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<title><![CDATA[KinoSilmä #50: Megalomaaninen Juhlajakso]]></title>
<link>http://kinosilma.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/kinosilma-50-megalomaaninen-juhlajakso/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kinosilma</dc:creator>
<guid>http://kinosilma.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/kinosilma-50-megalomaaninen-juhlajakso/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Lataa Ohjelma (MP3) Eeppisen mittaisessa juhlajaksossamme esitellään uusi tunnari, palkitaan komment]]></description>
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<p>Eeppisen mittaisessa juhlajaksossamme esitellään uusi tunnari, palkitaan kommentoijia ja ennen kaikkea käydään läpi panelistien Top 10 suosikkielokuvat kautta aikojen. Mittaa jaksolle tosiaan venähti melkein kolme ja puoli tuntia, mutta älkää säikähtäkö. Annamme tämän kuunteluun kuuntelijoille muutaman viikon kuunteluaikaa ennen uusia jaksoja ja podcastia voi kuunnella vapaavalintaisissa osioissa.</p>
<p>Juhan Top 10 elokuvat:<br />
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Times_(film)">Modern Times</a><br />
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A9lie">Amélie</a><br />
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_(film)">Seven</a><br />
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_Fiction_(film)">Pulp Fiction</a><br />
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breathless_(1960_film)">Á Bout de Souffle</a><br />
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_Now">Apocalypse Now</a><br />
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove">Dr. Strangelove</a><br />
- <a href="http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mies_vailla_menneisyytt%C3%A4">Mies Vailla Menneisyyttä</a><br />
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Hall">Annie Hall</a><br />
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem_for_a_Dream">Requiem for a Dream</a></p>
<p>Henrikin Top 10 elokuvat:<br />
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WALL-E">WALL-E</a><br />
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Dictator">The Great Dictator</a><br />
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(film)">Metropolis</a><br />
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredibles">The Incredibles</a><br />
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Quest">Galaxy Quest</a><br />
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_Encounters_of_the_Third_Kind">Close Encounters of the Third Kind</a><br />
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Murder_Mystery">Manhattan Murder Mystery</a><br />
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film)">2001: A Space Odyssey</a><br />
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Motion_Picture">Star Trek: The Motion Picture</a><br />
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finding_Nemo">Finding Nemo</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Sobre pianistas y demás hierbas...]]></title>
<link>http://sigopensando.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/sobre-pianistas-y-demas-hierbas/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pablomauser</dc:creator>
<guid>http://sigopensando.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/sobre-pianistas-y-demas-hierbas/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Después de muchas semanas sin escribir en el blog, por no tener apenas tiempo, hoy me dispongo a esc]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Después de muchas semanas sin escribir en el blog, por no tener apenas tiempo, hoy me dispongo a escribir éste artículo sobre pianistas, compositores e intérpretes.</p>
<p>No pretendo hacer un artículo tan genial como los de mi compañero Tetrasquel, solo dar mi opinión sobre ciertas composiciones que he escuchado últimamente, que no por primera vez.</p>
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<p>En primer lugar, quiero <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">rajar</span> hablar sobre <strong>Richard Clayderman</strong>, pianista francés muy reconocido (y escuchado) generalmente entre gente que no tiene ni puta idea de música. Para definir la obra de Clayderman podemos utilizar el término &#8220;música de ascensor&#8221;, porque no existe un término mas exacto.</p>
<p>A éste pianista se le ocurrió la brillante idea (entre otras cosas) de hacer &#8220;versiones&#8221; de obras maravillosas de Chopin, Debussy etc., orquestándolas de una manera cutre y muy hortera. Para mas información, véase su album &#8220;En su piano sin control. Grandes éxitos&#8221;, y no, no es un chiste. El álbum se llama así.</p>
<p>Para demostrar ésto, os dejo su interpretación de la <em>Sonata para piano número 14</em> (También llamada <em>Quasi una fantasia</em>, Op.27, Nº2, y mal llamada <em>Claro de Luna</em>), de LV Beethoven. Obra que todo el mundo conoce.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;">ADVERTENCIA</span>: Es de muy mal gusto. SigoPensando no se hace responsable de los efectos derivados de la escucha prolongada de la siguiente interpretación. Si la quiere escuchar, es bajo su responsabilidad.</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/ChmPkwWMV0w&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/ChmPkwWMV0w&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
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<p>Ahora la gran pregunta: ¿Cómo es posible que éste hombre vendiese mas de 70 millones de discos?, yo aun no lo entiendo. ¿Por qué la necesidad de orquestar una obra de tal calibre?, ¿Está mejor orquestada?, en fin&#8230;</p>
<p>Por si no fuera poco, ha estropeado la obra mas conocida de la <em>Suite Bergamasque</em> de Debussy (ésto es imperdonable). Yo no me atrevo a buscarlo en YouTube, pero os dejo para los mas valientes un link a Spotify para que se os pongan los pelos de punta. <a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/4Tz2UiSf73g1ZHKlYacQGA">Pulsar aquí.</a></p>
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<p>Para compensar el mal trago que habrá pasado el lector tras la escucha de ésta abominable y horrísona interpretación, dejo <strong>La Interpretación</strong> de <a href="http://mm.motor21.com/%2FEspa%F1ol%2FDeportes%2FMotor%2FMundial_de_Rallies_WRC%2FNoticias%2F35801/loeb_dormir.jpg">Wilhelm Kempff</a>, que es de lo mejor que he escuchado:</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/O6txOvK-mAk&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/O6txOvK-mAk&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
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<p>La siguiente persona de la quería hablar es de <strong>Maksim</strong>, un pianista realmente interesante, porque al contrario que Clayderman, sabe interpretar a la perfección obras como la <em>Hungarian Rhapsody nº2</em> de Liszt, pero también hace barbaridades como orquestar el <em>Revolutionary Etude</em> de Chopin de la peor forma posible.</p>
<p>Veamos un ejemplo de la fantástica -y difícil- interpretación de la obra de Franz Liszt:</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/byGI1mDi3no&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/byGI1mDi3no&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>Fantástica, ¿verdad?. Además de interpretar genial la obra, Maksim está muy cachondo. Pero mucho mucho.</p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>Ahora veamos, de la mano del mismo artista, la interpretación de <em>Revolutionary Etude</em>, de Chopin. Vayan preparando los oidos:</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/KSkh5dgn69U&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/KSkh5dgn69U&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
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<p>Sin comentarios&#8230;</p>
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<p>En breves haré otro artículo recomendando alguna obra de música clásica, pero tranquilos, no habrá sobresaltos.</p>
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<p>Un abrazo a todos.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Twitter Slang, pah!]]></title>
<link>http://jenniferclaridge.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/twitter-slang-pah/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jenniferclar</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Hello, Tip of the day: Inspired by a simply stunning sunrise this morning, my thoughts were these. Y]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Hello,</p>
