Now that the Bush admnistration has ended, it would be an interesting research project to count the number of times it exploited 9/11 for political gain.
"Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers,"
Karl Rove, June 22, 2005,quoted in the NYTimes
Monday, February 23, 2009
In order to diversify my opportunities to drivelize, I am now joining facebook and am looking for an appropriate portrait. Unfortunately, a quick review of hundreds of family photos going over the last five years reveals that there are only three pictures of Dr. Drivel himself, either because I was the constant photographer, or because I threw out the pictures when they came back from the photo lab (archaic 20th century business for developing 35 mm photos) since drivel in print is amusing, in a photograph frightening. So I am joining faceless book for now, the better for my own protection.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Radiohead's "15 Step"
What propelled Radiohead’s performance of “15 Step” to a higher plane than the other Grammy performances? Is it Yorke’s brilliance as a performer? Is it having the BBC composer in residence as your co-conspirator on guitar? Is it the juxtaposition of a marching band with a rock band? Is it the 5/4 signature or the arranger David Campbell taking on the huge musical space? Looking at other more modest but similarly compelling performances on youtube, perhaps it’s always simply the song’s unsettling lyrics delivered in an equally unsettling and convincing musical and choreographic way, with dramatic changes in feeling that fit seamlessly together, like our modern consciousness, brilliantly produced (go techs) on this occasion at the heart of mass culture.
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