“To disagree with everyone and everything is not the sign of the “rebel”, it is not the sign of “independent thought”, it is not the mark of the leader, it is not one of the paths to truth, it does not make its practicitioner-victim a storm petrel of Progress and Dissent. It is, briefly put, […]
Month: September 2010
What Happened to Poetry (youtube video links)
How are the West, Islam, advertising jingles, passion, words, and melodrama connected? In a world of ideologues, East and West, Ad men, and complete asses in the guise of human beings – in an age of disputes about mosques on ground zero and Quran burnings by preachers, let’s look at something relevant – looking at […]
reflections – future of Free Jazz, Punk, Hip Hop – Realicide and other interesting things.
As an amateur cultural observer (critic would sound too pretentious) I have to notice that Free Jazz, Punk, and Underground Hip-Hop face similar situations. But first, Punk… is quite dead. in fact it was pretty close to being dead 20 years ago, though in the strange way that forms of cultural rebellion do retain some […]
My take on the Glen Beck Rally
“Unleash the kraken !” I rarely agree with her views, but Anna Belle’s post on the Glen Beck rally, posted at Peacocks and lilies, is cogent and hits some good points. She writes at: http://peacocksandlilies.com/2010/08/28/media-madness-the-glenn-beck-rally/ Someone really dear to me used to love Glen Beck, in between watching re-runs of Mystery Science theater and listening […]