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Online usersWho's NewPoll"The world is perishing from an orgy of weasel-words."—Linz. The explanation for this is:
Linz is wrong. The world isn't perishing at all, from anything. No explanation required.
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Gramsci/Alinsky: the "long march through the culture," dispensing sugar along the way.
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Social metaphysics. It's "cool" to talk in weasel-words.
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Innocent ignorance. Folk are so brainwashed they don't know any better.
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Headbanging and associated drug-taking. Folks' brains are addled from it all.
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Parts of all/some of the above (explain).
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Other (explain).
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Gnarls Barkely: Just a little Ennio Morricone there? Submitted by JoeM on Sun, 2006-09-10 21:32
I've been listening to ST. ELSEWHERE by Gnarls Barkely, and came across this version of their song "Crazy" on TOP OF THE POPS. This version really sounds like it was scored by Ennio Morricone, and since there's a few Morricone fans here, though I'd share. The amazing thing about Gnarls Barkely is that a large bit of their success is due to MySpace.com and not the traditional record company promotions.
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Saw these guys on Letterman,
Saw these guys on Letterman, performing Crazy.
Cute, and certainly a little crazy. The lead singer, a very large black man, was dressed in an oversized prep school uniform, with shorts and large aviator sunglasses. Infact the whole band was dressed in school uniforms with the young ladies in very tasty short, plaid skirts.
Thing is, with Morricone,
Thing is, with Morricone, he's scored on the order of some 400 films, in all kinds of styles, that yes, indeed, there were some films (Italian ones namely) that he scored that bear some similarity to this. You could probably come up with all kinds of music that bears some similarity to something he's done at one point or other.
Oh, and since you asked, how 'bout a "montage" from the Once Upon a Time in America soundtrack. A bit chopped up to be fully satisfactory, but passable. You have to imagine the "predictable" but most-satisfying end that for whatever reason gets cut off from the end of the clip. Starts out with "Cockey's Theme" w/panflute, then "Poverty," then the title theme, then "Deborah's Theme" (that's Jennifer Connelly in her screen debut), and then back to an alternative version of the title theme.
It was a matter of terrible studio screw-ups and technicalities that kept this film and score from garnering at least an Oscar nomination and likely win, respectively.