Friday, April 12, 2013

Big Louise - Magnifying Glass

My sister wrote this song so I can brag about how good it is. It's an old Big Louise song from the early 90s. Enjoy:
https://soundcloud.com/lesliesink/magnifying-glass-05-track-05

Threads - BBC 1984


In the same vein as my last post, another free movie to watch online is "Threads" from 1984. It's not a super uplifting movie but I'd argue that it's more stark and shocking than the big budget Hollywood disaster movies because of the lack of special effects and the abundance of small, gruesome details. It's also timely with all of the nuclear war rhetoric in the news lately. The YouTube description is appropriate given that our current state of cable, on demand and digital offerings of every type of entertainment was not available:
"Threads was aired on 1984, one Sunday night at 9pm to an unsuspecting UK TV audience, it single handedly put the nation off the nuclear war effort and was then quietly removed from the archives until 2002. Threads redefines the word grim and is hard to imagine what sort of impact this would have had on its viewers given its from an era in TV when there was only 4 channels and a Mary Whitehouse mentality towards censorship."