<p>Tip of the day: Inspired by a simply stunning sunrise this morning, my thoughts were these. Yes, there’s more than enough to do &#8211; removing dying hedge plants, tidying up perennials etc. &#8211; but sometimes you must just stop, look, smell and listen, whether you’re surveying your allotment or your 10,000 acre estate and award winning garden, like me. <div id="attachment_135" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 93px"><a href="http://jenniferclaridge.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/brando1.jpeg"><img src="http://jenniferclaridge.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/brando1.jpeg" alt="" title="Brando" width="83" height="102" class="size-full wp-image-135" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Brando - Trifle Guzzler!</p></div></p>
<p>Now. Much jollity! I became a member of Twitter yesterday and already have a host of new garden-loving chums. It&#8217;s quite dear really. My plan is to garner enough electric friends and then throw an enormous party at Chatterley. It will be an hoot!</p>
<p>One has to come to terms with Twitter slang, or &#8216;twang&#8217; if you will. We had a jargonese of our very own at Chatterley, instigated by Lord Cavendish when guests came to dine&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>FHB</strong> &#8211; Family Hold Back. Used when cook had prepared enough guinea fowl, or own one occasion when Marlon Brando charged through a trifle designed for twenty, on his very own.</p>
<p><strong>MIK</strong> &#8211; More in Kitchen. On the Brando occasion, Lord C whispered FHB, but cook whispered back MIK. She had prepared a back-up trifle. Phewf!</p>
<p><strong>NQOCD</strong> &#8211; Not quite our class dear. Used regularly for most guests including that grocer&#8217;s daughter, Thatcher.</p>
<p><div id="attachment_133" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 142px"><a href="http://jenniferclaridge.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/nwa.jpeg"><img src="http://jenniferclaridge.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/nwa.jpeg" alt="" title="NWA" width="132" height="92" class="size-full wp-image-133" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">NWA - HKLP!</p></div><strong>HKLP</strong> &#8211; Holds Knife Like Pen. Referring to table manners, a sure sign of NQOCD. You&#8217;d be surprised how many people suffer from this social virus&#8230; Princess Anne, King Juan Carlos, John Maynard Keynes and the rap outfit NWA. (In fact the NWA boys were charming &#8211; they came for  Snowdrop season in February 1988 &#8211; and the late Eazy E showed me a nifty way of deadheading roses with a butterfly knife!)</p>
<p>Work can wait until the tomorrow. Today, I say, enjoy.</p>
<p>Ever,</p>
<p>Jen</strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[CINEMATIC EXCELLENCE: Reflections in a Golden Eye]]></title>
<link>http://theexcellentpeople.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/cinematic-excellence-reflections-in-a-golden-eye/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>rickywrite</dc:creator>
<guid>http://theexcellentpeople.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/cinematic-excellence-reflections-in-a-golden-eye/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Presenting the Excellently overly-dramatic trailer for Reflections in a Golden Eye, a dated yet stil]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Presenting the Excellently overly-dramatic trailer for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062185/"><em><strong>Reflections in a Golden Eye</strong></em>,</a> a dated yet still shockingly relevant Technicolor ode to lustful homosexual repression and voluptuous heterosexual conformity (based on the Excellent 1941 novel by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson_McCullers"><strong>Carson McCullers</strong></a>), starring <strong>Elizabeth Taylo</strong>r and <strong>Marlon Brando</strong> (due to the violently, untimely death of tragically Excellent <strong>Montgomery Clift</strong>, following a chic Beverly Hills party at would-be co-star Elizabeth Taylor&#8217;a home).</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Movie Zone - Filmes para ver com pai]]></title>
<link>http://artilhariacultural.com/2009/11/22/movie-zone/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Luke</dc:creator>
<guid>http://artilhariacultural.com/2009/11/22/movie-zone/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Certos momentos e situações de nossas vidas pedem determinadas músicas – como o Marcel está mostrand]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yes! Yes!!!]]></title>
<link>http://dbjunction.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/yes-yes/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>dingaling</dc:creator>
<guid>http://dbjunction.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/yes-yes/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[THE ROAD &#8230; is finally coming out! The film version of The Road has crept into my mind an avera]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>THE ROAD &#8230; is finally coming out!</p>
<p>The film version of <em>The Road </em>has crept into my mind an average of 0.8 times per day since they pulled that fake-out non-release last fall.</p>
<p>Quoth Mary Pols (of <em>Time </em>magazine): &#8220;I read McCarthy&#8217;s lean, brutalizing novel in one unhappy gulp 15 months ago and only recently began to consider myself healed.&#8221;</p>
<p>So, the movie&#8217;s just in time. It comes out the day before Thanksgiving, lest we forget that cheap feasts will not be a given for all time.</p>
<p>But what&#8217;s this I hear &#8230; there&#8217;s more? A new Almodovar movie with Penélope Cruz, a book of essays by Zadie Smith, and fragments of Nabokov&#8217;s unfinished novel?</p>
<p>(<em>Aside:</em> There are two people in this world that I could watch for hours, without the help of prescription or illegal drugs. They are Marlon Brando and Penélope Cruz. If offered a deal where I had to give up my entire life, all its promises and relationships and accoutrements, to ride around, say, in a cell on either of their faces, I would have to consider it. Kind of like Robert Johnson&#8217;s trade with the devil, although a bit less lucrative. Especially considering that skin cells are shed and regenerated faster than you can say &#8220;creepy fandom.&#8221;)</p>
<p>But yes &#8212; we live in a bizarre world where there are more works of art and intellect than one could ever hope to experience even in a Guinness-Book lifetime. <em>The Road, Broken Embraces, Changing My Mind,</em> and <em>The Original of Laura,</em> all in one week? Do I realize this? Do I appreciate it? There are times when being alive, being human &#8212; the fact that the atmosphere conspired to accomodate such existence, the fact that we have these wonderful crevices and curves soaked with sensation and beauty in our big watery brains &#8212; feels acutely like a miracle. It sounds trite to say, but when you feel it, it&#8217;s not trite at all.</p>
<p>All I have to say about the upcoming week is &#8212; not a compulsory, bowed-headed thanks, but &#8212; Yes! YES!!! Jism Crisp on a corndog, YEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Marlon Brando]]></title>
<link>http://grupidemierda.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/marlon-brando/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>grupidemierda</dc:creator>
<guid>http://grupidemierda.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/marlon-brando/</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Zygi’s PR Hail Mary Puts Vikings In The Game]]></title>
<link>http://thesamerowdycrowd.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/zygi%e2%80%99s-pr-hail-mary-puts-vikings-in-the-game/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Joe Loveland</dc:creator>
<guid>http://thesamerowdycrowd.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/zygi%e2%80%99s-pr-hail-mary-puts-vikings-in-the-game/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In the political world, there is something much worse than being opposed. It’s called being ignored.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><a href="http://thesamerowdycrowd.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/godfather.jpg"><img src="http://thesamerowdycrowd.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/godfather.jpg?w=215" alt="" title="godfather" width="215" height="300" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-7459" /></a>In the political world, there is something much worse than being opposed.  It’s called being ignored.</p>
<p>And until Vikings owner Zygi Wilf and his team showed their teeth this week, they were being roundly ignored by the Legislature.  The billionaire not only couldn’t get half a billion bucks from the Legislature, he couldn’t get a hearing, a cup of coffee, or a sideways glance.</p>
