From the crew that made THE INVISIBLE WAR, comes a jarring exposé of rape crimes on various U.S. college campuses, institutional cover-ups, and the harrowing social toll on victims and their families. The film follows rape survivors as they endeavor to further their education while pursuing justice, facing brutal retaliation, harassment, and resistance every step of the way.
Thứ Bảy, 28 tháng 3, 2015
17 Female-Centric Themed Documentaries That Everyone Should See
From the crew that made THE INVISIBLE WAR, comes a jarring exposé of rape crimes on various U.S. college campuses, institutional cover-ups, and the harrowing social toll on victims and their families. The film follows rape survivors as they endeavor to further their education while pursuing justice, facing brutal retaliation, harassment, and resistance every step of the way.
Thứ Tư, 25 tháng 3, 2015
Understanding Charli XCX's "Famous" Music Video - (A Review, So ***SPOILERS***)
The lyrics at first sound like any other contemporary sexpot-as-pop-star whining about alcohol over-consumption yet making it sound absolutely glamorous. So had I heard the song on the radio, I would have never taken the time to look-up the masterful art piece which is the music video for "Famous" as directed by Eric Wareheim. Luckily I was exposed to the music video prior to the lyrics--albeit the lyrics themselves aren't too bad (once read)-- and my mind was effectively blown.
Dark satire and a black mirror effectively drive extremely complicated social issues home and harken upon a time when music videos could actually, you know, mean something. Most articles on the internet are not dissecting this music video the way it deserves. Disappointed by the lack of examination or meaningful critique I'm going to muster up some courage today and provide an analysis, but all of my philosophies pale next to the original inspiration and brilliance of "Famous".
Short and potent, the music video opens on a carefree maybe teenager, maybe 'tween, maybe 9 year old girl bee-bopping around her bedroom. She's got pigtails and a--let's be clear here--S&M choker necklace on. Everything in her life is magical. Her enchanted objects, i.e. cell phone and tablet, distract her from the real ills and evil in the world. She is purposely sheltered. Embalmed in pink. Emotions as emojis. The enchanted objects loose power twice, each time they do she looses the protection they lent from the shadows in the closet and the monsters under the bed. They come at her as gangsta ghouls of men and kidnap her.
The media she was engaged in watching before getting snatched wasn't so very enlightening however, she was completely in rapture of celebrity worship, granted in this instance for Charli XCX, but it easily could have been supplemented by any star popular among the youth. She was taking a bunch of selfies, posting them on public online networking sites, probably oblivious of security settings emulating her star. Being famous vicariously. Through her chosen decor and few shallow texts, it becomes obvious these are her only interests, being sexy and being famous.
Sound familiar or like anyone you know? If you can say yes, then you should be sad. For at least a little bit. If you have a daughter and recognize these symptoms, please stop this Princess Bitchface from fully devolving for the sake of all humanity. Some of you may think I am joking. But I most certainly am not. Stop it. Stop. It.
Anywho she gets kidnapped by humanoids that look like a vanilla geriatric version of the Insane Clown Posse. These must be the moguls of industries: the music industry, the advertising industry, the fashion industry, the sex industry, even the banking industry. They all have a S&M tinge to them and are pretty creepy. Our girl really isn't that thrilled to be there in this completely white room, where a music video of her star is playing. This music video is composed of lies and illusions. The skulls are glamoured into smiley faces, the exorcist looking chick is her beloved star, in reality, not looking so lovely:
Our chick finally gets in this pink partially phallic type of room and this scary looking fat satanic dude with selfie stick fingers is screaming at her, but he's got an electrical outlet for a belly button and you see her go internally, "ah fuck it, if this is what I have to do" and she finally plugs her phone in to get some power. This electrocutes her. She dies with a smile on her face and emoji blood pools behind her head. The onlookers take photos of her and upload her image with hashtags. She's just another way for them to get famous vicariously.
So what does all this mean?! It means our culture sucks, that is what all of this means. It means Andy Warhol's prediction on everyone in the future getting 15 minutes of fame has finally come true but we should wonder at what cost.
We don't have a council of philosopher kings debating the effects of new tech on the individual soul or collective society.
We just use it blindly, worse, we let our children use it blindly more often then not. Our kids don't seem to get taught proper online security or etiquette very well. Which duh, most kids are teaching their parents how to use new tech. I can only imagine what it's like to raise a daughter in this age. Wanting to protect her from online threats, and cyber stalkers, and ex-boyfriends hellbent on posting revenge porn and taking over her laptop with a remote access trojan. That's seriously got to be terrifying!
And everyone trying to be YouTube famous. As fame was the best thing ever. Nothing is wrong with not being famous. If you're not famous, you're something better--you are part of the glorious sonder. Rejoice in that.
I like to research odd topics for fun and one of them of late has been Beta Kitten programming. If I'm going to write about Beta Kitten programming at length, that's better as a separate future blog. But some of the imagery that was used in the music video and even for the album cover really reminded me of the story archs that supposedly reappear in many instances of Beta Kitten programming. Like the Marylin Monroe wannabe, the cheetah print, the appearance of the clownish handlers, the balance of black and white... In a nutshell, Beta Kitten programming is supposedly maybe happening in Hollywood, especially among child actresses and even actors, making them into sex trafficked children among the worldly elite that would pay top dollar for time spent with a famous beautiful child because Hollywood is run by the Illuminati brainwashing these girls that in turn grow up to effectively brain wash your daughters to be food for the sexually perverse and serial killers that roam the grounds that is America. Beta Kitten programming has its roots in CIA Monarch Mind-control, and that's a fun rabbit hole to run down. So I hope I haven't lost you. I'm not saying it's real or that it's not real, I'm just saying the imagery reminded me of this topic and I was surprised it was so heavily alluded to in this medium. Don't think that Eric might have been purposely going for that angle, but it's there all the same.
