I love you.
>> ^handmethekeysyou:
While I think it's important to do so, I can't help but take some issue with people in media badmouthing The Media. So, just so I feel I've done my due diligence, here are a few ways that Doug Stanhope is manipulating you and some of the media stereotypes being relied upon/reinforced by this video:
• Well dressed, clean cut, deep voiced, mature looking man sitting at desk with stately edifice in the background introduces Doug, lending credence to what you are about to hear.
• B-roll shots of small town Americana position Doug as an everyman. This helps us see Doug as just a perceptive member of the group of people he's attacking. This is reinforced by the set he appears in: a small, folksy looking home, potentially a trailer.
• Three camera shoot allows jump cuts to tighter or wider shots, adding a kinetic feel, keeping your attention, even when the monologue may be lagging.

Bullet-point media stereotypes:
• Unattractive people are unsatisfactory mates.
• People who aren't terribly exciting are unsatisfactory mates.
• Being average in any way is, ipso facto, undesirable.
• Identification as an alcoholic and appearance with drink (a delicious looking manhattan). This relies on the oft-reinforced concept of drug users as people who see the world differently, almost always "correctly".

While I think it's important to do so, I can't help but take some issue with people in media badmouthing The Media. So, just so I feel I've done my due diligence, here are a few ways that Doug Stanhope is manipulating you and some of the media stereotypes being relied upon/reinforced by this video:

• Well dressed, clean cut, deep voiced, mature looking man sitting at desk with stately edifice in the background introduces Doug, lending credence to what you are about to hear.

• B-roll shots of small town Americana position Doug as an everyman. This helps us see Doug as just a perceptive member of the group of people he's attacking. This is reinforced by the set he appears in: a small, folksy looking home, potentially a trailer.

• Three camera shoot allows jump cuts to tighter or wider shots, adding a kinetic feel, keeping your attention, even when the monologue may be lagging.


Bullet-point media stereotypes:

• Unattractive people are unsatisfactory mates.

• People who aren't terribly exciting are unsatisfactory mates.

• Being average in any way is, ipso facto, undesirable.

• Identification as an alcoholic and appearance with drink (a delicious looking manhattan). This relies on the oft-reinforced concept of drug users as people who see the world differently, almost always "correctly".

My boyfriend saw me looking at this and he really wanted to do one, too!

Remy's life according to: Offspring!

Are you a male or female? Pay the Man

Describe yourself: Pretty Fly

How do you feel? Living in Chaos

Describe where you currently live: Americana

If you could go anywhere, where would you go?: Walla Walla

Your favorite form of transportation: Vultures

Your best friend is: Killboy Powerhead

You and your best friends are: Million Miles Away

What's the weather like? One Fine Day

Favorite time of day: Staring at the Sun

If your life was a TV show, what would it be called?: Intermission

What is life to you: Dammit, I Changed Again

Your current relationship: She's Got Issues

Your fear: Hand Grenades

What is the best advice you have to give? Come Out Swinging

Thought for the Day: We Are One

How I would like to die: No Brakes

My soul's present condition: Gone Away

My motto: Change the World

Tags for this video have been changed from 'The Avett Brothers, Concert, NPR, Americana' to 'The Avett Brothers, Concert, NPR, Americana, Folk' - edited by calvados

I want to share this wonderful piece of americana: http://www.videosift.com/video/Incredible-Lyric-Short-Film-You-Can-Drive-The-Big-Rigs

In the eyes of these people I see a calm, non-obtrusive pride of their little community, punctuated by the stars and stripes waving lazily above them.

*documentaries *shortfilms *americana

Thanks Gwiz, and you ask some good questions.

I understand the confusion, and I do believe that jazz will exclude legitimate blues posts' from now on, although there is such thing as blues-jazz fusion music. It might get a bit mixed, but that's all good IMO.

I'd like to keep it as having only music that is inspired by blues, IS blues, or is a derivative of blues. Along with that, as I mention in the channel description: This channel will be for all kinds of blues music, as well as traditional Americana, folk, roots music, and contemporary roots revival music, leaning towards a bluesy sound.

IMO sad != blues, but exceptions can be made and I'm open to accepting some of those.

>> ^BreaksTheEarth:
Not to piss on the parade of lots of hard work but this is fucking stupid.


Totally. But Americana, the company behind this ridiculous stunt in Kuwait, got alot of press time for it.

Thanks KP for promoting Americana

This video should be preserved as a historically significant piece of Americana.

The AFVN talks of the absurdity of the war in Vietnam for me, for America not only brought its armed forces, it exported Americana wholesale replacing for the Vietnamese the French before them, its not surprising to me the resistance to them increased year on year from the North and eventually in the South as well.

Pete was one of the true blues...Americana on the grifter end of the spectrum..I love any man who can make shit up as he goes along-

like you wouldna ordinarily up voted some raw Americana like J. R.??...Ain't buyin' it!! (upvote everything my ass.....

nice reaction, classic americana

*save this piece of americana