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"Tossing Salad" in Jail (REALLY NSFW)

schmawy (http://schmawy.videosift.com) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:33:12 -0700

(88 votes - 45 comments - 4643 views)
Nasty stuff. Not even sure why I'm posting it. I'm guessing it's true. Feel free to discard it if you have better taste than I do.

Man does Donuts with '69 Mustang; Hits Self with Shovel.

schmawy (http://schmawy.videosift.com) — Sun, 11 May 2008 07:11:56 -0700

(101 votes - 35 comments - 5182 views)
Bad ass Mustang with what sounds like a supercharger doing vehicular antics in a parking lot. Must have the carbon footprint of a diplodocus. Grand finale of the driver smiting himself with a shovel. Bong.

Linda! Get me a Beer!

schmawy (http://schmawy.videosift.com) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:16:11 -0700

(19 votes - 3 comments - 566 views)

Common Tactics of Agresssion (1min)

schmawy (http://schmawy.videosift.com) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:37:08 -0700

(13 votes - 1 comment - 207 views)
Aggression replaces reflection and perpetuates itself in the wake of 9/11.

"Control Your Emotions" (1950)

schmawy (http://schmawy.videosift.com) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:00:42 -0700

(14 votes - 3 comments - 309 views)
[YT:] "This bizarre film is hosted by an unnamed "psychologist." While spouting Pavlovian claptrap such as "Fear is triggered by loud noises" and "Your emotions can be your own greatest enemy," he repeatedly interrupts the story of "Jeff," the film's protagonist. Jeff -- who looks like a heroin addict -- has a lot of trouble controlling his emotions, and the psychologist is always ready to pop in with statements such as "If this kind of behavior is repeated often, it might lead to a permanently warped personality."

Control Your Emotions doubles as a lesson in behaviorist psychology and an admonition to postwar American children. "Before man learned how to control fire and put it to work, it was man's greatest enemy. In much the same way, your emotions can be your own greatest enemy." Similar messages percolate throughout the social guidance films of the 1940s and 1950s (see, for example, A Date With Your Family, where the narrator intones, "Pleasant, unemotional conversation helps the digestion").

The links between the effort to manage and regulate outbursts of feeling and the national offensive to smooth out adolescent behavioral excesses often seem obscure. There is no doubt, however, that the architects of Fifties consensus (psychologists, educators, the judiciary, sociologists and advertisers) wished to discourage "unproductive" and negativistic behavior. "Severe emotional stress," says the narrator of this film, "often decreases efficiency."

What seems clearest is that for Americans, recovery from wartime damage was more about drawing away emotionally from war's stresses and strains than digging graves and sweeping up rubble. After twelve years of economic depression and almost four years of world war, parents (and the authorities on child development that stood behind them) wanted a peaceful and disruption-free world for their kids, and they don't seem to have distinguished between internal and external turmoils. All were undesirable.

Responsive both to the demands of the era and the process of individual maturation, Control Your Emotions ultimately promoted social adaptation over self-expression. It assumed that kids' behavior was a vehicle for emotions that were essentially uncomplicated, individual rather than social. In its scheme, teenagers' emotions weren't linked with any cultural or social contradictions, but simply combinations of the three basic emotions: rage, fear and love. So while other Coronet films like Shy Guy hinted at the existence of a youth culture with its own rewards and pressures, Control Your Emotions saw teens more as creatures of their hormones than of their times."

Producer: Coronet Instructional Films

Anger Management through Anger Fasts

schmawy (http://schmawy.videosift.com) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:03:39 -0700

(10 votes - 4 comments - 230 views)
Sadhana (Sanskrit sādhanam) is a term for "a means of accomplishing something"[1] or more specifically "spiritual practice". Peter Marchand gives us some tools to deal with anger. Sounds a lot more like common sense than mysticism, and that's a good sign.

Kate Bush - "Love and Anger"

schmawy (http://schmawy.videosift.com) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:23:41 -0700

(12 votes - 0 comments - 158 views)
Take away the love and the anger,
And a little piece of hope holding us together.
Looking for a moment that'll never happen,
Living in the gap between past and future.
Take away the stone and the timber,
And a little piece of rope won't hold it together.

Anger and Parenting

schmawy (http://schmawy.videosift.com) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:41:32 -0700

(15 votes - 1 comment - 246 views)
A few psychologists weigh in on parental anger and how it relates to discipline and punishment.

"Between the Bars"

schmawy (http://schmawy.videosift.com) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:45:16 -0700

(10 votes - 6 comments - 192 views)
First a lovely piano rendition from Chris Garneau in a noisy Paris Cafe. Pretty good, right? Then we hear it from the sad, stabbed heart of Mr. Smith, and realize the former barely manages to carry Elliot's dim torch. "Something easier" said Mr. Garneau.

Bee Gees - "Jive Talkin'" (1975)

schmawy (http://schmawy.videosift.com) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:00:48 -0700

(16 votes - 9 comments - 346 views)
[wikip:] "Upon its release to radio stations, the single was delivered in a plain white cover, with no immediate indication of what the song's name was or who sang it. The DJs would only find out what the song was and who played it when it was placed on the turntable; RSO did provide the song with a label on the record itself."