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July 31, 2004
Santa Monica is one of the favorite places of mine
Santa Monica pier
Originally uploaded by Mme Wuji.
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ぼくセザール 10歳半 1m39cm Moi C?sar, 10 ans et demi, 1m39
まぁ、後世に残る作品という訳ではないですが、夏にポッと観るにはいいと思いますね。気楽に観れるし、終わった後もそこそこ軽いし。予告がうまかったんです。期待し過ぎだったかな。前半は眠かった。
ぼくセザール 10歳半 1m39cm＜ぼくセザール 10歳半 1m39cm
あの女の子は奇麗だった。Josephine Berry
今後に期待ですね。
Le site officiel de Josephine Berry
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ドリーマーズ The Dreamers
かっこいいんですよ、絵がやっぱり。色も奇麗だし深みもあるし。この時代のフランスをよく知っている訳ではないですが、およそ周囲から聞いている日本のそれと似ているんでしょうね。
映画は耽美で閉鎖的で刹那的でした。
最後の方のオチは練り不足かな、と。
besiegedよりは好き。でも、Ten Minutes Older: The Cello の方が好き。でも、Last Tango in Parisが彼の中では一番好きかな、という感じですね。
Amazon.com: DVD: The Dreamers (NC-17 Edition)
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開発担当者が語る『iPod』誕生秘話
なるほどね。なかなか面白い記事。もっと読みたい気分。
?0クナウス氏によれば、完成間際にiPodプロジェクトはご破算になりかけたという。テストの結果、電源を切ってもバッテリーの電力を消費することがわかったからだ。「3時間稼働すると動作しなくなり、電源が切れてしまう」とクナウス氏。
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Little Chapin sitting on my lap, part II
Little Chapin sitting on my lap, part II
Originally uploaded by emdot.
Ah..I DO love Kitty..
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July 30, 2004
Motorola MD681 5.8 GHz Digital Expandable Cordless Speakerphone
ほんと、物欲な週です。
それはLong Story。昔はB&O Beocom6000を使っていましたが、ちょっと無線LANと干渉し始めたしFAXも必要だったので買い換えを決意。
ひどい子供だましの、歌舞伎町のネオンの様な国産電話機中から消去法に消去法を重ねて選んだFAXはBeocom以上に混信。
速攻でウッパラって3000円の留守電でしばらく我慢。
しかーし、やっぱりコードレスでない不便さは想像以上で、また物色。で、LAOX免税店で昔見た2.4GHzのUS仕様の留守電を購入決意するも変なデザインのしか残ってない。
やっぱしGeekはsparcoだよね、で物色して5.8GHzのこれを発見。
まぁね、デザインは置いといて、5.8GHzでWIFIとも干渉しないし、日本ではうってないというレアさ加減もGeekゴコロを刺激され、ポチッ。
さすがに日本向け製品の様な作りのきめ細かさはありませんが、概ね満足。意外と安かったし。
しばらくはこれを使いますよ。ふぅ。
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Flickr
skysf
Originally uploaded by pinta.
Ah...I like San Fransisco
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July 29, 2004
Motorola RAZR V3
これ、かっこよさげですね。
薄くてメタルでアルミでいい感じ。mp3は再生できなくてもいいけど。日本でも出ないかな。
Motorola - hellomoto - RAZR V3 - homepage
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July 26, 2004
iPod mini
いいですね。iPodを初めて買った時の事を思い出しました。音楽がステレオから解放された、何とも言えない自由な解放感というか、どこでも自分の好きな音楽を聴く事ができる自由さに感動したものでした。用もないのにiPodで音楽聴いてた。
miniはその時と同じ様な解放感を味わわせてくれますね。小さいが故に。ポケットにすっと滑り込む感じ。
いいです、マジで。ヤバいっす、この小ささ。
車やGYMはiPodで、通勤やお出かけはmini、 ですね。
いやはや生きてて良かったですよ。うん。
amazon速かったです。土曜販売開始で月曜には届きました。
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July 24, 2004
Code 46
Samantha Mortonファンとしてはこれも期待してます。
Minolity Reportみたいな未来感があって、悲しいLove Storyと言った所でしょうか。
Michael Winterbottomとも相性は良くないのですが、これはOKな予感。
観たい〜
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Radio
これ、面白そうです。先にDVDで観てもいいかと思うくらい期待しています。Ed Harris、Cuba Gooding, Jr.と好きな役者も出てるし。楽しみです。
Flashの動きも気持ちいいんですよ。
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マトリックス
新しくはないですが、最近久しぶりに観て笑いましたもので..
最高！
欽ちゃん＆香取慎吾の全日本仮装大賞
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家族のかたち once upon a time in the midlands
イギリス映画との相性悪いんですよ。Little Voiceとか、Sweet sixteenとか好きな作品はあるけど、基本的に肌が合わないみたいです。
これも前評判が高かったんですが、お尻が痛かった。イギリス映画でNorah Jonesかかってもねぇ、なんだか違和感あるし。
ロバートカーライルもイマイチだった。なんだか欲求不満な土曜日です。はい。
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
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テッセラクト The Tesseract
予告も上手だったし、書いてあったコメントも良かったので期待したんですがね、駄目駄目でしたね。何度も座り直してあくびして。効果音も大きすぎるしおせっかいだし耳障りだし。
2時間無駄にした気分。
テッセラクト
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AirMac Expressもう入ってる...
Apple Store GinzaにはもうAirMac Expressが入荷してるみたいです。ビックカメラはまだだそうで。
ひどいなぁ、販売店を差別しちゃ駄目だよ。
私は販売店で買いますよ！
私のiPod miniは発送された様です。来週には届くかな。楽しみ。
あと、iPod with click wheelいい感じでした。あのクリック感はいいです。
今持ってるwith dockと前の2世代目のがうまい感じで昇華した感じ。
タッチセンスはよくないもんね。でも、今のも40GBだし壊れてないので、このまま使いまっせ。
Can't live without thisです！
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Blogger Post Editor
これ、いいですね。MTも標準で乗せて欲しい。
・Features
Font
Font size
Bold
Italic
Font color
Link
Left-justify
Center
Right-justify
Full-justify
Ordered (numbered) list
Unordered (bullet) list
Blockquote
Spell check
B-log Cabin TP: 米 Blogger の Post Editor
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iPod mini
Goldにしようかと思ったんですがね、last minutesでSilverにしました。amazonには27-29に発送と書いてありましたがホントにそんなに早く出荷できるのか？
楽しみ！
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Interbrand and BusinessWeek Rank the Best Global Brands by Value for 2004
自分のメモです。
Interbrand: Best Global Brands
Interbrand and BusinessWeek Rank the Best Global Brands by Value for 2004
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Yes, Virginia, There Is SEM Brand Lift, Part 2
なんか続きますが、これも、へぇ〜、で。
In his second column concentrating on new findings that search keyword advertising has a big effect on branding, Kevin Lee points out that even for the largest brands, there simply aren't many searches being done. Coke probably couldn't spend more than a few thousand dollars on its own brand as a keyword. "Cola" wouldn't even move the needle. Lee suggests that these brands develop an evolving set of keywords based on current events and their existing sponsorships. Leveraging its "American Idol" sponsorship, for instance, or its NASCAR properties might produce good keywords off of which branding can be won.
Yes, Virginia, There Is SEM Brand Lift, Part 2
Yes, Virginia, There Is SEM Brand Lift, Part 2
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BY Kevin Lee | July 23, 2004
Last week, I covered the Interactive Advertising Bureau's (IAB's) latest research on search engine marketing's (SEM's) effect on branding. It indicates pay-per-click (PPC) search listings can play an important role not only as a direct marketing vehicle but also as a branding medium.
Since the beginning of paid search listings advertising, marketers have acknowledged whatever brand lift search listings provide is essentially free. Preclick branding within search results occurs on an impression basis, and that's free to marketers who pay by the click. Data on the brand value of listings were scarce and considered suspect (the source was the search engines). That's no longer the case. Evidence of SERPs' brand lift is finally tangible and undeniable.
To recap, the study found search listings (especially top position) had a significant upward lift on branding metrics, particularly in regard to unaided awareness. Respondents didn't seem to consider sponsored listings as advertising, even though the listings were clearly marked as such. SERPs displayed the kind of lift one would expect to see with advertorial or PR. Contextual text banners (such as those served by Google's AdSense, Overture's Content Match, and Kanoodle's ContextTarget) also provided lift in branding metrics.
Leveraging the Branding Lift
What should brand marketers do with this data, which proves search listings offer significant brand lift?
Some brand marketers are already involved with search; they should expand their programs. Those new to the medium should enter and buy listings to enhance their on- and offline branding campaigns.
For some of the largest brands, inventory levels for most search words directly attributed to their brands are quite low. Even Coke and Pepsi only see monthly searches in the 100,000 range for their brands and nearly none for generic terms such as "cola" and "thirst quencher." Even if CTRs reach 10 percent, search spending and the total impressions only represent a drop in brand marketers' buckets.
One way to expand a campaign is to associate brands with the problems they solve or attributes they wish to portray ("grass stain," "sexy car," "healthy meal," "clear cellular," "fast meal," etc.). The upside of this strategy is the brander lifts unaided awareness at the precise time searchers are open to a message regarding a solution to their problem. The downside: Not much inventory is available for purchase.
Brand marketers eager to capitalize on search listings' ability to lift brand awareness do have an alternative to low-volume keywords. Many major brands sponsor sports or entertainment. Sports and entertainment keywords are extremely high volume. In some cases, the CPCs for keywords associated with sports, sports personalities, TV shows, movie characters, or actors are reasonable compared to average CPCs.
If the brand has relevant content on its site (or can generate it inexpensively), the promotion sponsorship keywords (PSKs) are a powerful branding opportunity, particularly when coupled with the Branding Effectiveness Index (BEI). Brand marketers should look at PSKs the same way they do the promotions. The PSKs extend the promotion's or sponsorship's value and multiply the brand's visibility in relation to the original promotion, sports event, person, or entertainment.
How to Use PSKs
Some examples of what marketers should do with their PSKs:
Coke should buy "American Idol," the judges' names, and all the stars' names, as well as the NASCAR personalities' names.
Hewlett-Packard should buy "Shrek" terms, as well as Magic Johnson (it works with his foundation).
Buick should buy Tiger Woods and other related golf terms.
Callaway, PING, and Nike should all buy the names of the pro golfers who use their equipment.
McDonald's should buy "Neopets," "Tony Hawk," "LPGA," Olympic keywords, and World Cup terms.
Nike should buy "Serena Williams," "Michael Jordan," and all Olympic-related terms, including major athletes' names.
When buying personalities as keywords, be sure to watch for PR events that could create negative brand association (think Martha Stewart for Kmart; Kobe Bryant for McDonald's; or Whoopi Goldberg for Slim-Fast). Clearly, there's an opportunity for brand marketers to leverage the power of SEM through a variety of means.
Brand marketers aren't the only ones bidding on their own brand keywords. Both the channel and the competition may also bid on brand names in Google and Overture (although the engines' rules differ). Some product brands are heavily bid upon by retailers. Pampers, iPod, ThinkPad, QuickBooks, and CoolPix are all sold by retailers with online presences. Corvette, F-150, and Chris-Craft are bid on by sales channels for those brands. Brand owners must decide if they want to bid on these keywords, regardless of whether they have an online store themselves.
Retailers and direct marketers also recognize branding's power, even when it's not their PPC campaign's primary purpose. The IAB study may provide those marketers with the internal ammunition to raise bid prices to reflect branding value. Marketers with returning customers or customers that buy through a multitude of channels might realize the cross-media effect of paid search text listings justifies a higher bid than they previously allocated, resulting in a further escalation of bid prices across the board.
Next: brand keywords' power and the brand multiplication effect.
Meet Kevin at Search Engine Strategies in San Jose. Also, join us at ClickZ's upcoming AdForum.
Vote for your favorite product or campaign from July 20 through close of business August 2.
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Kevin Lee is co-founder and chief executive officer of Did-it.com, LLC. Did-it.com uses advanced strategy and technology to optimize the performance of its client's paid placement and paid inclusion search campaigns. Kevin and the Did-it.com team have been dedicated to helping search marketers succeed since 1996. Kevin is a founding board member of the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO), serves on the SEM committee for the Association of Interactive Marketers, and on the Interactive Advertising Bureau's Search Committee. He also publishes a popular marketing newsletter. An acknowledged expert on SEO and SEM, Kevin is regularly quoted by the major news media including the Wall St. Journal, Business Week, the San Jose Mercury News, and Catalog Age. He is also a frequent and well-respected speaker at industry conferences. Kevin enjoys sharing tips, tricks and strategies in print and in person. He earned an MBA from Yale School of Management in 1992.
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Ford, Mazda Look to Improve Site Search
これも、ふーん、で。
Ford, already finding one of every eleven car customers online, is looking to improve that ratio through improving the search features on its site. Areas of focus include site indexing and studying user search patterns.
