tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30831442617241295282024-03-05T09:46:57.219-08:00Another Flavor - A Music Video BlogDissecting music videos, both new and old, with jokes.PTDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13656261453414923968noreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083144261724129528.post-16719974246880599992014-01-22T05:00:00.000-08:002014-01-22T05:00:00.291-08:00Indefinite Hiatus: Too Busy, Sorry DudesHey Duders and Duderettes,<br />
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Due to circumstances entirely under my control I have to put this blog on indefinite hiatus. I'm working on some shits and making some changes in my life and I have to concentrate on that for at least a few months. I'm sorry to do this, but priorities are priorities. I may post, but my schedule is right out the window. To pass the time, please feel free to watch Mother by Danzig over and over again.<br />
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They say if you love someone, let them go. That obviously makes no sense. But wherever I am, there I go. So here I go again. On my own.<br />
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-PTDPTDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13656261453414923968noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083144261724129528.post-73713885855160089802014-01-21T05:00:00.000-08:002014-01-21T05:00:11.720-08:00Twosday: Party time. Excellent?Partying. You've done it. I've done it. But what is it? Pliny the Elder said that partying was the act of going to a party. Of course, he also thought that dog-headed people existed so it is best to take his assertions with a grain of salt.<br />
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Anyways, partying is an important part of music. A lot of music is made to party to and a lot of music is made about partying. Today on Twosday we will be looking at two music videos about partying.<br />
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The first is Tik Tok by Ke$ha. Let's take a look.<br />
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This video is about going to a party. I think it also starts with waking up after a party. It's about living a party-based life.<br />
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The video opens with Ke$ha waking up in a bathtub after a party.<br />
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It isn't clear if the bathtub is in her house or if she just ended up in <i>someone's</i> bathtub.<br />
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She rides her ridiculous gold bike down the street to the delight of some shitty kids.<br />
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Naturally some duder tries to pick her up.<br />
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She isn't having it, though. She does not want to go to the kind of party that duder would go to.<br />
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She wants a real man. A man like this:<br />
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Clearly he knows how to party.<br />
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They cruise.<br />
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Finally she arrives at the party. It is the kind of party where everyone throws their hands in the air in a carefree manner.<br />
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It seems fun.<br />
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For some people, though, parties are not events that you go to. Partying is something that you do anytime and any place. One such man is Andrew W.K.<br />
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This song is about not about partying as fun, but as a duty. The comic <a href="http://overcompensating.com/oc/index.php?comic=62">Overcompensating</a> has a theory about this:<br />
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"And the angel Andrew WK did party until it began to anger God, and God was furious. </blockquote>
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And so like God said unto the angel Andrew WK, "if you like to party so much, why don't you go to Earth and partying is all that you will do." And Andrew WK did smile, for he thought this would totally rock. </blockquote>
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And so the angel Andrew WK was sent to earth to live among the humans and party."</blockquote>
That's pretty cool. (Please note that whole quote is from Overcompensating. All the best stuff on this blog is a quote.) All true, too. I mean, just look at how purposefully these men are partying.<br />
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Sometimes Andrew W.K. will just be standing by himself and will start partying so hard that a huge neon sign will appear behind him.<br />
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Parties. Man.<br />
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-PTDPTDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13656261453414923968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083144261724129528.post-59612611405284273782014-01-20T05:00:00.000-08:002014-01-20T05:00:09.174-08:00Some White Irish Dudes - Pride (In the Name of Love) by U2There was a brave man who fought against injustice. He lead a movement that changed the world. He had a way with words. My favorite quote from him is, "You can't help it if a bird flies over your head, but you don't need to let him make a nest in your hair." That man was Martin Luther.<br />
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Some time later a man was named after him. Today we celebrate <i>that</i> man.<br />
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I don't really have too much to say about Dr. King. I'm sure other people will say things better. Also, despite all of his wonderful qualities I don't think he had anything to say about music videos. I never heard him say anything that funny, either. Jesse Jackson definitely has points on him there.<br />
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Music videos, though, have something to say about Dr. King. Specifically, U2 in their video for Pride (In the Name of Love). In case you have forgotten, you should always whisper the part of the song title in parentheses. Doesn't that make it intensely creepy? Try saying the name of this song to someone on the train and see what kind of reaction you get.<br />
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U2, <a href="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120116142115AA6Kuvx">as is well established</a>, is terrible. I don't mean that their music is bad, because a lot of their songs are quite good. They are terrible because they act so important. They pretend like they are fighting for all sorts of causes but, in fact, they are just musicians. Playing music does not help anyone. All it might do is help someone emotionally. If I've learned one thing from feminism (note: I haven't) it's that emotions are totally unimportant and the only things that matter are logic and general manliness.<br />
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Pride (In the Name of Love) is actually about Dr. King. "Early morning, April 4, shots ring out in the Memphis Sky. 'Free at last.' They took your life. They could not take your pride." Ugh. Doesn't hearing those lyrics make you lose any positive feelings you might have had for the song? Also, the lyrics seem to contain some factual errors. Who are the "they" U2 refers to? Wasn't Dr. King murdered by a single man? Or are we all guilty of the conditions that lead to his death? In that case, shouldn't it be "we" instead of "they"? These are the questions that plague me.<br />
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Anyways, imagine you are in a band that doesn't really know much about Martin Luther King but you wrote a song about him anyway. What would your video look like?<br />
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Apparently this:<br />
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Do you notice something missing from this video? Yes, black people. I guess you could call it a bold choice to make a video for a song about Dr. King and only use white actors, but bold doesn't always equal good.<br />
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The video is entirely in black and white and opens with a bleak landscape.<br />
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Then the band plays in a weirdly empty auditorium.<br />
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The band is really casual about it for some reason.<br />
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See the singer with his hands in his pockets? Did he not want to come into work that day? Also, the bass player is sitting down with his feet up. U2 is really phoning it in here.<br />
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After a little bit the band decides to do a tiny bit of work.<br />
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I think the singer is doing a bird impression here.<br />
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The singer inexplicably starts shaking like he's in a big tent revival.<br />
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Is this supposed to indicate something about Dr. King's preaching style? I think it is more likely that he got bit by a snake for religious reasons.<br />
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It's a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day miracle!<br />
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This video is pretty boring. I don't understand what it has to do with the subject of the song. I feel like we are supposed to think that U2 is a very serious and important band. Well, I don't.<br />
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-PTDPTDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13656261453414923968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083144261724129528.post-71079962503336050792014-01-17T05:00:00.000-08:002014-01-17T05:00:00.948-08:00Free-for-all Friday: How to Appreciate Pop Music - Part 1, Key ChangesWelcome to another edition of Free-for-all Friday on Another Flavor!<br />
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I have been called many things. Pedant. Mansplainer. Sex bicycle. But I've never been called an educator. Not even when I was teaching other people things. Today I want to use my skills as a pedant and sex bicycle to teach about the appreciation of pop music. This may or may not be an ongoing series, so I thought I better put "Part 1" in the title.<br />
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Now, you might be thinking, "Don't most people already enjoy pop music? Isn't that why it is called pop music in the first place?" While it may be true that most people enjoy pop music after a fashion, they are doing it wrong. Dead wrong. You might think you are enjoying a song, but without the proper knowledge your enjoyment is a hollow shell. A solid foundation in music theory, rather than being a hindrance to enjoying music, is a boon. You'll start noticing things that you didn't notice before. You'll develop an appreciation for the art of songwriting and nuances of performance that will cause you to sneer at all the philistines surrounding you. Eventually you'll become unbearable and spend all your time listening to Borbetomagus:<br />
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All joking aside, I do think learning a little music theory enriches your life and enhances your appreciation for music. You can find a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/What-Listen-Music-Aaron-Copland/dp/0451628802">number of books out there</a> by hacky, faux-western composers about how to enjoy classical music but I think there is a gap when it comes to pop music. Pop music operates on the same general principles as classical music, but in practice it ends up pretty different. My goal with this series is to talk about some common techniques used in pop music so you can start listening for them in any music you might be listening to.<br />
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As a note at the beginning, a lot of people are really down on music theory. They think it is a set of rules that stifles creativity. It isn't. The origin of music theory was looking at existing music and describing trends found in it. It's not like someone sat down and made up a bunch of rules that all composers then had to learn and follow. It was more like a bunch of composers all happened to do the same things because they sounded good and someone else noticed and wrote it down. It's a lot like science that way. Scientists don't create the laws of nature, they try to figure them out from observing nature.<br />
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As a writer of music, knowing music theory teaches you what other people have done when confronted with a musical problem. Or explains why certain music makes you feel a certain way. You can then use these tools to help you rather than having to start from scratch with every piece of music. A car maker doesn't have to discover the wheel independently and then try to invent the internal combustion engine. That is more work than any one human can do. Rather, they learn what other people have already learned from books and then try to add to that knowledge.<br />
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As a listener, knowing music theory enriches your experience as well. Hopefully today's post will show you that as you hear more about how songs are constructed.<br />
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Today, we'll be talking about key changes. Almost all pop music is tonal, which means it exists in a key. You may have heard of a song being in C major or F-sharp minor. That is the key. Each key has a tonic note which can be thought of as home base. Listen to this, Louie Louie by The Kingsmen:<br />
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The riff, "Bah bah bah. Bah bah. Bah bah bah. Bah bah," keeps repeating. The first three "bah bah bahs" are the tonic. The riff keeps returning to it. One trick is to think about what note sounds right for the song to end on - that is usually the tonic.<br />
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In a key change, the tonic of the song changes. For example listen to this song, Livin' On A Prayer by Bon Jovi, and pay close attention to what happens at about 3:25 when the chorus comes back around.<br />
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Did you hear that? The last set of choruses is higher than the previous ones. The key has changed. If you need to compare, click around in the video and listen to the first chorus side-by-side with the last one. The key change will be easy to hear.<br />
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This is the most common type of key change in pop music. Raising the key by a bit (in this case I believe it is by a minor third, but don't worry if you don't know what that means) is a way to add excitement to the end of the song. Usually the singer moves to the very top of his register which gives more emotion and lets him get screamier. Also, you usually hear the chorus at least 3 times in a pop song and this gives a little bit of variety.<br />
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This isn't the only way a key change can work in pop music. Sometimes a song will have the verse and chorus in a different key. Frequently this will mean moving from a minor key in the verse to a major key in the chorus. I don't think I can explain major verses minor, but we usually think of major as being happier which makes sense for a chorus. I'll try to talk more in depth about types of keys in a future post. Just so you can hear an example of a song that changes from a minor key to the corresponding major key check out this video for Ana Ng by They Might Be Giants:<br />
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For a different example, check out this video for Man! I Feel Like a Woman by Shania Twain (I wrote a <a href="http://anotherflavor.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-best-thing-about-being-woman-man-i.html">whole post about this video</a> before):<br />
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The verses of this are in a minor key and the chorus shifts it up a fifth and to a major key. What does that mean? First, listen to the chorus and hum what you think the tonic note is. Then, listen to the chorus and do the same. Notice that you are humming a different note. These two notes are a certain distance apart. The distance between two notes is called an interval. This particular interval is a fifth which is a very important interval in music. We've been talking about tonic notes. For every tonic there is a note considered the dominant. The dominant is sort of the opposite of the tonic, but it also is the chord/note that leads back to the tonic. We can spend more time talking about tonic-dominant relationships in the future, but this switch of a fifth is very common in all types of music.<br />
