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@ Trope and artapp Slightly

EmmaZahn — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:02:01 +0000

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@ Trope and artapp

Slightly OT.

The ticky tacky castle in the photo caused me to start humming 'Little Boxes', the theme to the television show, Weeds. When I could not get the tune out of my head I looked for it on YouTube and found this mashup of various performances of the same song singing about suburban sameness eventually blurring into sameness themselves. It was interesting and funny (maybe ironic). Is there another literary or art term for what the show's producer did with the song?

Embedding is disabled on the video but here is the link if you feel inclined to

http://youtu.be/MVyVp0qMpOk

Life contains many parallels

Beetlejuice — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:18:48 +0000

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Life contains many parallels all going in the same direct, but on different tracks. For instance back in the 80's, Las Vegas changed from mob run casinos to business run which brought a theme change ... from gambling casinos to theme park gaming with a little gambling thrown in on the side - family values anyone? And it also brought about diversification ... gambling moved out of the desert into other areas in the US as well as in other global hot spots, thus diluting the cash flow into Las Vegas. And of course Las Vegas put all their eggs in one basket ... the gaming one ... and neglected diversifying the economic just in the remote case gaming and gambling waned. We all know about the Las Vegas economy, jobs and housing market. Seems there is a point where parallel lines do merge regardless of the math or logic.

I first reacted: "Is this one

artappraiser — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:07:20 +0000

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I first reacted: "Is this one of those ever-popular-these-days ruins photo spreads? If so, oh my god, it can't be that long ago, I am so old," ala memento mori or et in arcadia ego. But then I read that Hurricane Hugo damage preceded the abandonment, so I'm ok.

As a culture, we used to covet the old world's ruins (and they used to admire our new new new) But we got 'em now; kids these daze no longer have to do a Grand Tour to see some.

At least it gave us this

Elusive Trope — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:22:23 +0000

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At least it gave us this great photo op of Falwell

Which was it seems just one more brilliant performance in the epic postmodern production put on by the Social Conservative / Far Right Troupe. Tim and Tammy Faye Bakker were one of our the truly inspired performers, especially Tammy Faye.

Now the Bakkers' park has become a brilliant treatise on the deconstructive nature of the textual life conceptualized in a deconstruction artscape.

This and the recent sell of

EmmaZahn — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:37:39 +0000

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This and the recent sell of the Crystal Cathedral to a Catholic Diocese should put all that fear of loathing regularly heaped 'evangelicals' in perspective.

Maybe because I am more familiar with them and their fleeting natures but as religious activisms go, Protestant Elmer Gantrys scare me a whole lot less than Red Masses, AIPACs or Al Quedas. Not that I am in a panic about those either.