Ford's Mazda division is readying a deployment of Omniture's site search analytics package. The division hopes not only to improve the search function, but also to help determine which users are the hottest car buying prospects.
InternetRetailer.com - Daily News for Thursday,†July†22, 2004
Ford痴 looking for a better idea in site search
E-commerce is accounting for about 9% of all sales at Ford Motor Co., but better site search can help the company build on that total, says Steve St. Andre, CEO of Ford Direct, a joint venture Internet marketing company Ford operates in conjunction with its participating dealers.Today visitors to FordDirect.com, which receives more than 3 million total visits each month, can search the site to build an interactive vehicle, get a price quote or search for available inventory.
But to improve performance--and drive more web-generated leads to the 3,900 Ford and Lincoln Mercury dealers participating in FordDirect.com--St. Andre says the company is evaluating ways to improve site search such as addressing page indexing issues, making better use of natural search and analyzing how customers are searching individual pages. 展e are looking at how they are searching the Internet and major search engines to get to our site and then trying to maximize getting them to search the pages they are most interested in,? he says. 的f a shopper goes down a particular page path we want to better analyze going forward what they are most interested in, such as finding a particular price or vehicle package.?
St. Andre says better site search預nd a better idea of who is coming to FordDirect.com, and why, to shop for a vehicle謡ill result in better and faster leads being distributed to dealers.
In 2003, FordDirect and other e-commerce initiatives from Ford generated more than 1.5 million new vehicle referrals for participating Ford and Lincoln Mercury dealers.
Ford, like most other auto dealers, defines the conversion rate as the number of customers who buy a car, usually at a dealership, after initiating contact on a web site, as opposed to retailers who define the conversion rate as the number of customers who make a self-service purchase at a site.
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Tower Records Online Sales Boosted by Site Search
ふーん、やっぱしね、という感じでしょうか。
InternetRetailer.com - Daily News for Thursday,†July†22, 2004
Tower Records increased its site sales by 50 percent by improving its site search features, adopting Mercado Software's site search package. Tower examined site searches, developing a better picture of the patterns customers used and used that knowledge to improve search results. It was able to take results that proved popular in previous searches and highlight similar results. The improved sales also came with a sharply improved perception of shopping satisfaction.
Tower Records, No. 127 in Internet Retailer's Top 300 Guide to online retailers, deployed Mercado's Commerce Search & Navigation tool last November. By using it to analyze the search routes customers followed, it was able to improve both subsequent search results and site navigation to increase customer site satisfaction and boost sales, Ertell says. Customer surveys performed with ForeSee Results showed a sharp increase in satisfaction in shoppers† ability to find what they were looking for, he adds.Tower, for example, would tweak its search mechanism to show results of complementary products proven to be popular in prior searches and to highlight similar products offered in special promotions.
But it also used the search and navigation tool to increase and better organize customer navigation options. For instance, a search for Beatles recordings would produce along with its results an option to click a link to browse for all live concert recordings, while a search for classical music would offer a link to browse by the names of composers. 的t痴 a pretty powerful tool,† Ertell says.
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砂糖水
これまた最近思い出したのでメモ。
やっぱし、ペリーの肉声、ピアノの先生だよね。今観ても笑える。
ピアノの先生
あと、新橋。
Shinbashi
ゴルゴも。
よしのや
もっと笑わせてぇ〜
砂糖水ＨＰ
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July 22, 2004
PowerBook用のBag
なかなかいいBagがないんですよ。17 inchで大きいので。
今の所は、これを買おうかと。
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July 20, 2004
奥村愛子
p>よさげな予感。聴いてみようかと。
Amazon.co.jp： 音楽: いっさいがっさい [MAXI]
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July 19, 2004
夏至 vertical ray of the sun
トラン・アン・ユン作品。DVDで観ましたがやっぱり昔観た印象と同じで、とってもArtで美しい。台詞も少なくて、観てる側に考える時間をくれるのが大好きな作品。ホントのベトナムはあんなに原色の鮮やかな色使いではないんだろうね。監督の色彩感覚かな。いずれにしても見事。vertical ray of the sunもうまく使ってる。
暑そうな国なんだけど、水のシーンが多いし、終始柔らかな風も吹いてるのでこの季節にはいい感じ。
ホント、次に期待。パパイヤよりもシクロよりも夏至が一番すきかな。
子猫をお願い take care of my cat
予想通り、こんなもんかと。一般的な視点で言えば、うまくまとまっている方ですが。「ほえる犬は噛まない」の子、やっぱり居場所が見つけられていない気がする。
どうも「恋する惑星」の音楽とだぶってしょうがない。
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Pavement
Pavement
Originally uploaded by caterina.
The seawall from Vancouver, she said.
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L
Originally uploaded by johanna.
liked this drawing.
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July 18, 2004
Alexa
うーむ。
サイトのアクセス世界ランキングがわかるサイト。便利です。 http://www.alexa.com/検索窓に知りたいサイトのアドレスを打ち込むだけで、そのサイトのアクセス数、ランキング、他の参照サイト、表示スピード、などがわかります。アクセス数はグラフ化され、競合サイトとの比較もできたりします。
サイト調査を行う際に、競合が探しやすく、そのアクセス数、表示スピードなどが読み取れ、非常に便利です。ツールバーを入れるとさらに便利に使えます。
Alexaはamazonが買収した会社なのですが、Alexaで世界のWebサイト情報を、A9.comで世界のユーザ情報を集め、それらを絡めて商品の購買に結びつける戦略をとっているのでしょうか。それらの情報を使って、いろいろなビジネスに展開していくんでしょうね。恐ろしやamazon。
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test post from flicker
Sky in the Evening
Originally uploaded by mudge.
Nice program, isn't it?
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New iPod ?
これ？またあのリモコン？
Think Secret - New iPod shown on Newsweek cover
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ワイルドレンジ Open Range
力の入った渾身の作品という印象。思った通り、丁寧に丁寧に作られていました。ベタな西部劇なんだけど、昔くささは無くて安心して観られる。熱い熱い。あ、来る来るって解っても、手に汗握ってた（笑）負けないとは解っていながらも、ドキドキして観る感じ、西部劇、正義もの、典型ですよね。でも、楽しい。かっこいい。
Robert DuvallもKevin Costnerも男臭くてカッコいい。Kevin Costnerはこういう役、ピッタリ。なんかネクタイ姿とか想像しにくい。
Annette Beningは歳をとってますます奇麗になった気がする。油が抜けたというか。いいなぁ、としみじみ観てしまったさ。こんなヒトいねーよ、と思いつつ。
絵もとても奇麗だったなぁ。
次も男に生まれたいですねぇ。そんな印象を与えてもらった。
K's Cinemaも好印象。音がいいです。ホントに。遮音も完璧で。好きな映画館ですね。小さいけれど、ロビーとかお金かかってないけど、新宿の映画館街でない、ちょっとはずれの方にあるけど、いいですよ。（歌舞伎町にないのもポイント高い）
年配の方で比較的混んでました。若い人にも見て欲しいです。
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よくできた漫画でした。こんなものかと。
原作は面白そうですね。高校生の頃を思い出しました。何でもアリでした。私も。
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The bin Ladens were allowed to leave the country after September 13th
OH MY GOD!
MOORE (VO): It turns out that the White House approved planes to pick up the bin Ladens and numerous other Saudis. At least six private jets and nearly two dozen commercial planes carried the Saudis and the bin Ladens out of the US after September 13th. In all, 142 Saudis, including 24 members of the bin Laden family, were allowed to leave the country.
Fahrenheit 9/11 Transcript: The Saudi Flights (Aaron Swartz: The Weblog)
**************************************
the unofficial transcript of FAHRENHEIT 9/11
{ R E D L I N E R A N T S }
WRITTEN, PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY:
MICHAEL MOORE
(fireworks appear, fireworks sound starts... Florida Victory party scene. People holding Gore/Lieberman signs)
NARRATOR: Was it all just a dream?
AL GORE: God bless you, Florida. Thank you!
NARRATOR: Did the last four years not really happen? Look, there's Ben Affleck. He's often in my dreams. And the taxi driver guy. He was there too. And little Stevie Wonder, he seemed so happy, like a miracle had taken place. Was it a dream? Or was it real? It was election night 2000 and everything seemed to be going as planned.
Series of news clips: In New York, Al Gore is our projected winner. / The Garden State is green for Gore. / We project that Mr. Gore is the winner in Delaware. This state has voted with the winner in... / (Tom Brokaw interrupts) Mike, you know I wouldn't do this if it weren't big: Florida goes for Al Gore. / CNN announces that we call Florida in the Al Gore column.
NARRATOR: Then something called the Fox News Channel called the election in favor of the other guy.
BRIT HUME: Sorry to interrupt you; Fox News now projects George W. Bush the winner in Florida and thus it appears the winner of the Presidency of the United States.
NARRATOR: All of a sudden the other networks said, "Hey, if Fox said it, it must be true."
TOM BROKAW: All of us networks made a mistake and projected Florida in the Al Gore column. It was our mistake.
NARRATOR: Now what most people don't know is that the man who was in charge of the decision desk at Fox that night, the man who called it for Bush was none other than Bush's first cousin, John Ellis. How does someone like Bush get away with something like this?
(Cut to scene of Bush laughing)
NARRATOR: Well first, it helps if your brother is the Governor of the state in question.
GEORGE W. BUSH: You know something, we are gonna win Florida (cut to Jeb smiling), mark my words. You can write it down.
NARRATOR: Second, make sure the chairman of your campaign is also the vote count woman. And that her state has hired a company that's gonna knock voters off the roles who aren't likely to vote for you. You can usually tell 'em by the color of their skin. Then make sure your side fights like it's life or death.
JAMES BAKER: I think all of this talk about legitimacy is way overblown.
(Cut to Bush supporters)
NARRATOR: And hope that the other side will just sit by and wait for the phone to ring. And even if numerous independent investigations prove that Gore got the most votes...
JEFFREY TOBIN: If there was a statewide recount, under every scenario, Gore won the election.
NARRATOR: It won't matter, just so long as all of your daddy's friends on the Sue-preme Court vote the right way.
AL GORE: While I strongly disagree with the Court's decision, I accept it.
TOM DASCHLE: What we need now is acceptance. We have a new President-elect.
(cut back to Florida victory party scene, fireworks)
NARRATOR: Heh. It turns out none of this was a dream. It's what really happened. On the day the joint-session of both the House of Representatives and the Senate was to certify the election results, Al Gore, in his dual role as outgoing Vice President and President of the Senate, presided over the event that would officially annoint George W. Bush as the new President. If any Congressman wanted to raise an objection, the rules insisted that he or she had to have the signed support of just one Senator.
REP. ALCEE HASTINGS (on the floor): Mr. President (to Gore), and I take great pride in calling you that, um, I must object because of the overwhelming evidence of official misconduct, deliberate..
AL GORE: The chairman must remind members that under Section 18, Title 3 of the United States Code, no debate is allowed in the joint-session.
REP. ALCEE HASTINGS: Thank you Mr. President, to answer your question, Mr. President, the objection is in writing, signed by a number of members of the House of Representatives, but not by a member of the Senate.
REP. CORRINE BROWN: Uh, Mr. President it is in writing and signed by several House colleagues on behalf and myself of the twenty-seven thousand voters of Duval County in which sixteen thousand of them were African-Americans that was disenfranchised in this last election.
AL GORE: Is the objection signed by a member of the Senate?
REP. CORRINE BROWN: Not signed by a member of the Senate; the Senate is missin'.
REP. BARBARA LEE: Mr. President, it is in writing and signed by myself on behalf of many of the diverse constituents in our country, especially those of the 9th congressional district and all American voters who recognize that the Supreme Court, not the people of the United States, decided this election.
AL GORE: Is the objection signed by a Senator?
REP. BARBARA LEE: Unfortunately, Mr. President, it is not signed by one single senator.
REP. MINK: Unfortunately, I have no authority over the United States Senate and no Senator has signed.
REP. MEEK: Mr. President, it is in writing and signed by myself and several of my constituents from Florida. A Senator is needed, but missing.
AL GORE: Is the objection, uh, in writing and signed by a member of the House and a senator?
REP. MAXINE WATERS: The objection is in writing, and I don't care that it is not, is not signed by a Member of the Senate. (cheers, clapping)
AL GORE: The Chair will advise that the rules do care, uh, and (loud cheering, clapping) ...
NARRATOR: Not a single senator came to the aid of the African-Americans in Congress. One after another they were told to sit down and shut up.
REP. JACKSON: It's a sad day in America, Mr. President, when we can't find a Senator to sign these objections...
AL GORE: Gentleman will suspend (bangs gavel, Jackson continues talking), the gentleman will suspend.
DAN RATHER VOICEOVER: Inauguration coverage 2001 on a nasty but it could be worse kind of day in Washington.