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As a side note, notice how this song moves very naturally from the key of the verse to the key of the chorus, but that it is a little unnatural in how it moves from the chorus back to the verse. Doesn't it seem abrupt? The way songs transition from key to key can be quite different, some changes are so smooth you hardly notice them and others are sudden jumps with no preparation. Shania Twain gives us both in one song, which is fun.<br />
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As a final example of key changes in pop music we'll take what we've learned and listen to an example of a song that's a little more sophisticated. Here it is, Up Up and Away by the 5th Dimension:<br />
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This song is all over the place and it is fantastic! Now that you've heard some examples, how many key changes do you hear? Approximately 5 million, right? But it also seems very natural. This is a great example of how key changes can enrich a song and how knowing about key changes can distract you from the fact that the lyrics to this song are really stupid.<br />
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I hope learning a little bit about key changes helps you enjoy pop music even more. If you enjoyed this, I plan to talk even more about the appreciation of pop music in future posts. Let me know what you are most interested in!<br />
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I'll see you next week with more music videos.<br />
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-PTDPTDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13656261453414923968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083144261724129528.post-23273557648406521032014-01-16T05:00:00.000-08:002014-01-16T05:00:08.256-08:00Satorial Sursday: Cyndi Lauper Dresses Ridiculously and I Love ItWelcome to Satorial Sursday here on Another Flavor! Every Sursday we discuss the crazy clothing and general appearance of people in music videos.<br />
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I don't have a ton of time so I'll try to keep this brief. I was shocked to discover that I'd never written about Cyndi Lauper on Another Flavor, especially on a Sursday. I mean, just look at her!<br />
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Specifically, this look:<br />
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Her whole look is a combination of formal and hobo. She wears a formal prom-type dress and a formal hat. The way she has the hat jauntily tilted, though, really ruins any formality it might have had. The collar/shoulder covering thing on her dress just screams cheapness. Also, she wears chain belts on the outside of the dress. What are they holding up? Is she wearing invisible pants? I refuse to accept belts only for fashion. Finally we have her strange gloves and wrist things. Are those puffy wrist poofs attached to the gloves or separate? The overall effect is one of delightful whimsy and ramshackle charm.<br />
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Also, her hair color is fantastic. It is one of those colors that no real person has ever had. Why should we limit ourselves to colors found in nature for our hair? There is no reason.<br />
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There are some other fun outfits in this video.<br />
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I'm not really talking about the dad character, but he is wearing a real winner here. Lauper is wearing what I first assumed were pajamas. Now I'm not so sure. Is it just a really unflattering pants suits of some sort? Is it a work jumpsuit? No matter what it is, it is fun.<br />
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The final outfit we'll look at is this one:<br />
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Those glasses are so cool. They are those terrible 1950s glasses, but are also sunglasses. She is wearing a nice red dress with punk-rock type chains on her wrists. Again we have a bizarre contrast.<br />
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If I didn't really like Cyndi Lauper I might think that her look is a contrived hipster-ish thrift-store-based ironic joke. But she just seems to be having so much fun. And girls just wanna have fun. They just wanna. I'll assume women want to have fun, too. But maybe not <i>just</i> have fun.<br />
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-PTDPTDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13656261453414923968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083144261724129528.post-24584751834751450602014-01-15T05:00:00.000-08:002014-01-15T09:42:15.359-08:00Story time with The Notwist - One With the FreaksI am very interested in story. I think a good story is taut, tight, and not just a bit springy. I don't like a bunch of unnecessary scenes that don't move the story forward. The best example of this is a movie that is usually considered in the top 10 movies that glorify Confederate soldiers, The Outlaw Josey Wales. I don't want to get into it too much because I talked about it <a href="http://anotherflavor.blogspot.com/2013/10/whats-your-name-whos-your-daddy-is-he.html">here</a>, but the movie introduces a character, shows that he loves his family, and then kills that family all in less than 2 minutes. This is amazing. The movie <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator_(2000_film)">Gladiator</a> takes 45 minutes to do the same thing without really adding any information over what Wales shows. Every story should endeavor to be as much like The Outlaw Josey Wales and as little like Gladiator as possible.<br />
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I think story can make a big difference to works that don't rely entirely on story like comedies or even music videos. The show <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_(TV_series)">Community</a> is so great not because the jokes are better than on other shows, but because basically all of the characters go through a story arc every episode. I've been a big fan of Community creator Dan Harmon since before the show came out (I have to say that because I am a hipster/indie rock asshole) so I want to share this wonderful episode from Channel 101: The Musical (not actually written by, but starring, Dan Harmon).<br />
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If you aren't familiar with Channel 101, I highly recommend it. I wrote about Yacht Rock <a href="http://anotherflavor.blogspot.com/2013/12/5-best-things-on-youtube-that-arent.html">here</a>, which is an excellent Channel 101 show, but there are so many to see. I also really recommend Cautionary Tales of Swords. Sample quote: "Swords fucking kill Asians, too."<br />
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Anyways, Dan Harmon knows what he is about. He doesn't waste time with extra scenes that don't move a character's arc forward. I imagine that even if he had a show that was 3 hours long it would just either feature more characters or each character would go through more in an episode. He wouldn't just waste time. Not everyone shares his passion, though. I think a lot of people making music videos fail in this regard. Music video stories are either <a href="http://anotherflavor.blogspot.com/2013/11/more-like-video-obscura-am-i-right.html">so big that they don't fit in the video and are too confusing</a> or they are too short and the video just floats along and ends up a little boring.<br />
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Let's take a look at one that I think falls in the second category. It's for a song I really like. One With the Freaks by The Notwist:<br />
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The description on YouTube is "a jellyfish does some shit." That seems to be the attitude. Let's take a look.<br />
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The video is about a jellyfish. It opens with him (of <i>course</i>, the jellyfish is a man) washing out of the ocean.<br />
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He goes out in search of friendship and happiness. A man he meets is not interested in connecting and rebuffs him by hitting him with a newspaper.<br />
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Oh wait, this scene doesn't add anything because he has already been rebuffed by the normal world. He is a freak, you see, and normal society is not interested in accepting him.<br />
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He sees a band playing on the TV and instantly senses that he would fit in with them.<br />
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He sees a poster for a The Notwist concert and for some reason assumes that the band he saw on TV was The Notwist.<br />
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The Notwist logo is just a circle, so that smiley face inside it is a sign. He will connect with the band!<br />
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He goes to where the show is.<br />
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He meets a janitor at the venue.<br />
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He explains that their policy on jellyfish is unambiguous.<br />
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By the way, doesn't this sign remind you of the excellent Channel 101 show, The 'Bu, Episode 2?<br />
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Specifically this sign that appears in a hospital:<br />
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Awesome.<br />
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He leaves the concert venue dejected. It's like he doesn't fit it anywhere. But that's what the opening of the video is about. We already know that he doesn't connect with people, whether they are riding skateboards or falling off of them!<br />
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He feels so alone that even his surroundings seem to turn on him.<br />
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Here a tree has a startling and frightening visage.<br />
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He feels so alone that even his surroundings seem to turn on him.<br />
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Here a trash bin slams shut as he walks past.<br />
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He feels so alone that even his surroundings seem to turn on him.<br />
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Here a mailbox grows teeth and green eyes to menace him. I think you see what is going on here. Once is enough, dudes! You only need 2 minutes for the Outlaw Josey Wales to love and lose his family! Why do we need two minutes of frightening surroundings!<br />
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It won't stop! He waits to cross the street.<br />
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The man in the poster changes to <a href="http://achewood.com/index.php?date=07052005">a terrifying skeleton</a>!<br />
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Man, it's as if his surroundings are turning on him! Even The Notwist offer no solace.<br />
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It's almost as if he tried to go to their concert but was turned away because of his species. Oh wait, that <i>did</i> happen.<br />
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He decides to run away to the desert.<br />
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Or is that scrubland? I have no idea what scrubland is, but it's probably that.<br />
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He sees a fish's corpse and contemplates death.<br />
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Note: Since he is a jellyfish, finding a dead fish for him is more like finding a dead human would be to me.<br />
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He sees an oasis and decides to head for it.<br />
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It is hot and dry.<br />
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Did he know that the oasis was not real? Was he consciously marching to his death?<br />
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We are left with the similarities and differences between his wet entrance on a sandy beach and his dry exit in a sandy desert.<br />
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I'd say this story could support a good 90 seconds of video. Most bands would fill the intervening time with shots of the band performing or something. Here we just get repetition. Dan Harmon would not be pleased! Crafting story is his art. That is why he's the guy who created Laser Fart.<br />
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Join me tomorrow for Satorial Sursday when we look at the clothes of some jerk in a music video!<br />
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-PTDPTDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13656261453414923968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083144261724129528.post-1080906215469790132014-01-14T05:00:00.000-08:002014-01-14T05:00:05.063-08:00Twosday: Words and PhrasesWelcome to Twosday here on Another Flavor! Twosday is the day where we look at two music videos with something in common.<br />
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I am very enthusiastic about words and phrases. In high school I started saying "whatevs" so much that it was a real problem. I almost had to go to a special school. I try to keep my slang constantly updating, sometimes successfully and sometimes unsuccessfully. I've never been able to work "boss" into my vocabulary, but I was extremely successful with "radical". I also like to make up words or adapt existing words for new purposes.<br />
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Some examples:<br />
Hup: To hop up. For some reason it also means to take a shower.<br />
Crate: A mispronunciation of great.<br />
The deep: A nickname for Home Depot.<br />
J'escuse: As in "J'escuse, I just need to get by."<br />
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I think a lot of musicians feel that way as well. The lyrics of songs are a great way to promote new phrases and muse on their meanings. I believe this due to the videos for Bizness by Tune-Yards and Rolling in the Deep by Adele.<br />
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Let's start with Tune-Yards and Bizness:<br />
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This song asks the question we all have on our minds, "What's the business?" According to urban dictionary (I'm not linking to it because I just realized how offensive its name is) the business can mean a lot of things. It can mean something good, "This chili is the business!" It can mean hassling, "Stop giving me the business." It can even refer to a business, "The business is losing money hand over fist."<br />
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Tune-Yards wants to get to the root of this baffling conundrum. After attending the best schools money can buy...<br />
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She realized that the business cannot be explained using mere human words. Only the sheer power of interpretive dance can answer the question, "What's the business?"<br />
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Yeah.<br />
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Okay, from an in depth analysis of the meaning of phrase we come to the invention of a phrase from whole cloth. Rolling in the Deep by Adele:<br />
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What does rolling in the deep mean? In the lyrics it sounds like a complete non sequitor:<br />
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We could have had it all. Rolling in the deep.</blockquote>
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You're gonna wish you never had met me. Tears are gonna fall. Rolling in the deep.</blockquote>
These lyrics don't give us a lot to go on. I believe, though, that rolling in the deep means having a lot of money. I mean like <i>a lot</i>. Like, building a spaceship type of money. Let's take a look.<br />
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The extremely wealthy tend to have a lot of glasses, as shown here.<br />
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They also are taken to altering their surroundings with money. Here we see Adele contemplating building a whole new, all white city.<br />
