2. Giorgio Moroder

He looks like Giorgio Tsoukalos.

http://memegenerator.net/instance/32344901

Looks like Giorgio Tsoukalos has the same stylist as Christopher Walken =oI

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On two prior sifts, I've posted my Tony James story so I won't do it again. But I too was a big fan of SSS and Gen X and Billy Idol and Sex Pistols and The Clash and PiL and B.A.D.
Carbon/Silicone? ...eh, not so much: the music doesn't really grab me...but never mind.

Italian music producer and composer Giorgio Moroder, who stole the Oscar away from John Williams in 1979 for the score to Midnight Express, produced SSS's debut record Flaunt It in 1986 and it's one of the best-sounding bad records of all time. He also won two more Oscars: one for the title song to Flashdance and once again a couple years later for the song Take My Breath Away from the homo-erotic movie Top Gun.

Moroder, who was a synthesizer pioneer in the 70s, was the man responsible for the SSS sound, although Tony James would surely disagree.

Fascinating. Thanks blank. Inspired my sifting this:

http://videosift.com/video/Giorgio-Agamben-State-of-Exception

Thought you'd appreciate this one. Keep fightin the good fight, brother.

http://videosift.com/video/Giorgio-Agamben-The-Power-and-the-Glory-54-min

Inspired by your comment on mah vid.

http://videosift.com/video/Giorgio-Agamben-The-Power-and-the-Glory-54-min

I hear ya, NR. But I recently commented on a Carlin video, and this generally gets to my problem with Carlin, though I do like him. I feel that Carlin often falls victim to a bleak outlook that tends to incapacitate any conversation about HOW WE ARE TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST TYRANNY.

Let's take a little recent example. As it stands, there is no such thing in this society as the RIGHT to healthcare. And yet, part of what the Obama administration is trying to do is give us that right. Can you not
imagine an America without that right?

I get what Carlin and you are saying. It reminds me of the philosopher Giorgio Agamben, who talks about the reality of internment camps in the same way. His thinking goes somethign like this (in "homo sacer"): if a state can issue a 'state of emergency' at any one time, then we never have any REAL rights, since they are always subject to being stripped from us. And Agamben (and Foucault) were saying this WELL before Carlin was.

BUT... the problem with this thinking, in my opinion, is that it can tend to a kind of quietist attitude: a way of FORGETTING the more LOCAL struggles that, in fact, DO have solutions. Just because rights are historically TEMPORARY, one might argue, does not make them any more important to seek out.

Anyway, that is my thinking on this (for the moment). interested to hear what you think.

>> ^NordlichReiter:

griefer_queafer, I've been around the sift for a long time, I would have remembered a video like this. Just read my comment history you may find that at one point I was prone to believing outlandish conspiracies.
But the one in this video I can believe.
My question is this, if the Government uses force to get what they want (police, military, etc) how are the people to effectively air their grievances? Oh wait, who is that I hear? Carlin? What did you say?

I loves it. Giorgio Moroder also did a couple tunes for the movie Electric Dreams, another classic 80's classic.

Giorgio Moroder is the Oscar-winning composer behind the films "Midnight Express" and "Scarface." He also was the producer of Sigue Sigue Sputnik's Flaunt It.

Ah, had once been discarded
http://www.videosift.com/video/Promo-for-Giorgio-Moroder

Great vid!

king of the giorgio moroder bassline...

Giorgio de Chirico is most famous for this street:
http://www.gmfilm.co.uk/de_chirico_pic_02.jpg
His other stuff is not nearly as good as this.

Robyn Hitchcock, on the other hand, is a peculiar and consistently wonderful genius. And his between-song stories cannot be matched. btw Storefront Hitchcock is a great film with Robyn and Deni.

I sang "it's a bat, it's a bat, it's a bat, it's a GIRL!" to Lo a few days ago. And now, I can just find the real version and wait for it to be sifted to my discard treasure trove.