(cut to protestors)
NARRATOR: On the day George W. Bush was inaugurated, tens of thousands of Americans poured into the streets of DC in one last attempt to claim what had been taken from them. They pelted Bush's limo with eggs and brought the inauguration parade to a halt. The plan to have Bush get out of the limo for the traditional walk to the White House was scrapped; Bush's limo hit the gas to prevent an even larger riot. No President had ever witnessed such a thing on his inauguration day. And for the next eight months it didn't get any better for George W. Bush. He couldn't get his judges appointed; he had trouble getting his legislation passed; and he lost Republican control of the Senate. His approval ratings in the polls began to sink. He was already beginning to look like a lame duck President. With everything going wrong he did what any of us would do -- he went on vacation.
(cut to Bush golfing, fishing; the song 'Vacation' playing. Cute)
NARRATOR: In his first eight months in office before September 11th, George W. Bush was on vacation, according to the Washington Post, forty-two percent of the time.
PRESIDENT BUSH: I hit every shot good; people would say I wasn't working.
NARRATOR: It was not surprising that Mr. Bush needed some time off. Being President is hard work.
REPORTER #1: Many folks say you're loafing here in Texas, that you're taking too long of a vacation.
PRESIDENT BUSH: They don't understand the definition of work. I'm getting a lot done. Secondly, you don't have to be in Washington to work. It's amazing what can happen with telephones, faxes, and...
REPORTER #2: What are you doing the rest of the day?
PRESIDENT BUSH: Uh, Karen Hughes is comin' over, we're workin' on some things. And uh, she'll be over here, we're workin' on these things. These matters. I'm workin' on some initiatives. We're uh... you'll see. There'll be some decisions I'm gonna make while I'm here and we'll be announcing them as time goes on. (looking around)
NARRATOR: The first I met him he had some good advice for me.
MICHAEL MOORE: Governor Bush, it's Michael Moore.
PRESIDENT BUSH: Behave yourself will ya; go find real work.
NARRATOR: And work was something he knew a lot about. (Bush slappin' grits onto a plate)
PRESIDENT BUSH: Anyone want some grits?
NARRATOR: Relaxing at Camp David. Yachting off Kennebunkport. Or being a cowboy on the ranch in Texas.
PRESIDENT BUSH: I love the nature; I love getting in the pickup truck with my dogs.
NARRATOR: George Bush spent the rest of August at the ranch where life was less complicated.
PRESIDENT BUSH: I love to dig the soil looking for bugs and uh, so um, I went out there the other day and there was Barny buried in this hole chasing an armadillo. (laughs)
NARRATOR: It was a summer to remember. And when it was over, he left Texas for his second favorite place (shaking hands with Jeb Bush; 'September 10,2001' caption in lower left corner). On September 10, he joined his brother in Florida where they looked at files and met important Floridians. He went to sleep that night in a bed made with fine French linens. (video of mom kissing boy goodnight)
(guitar strumming)
(microphone being pinned on Bush....)
DON RUMSFELD: You suppose he's pretty confident on those numbers on Iraqi security forces?
(Dick Cheney getting make-up put on)
--title: FAHRENHEIT 9/11 --
(Bush getting his hair combed)
(Condi Rice getting make-up put on)
(Paul Wolfowitz spitting on comb and dragging it through his hair, laughing)
(Colin Powell getting make-up put on)
JOHN ASHCROFT: Make me look young. (laughs / camera zooms in on his eyes) Yeah, I got a little bit of sort of ear noise. Don't turn it up too much, don't want it to blow my head off.
(Bush at his desk, listening to crew setting up microphones, wiping his brow)
(Tom Ridge laughing, wiping his nose)
(President looks up, looks away, smirks, nods)
(creepy guitar strumming ends)
(screen is black; you can hear the audio of the planes hitting the two towers of the WTC)
(fades in, woman crying.... bell ringing... people looking up in awe, gasping. Firefighters looking up. Woman sitting on curb with head in hands. Man crying. People praying. Debris falling. People running. Missing persons fliers.)
NARRATOR: On September 11th, 2001, nearly 3,000 people - including a colleague of mine, Bill Weems - were killed in the largest foreign attack ever on American soil. The targets were the financial and military headquarters of the United States.
GIRL HOLDING PICTURE: If anyone has any idea, have seen him, or knows where he is, to call us. He's got two little babies. Two little babies.
NARRATOR: As the attack took place, Mr. Bush was on his way to an elementary school in Florida. When informed of the first plane hitting the World Trade Center, where terrorists had struck just eight years prior, Mr. Bush decided to go ahead with this photo opportunity.
(Bush walking in, pictures flashing, he's smiling)
NARRATOR: When the second plane hit the tower, his Chief of Staff entered the classroom and told Mr. Bush the nation is under attack. (familiar scene of Andy Card leaning in, Bush grimacing, biting his lip) Not knowing what to do, with no one telling him what to do, and no Secret Service rushing in to take him to safety, Mr. Bush just sat there and continued to read 'My Pet Goat' with the children. (Bush looks visibly concerned... clock ticks away in the corner of the screen) Nearly seven minutes passed with nobody doing anything. (shot of Ari Fleischer, hangs his head) As Bush sat in that Florida classroom, was he wondering if maybe he should have shown up to work more often? Should he have held at least one meeting since taking office to discuss the threat of terrorism with his head of counter terrorism? (shot of Dick Clarke) Or maybe Mr. Bush was wondering why he had cut terrorism funding from the FBI. (scroll of highlighted document, 'Counterterrorism Equipment' highlighted) Or perhaps he just should have read the security briefing that was given to him on August 6, 2001 that said that Osama bin Laden was planning to attack America by hijacking airplanes. (shot of Bush at a meeting, date-stamped August 6, 2001) Or maybe he wasn't worried about the terrorist threat because the title of the report was too vague.
CONDOLEEZA RICE: I believe the title of the report was 'Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States.'
NARRATOR: A report like that might make some men jump, but as in days passed, George W. just went fishing. As the minutes went by, George Bush continued to sit in the classroom. Was he thinking, 'I've been hanging out with the wrong crowd. Which one of them screwed me? (cut to video of Rumsfeld meeting with Saddam Hussein in 1983) Was it the man my daddy's friends delivered a lot of weapons to? (cut to picture of "Taliban Leaders") Was it that group of religious fundamentalists who visited my state when I was governor? (cut to picture of the President and Saudi Royal Prince) Or was it the Saudis? Damn, it was them. I think I'd better blame it on this guy (video of Saddam Hussein smoking a cigar, dancing).'
In the days following September 11th, all commercial and private airline traffic was grounded.
VOICEOVER: The FAA has taken action to close all of the airports in the United States.
VOICEOVER: Even grounding the President's father, former President Bush, on a flight forced to land in Milwaukee. Dozens of travelers stranded, among them, Ricky Martin, due to perform at tonight's Latin Grammy awards.
NARRATOR: Not even Ricky Martin would fly. But really, who wanted to fly? No one. Except the bin Ladens.
(video of plane taking off... song, "We've got to get out of this place")
SEN. BYRON DORGAN: We had some airplanes authorized at the highest levels of our government to fly to pick up Osama bin Laden's family members and others from Saudi Arabia; transport them out of this country.
NARRATOR: It turns out that the White House approved planes to pick up the bin Ladens and numerous other Saudis. At least six private jets and nearly two dozen commercial plans carried the Saudis and the bin Ladens out of the U.S. after September 13th. In all, 142 Saudis, including 24 members of the bin Laden family, were allowed to leave the country.
(video of Osama bin Laden)
CRAIG UNGER: Osama has always been portrayed as the bad apple, the black sheep of the family and that they cut off all relationship with him around 1994. In fact things are much more complicated than that.
NARRATOR: You mean Osama has had contact with other family members?
CRAIG UNGER: That's right. In the summer of 2001 just before 9/11 one of Osama's sons got married in Afghanistan and several family members showed up at the wedding.
NARRATOR: Bin Ladens?
CRAIG UNGER: That's right. They have not cut off completely; that's really an exaggeration.
LARRY KING: We now welcome to Larry King Live, it's good to see him again, Prince Bandar, the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United States.
PRINCE BANDAR: We have about twenty-four members of bin Laden's family and uh...
LARRY KING: Here?
PRINCE BANDER: In America. Students and his majesty felt it was not fair for those innocent people to be subjected to any harm. On the other hand, we understood had the high emotions. So in cooperation with the FBI, we got them out.
NARRATOR: This is retired FBI agent Jack Cloonan. Before 9/11 he was a senior agent on the joint FBI-CIA al Qaeda task force.
JACK CLOONAN: I as an investigator would not want these people to have left. ... I think in the case of the bin Laden family I think it would have been prudent, hand the subpoenas out, have 'em come in, get on the record. You know, get on the record.
NARRATOR: That's the proper procedure.
JACK CLOONAN: Yeah. ... How many people were pulled off of the airlines after that coming into the country who were what, that were from the Middle East or they fit a very general picture.
NARRATOR: We held hundreds of, ...
JACK CLOONAN: We held hundreds and I...
NARRATOR: ...weeks and months at a time.
(cut to Craig Unger)
NARRATOR: Did the authorities do anything when the bin Ladens tried to leave the country?
CRAIG UNGER: No, they were identified at the airport, they looked at their passports, and they were identified.
NARRATOR: But that's what would happen to you or I if we were...
CRAIG UNGER: Exactly. Exactly.
NARRATOR: "So a little interview, check the passport, what else?"
UPDATE 6/30: The previous line had read NARRATOR: So what did they do, they checked the passports, what else? Credit here for the correction.)
CRAIG UNGER: Nothing.
(cut to Dragnet song)
NARRATOR: I don't know about you, but usually when the police can't find a murderer don't they usually want to talk to the family members to find out where they think he might be?
JOE FRIDAY: You have no idea where your husband might be? / Well if you hear anything let us know, will ya? / You willing to come downtown and give us a statement? / This gonna take a while? 'You got the time.' Mine's worth money, yours isn't. ... I asked you a question. 'You're gonna answer 'em not ask 'em.' Now listen to me cop I pay your salary. 'Alright, sit down, I'm gonna earn it.'
NARRATOR: Yeah, that's how cops do it. What was goin' on here?
SEN. BYRON DORGAN: I think we need to know a lot more about that. That needs to be the subject of a significant investigation. What happened? How did it happen? Why did it happen? And who authorized it?
JACK CLOONAN: Try to imagine what those poor bastards were feeling when they jumped outta that building to their death. Those those those young guys and cops ran into that building, never asked a question, and they're dead. And their families? lives are ruined. And they'll never have peace. And if I had to inconvenience a member of the bin Laden family with a subpoena or a grand jury do you think I'd lose any sleep over it? Not for a minute, Mike.
NARRATOR: And no one would question it.
JACK CLOONAN: No, it's right...
NARRATOR: Not even the biggest civil libertarians?
JACK CLOONAN: No, no.
NARRATOR: No one would question it.
JACK CLOONAN: It's just, ya know, you get a lawyer and fine, counselor fine. Mr. bin Laden this is why I'm asking you; it's not because I think it's you're anything, I just want to ask you the questions that I would anybody.
NARRATOR: Right.
JACK CLOONAN: And that's all.
NARRATOR: None of this made any sense. (Marine One coming down to the White House) Can you imagine in the days following the Oklahoma City terrorist bombing President Clinton helping to arrange a trip out of the country for the McVeigh family? What do you think would have happened to Clinton if that had been revealed?
(cut to b&w scene, "Burn him," Puritans holding torches)
LARRY KING: Bandar, do you know the bin Laden family?
PRINCE BANDAR: I do very well.
LARRY KING: What are they like?
PRINCE BANDAR: They're really lovely human beings; uh, he is the only one I never, I don't know well. I met him only once.
LARRY KING: What was the circumstance under which you met him?
PRINCE BANDAR: This is ironic, and uh, in the mid-80s, if you remember, we and the United States were supporting the Mujhadeen to liberate Afghanistan from the Soviets. He came to thank me for my efforts to bring the Americans, our friends, to help us against the atheists, he said the communists.
LARRY KING: He came to thank you for helping bring America to help him? And now he may be responsible for bombing America.
PRINCE BANDAR: Absolutely.
LARRY KING: What do you make of him when you met him?
PRINCE BANDAR: I was not impressed, to be honest with you.
LARRY KING: Not impressed.
PRINCE BANDAR: No. He was simple and quiet guy.
(cut to picture of President Bush in Florida classroom)
NARRATOR: Hmmm. A simple and quiet guy. Whose family who just happened to have a business relationship with the family of George W. Bush. Is that what he was thinking about? Because if the public knew this it wouldn't look very good. Was he thinking, 'You know, I need a big black marker.'
In early 2004, in a speech during the New Hampshire primary, I called George W. Bush a deserter for his time in the Texas National Guard. In response, the White House released his military records in the hopes of disproving the charge. What Bush didn't know is that I already had a copy of his military records - uncensored - obtained in the year 2000. And there is one glaring difference between the records released in 2000 and those he released in 2004. (image of "records," black marks) A name had been blacked out. In 1972, two airmen were suspended for failing to take their medical examination. One was George W. Bush. And the other was James R. Bath. In 2000 the documents show both names. But in 2004 Bush and White House had Bath's name blacked out. Why didn't Bush want the press and public to see Bath's name on his military records? Perhaps he was worried that the American people would find out that at one time James R. Bath was the Texas money manager for the bin Ladens.