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I assume that will be her city for day time and at night she will inhabit an all black city.<br />
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There are also a lot of shots that show the downside of being extremely rich, namely the loneliness.<br />
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Doesn't it remind you of Xanadu?<br />
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Man, rolling in the deep is depressing. That really is the business.<br />
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-PTDPTDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13656261453414923968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083144261724129528.post-35204285559826130382014-01-13T05:00:00.000-08:002014-01-13T05:00:08.783-08:00Wherever You Are, There You Go - Nighttime with Dani Deahl and AnimaleThis is the time of year when I get antsy. I'm tired of it being dark all the time! Right now the sun sets around 4:30 PM and that means that I go to work in the dark and return from work in the dark. I start to look out the window around 4:15 PM to determine the exact time the sun actually sets. As you can imagine, I am extremely productive at work.<br />
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Since nothing I can do will ever solve this problem (with the possible exception of not having a job) I think I need to learn to deal with the dark. I enjoy being in bed by 10 PM and waking up in time to have a couple cups of coffee before work. Some people, though, stay out late having <a href="http://anotherflavor.blogspot.com/2014/01/free-for-all-friday-fun-fun-fun.html">fun</a> and wake up the next day at 11 AM at work and fully clothed. I think I need to become like those people so, rather than lamenting the night, I can rejoice in it. It helps a bit that Chicago at night looks absolutely gorgeous:<br />
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The problem, of course, is that to get that view I need to be standing in the middle of Lake Michigan. I'm not interested in drowning.<br />
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EDM is all the rage now and it is definitely the music of the night. EDM is named after its creator, Edward David Music, and is music made electronically for dancing. Rather than relying on the traditional verse/chorus structure of pop music, EDM generally is more free flowing and builds to the point when the bass "drops". I have no idea what that means, and no article I have ever read explains it, so I'll just make up my own definition. I highly recommend you do the same.<br />
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From what I can tell, EDM appeals to free spirited young people who enjoy dancing and pill-based drugs. So I can enjoy this music too, I've decided to adopt a hip, young philosophy which is, "Wherever you are, there you go." The core to this philosophy is to always be leaving. Wherever I am, I want to be going somewhere else. That's what young people do, right? I feel like they always are headed to the next party. So there you go. Or there I go. Whatever.<br />
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You might think that EDM is just for people in Spain or Las Vegas where there are few laws and no clocks. That simply isn't the case. There are even people here in Chicago making this music! One such person is Dani Deahl (she really missed an opportunity when she didn't name herself DJ Dani Deahl) and she appears here with someone named Animale (I assume it is pronounced ani-male).<br />
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Check it out. Thunderbolt by Dani Deahl and Animale:<br />
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So this, along with my wherever you are, there you go philosophy, is the model for my new life.<br />
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Most people try to run inside when it starts to rain, but I will remain out in it just like the woman in this video.<br />
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I normally wear pants, but not anymore.<br />
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I think it is really practical to wear tiny shorts and super high boots. You get almost all of the coverage of pants, but you only need to wash the tiny shorts. I think this must result in great savings on laundry.<br />
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I will no longer be jealous of others. Here in the video we see a man in a weird cloak and a man in an enormous sombrero. These are both really practical items of clothing for the rain.<br />
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The woman does not get upset that she didn't think to wear either of those things. She just keeps dancing.<br />
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The video also seems to have an animal (ani-male?) theme.<br />
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I'll try to develop empathy for our ani-male brethren by donning an ani-male mask for a few hours a day.<br />
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I will also wear ani-male ears while going about my day.<br />
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I'll also try to make sure that part of my day consists of kissing men in the rain.<br />
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When handling fire, I will also make sure to wear an ani-male hat.<br />
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The primal nature of the hat protects you from burning.<br />
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I think this video has really got me on the right track for enjoying the night. I'm especially excited about getting soaking wet and dressing in furs.<br />
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This video also does a pretty good job of making me interested in a type of music I normally ignore. It also has titles at the opening, which you know I love.<br />
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Something that didn't really do it for me was the shocking reveal at the end. Throughout the video there have been two people in masks dancing. They begin to take off their masks.<br />
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The excitement is really mounting. Who could they be? Kanye West and Kim Kardashian? George and Barbara Bush? We, as viewers, have literally no idea. The fact that they are removing their masks must mean that they are important.<br />
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Who? I had to do research on the internet (which I <i>hate</i> doing) to figure out that these people are Dani Deahl and Animale. I guess if you already know what they look like then you might be delighted by this reveal, but music videos should serve as advertisement for you as an artist. If someone already knows what you look like then you don't really need to be advertising to them.<br />
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Whatever, it's not a big deal. I just don't like ending a video on a let down.<br />
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Since I'm here, I better get going, though. I'll see you tomorrow for Twosday!<br />
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-PTDPTDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13656261453414923968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083144261724129528.post-65163070749654947422014-01-10T05:00:00.000-08:002014-01-10T05:00:06.492-08:00Free-for-all Friday: Fun Fun Fun!I always tell people, "I like to have fun." This is meant to be a joke (by "joke" I mean a statement meant to make you mad) because I actually hate fun and because most other people seem to hate fun as well. Why is this? Shouldn't we all love fun?<br />
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I've been thinking about fun because I am in Disney something right now (check out <a href="http://anotherflavor.blogspot.com/2014/01/sartorial-sursday-its-economy-stupid.html">yesterday's post</a> for the deets) and it is their semi-fascist mission to ensure you have fun. As I discussed in <a href="http://anotherflavor.blogspot.com/2013/09/ant-music-perfect-ad.html">Another Flavor's very first post</a>, "it's so bad when you're young to be told you're having fun." I think it is supposed to be one of those fake-wise paradoxes like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Men">if you fail to master your rage, your rage will become your master</a>. (Side note: What was the deal with Mystery Men? It was all over the place! You learned all this stuff about Casanova Frankenstein that turned out not to matter and they didn't even have William H. Macy do full frontal!) I think fun should come naturally, though. It is almost impossible to have fun in a forced manner.<br />
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Do you remember new year's eve? If you do, you probably didn't have a very good one. If you don't, getting blackout drunk only seems like a good idea, it actually is very unhealthy for your eyes and I think eye health is vitally important. Anyways, there is a lot of pressure on new year's eve (and not just on your eyes). It only happens once a year and you must have fun no matter what. Inevitably it is either a huge letdown or you permanently damage your eyeballs.<br />
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I see the same thing here in Disney. I am working on my professional photography portfolio (a.k.a. the three Ps) so here is a picture:<br />
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People spend a lot of money to come here and they are GOING TO HAVE A GOOD TIME, DAMMIT! I was at this magical spheroid until after 9 PM and there were a bunch of small children still up. Why? Because these families were determined to have fun. This means if something happens like it is cold, or it rains (both of which happened while I was here) people are brutally disappointed. And something always goes wrong! You can't realistically expect everything to be perfect so being determined to have fun guarantees that you won't.<br />
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Think back on those times you had fun. Were you thinking about how much fun you were having? No! You were having too much fun! Fun cannot be deliberate. Therego, in order to have fun we must deliberately try to not have it.<br />
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Did you follow that? It is extremely logical. For the truly logical thinkers out there, let me demonstrate it in your own language: 00100111011010110. Got it? Good.<br />
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So what does this have to do with music videos? Does it have to have anything to do with music videos? It is Free-for-all Friday! This is the day I let my inhibitions run wild! I guess I can relate it to one just for you, the demanding reader. Take a look at this frighteningly serious video for Ana Ng by They Might Be Giants:<br />
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Isn't it funny? Because it is so serious!<br />
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The video is about two gentlemen with pretty serious anger management problems.<br />
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Sometimes while working at their empty desks, they get so angry! They are angry that they have no paperwork.<br />
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There is a lot of very serious frustration at this office.<br />
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Their duties in the office are very serious as well. For a few hours a day they each must do serious-military-portrait-holding.<br />
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There is shouting at the phone time, of course.<br />
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Even during the cruel-overlord-mandated play time the play is rigid and serious.<br />
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I'm pretty sure this is the <i>opposite</i> of frolicking.<br />
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If, outside of work hours, these men are forced to interact with another human being they avoid eye contact because there might be a moment of levity.<br />
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Naturally, that must be avoided at all costs.<br />
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These serious men usually end up working themselves to death.<br />
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So why am I so delighted by these men? They are deadly serious and I am smiling about it. I think seriousness is inherently ridiculous. If I arrived at Disney world and was told to be very careful with my bag because theft is a serious problem, <i>then</i> I would be having fun. I just get a kick out of it!<br />
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I hope someone at Disney takes this to heart and it becomes the most serious place on Earth. One can only hope.<br />
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-PTDPTDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13656261453414923968noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083144261724129528.post-10966418738580983452014-01-09T04:00:00.000-08:002014-01-09T04:00:07.067-08:00Sartorial Sursday: It's the Economy, Stupid!I've been on a plane recently (check out <a href="http://anotherflavor.blogspot.com/2014/01/twosday-dont-call-me-shirley-airplanes.html">Twosday's post</a> for more info!) and that of course means being in airports. While in Midway airport in Chicago I noticed that there are stores that sell books and magazines approximately every 20 feet. There are a few different chains, but sometimes two identically branded stores will be a two minute walk from each other. Are people in airports unwilling to walk more than 10 feet to buy a copy of Men's Health? Do they then return to their seat at the gate, rest the magazine on their gut, and proceed to read it while gasping for air? I don't understand it.<br />
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The thing that confounds me is that I always assume that businesses are logical. I believe that if they are doing something it means it makes good economic sense. So it apparently makes good economic sense to make sure that every other store in an airport sells J.K. Rowling's non-Harry Potter novel and the three most recent Dean Koontz books that came out this month. I have no idea why this is. I just don't understand economics. Or is economics even the right word? Should it be merchandising? Or store-craft? Or scrimshaw-dawdling? I don't even know enough about it to know the right word!<br />
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Here's another example: The hotel at which my work is having a conference is located in Florida and looks like this:<br />
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Don't get too jealous, it was 40 degrees here when I took this picture.<br />
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So how does it make sense to fly people from all over the country to what looks like an outrageously expensive resort to have a day and a half of meetings that could easily be done using the internet? It can't really just be that management wants to take their families to Disney for free, can it? I refuse to accept that explanation even though it is obviously true. It must make good financial sense to spend a ton of money on plane tickets and hotels so we can spend time wildly applauding at the slightest provocation.<br />
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All of this ridiculousness got me thinking about economics and money in general. Have you noticed that some people have money and others don't? I have. Thanks to the extreme cold, Chicago probably has a few less of the people who don't have money, but I'm not talking about the truly poor. No one ever talks about them. I'm talking about the regular people versus the super rich. Everyone thinks they are a regular person, no matter how fantastically wealthy, and I am no exception. We always look at those who have a little bit more and wish we were like them. One thing that is immediately noticeable about those above us is clothing.<br />
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Anyone can wear nice clothing. But the thing that separates the truly rich (I guess more than rich I mean high class) is that they are very comfortable in the kind of clothing that leaves us regos constantly tugging at our collars. The ultimate high class outfit is the tuxedo, or, as the high class would say, black tie.<br />
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Let's look at a man dressed to the nines, Taco in Puttin' on the Ritz:<br />
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Please ignore the black face. Taco is from Germany and it's still cool to casually walk around like that there. If you have an issue, take it up with Deutschland.<br />