Which begs to question, why are we letting various industries have control over the minds of our children to the point where they lose touch with reality and have a host of mental, emotional, and behavioral issues? And yes I know this is all anecdotal, because I'm not a scientist and lack facts, but this is what I observe happening. It's like the women's movement never happened. We're loosing our girls to alcohol too. Research that because I'm ruining out of time but more young women are drinking then ever before and it is so much worse when women drink then men because biologically women are completely different. Women have lower levels of water in them and higher concentrations of fat so we can't hold our liquor like men can, no matter how hard we try, we can't drink like a man. If you do, it'll increase your chance of breast cancer.
So I liked this music video, not so much the song. The song is terrible. The lyrics are decent. The lyrics are worth a read if you want to fully appreciate the imagery of the music video, it complements it nicely. The lyrics are about being so fucked up that you don't care if you make a fool out of yourself in public and drunkenly fall downstairs while getting high because you want to party like your famous: "Now we're falling down the stairs, we act so shameless...Just like we're famous."
But bitches you ain't famous, you're just alcoholics.
Thứ Hai, 23 tháng 3, 2015
Trademark This Sick Beat
This Sick Beat
belongs to you, belongs to me.
This Sick Beat
is totally free from fee.
Trademark our speech and see
how swiftly we loose ability
to speak.
Because you cannot cap us
on
This Sick Beat
Thứ Tư, 4 tháng 2, 2015
Albino Wolves
Had a lucid dream of you recently,
about five nights ago.
The insanity of it,
was that I know you were really present.
Your distinctive energy was as about as solid as that brick wall over there.
Since this was an actual happenstance, I'll spare everyone the brickabrack language that in certain circles, I'm no doubt notorious for.
I think I said your name in my sleep,
your very real arrival in my slumber had made me so incredulous...
Unexpectedly we ran into each other, shopping at the grocery store, in the vegetable produce section.
You still had a receding hairline but had
let it grow to your shoulders, tying it, only half back, in an elastic ponytail holder.
You were dressed like a drug dealer from "The Wire", you know, someone who has a surplus of money but doesn't really know expensive velvetine jump suits with correlating sweat-catching headbands displease Old Money.
But there you were.
Somewhere in my dream, somewhere in the future, where at first, I didn't completely recognize you. So I asked for clarification. I asked just your name, in a question.
You looked up, then after our eyes met, both of ours widened in absolute knowledge.
We laughed and made stupid small talk, that consisted of me making fun of your getup. You mutter something about how nowadays you like to be comfortable. Then for reasons that only are in dreams, you insist upon giving me $5.00 for some type of compensation.
I refuse your flaccid green paper.
Yet you insist.
It got comical.
Then you leave sulking away like an albino wolf. Mistakenly identitfied as a sheep, so very often, that your stride is perpetually asshurt over a God that over looked an entire lifetime of miscommunications and mishaps because His design is supposed to be immaculate. Lamely waving with your right hand, looking over your left shoulder, carrying a plastic basket.
I know how that feels, that type of asshurt, so maybe that's why we were so intensely connected.
Both misunderstood poets. Taken granted due to skins.
In this dream, you eventually came to my home, forcefully insisting I take this damn $5.00.
"No! Get out of here! How the hell do you know where I live?"
In this second part, I hadn't been so nice in the query of your name and if it was really you.
My dude was pretty pissed about your arrival and proclamation of charity and promptly kicked you out.
But after five minutes, you knocked on the door...
...and just left that $5.00 on my doorstep.
So now, as I vainly endeavor to write this, my eyes well-up mainly because maybe that's all love really is.
A random gift of $5.00 on your doorstep. Even if you don't want it.
Thứ Tư, 28 tháng 1, 2015
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Thứ Ba, 6 tháng 1, 2015
Emphysema
I was 33, when I lost my nerve
Almost 34, know nothin' 'bout free lunches
Almost 34, and I know all 'bout free dinners
And there ain't no prayer,
and there ain't no gospel.
I'm feelin' scared,
the whole entire world seems so hostile.
And there ain't no jewels,
no celebrity press.
Just a bunch of girls,
walking around with no breasts on their chests.
Life's a short walk to a hospice.
Spend your whole life,
looking for an accomplice.
Then pause, look back_
_what did you accomplish?
Did you get around
to doin' dat thang?
--Don't worry none, if you didn't.
Something looks a lot like nothing,
Naked emperors don't need no cloak,
sometimes when you're alive,
the only way to keep breathin'
is to smoke.
I don't fault you any,
for the spaghetti in your lungs.
I don't begrudge you,
for all of those drugs.
Sometimes, you just gotta feel_
_purple.
Sometime, you just have to float.
Because the body, it wrinkles, fades, & can
bloat.
You gotta coat
this shit filled Twinkie
with sugar
'cause shit don't sparkle.
I know I'm gonna still miss you tomorrow...
But I'm 33 and I've lost my nerve.
I'm 33 and I've lost my gumption.
Don't know nothing 'bout any free luncheon,
but I'll eat that free dinner, if you care to serve.
















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