<p>But when the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission only offered Zygi millions in post-season revenues as he waits for his much bigger taxpayer financed pay day, the wounded Wilf <a href="http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/70519212.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUJ">howled</a>.  </p>
<p>“Shocked, exasperated, and extremely disappointed,” the Vikings penned to the Commission.  </p>
<p>Holy moly!  Shocked, exasperated AND extremely disappointed?  As every good corporate communications toady knows, the Three Adjective Smackdown (TAS) is the WMD of business communications world. And today, the Vikings unleashed another rhetorical blitz, with sly talk about the need to “move on,” which of course is just two scary letters away from “move out.”</p>
<p>Finally, Zygi is flashing his New Jersey for us.  Though he is speaking genteel corporatese, he is making it crystal clear that he is making an offer we can’t refuse.</p>
<p>And it&#8217;s working.  Some are hating on Zygi to be sure, but he is no longer being ignored.  Zygi has led the local news, and national sports news, for two days. He has DFL Speaker of the House Margaret Anderson Keliher talking about a “purple ribbon commission” to study the issue. (Sure, it’s just her way of not taking a position during the gubernatorial campaign, but it’s more than the cold shoulder Wilf had been getting.) </p>
<p>And <a href="http://www.startribune.com/local/70429162.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUr">today</a>, Wilf&#8217;s tantrum has generated follow-up stories about the mythical prospects of the LA Vikings Scenario, which has the purple face-paint types curled up in a fetal position.  All that buzz has made Wilf’s well-timed whining the week’s top “talker” on local radio stations.</p>
<p>Wilf is a long, long way from winning.  To get out of the big Teflon dome in Minneapolis, he is going to need to get a lot better at operating under the big gold dome in St. Paul.  But he will eventually win, and the PR move he put on the pols this week was nearly as nifty as <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un3B7Og-FS0">the move</a> Purple Jesus put on the 49ers to find an obscure receiver in the back of the end zone.  Skoal Vikings!</p>
<p>- Loveland</p>
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<link>http://joolsayodeji.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/biographies/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>joolsayodeji</dc:creator>
<guid>http://joolsayodeji.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/biographies/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[read the vincente minnelli biog last week. also read one about quentin tarantino. now reading bad bo]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>read the vincente minnelli biog last week. also read one about quentin tarantino. now reading <a title="bad boy drive amazon page" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bad-Boy-Drive-Marlon-Nicholson/dp/1848091222/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1258551484&#38;sr=8-1" target="_blank">bad boy drive</a> about Nicholson, Beatty, Hopper and Brando. Loose idea is that they all lived close to each other on Mulholland Drive, Cali.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a bit lurid and potentially misogynistic at the moment. It might get better. Not holding out much hope.</p>
<p>Not researching anything in particular and as I read more biogs than I do novels these are simply the latest. Going to read <a title="suspicions of mr whicher book amazon page" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Suspicions-Mr-Whicher-Murder-House/dp/0747596484/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1258551584&#38;sr=8-1" target="_blank">The Suspicions of Mr Whicher</a> next.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Ejecución marcial]]></title>
<link>http://juansahumerio.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/ejecucion-marcial/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Juan Sahumerio</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Voy por Cervantes, son las 3 PM del domingo 1ero de noviembre y estoy pensando en una fila de mujere]]></description>
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<p>Voy por Cervantes, son las 3 PM del domingo 1ero de noviembre y estoy pensando en una fila de mujeres que fuman. Es una fila bastante larga que empieza en Camino Real, sigue la calzada dura como una flecha, pasa frente de mí, penetra en la avenida Pezet y luego corre paralela al linde del club de golf, pierdo de vista tras el cruce con Portillo donde gira pocos grados hacia la derecha, presiento debe girar otra vez en el semáforo de la Avenida Salaverry, no sé donde va después. Sin embargo no es lo que normalmente entendemos como una fila de mujeres (si bien se parece mucho a una y aquí, entre nosotros, puedo decirte que alguien desprovisto de nuestra perspicacia o propensión a la bufa podría juzgar que es solamente una fila de mujeres, común y silvestre). Afortunadamente la distinción es obvia para el observador atento. Se contiene en un solo agudo motivo:</p>
<p>No es una concatenación de identidades discretas.</p>
<p>¿Qué quiere decir esto? Quiere decir que la fila que he imaginado no es una fila de mujeres reales. Sí está compuesta de mujeres, pero cada una de ellas no representa a una que exista en el mundo. Más bien cada una es la efigie laxa de un terrible momento en el tiempo. Así, cada una es en realidad la acumulación malhechora de muchas mujeres, todas aquellas que existieron para mí en un malhechor instante del tiempo, cualquiera que sea el indicado. Así, a lo largo de la fila cada elemento de ella esta casi repetido en el siguiente elemento y en el anterior, los cambios entre elementos contiguos –que representan el desplazamiento entre dos malhechores instantes– son mínimos y graduales, se requeriría un observador meticuloso para notarlos, sólo se hacen obvios a una distancia mayor, digamos con 20 elementos de separación, y de este modo la hilera de elementos conforma una cascada, un degradé de representaciones o efigies laxas o estatuas poco pulidas, más bien ensuciadas o enmohecidas, frías como bancas de parque en San Petersburgo en invierno, paradójicamente sólidas al mismo tiempo, sólidas pero laxas y frías y enmarañadas, vejatorias figuras imaginadas de todas las mujeres en un indigno espacio de tiempo –mi vida– cayendo desde Camino Real hasta Salaverry como una serpiente vituperiosa, intestinal destripada, vaginal ignominiosa, descomponiéndose incesantemente y con un dulce olor a ceniza.</p>
<p>Y de pronto la fila de mujeres se ha concretado a mi lado. Dicen que debes tener cuidado con lo que crees que es la realidad, pues la realidad será exactamente como tú la imagines. Es uno de esos dichos un poco cojudos, pero no parece haber sido del todo falso: de pronto la fila de mujeres se ha concretado a mi lado. Las puedo oler. Su caca todavía caliente, el café árabe y sus labios sahumados. La cháchara incesante me penetra por atrás, me excita también, me conmueve los testículos como si estos fueran recogidos por una mano tibia y maternal. El aroma del tabaco me trae memorias de lamidos inguinales: me presenta otra vez los ojos endemoniados del monstruo aquella vez cuando le di un orgasmo utilizando mis labios, entonces cuando efectivamente logró morir un poco, luego resucitar para destruirme. Oigo las risas del heliogábalo rampante que ha venido por mí corazón una vez más. Pero nada puede hacerme ya el heliogábalo. He mutado. Por la puta madre, he mutado. Luego, muy cool, me aproximo al heliogábalo caminando como si fuera un monstruo cualquiera. Ya conozco al heliogábalo, sus mañas, sus zonas erógenas. Y no le temo, estoy tranquilo –estoy cool–, no poseo más estrellas que pueda devorar. Si algo poseo, sólo poseo una pija en llamas. El heliogábalo ya se comió todas mis estrellas: ahora puede comerse mi pija en llamas. Miro la hora en mi celular. Tenemos tiempo para algunas inquisiciones.</p>
<p>A 3 metros de la fila, detenido, cuadrado tal Patton en el cine, les digo <em>ya no las quiero chicas.</em> Luego, a mi señal, marchamos todos, como en un desfile escolar. Marchamos en un batallón contenido y alegre, hacemos cuatro filas y formamos compañías de a 80, vamos así hasta la Avenida Arequipa. Allí hago una señal y la fila se vuelve a extender: cubre cientos de cuadras. Paso revista. Contento, me aproximo a la primera mujer y le doy un abrazo, junto mis brazos tras su espalda, la estrecho sinceramente entre mis brazos. Elijo a la segunda al azar, unos metros más allá: le escupo en los ojos. A la tercera no la toco. La cuarta es mi favorita y le doy un beso en el pecho, otro en la clavícula, abro su blusa y pongo un dedo húmedo sobre su pezón que, endureciéndose, me responde complacido. Luego vuelvo a la primera, pero levemente la esquivo, la humillo, la veo llorar. Busco a la quinta. Le doy por culo a la sexta mientras ella gime que me ama. Le grito a la séptima. Le digo a la cuarta que aún pienso en ella, que no importa que sea tan mala conmigo. Escribo una breve nota en una servilleta dedicada a la quinta. Le sonrío a la primera (quien aún no parece recuperarse de mi abrazo). Corro hasta la octava. Veo como se desnuda la décima. La vigésimo tercera me guiña el ojo. Me fela la décimo octava, se le entumecen los labios. Siento que extraño a la cuarta. Le regalo un chocolate bitter a la trigésima&#8230;</p>
