Spent a very fun and final and exhausting weekend with all of my BFFs from Brooklyn, as the kids put it. The end of an era, if a small and personal one. Good food, wine, and fun in the big city, and the added bonus of forcing JWW and JZ to stay up until daybreak listening to the live-audio version of what this blog covers -- i.e., my melancholic harangues. Since I'm flying out west today, and need, in the next hour, to pack, prep for some interviews, catch a bus and then a plane, all you get are a bunch of links and stuff. Some of them are a little odd:
In this our age of terror, I'm not sure if watching controlled implosions of buildings is still cool or not, but here is one from Atlanta (above) and one from Fort Worth, TX (below). Many, many more can be found on YouTube. That such violence is the efficient and acceptable way of getting this done is a sort of aesthetic incongruity in the universe, but a pretty cool one.
Which, in the context of this article from RM, makes things a little sadder. Those could have been somebody's husband.
"Man Dies in Parking Lot Dance Faceoff" is the headline. "48-year-old man has died while dancing, trying to outdo a rival with an acrobatic move while 'battle dancing,' police said," is the lede. So sad, in so many ways. That said, EBC approved a battle dance section to her wedding in Chicago this August, including a couples battle dance finale.
For all you lady pirates [CC, AM and the now-defunct Brooklyn pirate crew] out there, Slate has this:
"Everybody loves the idea of women pirates," said marketing. But I also felt that Grace O'Malley was a wonderful role model for any woman who's ever dreamed of running away to sea.Is this a dream I should have been aware of earlier?
Finally, AH sent out the following. Have the deans of the academy made an official statement on how YouTube will corrode the culture yet? Please send me a link.
3 comments:
I like raps about TV show characters. Have you heard MF Doom's rap about the Aqua Teen Hunger Force?
Weng Weng's strategy seems to be to bring you down low, with a blow-dart for example, and then take care of you on the ground. Smart. Just like Aqua Man's strategy was to somehow get you into or near water.
Yes, I like about a third of that Dangerdoom album. Although maybe you don't buy albums anymore?
I didn't think through Weng Weng's strategy, but what seems salient is that any person who is sufficiently talented to have a TV show produced about them probably has a strategy worth studying.
A compendium must be produced. There are lessons to be learned, such that we may more effectively live our lives. And fight villainy.
The best part of that album is Ghostface's rap about his face being half-iron and half-boiling. As to whether I "buy" albums anymore, this is none of your beeswax as long as we're discussing this in a public forum.
Anyway I guess the lesson to be learned from Weng Weng and Aqua Man is "invest in your strength", "bloom where you're planted", "make the mountain move to Mohammed", "carry coals to Newcastle" etc.
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