heh heh - that's funny. I thought you meant the trailer for "The Devil's Backbone" at first, since that's the source of my avatar. The dead kid's name is Santi. Now I see what you meant.

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thanks, jonny.
was moved to promote another favorite oldie in your honor, but your partner santo yanked the embed.

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*promote

McCain has vowed to lock up medicinal pot smokers, but regularly uses powerful sleeping pills known to have hazardous side effects.

No point in arguing. Cant break someones ignorance on the internet. People like that think they are the greatest parents on earth and everyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot.

Still, kids trying to be parents is pretty dangerous.
I wish there would be a parenting license...

Oh yeah, just one more thing. When I was 8 up until I was 12 I had nightmares all the time. I even sleepwalked at least once a week. Then my mother brought me to a therapist and he told me that I should stop watching He-Man, and all the other pretty violent (they werent really violent at all) kids series. Of course I already played computer then and he said I should also stop playing similar games.
I did that and from one day to another these nightmares and sleepwalking were gone.

Im not saying that everyone will react as I did, but I know for a fact that everyone reacts differntly and its nowhere near obvious that there are problems, if there are problems. When that happened to me I never had problems with that while I was awake. I enjoyed watching those series and playing such games.

My brother had a similar experience. He was allowed to watch a zombie film when he was 7. Of course my parents told him that its only a movie and its not real. He SEEMED to understand that but when the movie started and a zombie bit a huge chunk of flesh out of someone he was frightened to death. Not right away, but when he had to go to bed. Even today (hes 33 now) he cant play games like doom 3 or similar alone because it contains zombies...

Get it: There are FUCKING REASONS that those games and movies are rated. Youre just showing your ignorance if you let your 5 year old do something like that.

The name of this song is a play on words.
The word "Svefngenglar" means 'Sleepwalkers' but they break it up into "svefn" which means 'sleep' and "englar" which means 'angels'.

Ira Glass is so good at telling stories and documenting the human side of events, these shows come off like he's sleepwalking. He's so talented it's irritating.

....wonder how many people watching this are sleepwalking to KFC....

lol. Well said schmawy. I appreciate your thoughtful and reasoned observations and opinions as well.

And you are correct that beyond voting there isn't much I can do. I write the occasional letter to my representatives, go to the occasional protest, donate here and there, collect signatures for political candidates, and other such minor political activity, but that's all tiny drops in a very deep ocean. And for what it's worth I haven't been interrogated by the thought police even once. Maybe that's just another decade or two down the road, or maybe I need to go fold up a tin foil hat myself.

At any rate, I will continue to be politically active, arguing for both civil liberties and a strong yet rational military. And I'm always glad to see that there are folks such as yourself who are not sleepwalking. Complacency might be the biggest obstacle we face as a society.

I love this song, great to see there's an equally superb video to go along with it, great post! I really like how some of the imagery from the song is represented in the video, like the sleepwalkers walking backwards, it's beautiful.