Because of the historic vote occurring in southern Sudan, recently I’ve been asked a number of time how people can see The New Sudan, the documentary I narrated on the region.
Good news for those interested: Starting today, and for the next 90 days, it will be available as Video on Demand on the following cable systems:
Access Comm., ATT U-Verse, Blue Ridge, Bluewater TV Cable, Cable Cable Inc., Charter, Eastlink Comm., KPU, Mediacom, NorthwestTel Cable, Rogers (Canada), Seaside Comm., Source Cable, Verizon Fios., and Wave.
The voting continues this week on the referendum to secede from the north and end decades of bloodshed and oppression. On Monday the NY Times ran an update here.
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Tears a Turnoff?
Here’s a bit of randomness for you: According to this New York Times piece here, researchers investigating the evolutionary purpose of tears discovered that women’s tears can be a sexual turnoff for some men.
The mind reels with possible directions in which to take this post. I mean, how many more ways can we men fail to understand what you women aren’t saying?
Interview with ‘AE’ director
In anticipation of the appearance of ‘Another Earth’ in competition at next week’s Sundance film festival, IndieWire has posted an interview here with herr director himself, Mike Cahill (he, to the right, of the long hair).
By the way, I have never, ever seen his expression as calm as in this picture. He’s typically bouncing about, excited to try some new idea. I smell Photoshop..
Hold onto your body parts..
Huffington Post has released a list here of about twenty things that done gone obsolete in the last decade. Some of those things to which you can wave bye-bye:
• VHS Tapes (well, yeah, of course)
• Bookstores (mostly true)
• Forgetting (they did not check in with me before publishing this list)
• Hand-written letters (saddest item on the list)
There are about fifteen more. I’d forgotten (see?) how many I no longer use.
Another list from a non-HuffPoer is here. It’s has the far grabbier title, Things Babies Born in 2011 Will Never Know.
A Vote for Independence
This Sunday, January 9, the people of Southern Sudan will begin voting in an historic referendum on whether to create their own nation. For two decades, they fought a civil war with northern Sudan, and it has ravaged the county.
In 2009 I narrated ‘The New Sudan,’ a documentary which introduced, to most of us, the abundance of both horror and optimism in post-civil war southern Sudan. The filmmakers have posted an interview with me here.
For perspective, Sudan is 1/4 the size of the United States. Some overview information on Sudan is in Wikipedia, the New York Times, and CNN.
If you’re able to donate to the southern Sudanese, there are numerous ways to do so, including some mentioned in the interview and through various non-govermental organizations.
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