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People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access.
–Banksy
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People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access.
–Banksy
If religion functions both to explain the world – providing models for how to live, tenets of faith and empowerment, and comfort for when they don’t work – and to offer a sense of contact with something greater than oneself, then heavy metal surely qualifies as a religious phenomenon. But mystical metal draws upon the power of religious traditions without obeisance to any. One sociologist, observing teenagers’ use of metal to carve out social space and experience communion there, referred to Led Zeppelin as “liberation theology in vinyl.”
- Robert Walser, Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music
I’m still searching for the drug that can trigger the switch which will allow euphoria its rightful position as a top contender in the war of my emotions.
-Lydia Lunch, Will Work for Drugs
…what had we learned about entertaining the kiddies? Keep it moving! Sesame Street was to Mr. Rogers what Space Mountain was to the teacups. No one set piece on the show ran for more than three minutes; Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch, jumping rope in Brooklyn, baking bread in North Dakota – black, white, Hispanic, android – everybody got their turn, so long as it lasted no more than 2:59. And everybody sang: sang about their feelings, about being green, about being grouchy, about counting cookies. Twice a day, at nine and four o’clock, children across America from all walks of life became as one through the miracle of electric bonding, eyes forward, butts down, millions of lips moving in sync as their favorite furry freaks sang and cavorted on a mythical street.
So when it came time to invent designer television for these children of “the Street,” the network for “young adults” headed straight for the format already deep in the psyche of its audience: modular programming, featuring favorite characters singing about their feelings, three minutes tops, over and over, twenty-four hours a day.
There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium. It will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.
- Martha Graham
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