Went to Fark for my news fix, and saw a list of music selections inspired by the revolution. I figure: how about a list of movies? Thanks to various TFers (and in advance, the Liters), here is our list of movies inspired by the revolution. Farkers, if you want to your recommendations, just leave a comment.

1) V for Vendetta (Guy Fawkes lives!)
2) 1776 (A musical on the Declaration of Independence)
3) Fight Club
4) South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
5) Persepolis (Tatsuma recommended this very much)
6) Arabian Nights
7) Lawrence of Arabia
8 ) Revolution
9) Red Badge of Courage
10) Glory
11) The Patriot
12) Braveheart
13) Henry V
14) Puccini’s Tosca
15) The Longest Day
16) Sands of Iwo Jima (just turn it off after the flag is raised)
17) The ORIGINAL Star Wars Trilogy (ANH, ESB, ROTJ)
18) Brazil
19) Battlestar Galactica (the series and TV movies)
20) Enemy at the Gate
21) Pump Up the Volume

Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.

One of the best explanations of what’s going on in Iran is written by Fark’s “Resident Jew”, Tatsuma. He has provided a dramatis personae and a timeline of current events. Shabbos is coming up, so I hope he has a pleasant rest, for he was following the whole thing all day.

Read Tatsuma’s summary at:
https://sites.google.com/site/tatsumairanupdate/

Am making final edits and this is a persuasive paper. Basically– CCM is light on theology, short on Scripture, long behind on trends– and how can the world can take that seriously?

“You aren’t making Christianity any better, you’re just making rock and roll worse!”– Hank Hill

And now, my first experience with CCM, in 1984: Steve Taylor’s Meltdown (at Madame Tussaud’s). Flipping through the UHF channel, past the scrambled SelecTV, past the foreign language channels…it’s TBN, channel 40! It was one of my earliest brushes with Protestantism.

Took me a long time to look for this, and I needed it for my report on CCM. Here it is, from Pastor Todd Wilken of Issues Etc, the “Wilken Test”:

1. How often is Jesus mentioned? For his purposes, a simple tally will suffice.
2. Is Jesus the subject of the verbs? Is Jesus the one who acts, or are you?
3. What are the verbs? What has Jesus done and what is He doing?

My English prof is this Methodist, the type that loves hymns and does not dig the fluff. I’m printing this out for her so she can see where I’m coming from.

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted up an educational video for misGuidance Theatre so here is “More Dangerous Than Dynamite” from the Internet Archive. Geared towards Depression-era housewives, this film is produced by the California State Fire Marshall. Keep in mind that during this time, people made do with what they had and lived frugally. Whoever cleans clothes with gas today is asking for a Darwin Award.