Hasa Diga Eebowai
From the new Broadway sensation, “The Book of Mormon” comes the most outstanding showtune I’ve ever heard. Warning: This song is NSFW and NSFChurch.
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An Experiment in Empathy
This video should be mandatory viewing for any and all American citizens. The closing Dostoevsky quote sums it up,
“While nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer, nothing is harder than to understand him.”
American: The Bill Hicks Story
An absolute must-see documentary that premieres this weekend in selected theaters. For those not in the know, Bill Hicks, is considered one of the patron saints of contemporary stand up comedians. He used comedy as a conduit to changing people’s perceptions about their world. In doing so, he levied the harshest possible criticisms of the status quo, while seemingly remaining completely uncorrupted by the forces that pulled at him as his celebrity grew.
Know Thyself
Thought provoking montage of quotes + imagery set to Clint Mansell’s The Fountain soundtrack = attention capture win.
Merry Modern Passover
I readily admit, I am becoming less and less attached to what was once an important childhood tradition. Feel free to blame Joseph Campbell for this. Anyway, here’s a digital recap of that famous Egyptian/Babylonian/Sumerian Old Testament tale of the Sword in the Stone. By which, I mean the Staff in the Bush. With frogs… and… other magical stuffs.
Kudos to Aaron Mandel on the find.
Let the People Unite
I’ve been reading a bit about Islam recently, incidentally, via Joseph Campbell’s massive treatise on comparative religious history, The Masks of God.
What struck me about the core values of the Koran, is that it is, in principle, an incredibly egalitarian system. Before I explain my meaning after the jump, here’s a remix of an unearthed Chaplin speech that I posted a couple months ago.
Vatican Assassin Warlocks
Experimental music video featuring a techno-warlock. Why not?
Freedom Must be Earned
Apologies for the downtime here. There is so much to report, and so little time to do so. An unprecedented freedom movement has broken out through the entire region of North Africa and the Middle East. Tunisia’s dictator has been deposed. Protests are breaking out in Saudi Arabia. Martial law is being declared in Jordan. In Egypt, what was a peaceful protest has been turned into ugliness by a regime instigating chaos to manipulate the public. This video in particular was very hard to sit through and listen to.