<p>Entonces me alejo. Las miro, cual Patton en el cine, recapacito y les digo <em>mentira chicas, en verdad las quiero mucho. Siempre las voy a querer.</em></p>
<p>Las conduzco hasta el Morro Solar. Marchamos del mismo modo, cruzamos Miraflores y después Barranco, comemos un helado en el malecón y después trepamos lentamente la cuesta. Una vez en la cima, les cuento cómo perdimos en la batalla de Lima. La bahía se abre amplia ante nosotros. Imito a mi profesor de historia y les digo que todo lo que vemos frente a nosotros es cosa del pasado. La bahía reposa, voluminosa pero vacía como un bowl lleno de coles. Les digo que todo lo que hemos sufrido juntos, ¡eso está en el pasado! (Es un pérfido juego de palabras: todo lo que hemos hecho es cosa del pasado, de un pasado inamovible e indestructible, rígido y profético, periférico y determinante, imposible de eludir. Lo único impresionante o contundente y cojudo es cómo cuántos no lo notan.) Les digo que yo conozco la identidad del soldado desconocido. Les cuento que mi abuelo tenía una forja –una metalmecánica– y como él hizo la estatua a imagen y semejanza de James Dean. Les cuento que James Dean era gay, muy gay. Les digo que James Dean amaba que lo atoren duro, muy duro, especialmente si quien lo hacía era Marlon Brando. Les digo que no vean This is it, que yo ya me compré el DVD (vengan a mi casa). Les digo que tengo un LP de Like A Virgin, que mi papá lo compró en Londres en 1985. Les hablo de Christopher Hitchens. Les digo que quiero ser un cowboy mormón. Les hablo de mis bigotes. Les hablo de mis nuevos zapatos de cuero en punta. Les hablo de metales. Les hablo de mi corazón.</p>
<p>Así hablo horas de mí, cientos de minutos de mí, hasta que finalmente les digo <em>vamos, denme un cigarro.</em> Lo enciendo, ellas encienden al mismo tiempo uno y entonces todos fumamos y vemos juntos el sunset desplomándose en la bahía: un durazno maricón que se hunde de cabeza en el océano como si el cielo fuera a matarlo arreciado –o intoxicado– por los fuegos fatuos que levitan sobre nuestros pestilentes cadáveres eyaculados. Mientras empieza a penetrar las aguas, una luz sebácea, brillantísima y fulgurosa empapa el morro árido, circunda el aire aciago –delgadísimo como una soga–, transforma en platino nuestras ropas y vela todo en un ruido gelatinoso y vasto pero aglutinador que no está compuesto sino del rumor de nuestras disueltas, siempre infames soledades. En el momento justo en que el cielo vira de un gigantesco fucsia a un sobrio y profundo azul marino, echamos nuestros cigarros a la arena y con la armonía del equipo ruso de nado sincronizado hacemos &#8220;El Twist&#8221;, destruimos la colilla con la suela de nuestro zapato derecho.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[BRMC]]></title>
<link>http://nwhog.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/brmc/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mac</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (BRMC for short) is an American alternative rock band from San Franc]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><a href="http://nwhog.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/brmc.png"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-5351" title="BRMC" src="http://nwhog.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/brmc.png?w=201" alt="" width="201" height="300" /></a>The Black Rebel Motorcycle <a href="http://www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/">Club</a> (BRMC for short) is an American alternative rock band from San Francisco.  They formed in 1998 and took the name from Marlon Brando’s motorcycle gang in the 1953 film, <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_One">The Wild One</a></em>.  In the film the gang was referred to Black Rebels MC.</p>
<p>But, I smell a legal battle because Marlon Brando’s estate <a href="http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/brando-lands-bike-deal_1122255">signed off</a> on a new project with Triumph Motorcycles to debut Brando-related apparel at the company&#8217;s dealerships. As you may recall Brando played a tough biker gang leader Johnny Strabler and rode a 1950 Triumph Thunderbird 6T.  The <strong>Triumph Legends</strong> Line will offer replica leather jackets inspired by the movie.  The replica includes key features of Brando&#8217;s original jacket right down to the embroidered &#8216;<em>Johnny</em>&#8216; name tag and the BRMC (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club) distressed print on the back of the jacket. They are also developing Brando print men&#8217;s and ladies&#8217; T-shirts.</p>
<p>All of this will likely add to the &#8220;what-to-wear&#8221; <a href="http://nwhog.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/harley-samcro-limited-edition-motorcycle/">debate</a> and whether you’ll get beat down for imitating or wearing so-called “colors” of a motorcycle club (i.e. SOA: Son’s of Anarchy or BRMC).  Maybe you’re indifferent.   If so you wreak more Brando than you think.  He was famous in the movie for being outright contemptuous for contemporary middle-class society.  Asked what he was rebelling against and his response was <em>“What have you got?”</em></p>
<p><em>Photo courtesy of Triumph</em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Marlon Brando (quote)]]></title>
<link>http://lkthayer.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/marlon-brando/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lkthayer</dc:creator>
<guid>http://lkthayer.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/marlon-brando/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Photo by VC Ferry “An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.&#8221; Marlon Brando]]></description>
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<p><span class="sqq">“<a class="sqq" href="http://thinkexist.com/quotation/an_actor_is_at_most_a_poet_and_at_least_an/346055.html">An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.&#8221;</a></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.biography.com/articles/Marlon-Brando-9224306">Marlon Brando</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[CAGE-FEST!]]></title>
<link>http://acmevideo.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/cage-fest/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Zach</dc:creator>
<guid>http://acmevideo.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/cage-fest/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In preparation for — nay, in honor of — the upcoming premier of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call in New ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><em><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-593" title="nickcagecrazyeyes" src="http://acmevideo.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/nickcagecrazyeyes.jpg" alt="nickcagecrazyeyes" width="499" height="278" />In preparation for — nay, <strong>in honor of</strong> — the upcoming premier of <a href="http://www.badlt.com/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call in New Orleans</span></a>, directed by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001348/" target="_blank">Werner Herzog</a> and starring the great performer <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000115/" target="_blank">Nicolas Cage</a>, the Acme Video blog will be running a series of (at least) daily pieces on the entire Cage Oeuvre, with its startling highs and mystifying lows. It is one man&#8217;s tale&#8230; a chronicle of madness and obsession.</em></p>
<h1><em><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>DAY 1:</strong></span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">VAMPIRE&#8217;S KISS</span></em><span style="color:#ff6600;"><em></em></span></h1>
<p>I begin with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098577/" target="_blank"><em>Vampire&#8217;s Kiss</em></a> because, for the uninitiated, for the non-believers, for the haters and the nay-sayers, there is probably no better single testament to Nick Cage&#8217;s truly unique, entirely reckless, batshit-crazy brand of &#8220;acting.&#8221;  This is Cage&#8217;s <em>Last Tango In Paris</em>. His <em>Aguirre, Wrath of God</em>. His <em>Silence Of The Lambs</em>. If you crossed Marlon Brando, Klaus Kinski, and Hannibal Lecter you would end up with something close to Peter Loew, Cage&#8217;s utterly psychotic method-acting transformation from depressed-skirt-chasing-1980&#8217;s-literary-agent to control-freak-vampire-maniac-rapist.</p>
