a star is born ?
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
Born Free
M.I.A, Born Free from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.
shocking ?
yes indeed, what if instead of Redheaded people you got Black people ? or Latinos ? Or Gays ? what does it take to denounce discrimination and harassment ?
from BIGO magazine...
SPREAD THE WORD - The BigO Update No. 585 (April 30, 2010)
SPREAD THE WORD - The BigO Update No. 585 (April 30, 2010)
Sri Lanka's MIA's graphic nine-minute video for new song 'Born Free', has been removed from YouTube. The video, featuring violence and nudity, is still available to watch at MIAuk.com. The Romain Gavras-directed promo, which is not safe for viewing at work, features nudity, graphic violence and a plot where ginger-headed adolescents are rounded up into an armour protected van, driven to the country and either shot or made to run through a minefield.
When it was released on Monday, "Born Free" quickly drew excited responses from around the Web:
MTV wrote that it "depicts the kind of things that most nations - including the U.S., which is portrayed as the aggressor in the clip - often pretend don't happen" and "it does so in an unflinchingly, unapologetically real way," and Spinner.com wrote: "If you're into cinematic displays of violence that make overt political statesments about the way state-run armed forces control people, then this one's for you."
MIA's third album is due June 28. Romain Gavras is the son of director Costa-Gavras. - www.rockrap.com
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Saturday, April 24, 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Pagan Poetry 6 : Thunder
" I have gone to find lightning. Don’t worry about me.”
Ellen Gilchrist "Starcarbon"
There's a storm outside, and the gap between crack and thunder
Crack and thunder, is closing in, is closing in
The rain floods gutters, and makes a great sound on the concrete
On a flat roof, there's a boy leaning against the wall of rain
Aerial held high, calling "come on thunder, come on thunder"
Sometimes, when I look deep in your eyes, I swear I can see your soul
Sometimes, when I look deep in your eyes, I swear I can see your soul
It's a monsoon, and the rain lifts lids off cars
Spinning buses like toys, stripping them to chrome
Across the bay, the waves are turning into something else
Picking up fishing boats and spewing them on the shore
The boy is hit, lit up against the sky, like a sign, like a neon sign
And he crumples, drops into the gutter, legs twitching
The flood swells his clothes and delivers him on, delivers him on
Sometimes, when I look deep in your eyes, I swear I can see your soul
Sometimes, when I look deep in your eyes, I swear I can see your soul
There's four new colors in the rainbow
An old man's taking polaroids
But all he captures is endless rain, endless rain
He says listen, takes my head and puts my ear to his
And I swear I can hear the sea
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Ellen Gilchrist "Starcarbon"
There's a storm outside, and the gap between crack and thunder
Crack and thunder, is closing in, is closing in
The rain floods gutters, and makes a great sound on the concrete
On a flat roof, there's a boy leaning against the wall of rain
Aerial held high, calling "come on thunder, come on thunder"
Sometimes, when I look deep in your eyes, I swear I can see your soul
Sometimes, when I look deep in your eyes, I swear I can see your soul
It's a monsoon, and the rain lifts lids off cars
Spinning buses like toys, stripping them to chrome
Across the bay, the waves are turning into something else
Picking up fishing boats and spewing them on the shore
The boy is hit, lit up against the sky, like a sign, like a neon sign
And he crumples, drops into the gutter, legs twitching
The flood swells his clothes and delivers him on, delivers him on
Sometimes, when I look deep in your eyes, I swear I can see your soul
Sometimes, when I look deep in your eyes, I swear I can see your soul
There's four new colors in the rainbow
An old man's taking polaroids
But all he captures is endless rain, endless rain
He says listen, takes my head and puts my ear to his
And I swear I can hear the sea
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Got a problem ?
Teenagers campaign against homophobia in highschool.
Is there even a life after highschool ?
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Monday, April 12, 2010
Tenor
Read an article about him here on the fabulous commandopera.
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