As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I try and find things to watch on DVD that come into the Thrift. Last time I got True Blood which was vampire porn from HBO. I never saw sex used as a segue before like Poldark uses sweeping vistas.
This time it was Mad Men or Madmen from A & E and just season 2, so figured what the hell and picked it up, and we are watching it. The first thing that struck me in this genre of 1960 America, is how much the writers and producers knew nothing about the era they were portraying. How they could miss, Mr. Mooney and Lucille Ball and Mary Jane as to what America was in that era, I have no idea, but they did, and instead the program struck me in an entire group of characters that I just wanted to do a 1960 thing and beat the shit out of the entire bunch.
Yes in that era, people beat the shit out of people all the time. Someone makes a pass at your wife, you beat the shit out of them or shoot them. Someone kicks your dog, you beat the shit out of them. Someone fucks you over at work, you beat the shit out of them. Polite society appeared by people beating the shit out of people who were assholes.
So I looked up what this New York Ad Agency was all about, and I know the spoiler in the main character is a guy who grew up in the Midwest, his old man was a piece of shit, got raped by a whore as a kid and then went to the military, and stole his dead officer's identity to become Don Draper, the most fantastic ad man in the world........who in the end writes this hippie 1970 Coke ad about wanting to give the world a coke with apple trees and honey bees and snow white turtle doves. Kind of shit that appealed to kids you wanted to slap the shit out of, or as Gary was telling me the seniors used to grab kids, take their pants, drop them off in the country in the underwear and make them walk back to town.
So the "creator" of this stole Walter Middy, you know the guy who fantasized about shit in he was a nobody. In this case, Don Draper is more like a plug and play Walter, as there is nothing in him, because he is a SOCIOPATH, he is the replica of Peter Sellers in Chauncy the Gardener, where Sellers plays this half wit gardener whose owner dies, and idiot does not now know what death is, and he mimics television he watches as the lights are on, but the brain is empty. So there is not allot of creativity in any of this........but it apparently appealed to the Niche Generation.
That is what I was telling TL, in I have no idea who won the Super Bowl, who was in the World Series, NBA finals, most times I could not tell you who is in government. BUT, you have people who watch A & E who know this shit. Where this is coming from is I was reading about Don Draper......the actor is named Hamm or something and he is a real piece of work. An Obamaphile, he sucks on Hillary Clinton's poison nipple, put out a hate ad on Josh Hawley from running away from Jan6ers who Hamm hates apparently, but he loves the Jew dick of that despot, Adam Schiff as he wants him to be US Senator.
Now get this, there were magazines who named this guy as an influential leader.........AS HIS CHARACTER. I had no idea what a Don Draper is, just like 329 million other Americans and 8 billion other people in the world, but this niche numbnuts group does. Hell they got all genital about him in being so sexy, like their other wet spot in that asshole George Clooney, you know the guy who fucked up democrats in knocking old Joe Biden around.
I watch stuff in the Thrift Store in the DVD's, and I can tell you what amazes me is all THAT SHIT by George Clooney, Ben Afleck, and what was so Hollywood that the niche were in a frenzy over, just sits on the display. No one wants that shit. It is like Barbara Streisand, Mia Farrow, Woody Allen, if there was not a New York, these worthless people like Robert DeNiror and Al Pacino would have fulfilled their destiny in pealing potatoes in some kitchen.
It comes to the point of how America and the world has been fractured. In this age of Madmen, John Wayne was someone the world knew. Everyone knew Ike Eisenhower. Now people are doing their best to forget Barack Obama and claiming they were never stupid enough to vote for that illegitimate foreigner. Things that once united are gone by design. Now we have people who vote a fictional asshole in Don Draper onto the list of the most influential in the world. I see this shit all the time in the British press and wonder who these vacuous turds are in these stories who have not accomplished a thing in this world, but are celebrity.
That is what Hollywood and the media churned out. A bunch of assholes who hung around at cocktail parties with David Letterman and judged the world by how superior they were and when they fucked up, like with rapist Bill Clinton, then Stevie Nicks was lamenting with David Letterman how Clinton just was not mature enough to be president. That was news to them as they would tell us that we just needed more Obama destruction as scorched earth Obama was not enough in this world.
I came out of that waste of time soap opera and pro sports fixation and I have not missed it one bit. I have no idea who the "stars" are as none of them can act and I don't want to watch this excrement which is put out. Watching a bunch of weak, soulless and nasty people on Madmen is not something I want in real life or fiction. It makes it worse when these media creators do not even get the genre of the age correct in how people really were.
This thing will join the target practice pile with Deadwood, True Blood and other things that I quit watching in I did not realize there was anything in this world I would not waste time watching until now, as while I will never get to do this, I write, direct and produce movies in my head. Without thinking I still look at camera angles, lighting and what is wrong with a scene.
Here is the closing part in this, Donald Draper is a sociopath blank sheet of emotion and interacts as others would as this is the Gardener thing to do. What is the difference in the fiction to the people who voted for a Nigger to prove they were not a racist, who destroyed America and the world, and would not admit they were wrong and instead needed more Designer Negro, and then chose the wife of a rapist, who cackled when a man was ass raped to death in Libya and put on display, only to join at the hip with Adam Schiff who lied to Americans over Jan6, ruined innocent people's lives and made America into a gulag as the Negro weaponized the government against the people.
What is missing in what we are told 80 million voting Americans who voted for senile Joe Biden who oversaw the mass murder in Ukraine of 1 million Christian Slavs. It is the same thing missing in Donald Draper, but hey, they put Don on the real people's list because they can not tell the difference between reality and fiction.