CSI Worlds End

This is the last post from this decade from me, I know I've been busy over the past few days, so it's time to relax and add a few more I missed out on over the past year and such.

Sigala Strings of Life.

I knew why I blocked this out so much as I knew it would not do it justice. Its an OK remake of a storming techno track. Stick to that Jackson 5 re edit thing he did that was better.

Aphex Twin Live London / Mancland.

Still working my way through Manchester but damn. these are two brilliant sets. The visuals make this alone with trippy RDJ faces and strobes to trigger an epileptic fit in all but the most hardy of viewers. The music is bang on too a mix of old school and live edits of some new shit, I can hear Abundance from Collapse EP there. Well worth it.

Feature presentation.

This is one of the episodes where Ray Langston (Laurence Fishburne) is boss, and centers on a kid found dead in a storm drain in the height of a storm.   He was excluded from school for being a racist and all round edgelord and pretty much despised by his whole year.

As the case goes on it becomes more and more clear that he is leaving the far right and striking up a friendship with the school caretaker a Rwandan refugee who teaches him about good and evil.  Until the final act pans out that the janitor dude was responsible for a massacre of Tutsi rebels back in 90's and fled to the states to take up asylum. 

It always struck me as a cool story this, there is not much on TV that shows someone as racist getting a non bad guy role. Let alone a redemption arc from the story, which this is.  They are either stupid or evil and it seems that everything in the current year seemed to have a rise of the black shirts, whether it was time travelling Fash in doctor who trying to stop Rosa Parks, to the bastard peaky blinders siding with Oswald Moseley.

There is a good and long talk on Youtube from Literature Devil from this sort of thing. It's called can a hero be racist and puts out the flaws. Looking at the episode itself, it seems that the character himself read a shedload of philosophy books and such like. Kinda like a Sargon does, though I don't see Locke for him to read. There are works by Jung and Heidegger and such like. 

Also with a general move toward non violent actions and such he was leaving the violent world of the Far Right behind. This remains one of my favourite episodes along with anything Lady Heather is in.

This would be Ray Langston's last season and I've still not seen the last episode he was in before handing over to Ted Danson as DB Russell.  Final note here Willows daughter, Lindsay, is really hot, as the school is putting on a show version of Crabaret (Cabaret).