Bush and Bath had become good friends when they both served in the Texas National Guard. After they were discharged, when Bush's dad was head of the CIA, Bath opened up his own aviation business, after selling a plane to a man named Salem bin Laden, heir to the second largest fortune in Saudi Arabia: the Saudi bin Laden Group.
JAMES MOORE: W at that time was just starting out in the world as a business man. Because he's a guy who�0�1�0�8 always tried to emulate his father, uh, he decided to go into the oil business. He founded an oil company, a drilling company, out of west Texas called Arbusto, which was very very good at drilling dry holes that nothing came out of. But the question has always been where did this money come from? Now his dad was rich. His dad could have done this for him. But his dad didn't do this for him. There's no indication that his daddy wrote a check to start him off in this company.
NARRATOR: So where did George W. Bush get his money? One person who did invest in him was James R. Bath. (cut to "Trust Agreement") Bush's good friend James Bath was hired by the bin Laden family to manage their money in Texas and invest in businesses. (zoom in on 'Salem bin Laden' signature) And James Bath himself in turn invested in George W. Bush. Bush ran Arbusto into the ground, as he did every other company he was involved in. Until finally one of his companies was bought by Harken Energy. And they gave him a seat on their board.
JAMES MOORE: A lot of us have suspected through the years that, that there has been Saudi oil money involved in all of these companies: Harken, Spectrum 7, Arbusto Drilling, all of the Bush companies. Whenever they got into trouble there were these angel investors who flowed money into the companies.
CRAIG UNGER: So the question is why would Saudis with all the oil in the world go around the globe to invest in this lousy oil company? And the thing is it had one big asset, Harken, Harken had one thing going for it which is that George W. Bush was on its board of directors at a time when his father was President of the United States.
GEORGE W. BUSH: (caption 'August 1992') When you're the President's son and you've got unlimited access combined with some credentials from a prior campaign, in Washington DC people tend to respect that; I mean, access is power and, uh, I can find my dad, talk to him any time of the day.
(picture of George W. Bush by a Harken sign)
NARRATOR: Yes, it helps to be the Presidents son. Especially when you're being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
REPORTER: In 1990 when M. Bush was a director of Harken Energy he received this memo from company lawyers warning directors not to sell stock if they had unfavorable information about the company. One week later he sold $848,000 worth of Harken stock. Two months later, Harken announced losses of more than $23 million dollars.
NARRATOR: The James Baker law partner who helped Bush beat the wrap from the SEC was a man by the name of Robert Jordan who, when George W became President, was appointed ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
(Bush and friends drinking, throwing horse shoes)
NARRATOR: After the Harken debacle the friends of Bush's dad got him a seat on another board of a company owned by the Carlyle Group.
DAN BRIODY: We wanted to look at which companies um actually gained from September 11th. Turned up this company Carlyle Group. The Carlyle Group is a multinational conglomerate that invests in heavily government regulated industries like telecommunications, health care, and particularly defense. Both George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush worked for the Carlyle Group, the same company that counted the bin Laden family among its investors.
The Carlyle Group was holding its annual investor conference on the morning of September 11th in the Ritz Carlton hotel in Washington, DC. At that meeting were all of the Carlyle regulars: James Baker likely, John Major, definitely George H.W. Bush though he left the morning of September 11th. Shapfi (sp) bin Laden, who is Osama bin Laden's half brother, um, and was in town to look after his family's investments in the Carlyle Group -- all of them together in one room watching as the um, the planes hit the towers. And then in fact the bin Laden family was invested in one of their defense funds which, ironically, meant as the United States started increasing its defense spending, um, the bin Laden family stood to gain from those investments through the Carlyle Group.
NARRATOR: Of all the weapons companies it owned, the Carlyle Group was in essence the 11th largest defense contractor in the United States. It owned United Defense, makers of the Bradley Armored Fighting Vehicle. September 11th guaranteed that United Defense was going to have a very good year.
Just six weeks after 9/11, Carlyle filed to take United Defense public, and in December, made a one day profit of $237 million dollars. But sadly, with so much attention focused on the bin Laden family being important Carlyle investors, the bin Ladens eventually had to withdraw. Bush's dad though stayed on as senior advisor to Carlyle's Asia board for another two years.
DAN BRIODY: As unassuming as it seems, uh, to, uh, to, to know that George H.W. Bush was meeting with the bin Laden family while Osama was a wanted terrorist, um, well before September 11th, it's very discomforting for Americans to know that.
George H.W. Bush is a man who has obviously incredible reach into the White House. Um, he receives daily CIA briefings, which is the right of any ex-President, but very few ex-Presidents actually exercise that right -- uh, he does. And I think in a very real way they are benefiting from the confusion that arises when George H.W. Bush visits Saudi Arabia on behalf of Carlyle and meets with the royal family and meets with the bin Laden family. Is he representing the United States of America or is he representing an investment firm in the United States of America, or is he representing both? This company's about money. It's not about conspiracies to run the world or engineer political maneuvering, things like that; it's about making money and it's about making a lot of money. And they have done very well.
VOICE OF HELEN THOMAS: (camera on Ari Fleischer) I want you on the record on this question (or "I'll get you on the record on this question" -- it's unintelligible). In the White House view there is no ethical conflict in former President Bush and former Secretary of State Jim Baker using their contacts with world leaders to represent one of the most well-known military arms dealers, the Carlyle Group?
ARI FLEISCHER: The President has full faith that his family will conform with all proper ethics laws, all ethics laws, and will act properly in their conduct.
NARRATOR: Okay, so let's say one group of people, like the American people, pay you $400,000 a year to be President of the United States. But then another group of people invest in you, your friends, and their related businesses $1.4 billion dollars over a number of years. Who you gonna like? (video of President Bush and Saudi Prince) Who's your daddy? Because that's how much the Saudi royals and their associates have given the Bush family. Their friends. And their related businesses in the past three decades. Is it rude to suggest that when the Bush family wakes up in the morning they might be thinking about what's best for the Saudis instead of what's best for you? Or me? 'Cuz $1.4 billion doesn't just buy a lot of flights out of the country, it buys a lot of love.
(pictures of President Bush, George H.W. Bush, and admin officials and Saudi royals holding, shaking hands)
NARRATOR: Sooner or later this special relationship with a regime that Amnesty International condemns as a wide-spread human rights violator (cut to video of public beheading) would come back to haunt the Bushes. Now, after 9/11, it was an embarrassment and they preferred that no one ask any questions.
CAROL ASHLEY: The investigation should have begun on September 12th; there's no reason why it shouldn't have. Three thousand people were dead, it was a murder, and it should have gotten started immediately.
NARRATOR: First, Bush tried to stop Congress from setting up its own 9/11 investigation.
PRESIDENT BUSH: It's important for us to not reveal how we collect information; that's what the enemy wants. And we're fighting an enemy.
NARRATOR: When he couldn't stop Congress, he then tried to stop an independent 9/11 commission from being formed.
REPORTER: The President's position was a break from history. Independent investigations were launched within days of Pearl Harbor and President Kennedy's assassination.
NARRATOR: But when Congress did complete its own investigation, the Bush White House censored twenty-eight pages of the report.
REPORTER: The President is being pressed by all sides to declassify the report. US officials tell NBC news most of the secret sources involve Saudi Arabia.
PRESIDENT BUSH: We have given extraordinary cooperation with Chairmen Kean and Hamilton.
THOMAS H. KEAN: We haven't gotten the materials we needed, and we certainly haven't gotten them in a timely fashion. The deadlines we set have passed.
TIM RUSSERT: Will you testify before the commission?
PRESIDENT BUSH: This commission? Testify, I mean, I'd be glad to visit with them.
ROSEMARY DILLARD: What it will do is hold this in my heart, it has been in my heart since September 11th. I lost my husband, 15 years. I'm now by myself. Um, I need to know what happened to him. I know what I got back from the autopsy. That man was my life and I have no plan. I'd taken a class and they asked me what was I gonna do in the next five years. And if I'm not doing something with this, I don't know what reason I have to live. So, it's very important. Very important. 'Kay.
NARRATOR: Ignored by the Bush administration, more than 500 relatives of 9/11 victims filed suit against Saudi royals and others. The lawyers the Saudi defense minister hired to fight the 9/11 families? The law firm of Bush family confidante, James A. Baker.
MICHAEL MOORE: So right here in the center of three important American landmarks, uh, the Watergate hotel and office building, the Kennedy Center over there, and uh, the embassy of Saudi Arabia.
: Wow. (chuckle)
MICHAEL MOORE: How much money do the Saudis have invested in America, roughly?
: Uh, I've heard figures inside of $860 billion dollars.
MICHAEL MOORE: 860 billion.
: Billion.
MICHAEL MOORE: That's a lot of money. And uh, what percentage of our economy is that? That seems like a lot.
: Well, in terms of investments on Wall Street, American equities, it's roughly six or seven percent of America. They own a fairly good slice of America. And most of that money goes into the great blue chip companies: Citigroup, Citibank is the largest stock held by the Saudis. AOLTimeWarner has big Saudi investors.
MICHAEL MOORE: So I read where like the Saudis have a trillion dollars in our banks of their money. What would happen if like one day they just pulled that trillion dollars out?
: A trillion dollars, that would be an enormous blow to the economy.
(uniformed Secret Service agents comes up)
OFFICER: Could I speak with you for a moment please, sir?
MICHAEL MOORE: Uh yeah, sure.
OFFICER: Good, how are you doing?
MOORE: Good [or something to that effect]
(Moore and officer shake hands)
OFFICER: Steve [something] with the Secret Service. [something else unintelligible] We're just ascertaining information regarding, are you making a documentary regarding the Saudi Arabian embassy?
MICHAEL MOORE: Uh, no. I am doing a documentary. And part of it is about Saudi Arabia.
NARRATOR: Even though we were nowhere near the White House, for some reason the Secret Service had shown up to ask us what we were doing standing across the street from the Saudi embassy.
MICHAEL MOORE: We're not here to cause any trouble or anything. Uh, ya know, is that...
OFFICER: That's fine. Just wanted to get some information on what was going on.
MICHAEL MOORE: Yeah yeah yeah, I didn't realize the Secret Service guards foreign embassies.
OFFICER: Uh, not usually, no sir.
MICHAEL MOORE: No no, do they give you any trouble? The Saudis?
OFFICER: Uh, no comment on that one, I'm not going to answer.
MICHAEL MOORE: Uh, okay, I'll take that as a yes.
(they say their goodbyes)
NARRATOR: It turns out that Saudi Prince Bandar is perhaps the best protected ambassador in the US. The US State Department provides him with a six-man security detail. Considering how he and his family, and the Saudi elite own seven percent of America, it's probably not a bad idea. Prince Bandar is so close to the Bushes they consider him a member of the family, and they even have a nickname for him: Bandar Bush. Two nights after September 11th, George Bush invited Bandar Bush to the White House for a private dinner and talk. Even though bin Laden was a Saudi, and Saudi money had funded al Qaeda, and fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were Saudis, here was the Saudi ambassador casually dining with the President. On September 13th, what were they talking about? Were they commiserating? Or comparing notes? Why would Bandar's government block American investigators from talking to the relatives of the fifteen hijackers? Why would Saudi Arabia become reluctant to freeze the hijackers' assets?
The two of them rocked out on the Truman Balcony so that Bandar could smoke a cigar and have a drink. In the distance, across the Potomac, was the Pentagon, partially in ruins. I wonder if Mr. Bush told Prince Bandar not to worry because he already had a plan in motion.
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FAHRENHEIT 9/11
WRITTEN, PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY:
MICHAEL MOORE
PART II
(cut to Dick Clarke)
CHARLIE GIBSON: You come in September 12th, ready to plot what response we take to al Qaeda. Let me talk to you about the response that you got from top administration officials. On that day, what did the President say to you?
DICK CLARKE: The President, in a very intimidating way, left us - me and my staff - with the clear indication that he wanted us to come back with the word that there was an Iraqi hand behind 9/11 because they had been planning to do something about Iraq from before the time they came to office.
CHARLIE GIBSON: Did he ask about any other nations other than Iraq?
DICK CLARKE: No. No no no. No. Not at all. It was Iraq, Saddam, find out, get back to me.
CHARLIE GIBSON: And were his questions more about Iraq than about al Qaeda?
DICK CLARKE: Absolutely. Absolutely. He didn't ask my about al Qaeda.
CHARLIE GIBSON: And the reaction you got that day from the defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld? And his assistant, Paul Wolfowitz?
DICK CLARKE: Well, Don Rumsfeld said, uh, when we talked about bombing the al Qaeda infrastructure in Afghanistan, he said there were no good targets in Afghanistan, let's bomb Iraq. And we said but Iraq had nothing to do with this. And that didn't seem to make much difference. And the reason they had to do Afghanistan first was it was obvious that al Qaeda had attacked, and it was obvious that al Qaeda was in Afghanistan. The American people wouldn't have stood by if we had done nothing on Afghanistan.