<p>One is tempted to use the phrase &#8220;a descent into madness,&#8221; but <em>Vampire&#8217;s Kiss</em> is more like a private tour of every wing of the nut-house. Loew is mad even at the film&#8217;s outset — a spastic, giggling, sexually-charged playboy, with women and money to burn and an awesomely Gothic Manhattan apartment. Cage adopted a strange, high-falutin, vaguely English accent for part, which comes and goes depending on his mood (and in one of several phenomenal scenes with his shrink, it actually becomes contagious; see the clip below). It&#8217;s just one of several crazy-as-a-fox decisions Cage makes, choices that would have been disastrous for a lesser actor — or at least one with smaller cajones. The fun really gets started once Loew gets his first vampire bite and begins his fitful, wildly uneven mutation into a blood-starved creature of the night. A fun enough premise in its own right, but both the film — and primarily, Cage — take so many stylistic left-turns that it&#8217;s not long before you&#8217;re feeling just as lost and desperate as Loew, wandering through <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0081590/" target="_blank">Robert Bierman</a>&#8217;s fantastically cheerless Manhattan. <em>Vampire&#8217;s Kiss</em> then becomes a truly Kafkaesque fracturing of the Cage psyche. Donning a pair of old-person driving sunglasses, Cage&#8217;s movements become decidedly bat-like, as he leaps and flits around his office, screaming and twitching at his lowly assistant because of some completely insignificant file that&#8217;s gone missing. Much of the film is devoted to the manic-depressive head games Loew plays on this poor young woman (a perfectly mousy <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000744/" target="_blank">Maria Conchita Alonso</a>) who fears — rightly — for her safety. Cage&#8217;s performance is truly one of the moodiest I&#8217;ve ever seen, and I mean that in the best possible sense: you can&#8217;t look away, and you never know what&#8217;s next. Few actors have ever mixed horror and comedy this well.</p>
<p><strong>He eats a cockroach</strong>, people (in fact he ate three, one for each take). Gobbles it up. The final scene is an insane Cage-vs.-Cage riff, basically like watching a psychopath simultaneously prosecute and defend himself in a court of law. You MUST see this film.</p>
<p>Impossible to pick just one scene, but yeah&#8230; this one rules.</p>
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<link>http://quixotando.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/mary-ellen-mark-seen-behind-the-scene-4/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Georgina Spiggott</dc:creator>
<guid>http://quixotando.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/mary-ellen-mark-seen-behind-the-scene-4/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Elliott Gould &amp; Alan Arkin no set de Pequenos Assassinatos (Little Murders) - Kiamesha Lake, EUA]]></description>
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<div id="attachment_36147" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 708px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-36147" href="http://quixotando.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/mary-ellen-mark-seen-behind-the-scene-4/jeff-bridges-in-american-heart/"><img class="size-full wp-image-36147" title="Jeff Bridges in American Heart" src="http://quixotando.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/jeff-bridges-in-american-heart.jpg" alt="Jeff Bridges in American Heart" width="698" height="460" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Jeff Bridges no set de Nada a Perder (American Heart) - Seattle, EUA, 1991</p></div>
<div id="attachment_36145" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 708px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-36145" href="http://quixotando.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/mary-ellen-mark-seen-behind-the-scene-4/hebpurn-and-fonda-in-on-golden-pond/"><img class="size-full wp-image-36145 " title="Hebpurn and Fonda in On Golden Pond" src="http://quixotando.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/hebpurn-and-fonda-in-on-golden-pond.jpg" alt="Hebpurn and Fonda in On Golden Pond" width="698" height="460" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Henry Fonda &#38; Katharine Hepburn no set de Num Lado Dourado (On Golden Pond) - New Hampshire, EUA, 1981</p></div>
<div id="attachment_36144" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 708px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-36144" href="http://quixotando.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/mary-ellen-mark-seen-behind-the-scene-4/courtney-love-in-the-people-vs-larry-flynt-1996-directed-by-milos-forman-in-los-angeles/"><img class="size-full wp-image-36144" title="Courtney Love in The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), directed by Milos Forman, in Los Angeles" src="http://quixotando.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/courtney-love-in-the-people-vs-larry-flynt-1996-directed-by-milos-forman-in-los-angeles.jpg" alt="Courtney Love in The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), directed by Milos Forman, in Los Angeles" width="698" height="466" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Courtney Love no camarim de The People vs. Larry Flynt - Los Angeles, 1996</p></div>
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<link>http://cinemacuts.com/2009/11/14/marlon-brando-julius-caesar1953-2/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Marlon Brando [A Dry White Season,1989] ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Marlon Brando lands motorbike gear deal ]]></title>
<link>http://celebrityandworld.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/marlon-brando-lands-motorbike-gear-deal/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>celebrityandworld</dc:creator>
<guid>http://celebrityandworld.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/marlon-brando-lands-motorbike-gear-deal/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Late Hollywood icon Marlon Brando has inked a motorbike gear deal with Triumph Motorcycles. The admi]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><img src="http://celebrityandworld.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/marlon-brando1.jpg?w=286" alt="Marlon Brando1" title="Marlon Brando1" width="286" height="300" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-8396" />Late Hollywood icon Marlon Brando has inked a motorbike gear deal with Triumph Motorcycles.</p>
<p>The administrators of the star&#8217;&#8217;s estate have allowed the company to bring out Brando-related apparel at the company&#8217;&#8217;s dealerships, reports Contactmusic.</p>
<p>The gear will also feature replica leather jackets inspired by his character in the film ‘The Wild One.’</p>
<p>Similar to the original jacket, it will feature &#8221;Johnny&#8221; name tag and the BRMC distressed print on the back.</p>
<p>The company is also planning to develop Brando print men&#8217;&#8217;s and ladies&#8221; T-shirts.</p>
<p>Brando had played biker gang leader Johnny Strabler in the 1953 film.</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Marlon Brando är en utav världens bästa skådespelare och definitivt en av världens snyggaste. Hans skådespeleri kom att förändra världen och hans tidiga filmer är fortfarande aktuella. Brandos skådespelarinsatser under 60-talet och delar av 70-talet var dock lite mediokert. Men i och med Gudfader och Apocalypse Now åter fick han sin glans i strålkastarljuset.</p>
<p>Några väldigt kända scener ur Brandos karriär är dessa;</p>
