Don't tell me it's a worthy cause. No cause could be so worthy.
Monday, April 3rd, 2006 04:10 pmsubversively brilliant or offensively trite: YOU DECIDE.
(p.s.
spr0cket, you may want to skip this entry.)
So I'm watching this video of this really catchy song that's just come out, and uh...
I know we're all post-post irony and all that, but I honestly can't decide whether this video is subversively brilliant and honest or upsettingly trite and demeaning.
The song is Narina Pallot - Everybody's Gone to War, and I felt like the song was a sad and pointed look at where war has led us.
( lyrics follow )
Okay, so for the video?
People start a war in the grocery store, garrotting each other with celery and spraying bullets of orange soda from pop bottles and throwing pineapples like grenades. Pies blow up. Flour detonates.
Video on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F3JH-e2zs4
High res 30 meg vid:
http://rhf.dreamhost.com/reference/Nerina_Online2.mov
( my thoughts )
(p.s.
So I'm watching this video of this really catchy song that's just come out, and uh...
I know we're all post-post irony and all that, but I honestly can't decide whether this video is subversively brilliant and honest or upsettingly trite and demeaning.
The song is Narina Pallot - Everybody's Gone to War, and I felt like the song was a sad and pointed look at where war has led us.
( lyrics follow )
Okay, so for the video?
People start a war in the grocery store, garrotting each other with celery and spraying bullets of orange soda from pop bottles and throwing pineapples like grenades. Pies blow up. Flour detonates.
Video on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F3JH-e2zs4
High res 30 meg vid:
http://rhf.dreamhost.com/reference/Nerina_Online2.mov
( my thoughts )