Wow. Remarkable, succinct, poignant, and moving. I want to buy stock in this guy. Dude killed it. Not shown? Heads exploding when select legislators still insisted on testifying or voting for bigotry.
Archive for the ‘Courage’ Category
Zach Wahls On Same-Sex Marriage
Posted in awesome, Courage, Politics, tagged Iowa, Joint Resolution 6, Zach Wahls on February 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Narayanan Krishnan Will Shame Your Face
Posted in Courage, Good People, tagged Narayanan Krishnan, psychotic human decency regulations on January 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Video from CNN of a remarkable guy who, you know, just got sick of feeling empty and started feeding people. You know, like the sort of thing Houston, Texas fines people for unless they’re certified. America is insane.
Why I’d be horrible in the mafia
Posted in Comedy, Courage, tagged Mafia on November 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Mafia teamleader: You! Git over there and bound and gag ‘em. Me: Don’t you mean bind and gag ‘em?
Kenny Powders Is Back
Posted in Art, awesome, Comedy, Courage, Innovation, Quixotic Monomania, tagged Eastbound and Down, Kenny Powers, Season 2, Trailer on September 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I am Christmas-morning-excited about the new season of Eastbound & Down: I realize that it’ll be hard to duplicate the perfection of the first season, but I’ve got a feeling this one’s gonna be even better. I mean, just look at the damn cornrows: it’s amazing.
Chris Ware is a Badass Artist and Truthteller
Posted in Art, Comics, Courage, illustration, Politics, tagged Bill Greider, Chris Ware, Depression Era, Fortune 500, Jimmy Corrigan on July 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Check this out: Chris Ware was commissioned to do a cover for Fortune. Can you believe they rejected this? Everyone knows Chris is an artist of some intensity, which for the most part has been directed toward meticulous cartoon dissection of childhood trauma. Maybe they thought – based on the scenes of Jimmy’s Grandpa – [...]
Banky’s Exit Through the Gift Shop Film Trailer
Posted in Art, awesome, Bureaucratic Nightmare, Courage, Creativity, Design, Film, illustration, Innovation, Video Games, tagged Banksy, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Space Invader, tre´ Ninja on April 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I cannot wait to see this. The scene in the trailer where Banksy scales the wall effortlessly to escape the cops is tre´ Ninja. This, to me, is the purest example of art needing a valve. When people will risk criminal prosecution to exercise free speech, creativity, and really, hard-ass-work, I think there’s a pretty [...]
Malcolm McLaren Was a Clever Bloke: Rest in Peace.
Posted in Art, Courage, Creativity, Music, tagged Malcolm McLaren, RIP, Sex Pistols on April 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Malcolm McLaren died yesterday. Never was a Sex Pistols man myself (I’m a follower of St. Joe Strummer- I’m a Clash man), but I’m not above tipping my cap to someone who cuts that wide of a cultural swath. I’ll be raising one to McLaren this weekend. Over at the Caledonian Mercury is a nice [...]
Dream Baby Dream- Bruce Springsteen
Posted in Art, Courage, Music, tagged Alan Vega, Bruce Springsteen, Devils and Dust, Dream Baby Dream, pump organ, Suicide on February 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This slays me. The way Bruce performs this Suicide cover on the Devils and Dust Tour, it’s an incantation, a humble spell. The song kind of circles you, and when you think it’s gonna give up, it doesn’t. A really nice moment when he rises, walks to the foot of the stage, and unabashedly, kindly, [...]
Courage Wolf
Posted in Art, Courage, Creativity, tagged Courage Wolf, There is No Losing Only Delayed Victory on February 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
God grinds the axes He intends to use.
Matthew Ryan- Dear Lover
Posted in Art, Courage, Creativity, Music, Writing, tagged Amazing Grace, Bruce Springsteen, Dear Lover, Kraftwork, matthew ryan, Never Give In, Shane McGowan, The Ghost of Tom Joad, The Waterboys, Tom Waits, Winston Churchill on December 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Well, he’s done it again. I’d be hard pressed to think of an artist who has released as many great albums as Matthew Ryan has in the past 12 years. His latest, Dear Lover, is no different. Written from an emergency room (hopefully everything is ok now, either with Matthew’s family or himself), it’s yet [...]
