocketship X-M” in time to benefit from their publicity campaign. For legal reasons Neumann modified his more sensational film to feature a landing on Mars rather than on the moon.
Although Neumann’s paid less attention to scientific details, it turned out to be more accurate in the use of a two-stage rocket and not the one-stage monster featured in the Heinlein/Pal version. Both films were subject to staggering naiveté about the complexity of space travel. Although the film’s version of the moon surface is hauntingly beautiful (thanks to Chesley Bonestell’s backdrop paintings) it looks more like a dried lake-bed than the actual lunar surface.
In retrospect, “Destination Moon’s” most unique sci-fi genre feature is the absolute refusal of its producers to show anything that deviated from what they believed at the time to be the truth about space travel. Although today it is a struggle to really appreciate the film, at least as it would have hit viewers in 1950, how many science fiction films have been criticized as being too real to be entertaining.”
(1012) All well but now clouding over. Happy elevenses. (1117)
15. Moosh corner
14. This song below could almost be his for Netflix
Yes, we’ve had it here three or four times … let’s have it again:
13. Go for it, girls
… that’s all I can say … I know of no one against you on this.
12. So sad
11. Steve B chart quiz
THE CHARTS ARE BACK ❤️❤️
Please repost so others can play ! Top songs chart A nice uk chart .what year is it from Try to do it without using google or Grok . Some great tracks here . #music#popchart#fridaypic.twitter.com/5TDS3wVriU
Have to disqualify myself, Steve, on this one … I know exactly when. Another for free … Splodgeness Abounds was the same year … says the year after but I can guarantee it wasn’t … bought the 45 in Tottenham Court Road from this geezer.
And West Ham won the FA Cup.
And now I’m going further … Special Brew was this song below but as a reaction video … I’ve always seen these two as a special brew but they do not know what it really means here. I used the song, not just in my long saga Masquerade but as our two protagonists sat at a table in Cafe Giuseppe, smiling to each other quietly discussing another couple across the room … truth was that the special brew was us ourselves in RL and we were the two protagonists for real, plus that was our regular cafe.
And I told her that that song was for us, coz we were certainly a special brew.
… far more internal US matters than we ordinarily cover but still interesting …
“California has issued more than 62,000 commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) to illegal aliens and migrants.
“The federal audit found California had issued 62,000 CDLs to drivers who entered illegally, John, or do not have a permanent legal status, as required by the feds.”
John Roberts: “Did I hear you right? 62,000? My goodness!”
Depending on where they are from, some countries drive on the opposite side of the road than we do in the US.”
7. Interesting ideas
Saw this on Gab, where I still go to visit the lady Lainey (in Fri 8) …
Yesterday, two near-simultaneous acts of sabotage saw explosions ripping through oil refineries in both Hungary and Romania. In Hungary it was the MOL in Százhalombatta, which reportedly receives Russian oil, while in Romania the Petrotel-Lukoil, a subsidiary of the Russian parent company.
