Archive for 'video'
Growing Ranks Of Nouveau Poor Facing Discrimination From Old Poor
As Americans rush to join the Nouveau Poor, panelists debate the claim that the newly poor are incapable of integrating with long established poor…
Posted: September 19th, 2009 under humor, meaning, surreal, television, video.
Comments: 1
The Government Can
Who can take your money,
with a twinkle in their eye;
take it all away
and give it to some other guy?
The government. The government can.
Posted: August 25th, 2009 under antiestablishment, antistate, humor, making, music, video.
Tags: X Tim Hawkins
Comments: 4
Harve Presnell 1933 - 2009 R.I.P.
Harve Presnell had a great voice and fine presence on stage and screen. He also appeared in several of my favorite musicals.
Posted: August 5th, 2009 under antiestablishment, making, meaning, memory, movies, music, video.
Tags: RIP
Comments: none
Happy Independence Day
Steppenwolf’s “Monster” — Lyrics.
Posted: July 4th, 2009 under Amerika, antiestablishment, antiwar, holidays, meaning, memory, music, video.
Tags: Fourth of July, Independence Day
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Literal Videos — going viral ?
“Ever wish songs just sang what was happening in the music video?”
Many excellent songs with great music and lyrics often have music videos which don’t seem to fit the songs at all, and also get strange.
Bonnie Tyler had a huge hit with “Total Eclipse of the Heart” which was written by Jim Steinman (one of [...]
Posted: June 17th, 2009 under humor, making, memory, music, surreal, video.
Tags: literal video, parody, satire
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It was 20 years ago today . . .
No, not “Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play” . . . not quite . . .
Posted: June 4th, 2009 under antiestablishment, meaning, memory, video.
Tags: protest, resistance, Tiananmen
Comments: none
Catchy tune
“Musical op-ed piece written and performed by John Forster and Tom Chapin”
Posted: May 27th, 2009 under Amerika, banks, humor, making, money, music, video.
Tags: Zombies
Comments: 1
Dom DeLuise, R.I.P.
Dom had many, many great comic roles. I favor examples from Blazing Saddles for anyone who had a role in it. Even though his part was small, he did his usual great job.
Posted: May 5th, 2009 under humor, memory, movies, video.
Tags: Dom DeLuise, RIP
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Remembering May 4th, 1970
I remember the Kent State killings very well. I was just the right age for the military draft but had gotten lucky with a 1Y classification (at least until they eliminated that, and then I lucked out with a high lottery number). Of the people my age which I knew well enough to talk with [...]
Posted: May 4th, 2009 under Amerika, antiestablishment, antistate, antiwar, memory, politics, video, war.
Tags: Kent State, military draft, public unrest
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How far have we come ?
We could consider death rates from medical misadventure.
[UPDATE: Sorry about the ads, but copyright covers SNL and I couldn't find it on YouTube.]
Posted: April 28th, 2009 under Health, humor, memory, television, video.
Tags: Barber, Medicine, SNL, Steve Martin
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