This One Goes to Eleven (A Spinal Tap Post)
For all fans of Spinal Tap:
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Music and Videos (including a new song released in 2000). I heartily recommend the song “The Majesty of Rock.”
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Photos from a live show. Rock on, Tappers!
The Real Cost of a Music Video
Sarah McLachlan has online the music video for her song World On Fire. They took the $150,000 budget for the video and spent it on aid in the third-world — where and how is explained brilliantly in the video. If you only ever watch one music video, make it this one.
Bible Broadcast
A group of people in Auckland are broadcasting a live reading of the bible this weekend. If you want to listen, go to:
mms://L1.r2.co.nz/careybc
(You’ll need Windows Media Player, sorry)
After the weekend it will become a podcast, so you’ll be able to subscribe with iTunes or your news/feedreader and get a chapter a day in mp3 format — read out loud. Visit the website at podbible.com.
Western Colonialism vs. The Noble Savage
There are two major extremes regarding Western attitudes to other cultures. These can be basically summed up as:
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Western culture is far superior to all others. It is our duty and right, therefore, to spread this culture, and make others adopt our culture in place of their own. This is colonialism.
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All cultures are equally good and valid. No one culture is any better than any other, just different. The concept of the noble savage is probably the best-known example of this position.
So the million-dollar question seems to be: which is more correct a view? The answer is, unfortunately, of the “somewhere in the middle” form.