(cue theme song from TV show "Bonanza," map with stage coach lettering "Afghanistan." Map goes up in flames to reveal credits with the heads of George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and Tony Blair superimposed over characters from the show)
NARRATOR: The United States began bombing Afghanistan just four weeks after 9/11. (music continues, video of Afghanis watching jets fly overhead) Mr. Bush said he was doing so because the Taliban government of Afghanistan had been harboring bin Laden.
PRESIDENT BUSH: We will smoke 'em out of their holes. / We're gonna smoke 'em out. / Smoke 'em out. / Smoke him out of his cave. / WESTERN GUY: Let's rush him and smoke him out.
NARRATOR: For all his tough talk, Bush really didn't do much.
DICK CLARKE: But what they did was slow and small. They put only 11,000 troops into Afghanistan -- there are more police here in Manhattan, more police here in Manhattan than there are US troops in Afghanistan. Basically the President botched the response to 9/11. He should have gone right after bin Laden. The US Special Forces didn't get into the area where bin Laden was for two months.
NARRATOR: Two months? A mass murderer who attacked the United States was given a two month head start? Who in their right mind would do that? (video of Bush)
PRESIDENT BUSH: Anybody say "nice shot?"
RANDOM PERSON: Nice shot. Hell of a shot.
NARRATOR: Or was the war in Afghanistan really about something else? Perhaps the answer was in Houston, Texas. In 1997 while George W. Bush was Governor of Texas, a delegation of Taliban leaders from Afghanistan flew to Houston to meet with Unocal executives to discuss the building of a pipeline through Afghanistan bringing natural gas from the Caspian Sea. And who got a Caspian Sea drilling contract the same day Unocal signed the pipeline deal? A company headed by a man named Dick Cheney: Halliburton.
MARTHA BRILL OLCOTT: The point of view of the US government is this was kind of a magic pipeline (laugh), um, because it could serve so many purposes.
NARRATOR: And who else stood to benefit from the pipeline? Bush's number one campaign contributor, Kenneth Lay, and the good people of Enron. (shot of BBC News website, 3 December 1997) Only the British press covered this trip. Then in 2001, just 5 1/2 months before 9/11, the Bush Administration welcomed a special Taliban envoy to tour the United States to help improve the image of the Taliban government.
WOMAN: You have imprisoned the women. ... It's a horror, let me tell you.
TALIBAN MEMBER: I'm very sorry to your husband; he might have a very difficult time with you.
NARRATOR: Here is the Taliban official visiting our State Department to meet with US officials. Why on Earth did the Bush administration allow a Taliban leader to visit the United States knowing that the Taliban were harboring the man who bombed the USS Cole and our African embassies? Well, I guess 9/11 put a stop to that. When the invasion of Afghanistan was complete we installed its new president, Hamid Karzai. Who was Hamid Karzai? He was a former advisor to Unocal. Bush also appointed as his envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad who was also a former Unocal advisor. I guess you can probably see where this is leading. Faster than you can say Black Gold Texas Tea, Afghanistan signed an agreement with her neighboring countries to build a pipeline through Afghanistan carrying natural gas from the Caspian Sea. Oh, and the Taliban? Uh, they mostly got away. As did Osama bin Laden and most of al Qaeda.
PRESIDENT BUSH: Terror is bigger than one person. And he's just, he's, he's a, he's a person who's now been marginalized, so, I, I don't know where he is, nor... and I just don't spend that much time on it, Ellie, to be honest with ya.
NARRATOR: Didn't spend much time on it? What kinda President was he?
PRESIDENT BUSH: I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office, uh, in foreign policy matters with war on my mind.
NARRATOR: With the war in Afghanistan over and bin Laden forgotten, the war president had a new target: (video of Fox News credits, 'War on Terror') the American people.
FOX REPORTER: We've got an unusual terror warning from the Feds to tell you about. Fox News has obtained an FBI bulletin that warns terrorists could use pen guns - just like in a James Bond - filled with poison as weapons.
NBC REPORTER: Good evening everyone, America is on high alert tonight just four days before Christmas.
CNN REPORTER: ...a possible terrorist threat.
CBS REPORTER: ...as bad as or worse than 9/11.
REPORTER: But where? How? There's nothing specific to report.
REPORTER: Be on the lookout for model airplanes packed with explosives.
(video of Osama smiling, woman screaming)
FOX REPORTER: And the FBI is reporting ferries may be considered particularly at risk for hijacking.
(video of Osama smiling, woman screaming. Switches to video of cows)
REPORTER: Could these cattle be a target for terrorists?
NARRATOR: Fear works?
REP. JIM MCDERMOTT: Fear does work, yes. You could make people do anything if they're afraid.
NARRATOR: And how do you make them afraid?
REP. JIM MCDERMOTT: Well you make them afraid by creating an aura of endless threat. They played us like an organ. They raised the le-, the orange and up to red and then they dropped it back to orange. I mean, they, they give these mixed messages which were crazy making.
PRESIDENT BUSH: The world has changed after September the 11th. It's changed because we're no longer safe. / Fly and enjoy America's great, uh, destination spots.
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: We've entered what may very well prove to be the most dangerous security environment the world's known.
PRESIDENT BUSH: Take your families and enjoy life.
VP CHENEY: Terrorists are doing everything they can to gain even deadlier means of striking us.
PRESIDENT BUSH: Get down to Disney World in Florida.
REP. JIM MCDERMOTT: It's like training a dog; ya tell him to sit down or ya tell him to roll over at the same time, the dog doesn't know what to do. Well the American people are being treated like that. It was really very very skillfully and, and ugly in what they did.
PRESIDENT BUSH: We must stop the terror. I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you. Now watch this drive. (President driving a golf ball)
REP. JIM MCDERMOTT: They will continue, in my view, as long as this administration's in charge. Every once in a while still leading everybody to be afraid, just in case you forgot. It's not gonna go down to green or blue. It's never gonna get there. There clearly is no way that anyone can live constantly on edge like that.
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GUY ON VIDEO: Heck, you can be sitting in here drinking your finest Bordeaux while chaos is erupting outside.
SECRETARY RIDGE: Every family in America should prepare itself for a terrorist attack.
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MATT LAURER: How high do you have to be in the building for that chute to actually take effect?
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MATT LAURER: They can put this on themselves?
JOHN RIVERS: Right, they can put this on themselves in as easy as about thirty seconds. ... It's real easy to put on. (shot of Rivers and a female assistant, Jamie, holding an escape chute. Begins fumbling around with it, with her, trying to help her get the thing on) It's easy to put on, but uh... when you first get this chute you're gonna wanna put it on and try it on a few times yourself.
MATT LAURER: Jamie's havin' a little trouble puttin' that thing on, I wanna mention. I mean, is, is this something that, that you honestly think that in a moment of, of panic that someone can, can operate properly?
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REPORTER: Well despite the raising of the terror alert level, residents here in Saginaw are continuing with their Christmas errands. / Francis Troik and her family do some last minute shopping knowing that al Qaeda is planning to attack America. She says being in Saginaw doesn't make her feel any safer than if she was in New York City.
FRANCIS TROIK: Midland is close by, and I said Detroit's not far, not that far away. I said there ain't gonna be someone in Flint, that's gonna be concerned for people out here.
RANDOM MAN: You, you never know where they're gonna hit. You never know where they're gonna hit.
REPORTER: But one potential target specifically mentioned by the terrorists has security officials baffled. It�0�1�0�8 tiny Tappahannock, Virginia, population 2,016. Such an attack could generate widespread fear; that even here in rural small-town America, no one is entirely safe.
ROY GLADDING (MAYOR): On the six o'clock news there was something about a terrorist alert in Tappahannock.
NARRATOR: (to County Sheriff) What'd the FBI tell you?
SHERIFF: Well they contacted me by phone, uh, basically let me know they're worried 'bout Tappahannock. That's how it started.
ROY GLADDING: In their so-called chatter that they picked up they wasn't sure... Tappahannock... there's a Rappahannock County, this is the Rappahannock River.
WOMAN w/CHILDREN: There is a Rappahannock, a place called Rappahannock, and they got it mixed up.
NARRATOR: Is there any terrorist target around here?
ROY GLADDING: Not that we can really think of.
SHERIFF: It can happen anywhere.
ROY GLADDING: We have a Wal-Mart here.
WOMAN w/CHILDREN: We have spaghetti supper in here (?).
MAN W/HOSE: Carwash probably.
NARRATOR: Are you real suspicious of outsiders?
MAN IN SLEEVELESS SHIRT: Oh yeah.
(video of missiles launching from battleship)
NARRATOR: On March 19, 2003, George W. Bush and the United States military invaded the sovereign nation of Iraq. A nation that had never attacked the United States. A nation that had never threatened to attack the United States. A nation that had never murdered a single American citizen.
(video of dead child; Iraqis asking what was his crime in Arabic, calling Americans cowards)
(more video of wounded and dead in Iraq)
IRAQI: To find this, this piece of my neighbor, young girl, age twenty, some part of her body. That's all.
AMERICAN SOLDIER #1: There is a lot of innocent civilians that were killed. And I think that's because, uh the US Army, ya know, we came in, and we knew it wasn't gonna be easy, and they much pretty much at first shot anything that moved.
AMERICAN SOLDER #2: More happens, and the fighting starts, ya know, it's kinda like we're pumped up, motivated, ready to go...
AMERICAN SOLDIER #3: It's the ultimate rush cuz you're going into the fight to begin with, and then you got a good song playing in the background and uh, that gets you real fired up. Ready to do the job.
AMERICAN SOLDIER #2: You can hook your CD player up to the tank's internal communications...
AMERICAN SOLDIER #4: To the Charlie Box.
AMERICAN SOLDIER #2: So that way when you put your helmet on you can hear it through the helmet.
AMERICAN SOLDIER #5: This is the one we listen to the most. This is the one we travel, we kill the enemy. (pointing to Drowning Pool CD) Drowning Pool, 'Let the Bodies Hit the Floor,' is just fitting for the job that we're doing.
(more video of wounded, dead)
AMERICAN SOLDIER #6: We picked The Roof Is On Fire because uh, basically it symbolized Baghdad bein' on fire and uh, and at the time we wanted it to burn to get Saddam and his regime out. The roof is on fire... we don't need no water let the mother fuckers burn... burn mother fucker... burn.
AMERICAN SOLDIER #7: This is a whole totally different picture here being pushed into the city, urban warfare in a tank, you know.
AMERICAN SOLDIER #8: Civilians... civilians, it gets... you don't know whose the enemy...
AMERICAN SOLDIER #9: This is a lot more real and true (graphic close-up of injured Iraqi) than a video game. A lot of people thought it was gonna be, "Oh yeah, look through the sight and shoot." No. A lot of this is face to face and especially ridin' by after some of the bombs that went off and seein' all the people on the side of the road blow'd up (more graphic video). All the smells around you, I mean from the people lyin' dead rotted... it's a lot more gruesome than you think.
AMERICAN SOLDIER #10: We called in some artillery and some napalm and things like that. Some innocent women and children got hit. (graphic images of dead women and children) We met them on the road and they had little girls with noses blown off and uh, husbands carrying their dead wives and things like that. And that was extremely difficult to deal with because you're like, you're like, "Shoot. What the hell do we do now?" (video from fighter jet targeting and blowing up a building)
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: The targeting capabilities and the care that goes into targeting is (as he's speaking, video shows of Iraqi child having part of his head stitched back on, crying), is as impressive as anything anyone could see. The care that goes into it, the humanity that goes into it...
IRAQI WOMAN: (subtitles) They slaughtered us. God will destroy their houses. God is great. Victory to Iraq!
IRAQI REPORTER: (subtitles) You mean they killed civilians?
IRAQI WOMAN: Yes, civilians! It's our uncles house! We're all civilians. There is no militia here. I pray to God to avenge us. I can only count on you, God. (crying) We've had five funerals because of the bombings. Oh God. Oh God! God save us from them. Where are you God?
BRITNEY SPEARS: (looking hot) Honestly, I think we should just trust our President in every decision that he makes and we should just support that. You know? And, um, be faithful in what happens.
REPORTER: Do you trust this President?
BRITNEY SPEARS: Yes, I do.
NARRATOR: Britney Spears was not alone. The majority of the American people trusted the President. And why shouldn't they? He'd spent the better part of the last year giving them every reason why we should invade Iraq.
PRESIDENT BUSH: Saddam Hussein has gone to elaborate lengths, spent enormous sums, taken great risks to build and keep weapons of mass destruction.
SECRETARY POWELL: Saddam Hussein is determined to get his hands on a nuclear bomb.
PRESIDENT BUSH: Nuclear weapon. / Nuclear weapon. / Nuclear weapon.
SECRETARY POWELL: Active chemical munitions bunkers. Mobile production facilities.
PRESIDENT BUSH: We know he's got chemical weapons. / He's got 'em. / He's got 'em. / He's got 'em.
NARRATOR: Huh, that's weird. Because that's not what Bush's people said when he first took office.
