Re: (TV) now this is really dreadful.

[grntg <grntg@yahoo.com>]

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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