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<link>http://auriculardigital.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/videos-glamour-fashion-michael-jackson-v/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://auriculardigital.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/videos-glamour-fashion-michael-jackson-v/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Volvemos con nuestra sección de videos con participación de profesionales del cine y de la moda. Hoy]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:justify;">Volvemos con nuestra sección de videos con participación de profesionales del cine y de la moda. Hoy la selección es un monográfico sobre el desaparecido <a title="web oficial" href="http://www.michaeljackson.com/" target="_blank">Michael Jackson</a>. &#8220;El rey del pop&#8221; nos dejó muchos videos en los que ponía una especial dedicación. Algunos eran pequeños cortometrajes, películas sintetizadas en 4 minutos, como el primero de esta serie, <strong>Liberian Girl</strong>. El último single de su álbum <strong>BAD</strong> se promocionó con una filmación en la que aparecen muchos amigos de Hollywood del cantante. la nómina es extensa: <strong>Whoopi Goldberg</strong>, <strong>Danny Glover</strong>, <strong>Carl Weathers</strong>, <strong>Dan Aykroyd</strong>, <a title="web oficial" href="http://www.travolta.com/" target="_blank">John Travolta</a>, <a title="web oficial" href="http://www.steveguttenberg.com/" target="_blank">Steve Guttenberg</a>&#8230;.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Uno de los últimos que grabó fue <strong>You Rock My World</strong> en 2001.  Basado en una historia escrita por él mismo y por <strong>Paul Hunter</strong>, podemos ver en pantalla a actores de la talla de <strong>Marlon Brando</strong>, <a title="web oficial" href="http://www.mickeyrourkeonline.com/" target="_blank">Mickey Rourke</a>, <a title="web oficial" href="http://www.michaelmadsen.com/" target="_blank">Michael Madsen</a>, <a title="web oficial" href="http://www.christucker.com/" target="_blank">Chris Tucker</a>, <strong>Billy Drago</strong> y a la actriz y coreógrafa <a title="su myspace" href="http://www.myspace.com/kishayadudley" target="_blank">Kishaya Dudley</a>, que interpreta a la chica que origina toda la trama.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">En 1991 <strong>John Landis</strong> (Granujas a todo ritmo, El príncipe de Zamunda) dirigió un de los más famosos de Jacko, <strong>Black or White</strong>. Las &#8220;celebrities&#8221; que hacen acto de presencia son el niño de moda en aquella época por la saga <strong>Sólo en Casa</strong>, <strong>Macaulay Kulkin</strong>, en el papel de padres el bonachón Norm de<strong> </strong>la serie de TV<strong> Cheers</strong> (<strong>George Wendt</strong>) y <strong>Tess Harper</strong>, la modelo <a title="web oficial" href="http://www.tyrabanks.com/" target="_blank">Tyra Banks</a> y la artista musical y actriz <a title="su myspace" href="http://www.myspace.com/summercree" target="_blank">Cree Summer</a>. Como curiosidad decir que en la canción participa tocando la guitarra <strong>Slash</strong> de <a title="web oficial" href="http://www.gunsnroses.com/" target="_blank">Guns &#38; Roses</a>, y que el riff suena parecido al <a title="ver video" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSHGT9bATdc" target="_blank">Hurt So Good</a> de <a title="web oficial" href="http://www.mellencamp.com/" target="_blank">John Cougar Mellencamp</a>.</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/NbN6fS2AXRU&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/NbN6fS2AXRU&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Perteneciente también al disco Dangerous, <strong>In The Closet</strong> se proyectó un año más tarde que Black or White. Como respuesta a las dudas sobre su orientación sexual, Michael escribió este &#8220;Dentro del armario&#8221; en el que hablaba de una relación oculta entre un hombre y una mujer. Para rodar la historia se acompañó de la modelo <strong>Naomi Campbell</strong>, que despliega sus movimientos más sensuales a lo largo del video. Aunque los coros de la canción se acreditaron a una &#8220;Mystery Girl&#8221; luego se supo que fueron obra de la <strong>princesa Estefanía de Mónaco</strong>.</p>
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<link>http://andrewsidea.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/quickies-vol-v/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ZC</dc:creator>
<guid>http://andrewsidea.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/quickies-vol-v/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Adventures of Robin Hood (dir. Michael Curtiz, 1938): Triumphalistic as only Errol Flynn movies ]]></description>
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<p><em>The Adventures of Robin Hood </em>(dir. Michael Curtiz, 1938): Triumphalistic as only Errol Flynn movies can be. A celebration of camaraderie and littleness. So much so that you can just envision a made-for-TV-movie satire based on the life of Robin Hood after King Richard returns to the throne. He gets fat off of royal monthly checks, Matron Marian leaves with the kids, Friar Tuck excommunicates him, and he attempts a Sylvester Stallone-like comeback once he decides Prince John was the real man of the people.</p>
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<p><em>Last Tango in Paris </em>(dir. Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972): An incomplete viewing this time around by virtue of not finishing it and disabled subtitles. Still, hard to miss the basic idea. At the risk of dismissal, it&#8217;s one of these post-Antonioni existential soliloquies on the emptiness of life, but without the movement, the process of <em>The Passenger</em> or even <em>Zabriskie Point</em>.</p>
<p><a href="http://andrewsidea.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/pineapple.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2267" title="Pineapple" src="http://andrewsidea.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/pineapple.jpg?w=300" alt="Pineapple" width="300" height="202" /></a></p>
<p><em>Pineapple Express</em> (dir. David Gordon Green, 2008): Watched it awhile ago, but funny enough to deserve mention. R-rated comedies have long loved to shock audiences with sex, but not so much with violence, making this something pretty unique. It thrives on character chemistry: we&#8217;re not yet sick of Seth Rogen, and we were definitely sick of seeing James Franco in James Franco roles. May be the final (or only?) subtle performance of Ken Jeong, who is normally too funny for his own good.</p>
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<link>http://rogerhollander.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/the-bitter-tears-of-johnny-cash/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://rogerhollander.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/the-bitter-tears-of-johnny-cash/</guid>
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<div><em>Johnny Cash touring Wounded Knee with the descendants of those who survived the 1890 massacre in December of 1968.</em></div>
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<p>In July 1972, musician Johnny Cash sat opposite President Richard Nixon in the White House&#8217;s Blue Room. As a horde of media huddled a few feet away, the country music superstar had come to discuss prison reform with the self-anointed leader of America&#8217;s &#8220;silent majority.&#8221; &#8220;Johnny, would you be willing to play a few songs for us,&#8221; Nixon asked Cash. &#8220;I like Merle Haggard&#8217;s &#8216;Okie From Muskogee&#8217; and Guy Drake&#8217;s &#8216;Welfare Cadillac.&#8217;&#8221; The architect of the GOP&#8217;s Southern strategy was asking for two famous expressions of white working-class resentment.</p>
<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know those songs,&#8221; replied Cash, &#8220;but I got a few of my own I can play for you.&#8221; Dressed in his trademark black suit, his jet-black hair a little longer than usual, Cash draped the strap of his Martin guitar over his right shoulder and played three songs, all of them decidedly to the left of &#8220;Okie From Muskogee.&#8221; With the nation still mired in Vietnam, Cash had far more than prison reform on his mind. Nixon listened with a frozen smile to the singer&#8217;s rendition of the explicitly antiwar &#8220;What Is Truth?&#8221; and &#8220;Man in Black&#8221; (&#8220;Each week we lose a hundred fine young men&#8221;) and to a folk protest song about the plight of Native Americans called &#8220;The Ballad of Ira Hayes.&#8221; It was a daring confrontation with a president who was popular with Cash&#8217;s fans and about to sweep to a crushing reelection victory, but a glimpse of how Cash saw himself &#8212; a foe of hypocrisy, an ally of the downtrodden. An American protest singer, in short, as much as a country music legend.</p>
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<p>Years later, &#8220;Man in Black&#8221; is remembered as a sartorial statement, and &#8220;What Is Truth?&#8221; as a period piece, if at all. Of the three songs that Cash played for Nixon, the most enduring, and the truest to his vision, was &#8220;The Ballad of Ira Hayes.&#8221; The song was based on the tragic tale of the Pima Indian war hero who was immortalized in the Iwo Jima flag-raising photo, and in Washington&#8217;s Iwo Jima monument, but who died a lonely death brought on by the toxic mixture of alcohol and indifference and alcoholism. The song became part of an album of protest music that his record label didn&#8217;t want to promote and that radio stations didn&#8217;t want to play, but that Cash would always count among his personal favorites.</p>