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Contrary to popular belief, Taco did not write this song. It was actually written by Taco's younger brother, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Berlin">Irving Berlin</a>, who was a child of the eighties. The <i>eighteen</i> eighties! Ha! Heyo!<br />
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The song is about lovable German citizens in black face who dress really nicely despite their poverty. The appearance of class is more important to them than trying to actually achieve that status. So how does Taco dress for this video? Let's take a look:<br />
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Why are we looking at his appearance? Because it's Sartorial Sursday! Every Sursday Another Flavor looks at a person in a music video and discusses their clothing and general appearance.<br />
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So here we see Taco is a tuxedo. His coat has tails and his bow tie is white. He is also wearing white gloves. At first glance it might appear that he is dressed quite nicely, but he is really dressed more like a waiter than a rich person. He is too put together to be an upper class person. Also, the pancake face make-up doesn't really fit, not to mention the lightsaber. Jedis are more comfortable in robes.<br />
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So what is Taco saying? Is it that he just doesn't know how to dress? No, I think he is saying something mean spirited about those enthusiastic German citizens. I think he is saying that they are fools to spend their meager means on expensive clothing. I disagree. I just think Taco doesn't understand the economics of it in the same way I don't understand selling newspapers in an airport or going to Florida.<br />
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Dressing nice can frequently lead to a better lot in life. Have you ever heard the saying, "Don't dress for the job you have, dress for the job you want?" Don't you just want to punch those people in the face? But that is exactly what the people Taco is singing about are doing. There is nothing wrong with it so there is no need to be snarky. I don't see what business someone named Taco has being snarky anyway.<br />
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I'll see you tomorrow with an exciting rendition of Free-for-all Friday!<br />
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-PTDPTDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13656261453414923968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083144261724129528.post-24270266974639695752014-01-08T04:32:00.000-08:002014-01-08T04:32:12.844-08:00Pranksters - Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick AstleyAre you familiar with the show Punk'd? It was a little like Queer Eye for the Straight Guy except at the end of it everyone looked like this:<br />
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As I'm sure you are aware, it was actually about playing pranks. Anyone who knows me can guess that I hate pranks. First off, they aren't funny. Second, they just invite counter pranks. No one likes getting pranked, so why would you do something to increase the chance of this happening?<br />
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Recently this happened to me: I was leaving work so I walked to the train station. It was brutally cold (I believe it was 11 below 0) so I wanted to stand under the heat lamps. Unfortunately I saw the following sight:<br />
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A large group of pigeons had taken over the heat lamps. I approached cautiously, hoping to share the warmth with the birds. They proceeded to aggressively fly towards me. I could have tried to weather the initial attack and see if they gave up, but I knew that pigeons wouldn't last very long in Chicago if they were unwilling to peck out a commuter's eyes.<br />
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Now, after this harrowing experience, imagine that some jerks came out and claimed that they "got me" while laughing to each other. That is what a prank feels like.<br />
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I think you know where this is going. If you don't, a little background reading would help you. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ">Read here</a> about the history of pranks and their victims.<br />
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I'm referring to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling">rickroll</a>. In 2008 it was extremely popular. Once people got rickrolled they immediately wanted to rickroll other people to the point where you didn't want to click on any internet links. I know it isn't a great hardship to accidentally have to watch a music video, but I always felt deeply hurt and betrayed. Over many viewings, though, I came to appreciate the video for Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley. You did watch the entire video every time you got rickrolled, right? It has an earnest quality that really speaks to me.<br />
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Doesn't his dancing make you smile? It should. And all of Astley's outfits are ridiculous.<br />
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High-waisted pants, shirt buttoned all the way up, sunglasses, and his shirt and pants are the same color. He is quite a hip dude. But his dancing is great! I feel like he is not at all self conscious about the dorkiness of his dancing.<br />
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In a lot of this video he looks like a kid dressed as an adult.<br />
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Is he supposed to be a private eye meeting you in the sewers underneath Paris? Or did someone grab a cheap trench coat from the prop department?<br />
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For a while he pretends to be a 1940s white jazz artist.<br />
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The old-fashioned black (unpaid?) servant looks on with distrust and distaste.<br />
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I think there is a hint of disdain in there as well.<br />
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He is soon won over and does the splits enthusiastically.<br />
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At the end, there are a lot of shots of Astley grinning like a damn moron.<br />
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I think this video really lacks guile. That's probably why my hackles were so raised in 2008 when I kept getting rickrolled. I think Rick Astley is the kind of guy who would just keep clicking those links.<br />
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I'm not sure what compelled me to write about a dead internet meme, but here at Another Flavor we like to keep our finger on the pulse of what's hip, boss, and the bee's knees. We really try to keep a leg up on the pile. Join us tomorrow for Sartorial Sursday!<br />
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-PTDPTDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13656261453414923968noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083144261724129528.post-87800562392980035962014-01-07T05:00:00.000-08:002014-01-07T05:00:00.220-08:00Twosday: Don't call me Shirley - Airplanes!Aren't you bummed that the second <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane!">Airplane!</a> movie wasn't called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane_II:_The_Sequel">Airplanes!</a>? I've been thinking about airplanes because I am going on a flight today. As a people, we are scared of flying. I certainly am. Flying is an extremely dangerous way to travel. The only ways to travel more dangerous are by train, by motorcycle, by bike, by foot, and by car. But that's it. Oh, boats are more dangerous, too. Did you know that you are more likely to die in a plane crash than to be killed in a shirt factory fire? Chilling.<br />
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Car-related side note: In Chicago after a snow, it is traditional for people save their precious parking spot by blocking it off with lawn furniture. People who are new to Chicago get really excited about this tradition and decide to partake of it immediately. They don't understand the rules, though. In case you are one of these people let me lay it down for you and see if you can pick it up.<br />
1. You must have shoveled the spot out. This is the most important! If all you did was block some of the falling snow with your car, you may not save your spot.<br />
2. You only get to save it for a day. <i>Maybe </i>two, but probably not. Shoveling out a spot once does not reserve it for the whole winter.<br />
3. People <i>are</i> allowed to steal your lawn furniture. Sorry, it's just a fact of life.<br />
I hope these rules allow you to fully enjoy dangerously driving around on slippery roads at 10 miles an hour over the speed limit!<br />
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Okay, back on track. So, I know deep down that flying isn't dangerous especially compared to driving. I'm still frightened about it. This Burt Reynolds quote really explains it, "My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave." When you are in an airplane, there is nowhere for you to go. You can be in Alfred Hitchcock's favorite situation: You know something bad is going to happen and there is nothing you can do about it. Now, I know I should be approximately 400 times more scared when I'm riding in a car, but I'm not. I imagine that I could just hup out the window at 70 miles an hour and roll to safety. This is why I always recommend practicing jumping out of speeding cars on the freeway. You won't regret it.<br />
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Anyways, this trapped feeling shows up in music videos. Did you know that Another Flavor is a blog about music videos? And that on Twosday we talk about two videos with something in common? Well, now you do. You're welcome.<br />
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Today we'll be looking at the video for Britney Spears's Toxic and Foo Fighters' Learn to Fly. Let's start with Toxic.<br />
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First off, isn't Toxic a great song? It really is.<br />
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Spears is addicted to her man. She <i>needs</i> him. But she's on a plane because she is a flight attendant from 1960s space:<br />
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So what can she do? She's gotta grab some random dude and drag him into the bathroom.<br />
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She has no choice. She's trapped. That's what happens when you get on an airplane.<br />
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Unlike Spears's harrowing story of unfulfilled sexual desire, Foo Fighters warn us of the dangers of drinking non-alcoholic beverages in their video for Learn to Fly.<br />
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I'm not sure how I feel about this video. I'm not a huge fan of men dressed as women in fat suits.<br />
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Disgusting. Fat people are not inherently funny! Neither is cross dressing!<br />
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This video does show the trapped feeling of being on a plane well, though. Almost everyone drinks drugged coffee.<br />
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This leaves the alcohol-only members of Foo Fighters to save the day. Normally, you'd be able to call for experts in a disaster situation, but when you are in a plane you only have the people you took off with. This is what is so terrifying. Just look at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_(TV_series)">Lost</a>! Imagine having to spend 6 seasons with whoever happened to be on a plane with you! Crazy.<br />
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If I don't die in a fiery wreck, I'll be back tomorrow with more music video goodness!<br />
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This new year's eve I was taking a bus and there was a group of people on that bus. Since they were audibly excited about going to a bar I have to assume that they were all 21 or younger. Everything they said made me want to ride my Rascal back there and tell them to get off my lawn. I hate it when people who are young (like me) say they are old, but I guess we all hate ourselves sometimes.<br />
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Anyways, these are the changes I've been thinking about, and all of them have to do with electronics:<br />
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1. When I left for college, cell phones were a thing that a few people had. Suddenly, though, everyone had them. This meant that it was no longer possible to make specific plans with people because they would just "call you when I get there". Gone were the days of meeting in front of the statue of Nixon at 7:25 AM.<br />
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2. During college I sent exactly 0 text messages and received about 3 of them. While I was still in college younger kids showed up who texted all the time. You would be talking to them and they would be texting. They would walk out of a class and immediately text someone. Those phones that you turned sideways to access a keyboard were really popular. Who were they texting and what were they texting about? I still have no idea.<br />
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Man, I'm terrible. I recently told my aunt that I was thinking I should get on Twitter but didn't really understand it. When did this happen to me? Am I going to start complaining about kids who don't pull their pants up?<br />
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3. Everyone started buying Ipods. Before this everyone had to use either Disc- or Walk-men (mans?) using either regular CDs/tapes they bought from a store or homemade mixes. You were forced to listen to an album or consciously create a set of songs that function like a homemade album where the songs were supposed to be listened to in a certain order. Because Ipods can hold a bunch of songs pretty much everybody bought one and started listening to their entire music collection on shuffle at all times.<br />
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None of these are particularly bad things. They are just changes. I don't think any of them ruined America or even a different country that wasn't already ruined.<br />
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That third change, though, had a big affect on music. Before you would choose what music to listen to. Now you just hit shuffle and if something comes on that you don't like you go to the next randomly chosen song. Also, people started to listen to music more. You might just be walking to the store, but you'd listen to music at the same time. This meant that we weren't so much listening to music as creating a soundtrack to our lives. The music we wanted to hear was no longer the best to listen to, but the best reflection of whatever we were doing or whatever emotional state we were in.<br />
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It's not a surprise that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu_gaze">shoe gaze</a> had a resurgence in popularity at this time. Shoe gaze is the perfect soundtrack for a hungover college student walking to class. Shoe gaze is brutally boring, of course, and if you sit down and try to listen to it while doing nothing else you will kill yourself after 3 minutes. That doesn't matter anymore because of Ipods. Musicians can create what is essentially background music and know that people will enjoy listening to it while walking around.<br />
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(Note: I understand that this sounds extremely judgmental and that I am basically saying that the type of music I like is the real deal and type of music other people like is bullshit. Oh well. I'm under the impression that bloggers were supposed to be dicks all the time, so that's what I'm doing.)<br />
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What does any of this have to do with music videos? Isn't Another Flavor a music video blog? Yes! One of the reasons I love music videos is that it matches well with how I prefer to listen to music. I like to just sit there and listen to the music. Music videos force you to pretty much do that because you have to listen to the music and look at the video. Your eye and ear senses are fully engaged. I guess you could distract yourself by touching animal fur and then trying to guess the animal (do NOT attempt this with live bears), but most people wouldn't do that. You just sit there and watch the music video.<br />
