OFF: Truth (oh no) and Shock Rock

[Carl E. Anderson]

On tis 2 dec 1997 08.01 -0600 "BREVARD, Adrian R." <abrevard at SHL.COM>
wrote:
> Years ago Alfred
> Hitchcock's Pyscho was considered the scariest movie out there, not
> necesarrily for what it showed but what people thought they saw.  Today
> we get blasted with f/x and high body counts instead of working the old
> imagination.

     But lots movies with f/x and high body counts are not necessarily
intended to be _scary_.  I think some of the movies considered, perhaps,
scariest in the last decade have had relatively low body counts and f/x
.. like _Silence of the Lambs_ and _Seven_.  (Both of which I thought
were well-made movies, but lacking in the entertainment dept.  I'm proudly
shallow :)

> Manson, GWAR and the like are simply following the trend of appealing to
> the lowest common denominator.

     Like Oasis :)

> My kids don't listen to Manson or Gwar becuase THEY have no
> desire to.  They saw footage of GWAR and thought they were clowns.

     Well, GWAR _are_ clowns.  I thought that was the point?

> As for me I lump those guys in the categopry of music that just dosen't
> interest me, its not good or bad.

     Well, likewise, actually.  Though I'm glad I've seen videos of
GWAR--cultural literacy and all that :)  And drier than a concert, as far
as I can tell :)

--
Carl Edlund Anderson
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
St. John's College, University of Cambridge
mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~carl/