<p>The story of Cash and &#8220;Ira Hayes&#8221; began a decade before the meeting with Nixon. On the night of May 10, 1962, Cash made a much-anticipated New York debut at Carnegie Hall. But instead of impressing the cognoscenti, Cash, who had begun struggling with drug addiction, bombed. His voice was hoarse and hard to hear, and he left the stage in what he described as a &#8220;deep depression.&#8221; Afterward, he consoled himself by heading downtown with a folksinger friend to hear some music at Greenwich Village&#8217;s Gaslight Café.</p>
<p>Onstage was protest balladeer Peter La Farge, performing &#8220;The Ballad of Ira Hayes.&#8221; A former rodeo cowboy, playwright, actor and Navy intelligence operative, La Farge was also the son of longtime Native activist and novelist Oliver La Farge, who had won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1930 Navajo love story, &#8220;Laughing Boy.&#8221; The younger La Farge had carved out an intriguing niche in the New York folk revival scene by devoting himself to a single issue. &#8220;Pete was doing something special and important,&#8221; recalls folksinger Pete Seeger. &#8220;His heart was so devoted to the Native American cause at a time that no one was really saying anything about it. I think he went deeper than anyone before or since.&#8221;</p>
<p>Cash never pretended that music could stay immune from social, but he tried his best to &#8220;not mix in politics.&#8221; Instead he talked about the things that unite us like the dignity of honest work. &#8220;If you were a baker,&#8221; he told writer Christopher Wren in 1970, &#8220;and you baked a loaf of bread and it fed somebody, then your life has been worthwhile. And if you were a weaver, and you wove some cloth and your cloth kept somebody warm, your life has been worthwhile.&#8221;</p>
<p>Raised in rural poverty on the margins of America, Cash empathized with outsiders like convicts, the poor and Native Americans. But his identification with Indians was especially deep &#8212; even delusional. During the depths of his early &#8217;60s drug abuse, he convinced himself, and told others, that he was Native American himself, with both Cherokee and Mohawk blood. (He would later recant this claim.)</p>
<p>At the Gaslight, once he had listened to &#8220;Ira Hayes&#8217; and La Farge&#8217;s other Indian protest tunes, including &#8220;As Long as the Grass Shall Grow&#8221; and &#8220;Custer,&#8221; Cash was hooked. &#8220;Johnny wanted more than the hillbilly jangle,&#8221; Peter La Farge would write later about meeting Cash at the Gaslight. &#8220;He was hungry for the depth and truth heard only in the folk field (at least until Johnny came along). The secret is simple, Johnny has the heart of a folksinger in the purest sense.&#8221; In fact, Cash had written an Indian folk protest ballad of his own in 1957. &#8220;I wrote &#8216;Old Apache Squaw,&#8217;&#8221; Cash later explained to Seeger. &#8220;Then I forgot the so-called protest song for a while. No one else seemed to speak up for the Indian with any volume or voice [until Peter La Farge].&#8221;</p>
<p>Cash, like many in the 1960s, could see that everything that was certain, rigid and hard was breaking apart. Social movements were blossoming. But the thunderous American choir that was singing &#8220;We Shall Overcome&#8221; and &#8220;We Shall All Be Free&#8221; drowned out the cry of the loose-knit Native movement. As Martin Luther King and other leaders steered their people toward legislative victories that would further integrate them into a society they were locked out of, the rising tide of Native youth activists wanted something different.</p>
<p>&#8220;In my mind, Native people could not have a civil rights movement,&#8221; American Indian Movement activist and musician John Trudell says. &#8220;The civil rights issue was between the blacks and the whites and I never viewed it as a civil rights issue for us. They&#8217;ve been trying to trick us into accepting civil rights but America has a legal responsibility to fulfill those treaty law agreements. If you&#8217;re looking at civil rights, you&#8217;re basically saying &#8216;all right treat us like the way you treat the rest of your citizens&#8217;. I don&#8217;t look at that as a climb up.&#8221; Rather than pursue assimilation into the American system, Native American activists wanted to maintain their slipping grip on sovereignty and the little land they still possessed.</p>
<p>By the early &#8217;60s, the burgeoning National Indian Youth Council (NIYC) was attempting to stake its own claim for their equal share of justice. With the expansion of fishing treaty violations and the breach of two major land treaties that led to the loss of thousands of acres of tribal land in upstate New York for the Tuscarora and Allegany Seneca (the story behind La Farge&#8217;s &#8220;As Long as the Grass Shall Grow&#8221;), the NIYC, led by Native activists like Hank Adams, responded by adapting the sit-in protest. Rechristened as the &#8220;fish-in,&#8221; the NIYC disputed the denial of treaty rights by fishing in defiance of state law. Fish-ins were held in New York and the Pacific Northwest.</p>
<p>The fish-in tactic worked in helping build some public support, but it did little to stop the treaty violations. Instead, the U.S. government ramped up its efforts to crush any momentum the Native movement was building. Oftentimes their tactics were brutal and violent. &#8220;This was the time of Selma and there was a lot of unrest in the nation,&#8221; remembers Bill Frank Jr. of Washington state&#8217;s Nisqually tribe. &#8220;Congress had funded some big law enforcement programs and they got all kinds of training and riot gear-shields, helmets. And they got fancy new boats. These guys had a budget. This was a war.&#8221;</p>
<p>By 1964, the Native American cause had attracted the interest of another celebrity. On March 2 the NIYC gained national attention as actor Marlon Brando joined a Washington state fish-in. Already an outspoken supporter of the civil rights movement, Brando&#8217;s very public support and subsequent arrest for catching salmon &#8220;illegally&#8221; in Puyallup River helped to boost the Native movement. Brando&#8217;s involvement with the Native cause had begun when he contacted D&#8217;Arcy McNickle after reading the Flathead Indian&#8217;s book &#8220;The Surrounded,&#8221; a powerful novel depicting reservation life in 1936. Brando&#8217;s involvement in Native issues led to government surveillance that lasted decades. His FBI file, bursting with memos detailing possible means of silencing the actor, quickly grew to more than 100 pages.</p>
<p>Three days after Brando&#8217;s arrest in Washington, Cash, fresh off the biggest chart success of his career, the single &#8220;Ring of Fire,&#8221; and having just finished recording a very commercial album called &#8220;I Walk the Line,&#8221; began recording another, very different album. When Cash left Sun Studios for Columbia in the late 1950s, he believed his rising star would give him the creative capital to produce and record something a little outside the pop and country mainstream &#8212; albums of folk music and live prison concerts. He was alternating folky albums like &#8220;Blood Sweat and Tears,&#8221; a celebration of the working man, with commercial discs laden with radio-ready singles. &#8220;Ring of Fire,&#8221; which had reached No. 1 on the country charts and had crossed over to pop, had bought him the permission of Columbia to make an album of what he called &#8220;Indian protest songs.&#8221;</p>
<p>In the two years since Cash had first met La Farge and listened to &#8220;The Ballad of Ira Hayes,&#8221; Cash had educated himself about Native American issues. &#8220;John had really researched a lot of the history,&#8221; Cash&#8217;s longtime emcee Johnny Western recalled. &#8220;It started with Ira Hayes.&#8221;</p>
<p>As Cash explained, &#8220;I dove into primary and secondary sources, immersing myself in the tragic stories of the Cherokee and the Apache, among others, until I was almost as raw as Peter. By the time I actually recorded the album I carried a heavy load of sadness and outrage.&#8221;</p>
<p>But Cash felt a special kinship with Ira Hayes. Both men had served in the military as a way to escape their lives of rural poverty longing to create new opportunities. Plus, both suffered from addiction problems; Cash and his pills and Hayes with alcohol. He decided to anchor the album with &#8220;The Ballad of Ira Hayes.&#8221; And since the song had provided the spark for Cash&#8217;s vision, it just felt right that he should learn more about the song&#8217;s subject.</p>
