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Sunday, December 28, 2003 |
Bakersfield.com
Bakersfield Sound. "...In 1951, Buck Owens paid $30 for a used Fender Telecaster, and American music was never quite the same. That particular type of electric guitar, created just three years earlier by Leo Fender, gave Owens' music a distinctively raw edge that set apart both the guitarist and, more significantly, the musical flavor of his adopted city." (2003/03/17) [gmtPlus9]
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Film 2 Slideshow
 Film [2]. The first few covers and contents pages are online. Have fun. If you click in the Slideshow window onto the image, you should get a 100% view. [The Cartoonist]
9:52:43 AM
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Pop Culture in the Curriculum - From Philly.com
This Philly.com article definitely reinforces the idea of "Expressionist Fab". I would add that Homer Simpson is certainly pre-Expressionist Fab Culture and does not qualify as EFC. I would go further, and say that Fox - Newscorp. in general lacks the EFC gestalt. - G.S.
--- "Today's popular culture is tomorrow's elite culture," Rockland said. "I don't want to just teach dead stuff that's already been acclaimed."
He said jazz started in New Orleans brothels. As it moved up the Mississippi River, it grew more respectable. "Music that had been played in whorehouses was ultimately being played in conservatories of music," Rockland said. "We invest things with value once they stick around."
Though the novel was invented in the 1600s, Rutgers did not teach the genre until 1900. "Novels were considered mere entertainment," Rockland said. ---
Pop culture cracks college curriculums. These days, when college students say they're studying Homer, they as likely mean the Simpsons character as the ancient Greek author of The Iliad. [The Philadelphia Inquirer Online - Front Page]
9:48:58 AM
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AK to VT, "People Powered Jonathan" - Alaska Teen for Dean
The Ideanarod: Day One. Wow. What a day.
I boarded my plane in my home of Sitka, Alaska at 5:45PM on Alaska Airlines. I was grateful for leaving because my Dad was making a fool out of himself, and I couldn't wait to get to Burlington. I took the quick flight to Juneau (less than half an hour) and caught a connection down to Seattle. I guess you could say I was lucky enough to be on a cargo plane - that means they put a bunch of big boxes on, put a flimsy barrier up, and fit as many passenger as they can in the extra room. The seats were totally retro - at least 50 years old, with a smell to match. I sat next to a very kind elderly Grandmother and madly wrote letters to my donors which bankrolled my trip. I should probably mention that I have now decided I am "people-powered Jonathan" for the next week, as the only reason I am here is because of my 32 donors.
I arrived in Seattle at 8 something. This was the end of the road for my journey on Alaska Airlines, and I was switching to jetBlue. For those of you not familiar with jetBlue, it's a budget airline, and it's one of the many across the country that are popping up and driving the mainline, expensive carriers out of buisness. They offer their fairs up to twice as cheap as well (the primary reason I was travelling with them). And since it's airlines like jetBlue that are bankrupting the big carriers, the big guys don't cooperate. That means they don't transfer your baggage to them. So I went down to the baggage carousel got and waited for my bags.
This is were things started getting weird. It seemed wherever I went a newlywed or madly in love couple seemed to appear right next to me furiously kissing or uttering there affection to each other is rather loud voices. They literally popped up wherever I went - I moved three times and three times they appeared.
A vast conspiracy? Probably not.
While I was waiting my red duffel-bag never seemed to come. There was one point were there was four red bags in a row, three of them duffels. Finally, my bag came - it was second to last.
Conspiracy? Maybe...
I checked up with jetBlue and endured a very hearty line since my bag took so long to get and got checked through to Burlington, Vermont. Since one of the ways jetBlue saves money to offer such cheap fares, is they don't offer meals - so I bought two bottles of milk, a muffin, and a salad and headed off to security. This is when, yet again, another act of the bizarre crippled me. I had been keeping my ID, cash, and New York-Burlington boarding pass zipped up in my inner-pocket. When I tried to access my ID for security I couldn't open it - I guess it just somehow jammed. Luckily, I didn't need ID for security since I'm under 18 - but I still needed to get that stuff out by the next morning, and the pocket didn't seem to want to cooperate.
Conspiracy? Definately.
When we finally boarded, I was astounded by the degree of non-cheapness (expecting it due to low fares) on their flights. Every single seat had a TV with DirecTV (24 channels), and there were roomy, leather seats. I settled down and madly pumped out some more thank you notes and researched rockfish. I was also lucky enough to get to approach a flight attendant requesting help in opening my jacket-pocket, and within two minutes...yeah, he opened it.
I didn't get any sleep this morning, I was just too busy: reading up on rockfish, writing thank you notes, and catching up on the news - it was dawn before I was ready.
We deboarded, and I grabbed some more food (yeah, I'm growing), and I quickly caught my flight to Burlington. At the airport, I was greeted by Clay Johnson - and awesome web application developer. We grabbed my bag and got the the office. He gave me a full-blown tour and I was bombarded by both people I know, and people I don't know. It was a truly amazing experience. However, a lot of people were gone - campaign manager Trippi, the political director, field director, environmental policy desk - all people that I need to talk to. Of course this was excuseable because it was two days after Christmas. I was told by many people that things were going to heat up big time over the next couple days.
Anyways, I spent the day doing lots of stuff: data entry, stuff and mailing New York for America kits, opening mail, replying to info@deanforamerica.com e-mails, upgrading a listserv mailing system, figuring out some finance buisness, and recklessly riding the staff scooter around the hallways - basically a lot of fun. I went out to dinner with the internet department and came back and kept working. Right now it is 1:34AM which means I have been awake for 40 strait hours. Yee-hah!
I would also like to thank the people who commented on www.alaskafordean.com who came up with the great name "Ideanarod." You can find updates on the web at www.kids4dean.us, www.alaskafordean.com, or www.blogforamerica.com.
Kind Regards,
Jonathan K-T
jonathan@alaskafordean.com [Alaska For Dean]
1:02:36 AM
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2004 - The Year of 'Expressionist Fab'
Streaming through onto the homepage at http://www.mediaburn.net for the next 24 hours is The Cartoonist's recent film mag post, which has also shown up on Cinema Minima.
It brings to mind a Mediaburn prediction for 2004: The culture of "Expressionist Fab".
What is Expressionist Fab Culture, or EFC? Well for one thing it is truly and genuinely fabulous. Rumors abound that it will be a bigger phenomenon than both early 90's Grunge, and the early 2000's "Bling Bling" culture. In fact, some cultural theorists have theorized that EFC will make "Bling Bling" look like Grunge.
Expressionist Fab Culture is most definitely a type of Pop Culture, though it can work both above and below Pop Culture, whatever that means. This new aesthetic trend is said to embody what is enduring, internal, and eternal - much like the German Expressionism of the early 1900's.
The aesthetic is also said to embody a gestalt or wholeness, but EFC is not limited to Germany. Expressionist Fab Culture is international and is known to have roots and developers in the American Southwest.
"Expressionist Fab" is the offspring digital technology and communications; much of it could not have developed without the public internet. "Expressionist Fab" is found both online and offline.
"Expressionist Fab" is a culture decentralized and then recentralized. Then it is re-decentralized and then perhaps centralized. I think. There is without question an element of absurdist humor to some Expressionist Fab Culture.
Mediaburn looks forward to covering the development of this phenomenon in the weeks and months ahead.
12:30:13 AM
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