rocket to nowhere

Former students of mine made this inspired bit of loveliness/insanity. I have to say I was really lucky as a high school teacher—I got to work with highly motivated, interesting, funny, and bizarre students. To wit:

1. This is proof that sound can plumb emotional depths even if the soundmaker/s probably have no experience of those emotions (at those depths).

2. This is proof that emotional depths are not ever deepened by the “I’m singing soulfully and with great meaning” set of gestures (where did these children learn said set?).

3. This is further proof that nothing Stevie Nicks related can be bad.

(video via WFMU)

This in response to Selah’s blogpost from earlier today:

[All red text, Roni Horn. All green text, John Waters' annotations. Block quotes clearly labeled. Video and music found by me, inspired by John Waters.]

         


         
Anatomy and Geography
English opera about an imperious but sexy gynecologist directed by Peter Greenaway

Being Purple
Sad musical about the decline and paranoia of rock star Prince

Dictionary of Water
Elegantly maddening wordplay exercise featuring a script including only nouns beginning with the letter “w”

Doubt by Two
True-crime mystery focusing on the deliberations of two holdout jurors in the second trial of Leslie Van Houten

Key and Cue
The fictitious biography of the Clue board game’s Colonel Mustard

Molly’s Other Bloom
Lesbian punk coming-out picture that dares to concentrate on anal sex [LINK]

Puff
The Magic Dragon gets throat cancer

Untitled (Flannery)
Lupus, peacocks, and blue-chip fame—how she did it and why it will last

“‘And rest in peace, William Inge (22), why did you have to do it? Jean Rhys (23), Jane Bowles (24), Witold Gombrowicz (25), I miss you too. Flannery O’Connor (26), you’re the tops.’ Anybody who wrote of being so obsessed with collecting chickens that she actually made clothes for them is A-OK with me. She may be famous for later raising peacocks but I’ll always imagine her dreaming up Wise Blood (27) as she stitched away on evening gowns for her darling little birdies.”
          —John Waters, The Obsessions of, “Puff Piece (101 Things I Love),” p. 59

Water, Still
John Waters’s third autobiography told from beyond the grave

“I’d better get home beause I’m thirsty, and drinking water is too personal to do anywhere but in th eprivacy of your own kitchen.”
          —John Waters, The Obsessions of, “Puff Piece (101 Things I Love),” p. 65

When Dickinson Shut Her Eyes
The story of Michael Cunningham’s surprise bestseller

When the How and the What are the Same
Italian retitling of third sequel to The Hulk

You are the Weather
Recruiting film for the revival of ’60s hippie terrorist group

         

I found this

on WFMU’s Beware of the Blog. Where I also found this:

along with the following sentence:

As Deke and others have pointed out, there seems to be a strong connection between the otherworldly sounds made by hillbilly eefers and the practitioners of the art of human beatboxing. Perhaps Wayno put it best when he wrote that this connection might just represent “a neat switch on the typical appropriation of black styles by white artists.”

Please follow the link to the original article. It is absolutely worth your time.

fabulously well-done:

just over a week to go . . .