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This actually creates a problem for those musicians who specialize in this background-type music. How do you make a music video for a song that isn't supposed to be interesting by itself? Let's find out.<br />
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Sea of Knives by <a href="http://bricewoodall.com/">Brice Woodall</a> (who I believe is from Chicago):<br />
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First off, I do not want to say this song is bad. It really isn't. It just isn't my style. I feel like the chorus is too similar to the verse and the vocals are so processed that you can't hear any of the words. That's fine, though, because the song is supposed to make me <i>feel</i> a certain way. As a result, the visuals in the video need to provide more content than a video normally needs to. You can't just follow the story of the song because the song floats along with very little content. In this case, a whole narrative is concocted:<br />
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There is a prison on an island.<br />
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In said prison there are some prisoners.<br />
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Aren't their outfits a delight? They are wearing old timey prison stripes and hobo hats. The man has a suspiciously well-kempt beard.<br />
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They try to escape! They crawl through the barbed wire.<br />
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Incidentally, "razor wire" is pretty much the only recognizable phrase in the song. From what I call tell the first line of the chorus is, "We can mingle with the crowd," but that is only after watching the video 5 times.<br />
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Since the prison is on an island they have to swim for freedom.<br />
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A man in a biplane drops bombs at them.<br />
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They land in paradise.<br />
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This freedom might actually be death because it seems a bit too ideal. Maybe this song is about how the only freedom we can ever find comes from leaving this life. Maybe the guy who made the video just really likes sunflowers.<br />
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This narrative is actually kind of perfect. It is easy to make a music video's story too confusing (just check out <a href="http://anotherflavor.blogspot.com/2013/11/more-like-video-obscura-am-i-right.html">this video by Camera Obscura</a>) or too complex. This story is very clear and is the right size for the length of the song. Also, using animation plus people in front of green screens lets this video be mildly ambitious with a presumably small budget. The video also looks very good as a whole.<br />
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This video does exactly what a video should do, which is make me like the song more than I would without the video. Awesome.<br />
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Join me tomorrow for another edition of Twosday here on Another Flavor!<br />
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-PTDPTDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13656261453414923968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083144261724129528.post-91118616363910626492014-01-03T05:00:00.000-08:002014-01-03T05:00:03.194-08:00Free-for-all Friday: Let it snow!Welcome to another edition of Free-for-all Friday here on Another Flavor! Friday is the day I let my mind (and eyes) wander to any subject (or open window) I choose.<br />
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I used to be a boy scout. In the boy scouts I won the Zero Hero award twice. This reward is very easy to earn. All you need to do is sleep outside when it is below zero degrees. In case you are reading this from a foreign (i.e. non-US, i.e. bad) location, yes, I mean below zero degrees Fahrenheit. So, based on my handy converter that is about -18 degrees Celsius, 255 degrees Kelvin, or 42 degrees Canadian. You could say I have an affinity for winter weather. I don't think it's true, but you could say it. No one is stopping you.<br />
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Anyway, I mention this because I live in Chicago and due to tropical storm Hercules we have been having some very wintry weather. I would estimate that, since Wednesday, we have received 10 inches of snow. For those of you not familiar with winter or snow, that isn't hyperbole. Saying we got 58 inches of snow is hyperbole. Also, wouldn't it be great if they changed the name of the Super Bowl to the Hyper Bowl? Write your congress-person to let them know.<br />
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It hasn't been <i>crazy </i>cold (I believe it is 9 degrees right now. The real cold is coming Monday where the <i>high</i> is supposed to be -8 degrees.) but there is just so much snow! Why do I mention all this? Because I hate it! Snow is such a drag. I can deal with an inch or two, but this amount of snow has a real psychological effect on me. I think it affects all of us.<br />
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We can see these effects in music videos. Another Flavor is a blog about music videos! This is great!<br />
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Snow can cloud our judgment. (It also apparently makes me think that there should be an "e" between the "g" and "m" in judgment, but shouldn't there be?) Look at this video for We Got Snow:<br />
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Leah Daniels apparently thinks of herself as a white Zooey Deschanel. She doesn't have such a deep, distinctive voice though. She also has picked a real clunker to perform. Why, when doing old timey jazz stuff, does it seem appropriate to dress in old fashioned clothing? Do classical musicians wear powdered wigs? Do baroque harpsichordists poop dangerously close to their own drinking water supply? If not, then why do people doing 1920s-style music wear 1920s-style clothes?<br />
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Also, I don't find this song very interesting. Do you think the director kept telling the background musicians to pretend to be happy and excited? They aren't very good actors. I think their brains have all been addled by snow. Even to the point where they aren't wearing particularly warm clothing. Crazy.<br />
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Snow can also make you lazy. I am reluctant to go outside unless absolutely necessary. Many people put off chores, and sometimes don't even go into work just because of snow. The Red Hot Chili Peppers got extremely lazy when it came to their song Snow (Hey Oh):<br />
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It seems like this video just consists of some rehearsal/sound check shots, a few shots of a single live performance, and many shots of death row prison inmates just before their executions.<br />
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Those poor bastards.<br />
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This video seems to have been made entirely incidentally. I guess it shows the current (when I say current read it as 2006) attitude towards music videos. Apparently they aren't very important and don't need to be remotely interesting. If you are feeling lazy you can just hire a couple of college kids to film you for a day and edit it into a music video. The results just make me angry. Snow!<br />
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Also, did you know that song was called snow? I didn't. I am amazed that Red Hot Chili Peppers had a repopularitying over 10 years after their original popularityness. It seems like every time <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frusciante">John Frusciante</a> is their guitar player they are super popular and every time their guitar player is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Navarro">Dave Navarro</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_Slovak">some dead guy</a> they have no hits. They need to do everything they can to keep that guy around. Otherwise they are just lazy people with bad songs. That's a recipe for Trouble (yes, with a capital "T" that rhymes with "p" that stands for "pool").<br />
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Finally, snow can make us extremely racist. Just ask a man so racist that he named himself <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_(musician)">Snow</a>. Here's his monster hit from his album hilariously named "12 Inches of Snow":<br />
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There is nothing racist about being a white person playing reggae. Seriously, go for it! Be the second coming of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ub40">UB40</a> for all I care. The problem comes from his use of the Jamacain accent/<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaican_Patois">patois</a>. This is just linguistic black face. Why would this ever be considered acceptable? This song was big in 1993! Just 21 years ago! Unbelievable.<br />
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On a non-snow-related, but black-face-related side note, check this out:<br />
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Man, what is wrong with people? Why can't people just be themselves instead of pretending to be black, no matter how inherently hilarious all black people are? Terrible.<br />
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I'll see you next week with more music video fun and hopefully less racism here on Another Flavor!<br />
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-PTDPTDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13656261453414923968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083144261724129528.post-63522536841842112082014-01-02T05:00:00.000-08:002014-01-02T05:00:07.341-08:00Sartorial Sursday: The Hairstyle of the Overcrowded Future - Word Up by CameoWelcome to Sartorial Sursday here on Another Flavor! Every Sursday we discuss the general appearance of a person in a music video. Today we'll be looking at a man with a style so unique, so radical, that you could plotz. And you should. Look at this:<br />
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Specifically, look at this man:<br />
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I think we can all agree this is awesome. He is wearing a tight, stretchy, black tank top. This is over tight, stretchy, blue pants. Since all of his clothes are tight and stretchy, the clothing was a little too racy. You probably wouldn't be able to pay attention to the song because you'd be staring at his crotch. He cleverly avoids that be wearing a bright red, shiny cod piece. Now we don't even notice his crotch!</div>
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Why is he sitting like that? Is he on a throne? Is that the most comfortable he can be given the skin tight clothing an inflexible cod piece? Is he not actually sitting but crouching weirdly with his arms out? It's basically the coolest way to sit, in my opinion.</div>
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This is hair that really stands out, but still allows you to live in a three foot by three foot closet. Someday we'll all be living like that, sleeping standing up on top of our possessions. We'll be glad to still have good hairstyle options. Thank you, Cameo, for teaching us how to have ridiculous hair for the future.</div>
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PTDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13656261453414923968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083144261724129528.post-56286359352122417612013-12-31T05:00:00.000-08:002013-12-31T05:00:10.246-08:00Twosday: NERDS! with Skee-Lo and WheatusWelcome to Twosday on Another Flavor! Today's topic is nerds.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge_of_the_Nerds">Revenge of the Nerds</a> always gets me. NERDS!<br />
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Anyways, today we will be talking about two songs that feature nerds. One has a bunch of turntable scratching and the other one is a rap song. As we learned from Revenge of the Nerds, almost everyone feels like a nerd. That means nerds instantly get our sympathy. We feel like outsiders. But are we really? Look at just how cartoon-ish movie nerds really are.<br />
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I Wish by Skee-Lo:<br />
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This video is about a man who wishes things were different. Why? Because he can't get a date and is short. Also he is only able to have sons as children and he wishes he had a girl. If he did, he would call her:<br />
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Gotta love the constant "calling" hand gestures.<br />
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Anyways, this video is very physical. Skee-Lo feels tiny in a world filled with tall, good looking men. This makes him insecure. He can't play basketball with them, but he keeps trying. I mean, look at him!<br />
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He's like a tiny baby. How can he be so small? He has small hands and feet. I imagine his features are small as well.<br />
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His clothes don't even fit. Apparently they don't make clothes that fit such tinily proportioned people.<br />
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And he is a little dandy who can't even see over the top of a table.<br />
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So, the video spends a lot of time emphasizing his smallness. He is much smaller than practically anyone really is. So why does he try to play basketball at all? He doesn't need to. He could get involved in other pursuits, but he wants to play basketball just like the cool guys. This makes him feel like a loser. I think that is what makes him a loser. Trying to fit in even when he really doesn't. Just relax, dude! Don't try so hard!<br />
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Our other nerd video is Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus:<br />
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This video is a movie tie-in for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loser_(film)">Loser</a>, which was a non-American-Pie-based Jason Biggs vehicle. I have never seen it but it seems to be in the same vein as Revenge of the Nerds except it is beloved by no one and hopefully doesn't feature a main character raping a woman and having no consequences.<br />
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The opens with what we in the biz call a "framing device".<br />
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These keep your paintings protected and allow you to hang them on your wall. In this case Jason Biggs falls asleep and finds himself... in high school!<br />
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He rides a bike because only losers ride bikes. Real adults always drive cars <a href="http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index.ssf/2012/08/5_injured_after_car_crashes_in.html">right into a Dunkin Donuts</a>.<br />
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So why is this character a loser? It is a little less clear. Random dudes just come up to him and make that L sign at him.<br />
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Do people actually do that? This seems very unrealistic.<br />
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He gets knocked down.<br />
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And, in case you haven't gotten the gist, sits in front of a sign that says "Loser".<br />
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I don't care about this guy, though. I don't care about movie tie-in shit. Just like the Skee-Lo video, I want to see what the singer is all about. The singer of Wheatus is this man, whose name is (as far as I can tell) Jose Feliciano Wheatus:<br />
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This man is far nerdier than Jason Biggs could ever be. Look at how hard he is trying! That hat! That hat was cool for about 2 days in 1999 due to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Get_What_You_Give">New Radicals</a> and his combination hipster glasses/sunglasses don't manage to hit either the right nerdy or cool notes. It's sad really.<br />
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Is that a track suit? And still with that hat. This man is a super nerd. Just like with Skee-Lo, the thing that makes him a loser is trying to fit in with the cools.<br />
