Weird Video: Eraserhead; Folger’s Dad in the Tub; Cardi B for the Census

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Weird Video
COMMENTARY BY PATRICE GREANVILLE

Cultural nuggets from the annals of cinema, tv, advertising, and other corners, all reflecting aspects of our strange, semi-deranged culture. The West is not normal, folks. It can be horrid, it can be tedious, it can be smug, and sometimes it can even be funny.

THE BIG SCREEN
ERASERHEAD (1977)
by David Lynch

[dropcap]D[/dropcap]avid Lynch is for most people, including critics, unclassifiable. Following his often troubling vibes (which most auteurs do, anyhow) in this 1977 surrealist horror film Lynch (who also gave us Mulholland Drive and The Lost Highway) breaks most "sacred" rules to build an utterly strange, dreamlike and compelling (when not revolting) world that mixes imagery redolent of steampunk with nightmarish biology, all along apparently drawing great inspiration from the likes of Kafka and Dali. In sum, weird.

TV COMMERCIALS
SUPER MERITORIOUS MENTION

Folgers new Coffee commercial is the best

Zombie Chris approves, and we agree

(Video courtesy by Zombie Chris)

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n this age of stifling PC keeping all establishment channels in tight conformity with the new stentorian rules of propriety dictating interactions between races, genders, ages, nationalities and other subdivisions of the human race, it's almost miraculous we accidentally bump into this extremely irreverent, Buñuelesque tv spot for, of all things, Folger's coffee. The fact no one has yet gotten hysterical over this highly peculiar spot for breaking just about every standing code of conduct in our cancel-obsessed culture is perhaps itself testimony to its uniqueness and, yes, it's both refreshing and surprising. I am awfully glad that Zombie Chris, whose YT commentary and sense of humor we  appreciate, agrees. Furthermore, to anyone who has the slightest idea about how a major marketer's commercial is produced—the sheer work and detail involved; the countless hoops that need to be jumped through; the things that need to be cut to avoid the slightest whiff of impropriety that might offend some priggish soul in New York or Opelousas—this must seem like a profound mystery.  It certainly does to me. Folks, heads have rolled for much less than this, much less. Weird.

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NYC Census 2020 Message from Cardi B
Cardi tells "mi gente, presente" to register with the Census

[dropcap]OK[/dropcap], folks, so let's get this straight: Cardi B, the super-talented in-your-face Dominican/Trinidadian dynamo, is not Donna Reed. Reed, the beautiful farm girl from Iowa lives on in another cultural warp, mainly the Wonderbread white 1950s. Cardi is pure, unadulterated 21st century—product of the finally ascendant multicultural brew that makes our society tick with rich new strains of humanity. For Cardi, born in Manhattan and brought up in the Bronx, the one with the Goddess fingernails and extravagant lissome hair, a rapper, that's right, a rapper who is not afraid to admit to a past that would scandalize every prig in this ridiculously prudish nation, is nothing if not the ultimate antidote to tedium. That's why we are a bit piqued by the firestorm in a teacup kicked up by the whiners who think Cardi B "does not represent New York".  Does not represent NYC? Whaddayamean she does not represent NYC? !!!  Pal, you gotta be kidding. Just weird.

(Note: Cardi wants her folks to believe the Census will make a difference in their lives, but she's wrong. In theory, like Civics 101 (the fantasy script of US democracy), maybe. In reality, nah. It won't happen. The ruling class spends all its time figuring ways of enlarging its wealth and power, plotting new crimes and betrayals, and public needs barely register on its radar. Maybe that's only logical because the US is not a real democracy. Contrary to official propaganda, it never was. Check this, this and this, if you don't believe me.)

 Patrice Greanville is this publication's founder and editor in chief.

 
 


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[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t is a misnomer to call this novel a spy story.  Though it chronicles the adventures and mishaps of a handful of spies, all looking for meaning in the world, it is more.  Above all it is a meditation on love, betrayal, duplicity, morality, the young, the old, Europe, America, the Soviet Union, terrorism and the Cold War.
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The book revolves around two characters from different ages and different worlds.  The first is the Cold War veteran, Anatoly Nikitin Schmidt, a man of mixed backgrounds and loyalties.  Whether he is a double or triple agent is difficult to tell.  He moves with ease between his Soviet handler, Borya and his American handler, Cliff, Sr.
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The novel's sometimes narrator, Karl Heinz, forms a second pole.  Pill and alcohol dependent, it is in this Italian-German we see the damage that has been done to the children of the Cold War warriors. "What worthwhile causes exists for my generation?" he laments. "The era of great ideologies is over.   For us, heroic causes are foreign ones."
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Betrayal and duplicity are two of the novel's major themes.  Nikitin wears a pair of cufflinks that display the ultimate symbol of duplicity, the Trojan Horse.  His handler Borya, fascinated with Greek mythology and especially, Helen of Troy, tells him: "For the Gods, the big betrayal is betrayal of what you love.  The greatest freedom is the freedom to betray." Borya sees in Helen a metaphor for the Cold War in which blood was spilt for an "impalpable ghost," namely the specter of Communist world domination.  No such conspiracy existed. Stalin followed the traditional Czarist foreign policy of maintaining a protective buffer zone around Russia. Like the Greeks storming the walls of Troy, the early Cold War warriors felt the existence of an evil enemy and considered themselves lucky to be in the forefront against it. But like all chimeras, the Cold War evaporated and its warriors were left with a void in their lives. Nikitin observes that the spy is the eternal child.  He lives his life as a fairy tale.  So when one fairy tale dies, another must be found if the spy is to feel whole.
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No Fly Box – Progressive Insurance Commercial

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From time to time (since not even imperial tediousness can be absolute and 100% abominable), a commercial pops up that has some undeniable humor in it. This is one such instance. The fictional “Box” (which as a product doesn’t exist either since auto insurance is a contractual transaction only) is invested with human narcissist qualities. Observe how well cast and tightly calibrated this spot is, not a gesture is wasted.  The TSA employees, especially the female agent (Leila Babson), are simply impeccable. Incidentally, not to plug Progressive Insurance, but its late founder was a prominent supporter of left-liberal causes.


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