<p>Cash contacted Ira Hayes&#8217; mother and then visited her and her family at the Pima reservation in Arizona. Before Cash left the Pima Reservation, Hayes&#8217; mother presented him with a gift, a smooth black translucent stone. The Pima call it an &#8220;Apache tear.&#8221; The legend behind the opaque volcanic black glass is rooted in the last U.S. cavalry attack on Native people, which took place on Apaches in the state of Arizona. After the slaughter, the soldiers refused to allow the Apache women to put the dead up on stilts, a sacred Apache tradition. Legend says that overcome by intense grief, Apache women shed tears for the first time ever, and the tears that fell to the earth turned black. Cash, moved by the gift, polished the stone and mounted it on a gold chain.</p>
<p>With the Apache tear draped around his neck, Cash cut his protest album. He recorded five of La Farge&#8217;s songs, two of his own, and one he&#8217;d co-written with Johnny Horton. All were Native American themed. &#8220;When we went back into the studio to record what became &#8216;Bitter Tears,&#8217;&#8221; Cash bassist Marshall Grant says, &#8220;we could see that John really had a special feeling for this record and these songs.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yet the album&#8217;s first single, &#8220;Ira Hayes,&#8221; went nowhere. Few radio stations would play the song. Was the length of the song, four minutes and seven seconds, the problem? Radio stations liked three-minute tracks. Or maybe disc jockeys wanted Cash to &#8220;entertain, not educate,&#8221; as one Columbia exec put it.</p>
<p>&#8220;I know that a lot of people into Johnny Cash weren&#8217;t into &#8216;Bitter Tears,&#8217; &#8221; explains Dick Weissman, a folksinger, ex-member of the Journeymen and friend of La Farge. &#8220;They wanted a &#8216;Ballad of Teenage Queen&#8217; not &#8216;The Ballad of Ira Hayes.&#8217; They wanted &#8216;Folsom Prison.&#8217; They didn&#8217;t want songs about how American&#8217;s mistreated Indians.&#8221;</p>
<p>The stations wouldn&#8217;t play the song and Columbia Records refused to promote it. According to John Hammond, the legendary producer and Cash champion who worked at Columbia, executives at the label just didn’t think it had commercial potential. Billboard, the music industry trade magazine, wouldn&#8217;t review it, even though Cash was at the height of his fame, and had just scored another No. 1 country single with &#8220;Understand Your Man&#8221; and No. 1 country album with &#8220;I Walk the Line.&#8221;</p>
<p>One editor of a country music magazine demanded that Cash resign from the Country Music Association because &#8220;you and your crowd are just too intelligent to associate with plain country folks, country artists and country DJs.&#8221; Johnny Western, a DJ, singer and actor who for many years was part of Cash&#8217;s road show, recalls a conversation with &#8220;a very popular and powerful DJ.&#8221; According to Western, the DJ was &#8220;connected to many of the music associations and other influential recording industry groups. He had always been incredibly supportive of John.&#8221; Western and the DJ started discussing Cash&#8217;s new album and the &#8220;Ira Hayes&#8221; single. &#8220;He asked me why John did this record. I told him that John and all of us had a great feeling for the American Indian cause. He responded that he felt that the music, in his mind, was un-American and that he would never play the record on air and had strongly advised other DJs and radio stations to do the same. Just ignore it until John came back to his senses, is what he told me.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;When John was attacked for &#8216;Ira Hayes&#8217; and then &#8216;Bitter Tears,&#8217;&#8221; explains Marshall Grant, &#8220;it just ripped him apart. Hayes was forced to drink by the abuse and treatment of white people who used and abandoned him. To us, it meant Hayes was being tortured and that&#8217;s the story we told and it&#8217;s true.&#8221;</p>
<p>When &#8220;Bitter Tears&#8221; and its single did not get the attention he felt they deserved, Cash insisted on having the last word. He composed a letter to the entire record industry and placed it in Billboard as a full-page ad on Aug. 22, 1964.</p>
<p>&#8220;D.J.&#8217;s &#8212; station managers &#8212; owners, etc.,&#8221; demanded Cash, &#8220;Where are your guts?&#8221; He referred to his own supposed half Cherokee and Mohawk heritage and spoke of the record as unvarnished truth. &#8220;These lyrics take us back to the truth &#8230; you&#8217;re right! Teenage girls and Beatle record buyers don&#8217;t want to hear this sad story of Ira Hayes &#8230; This song is not of an unsung hero.&#8221; Cash slammed the record industry for its cowardice, &#8220;Regardless of the trade charts &#8212; the categorizing, classifying and restrictions of air play, this not a country song, not as it is being sold. It is a fine reason though for the gutless [Cash's emphasis] to give it a thumbs down.&#8221;</p>
<p>Cash demanded that the industry explain its resistance to his single. &#8220;I had to fight back when I realized that so many stations are afraid of Ira Hayes. Just one question: WHY???&#8221; And then Cash answered for them. &#8220;&#8216;Ira Hayes&#8217; is strong medicine &#8230; So is Rochester, Harlem, Birmingham and Vietnam.&#8221;</p>
<p>As Cash later explained, &#8220;I talked about them wanting to wallow in meaninglessness and their lack of vision for our music. Predictably enough, it got me off the air in more places than it got me on.&#8221; In reality, however, as Cash noted in his letter, &#8220;Ira Hayes&#8221; was already outselling many country hits. Ultimately, thanks in part to aggressive promotion by Cash, who personally promoted the song to disc jockeys he knew, &#8220;Ira Hayes&#8221; reached No. 3 on the country singles charts, and &#8220;Bitter Tears&#8221; peaked at 2 on the album charts.</p>
<p>Later, long after &#8220;Bitter Tears,&#8221; and after he&#8217;d won his battle with drugs, Cash would dial back his claims of Indian ancestry. But he never wavered from his support for the Native cause. He went on to perform benefit shows on reservations &#8212; including the Sioux reservation at Wounded Knee in 1968, five years before the armed standoff there between the FBI and the American Indian Movement &#8212; to help raise money for schools, hospitals and other critical resources denied by the government. In 1980, Cash told a reporter: &#8220;We went to Wounded Knee before Wounded Knee II [the 1973 standoff] to do a show to raise money to build a school on the Rosebud Indian Reservation&#8221; and do a movie for &#8220;Public Broadcasting System called &#8216;Trail of Tears.&#8217;&#8221; He joined with fellow musicians Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson and Robbie Robertson to call for the release of jailed AIM leader Leonard Peltier.</p>
<p>Since Cash first recorded &#8220;The Ballad of Ira Hayes&#8221; in 1964, many musicians have recorded their own versions. Kris Kristofferson is one of those musicians. He summed up the spirit behind Cash&#8217;s now nearly forgotten protest album in his eulogy for Cash, who died in 2003. Cash, he said, was a &#8220;holy terror &#8230; a dark and dangerous force of nature that also stood for mercy and justice for his fellow human beings.&#8221; Four years before his famous concert at Folsom Prison, four years before the American Indian Movement formed, and at the pinnacle of his commercial success, Cash insisted on producing an uncommercial, deeply personal protest record that was a close as he could come to truth. He would always cherish it. &#8220;I&#8217;m still particularly proud of &#8216;Bitter Tears,&#8217;&#8221; Cash would say near the end of his life, while talking about the topical music he recorded in the 1960s. &#8220;Apart from the Vietnam War being over, I don&#8217;t see much reason to change my position today. The old are still neglected, the poor are still poor, the young are still dying before their time, and we&#8217;re not making any moves to make things right. There&#8217;s still plenty of darkness to carry off.&#8221;</p>
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<p><em>Antonino D&#8217;Ambrosio is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Heartbeat-Guitar-Johnny-Making-Bitter/dp/1568584075/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1257538445&#38;sr=8-1" target="_blank">&#8220;A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears.&#8221;</a></em></p>
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