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Amper 6 miljoen mense het reeds die video op Youtube gesien. Dit is ‘n parodie van die Black Eyed Peas se treffer My Humps. Berig Calendarlive:

At first glance, it simply looks like another pass-along parody, a takeoff on the original “My Humps” hit by the Black Eyed Peas. But Morissette’s video is armed with a provocative subtext that has people abuzz with debate. It’s a fascinating piece of video art, an inspired combination of satire, social criticism and career reinvention that is a signature artifact of today’s viral Web culture.

On one level, “My Humps” is a commentary on dim-bulb pop. The Black Eyed Peas’ “My Humps,” though a huge smash, was widely mocked for its vapid, suggestive lyrics. (Sample: “The boys they wanna sex me, they always standing next to me, always dancing next to me, tryin’ a feel my hump, hump.”) The video, featuring Fergie, the group’s lead singer, was, if possible, even tawdrier. Full of nonstop teasing and thrusting, it’s the kind of hip-hop booty porn that would make great torture material for Muslim prisoners at our Guantanamo Bay prison camp.

Dressing herself Fergie-style, with baubles and bling, surrounded by black-clad male dancers, Morissette retained the original’s visual sluttiness but replaced the Peas’ thumping rhythm track with a pensive solo piano. By removing the intoxicating bass line and clearly enunciating the crass lyrics, she gave the song’s sexpot swagger a new tone of sadness and desperation while simultaneously parodying her own artistic tendencies toward self-absorbed angst.

Die artikel gaan voort deur te wys hoe mense videos op Youtube begin gebruik om sosiale kommentaar te lewer. Dit is ook ‘n baie demokratiese medium, omdat jy nie ‘n groot filmmaatskappy hoef te wees om ‘n bydra te kan lewer nie. Welkom in die era van video-aktivisme.

Hier is die Alanis Morissette-weergawe van My Humps (dit is veral treffend as jy ook bekend is met die oorsponklike weergawe):

Die ASA het ‘n probleem met ‘n advertensie wat beweer Jesus kan HIV/VIGS genees. Die ASA soek glo bewyse vir die bewering. Hulle verstaan ook niks van glo af nie.

Italië se regering wil meer regte aan gays gee. Die Vatikaan dink dit is van die duiwel af. Papa en kie sal seker weet. Minder of meer iewil as Copernicus? Definitief meer iewil as Mini-Me, sou ek raai.

Vrouens wat met vuurwapens in die huis leef in Amerika, se kanse om vermoor te word, is amper 3 keer groter as vrouens sonder vuurwapens in die huis.

Na aanleiding van Johan se 5 dinge, hier is 5 dinge oor my in geen noemenswaardige volgorde nie:

1. Ek besit ‘n paar crocs en ek is nie bang om hulle te dra nie. Ek het ook ‘n paar grys velskoene wat ek op versoek dra.

2. Ek het vir 30 jaar met ‘n melktand in my mond rondgeloop. Die muis skuld my nog.

3. Ek wil nog eendag die Aurora Borealis in Alaska sien.

4. The Motorcycle Diaries is een van my gunstelingflieks van die afgelope paar jaar vir drie redes.

5. Ek gee nie om as ek natreën nie, selfs al kla ek daaroor.

Time berig dat daar nuwe navorsing gedoen word om vas te stel hoe psigedeliese dwelms, soos LSD en Ecstacy, gebruik kan word in die behandeling van sekere geestestoestande. Voorlopige resultate lyk belowend:

Last year two top journals, the Archives of General Psychiatry and the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, published papers showing clear benefits from the use of psychedelics to treat mental illness. Both were small studies, just 27 subjects total. But the Archives paper–whose lead author, Dr. Carlos Zarate Jr., is chief of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Research Unit at NIMH–found “robust and rapid antidepressant effects” that remained for a week after depressed subjects were given ketamine (colloquial name: Special K or usually just k). In the other study, a team led by Dr. Francisco Moreno of the University of Arizona gave psilocybin (the merrymaking chemical in psychedelic mushrooms) to obsessive-compulsive-disorder patients, most of whom later showed “acute reductions in core OCD symptoms.” Now researchers at Harvard are studying how Ecstasy might help alleviate anxiety disorders, and the Beckley Foundation, a British trust, has received approval to begin what will be the first human studies with LSD since the 1970s.

Daar word ook dikwels gewys op die ooreenkomste tussen die effek van psigedeliese dwelms en sekere spirituele ervaringe. Tog is daar ‘n meningsverskil of dwelm-geïnduseerde ervarings in dieselfde asem genoem kan word as ervarings wat die gevolg van praktyke soos meditasie, gebed, lofprysing ens. is.

So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and
Demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life,
Beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and
Its purpose in the service of your people.

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,
Even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and
Bow to none. When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the food and
For the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks,
The fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and nothing,
For abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.

When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts
Are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes
They weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again
In a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.