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...something nice back to you? Give the money to a charity?” I was pleading with him. He suggested a charity that meant something to him, but offered a corollary: “all I really want is for you to keep the vibe going, ya know?” I didn’t know. But I began to understand by watching this extraordinary man’s magnanimous example. The notion of going slightly out of your way to touch a stranger wasn’t just the basis of a contrived tear-jerker movie, something...
...next, sparking provocative ideas off one another like a chain-smoker's cigarettes. Taking full advantage of its HBO-ensured freedom, the episodes are hilarious and offensive on numerous levels. One includes an ad for Mr. Pickles' Fun-Time Abortion Clinics ("We'll Bring Out the Kid in Ya!"), while in another, Mr. Show declares itself a religion--Odenkirk and Cross invite the audience to eat poison s'mores and ascend through "heaven's chimney"--then goes on to skewer the traditions of nearly every major faith. Talk about cult comedy...
...made for? And is anyone, anywhere, laughing? I think I understand the premise of the sketch about the high-school girl at a tennis lesson who gets a bloodsucker stuck to her arm. It gradually emerges, and we see it?s a small homunculus named Yamada (as in "Ya mada?s so ugly, she looks like a bloodsucker"). But the bit about a girl asked by a guy in a yellow fur suit to pull on his umbilical cord? on that one I was with the girl, who says, "Honestly, I haven?t the foggiest." The prankster...
...took a while for traditionalists to cotton to Dylan's lurid vandalizing of the language, his faux-folk patois: "If'n ya don't know by now... The light I never knowed... Like ya never done before..." That was the Guthrie influence, which this hip hillbilly mixed with all the other sung and spoken poetry he'd ingested to create his own voice, grammar and verdant, wildly associative language. "I needed to sing in that language," he says in the Scorsese movie, "which was a language that I hadn't heard before." Maybe you had to be young back then...
...race. "People are really going to have to work to educate themselves, rather than depend on somebody else to feed them the information. Most of the so-called political experts are totally lost right now," he says with a laugh before turning back to his rush-hour audience. "How ya?ll doin?" says Nagin, handing out a brochure. "Ya?ll sure are getting your money's worth out of me today...