Posts Tagged ‘2003’
Like 2003 All Over Again
Written by gerrycanavan
February 27, 2011 at 11:58 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with 2003, actually existing media bias, cable news, protest, what liberal media?
The Zeitgeist
If artists depend on angst and unrest to fuel their creative fire, then at least in one sense the 43rd presidency has been a blessing. Eight years is an eternity in the life of a culture, and when we look back on an era, we do it through pinholes: a movie here, a book there. What will stand out, decades from now, as the singular emblems of this moment in history? Newsweek asked its cultural critics to pick the one work in their field that they believe exemplifies what it was like to be alive in the age of George W. Bush.
Battlestar Galactica
American Idol
Jeff Koons’s Hanging Heart
The Corrections
Black Hawk Down
Cohen’s Borat
Green Day’s American Idiot
Far Away
Rick Warren’s The Purpose-Driven Life
Battlestar is a decent if limited pick, and Idol a fairly inspired one, though not for the reasons given—but the exclusion of The Wire is simply criminal, not to mention Sopranos and Deadwood, and (yes) 24. For film, it might actually be The Dark Knight, or else There Will Be Blood. (Maybe Children of Men?) For books—surely the hardest category—it’s probably The Road, for a few reasons. I’m too illiterate in music to even begin to answer: the best I could manage would be a half-serious suggestion of Gnarls Barkley, or else just name a Springsteen album because that’s how I roll.
Via The Chutry Experiment, who points (among other things) to the unforgivable omission of viral video.
Written by gerrycanavan
December 16, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged with 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, America, American Idol, Battlestar Galactica, books, Bush, Children of Men, Cormac McCarthy, Deadwood, film, Gnarls Barkley, lists, politics, Sopranos, Springsteen, television, The Road, The Wire, zeitgeist