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I just had a really good idea for a band name. Check it out. “The Bad Samaritans” And we’ll do a song called something like “Lessons Learned” and the music video will just be the band standing around on the street watching old ladies having a hard time crossing it. We’re just standing there not helping at all, looking cool. Then later on we’re walking around and I find a wallet on the road and IT’S GOT $10 IN IT! So I go buy a sandwich with the $10 and then you see me eating the sandwich standing there next to the road not helping all these old ladies trying to cross it. But then, like, I pull out the wallet I found and pull out the I.D. in it and it’s my face on it. IT’S MY WALLET THAT I FOUND! And it turns out that I BOUGHT MYSELF THAT SANDWICH…. “Lessons Learned”…Right.
Then an old lady in an Escalade mows us all down.
“Story from North America” + my glum jadedness.
Story from North America from Kirsten Lepore on Vimeo.
Yesterday I stumbled upon (not through the web service) this little video, which I absolutely love, and it got me thinking. Well, thinking, reminiscing and getting pissed off.
You see, I started thinking back to when I first started finding gems like this on the internet. Back around 99 to 00. Right when enough people started getting broadband to facilitate higher resolution videos online. It was like, bare with me on this shaky metaphor for moment, finding a new store where you could go try peoples home brewed beer. Some was good, lots was bad but it was new independent stuff that you couldn’t find anywhere else. I figured “Man, this place is going to do great, just wait ’til people start trying this stuff. Plus, surely the store is going to need more skilled independent brewers brewing exotic new beers to meet the demand.”
Now nine years later the store’s shelves are stocked floor to ceiling with Miller Light. You can still find the home brews every once in a while buried at the back of the shelves but the independent brewers never really took off. The lucky ones now work for Miller.
Well that’s enough of me being glum and jaded for now. Maybe I’ll go cheer myself up by watching something on the CW.
