It has been a long time since I've imagined how I might survive prison. At one point, maybe at thirteen or fourteen, I would have assumed that I was capable of the bravado of Cool Hand Luke, and through a combination of wit, toughness, and resilience, could have weathered anything an unfair system threw at me. Now, of course, such a scenario is both irrelevant and implausible. If I do manage to get stuck in prison, I'm sure it will be for some accidental white collar crime. I won't be hard put, and I won't have to battle my way out. But if such an occasion does arrive, I hope that I might still have the panache to orchestrate a Busby Berkeley-like spectacle like the above clip from a prison in the Philippines.
Questions abound:
- whose idea was this? the inmates? or the wardens?
- how did the inmate playing the woman get selected? did he volunteer? or was he convinced? was it an obvious choice?
- were gang differences set aside for the production?
- who is this being performed for? the warden? friends and family? some prince or general?
- how did the main dancers get selected? were there auditions?
Questions abound:
- whose idea was this? the inmates? or the wardens?
- how did the inmate playing the woman get selected? did he volunteer? or was he convinced? was it an obvious choice?
- were gang differences set aside for the production?
- who is this being performed for? the warden? friends and family? some prince or general?
- how did the main dancers get selected? were there auditions?
8 comments:
i read somewhere that this place is more of a drug rehab facility than a place for hardened criminals. cheer up, RD: you could end up in place like this if you play your cards right.
It's so nice for me to have found this blog of yours, it's so interesting. I sure hope and wish that you take courage enough to pay me a visit in my PALAVROSSAVRVS REX!, and plus get some surprise. My blog is also so cool! Don't think for a minute that my invitation is spam and I'm a spammer. I'm only searching for a public that may like or love what I write.
Feel free off course to comment as you wish and remember: don't take it wrong, don't think that this visitation I make is a matter of more audiences for my own blogg. No. It's a matter of making universal, realy universal, all this question of bloggs, all the essential causes that bring us all together by visiting and loving one another.
You must not feel obliged to come and visit me. An invitation is not an intimation. Also know that if you click on one of my ads I'm promised to earn 8 cents for that: I would feel happy if you did click it, but once again you're totaly free to do what ever you want. I, for instance, choose immediatly to click on one of your ads, in case you have them. To do so or not, that's the whole beauty of it all.
I think it's to UNITE MANKIND that we became bloggers! Don't see language as an obstacle but as a challenge (though you can use the translater BabelFish at the bottom of my page!) and think for a minute if I and the rest of the world are not expecting something like a broad cumplicity. Remenber that pictures talk also. Open your heart and come along!!!!!
Anon 7:56 -
Well, if there's still a way, I got some vacation coming to me... I should probably go see Hairspray and rent Grease before going into the clink, but I'll be sure to keep posting from the inside...
Joshua -
Thank you for visiting. I took a look at your site, also very cool. Sadly, my Portuguese is not very good, but I will certainly take keep it in mind. Take care (unless you are a robot)!
There is a whole collection of Thriller versions on Metafilter a while back. I didn't watch them but here's the post: http://www.metafilter.com/58134/Cause-This-is-Thriller-Thriller-Night
Well, the URL is too long for this blog. But search Metafilter for Michael Jackson.
There is a whole collection of Thriller versions on Metafilter a while back. I didn't watch them but here's the post: http://www.metafilter.com/58134/Cause-This-is-Thriller-Thriller-Night
Karsten -
It's amazing what an icon MJ still is to the rest of the world. I haven't checked out the MetaFilter collection, but even YouTube has quite a few versions up...
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