SECRETARY POWELL: (subtitle "February 2001") He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction; he is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors.
CONDOLEEZA RICE: (subtitle "July 2001") We are able to keep arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt.
PRESIDENT BUSH: Saddam Hussein aids and protects terrorists. Including members of al Qaeda.
VP CHENEY: There was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda.
PRESIDENT BUSH: Saddam / al Qaeda / Saddam / al Qaeda / Saddam / al Qaeda / Saddam / Saddam / Saddam / al Qaeda
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: It is only a matter of time before terrorists states armed with weapons of mass destruction develop the capability to deliver those weapons to US cities.
SECRETARY POWELL: What we're giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence.
PRESIDENT BUSH: This is a man who hates America. / This is a man who cannot stand what we stand for. / His willingness to terrorize himself. / He hates the fact, like al Qaeda does, that we love freedom. / After all, this is a guy that tried to kill my dad at one time.
REP. JIM MCDERMOTT: They simply got people to believe that there was a real threat out there, when in fact there wasn't one.
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: You get told things every day that don't happen. It doesn't seem to bother people.
NARRATOR: Of course, the Democrats were there to put a stop to all these falsehoods.
SEN. TOM DASCHLE: I will vote to give the President the authority he needs.
SECRETARY POWELL: The United States is prepared to lead a Coalition of the Willing that will do it.
PRESIDENT BUSH: When I say we will lead a Coalition of the Willing to disarm him if he chooses not to disarm, I mean it.
REPORTER: Who is in that Coalition of the Willing?
PRESIDENT BUSH: You will find out who is in the Coalition of the Willing.
(words "Coalition of the Willing" appear over a globe)
VOICEOVER: The Coalition of the Willing roll call: the Republic of Palau. The Republic of Costa Rica. The Republic of Iceland.
NARRATOR: Of course none of these countries has an army or, for that matter, weapons. (showing video clips of people pounding rocks, riding horses and such) So it looked like we'd be doing most of the invading stuff ourselves. But then there was also...
VOICEOVER: Romania. The Kingdom of Morocco.
NARRATOR: Morocco wasn't officially a member of the Coalition, but according to one report, they did offer to send 2,000 monkeys to help detonate landmines.
PRESIDENT BUSH: These are men of vision.
VOICEOVER: The Netherlands.
PRESIDENT BUSH: And I'm incredibly proud to call 'em allies.
(video of baboons sitting at a conference table)
VOICEOVER: Afghanistan.
NARRATOR: Afghanistan? Hm. Oh yeah, they had an army. Our army! I guess that's one way to build a coalition: just keep invading countries. Yes, with our mighty coalition intact (more video of primitive folk wrestling, riding bikes, being very non-Western European... except for the bikes), we were ready.
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: One could almost say it's the mother of all coalitions.
NARRATOR: Fortunately we have an independent media in this country who would tell us the truth.
SHEPERD SMITH: The rallying around the President, around the flag, and around the troops clearly has begun.
AMERICAN SOLDIER #11: And we're gonna win!
LINDA VESTER: You really have to be with the troops to understand the kind of adrenaline rush they get.
KATIE COURIC: I just want you to know I think Navy SEALS rock.
REPORTER: The pictures you're seeing are absolutely phenomenal.
DAN RATHER: When my country's at war, uh, I want my country to win.
PETER JENNINGS: Iraqi opposition has faded in the face of American power.
REPORTER: What you're watching here is truly historic television and journalism (video of embed by tank).
REPORTER: It was absolutely electrifying. They actually had to strap me in with my camera in the back of the plane.
TED KOPPEL: An awesome synchronized killing machine.
DAN RATHER: There is an inherent bias in the coverage of the American press in general.
NEIL CAVUTO: Am I slanted and biased? You're damned well bet I am.
NARRATOR: But one story the media wasn't covering was the personal story of each and every soldier who was killed in the war. The government would not allow any cameras to show the coffins coming home. That kind of story is a downer, especially when you're getting ready for a party on a boat.
(Bush on aircraft carrier)
PRESIDENT BUSH: My fellow Americans (pan up to 'Mission Accomplished' sign), major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.
(video of bomb going off by a soldier, soldiers dealing with aftermath)
(panorama of cemetery as voiceovers from reporters reading "current" numbers of troop deaths in Iraq -- ends with "largest number of military deaths since Vietnam")
PRESIDENT BUSH: There are some who feel like if they attack us that we may decide to leave prematurely. They don't understand what they're talking about if that's the case. Let me finish. Um, there are some who feel that the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is bring 'em on.
(videos of contractors mutilated in Fallujah)
AMERICAN SOLDIER #12: The United States just plannin' on walkin' in here like it was gonna be easy and all but, it's not that easy to conquer a country, is it?
DAN RATHER: The renewed battle for control of Iraq raged for fourth day today with street clashes in nearly every corner of the country. Iraq could become, quote, another Vietnam.
REPORTER: Officials they see evidence that Sunni and Shiite extremists might be joining forces.
PRESIDENT BUSH: They're not happy they're occupied. I wouldn't be happy if I were occupied either.
(videos of insurgents / terrorists)
REPORTER: Two Japanes aid workers and a journalist kidnapped by men calling themselves the Mujhadeen Squadrons. (video of terrified captives, knives held to their heads) They've threatened to burn these hostages alive if Japan does not withdraw its troops from Iraq within three days.
OFF-SCREEN: What's happened?
THOMAS HAMMILL: Well, they attacked our convoy. (man in black mask speaking in Arabic beside him)
REPORTER: The Pentagon might keep up to twenty-four thousand troops in combat beyond their tour.
AMERICAN SOLDIER #13: I know our numbers in the military have gone down. They talk about retention.
AMERICAN SOLDIER #14: You never really expect to be deployed this long. I don't think anybody did.
AMERICAN SOLDIER #15: I don't have any clue as to why we're still in Iraq.
AMERICAN SOLDIER #16: If Donald Rumsfeld was here, I'd ask him for his resignation.
NARRATOR: With the war not going as planned, and the military in need of many more troops, where would they find the new recruits?
REPORTER: Military experts say three times the 120,000 US troops now deployed would be needed to pacify and rebuild the country.
NARRATOR: They would find them all across America in the places that had been destroyed by the economy. Places where one of the only jobs available was to join the Army. Places like my hometown of Flint, Michigan.
POTENTIAL RECRUIT: And I was watchin' TV one day and they showed like some of the buildings and areas that had been hit by bombs, and things like that, and when I was watchin' I got to thinkin' there's places in Flint look like that, and we ain't been in a war.
RANDOM MAN: Look at the neighborhood I live in. Most of them are abandoned (video of tiny, abandoned homes). I mean, that's not right. You want to talk about terrorism? Come right here. President Bush, right here, come. Come right here. He's knows about this corner -- I e-mailed him.
LILA LISCOMB: At the end of January of '04 the unemployment rate in Flint was actually 17%. But you have to take into consideration as well that when you're unemployment runs out you're no longer counted. I would have to say that we're probably close to at least 50% not working or under-employed. (nodding, then shaking head) Because being under-employed is just as dangerous. ... So my family has gone through the welfare system when it was jobs-central; in the mid-80s I came through the job training partnership program here at jobs central and I went to a secretary school. Years later I'm the executive assistant to the president of the agency (shrugs). Interesting (laughs).
My mother used to tell me all the time, "Why do you always go for the underdog? It was because the underdog is who needed me. The people who don't have anything, that's who I have to fight for and that's who I've fought for my entire life. I started taking my children and telling my children the military is a good option; I can't afford to have you go to college, I can't pay your way, financial aid will not help you, so I as a mother started teaching my children about the options that the military could do. ... They would take them around the world, they would see all of the things that I as a mother could not let them see, they would pay for their education as I as their mother and their father could not pay for.
NARRATOR: The military is a good option for kids in Flint.
LILA LISCOMB: The military is an excellent option for people in the city of Flint.
NARRATOR: (at a training technology center) How many of you have a friend or a family member in the service? (men raise hands) Anybody currently serving overseas? (men answer "Germany," "Iraq," etc.)
POTENTIAL RECRUIT: There's like an army or navy recruiter that's up there almost every week. It's in the lunchroom, recruiting students from the lunchroom.
(Army National Guard commercial)
STUDENT #1: I'm going into the Air Force myself, I'm goin' to take the year off probably after high school and then just go and make a career. I wanna be an aircraft maintenance technician.
STUDENT #2: I ran into a recruiter and, uh, there was something I noticed about it and this is kind of on another, it's just, I noticed it was odd. It was more like he was hiring me for a job than recruiting me for the army. It was the way he approached me... approached a friend of mine. ... It was at Borders Books & Music. (video of car ride) He just came up, it was, it was his business card. He had business cards made for the army and everything.
(video of Marines walking towards a Wal-Mart)
NARRATOR: Meet Marine Staff Sgt. Dale Cortman and Sgt. Raymond Flower. They are two of the many recruiters assigned to Flint, Michigan. They're very busy these days.
MARINE #1: (about man jogging) Look at him, he's runnin' around already.
MARINE #2: Yeah. Whatta we got here?
MARINE #1: A little gangsta.
MARINE #2: Yeah. Probably going over to the Courtland Mall now.
NARRATOR: They decided not to go to the wealthier Genesee Valley Mall in the suburbs. They have a hard time recruiting people there. Instead, they went to the other mall.
MARINE #1: Let's go in through Mervin's. And then we'll walk...
MARINE #2: ... straight down...
MARINE #1: ... straight back...
(cut to them walking through the parking lot, approaching two young men)
MARINE #1: Gents, you know we're looking at ya, right?
MARINE #2: You guys ever think about joining up?
PROSPECT: Thought about goin' to college to play basketball or something like that.
MARINE #1: You gonna do it?
PROSPECT: I think, oh yeah, especially to play basketball.
MARINE #1: Good. You can play ball for the Marine Corps as well, travel around the world, gettin' on Marine Corps basketball teams. David Robinson was in the military as well.
PROSPECT: Was he?
MARINE #1: Yep. So you can definitely hook it up.
(cut away)
MARINE: Right now there's somebody out there who wants to be a Marine but has no idea how to do it.
(cut back)
MARINE #2: Where do you work at?
PROSPECT: I work at KFC.
MARINE #2: Really? You can hook us up with some deals?
PROSPECT: Yeah.
(cut away)
MARINE: They're waitin' to get recruited.
(cut back)
PROSPECT: I don't know, I'm probably gonna try to get a little career in music or somethin'.
MARINE #1: Career in music. Maybe we can get you a career in music. You know what the Marines go for -- I'm sure you know who Shaggy is, right? (picture of Shaggy)
PROSPECT: Yeah.
MARINE #1: You know anything about him?
PROSPECT: Yeah, he's a Jamaican, uh, yeah...
MARINE #1: How about a former Marine?
PROSPECT: Whoa.
MARINE #1: Did you know it? ... You definitely need to know a discipline if you're gonna get into music, especially discipline with the money. If you're makin' money you need to manage that money. So come in the office, we can sit down and talk... show you everything we know about the Marines. Sound like a plan?
MARINE #2: What do you got goin' on later this afternoon? ... How about tomorrow? ... Say around ten o'clock Monday morning?
PROSPECT: Yeah, that sounds pretty good.
MARINE #1: Want me to come pick you up?
(cut away)
MARINE #2: Better to get 'em when they're one's and two's...
MARINE #1: Hey pal. / Ladies, you ready to join up. / Oh, he's young, he's young. / We got two over here. Right over by the red van. / You go that way, I go this way, we'll corner 'em.
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MARINE #1: You're in the ninth grad
現在見ているページを2つに分割するbookmarklet
これ、ユニークです。ふむ。
Going My Way: Discussion on 現在見ているページを2つに分割するbookmarklet
Jeff Mesnil's Weblog: A bookmarklet to split HTML document within the browser
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July 17, 2004
405 the movie
すげぇ〜 WMVへの直Linkです。
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HOLY SHIT
ははは。
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The awful truth Neil Armstrong
最高！
ゲラゲラ笑えますよ。HAHAHAHA
Blogjam presents: Neil Armstrong - The Truth
Crazed surgeon amputates patient's penis, chops it up
しゃれになりません......
A Romanian surgeon who underwent a fit of madness while operating on a man's testicles proceeded to amputate his penis and cut it into three pieces.
Yahoo! News - Crazed surgeon amputates patient's penis, chops it up
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Larsen Feiten Band
懐かしいと言うかバジー・フェイトンのギターが聴きたくて買ってしまった。やっぱり、いいね。うまいし、新しい。かっこいいし！
Amazon.co.jp： 音楽: ラーセン・フェイトン・バンド
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SAMSUNG 光学3倍ズーム デジカメ携帯
来るとこまで来ちゃいましたかね。
しかし醜いデザインだ.....
