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Jens Carstensen - 2007-09-28 11:21:48
I took a pal to see Jurado at the Knit last year for his birthday (almost exactly a year ago, in fact), and - not being a fan of acoustic music whatsoever - i was very impressed. Your assessment of him is pretty much spot on. His song "Ohio" is pretty brilliant. I haven't been to Soundfix yet, but i heard it's swell.
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grigorss - 2007-09-28 11:28:10
Of course milkmen still exist -- including the World's Toughest.
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iwombat - 2007-09-28 11:50:22
just watched the "shock doctrine" video, wow, I'm not a conspiracy theory kinda guy, but simply acknowledging that this could be an existent dynamic in how the powers that be game our world is not too hard to believe, and pretty intense.
On a related note, my step father has had, by his own volition, quite a few courses of electro convulsive therapy, and though it may have cost him something in memory it was the only thing that relieved his extreme disabling depression...so the metaphor, though it points to something which still seems unaestetic, might be referencing something useful.
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Paula - 2007-09-28 11:57:42
I think the metaphor she wants is "brainwashing" as opposed to "shock therapy."
All the tactics she references are classic brainwashing techniques, and can be used for good or ill.
Basicaly, crises and disasters can render people helpless--they regress to infancy. That's when Big Parent Figure comes along and saves the day.
I'm not knocking it--that's how I get boys to go out with me.
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Greg - 2007-09-28 12:59:39
>>>Basicaly, crises and disasters can render people helpless--they regress to infancy. That's when Big Parent Figure comes along and saves the day<<<
Rudy Giuliani, 9/11, his presidential campaign.... and the war on... wait, that's what the book is saying.
I don't think any of this is "theory" so much as "just the facts, ma'am" in the tradition of Joe Friday. Wombat--It's unfortunate that the term conspiracy has been, in a very Orwellian fashion, become synonomous with paranoia. This stuff is real.
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amatt - 2007-09-28 14:57:44
P, how do you get the girls to go out with you?
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Paula - 2007-09-28 15:34:14
I tell them I know you.
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amatt - 2007-09-28 16:45:25
Zing!
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