I really enjoyed that Death in Vegas sift. I saw the other you sent up a while earlier. Wonderful tune, particularly relevant for me as I'm eloping to Vegas in a short while. I downloaded some Death in Vegas and I found it to be not nearly as cool as that tune; is there an album of particular value, or is this a group whose Dirge towers above all else?

Also, I really enjoyed the Queen Rania video. This made me recall a BBC production entitled The 50 Years War, in which a speech of Rania's father in law is featured. On the precipice of death by cancer, he had some quite eloquent and benevolent words that truly warrant sifting, if you have the ambition.

Cheers

Hey Farhad! Thank you for saving my Persepolis video! I knew it was a longshot, a French-language film about an Iranian girl!

Hey I come back to the Arundhati Roy video from time to time. For me, what's most important about it is that she speaks to nationalism, and to flags as idols. I don't necessarily bite when it comes to the belief that capitalism or corporations are invariably evil actors, and I'm always pretty critical and independent in my views, so I'm not completely aligned with Roy (or anyone!).

But it's seldom that that criticism is voiced so well, seldom if ever. That flags, that the way people make their own identities, can screw up their moral sense. That any localized morality fails, and that national identity is just a way of making an "other" of your neighbor, so it's easier to kill or exploit him--that's something I've been thinking about a lot lately. Like: "150 dead in plane crash, including two Americans"--as if the 148 others were of lesser relevance. It's the language that screws up our perception.

Hey that's long winded. Anyway cheers, thanks for the save, and again for the AR video.

This movie, of Roy's words, is truly an epic find. How terribly terribly beautiful. I keep checking back on the vid's upvote count, expecting to find 1000+ on it. Maybe that's all we have, eh?

Thanks for making it available,

Peace,

Q

In reply to this comment by Farhad2000:
Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian novelist, writer and activist. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel, The God of Small Things, and, in 2002, the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize. But this video is not about her, it's about her Words.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arundhati_Roy from http://www.weroy.org

We is a fast-paced 64 minute documentary that covers the world politics of power, war, corporations, deception and exploitation.

It visualizes the words of Arundhati Roy, specifically her famous Come September speech, where she spoke on such things as the war on terror, corporate globalization, justice and the growing civil unrest.

It's witty, moving, alarming and quite a lesson in modern history.

We is almost in the style of a continuous music video. The music used sets the pace and serves as wonderful background for the words of Ms. Roy and images of humanity in the world we live all in today.

We is a completely free documentary, created and released anonymously on the internet.

There are many ways to download and view it. If you'd like a TV quality copy, a DVD-R disc (also containing extras) can be obtained for a small donation.

See the About This Project page for more information about the documentary, the filmmaker and this web site.

http://www.weroy.org