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I'll go ahead and say that he was being a nerd on purpose for this video. I guess he would have to be a nerd to write this song. He listens to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Maiden">Iron Maiden</a>! What a totally obscure band only loved by nerds! I'm sure Iron Maiden lost money on all of their 37 albums, mostly released on major labels, because no one except losers listen to them.<br />
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That is wrong (I was using a literary technique called sarcasm because I am a dick). While Iron Maiden is terrible, tons of people like them! I'd say about half of the people you meet like Iron Maiden. Does that mean that 50% of people are nerds? I guess. That's sort of the whole point. Everyone is a nerd. That's why Ogre joins the nerds in Revenge of the Nerds 2. It's just that almost no one is a nerd like the guys in these videos. These guys are, like, super nerds. To the max.<br />
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Due to the holiday I will not be posting tomorrow, but I'll be back for Sartorial Sursday!<br />
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"Be prepared" is the Boy Scout motto. What should we be prepared for, though? That is never made clear. To most it means carrying an umbrella and a warm hat, just in case. But having an umbrella and a hat doesn't prepare us for a car crashing through the front of our house or every power line in the city falling down and catching fire.</div>
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If we could see the future, we would know exactly what to be prepared for.</div>
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Unfortunately, we can't do that. We can just do this:</div>
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For anything. Zombie attack? Gravity reversal? A sudden outbreak of violent sneezing? There must be contingencies for all of these.</div>
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What would this hyper-preparedness look like? One brave Chicago band, <a href="http://cmnineed.bandcamp.com/">Cmn ineed</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/cmnineedyrhlp">yr hlp</a>, asks just this.</div>
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It is the grass that gets trampled by Cmn ineed yr help:</div>
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So, what do we need to be ready in case the worst happens? First of all, we will need to know math to one day rebuild computers and recreate our scientific knowledge. As a result, listening to math rock is really important. It heightens your brain powers so you can more effectively add the numbers together to get sums or even occasionally products. I'm not sure how math rock-y a song in 6/8 really is, but I get that feel from them. Great. We're well on our way.</div>
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So what should we do around the house to be maximally prepared? Let's ask this man:</div>
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He has quite an intrepid look while still seeming amazingly stupid. Awesome.</div>
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To start, regular bricks are not enough. Build a second wall next to your current wall using gigantic bricks.</div>
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This will prevent small-brick-based attacks.</div>
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Make sure to have a radio that takes two different sizes of batteries.</div>
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This way, if one size of battery suddenly fails everywhere around the world, you can still listen to Prairie Home Companion.</div>
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They can be eaten or ridden, as appropriate.</div>
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Keep a large number of cans of food nearby. Make sure you do not organize them, though, to keep yourself on your toes.</div>
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During certain types of emergencies it is easy to become confused. Make sure you label everything in case you forget what it is.</div>
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Just preparing your house isn't enough, though. You must also prepare your body.</div>
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First, practice collecting your urine and pretending that it is potable water.</div>
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You never know, right?</div>
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Then, practice shitting into a paper bag, putting it into a barrel, and burning it.</div>
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Frequently, teens are drawn to barrels labelled "Danger: Burning Shit" so it is best to fool them by claiming it is "Radio Active Waste".</div>
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Finally, you must not neglect your mind. Some say that mental preparation is most important. I don't, but some do.</div>
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First, spend several hours a day staring at yourself in a mirror.</div>
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This way, if you are blinded in an explosion or a chemical accident you will be able to describe your face to others who have also been blinded.</div>
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Also, it is important to make it seem like you can read. Do not do this:</div>
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This makes you seem much smarter.</div>
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Finally, it is impossible to think of everything. Regularly peer into your neighbor's window to see if they are preparing for something you are not.</div>
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This is how you can be prepared!</div>
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And then matching it to the music. They really do a good job matching the mood and rhythm of the song with the images you see. The song frequently alternates between a loud rocking bit and more gentle music and they alternate between the calmer (if insane) images I showed above and things like the guy falling down the stairs.</div>
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It can be difficult to make a video for an instrumental song. Cmn ineed yr help decide to heighten the feeling of each section of the song with the weird puppet guy. I feel like we get to look inside his head. Cool.</div>
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Join me tomorrow for Two Times Tuesday where we look at some nerds.</div>
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PTDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13656261453414923968noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083144261724129528.post-53535706400225887692013-12-27T05:00:00.000-08:002013-12-27T05:00:08.560-08:00Free-for-all Friday: An ode to the day jobI went to school to learn how to play the bass. This thing:<br />
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And I'm not talking about jazz or bluegrass. I went to school for classical music. I had to take Powdered Wigs 101 <i>and</i> 102 in order to graduate.<br />
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Look at how shoddily this man wears his wig. I don't even think he remembered to powder it! This is why an expensive university education is so important.<br />
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The skills I learned in school are not in high demand. The options open to me are to get a job in an orchestra (this is extremely competitive and an average of 2 orchestras go bankrupt a month in America) or as a classical bass soloist. No one is interested in hearing a classical bass soloist. Almost no one, that is. Your main audience is aspiring classical bass soloists and they are all fools.<br />
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As a result, I have a day job. At its core, a day job is doing something you don't particularly like for money. It really sounds glamorous when I put it that way. I'm not so sure that a day job is a bad thing, though. When I look back at history I see that there may be some advantages to separating your creativity from your financial needs. Lets see some examples from my milieu, the Milieu of Classical Bass Soloists (<a href="http://www.mobcs.org/">MOCBS</a>).<br />
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First let's discuss <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Bottesini">Giovanni Bottesini</a>.<br />
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He was known as the Paganini of the double bass. This means that he was Italian and played really fast for no good reason. Was he able to make his living as a bass soloist? No! Of course not! He was only the best bass soloist in the world. We don't expect the best maker of paper hats to be able to make a living at it and playing the solo bass is even more worthless.<br />
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So what was he forced to do as his day job? He was an opera composer and conductor most of his life. While in America a job like that sounds worse than digging ditches, in Italy in the 1800s an opera composer and conductor was considered a respectable job like a janitor or door-to-door bible salesman. He even became somewhat well known as a conductor. But the shame must have been unbearable when Verdi asked him to conduct the premier of his opera Aida.<br />
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For us, though, there is no shame. We were robbed of an irrelevant bass soloist and given a musician of note. He would much rather have been performing his Concerto for Double Bass in B minor, but luckily music lovers got something worth listening to. Hooray for day jobs!<br />
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Next, there is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Koussevitzky">Serge Koussevitzky</a>.<br />
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Koussevitzky's Bass Concerto in F# minor (the reason solo bass repertoire is all in stupid keys has to do with the fact that bass players hate you) is beloved by no one and the recordings of his playing are frankly ridiculous.<br />
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You'd think that someone who slides between all the notes would be able to end up in tune, but he manages to deftly avoid this. The tune is mildly charming but wouldn't it be more charming on a cello? The problem is that a cellist has repertoire by actual composers like Haydn or Brahms and doesn't need to play cutesy garbage composed by a nobody.<br />
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Once again we can look to the day job for salvation. To avoid starvation, Koussevitzky became conductor of the Boston Symphony in 1924. He used his frustration as an artist to turn that group into a real orchestra and conducted the premiers of excellent modern music and commissioned a lot of it. If it weren't for Koussevitzky we would not have Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms or Gershwin's Second Rhapsody. If people were interested in solo bass playing those pieces maybe would never have been written.<br />
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Finally, we have <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Karr">Gary Karr</a>. Due to globalization people can increasingly specialize. As a result, Gary Karr didn't need to get a day job. This is what we get:<br />
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What's so funny Gary? Is it that you are playing a boring Baroque sonata and making enough money to live on? That is pretty funny. There are a lot of people playing music worth listening to who can't make that claim so I guess all of life is a sick comedy. We have to wonder what he would have been able to contribute to the world if only he were forced to have a day job. My guess is he would have designed the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_R._Guggenheim_Museum">Guggenheim</a>. Or maybe he would have been <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_M_Pei">I. M. Pei</a>. Definitely something in architecture.<br />
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Join Another Flavor next week when I return to my day job and stop sitting around my house thinking about the double bass.<br />
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-PTDPTDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13656261453414923968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083144261724129528.post-67820110435215379352013-12-26T05:00:00.000-08:002013-12-26T05:00:07.489-08:00Sartorial Sursday: It's Tailoring Time - Losing You by SolangeIt has been pointed out to me (remember, aspiring writers: passive voice makes you sound super smart [I mean: You are made to sound super smart by passive voice]) that my recently introduced feature, Sartorial Sursday, has not been effectively living up to its name. First off, Sursday isn't "technically" a day of the week. Secondly, satorial means "of or having to do with tailoring," (I'd like to cite my source, my 8th grade vocabulary book, but I have no idea what it was called. Let's go with <i>Vocab Up Your Ass</i>.) but I have not really discussed the cut of clothing or the quality of the stitching in my posts.<br />
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I'd like to address these criticisms head on. I believe it was Gandhi who said, "I'd love to convince you that I am right with words, but it is generally easier to hunger strike." Truer words have never (<i>ever!</i>) been spoken, but I get headaches when I am hungry so I'll try to explain myself using English words typed on a computer and transferred, through world-wide-web-related magic, to your computer screen to be read using your eye-grapes.<br />
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Point number 1: The existence of "Sursday" as a day of the week. Now, if you look at most of the calendars "the man" wants you to use, you will not find Sursday listed. I did not invent it, though. I stole it from the musician <a href="http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Peacey_P">Peacey P</a> whose album perpetually "drops next Sursdai." Once two people use an English word it instantly becomes legit and we can expect to see it in the next edition of the Oxford English dictionary which I believe will drop next Sursday.<br />
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Point number the second: Actually writing about tailoring. This is difficult for me because I don't know anything about tailoring. I know that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddler_on_the_Roof_(film)">Motel Kamzoil</a> was a tailor and that the emperor isn't wearing clothes but that barely makes me expert enough to write an article for about.com. I will endeavor to do my best, though, by writing about a music video that is about tailoring.<br />
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Does such a thing exist, you ask? Sort of. Losing You by Solange:<br />
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See! The video takes place at a tailoring shop. This post is decidedly on topic! Yes! I'm finally doing it!<br />
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Now, on to the history of the saxophone. The saxophone was invented in 1840 by Adolphe Phone. He also famously invented the other instruments in the phone family, the sousaphone and the xylophone. The saxophone, commonly associated with the homeless and filthy, was legitimized in 1992 when Bill Clinton became the first person to play saxophone while wearing a suit. Many people took note of it and started dressing better, frequently wearing tailored clothing. (More details can be found in the Norton Anthology of Saxophone Histories, volumes 1 - 4, and 6. DO NOT read volume 5.)<br />
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Eventually Solange discovered this and made a music video while wearing a suit and was joined by a bunch of dudes in suits.<br />
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Okay, I think we are back on track. Tailoring. I'm not super interested in the outfit shown here, although it is quite Christmas-y. (Yes, I am fighting the war on Holiday. Have a great Christmas this January 1, January 20, and July 4. It is offensive to call those days Holidays. They are Christmas.)</div>
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Try to ignore those two nattily dressed gentlemen. Look at Solange. First of all, long sleeves and shorts are usually a misteak. I mean, mistake. I don't even think you can call those shorts because they don't have any leg sections. I think it would be more appropriate to call them "parts coverers". Also, those are some high waisted parts coverers! I did some research and discovered that Solange is a mother so those must be the parts coverer equivalent of mom jeans. Crazy.</div>