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July 16, 2004
Microsoft to Release Product for Messaging
これ、実現してくれるといいですね。
ホント、Formatがバラバラで不便です。
The three companies have for years discussed ways to make their popular instant messaging products work together, but so far they haven't developed a consumer solution - although it is possible with other instant messaging products, such as Trillian.On Wednesday, the companies signaled it might still be a while before consumers enjoy interoperability among the three messengers. But they said they had agreed to work together on the business product, as part of early efforts to make money selling corporate instant messaging services.
Microsoft to Release Product for Messaging - BizReport
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July 15, 2004
RockなWebサイト
このサイト、いいねぇ。買えないけどさ。
Wolfgang’s Vault is dedicated to preserving, celebrating and sharing the incredible art that has exploded from the live rock music experience.Live music reached a new level with the arrival of the modern rock concert. In the 1960s, performers, artists and promoters shaped a synergy with audiences that was unprecedented. The promotional art inspired by the performers, the intimacy of the venues and the energy of the audience all combined to create experiences that are indelible in the minds of those who were there. This era was the true genesis for the years of great concert art that followed, as rock concerts evolved from their dance hall roots to the clubs, arenas, amphitheatres and stadiums of today.
Vintage T-Shirts, Rock Posters, Concert Tickets, Rock Memorabilia, Concert Photos
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Data Nightmare at Pentagon
ひどい話だと思いつつも、この国はもっとお粗末なんでしょうね。税金払いたくないな。
They've been trying for more than a decade. They've built more than 2,000 databases to do the job. They're spending nearly $19 billion a year. But, despite all that effort, Defense Department officials still haven't come up with a way to track the Pentagon's supplies, finances or people, according to a new congressional report.The Pentagon this year asked Congress for a record budget -- over $400 billion. And that doesn't take into account many of the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the Defense Department's databases are so screwed up, "they can't even tell us how or why our money's being spent," Hellman added.
Wired News: Data Nightmare at Pentagon
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July 13, 2004
調査結果：ウェブログの3分の2は「三日坊主」
ちょっと古い記事ですが。
参加するハードルの低さはBlogの醍醐味ですが、やはり書きたいことがないと継続が難しいのは何事も同じな訳で。
更新されてない所も多いですよね。私は関心のベクトルがあっちこっちに向かってるので、時間さえあれば日々更新したいですね。あとは、時間でしょうかねぇ。日本にはあまり興味がないし、日本で報道されているNewsを見て同じ様な事を書いてもつまらんなぁ、という考えもありますしね。いずれにしてもBlogは面白いですよ。自分の記憶領域を広げてくれるToolですからね。ホント、オススメです。そういう目的として、です。
市場調査会社の米パーシアス・ディベロップメント社が6日(米国時間)発表した「ブログ」サイトの調査によると、3分の2が2ヵ月以上、全く更新されていないという。日記のような気軽さでウェブログを作成できるホスティングサービスが次々に登場したが、実際の日記同様、「三日坊主」になることが多いようだ。
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July 12, 2004
Cocco 南の島の恋の歌
買うっ！
南の島の恋の歌 Cocco 文・絵・訳 ★8月15日刊行予定多くの感動を呼んだベストセラー絵本『南の島の星の砂』から2年。
闇を排した、ひたすらロマンティックで光あふれる絵本が完成。
人魚の切ない恋を通して、大いなる“愛”を届ける最新作。ガーネット / セレストブルー
★『南の島の恋の歌』出版記念 ★絵本購入者限定2曲入りCDシングルCocco絵本原画展 南の島の恋の歌
★東京 9月1日（水）〜9月8日（水）
ロゴスギャラリー （渋谷パルコ パート1/Ｂ１）
10:00〜21:00 会期中無休
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July 11, 2004
Pepsi Pinball
よくできてるよ、これ。感心。音もしっかりしてる。楽しいし。
Flashっておもしろいねぇ。
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Danier Leather
結構出回ってますが、一応ご紹介。
男性はニンマリしてしまうのでは？ クスッて感じですね。
でも.....そりゃ、厳しいでしょう。フェロモンですぎ！
（Link先の写真をClickしてください）
Pub Danier Leather (cuir) - Vid辿os
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高尾
高尾に行ったら古い日本映画な街になっていてびっくり。
妙な感じ。
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HBlogger
そもそもPalmの文字入力が面倒なので、PalmからBlog postはしないだろうなぁ、と思うけど、一応post。むしろRSS readerが欲しい。
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July 10, 2004
Monica Bellucci
基本的には好きなんですよね。ホント。昔のEsquireの記事、まだ持ってるし。
でも、マレーナにしてもThe Matrixにしても、なんとなく彼女の持ち味生きてない様な気がする。役を選べばいいと思うんですよね。
www.monicabellucci.it
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Jenna Bush and Barbara Bush
まぁ、品がないと言うか躾が悪いと言うか......
The First Twins: Jenna Bush and Barbara Bush
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The Hostess Diary: My Year at a Hot Spot
Top: Star Jones laughs and climbs onto the bed in the V.I.P. suite. Bottom: I smile and Barbara Bush smiles wider. 'Oh my God, this place is cool!' she shouts.
これ、おかしい！
Celebrities and models are my least favorite customers. They never want to pay and they demand constant attention. The models wear jeans or a jean skirt with heels and a white T-shirt. Drunken skeletons, they stand outside smoking and talking in foreign accents. They don't tip, but if they aren't here, the men who do won't stay, so we cater to models. I don't bother learning their names. I call them all darling.
The New York Times > Fashion & Style > The Hostess Diary: My Year at a Hot Spot
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Company Plugs RSS as Alternate to E-Mail Marketing
このNewsは興味深いです。こうなったらうれしいし便利ですよ、送り手も受け手も。SMTPも限界かと。
しかし、怖くてOff-Lineにできませんね（笑）。取り残されますよ。
The Redwood City, Calif., company this quarter will release a version of LiveMessage that lets users send messages via RSS feeds. LiveMessage, released earlier this year, uses public instant messaging networks to send communications not only via IM but also via e-mail, SMS (Short Message Service) and desktop alerts.LiveMessage will provide triggers for sending alerts that would be much easier and less costly than building data triggers into an e-mail broadcast system, said MessageCast officials. This could have implications not only for marketing and communications but also for sending alerts from a business intelligence or inventory management system, they said.
The e-mail industry is developing the SenderID standard to add authentication to SMTP for e-mail traffic, which is designed to defeat spam. But MessageCast CEO Royal Farros said the existing IM networks that LiveMessage uses already provide authentication.
Company Plugs RSS as Alternate to E-Mail Marketing
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ラブドガン
近年まれにみる駄作だった。始まって5分で帰ろうと思った。
役者はいいんですよ。文句ないです。永瀬正敏はクロエ以来、気に入ってるし、宮崎あおいはかわいいし、岸部一徳は渋いし。でもね、カメラも駄目だし、話もつまらないし煮詰まってないし、台詞は不自然だし、映画がかみ合ってないですね。音楽やSEもすごく耳障りで不快。こういう映画を作っちゃだめですよ。アイディア満載でもそれだけじゃ駄目なんです。お客はお金払って見に来るんです。
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ウォルター少年と、夏の休日 Secondhand Lions
いい話ですよね。きっと原作もいいんだろうな。マイケルケインもロバートデュバルもうまいし。あの子は演技し過ぎかな。これも子供に見せたい。特に男の子。優しくてたくましくてかっこいい男の子にきっとなれるから。
で、映画のタイトルはそういう気持ちの入った部分を冒涜しています。ひどすぎる。視点はあの子じゃなくて、Secondhand Lionそのものと、それに象徴されているあのかっこいいおじさん達なんだから。こういうの、止めた方がいいですよ。もう少しRespectすべきでしょう。
ウォルター少年と、夏の休日 オフィシャルサイト : HERALD ONLINE
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MTカスタマイズ リンク集
自分のメモっす。
ブロッグ崩し: [Movable Typeカスタマイズ] ジャンルの過去記事
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California education chief calls preschooler 'stupid dirty girl'
CNN.com - California education chief calls preschooler 'stupid dirty girl' - Jul 9, 2004
The conversation, videotaped by KEYT-TV, took place July 1. The girl, 6-year-old Isis D'Luciano, asked Riordan if he knew her name meant "Egyptian goddess."Riordan replied, "It means stupid dirty girl."
After nervous laughter in the room, the girl again told Riordan the meaning of her name.
"Hey, that's nifty," he said.
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July 09, 2004
CORUM Bubble Dive Bomber
また欲しい時計が見つかってしまいました....これは買いますね。きっと.....
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駄目駄目なSONY
SONYは駄目駄目なループに入っていますよね。iPodキラーと言うかHDD Playerのバラバラさ加減とか、このWalkmanでATRAC3しか使えないとか。
このコメントは興味深いです。ホント、SONYの迷走を具体化しているエピソードですね。駄目な会社。駄目なMarketing。
"ATRAC3 at 48Kbps is nowhere near CD quality," said Joswiak. "It's especially interesting that Sony really acknowledges that with the fact that their jukebox software (default setting) and their online store both deliver music at 132Kbps. It's certainly an acknowledgement that it's the minimum bitrate you need with ATRAC3 and yet they chose to play a little marketing game and take their bitrate way down to make people believe their player is a higher capacity than what it is. We just find that to be misleading."Sony's 13,000 song measurement is based on its ATRAC3 (Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding for MiniDisc 3) compression system at the relatively low rate of 48Kbps (kilobits per second) while Apple's measurement is based on the AAC compression system at 128Kbps. At the same bit rate, the Walkman can store around half as many songs as the iPod, which is consistent with it having half the storage capacity.
Apple hits back at Sony's 'misleading' Walkman marketing
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Women Tend To Play, But Not Pay For Mobile Games
これ、すごく納得できます（笑）
Women are more likely to play games on their cellular phones than men, but are less likely to pay to play, a survey released Thursday showed.A U.S. survey of mobile gamers found 58 percent were women versus 42 percent men, market researcher The Yankee Group said. However, 29 percent of male gamers purchased games, compared to 17 percent of women.
The survey skewers common stereotypes that men, especially young men, are mobile game fanatics, Yankee analyst Michael Goodman said. As a result, game makers should reconsider design and marketing programs that target mostly young men and adolescent boys.
Techweb > News > cell phone games > Women Tend To Play, But Not Pay For Mobile Games > July 1, 2004
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5 Simple Steps to Honest Weight Loss
ふむ。カルシウムか。ふむ。
The 5 Steps:1) Make water your drink of choice. There's a long list of benefits to drinking water because it helps every aspect of the body work properly. The same can't be said of your favorite soft drink. (In fact, the opposite can basically be said for soft drinks.) Among the benefits, though, water assists your metabolism so you're better able to burn off calories.
2) Eat more fruits and veggies. Not only do they offer you plenty of nutrients, but carbs are the body's main energy source. They'll help you stay energized even while you're losing weight. Complex carbs also help to balance your blood sugar levels to keep you from feeling hungry.
3) Eat smaller meals more often. Every meal you eat activates your metabolism. Keeping your meals small but frequent makes it easier to go from meal to meal without snacking on junk, and helps your metabolism to run all day long.
4) Exercise. People make the mistake of thinking that exercise is only good for the calories it burns during the exercise. Not true. Your body wil l continue burning calories at a faster pace for some time after you've exercised. Also, more muscles means more weight loss. Muscles consume calories; fat doesn't.
5) Supplement with chromium. Chromium seems to decrease total cholesterol, and because of its part in glucose regulation, may decrease your risk of diabetes and can help balance blood sugar, which helps you to keep from feeling hungry.
PRESS RELEASE: 5 Simple Steps to Honest Weight Loss
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The Clearing
これも観たい！
Willem Dafore大好きです。Robert Redford、Hellen Mirrenも素敵。
Apple - Trailers - The Clearing
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Ana Mendieta
最近、気になってます。Ana Mendieta
Ana Mendieta, the subject of a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, took up little physical space in the world. But she has loomed large in contemporary art since her violent death at 36 in 1985.
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July 08, 2004
PalmOne & Mac
目新しい情報はなかったですが、今後が楽しみですね。
palmOne - Community - palmOne & Macintosh
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Shadow Plan
PalmとWindowsでSyncしてくれるOutlinerです。私はShadow Planを愛用しています。MacOS X用はまだβですがないよりマシですね。安定しないけど（泣）
codejedi.com - Shadow Plan for Palm OS
BONSAIも良さそうなんですけどね。うーむ。
Natara Bonsai - Outlining for the Palm Computing Platform
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July 07, 2004
Powerlifting
すいません、お気の毒ですが....笑ってしまいました。
Quoted from: Powerlifting
Powerlifting
Powerlifting
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July 05, 2004
Paid Inclusion Losing Charm??
WOW!
Microsoft and Ask Jeeves have thrown paid inclusion links out of their search engines in recent moves that could bring new pressure on Yahoo to reconsider its fee-based indexing policies.Microsoft on Thursday said its redesigned MSN Search site would no longer display links obtained through paid inclusion, a controversial arrangement in which Web publishers pay to have their sites indexed and frequently refreshed.
Wired News: Paid Inclusion Losing Charm?
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Who makes a movie?
