Here's a neat article on this. FHN, your new Gov is evil.
AMAZING VIDEO - Bye, Bye Miss American Pie
by BizzyBee 26 Replies latest social entertainment
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FlyingHighNow
Yes he is evil and even the republican voters are complaining.
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Berengaria
Well it's about damn time!
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Farkel
: It is the largest and longest LipDub video, to date.
Of course. Don McLean's song was about 20 minutes long in its original version.
The song is a classic and I speak from a knowledge of music which is greater than average. The irony is that McLean himself said he wrote that entire song in 45 minutes while he was stoned!
Farkel
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SixofNine
Nice, but they should have spelled out "Experience Grand Rapids" with their bodies.
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SixofNine
...in the water.
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FlyingHighNow
Beks, Rick Snyder campaigned as a business man who was never a politcian. He beat out the mayor of Lansing to the governor's seat. Since getting into office, he has passed a law which allows him to dissolve the elected officials in any town he says is not doing well financially and appoint his own choice of one person to run the city. He has taken a lot of criticism over the city of Benton Harbor, which is mostly poor blacks. There is something about him leveling housing for the poor in order to build a golf course. Yes, this is one of the towns they took over.
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botchtowersociety
Evidently, this video was shot without any camera interruptions or breaks ... classic audio. This video has gone viral on the net ... over one million views.
Talk about synchronicity!
Earlier today, I read something about flash mobs (dance mobs really)....and I pondered the ascendancy of the flash mob phenomenon....and then something surfaced in my mind: the "St. Vitus' Dance" of the European Middle Ages.
With crop failures along with the Black Death killing off a great part of the population of that time, a dance mania gripped the people in the midst of their deepest despair. Was it a coping mechanism or something else?
Dancing mania (also known as dancing plague, choreomania, St John's Dance and historically St. Vitus' Dance) was a social phenomenon that occurred primarily in mainland Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. It involved groups of people, sometimes thousands at a time, who danced uncontrollably and bizarrely. They would also scream, shout, and sing, and claim to have visions or hallucinations. The mania affected men, women, and children, who danced until they collapsed from exhaustion. One of the first major outbreaks was in Aachen, Germany, in 1374, and it quickly spread throughout Europe; one particularly notable outbreak occurred in Strasbourg in 1518.
Affecting thousands of people across several centuries, dancing mania was not a one-off event, and was well documented in contemporary reports. It was nevertheless little understood, and remedies were based on guesswork. Generally, musicians accompanied dancers, to help ward off the mania, but this tactic sometimes backfired by encouraging more to join in. There is no consensus among modern-day scholars as to the cause of dancing mania. The several theories proposed range from religious cults being behind the processions, to people dancing to relieve themselves of stress and put the poverty of the period out of their minds. Some believe that dancing mania lives on today, in forms such as all-night raves, laughing epidemics, and other episodes of mass hysteria.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_mania
Are "flash mobs" and this video modern manifestations of St. Vitus' Dance?
Can human beings live as human beings without faith, hope and love?
Are we succumbing to a mass hysteria brought about by despair?
"Bye bye Miss American Pie"?
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BizzyBee
Are "flash mobs" and this video a modern St. Vitus' Dance? Can human beings live as human beings without faith, hope and love?
Are we succumbing to a mass hysteria brought about by despair? "Bye bye Miss American Pie"?
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar......Grand Rapidians answered the call to participate - and a brilliant videographer pulled this off.....
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botchtowersociety
It seems to me, that you are lacking in imagination...