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...people fear the government?" he asked the Park Rapids audience. He wore a white Western shirt and new Wrangler jeans that arced below a belly well accustomed to butter, eggs and beef. His head bore the usual stigmata of a ranching life: pale baby-smooth forehead over a raw, wind-scrubbed face. He eyed the crowd a moment, then answered his rhetorical question: "That's tyranny...
Take punk rock. In the '70s, when it was born, it seemed to be the ultimate in musical rebellion. Punk was fast, aggressive rock performed by people who, through their raw sound and outrageous attire, were bent on making adults feel like out-of-touch geeks. The seminal British punk band the Sex Pistols mocked the monarchy and led fans in nihilistic chants of "No future," while their countrymen and contemporaries the Clash paid tribute in their music to the Sandinista rebels...
Throw in uncomfortable gym-induced wedgies, bumbling exchanges with celebrities, a provincial midwestern upbringing, a suspicious sanitary napkin ("about the size of a Depends undergarment"), and you have the raw and sometimes hilariously raunchy narrative materials of Kron's 101 Humiliating Stories, a solo comedic performance in the A.R.T.'s Fall Festival...
...drugs, casual sex, violence, idiot music, stupidity, driving 90 m.p.h., bad manners, rage--the more you lose. The more you abstain, the more you gain. This is not cheap rhyming paradox but a good truth that in the past generation or two has been swept away by raw sewage. For an adolescent, abstinence means security and, therefore, the freedom that comes with self-possession. Abstinence becomes a medium of clarity, the window through which it is easier to recognize, among many things, one's work and one's mate...
...albums, cassettes or CDs. From Clarksville, Mississippi, came the blues, a real, dynamic, burning-for-the-truth-to-be-told music. This spirit moved swiftly from the delta to places like Memphis, Tennessee, and Tupelo, Mississippi. Then history changed forever when a young man named Elvis took this raw, untainted music from his heart and shared it with the world. Ask Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, ZZ Top or many others which individuals influenced them, and it becomes all too clear: B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Robert Johnson, Little Milton. Rock 'n' roll's parents were the Mississippi Delta blues...