G.K.-5

on AO3, mostly Generation Kill, House/Wilson, Bill/Jim. Learning Swedish for gods sake.

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pewdiepie is a strange thing

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Doing research for Brad/Nate

reading a WHO report- alcohol use and sexual risk behaviour...

1 ✔ 2✔ 3 ✔ 4 ✔ 5 ✔

this must be really insightful!

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Things reminded me of James Wilson

1- a published paper titled “Culture and Oncology Impact of Context Effects” in Cancer, Culture, and Communication. 

2- a doctor in Beijing exposed the long existing cancer treatment corruption.

Update, the doc was sacked by the hospital this year.

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NPR piece on Marines & DADT back in 2010

https://www.npr.org/2010/11/22/131516365/op-ed-marines-can-handle-dadt-repeal?t=1618996473279

the call-ins were very interesting.

the contrast between the sleek, carefully phrased academia and marines.

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when you realize Eric Kocher, being a marine, just bulked himself up into something different. (it is common now actors casted to military genres go through quite intensive physical training, but here you see...

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Stinetorf on Lovell’s vehicle was reading Noam Chomsky’s What Uncle Sam Really Wants. Poke would really use it to expand his critical worldview~

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When Godfather went on about his castigation on “backchannel grumbling”...Fick might be like? What David Simon showed us (p.1) v.s. what might be the real staring-back(p. 2-4)...

How pretty GK has been all along~~~

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Fick never failed to amaze me!!!!!

Something he mentioned in a presentation when he was still in CNAS:

he believed the society has more resilience than the ongoing over-reaction, he gave an example of the tedious airport security check.

Then I found this: some scholars argue a  bipolar protagonist in Homeland is a metaphor for the society, “swinging between aggressive offensive and fear-filled defensive...”

I clearly didn’t know how well-adjusted human being is capable of, how calm thus clear-minded, naturally confident thus brave they could be.

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bits-2

1- Jim Mattis, surrounded by civilian officers, academic professors, and Trump ...during his Sec of Defense years? Wiki said Mattis' party affiliation is Independent.... wonder how he had been doing... 2- On the side, Fick spoke highly of Robert Gates publicly. 3- And, on his nomination for the Defense Sec, Biden mentioned one achievement of Austin was the large-scale logistics of the Iraq drawback. 4- How idealistic is the politician-military relation envisioned by Fick ?

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Was Mattis wearing Woodland camouflage also? 

Brad Colbert :“Anyone happen to remember we're invading a fucking desert country? ”

(from Iraq war report by the US Army War College )

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I am writing a long paper on GK. To further motivate myself working on it, I am gonna share share oversharing anything I find interesting through my research~here~~!!

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Stark Sands’ Bobby Frost, and Nate Fick. 

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You ever realize how homoerotic this whole thing is?

Susanna White’s old, old interview on the Guardian, mentioned

“one of their favourites is another directed by a woman...”

Beau Travail, Beau Travail?!

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2009/oct/02/generation-kill-susanna-white

[bespokeredmayne]

THE WACHOWSKIS ON WORKING WITH EDDIE REDMAYNE IN JUPITER ASCENDING:

I asked them how they even began to communicate to Eddie Redmayne where they wanted him to pitch his performance, which is pitched at this huge broad gigantic intensity level. “We had a really good time with him,” Lana laughed. Andy laughed as well. “That’s safe to say.” "We started our first day with Eddie ahead of schedule, and by the end of the day, we were a half-day behind. And when our UPM had to fill out the report, he filled in the place where it says ‘Reason for falling behind schedule.’ And he wrote, ‘The directors have fallen in love with Eddie Redmayne.’" "Acting is a hard job. It is hard. Really hard. Actors give so much of themselves to you. There’s this thing that happens, playing back and forth with us." "We had auditioned Eddie for a lot of things, and this was finally the right one. This fit. And he’s so good. He understood that this guy was defined by these choices he made. How many people would be willing to preserve this way of life and would be willing to murder their own mother? And Eddie does it with such poise. He understands that relationship. Eddie had so many great ideas for how to play this." Andy said, “Plus the age thing, he did that right. Because that is something that we had a hard time getting our heads around. What that would do, what would happen with that amount of time for a personality to develop. We are such radically different people every ten or fifteen years. Now imagine hundreds of those cycles, and what that would do to a personality.” "Eddie had a way of playing things with these big dynamics and scaring the shit out of people. We had to do several takes on some of those moments because nobody knew when he’d do it. There’s a few of those in the film, where you can see people are scared shitless." "There’s one in the movie of his secretary, where she’s next to him, and she does it, as a robot, and it’s so funny," Andy said, laughing at the thought of it. Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/motion-captured/our-wachowskis-interview-continues-on-blockbuster-culture-and-911#o7mWZGqKwPQJtZ3f.99