October 31st, 2006 View Comments
J. Geils Band from 1981. Song for Marilyn Monroe. The intro is messed up a bit, but the rest of the song is intact… (bad edit on someones’ part.)
The animated parts of the video are an early form of rotoscoping, which Ralph Bakshi experimented with in the Lord of the Rings animated films. Richard Linklater recently used digital rotoscoping for both Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly. It’s come a long way.
October 31st, 2006 View Comments
The only music video that Television ever did, for “Call Mr. Lee” off their self titled “reunion” album in 1992. It sort of disappointed me back then when it came out. But, it has truly grown on me over the years to be a favorite. I suppose I expected too much. Richard Lloyd lays down some great guitar work on this track and the entire album.
October 31st, 2006 View Comments
…in years to come progressives may look back and sigh for the good old days when journalistic “objectivity” still encouraged the corporate media to give the truth and conservative propaganda equal weight, instead of just mindlessly repeating the latter.
Read it all.
…gun control is a red herring and we should really be talking about why we have so much violence in America even when compared with countries that have far less restrictive gun laws.
Well, for starters, we are a violent nation, founded on violence. It’s hardwired into the American psyche. Violence is almost an American right, like the right to drive alone in your car around the block to get a pack of smokes and a six pack when you could walk.
But, more to the point, violence is fostered in the American society on a level that is not only acceptable, it’s encouraged and propagated. It’s business. Big business. From prisons to nuclear missiles. Violence and money go hand in hand and are at the root of the American Dream – Freedom = Money and the right to defend that freedom by any means is practiced freely. So, is it any surprise that people feel vindicated in their belief that it’s entirely acceptable to kill someone for violating their territory whether it be a physical or a conceptual boundary? My two cents…
October 27th, 2006 View Comments
October 27th, 2006 View Comments
Like shooting fish in a barrel. So close to Halloween and Election Day, the monsters take their masks off…
October 27th, 2006 View Comments
… themselves into fascist pretzels. A few links from last month that are still very very pertient as we get closer to the election and it heats up. Remember: A cornered animal fights with it’s eyes closed sometimes.
I have written often about how the Republicans are becoming what they railed against for decades: totalitarians. Unsurprisingly I suppose, it turns out that what they really hated about Soviet communism was the economics. The 50 years of ranting about personal liberty and anti-authoritarian government seems to have been mere political rhetoric. Now that they are in power themselves they have adopted certain Soviet values quite seamlessly.
Read it all. I don’t know how seamless it’s been, to tell the truth. But, I agree with the result. To my eyes, the transition from Barry Goldwater Conservatives to “Compassionate” Conservatives has been filled with incompetancy, arrogance, and pandering to the religious nuts. Nothing seamless about it. It’s been a trainwreck from day one.
October 26th, 2006 View Comments
All of this reminds me of an old Bloom County cartoon from the early 80′s:
Which, of course, simply reminds me that the world moves in cylces, and politics moves in circles. What goes around comes around. In more ways than one.
October 26th, 2006 View Comments
…just below the stairs.
The rather prophetic “Nobody Told Me” by John Lennon from 1980. Released posthumously.
In the middle of the video, you’ll see John and Yoko sitting at an all white chess board with all white pieces, which is an art piece called “Play it by Trust”. It was on display at the Whitney when I first saw it over a decade ago. Very funny. People sometimes fail to realize how completely ironic and funny Ono’s art can be. It can also be very sobering as well, to be sure. That ability to juxtapose and contrast ideas within a work of art was something that Ono shared with Lennon, as shown in the lyrics to this song.
Everybody’s talking and no one says a word
Everybody’s making love and no one really cares
There’s nazis in the bathroom just below the stairs
Always something happening and nothing going on
There’s always something cooking and nothing in the pot
They’re starving back in China so finish what you got
Nobody told me there’d be days like these
Nobody told me there’d be days like these
Nobody told me there’d be days like these
Strange days indeed
Strange days indeed
Everybody’s runnin’ and no one makes a move
Everyone’s a winner
And no one seems to lose
There’s a little yellow idol to the north of Katmandu
Everybody’s flying and no one leaves the ground
Everybody’s crying and no one makes a sound
There’s a place for us in movies you just gotta stay around
Nobody told me there’d be days like these
Nobody told me there’d be days like these
Nobody told me there’d be days like these
Strange days indeed
Most peculiar Mama!
Everybody’s smoking and no one’s getting high
Everybody’s flying and never touch the sky
There’s ufo’s over New York and I ain’t too surprised
Nobody told me there’d be days like these
Nobody told me there’d be days like these
Nobody told me there’d be days like these
Strange days indeed
Most peculiar Mama!
October 25th, 2006 View Comments
October 24th, 2006 View Comments
The top US general defended the leadership of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, saying it is inspired by God.“He leads in a way that the good Lord tells him is best for our country,” said Marine General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Then, rightly asks “While very few in leadership positions in this country have kids in Iraq, outside of the Capital there are families, parents, friends and co-workers of the people serving there. I wonder what they think when they hear this stuff? Are they filled with confidence that the leadership is … well, sane?” Read it all.
“We are constantly adjusting our tactics so that we achieve the objective, and right now it’s tough… it’s tough,”
which is as close to an admission that the war is going badly as we’re gonna get from Capt. Codpiece …then at a GOP fundraisor Bush stated:
“Which political party has a strategy for victory in this war on terror?’”
Nuff said.
October 23rd, 2006 View Comments
Pete Townshend rips thorugh the classic…with Pat Metheny, Jack De Johnnette and Herbie Hancock!
October 22nd, 2006 View Comments
…does Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”
