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Lovable warlocks on Bewitched and commercially Satanic heavy-metal videos on Top Ten Countdown run opposite air-brushed preachers decrying demonism in U.S. culture.
A dog, if you point at something, will look only at your finger.
Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests.
The ad does not so much extol Pepsi per se as recommend it by implying that a lot of people have been fooled into buying it. In other words, the point of this successful bit of advertising is that Pepsi has been advertised successfully.”
Indifference is actually just the ’90s’ version of frugality for U.S. young people: wooed several gorgeous hours a day for nothing but our attention, we regard that attention as our chief commodity, our social capital, and we are loath to fritter it.
“Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time, it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.”
if the whole of the world dissolved and resolved each time I blinked, what if my eyes didn’t open?
We tourists get to indulge our tender Animal Rights feelings with our tummies full of bacon.
I do not find terror exciting. I find it terrifying.
Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody’s ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.
Every infant within earshot has a promising future in professional opera, it sounds like.
