All Holocaust All the Time
Movies Nos. 3-7 in my Netflix queue, annotated with hyperlinks to the Internet Movie Database. Nos. 1 and 2 are parts 2 and 3 of my three-part introduction to the cinema of Spike Lee, Summer of Sam and 25th Hour. I really liked He Got Game; so, I may have to add more Spike Lee "joints" to the list.

Conspiracy
Uprising
Europa Europa
Out of the Ashes
The Grey Zone

The Troubles
Fucking Paddies. Okay, first of all, if this is real, huzzah, but since when were terrorists known for actually keeping their word? Plus, news reports all day have said that "the IRA" has agreed to give up terrorism (though NPR shied away from calling their actions terrorism, instead preferring the unacceptably sanitized phrase "armed struggle"), but what they are talking about is the fucking Provos. Yes, the Provisional IRA is the largest of the several groups calling themselves the Irish Republican Army, but in recent years, specifically since the Good Friday Agreement, they have not been nearly as violent as the Real IRA or the Continuity IRA.

So, it's just plain sloppy, incomplete journalism to say that "the IRA" has agreed to cease its decades-long campaign of terrorism. Remember right after 9/11, when the major media organizations all said that they would start doing a better, more thorough job of covering events outside the United States? Yeah, nice to see how well they are following through on that promise. But I digress.

I hope today's honeyed words will mean an end to the savage murder of civilians in the name of Irish Republicanism, but I'll be a monkey's uncle before I take terrorists at their word. Cliched but true, there's nothing for it but to wait and see.

Hey, how did Jaime Fox go from Ray to Stealth inside of a year? How the mighty hath fallen....