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Monday, July 14, 2003 np: paul westerberg - "postcards from paradise" a brilliant li'l cover by messr. westerberg of a flesh for lulu song. since last entry i've (until tonight) listened to naught a thing but the jayhawks. listening to hollywood town hall (unfortunately their earliest album that i own; i have a cassette copy of their LP only eponymous debut, but it is dubbed from the vinyl) made me yearn for their other work. and thus, i've been slowly working my way forward in their catalogue. tomorrow the green grass was listened to yesterday and today marked the beginning of the grossly overlooked and my perennial favourite, sound of lies. it's a deceptive album with its soaring pop-motif. the lyrics are very dark and hold true all the way through until the end. but this tension between the (mostly) light music and the darker lyrics is a masterpiece. it also marks the jayhawks' finest touch of musical experimentation. they had not (and have not since) crafted songs this unique in construction and emotion. as i was watching adult swim tonight, i was rather puzzled to watch a commercial for a cheerleading video pop up between shows. the video outlined how to do basic dance moves, cheer routines, &c. to help strengthen your squad's performance. you also received a free set of pom poms with your order. fascinating. my initial reaction was: "hmm..well, the advertisers missed the mark on the audience for this." but then, upon second thought, as i pondered the exact make up of adult swim's audience (mainly hip, intelligent purveyors of pop culture and surrealist/absurdist humour such as myself and you, loyal readers; or people who, in addition to appreciating said humour, also stick around to watch the anime), i came to the conclusion that there was enough of a fetish draw to probably elicit a sizeable market. -- a quick correction to my prior post about 'underground' youth trends. i should have clarified that i am referring exclusively to 'underground' white youth trends. 'underground' hip-hop culture for instance, largely a non-white audience, does not display the habits that i mentioned. where's the element of positivity/activism in white youth movements that pervades non-white movements of similar structure? ideally, of course, our cultures would not move in such ethnocentric circles but our society is as it is. so, why is it white movements tend to focus on raising up the rights of individuals (and then, somewhat hypocritically, trumpeting certain personal choices over the personal choices of others) while non-white movements focus on the more powerful unions in society between people of different ideas and backgrounds? am i mistaken here? does anyone see this dichotomy differently? or have any other points of view surrounding it? that's what the comments are for folks...so talk it up. -- if i can finish the book i'm currently reading tomorrow (not an unlikely proposal) i will have actually spent two weeks on top of one of my new year's resolutions. that particular resolution was to read 52 books this year. and i've failed horribly. but, having been an english major (and now English B.A. holder) for four years, my reading time outside of the classroom has been horribly hobbled by the fact that i did so much of it..i really had little desire to do any outside of it. so it's refreshing to be able to pick my own list for once, even though i did enjoy so much of what i read in school. honestly, taking a week to read either of the books i've read is a sham (blood meridian clocks in at about 330 pages; a confederacy of dunces at just over 400) since they aren't very large. but, sometimes after working at books-a-million i just don't feel up to reading. but i've been preservering..mostly on the back of these two particularly lovely reads. confederacy especially is one of the funniest books i've ever laid eyes on. i can't stop laughing everytime i read it. and it never gets repetitive, nor boring. i love it immensely. so it was the perfect followup to the hollowing experience that blood meridian was. -- so, this woman came up to dave today and asked if we carried exercise videos. dave answered no, we don't, but if she went up to the video store at the end of the mall that they certainly carried them. she replied that she didn't want to walk that far. posted by J. Neas | 7/14/2003 01:23:00 AM
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