Who gets artistic control and credit for a movie (e.g. a film, a television show)? Here are the candidates Ive identified:
Producer (money): As far as I can tell, theres one kind of producer whos only job is to get money for the thing. Youll often see them at the beginning of a film with something like Francis Ford Coppola presents Needless to say, I dont think these guys should get artistic control.
Who makes a movie? (Aaron Swartz: The Weblog)
Producer: Another kind of producer is the one who is sort of CEO of the film, making sure everybody is doing their job and things are working smoothly. Sometimes these people get artistic control, but shouldnt it go to someone more directly involved in the creative aspects of the film? This producer could just handle the day-to-day details so the artist can get on with the artistic stuff.
Writer: The writer writes the script for the movie. This is my personal favorite a movie is nothing without writing. However writers often seem to be quiet and live in solitude, a disposition that is perhaps not best for the hustle and bustle of making a movie. Still, they can get other people (the producer, the director) to act as their mouthpieces. On television, writers generally are the artists. But on movies, perhaps because people dont care about making good movies, writers are treated as interchangeable, repeatedly rewriting each others drafts.
Director: The director coverts the text of the script into physical activities. Scripts often say unfilmable things like Hero felt glum. The director decides what physical actions will go on so that the audience can tell Hero is feeling glum. On movies, the directors are almost always the artist. This appears to be because theyre the only ones telling the actors what to do, which ultimately defines what can be in the film, so you might as well put them in charge anyway. (Unlike on TV, theres no next episode coming, so theres no need to be faithful to the writer.) On television, though, directors are largely interchangable, directing things in a world thats largely already built and structured.
Editor: The editor cuts the footage together to make the final movie. This means the editor is the final, and in some sense most powerful, guy. But I guess cutting together footage is really boring and not that difficult so editors appear to never get any real credit and only very little artistic control.
Then there are the components:
Director of Photography (aka Cinematographer): The D.P. makes the movie look good. Somewhat analogous to a book designer, the job is mostly orthoganal and in some way doesnt really effect the content of the movie (or book). But yet, in another way, its really important and good cinematography can make a good movie really great (and a great movie even better).
Music: Again, this is somewhat orthoganal, but good music is an even more important part of making a movie good. But the best music is usually done by the artist himself, even though the score is nominally farmed out to someone else. It also seems good music people are really hard to find and perhaps somewhat sporadic in quality.
Actor: I almost didnt include this one because its so mostly irrelevant to the quality of the movie. But I guess because the actor is the face people see, they give them extra importance. Anyway, successful actors seem to almost never make good artists.
There are some artists who will take up a number of these jobs. And I guess there are probably some artists who take up none of them, although I havent heard of any (probably because their work sucks). It seems the more jobs you take up, the better the work is. TV writers will often direct the first episode. Quentin Tarantino and Aaron Sorkin often do their own music. And in two critically-acclaimed short-season pain-based comedies, The Office and Curb Your Enthusaism, one person (Larry David and Ricky Gervais, respectively) writes, directs, stars, and edits the show. (Gervais even wrote his own song once.) But I guess thats going a little far.
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F1 ちょっといい話
F1は人間味があって好きです。ミスもするし、動揺もするし、大きな感動もあるし。こういうepisodeもいいですよね。
Schumacher, who won the Canadian Grand Prix here on Sunday, personifies a new breed of racers whose success hinges as much on his mastery of computerized systems as on his driving skill.Before each race, he said, "I sit with the engineers and combine the feeling I have as a driver with what they are seeing in the data" - data allowing simulations of all manner of situations that Schumacher might face.
Once in the driver's seat, he sits alone. But as he races, his Ferrari team can track even the most minute aspect of the competition, capturing data in multi-megabyte wireless bursts each time the team's cars flash past the pits, often in excess of 200 miles an hour.
The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > Computers Chase the Checkered Flag
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July 04, 2004
Dashboard vs. Konfabulator
長いすけど、読んでます。後でコメント書きます。
Daring Fireball: Dashboard vs. Konfabulator
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WordPress
WordPressにしようかと悩んでおります。使いやすそうだし軽そうだし。
Serverに混在できるなら、入れちまおうかと。
WordPress - Multilingual Edition
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Little Black Book
これ、おもしろそう。Brittany Murphy, Holly Hunter, Kathy Batesのクレジットだけで観ちゃうなぁ。Brittany Murphyもちゃんとした役で使われてそうな感じで好感。Palm Tungten Cも使われているみたい。Palmに入っているex-Girlfriend情報や浮気情報は消しましょう......ははは。
In Little Black Book, Stacy Holt (Brittany Murphy), an associate producer for daytime talk show hostess Kippie Kann (Kathy Bates), is frustrated when her boyfriend Derek (Ron Livingston) refuses to discuss his past relationships. With the encouragement of her co-worker Barb (Holly Hunter), she delves into his Palm to learn about his ex-girlfriends. Using the show as a ruse and Barb as her guide, Stacy interviews and befriends them, only to discover that the past, in a few instances, is rather present. A modern day immorality tale of snooping in the electronic age, Little Black Book asks the question: have you ever been tempted to go where you shouldn't, and look inside his little black book?
Sony Pictures -
Little Black Book
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SPIDER-MAN 2
最高！ 面白かった。1の完成度には疑問を持っていましたが、予告のQualityやreviewが良かったので期待していたものの、遥かに期待を上回る完成度でしたねぇ。CGもバレてないし。人とCGの融合は見事としか言えない。DOC OCKが人をつかんでいるシーンとか磁力で引き寄せられるシーンとか、びっくり。すごすぎ。KIRSTEN DUNSTも昔は苦手だったけど、慣れた。
早く次が観たい。
あ、音のいい映画館での鑑賞をオススメします。
また観るよ！
Spider-Man
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July 03, 2004
Marlon Brando
ご冥福をお祈りします。
"Last Tango in Paris" "A Streetcar Named Desire." "The Godfather" 大好きでした。
The New York Times > Movies > Marlon Brando, Oscar-Winning Actor, Is Dead at 80
Marlon Brando, the rebellious prodigy who electrified a generation and forever transformed the art of screen acting but whose obstinacy and eccentricity prevented him from fully realizing the promise of his early genius, died on Thursday at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 80.The cause was pulmonary fibrosis, said Jay Cantor, a family spokesman.
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WILCO
AppleのQuicktime areaでも紹介されてました。
このinterface、かっこいいっすよ。QuickTimeベースかな。
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iTunes + iPod Video
いや、またこれもかっこいっす。圧倒的。Motion graphicsもかっこいいし。また映像作りたくなってきた。すっげー刺激される。inspired!
AirMac ExpressのUIも見えた。うれしい。
でも、待ちきれなくて今日Baseを追加購入したです。頭悪いです。
投稿者 td : 10:42 PM | コメント (0) | トラックバック
La Vie promise いつか、きっと
まぁ、子供を捜しつつ自分を発見するというよくある話ですが、絵がきれいでしたね。女性監督かと思ったくらい。雰囲気的には好きな映画です。フランスの力強さを感じました。
イザベル・ユペールは今まで苦手でした。『8人の女たち』、『ピアニスト』を観た限りではもたいまさこ的な飛び道具女優だと思ってた。でも、きれいでうまくてびっくり。悲しさを背負った弱く強い女性を見事に演じてます。話はちょっとあれあれ？というcoincidencesが多かったですが、まぁ、いいでしょう。
Jazzな映画でした。
投稿者 td : 10:24 PM | コメント (0) | トラックバック
ほたるの星
ベタな映画ですが、いいんではないかと。子供に観せたい。
菅谷梨沙子、きれいでびっくりした。これからが楽しみですね。
投稿者 td : 10:14 PM | コメント (0) | トラックバック
Let Forever Be
改めて観たけど、Michel Gondry、天才。すばらしい。
Let Forever BeDuration: 3'43"
Date: 8|6|99
Director: Michel Gondry
Producers: George Bermann, Julie Fong
Heroin: Stephanie LandwehrThe award winning video for The Chemical Brothers second Noel Gallagher collaboration, ""Let Forever Be"", was directed by Michel Gondry, the man responsible for many of Bjork's promos, the Stardust video and several for the Rolling Stones.
Star Guitarもね。
投稿者 td : 09:51 PM | コメント (0) | トラックバック
U.S. Army Scared of Coke GPS Promo
これ、ツボにはまりました。Campaign ideaとしては最高に面白い。ここまでやってみたい。このGPS Coke欲しい！
USATODAY.com - Coke sneaks phones, GPS chips into cans
About 120 Coke cans are being covertly converted into a combination global positioning satellite receiver and cell phone. The lucky cola drinkers who find the high-tech cans can claim the grand prizes ? but won't know when or where they'll arrive.
U.S. Army Scared of Coke GPS Promo �0�0， MarketingVOX
A Coke promotion called "Unexpected Summer" has the U.S. military up in arms. For the promotion, Coke outfitted 120 random cans with built-in GPS cell phones. Buyers who find one of the cans can use the embedded phone to call and register for prizes such as a new SUV, a chance to win $1 million and various Disney vacations. Once registered, Coke "search teams" will use the broadcasted GPS location to find the individual and surprise them on a random day within a specified three-week period. The military reportedly feels threatened by these phones, thinking they could be used as eavesdropping devices. Some military bases are banning Coke. Coke says it is impossible for the can to be an eavesdropping device.
投稿者 td : 08:17 AM | コメント (0) | トラックバック
Glenn, Glenn Glenn Glenn
New Starbucks Ad. うまいっす。
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A Ghost is Born
YHFも好きでしたがこれも気に入ってます。結構、Heavy rotationです。
A Ghost is Born
A Ghost is Born is the first Wilco album since Being There that I've wanted to listen to over and over again. It's also the first recorded primarily live in the studio since Being There.
amazon.co.jpの評価も熱いですね。
Amazon.co.jp： 音楽: A Ghost Is Born [FROM US] [IMPORT]
現在進行形の、アメリカン・ルーツ・ミュージック
”オルタナ・カントリー”の旗手として注目を浴びたデヴュー以来、アルバムを発表する毎に、WILCOはその音楽性を多様に変化させてきました。
今作は、サウンド的には前作「YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT」の延長線上にあるといって良いでしょう。最早”オルタナ・カントリー”というカテゴライズ（レッテル？）は彼らにはあてはまりません。決して”ポップ”とは言えないサウンドや特に印象的でもないメロディ、突如として顔を出す調子っぱずれ気味でノイジーなエレクトリック・ギター。何故、僕や多くのリスナーが彼らの音楽に魅了されてしまうのでしょうか。それはきっと彼らの音楽の奥底に流れるアメリカン・ルーツ・ミュージックを大切にする精神がそうさせてしまうのでしょう。彼らがどんなスタイルで演奏しようとも、根底に流れる”血”は揺るぎないものがあります。だから僕はずっと、WILCOの音楽に魅せられ続けているのです。WILCOの居ないアメリカの音楽シーンを想像すると少々ゾッとします。決して派手な存在ではないですが、”現在進行形”のアメリカン・ロックを体現している、とても希少なバンドです。今作を聴いて”現在のアメリカ”を存分に感じてください。傑作です。
投稿者 td : 07:50 AM | コメント (0) | トラックバック
July 02, 2004
Visa Q1 e-commerce transactions are up 59%, outpacing last year
ふーん、という感じで。
InternetRetailer.com - Daily News for Tuesday,†June†29, 2004
Online spending in the U.S. on Visa-branded credit and debit cards rose 59% year-over-year in the first quarter, to $22.3 billion from $14.03 billion, Visa says.
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July 01, 2004
長すぎる昼休みで減給処分 千葉県船橋市の職員
たまにいますよね、こういう人。でも、公務員というのは許せませんねぇ。税金返して欲しいというか、あきれます。昼の区役所とか行くとびっくりしますよ、ホント。昼出なくてもあの余剰人員の多さは嘆かわしいです。プロも意外と少ないし。
千葉県船橋市は１日、規定より長い昼休みを頻繁に取ったなどとして、建設局道路部の男性主査（５５）を減給１０分の１、６カ月の懲戒処分にしたと発表した。市は「信用失墜と職務専念義務違反」としている。 市によると、主査はほぼ１年間にわたり、１時間と決められている昼休みの前後をサボり、最大２時間の休憩を取っていたという。休憩時間中、市役所から徒歩７、８分の路上に止めた自家用車内で寝るなどしていた。 また終業後に一刻も早く帰るため、勤務時間中に車を庁舎前の来庁者用駐車場に移動させていた。主査は「電車通勤」と偽りの申請をしていた。 この主査が車内で寝ているのを目撃した市民が、市役所内で主査を見つけ、市に通報した。主査は「昼休みは１人で過ごしたかった。寝過ごすことがあった」と話しているという。（共同通信）[7月1日17時42分更新]
投稿者 td : 10:49 PM | コメント (0) | トラックバック
Konfabulator
私は昔からのKonfabulatorファンですが、OSに実装されたらそっちを使うだろうなぁ、と思います。今のWidgetも秀逸なデザインは多いんですけどね。OSと連動してもらった方が便利な訳で。