"Jcarr" (jcarr)
08/29/2017 at 10:17 • Filed to: None
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"Jcarr" (jcarr)
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Ken Burns + a score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. Yes, please.
WilliamsSW
> Jcarr
08/29/2017 at 10:30 |
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Looks like I’m gonna need to find a bunch of time somewhere for this...
itschrome
> Jcarr
08/29/2017 at 10:39 |
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yeah I’ve been very impatiently waiting for this since they announced it. I can’t wait. favorite documentary producer and one of my favorite music producers, god damn PBS I love you.. This is why i donate!
crowmolly
> Jcarr
08/29/2017 at 10:40 |
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Same here. It’s a fascinating time period and a really complicated conflict.
I think it’s great how perceptions of Vietnam Vets have changed over time, and this documentary seems to hit that point.
Thomas Donohue
> Jcarr
08/29/2017 at 10:53 |
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Wow....I didn’t know this was coming. Ironically, my nephew just asked the other day what the best movie/documentary was to watch about the Vietnam War. I hope he has the patience to watch it all.....I know I will. Ken Burns is the man.
ttyymmnn
> WilliamsSW
08/29/2017 at 10:57 |
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I was born in 1966, but in the 80s I was listening to The Doors, Zeppelin, CSN(Y), Buffalo Springfield, America, Arlo Guthrie, Rolling Stones, etc. I still do. The 60s and 70s were an extraordinary transitional period in the US, and I kind of wish I could have experienced them. As Jim Morrison wrote, “Back in those days everything was simpler and more confused.” It’s not a matter of looking back with nostalgia, rather with a tinge of regret for having missed such a momentous era. Vietnam both defined and ended that era. What will define and end our current era? Trump? Have we reached maximum fuck up as we did with Vietnam? Will we follow Trump with a 10-year interregnum of wandering in the wilderness? We shall see.
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ttyymmnn
> Jcarr
08/29/2017 at 10:57 |
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Me too.
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ttyymmnn
> Thomas Donohue
08/29/2017 at 11:07 |
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If you can’t wait, then I highly recommend this 13-part series that aired on PBS back in 1983, Vietnam: A Television History . I think it was the first serious attempt at documenting the war in a serial format, and I imagine that Burns looked to it for inspiration. It is really quite exceptional. It looks like most, if not all, of the episodes are on YouTube.
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WilliamsSW
> ttyymmnn
08/29/2017 at 11:13 |
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I was born in ‘68, and listened to much of the same music through high school and college. Back then, it felt to me like the ~1975-83 period was some sort of cultural vacuum. I wanted the music of the ‘60's, the cars of the ‘60s, the energy of the ‘60s, you name it.
I don’t see how Trump *doesn’t* define this era somehow - and with whatever comes next, historians will look back with 20/20 hindsight and say that Trump clearly created the condition for whatever that is (even though we don’t know what *it* is as we sit here today).
Takuro Spirit
> Jcarr
08/29/2017 at 11:30 |
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My uncle was in the Navy, and my step-dad the Marines during ‘Nam. My step-dad was drafted.
Neither talk much, or anything about it. Especially my step-dad. We watched Platoon together once, and he just goes “It was like this. That’s all I’ll say”.
But it... fascinates me? I guess that’s the word.
ceanderson920
> Jcarr
08/29/2017 at 14:39 |
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I cant wait! I actually started donating to PBS so I can watch this on my amazon fire tv thing. PBS’s American Experience recently did a 3 part doc about WWI that is really good to. But since Ken Burns is the producer of this series its going to be awesome.