Re: (TV) now this is really dreadful.

[Jay <piazzasanmarco@yahoo.com>]

wow!  we really, really need a new album and soon!

--- grntg <grntg@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Oh this is the edited version of 5 miles of you.  
> 
> In the original, about 45 seconds in, a guy in a
> bear
> costume jumps out from behind a tree and whacks Tom
> with a shovel after he leaves the fire untended. 
> Later on, the axe serves as a warning to Tom, 'don't
> leave this second fire untended you ignorant city
> slicker'
> Tom looks aghast.
> 
> All this negativity towards the video, obviously you
> people don't get it.  He got into the car, THEN HE
> GOT
> OUT AGAIN.  Think people - MARQUEE MOON.  It's these
> symbolic references that make a blase art into a
> great
> art, kind of like the Grapes of Wrath.
> 
> Obviously everyone has missed the metaphorical
> references of the persons fading in and out of the
> video.  Now that I pointed out this out you are
> sitting back at your computers and going 'of
> course!'
> 
> Other subtleties you all are missing: he's wearing
> brown shoes, with black pants and a greyish homeless
> person jacket.  Tom's always been known as a rather
> fashionable dresser so he is having fun, being
> playful
> if you will, by committing, not one, not two but
> three
> fashion faux pas!  It's his way of saying 'fuck you'
> to the big wig record execs who forced him to make
> this video.
> 
> And edi, redux, this video was long before the Blair
> Witch Project, that's like calling the Poseiden
> Adventure a rip off of Poseiden starring Kurt
> Russell.
> 
> Now edi, redux, since you brought up Kurt Russell on
> the Tv Hotline, I agree he was fantastic in Captain
> Ron and should have won some awards.  I thought he
> was
> just a wife stealing modern day pirate but he was a
> real stand-up guy.  In college, we had monumental
> discussion on the references to modern society and
> trust issues seeing how he appeared to be hitting on
> another guys wife, who in real life was Kurt Russell
> (aka Capt Ron's) which brought about a certain je ne
> pourquis to the vibe and feel, almost a noirish
> underpinning, however a big budget and more peppy
> music.  Plus I laughed when he fell off the boat. 
> That was funny.  
> 
> Now stay with me, I think Kurt Russell's charactor,
> Captain Ron is based on Captain Ron from Captain
> Ron's
> fish and chip truck in Ignace Ontario.  It shuts
> down
> in the winter months so Captain Ron can go fishing
> for
> stock I presume (not the Kurt Russel Captain Ron,
> the
> Ignace Cap't Ron (Captain is getting to long to type
> so I'm switching to Cap't - it's short for Captain).
> 
> The steak sandwhich is fairly decent.  I should
> really
> try his renowned fish and chips.  If I was in
> America
> I hear I would get potato chips if I ordered fish
> and
> chips rather than french fries.  Next time I'm there
> I'm going to ask him if he's the real Captain Ron
> but,
> just to throw him a little, order fish and poutine. 
> 
> 
> Great, now I need to explain what poutine is: here
> go
> make some
> 
> get some french fries, not too salty.
> heat up a can of beef gravy in the microwave, make
> it
> real hot, Robert Palmer Hot, no! Tone Loc Hot (shit
> -
> Tone Loc did wild Thing), yeah, Robert Palmer Hot.
> Get some white cheese curds, cover the top of the
> fries with lots of cheese curds,
> Pour the really hot gravy over it all, making isure
> it
> melts the cheese so you get a really gooey,
> gravy-cheese-fry mess
> 
> Enjoy, smoke a Gitane after (pronounce Ji Tan, the
> French get real mad sometimes when you say Gitane
> like
> 'guitar')
> 
> Call your cardiac specialist, if the poutine won't
> get
> you, the gitane will - lights, shinign bright, in
> the
> night (obscure reference, anyone get it?)
> 
> What was this about?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- "edi, redux."
> <the_postmodern_closet@adelphia.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > 	tom verlaine surrogate in vh1 video porn which
> > looks 
> > uncomfortably like "blair witch project" [bad in
> the
> > original] 
> > adhered to a really bad tom verlaine soundtrack--
> > 
> > 	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsQS8oAyGbs&NR
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > "i'm disappearing," he says, "avoiding most
> things."
> > R I P syd barrett
> > yr friend,
> > proserpine, guardianette of the dead
> > the last slum goddess,
> > +edi+
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