Yes Eddus

so had another day of looking for work and feeling overwhelmed with doubt. Watching the inauguration coverage was a wonderful break from obsessing over myself and my problems. Such a great day, it was wonderful to be able to watch it all on the BBC. Then on channel 4. Then I listened to radio four for a bit. Wasn't too happy that they'd brought in a "white rights defender" or racist as I'd call him. He was there to basically say that it's a terrible day for America and that America is "a European country" so should be governed by white people. This guy was from Alabama and didn't seem very European at all. Also he kept on calling Obama a Marxist. The fucking idiot. Thankfully he wasn't in the studio with everyone else, but it was a recorded interview, which took place in a bowling alley. So chances are they edited out the more extreme racists things he had to say, as well as having to edit out the sounds of people celebrating their strikes in the background.

So, one more time for the cheap seats, this is my opinion on this sort of thing. When you happen to be placed within a social majority group which has a bloody history of violence against minority groups, it is NOT OKAY to start up your own civil rights group as soon as the oppressed minority start to begin to have something close to equality. You already have the rights and freedoms that these people are fighting for and them attaining equality IN NO WAY diminishes your own rights and freedoms.

Copy paste this for the stupid bastard who once asked me why straight people don't get their own pride parade.


Anyway, enough of such bitterness! A wonderful thing happened today in America. George W. Bush has left and will never return and we have a new guy, a democrat who is serious and intelligent and seems like he knows what to do and how to do it. I'm very pleased by it all. Something good actually happened.

So inbetween the Obama-mania I have been gripped with today I finally got to see Les Chansons d'amour:




Firstly, I have a giant crush on Louis Garrel. But this film is actually amazing. It's a very interesting musical, the music isn't imposing, it's very naturalistic, the singing is all very natural, unlike most musicals. The songs are great as well. I just loved it. It was so well shot, everything took place at dusk, dawn or during the night so all the scenes were full of black, blue and yellow, very beautiful. I really recommend it, best film I've seen in a while.