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PTDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13656261453414923968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083144261724129528.post-76998464268727618522013-12-23T06:52:00.003-08:002013-12-23T06:52:49.040-08:00Girls, What's My Weakness? Men! - Why Shoop by Salt-n-Pepa should be more filthyIn <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Lucky_(Daft_Punk_song)">Get Lucky</a>, Daft Punk tells us:<br />
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She's up all night 'til the sun<br />
I'm up all night to get some<br />
She's up all night for good fun<br />
I'm up all night to get lucky</blockquote>
This paints a clear picture. Women are out to party and have fun and men are trying to have sex with them. This is the usual narrative. How can a man trick a woman into sleeping with him? Here's my message to any young men out there: If you need to trick a woman into having sex with you then she doesn't really want to have sex with you. It is my firm belief, and also the belief of all right thinking, moral Americans, that you should only have sex with people who want to have sex with you. If you find that you need to resort to tricks maybe you should work on developing a better personality or get a killer butt and ass-less chaps. I've also found that rakishly winking at women while shouting communist slogans gets great results exactly 20% of the time.<br />
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I think I got a little off track there, but it is an important message. Anyways, if you are doing it right you can find women who, without tricks, are interested in sex. Do you know why? Because women want to have sex too! Just ask Salt-N-Pepa:<br />
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This song is fun! I especially love how the opening line sets up the song, "Here I go again. Girls, what's my weakness? Men!" The video starts with Pepa flirting.<br />
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She sees him out on the boardwalk and is super into him. She asks for his number. "A ho, no that don't make me. See what I want slip slide to it swiftly," she says. Yes! Women should be able to chase men and it doesn't make them hos. This is great. I think this whole song has a really positive message.<br />
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It makes no sense! Did the person directing this video not listen to the song? There should be men dancing and thrusting their parts around! The sign should say MEN MEN MEN. It's raining men! <span style="font-size: large;">MEN!</span> This is a real bummer. The video is shot from a man's view and it pretty much ruins the message of the song.<br />
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The second verse doesn't fare much better. The women, Salt in an amazing hat, go to a basketball game.<br />
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There is a pretty good part where Salt says, "I wanna know how does it hang," and the man responds like this:<br />
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Finally we get some hot man action.<br />
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This little piece of man-on-man face-to-butt stuff is pretty good, but neither of them seem to be enjoying it.<br />
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Okay, this is what I'm talking about.<br />
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This video finally gets on the right track. Then, though, they have a man do a verse! What?!? Salt sees this man and gets very excited.<br />
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All the women crowd around him.<br />
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Just when things were going well everything gets screwed up again. Rather than confidently seeing this man and trying to pick him up, the women are just fawning over him. You never see the guys in Ratt doing this to a woman, so I don't want to see Salt or Pepa doing it.<br />
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The video ends with some of the right stuff.<br />
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Those guys in the background are wearing the right type of shorts.<br />
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Everything except for the look on this guy's face is good:<br />
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And then there is the men grabbing each other in the butt area.<br />
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PTDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13656261453414923968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083144261724129528.post-78589085647977674092013-12-20T05:00:00.000-08:002013-12-20T05:00:02.299-08:00Free-for-all Friday: Why country pride is terrible for this countryI recently went on a long car trip. My car is from 1997 and has neither CD nor tape playing capabilities. It also gets terrible radio reception. This means that I usually only have one option for radio stations while driving through rural areas. These stations, of course, play country music.<br />
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Country music means a lot of things to a lot of people. To some people it means pedal steel and fiddles. To others, it means twang. To me, it means country pride. What is country pride? People with country pride were raised poor and rural with old-fashioned values. They are proud of this fact. I think this is terrible. <a href="http://achewood.com/index.php?date=01052005">Achewood said it best</a>, "Oh Lord but we've got country pride simply because we were able to escape starvation in the richest nation in the history of the world."<br />
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There's a certain fondness always placed on the past. Cracker Barrel had an advertising slogan: "If the world has a front porch like we did back then." First of all, that isn't even a sentence. Second off, what the hell does that mean? It means that things were better in the past without saying why or how. It is just understood. That is at the core of country pride. Things used to be better when everything was simpler. The world was smaller and we had less money, but we were happier. This past is something to be proud of.<br />
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Why would you be proud of being poor? Being poor is the easiest thing in the world! I don't mean it is easy to live a good life if you are poor or even to live a life at all. I mean that it is easy to become poor. More people are doing it every day in America. You shouldn't be ashamed of being poor, but it is nothing to be proud of, either. If you are proud of it, it means that you think there is something noble to being poor. That it makes you a better person. And that if your kids are living a better life than you, they are weak and ultimately worse off. Well, guess what? <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/12/middle-class-young-people-future-worse-parents">Kids now are likely going to be poorer than their parents</a> so I guess these kids will be more noble and thus better off. Great!<br />
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I think that we, as a country, should be trying to reduce the number of poor people, and that means we stop glamorizing a poor childhood. Look at this:<br />
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This music video is pretty terrible. What does the American Southwest have to do with anything? I'll assume the video was filmed in Arizona to celebrate the deportation of brown Americans. That's something to be proud of.<br />
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The lyrics to this song really show what country pride is all about. The singer's father says, "We were cane switch raised and dirt floor poor. 'Course, that was back before the war." The chorus goes on to say, "That's something to be proud of." So, you were hit with a switch and you couldn't even afford a floor. But this was during the depression, right? No. The verse mentions his father flying an F-15. F-15s didn't enter service until 1976. Since the Vietnam War ended in 1975, either his father doesn't know what kind of plane he was flying or the war they refer to is the Gulf War. Anyways, based on the singer's age, I believe they are talking about fighting in Vietnam so these people are proud of living in the dirt during the 1960s. I guess the thing they are proud of is not being dead?<br />
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I really don't want to disparage poor people here, that is not my goal. My goal is to separate the pride in overcoming obstacles from the pride in having obstacles. Nowhere in this song is there any mention of real success that people are proud of. I can see being proud of overcoming all of the difficulties poor people face. I don't think that is what is happening here. I think the singer is proud of being poor in the first place. The second chorus states, "Just be thankful that you're working, if you're doing what you're able and putting food there on the table." Having a job and food should be basic rights that every American can expect. Right? Or should people have to struggle to not starve? I don't think there is anything noble in that struggle and that we should be ashamed of ourselves as a country that we have hungry people.<br />
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People should be able to expect more. I can't imagine having to put all my energies towards getting enough food. I have a job, but I don't like it very much. I'm glad that I have a job, but I'm mostly frustrated that it is difficult to find a new one. Am I spoiled? Am I an ungrateful little shit? I don't think so (obviously). I think it is reasonable to expect more out of life than working at a shitty job to barely make enough money not to starve. Everyone should have more than that. People should have reasonably fulfilling jobs and make enough money to be able to afford food, housing, and health care plus a little more. Anything less than that is not something we, as a country, can be proud of.<br />
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So we have two options. We can follow the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_the_Poor">Dead Kennedys' advice</a>, or we can stop it with the country pride and start helping poor people. Because that is, ultimately, what country pride amounts to. Being proud that you didn't starve even though nobody helped you.<br />
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Rob Zombie is one of the most visually attuned musical artists around. (Is he still around? I think I remember reading that he died in a freak bungee jumping/blood transfusion accident.) I read an interview with him once (before his untimely demise) where he said he would buy albums entirely based on their covers. Maybe you can judge an album by its cover. Shouldn't you be able to, though? The artist is involved in creating the album cover, so I think it should be representative of its contents. Same with books. The cover is a great way to judge! I think we all have a good idea what this book will be like:<br />
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Dragula was Rob Zombie's first hit as a solo artist. On his own, he had total control over the look of his video and how he appeared in it. Here's the video he made:<br />
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This video is awesome. Everything looks fake and ridiculous and I love it. The picture we will be looking at is this:<br />
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Rob Zombie has dreads, is wearing a huge amount of make-up, has a crazy beard, and is driving a ridiculous car (the Dragula).<br />
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I guess I just love <a href="http://anotherflavor.blogspot.com/2013/12/satorial-surday-whats-up-by-4-non.html">talking about people with dreads</a>. Once again I don't have much to say about them except that it was the '90s. I don't believe that Rob Zombie was from Jamaica, but I haven't done any research so he very well could be. Let's go ahead and say he managed to crawl his way out of Kingston and onto the charts.<br />
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Zombie's make-up is of the category called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpse_paint">corpse paint</a>. According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Goren">Atom and His Package</a> on his song Me and My Black Metal Friends, corpse paint is a scary name for make-up. He also mentioned that in Norway "there's nothing to do but kill each other and play guitars in the snow." I think all of that applies to Rob Zombie. He is trying to look as scary as possible on what is, in essence, a dance song. When it comes to musical genres, image is almost everything. There isn't a real difference between <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_of_Filth">Cradle of Filth</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_(band)">Yes</a> except Cradle of Filth has a scary name and scary make-up. That is why Cradle of Filth is black metal and Yes are prog rock.<br />
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Now, the car. The name "Dragula" is awesome but it implies a drag racer. That is not really what we get here. This is a better view of the car:<br />
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It has a skull on the shift lever and its exhaust pipes coming directly out of the engine look like devil horns. These are both awesome. The car itself looks more like a hot rod than a drag racer. It reminds me of what's-his-face's car from American Graffiti:<br />
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I guess there is a drag race in that movie, but that is definitely a hot rod. Totally boss.<br />
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Rob Zombie's clothing in the video can be better seen in this shot:<br />
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For some reason he is dressed in an old-timey coat. Is he wearing breeches? I guess it is hard to tell. Some things we are just not meant to know.<br />
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-PTDPTDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13656261453414923968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083144261724129528.post-48859759997829273032013-12-18T03:00:00.000-08:002013-12-18T03:00:06.749-08:00He-Man Club - Just A Friend by Biz MarkieIdeally the visuals in a music video complement the song so the video adds something that is not there in the original song. You don't want to just show visually what is happening in a song, you need to add to it. This can be very difficult with a song that tells a story. Naturally you want to make a little movie that shows the story from the song. But if the whole story is told in the song, what is the video adding?<br />
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Biz Markie's song Just A Friend tells a story about a man, a woman, and her friend. The lyrics are very direct and tell the whole story in plain language. So what can he do in his music video? He discovers that he can use the visuals to create better characterization. Namely, he uses it to make himself look like an idiot. Awesome.</div>
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The video opens with Markie sitting around talking to his friends. They are making jokes about each other's mothers.<br />
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Then some women come by.<br />
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The men are extremely interested in them. One of them says, "Let me touch you!" That is super creepy. Why did these women stop? They didn't say anything to the men, they just slinked up to them and then slunk away. I guess they are really into street harassment.<br />
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Markie tells his friends to forget about those women. He begins to tell them why...<br />
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He clearly understands the importance of pointing to indicate the beginning of the story. Pointing is one of the most important things we have in this world and we need to be pointing as much as possible.<br />
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At the beginning of the story Markie is just coming off stage.<br />
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We see him drenched in sweat to the point where he needs to wring out a towel because it is totally full of sweat. One of the people who performs with him apparently stands inside a giant toilet. This is sweet. Markie is making himself out to be a buffoon.<br />
