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Why? Because I had these two partial video recordings of this song, so I stitched them together. (Roughly. The audio change is rather obvious, even besides the sudden change of my hair and shirt). Then I overlaid them with silliness, as befits this goofy old song.
Lyrics are not quite the same as in the video. Most notably, I realized that all these years I'd been singing about Francis Scott Keyes, which isn't his name. Appropriate changes followed.
Note to patriots: No, I am not saying America is imperialistic. Not in spirit. But Americans can be, who veer from the American way. That's what this song is about. If anything. It's a one-note joke, see. How can a song titled The Great American Song not be The Great American Song, even if it isn't really The Great American Song? (Which would probably have to be either America the Beautiful or Don McLean's American Pie. Or American Woman by The Guess Who. Just kidding!)
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On his Arlo & Janis blog, Jimmy Johnson wrote about creating the March 20 strip: "Finally, with deadline looming and the other five strips in the can, I picked up the strip and, voila, Janis spoke her lines." I just commented that I liked that, but also had these thoughts.
"...voila, Janis spoke her lines...."
I like that. I've dabbled in comics and storytelling. It's delightful to have a character surprise the author. I've had a character who was only intended to be an onlooker suddenly pipe up in a significant way. Or when the key to getting your character home again, previously a vague outline, becomes revealed by the unwinding story.
You know the story and script is unwinding in your brain's circuitry, but while sometimes you're forcing thoughts out with a grunt, there's those times you almost seem to be a pipeline for the Cosmic Mind, the Idea Itself, struggling to be realized in time and space.
I recently finished re-reading the Harry Potter series, and frequently imagined Rowling having similar feelings as she worked on her magnificent opus. Or Tolkien, or Beethoven, or Da Vinci. I recall Rowling saying about the 7th book, she hadn't expected one character's death and found herself crying about it. Nice thing about it, on such points, one can look back and admire a nice turn of phrase or twist of plot with amazement and a kind of reader's delight rather than anything like writer's pride. One can see outtakes of nigh-perfect movies and realize, yeah, that really didn't belong (the Jitterbug dance in Wizard of Oz).
In our minds, we do art. In the Cosmic Mind, art does us.
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2012 may be the most crucial Presidential election in over a century.
WHO do the REPUBLICANS offer to help restore Constitutional government?
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Kim Jong Il is still dead. Just checking.
Video playlist
- Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un are visiting families in new built houses — Look! Housing just like in the west! Beautiful! Furnished! And yet, oddly, sterile and empty. But Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un are visiting, so it must be great! Here are the Kims, looking at it. Watch as Dear Leader opens a cabinet. Marvel as Dear Leader tests a kitchen water faucet's temperature! This is why he was worshipped!
- North Korean Supermarket — Look! Marvelous merchandise just like in the west! You can buy "Window" for your computer! Dispel we much all doubt of vigor of Dear Leader's dear leadership!
- Japan Coast Guard vs North Korean spy ship — Battle of Amami-Ōshima
— a six-hour confrontation between the Japan Coast Guard and an armed North Korean vessel in 2001. Glorious victory to die for Dear Leader! Oh, look! Here it is on video! (Some parts are a little murky.) - Kim Jong Il propaganda - The Dear Leader — Dear Leader celebrated in glorious NK commercial for his greatness.
- Kim Jong IL Show — Dear Leader is greatest late-night entertainment host of all time! Wait! This is not Dear Leader! This is false, evil, anti-Dear Leader propaganda from MADtv with Bobby Lee!
- Kim Jong Il DEAD — World mourns passing of glorious Dear Leader
- Kimjongilia (5 parts) — The horrible truth
More pictures of Dear Leader looking at things
The Guardian (UK) 2003 Apr 3 (John Gorenfeld):
Shin Sang-ok... is a film director of legendary stature in his native country - the Orson Welles of South Korea.... He and his wife, the well-known actress Choi Eun-hee, were among Seoul's celebrity set.... Shin and his wife were kidnapped by North Korea's despot-in-training, Kim Jong-il, who sought to create a film industry that would allow him to sway a world audience to the righteousness of the Korea Workers' Party. Shin would be his propagandist, Choi his star…
Click for frightening larger image (you were warned)
Photo of new glorious leader, old now less glorious dear leader's son
Top 10 Crazy Facts About Kim Jong Il — Western propaganda! Only first five facts about Dear Leader are true facts!
Obligatory link to Team America snippet. Haven't watched it. [Now I have]
188 I don't know if the North Korean shooting, cycling, golf, equestrian, track and field, swimming, and chess teams can recover from losing their star player.
Posted by: ace at December 18, 2011 11:07 PM
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