Word: mindlessness
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...Olde Worcester. With the luxury an intimate small venue gone, I was forced to tolerate stadium seating and a snack bar at the rock concert. But the event, lovingly called the "Sick and Twisted" tour, was more a spectacle than a concert. At an outrageously early 6:30pm, Mindless Self Indulgence mounted the stage to rile up the pit. They did not have to do much. Sporting some of the largest, strongest, angriest, most steroid-filled men and women in New England, the pit was the most violent this side of the Running of the Bulls. Filling the entire rink...
...Modern American college life already infantalizes students in so many ways, there's no need to introduce more mindless hoop-jumping and cattle-prodding than already exists," he says...
...frothy diversion, some call it. A mindless drag extravaganza, others might say. But for $27, we expect a lot more than just fluffy entertainment from Hasty Pudding Theatricals. We expect-- we demand!--art. Art that transcends the boundaries of time, space and gender. Art that can be discussed at the Advocate without prompting red-faced embarasssment. Art that--gasp--means something...
When cable television arrived to expand our viewing possibilities, it multiplied the mindless rubbish you have to wade through to find something worth seeing. There is so much information running rampant that the object of desire has been thoroughly obscured. What is the desire that entertainment fills? We want to be touched emotionally, be viscerally moved, perhaps have our minds challenged, or at best blown. We travel to a different place when we enter the world of a storyteller. Some call it escape; some call it experience...
...nice part is, it's not just a mindless adrenaline rush brought about by your fear of the dark. Sure, people are dying off one by one and you never know who'll be next, but the real drama (yes, there is drama, surprise, surprise) is how the characters slowly reveal their true selves...