Pièce de Résistance

An Unformulated Experience

Peanut Peacock: Alinea The Restaurant (Chicago)

Menomena: Rotten Hell

This video for Menomena’s Rotten Hell from the Oregon band’s latest album, Friend and Foe, regains some of the underlying experiential thematic meaning that is attached to the age-old image of the school lunchroom food fight.  In a cleverly droll take on the song’s lyrics about violence and self-righteous moral conviction (“Well it’s high time we stepped outside, Drop the gloves and settle this like a man“), this juicy video clip gathers a group of uniformed schoolchildren and has them flinging sloppy, sloppy spaghetti at one another.  Presented in a manner that creates an affective counterpoint to the actual ongoing violence of the pasta combat, the action is captured in slow motion from the initial incident of provocation to the concluding full-fledged Braveheart-style battle charge, the video’s emotional impact is at the same time elegantly alluring, touching and hilariously eccentric.

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Mike Gravel for President: Or Maybe Just Take a Fireside Nap….

Mike Gravel for President

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Cell-Phone Salesman Paul Potts Sings Again and Wins!

“I Realized I Am Somebody. I’m Paul Potts.”

Paul Potts Sings Again: It’s Magic!

Paul Potts Wins the Semi-Finals!!

Paul Potts, the mobil-phone salesman from South Wales, once again roused the audience members and stunned judges of the talent show Britain’s Got Talent with his rendition of another opera classic.  Later, it was announced that he is the winner of this round, moving on to become a finalist in the competition that is searching for an act that will perform in front of the Queen at the Royal Variety Performance.  In addition, the winner will receive a prize of $250,000.  That’s a lot of cell-phones!!

Read what other bloggers are saying about the amazing Paul Potts in Slate Magazine.

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My Articles for Thursday, June 14, 2007

Goths: Taking the Human Condition for Granted

“Goths: Taking the Human Condition for Granted.”

A discussion of a goth persective on living. A music video by London at Night is included.

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Virginia Tech Killings Report Issued: But Why Do These People Look So Happy?

“Virginia Tech Killings Report Issued: But Why are President Bush and His Aides Smiling about It?”

President Bush receives a copy of the Report to the President on Issues Raised by the Virginia Tech Tragedy, on Wednesday, June 13, 2007, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. From left in the picture are, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, the President, and Education Secretary Margaret Spellings.

Again, but why are they all smiling? Gross. Very, very gross.

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Victory in Massachusetts!!

“Victory in Massachusetts!”

Thursday, June 14, 2007

The Boston Globe reports this morning that a proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, which has been advanced by social conservatives, was soundly defeated today by a joint session of the Massachusetts Legislature. The vote was vote 45 to 151, eliminating any chance of getting it on the ballot in November 2008.

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