Manifesto Joe's Texas Blues: surrealism

Showing posts with label surrealism. Show all posts

Showing posts with label surrealism. Show all posts

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Belated Appreciation For The Insanity Of Captain Beefheart

Here's a video incorporating Don Van Vliet's surrealist song titled Tropical Hot Dog Night (1978), posted by flowerpunkchip on YouTube:

For those who prefer, here's a more straight-up rendition:

Madness, on occasion, can be exquisite. -- MJ

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Favorite progressive movies

Mister Roberts -- see January 2009 post.
The Big Parade, The Crowd, Our Daily Bread, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Seven Days in May, Dr. Strangelove, The Grapes of Wrath, Silkwood, Salt of the Earth, Born on the Fourth of July, A Face in the Crowd, The Manchurian Candidate, Easy Rider, Chinatown, Reds, The Naked and the Dead.
Fear on Trial.
Open City, Seven Beauties, Swept Away, The Bicycle Thief, Grand Illusion, Fury, Inherit the Wind, Judgment at Nuremburg, Pressure Point, The President's Analyst, From Here to Eternity, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Milagro Beanfield War, Native Son, Bob Roberts, There Will Be Blood.
Modern Times, The Great Dictator, Paths of Glory, Spartacus, Hombre, Cool Hand Luke, Pan's Labyrinth, Network, Cutter's Way, All Quiet on the Western Front, Twelve Angry Men, Matewan, Return of the Seacaucus Seven, American History X, Putney Swope, The Pawnbroker, In the Heat of the Night, Norma Rae, North Country.
Bowling for Columbine, Roger and Me, Farenheit 9/11, Sicko, Capitalism: A Love Story. Michael Moore has earned a separate category.