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...that it owed its world view to their antipodes - militant groups like the Black Panthers. Blaxploitation didn't have a dream; it had a shotgun. And if many of its heroes were pimps and pushers, at least they could do the pushing without getting punished for it onscreen. Melvin van Peebles' Sweet Sweetback's BaadAsssss Song (1971) - "Rated X by an all-white jury," bragged the poster - stunned audiences simply by showing a strong black man who fought, had explicit sex and tangled with white cops, yet didn't get killed for it by the end of the movie. Blaxploitation...
...Those three TV minutes revealed Jerry Lee's electrifying, near-electrocuting showmanship. But the music was what got me. The bass figure on the piano starts rumbling and, two beats later, J.M. Van Eaton's cymbals join in. After the four-bar intro (which he first used in his own composition "End of the Road," recorded November 14, 1956), Jerry Lee makes the vocal invocation: "Come on over, baby, whole lotta shakin' goin' on!" It's a firm but liquid tenor, at times quavering with the infusion of the Spirit (perhaps holy, perhaps profane) that Jerry Lee heard and sang...
...Four bold notes, ascending by thirds, and then a break; the pattern repeated four times in the first verse, and Van Eaton's drums emphasizing the musical statement, as JLL itemizes a lover's complaint, "You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain..." Mid-rant, he muses that passion has its perverse perks ("You broke my will, but what a thrill"), before surrendering to ecstatic inanity: "Goodness gracious! Great balls of fire!" The second verse, which explains the singer's agitation as an agreeable form of sexual psychosis, punctuates the news with three right-hand arpeggios, while the bass...
...large pig van leads the chain of vehicles, with “Pentagon. $396 Billion” painted on its side. Two smaller piggy banks follow, reading “Education K-12. $34 Billion” and “World Hunger and Poverty. $10 Billion...
...It’s a nice visual presentation, and that’s just to get the people who aren’t exited about politics involved,” says Galusha, who drives the pig van. “You need something that goes over the top, that wows people...