I just had to ask someone about something she did that was pretty stupid. I hope my e-mail danced around the subject enough not to sound insulting. It took me about 20 minutes to write. I hate those e-mails.
Where'd they get CAT scan from?... I mean, did they test it on cats? Or does the machine sort of look like a cat?
Dawn ,'Sleeper'
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Ginger - Dec 04, 2008 12:31:51 pm PST #3349 of 10000
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Hil R. - Dec 04, 2008 1:04:37 pm PST #3350 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Question for the hivemind: I remember in a feminist TV criticism class I took in college, we watched this video that took scenes from music videos and intercut them with clips from the rape scene in The Accused. One of the music videos used was Cherry Pie, and I'm nearly certain another was Hot For Teacher. Anyone else ever seen this or know what it's called? Google is giving me no help.
t edit: nevermind. Just found it. Dreamworlds II: Desire, Sex, Power in Music Video.
Glamcookie - Dec 04, 2008 1:49:38 pm PST #3351 of 10000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I just turned in my last project. I am officially DONE with grad school AIFG! OMGWTFMLISCAKES! WHEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
Barb - Dec 04, 2008 1:55:07 pm PST #3352 of 10000
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WOOOOOOOOOOOOT, GC!!!!
Nora Deirdre - Dec 04, 2008 2:01:05 pm PST #3353 of 10000
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GC! So awesome!!!
Hil R. - Dec 04, 2008 2:01:56 pm PST #3354 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Yay GC!
Connie Neil - Dec 04, 2008 2:04:30 pm PST #3355 of 10000
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Are you now an even better librarian, GC?
sj - Dec 04, 2008 2:30:09 pm PST #3356 of 10000
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Congratulations, Glamcookie!!! You should do something fun to celebrate.
meara - Dec 04, 2008 2:43:46 pm PST #3357 of 10000
That sounds really interesting, Hil. Though the title suggests there was a Dreamworlds I, huh?
Hil R. - Dec 04, 2008 2:56:47 pm PST #3358 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Yeah, there was a Dreamworlds I, and there's also now a Dreamworlds III. I think that II was the one that we watched.
In the discussion in class after we watched the video, most of us felt that it was overly manipulative -- the images were taken way too far out of context, and intercutting with The Accused was adding a level of violence that simply wasn't in the music videos. (We also watched an interview with the director, who was a professor, where he said that he'd started on this topic by showing whole music videos to his class, and they were singing along with the songs, so he tried muting them, but that still didn't get his students to have the reaction he wanted, so he put together the isolated scenes -- none of these cuts is more than about three seconds long -- and they still weren't reacting the way he wanted them to. He didn't get the reaction he wanted until he put in the scene from The Accused.)
(We had a standing rule in this class that, since some of the things we watched might be disturbing to some people, anyone was free at any time to get up and wait in the hall until a disturbing scene was over. That video was the only time anyone ever actually did that.)
The intro to Dreamworlds 3 is up at YouTube: [link] It looks like it's essentially the same as Dreamworlds II, except with newer videos. (Note: there are a few scenes in there that could be triggering. Not The Accused, but some other stuff.)