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Monday, April 2, 2007
Tom Waits - Misery is the River of the World
This is an awesome video for the Tom Waits song "Misery is the River of the World." Enjoy.
Technorati Tags: Tom Waits, youtube, misery, music, music videos, animation
Technorati Tags: Tom Waits, youtube, misery, music, music videos, animation
Big Love
I just finished watching the first season of HBO's new show Big Love. It's definitely interesting, to say the least. It's a family drama, something that HBO is familiar with, but there is a pretty big twist in there - this family has not one, but three wives. Here HBO has, again, pushed the boundaries and shown us something we don't normally see. It truly amazes me that they have managed to use a medium normally associated with, at best, mediocrity, and used it to it's full extent.
With Big Love, we are shown this family that is as messed up as other TV families, but thats it. Their problems are different, but they aren't depicted as any more or any less morally problematic than those of a traditional family. They aren't abusing their kids or forcing them to marry at a young age. They aren't even forcing them to plan on polygamy when they grow up. In fact, they are fighting the polygamists who do do those things. Instead of a diatribe against polygamy, the audience is given an interesting story with three-dimensional characters, who just happen to exist outside the normal American paradigm. While most will find their way of life deplorable in one way or another, it is very difficult to dislike the characters.
If you get a chance, I highly recommend this show, as well as any other HBO series you can get a hold of - I haven't found one I dislike yet.
Technorati Tags: HBO, cable, television, mormonism, mormons, polygamy, big love, chloe sevigny, bill paxton, jeanne tripplehorn, ginnifer goodwin
With Big Love, we are shown this family that is as messed up as other TV families, but thats it. Their problems are different, but they aren't depicted as any more or any less morally problematic than those of a traditional family. They aren't abusing their kids or forcing them to marry at a young age. They aren't even forcing them to plan on polygamy when they grow up. In fact, they are fighting the polygamists who do do those things. Instead of a diatribe against polygamy, the audience is given an interesting story with three-dimensional characters, who just happen to exist outside the normal American paradigm. While most will find their way of life deplorable in one way or another, it is very difficult to dislike the characters.
If you get a chance, I highly recommend this show, as well as any other HBO series you can get a hold of - I haven't found one I dislike yet.
Technorati Tags: HBO, cable, television, mormonism, mormons, polygamy, big love, chloe sevigny, bill paxton, jeanne tripplehorn, ginnifer goodwin
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