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Jon Savage, "Woodstock: Trip Down Memory Lane" "The Woodstock film makes plentiful use of the split-screen device. While Kornfeld is delivering his rap on one side, a young man and woman are wandering off together in the long grass. Unknowningly caught by a telephoto lens, they disappear in a jumble of limbs just as Kornfeld reaches his zenith of incoherence. On the film's release, the young man sued. Working as a hairdresser in Montreal, his customers expected him to be gay: this heterosexual act, caught on camera and watched by many thousands, he claimed, ruined the illusion on which his business depended." The Smiths, "Panic" The only that needs to change is the lyric: instead of "my life," "this life". Sesame Street, episode #4000 I just saw Elmo doing some DC moves to a tune that sounded just like "Survivor!" And he did it on the moon! No insight here; it was just something I wanted to relate. "This is not a commercial for MTV" ad series MTV to people who don't watch MTV: Why don't you have the good sense to die already? I mean, really! People who don't watch MTV: We don't watch MTV. People who watch MTV: Why are all these weird people on MTV? The Civil War - A Film By Ken Burns The Gettysburg Address always makes me cry. The Sims Unleashed Expansion Pack A masterstroke: the way an adult Sim sulks off, muttering, when a dog won't fetch. The Wintergarden at the World Financial Center It's almost as if I never expected this to re-open at all, any more than I expect a doll or a toy to re-enter my life a quarter-century down the line. But even if they can make it whole again, but they can't make it make sense. (Not that a piece of New York architecture with Palm trees ever could make sense.) Without the retail space, without the scores of workers filing in from the World Trade Center -- without the presence of The Social filling up all its blank corners with purpose -- the Wintergarden feels dismayingly pointless. Martin Parr, Boring Postcards: USA A photographic record of the moment when American exceptionalism started to curdle into a self-satisfied stasis-unto-death. The Czars, "Song to the Siren" What if a sailor became so smitten with the Siren's call that his desire terrified them? Le Shok, "No Fun at the Beaches" Bands who ape The Fall automatically have an aesthetic AND moral edge over the original because they don't have Mark E. Smith. |
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