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He meets a woman backstage and is very interested in what she looks like from behind.<br />
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Because he has already established that he is not very desirable, we suspect that something might be up. He asks her if she has a man, but she says he is "just a friend". We can all see where this is going.<br />
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Markie does not, however. He sings about how he has a bunch of friends of both genders so it is no big deal.<br />
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All of the friends he shows have nerdy names, wear glasses, are in unfashionable clothing, and are not particularly attractive. Clearly he does not have the kind of friends that the woman has.<br />
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Now we see Markie falling in love with the woman. He buys her a nice necklace.<br />
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They frolic while wearing swimsuits.<br />
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Biz Markie's swimsuit is apparently a shirt with a heart on it and shorts with hearts on them. That is amazing! He is so in love that he dresses like a moron. He is so into her and she just seems amused. Incidentally, when they first met the woman describes his performance using the word amusing. It seems that she does not take him seriously.<br />
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She goes away to college and Markie calls her every day.<br />
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I can't say enough how much I love his outfit. He looks so pitiful calling her.<br />
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One time he calls and a man answers. Look at him!<br />
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There's no way he can compete. The woman says that is just her friend, but that's probably how she describes Biz Markie as well.<br />
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He goes to visit her at college.<br />
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He dresses in his traditional college outfit that seems to consist primarily of a cardigan. We can see that he is out of his element there.<br />
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He stands outside her door to build tension. We can sense what will be behind that door.<br />
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Also, he hilariously rhymes "dormitory" with "number three".<br />
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He opens the door and we see exactly what we expected:<br />
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He says, "Oh snap."<br />
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That is both sad and hilarious.<br />
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As a result, he swears off women.<br />
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The sign says "He-Man No Women Allowed Club". She broke his heart.<br />
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I think the video makes it much clearer that their relationship was doomed from the start. He was so into her and she was not that into him, and the way they acted in the video makes this clear. I also love how unmercifully Biz Markie makes fun of himself. He doesn't believe that he deserves a good woman because he is a doofus. I don't think he is a doofus, though. He made an awesome video!<br />
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I also love what he does for the choruses. The chorus is mostly just piano and singing, although drums come in about halfway through. To show this sophisticated instrumentation this is what we see:<br />
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His singing is also delightfully off key. It really adds to his ridiculous charm.<br />
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When the drums come in he keeps his wig but loses his dignity so he can rock out.<br />
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PTDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13656261453414923968noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083144261724129528.post-9336034609154021432013-12-17T06:59:00.004-08:002013-12-17T06:59:54.431-08:00Twosday: Views Inside a Mental Hospital with Melissa Etheridge and Green DayWhat is it about mental hospitals that holds such fascination for us? Is it because we all feel like outsiders? Is it because we love the idea of being able to spend our entire day in pajamas? Is it because mental hospitals ceased to exist in the 1980s? All of these are excellent reasons.<br />
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I think it is clear, though, that we all have our own, individual reasons for being drawn to them. You can see this in these two radically different music videos that take place in a mental hospital.<br />
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First we have Melissa Etheridge's video for Come to My Window:<br />
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First off, I just noticed while watching this video that this song has the smarmiest bass playing in the world. Seriously, listen to this song and imagine the bass player smirking and winking at you while playing. I guarantee that it will fit perfectly.<br />
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The video is all in black and white and centers on this woman in a room with a window to which you should come.<br />
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The black and white video along with her angry and intense matter suggests a gritty reality. I'm a little worried that this video plays into the mentally-ill-women-are-sexy-and-vulnerable stereotype, but it doesn't seem too exploitative in that direction.<br />
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We also get shots of Melissa Etheridge playing a 12-string acoustic guitar and singing.<br />
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I love how husky her voice is on this song! It's like she smoked two packs of cigarettes, spent an hour imitating Rod Stewart imitating Louis Armstrong, and then recorded this song. It's a little unclear what that amp is doing there since she is playing acoustic guitar and it doesn't look like it is a P.A., but whatever. Gives her someplace to sit.<br />
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The worrying thing about this video is the infantilization of the woman in the mental hospital.<br />
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I understand that she can't take care of herself and might say things that don't strictly make sense, but she isn't a child. She is an adult woman. What is with this drawing? It looks like the scribbles of a pre-school child with a crazy sun. I don't understand this sun especially since the song refers to the light of the moon. I've never seen the moon drawn like that. Is that the norm? Just draw a sun and then scribble inside of it? Not to mention that the moon doesn't actually have light, it is all reflected sunlight. <i>Astronomy, people</i>. It's important.<br />
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Green Day has the opposite approach in their video for Basket Case. Rather than suggesting true reality with black and white, Green Day uses colors brighter than reality to indicate the false world of a person on drugs.<br />
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The video opens in a colorful world with the singer alone. It's not entirely clear where he is, but the man in all white standing next to him with his arms crossed gives a hint.<br />
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Once the other band members arrive it becomes clear that they are in a mental hospital. They act confused and need prodding to perform their normal societal roles.<br />
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The drugs they take give a semblance of reality and normalcy, but everything is not quite right. The singer's eyes are too green and the floor is too turquoise. The video seems to make light of being in a mental hospital a little bit, but I think the song is about feeling numb to the world. The question, "Am I just stoned?" appears throughout the song because they can't separate their feelings from how the drugs make them feel. That seems scary.<br />
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I think these videos show two different serious views of the mentally ill. And that's a little surprising. Is this a public service announcement to hug a mentally ill person? Are we the insane ones and they the only truly sane? Is it time to eat lunch yet? Not quite. It is too early.<br />
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In case you can't watch it, this is a clip from the show How I Met Your Mother where Barney Stinson explains that he rooted for the blonde, evil kid in The Karate Kid instead of Ralph Macchio's character. I've decided that he is right. What convinced me? Sum 41 and their music video for the song In Too Deep.<br />
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The character he is discussing from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Karate_Kid_(1984_film)">The Karate Kid</a> is Johnny Lawrence. Johnny has spent most of his life studying karate and has become quite good at it. It makes no sense that someone who just started training would be able to beat him. This is a major theme in sports movies. Whether it is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mighty_Ducks">the Hawks</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D2:_The_Mighty_Ducks">the team from Iceland</a>, many movies have this same narrative of a ragtag team besting experts for no real reason. We're supposed to cheer for these them because they're underdogs. But what about these other teams? They have spent years honing their craft and can thus dominate less experienced opponents. Does that make them evil? Certainly not. Frequently these movies will have the talented teams do something else evil to reinforce their evilness, but I think the main reason we are supposed to hate them is that they are good.<br />
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There are good ways to handle an underdog movie. Take <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky">Rocky</a>. When he decides to take on Apollo Creed he knows he has to work hard because Creed is so much better than him. In the end he loses, because Creed <i>is</i> much better than he is. His victory is getting Creed to see him as a worthy adversary, not as a pushover. That's why his loss is still triumphant.<br />
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Another example of this done well is my favorite movie, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Away">Breaking Away</a>. Just like The Mighty Ducks (I linked to it earlier as a bad example), Breaking Away is about classism. The heroes are poor and we sympathize with them. The bad guys are on the swim team and there is a scene where the main swimmer humiliates one of the poor kids in a swim race. Do the poor kids decide to beat those rich swimming assholes at their own game? No! The poor kids decide to compete with the rich kids at what the poor kids are good at, cycling. So when the poor kids win at the end it seems reasonable and the rich kids get to learn a valuable lesson about stopping being assholes.<br />
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In Too Deep by Sum 41:<br />
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At the opening of the video we get to meet the "good" guys and the "bad" guys. We start with Sum 41, who are supposedly the good guys that we are rooting for.<br />
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They aren't even wearing swimsuits. But this is (for some reason, probably the song title) a diving contest! Totally inappropriate clothing.<br />
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Here are the supposedly bad guys. Notice the "No Jocks" sign in the background in case you didn't know how you're supposed to feel about them.<br />
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Their bodies are sculpted and tanned. They wear the appropriate swimsuits for diving.<br />
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How are the two groups characterized? The "bad" guys are gay, I guess? We get a butt slap.<br />
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I don't think there is anything gay about touching a man's butt, regardless of your gender. Men's butts are awesome. Deal with it. I think Sum 41 is pretty insecure, though, so they shy away from butt touching.<br />
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Point. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I love pointing! This characterization makes me love these "bad" guys. They like to touch men's butts and then point. That sounds like an ideal afternoon for me.<br />
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Sum 41 wants us to dislike them, though. Being gay is meant to be bad. Classy guys. How do they show their side? I think a closer look at the people with the "No Jocks" sign gives us a good idea.<br />
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Ugh. They look unbearable. It's like they looked at a series of pictures of Avril Lavigne to come up with their whole identities. A boy scout uniform? Bright pink hair? A tie on a woman? Okay, I like the last one but Annie Hall came out in the '70s. I'm not sure it is still cool. I guess these are the people we are supposed to sympathize with.<br />
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Anyways, in the video the two groups dive back and forth. It becomes clear that the "bad" guys are much better divers. Probably because they are wearing the appropriate clothing, are in good physical shape, and have a lot of practice diving. It becomes clear that the "good" guys have no chance of winning.<br />
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This diver, after years of practice, suddenly slips on his way to the end of the diving board. He falls into the water.<br />
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All that work destroyed by a little accident! My heart really goes out to him.<br />
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Then we see the final diver for the "good" guys.<br />
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He suddenly reveals that he <i>is</i> wearing an appropriate swimsuit. Maybe he has been practicing!<br />
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At this point we see a Ralph Macchio sign in the crowd indicating that Sum 41 know what they are doing here.<br />
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The guy proceeds to do a ridiculous jump back and forth between multiple diving boards which probably isn't even legal under the rules of diving.<br />
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The "good" guys win and the crowd goes apeshit.<br />
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That's the story. Doesn't it seem like we are rooting for the wrong guys? Shouldn't the people who practiced more win? Are we really supposed to think that gay people are that bad at everything?<br />
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This isn't the only thing the video does wrong. At the opening there are sensitive lyrics but the singer has an inappropriate look on his face.<br />
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It makes it seem like the singer doesn't even know what his song is about.<br />
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The video does a few things right, though. Sum 41 aren't even good enough to screw everything up. There's this score that a diver gets which promotes the band and reminds you of what you're watching.<br />
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Sweet.<br />
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There's the guitar player coming out of the pool like Poseidon for some inept two-handed tapping.<br />
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I like it! I wonder if his guitar got ruined.<br />
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Then there is this exchange where a woman blows a kiss to the guitar player.<br />
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His response?<br />
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That inexplicable frowny face pretty much makes up for everything.<br />
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Keep this in mind next time you watch an underdog sports movie: Who deserves to win? It certainly isn't Sum 41.<br />
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