BBC News: Is The Big Lebowski a cultural milestone?

Well, it’s a bloody great movie if you ask me and thankfully it has developed quite a following over the years (read the BBC article for all the details and many great comments).

The Big Lebowki has this rare kind of humor that is rooted in reality and surrealism at the same time. Most of all it’s not the usual slapstick kind of humor.

And all of it’s characters are very trivial as well, that makes them so endearing and loveable.

One of the many great songs by Fatboy Slim. I just love the groove - it just makes me want to dance and have sex …

Don’t we all love little fluffy clouds? Especially 5 am in the morning, still drugged and excited from a whole night of clubbing and dancing? That was the good unhealthy life back then …

Documentary / Fiction - 1hour 46minutes - 1990 - the sound is a bit out of sync in the second half

I am a huge fan of James Burke - he is one of the great writers and thinker who can connect the dots and explain it all to mere mortals like myself. A science historian and TV producer with an impressive resume.

The first part is an excellent analysis of human history and how the weather influenced human development and history - and he we have influenced the weather. The second part is more fictional - a docu drama if you will - how a global climate watchdog battles global warming and which measures have to be done to change our current unsustainable lifestyle.

This two part series "After the Warming" was produced 1990 - and it freaked me out.

First - it shocked me, that he had already such an insight and clear suggestions in the year 1990, when hardly anyone - and certainly not the mass media - was talking about climate change and global warming.

Second - his "predictions" or better say insights are spot on, especially watching it now almost 20 years after it has been produced.

Third - we have already wasted so much time to change our lifestyle and we are still far behind what would actually be possible to re-balance the weather system.

Although the quality of the video isn’t brilliant - the content is. So please watch it.