Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Countercolumn Trivial Music Awards
The award for best use of the major seventh interval in a pop song goes to:
Harriet Wheeler, The Sundays. Here's Where the Story Ends.
Honorable mention: The cool melodic variations in the third verse. This girl had it.
Splash, out
Jason
Harriet Wheeler, The Sundays. Here's Where the Story Ends.
Honorable mention: The cool melodic variations in the third verse. This girl had it.
Splash, out
Jason
Labels: Countercolumn Trivial Music Awards, Music, the Arts
Sunday, May 10, 2009
The Poetry of Veterans
MONUMENTS
We are not statues
Standing among the trees,
A tribute to what has passed.
We are not statues,
Though our faces are stone,
Chiseled by time, shaped by history
That we are now part of,
As it is part of us.
We are living monuments,
Stoic in the shadows
As the world around us moves.
Colin Halloran, 23, senior
Central Connecticut State University
More here.
We are not statues
Standing among the trees,
A tribute to what has passed.
We are not statues,
Though our faces are stone,
Chiseled by time, shaped by history
That we are now part of,
As it is part of us.
We are living monuments,
Stoic in the shadows
As the world around us moves.
Colin Halloran, 23, senior
Central Connecticut State University
More here.
Labels: Afghanistan, Iraq, New York Times, Poetry, soldiers' issues, the Arts, veterans
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
The Hurt Locker
Looks like a good movie coming out depicting EOD folks in Iraq.
I got a kick out of the actors describing how hard it was in 20 pounds of gear in 115 degree heat every day. And how almost everyone had a nervous breakdown during the filming.
And it wasn't even real.
Hollywood doesn't attract people like Jimmy Stewart anymore, I guess.
I got a kick out of the actors describing how hard it was in 20 pounds of gear in 115 degree heat every day. And how almost everyone had a nervous breakdown during the filming.
And it wasn't even real.
Hollywood doesn't attract people like Jimmy Stewart anymore, I guess.
Labels: Iraq, movies, soldiers' issues, the Arts
Sunday, April 19, 2009
I'll see your Susan Boyle
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Opie Disses America and Apple Pie
Opie Cunningham, AKA Ron Howard, who's been making sappy movies for years," wants the U.S. to give up the struggle for freedom and liberty.
Used to be Democrats were Americans.
Here's my response:
And here:
In other words, go fuck yourself, Opie. How dare you, after all this country and its freedoms has given you?
On the other hand, I thought parts of this were actually funny.
David Bellavia, however, was right to call Maher on it.
Splash, out
Jason
“at a certain point I don't think we'll be so consumed with being the pre-eminent super-power and, you know, driven by sort of militarism and this need to export, you know, democracy.”
Used to be Democrats were Americans.
Here's my response:
And here:
In other words, go fuck yourself, Opie. How dare you, after all this country and its freedoms has given you?
On the other hand, I thought parts of this were actually funny.
David Bellavia, however, was right to call Maher on it.
Splash, out
Jason
Labels: Bill Maher, culture, Hollywood, movies, Ron Howard, the Arts