RiP! A Remix Manifesto: Girl Talk, U2, and Walt Disney as Remixer
Posted in Art, blog, Courage, Creativity, Film, Innovation, Music, Pirates, Politics, tagged Brett Gaylor, Girl Talk, Greg Ginn, Mark Hosler, Negativland, RiP! A Remix Manifesto, These Guys Are From England and Who Gives A Shit, U2 on December 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just watched Brett Gaylor’s Rip! A Remix Manifesto on Hulu last night. I’m actually shocked that NBC, Fox and ABC (Disney) would have this online, in this format; despite its lionization of Disney the Man, Disney the Company is really taken to task here. Maybe it’s the “if we join them, they will disappear” belief. [...]
Roger Waters- “Home”
Posted in Art, Courage, Music, Quotes, tagged Arabs and Cowboys, Dylan-esque, Home, Radio K.A.O.S., Roger Waters on November 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I consider this to be one of Water’s minor masterpieces; it echoes Dylan at his best, really. Both choruses echo ’round my head quite regularly whenever I see a weepy, bloated pundit selling a kinder, gentler fascism and brand of Christianity that has nothing to do with empathy, love or truth: When they overrun the [...]
I’d Like to Ask for Sinead’s Hand in Marriage, Please?
Posted in Art, Courage, Creativity, Film, tagged Advertisment, Equality, Ireland, Sinead's Hand in Marriage on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Brilliant.”
Redemption and Forgiveness
Posted in Courage, tagged Johnny Lee Clary, Reverand Wade Watts on August 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Words fail:
They Shall Be Alive Forever
Posted in Art, Courage, Film, Politics, tagged Andrew Sullivan, From Dublin to Tehran, Let the Earth bear witness, Mike Scott, The Waterboys, They shall be alive forever, W.B. Yeats on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From W.B. Yeats’ Cathleen Ní Houlihan: They shall be remembered forever They shall be alive forever They shall be speaking forever The people shall hear them forever. Tipped, of course, by Andrew Sullivan and his relentless and unmatched Iran coverage.
“Maybe I will be one of the people who is going to get killed.”
Posted in Courage, tagged Andrew Sullivan, Iran, The Old Cannot Kill the Young Forever, True bravery in the face of tyranny on June 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
From a translated Iranian blog: “I will participate in the demonstrations tomorrow. Maybe they will turn violent. Maybe I will be one of the people who is going to get killed. I’m listening to all my favorite music. I even want to dance to a few songs. I always wanted to have very narrow eyebrows. [...]
The Tide is Turning
Posted in blog, Courage, Politics, Quotes, tagged Andrew Sullivan, Courage in the face of Tyranny, Freedom, Huffington Post, Iran, Know Hope, Peter Gabriel, Revolutionary Guard, Sarah Palin's mock outrage, Tehran, The Tide is Turning, You can't blow out a fire on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Andrew Sullivan’s coverage of the Iranian “election” debacle and the subsequent protests and fascist crackdown by the Revolutionary Guard has been truly admirable. Something is happening in Iran, indeed. You can’t force democracy down the barrel of a gun, the way the Neocons think. All this weekend, as all hell is breaking loose in Iran, [...]
20 Years Ago Today
Posted in Art, Courage, Music, Politics, tagged Amused to Death, And I grieve for my sister, Freedom, Roger Waters, The Old Cannot Kill the Young Forever, Tiananmen Square, Watching TV on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Inscription on the Pillar of Shame in Hong Kong: The Old Cannot Kill the Young Forever Excerpts from “Watching TV” from Roger Waters’ fantastic album, Amused to Death. We were watching TV In Tiananmen Square Lost my baby there My yellow rose In her bloodstained clothes She was a short order pastry chef In a [...]
