As someone who tried to get the news from the PI and was forced on a regular basis to try again someplace else, and we're talking local news, like ummm, the weather. I won't miss the PI.
As I've understood the quote and its context, Jefferson is saying that because he's such an airy fellow and he so loves his notions of personal freedom -- except for personal freedom for his slaves, although he loves to love them very much, too -- that even though the crappy partisan hack newspapers called him terrible things all the time (most of them true), he would still prefer his magical free America because it's better than being ruled by mean English kings.
So, today, the quote would be something like this: "This place sucks but it sucks less than, probably, Russia. Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly and Keith Olbermann and those other douchebags just come with the fucking package. Also OMFG a black dude is president! Check out the wife ;)"
@uncivily obedient: Considering the papers of Jefferson's day were largely partisan pamphlets, many of which accused him of whoremongering with comely negresses, I've always thought something got lost in the translation across time.
Where was federal stimulus package money in this case? I mean, we can bail out the sleazy Wall Streeters who wrecked the world economy, we can't bail out some dudes whose main crime was lousy metaphors?
One thing to note is that the main drummer used above is Bernard Purdie, one of the all-time greats in drummer and as such a complete ringer. But I don't care! It works!
This piece is definitely cool. Elvis? I do not think so.
And while I'm no Christian Marclay apologist -- in fact some of his stuff's trite AND cheesey -- his "Video Quartet" installation kicks this piece's ass as far as I'm concerned -- and using far more clunky interface/ software (and no autotuning that I'm aware of).
@yetimike: Speaking as someone who feels Christian Marclay kinda changed my life">when he appeared on Night Music--I worked up a tape collage only a few days after I saw his piece--I always thought his visual works (both sculpture and video) were clunkier than his music: too linear, too slow. (Guitar Drag is something else, though.)
Kutiman's thrill is more intense, and of a different sort: it's uniting all of the anonymoid YouTube music wonks in sweet harmony. (Damnit, that's like the third time I've said that it 24 hours.)
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So, today, the quote would be something like this: "This place sucks but it sucks less than, probably, Russia. Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly and Keith Olbermann and those other douchebags just come with the fucking package. Also OMFG a black dude is president! Check out the wife ;)"
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1) You can duck behind a newspaper easily when hiding from a one night stand who shows up in the diner when your eating breakfast.
2) You can show your irritation with someone by rattling a newspaper under their chin.
3) When it starts to rain suddenly, a newspaper makes an imaginary, if not practical umbrella.
Try all of that with a laptop!
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do they have a few Franklin lines on the bathroom dividers?
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And while I'm no Christian Marclay apologist -- in fact some of his stuff's trite AND cheesey -- his "Video Quartet" installation kicks this piece's ass as far as I'm concerned -- and using far more clunky interface/ software (and no autotuning that I'm aware of).
03/12/09
Kutiman's thrill is more intense, and of a different sort: it's uniting all of the anonymoid YouTube music wonks in sweet harmony. (Damnit, that's like the third time I've said that it 24 hours.)
03/12/09